Knitting Class: Summer Shawl
Date: Tuesdays,4:00-6:00 pm, June 25 & July 9
Description: Participants will begin a fun summer shawl project using cotton yarn. The “Holey Moley” shawl knits up quickly. Will need 2 skeins of cotton yarn, plus size 7 needles long or 16-24” rounds.
Who: Adults Limit: 8
Instructor: June Golato & Ellen Thompson
Cost: $30.00
Any yarn purchases made during this class are 10% off!
Book Making: Classic Accordion Books
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 3:00-5:00 pm
Description: Learn the classic construction for making accordion (concertina) books complete with beautiful covers and closures. We will start with an eight page three inch book. From there students will be guided in designing their own books. Come ready to learn book-making techniques, use your creativity and leave with a new stash of accordion books.
Who: All Ages Minimum: 5 Instructor: Ann Joppe-Mercure
Cost: $35
Pastel Landscapes
Date: Tuesday, June 4, 11, 18, 25, 9:00-11:30 am
Description: Participants work out of doors to create landscape art. Participants will need to bring: easel (if you have one), tracing paper, charcoal, pastels, 12/18 count box.
Who: All ages Limit: 8 Instructor: Paula Bradley
Cost: $235.00
Bright yellow signs compete with a multitude of greens along Vermont’s roads enticing visitors to the studios of craftspeople and other artists across Vermont during the 2019 Spring Open Studio Weekend taking place over May 25 & 26, Memorial Day Weekend from 9:00 – 5:00 pm both days.
Open Studio Weekend is a statewide celebration of the visual arts and creative process, offering a unique opportunity for visitors to meet a wide variety of local artists and craftspeople in their studios, and purchase high quality, hand made artwork.
The self-guided Open Studio tour features the work of glassblowers, jewelers, print makers, potters, furniture makers, weavers, iron workers, painters, sculptors, quilt makers and wood carvers. Many participating galleries will host gallery talks and feature special exhibits in conjunction with this event.
Grand Isle art Works is hosting the artwork of several Vermont artists for this weekend event. Plus there is our usual fabulous artwork created by over 70 Vermont artists. Right around the corner (sort of) you will find gallery artist, Sherry Corbin set up at her own clay studio in South Hero on 16 Remple Road. Grand Isle is the place to be!
The Vermont Crafts Council publishes a free map booklet with directions to participating sites. The Vermont Open Studio Guide is available throughout the state at Tourist Information Centers, galleries and studios. Request a map on the VCC website, http://vermontcrafts.com/OSW/springmap.php or by calling 802-223-3380.
With our ❤ full of PROMISE, we give you…
Promise Hearts!
Just as our ❤ beats to support our very lives, so must we beat on to support and heal our nation, our environment, our society, our world. Create your Promise Heart today. Let others know what you value enough to promise for us all.
Cross your ❤ with hope for all. Use your artistic side to create a PROMISE that helps to set our world back to the right beat…
Have a ❤ + promise + artistic interpretation = Promise Heart. Combine ❤s, work as a team, create a 2 or 3D interpretation – create your ❤-felt rendition of PROMISE!
Promise Hearts can be purchased for $15 now! One ❤ is approximately 9 inches wide and high, the other is 3. Use one or both hearts in your Promise Heart. Your finished product does not need to stay within these dimensions. Get spectacular with your ❤! When completed they are to be brought to Grand Isle Art Works for a ❤–felt exhibition. Your ❤ is due at Grand Isle Art Works during the week of June 10th. Promise Hearts will be auctioned off via a silent auction to take place during the first weeks of July. Winners of each Promise Heart art piece will be announced on July 14th.
Join us for our Promise Hearts Artist Reception & Silent Auction on Wednesday, July 10 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. There will be hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, and of course, the art work!
Proceeds from this Promise Hearts auction will go to one of these organizations – Artist’s choice!
Promise Hearts…the beat goes on. One beat at a time. Sign up NOW!
Take a tour of Grand Isle Art Works, an affiliated gallery with Vermont Hand Crafters, nosh on hors d’oeuvres, and meet many of the artists whose work is displayed and is for sale in the gallery. Let us know if you think the groundhog will see his shadow when you arrive for this yummy event! Guess correctly and your name will be added to the drawing for a grand gallery gift! Names will be drawn on Groundhog’s Day, February 2.
Experience a different food in every room in the gallery! You will not go home hungry! Vermont beers, soda and wine will be on sale. This is a ticketed event: $25 per person.
