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Snow Farm Seconds Sale

By naomilin on November 19, 2022 in

When:

November 19, 2022 @ 10:00 am – November 27, 2022 @ 4:00 pm

2022-11-19T10:00:00-05:00

2022-11-27T16:00:00-05:00

Where:

Snow Farm new England Craft Program
5 Clary Rd Williamsburg
MA 01096

Cost:

6.00

Contact:

(413) 268-3101

There is a large selection of my seconds and clearance colored clay pottery at this sale at deeply discounted prices.

November 18, 19, 20

November 25, 26, 27
10 am to 4 pm

$6/person admission (goes directly to Snow Farm scholarship funds)
200+ artists represented in 5 galleries. New work every weekend!

Glass, pottery, clothing, jewelry, cards, ornaments, wooden bowls & cutting boards – the list goes on and on! The artist may think it’s a second, but you will never know the difference, except when it comes to the price. One-of-a-kind gifts for yourself, family, and friends. Don’t miss this the Seconds Sale! MORE DETAILS HERE

New work arrives every weekend! Your entry ticket can be used on the day you reserve and any other later day. Come once, twice, or all three weekends! No additional reservation is necessary.

Masks are encouraged, but not required. The shopping time reservation system keeps the crowds small. Moving between the five galleries requires walking outdoors on unpaved ground.

The Seconds Sale is a fundraiser – all proceeds benefit both Snow Farm and the artists. The $6/person entrance fee supports the Snow Farm scholarship fund.

Art, Craft & Design exhibit

Brattleboro-West Arts “New Passages”

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EVENTS

Artist Statement

I grew up with my mother's loom in our family's living room. Not many years later I ended up with clay carving tools and a rolling pin in my own ceramics studio. The pairings of work in this show exemplify the influences of my mother's work on me and have served as an opportunity to both grow creatively and to honor my mother and her life's work.

Lore Kadden Lindenfeld (1921 - 2010) emigrated from Germany to the U.S. in the late 1930s. She attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the 1940s and was a student of both Josef and Anni Albers. Inspired by the Alberses and the Bauhaus school tradition, she worked as a textile designer for the New York fashion industry followed by a career as a weaver, fiber collage artist and as a weaving and art history teacher on the college level.

I grew up hearing riveting stories of Black Mountain College, its avant-garde, experimental environment and brilliant, unique personalities. As well, I was exposed to many artists and craftspeople during my childhood and took my first pottery class with a friend of my mother's. I responded to the immediacy of clay more than what appeared to be the tedium of threading warps on a loom.

While working on a degree in ceramics from Boston University's Program in Artisanry, I discovered the Japanese technique, Nerikomi, of layering colored clays to create patterns. I have been captivated by exploring many ways of working with colored clay ever since. I have also come to realize that my method of working with clay - the sense of movement, abstract graphic quality, nature-themed imagery and vivid color - echoes my mother's textiles. In designing work for this show, I was first more drawn to my mother's fiber collage work than her weavings, as a closer match for my own techniques and sensibilities. I later saw that the way I carve into the layers in two directions appear as woven fabric.

It was both fascinating and challenging to interpret a two-dimensional medium within a three-dimensional realm; to not just reproduce my mother's ideas and imagery but to draw inspiration and design the pieces as my own. My hope is that my ceramics, while paying homage to my mother, stand on their own just as her fiber works do.