For three days following Thanksgiving, Putney, Vermont, holds an open studio Craft Tour. This year, celebrating its 35th anniversary, twenty-six studios are being featured including those of fiber artists, glass-blowers, sculptors, fine art painters, jewelers, wood carvers, potters, and metal workers among others. A family member and I like to go each year. Of those we visited yesterday, four gave me permission to take photographs. Here they are.
Dena Gartenstein Moses, who runs the Vermont Weaving School, is a highly experienced, exquisite weaver and holds classes at 4 Signal Pine Road. (I was one of her students this autumn, my very first weaving class.)
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| A few of Dena's exquisite chenille scarves |
Susan Wilson is a long-time potter and ceramic sculptor at 105 Westminster Road.
Just down the road, Ken Pick offers stoneware furniture, sculpture, and pottery at 187 Westminster Road.
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| Each spot offers refreshments--hot cider, pumpkin bread, home-made cookies, and here, popcorn |
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| The real thing, not sculptures |
Finally, Carol Keiser's Art Tile Studio has always been one of our favorites, there at 338 Hickory Ridge Road South with her painting on tiles and canvas with subjects reflecting both Vermont and her other home in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.
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| Carol's studio off in the Putney hills |
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| Examples of her painted tiles |
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