Five of us Brattleboro-West Arts members will be participating in this mini-tour. All of our studios are within a couple of miles from each other. Jen Wiechers who makes fabulous jewelry and encaustics will be showing her work in my studio!

It’s Mother’s Day and a great day to come with your mothers, or friends, spouses, neighbors, kids, and even fathers!

We’ll have work for sale and I will have a selection of seconds and clearance pieces at discounted prices too. I will do periodic demonstrations of my colored clay techniques.

The Winter Forest  Group Show 

 Naomi Lindenfeld  Ceramic Art: The Forest Transformed

Naomi Lindenfeld is renowned  for her signature pattern-working of layered porcelain vessels and platters, and the new year brings new patterns infused with the movement of wind,water, and the deeper layers of earth. The recent Forest series highlights the upward flow of tree forms, a poetic addition to our focus on the beauty of the winter forest.

Valerie Claff : Winter Tree Dreaming

“The wild is tangible here in the deeply forested hills. Human made sounds are few. Wandering the land, the old stories and myths of my Celtic and Northern European ancestors seem to come alive in the misty glades and through my frequent encounters with woodland creatures. Though inspired by the land around me, my painted woodlands are imagined, archetypal places – journeys into the primeval forest where the numinous spirit of place is encountered. My watercolor paintings are an attempt to capture the mystery of the forest and to shape a terrain where the mythic imagination comes alive and thresholds to other realms are illuminated.

Ayn Hanna: Textile Art Quilting

Trained as a printmaker, I create richly drawn active surfaces, exploring drawing and mark-making.   My textile paintings include layers of fabric combined with thread “drawing” to develop texture and line.

I am inspired by our many systems for mapping and organizing ideas, stories, data and place.  I enjoy the overlaps that exist between art and science – shapes, models, diagrams, formulas, patterns, etc. I am also fascinated by connectors and connections, both physical and spiritual.  My work is a mapping of my inner and outer world, combining imagery and personal symbols to convey my feelings of places and experiences.

This workshop will explore hand-building as well as throwing techniques with colored clay. We will go through the process of wedging stains into the clay, layering the different colors as a starting point to create patterns for slab-building or spirals in thrown pieces. We will then take it further by faceting, fluting and carving the surface to reveal the striations.  It is a wonderfully organic process that integrates the patterned designs with the piece.  The weekend will include a presentation of current colored clay work by a broad range of artists, as well as demonstrations and hands-on.

This workshop will explore hand-building as well as throwing techniques with colored clay. We will go through the process of wedging stains into the clay, layering the different colors as a starting point to create patterns for slab-building or spirals in thrown pieces. We will then take it further by faceting, fluting and carving the surface to reveal the striations.  It is a wonderfully organic process that integrates the patterned designs with the piece.  The weekend will include a presentation of current colored clay work by a broad range of artists, as well as demonstrations and hands-on.

I have seconds and clearance pieces at the Snow Farm Seconds Sale. They include some pieces that I made during the process of creating work for the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center that happened last spring, among much more.  You will find some good bargains and will be supporting Snow Farm’s scholarship fund!

November 13, 14, 15

November 20, 21, 22

November 27, 28 , 29

10 – 4 each day. New art every weekend.

This is the first time that the wonderful arts group that I am a part of, Brattleboro-West Arts,is putting on the annual Holiday Show and Sale at the newly renovated space near downtown Brattleboro!  118 Elliot Street is the site of the former laundromat and a visionary couple have done a beautiful job renovating it to be used for art shows and performances.  It will be an exciting and diverse show with seventeen of us BWA members, and a great place to do holiday shopping!

This photo was taken of the display in my studio and it gives you an idea of the kinds of pieces you will find at “17 Artists/3 Days”.

I will have a selection of my new designs, and some that I have been doing for awhile at this show.  This is my first time participating in the Wesleyan Potters 60th annual Exhibit and Sale.  It’s a wonderful, large studio where I very much enjoyed teaching a workshop in August 2014.

I will do periodic demos of my colored clay techniques. I will have firsts, seconds and clearance items for sale. Come see the environment where I create my colored clay work.

Come see my colored clay work in Tent #6 Booth #612 at this great nine-day long craft fair!

This will be year 32 for me with a booth at the 82nd annual Sunapee Fair!!!

I’ve taken a number of incredible, life/career-changing workshops at North Country Studio Workshops that happens every two years. A year ago I had the great pleasure of taking a workshop in clay sculpting with Adrian Arleo. There will be an exhibit of new works that were inspired by the twelve workshops that happened in February 2014. My “Tidal Rocks: Sleeping Wolf sculpture will be among them.

North Country Studio Workshops invites established and emerging artists and craftspeople to take part in an advanced level arts education program. This professional development event of multi-media workshops offers a hands-on learning experience taught by faculty who have achieved significant recognition in their fields.

We meet for five days in the foothills of the Green Mountains of Vermont at Bennington College, where living, dining, and working take place in the intimacy of the campus. You will have the freedom to focus on developing new approaches to a familiar medium or to apply your background as an artist or craftsperson to a new area.

http://www.northcountrystudioworkshops.org

http://www.themillbrookgallery.com

Our mission: To inspire the creativity and to challenge the skill of accomplished craftspeople and artists.