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We are very excited about the 10th Annual Artour and have extended the deadline to April 20th. However, IF you want a chance to have your images used on the postcard, please have them in no later than April 1. We invite you to apply to be a Studio or Guest Artist on the Tour. Please read through the application carefully and submit your application via email by (new date): April 20Please note: The applications go via email and the checks will be sent by regular mail to the address on the applications.We have a whole new team to administer this year’s tour. … Continue reading
A Big Thank You to our Patrons!
By all accounts we had a great turn out for this year’s tour! Thank you so much to all the folks who traveled the back roads and stopped in to chat, have a bite to eat and take home some beautiful, local, hand-made art. It was so nice to meet the people (face to face) who want to have our artwork in their homes to use and appreciate. We hope you had as good a time as we did. One such visitor even wrote about our artists and their passion in Her blog. You can read her thoughts on our … Continue reading
One Day Left! (download the map here)
By all accounts the first day of the tour was a great success! Many folks came out and met artists, watched demonstrations and purchased beautiful works of art. For those of you coming out today, Sunday, to enjoy the fall colors as you travel from one studio to another, here is a downloadable map that you can print out if you need to.map_2013 and here is a list of our artists and studios:artists_list And to everyone who came out yesterday, a big thank you!! We will be in our Open Studios again today, all day until 5 pm!
Artist Demonstrations All over the map!
Judy Saye-Willis will be doing indigo vat dying demonstrations during the Artour at her studio- Sunset Studio #7 Here is an image of a pale indigo and a clay resist. Many other artists will be doing demonstrations at their studios too! Jennifer Wolcott will be doing something with metal at her studio #2 The Trinket Foundry is a fascinating place where they make several types of very unique of beads, they will be demonstrating- stop #6 In Studio 18 Mary Beth Coyle shows jewelry and paper monoprints J.M. Johnson … Continue reading
Before and After
It’s a an exciting time here in Northfield as all our artists are preparing for the Studio Tour. Up at the Halling Kiln, Juliane Shibata (studio 12) loads a kiln with Glynnis Lessing (studio 3 )and Barabara Zaveruha (studio 9) That kiln will be fired tomorrow to be ready in time for our studio visitors! Just down the road at the Sunshine Studio (studio number 7) Both Tom and Judy are readying their fascinating studios- Tom says make sure to come by for the After because this is Before! He was just finishing up a firing today when this photo … Continue reading
Toni Easterson explores the “Fabric of Our Lives”
Toni Easterson’s studio, like many others, is in her house. It has a southern exposure with lovely light pouring in through 3 big windows; what better place in the house to work? It is a very neat and organized studio with swathes of color hiding behind beautiful cupboard doors. Toni trained as a graphic artist- so many from her family, past and present, are artists. She originally had a graphic design and advertising business in Connecticut but one day went to an exhibit at the Textile Design Center in Minneapolis and fell in love with fabric. She brings this … Continue reading
A quick tour of Kip O’Krongly’s amazingly neat and tidy studio.
It’s always fun to see other artists’ studios- that’s the philosophy behind the tour! Where do people create? What inspires them and how have they arranged or adapted a space to work best for them? Kip’s studio is upstairs in her house and is amazingly neat and tidy for a potter who works with a dark clay like Terra Cotta. Kip does a lot of work with stencils and has evolved from hand-cutting out reusable stencils from thin plastic to using a stencil cutting machine called a Silhouette Cameo which has given her a lot more flexibility in sizing and … Continue reading
Get a sampling of some of our Artour artists at the Riverfront Fine Arts Festival this weekend!
Eight of our Studio Artour artists will be participating in the Art Fair this weekend (Sept. 7 & 8) down along the Cannon River behind the Northfield Arts Guild in Northfield, Minnesota This is a wonderful art fair with the added attraction of being held during the Defeat of Jesse James Days in Northfield, Mn. Along with great art you can eat fun food, go on rides, and watch a reenactment of the bank robbery with horses and full costumes! Participating artists include: Patsy Dew -photography Heather Lawrenz- Jewelry Glynnis Lessing-Ceramics Kathy Miller – Painting Colleen Riley-Ceramics Judy Saye-Willis -Jewelry … Continue reading
New Artists Join the ArTour!
The tour is back! Hey ArTour fans, planning has been underway to bring you another wonderful ArTour this fall. We hope you are making plans to go back and see your favorite artists but also see who’s new! Here are our New artists: Toni Easterson- textiles Joan Herzog- painting Kip O’ krongly- ceramics Glynnis lessing-ceramics Diane McDonald-Painting and Patricia Mazurkiewicz-painting. Additionally, the brochure is going to change a little! It will offer a new layout with the idea of a tour within a tour. That is, if you want to only look for Ceramics, all the ceramic artists will be grouped together. … Continue reading
2013 Studio ArTour Artists
Join us for the 9th annual Studio ArTour October 19 & 20, here are the artists you can see: Artist Studio Medium Artist Studio Medium Kathy Anderson 7 Textiles Annie Larson 2 Jewelry Julie Arthur 13 Textiles Heather Lawrenz 2 Jewelry Ian Baldry 2 Textiles Glynnis Lessing 3 Ceramics Cathy Collison 6 Glass Dianne Lockerby 10 Ceramics Marybeth Coyle 18 Jewelry Dawn Makarios 13 Ceramics Susan Crow 17 Jewelry Patricia Mazurkiewicz 14 Painting Patsy Dew 7 Photography Diane McDonald 5 Painting Lisa Dolezal 14 Ceramics Kathy Miller 16 Painting Toni Easterson 15 Textiles Kip O’Krongly 12 Ceramics John Ehresmann 6 … Continue reading
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