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Thanks to all who joined us our at our
2008
Art Theme Exhibit: WATER
Bolton Senior Center
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - Friday September 19, 2008
This year members of the Bolton Artisans Guild were invited
to
create art
work inspired by a guild art theme challenge "WATER".
Several
pieces inspired by this theme are on a traveling exhibit.
The exhibit includes:
art works in pottery, polymer clay,
felt, collages, paintings and jewelry
The Bolton Artisans were at
the Nashoba Valley Winery on
September 13, 2008
Members of the Bolton Artisans Guild provided on-going
demonstrations in fiber, beading, polymer clay, pottery and more.
We had a fun day chatting with visitors and explaining
the various techniques used to create and
develop
our creations.
Directions to Nashoba Valley Winery
"Be-Jeweled"
by the Bolton Artisans Guild
A Bolton Artisans Featured Artist Jewelry Event
August 4 - September 7, 2008
Nashoba Valley Winery
Bolton, Massachusetts
Vintage and contemporary style jewelry including:
Laura Burke's knit necklace, wool felt & origami earrings
Brenda Evan’s “summer confection” of vintage style necklaces
Amy Crawley’s polymer clay pendants and pins
Verjik Abramian Martin’s eclectic jewelry
Chris Sterling’s delicately woven seed bead bracelets
Carol Ehrlich’s inticately crocheted 700 seed bead roll-on bracelets
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Featured ArtistsThe Bolton Artisans Guild is proud to introduce our "Featured Artists" events. Meet the featured artist(s) and view their artistic works at the Nashoba Valley Winery. Schedule (tentative):
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Prior Events 2007
Art Theme Exhibit: FIRE
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Verjik Abramian Martin has painted a picture which evokes a childhood memory of a festival of fire (Chahrshanbeh Suri) in which the children dance around and jump over the fires to stop the sun from setting. The festival of Norouz follows which marks the arrival of spring and the revival of nature. |
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Laura Burke imagined a volcanic mountain created with natural and dyed wool fibers needle-felted together. Natural brown sheep fibers were used to create the basic mountain shape and dyed fibers were added to create depth and the fiery volcanic flow. |
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Amy Crawley has crafted a Fire Spirited Messenger Art Doll. The Fire Spirit Messenger represents one of the five elements: fire. Fire represents the planet Mars, the south summer, and it governs the heart. Fire also represents creativity and passion. Its color is red. Its motion is upward, hence the flames dancing upward on her body. |
Brenda Evans remembered the mesmerizing beauty of tiny dancing flames in the fireplace and recreated them in a necklace using gold twisted wire and Swarovski crystals in warm glowing shades of yellow, red and orange. |
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Peter Vincent was inspired by some pieces of wood in his workshop and chose figured reddish wood shaped like a pyramid for the base, topped by a figured maple top with a live edge in one section that reminded him of the colors/patterns in molten lava. |
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Carol Ehrlich hand-crochets bracelets with Japanese glass beads. She strings and crochets approximately 750 beads one at a time, forming a cylinder of beads that she then sews together invisibly. The bracelets aren't elastic but have "give" in them because of the crocheting, allowing the bracelets to simply roll over your wrist. Chris Sterling has always been drawn to flames, either in the fireplace, or the campfire out in the deep woods. It may have something to do with growing up as the daughter of a NYC fireman. She used this opportunity to try out new software to make the design in the colors of flames to create her peyote stitched Ring of Fire. |
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Gayle Joseph decided to use fire itself to decorate pottery. To do this the items are placed in a pit or a barrel and are burned for a few hours and then left to smolder for a day or longer. The surface is then scrubbed and hand polished. The vessel was burned primarily with walnut scraps from Peter Vincent's workshop which imparted the beautiful black tone. The tiles were burned surrounded by shavings from Paul Casco's workshop that included many different rare woods - and possibly some brass shavings which may have caused the green flashing on the tiles. |
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