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Welcome Blanket ~ Craftivism at its best!
Are you game? Grand Isle Art Works will offer a weekly knitting location for folks to create a Welcome Blanket. The Welcome Blanket Project aims to connect people already living in the United States residents with our country’s new immigrants through stories and handmade blankets, providing both symbolic and literal comfort and warmth. At the same time, the project offers a positive, hands-on way to understand the scope of a 2000-mile border wall and to subvert it from an idea of exclusion to one of inclusion.
We offer all Yellow Dog Farm yarns at 10% off to anyone making a blanket. We can commune on the gallery deck to sip and knit. The cafe has a variety of soft drinks as well as beers and wines for sale.
Our weekly Welcome Blanket gathering with take place at:
Grand Isle Art Works and Cafe
259 US Route 2
Grand Isle, VT 05458
802.378.4591
When: Tuesdays beginning June 27 through August 29, excluding July 4
Hours: 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Yarn discount at gallery: 10% off Yellow Dog Farm yarns being used for a Welcome Blanket
Read on for more details…
A welcome blanket is traditionally created to lovingly mark the arrival of a new person into the world. In the Welcome Blanket Project, each handmade blanket is a physical manifestation of this celebration of new refugees and other immigrants: “Welcome to the United States and your new life here! We are so glad you have arrived.”
The blankets will be displayed together at the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago between July 18 and December 17. We are starting with an empty gallery space and displaying the blanket packages as they arrive. Final due date to send for the the exhibition is September 5. This is an incredible opportunity to have your work in a museum show. Admission to the museum is always free and open to all.
We have kids at the gallery!
Yes, it is true! Young Satchmo, Ella’s twin is living at the gallery with his mom Sappy. He is a healthy 3+ months old – getting bigger by the day. Yesterday our dear bottle baby Bix and his mom, Rain spent their first night at the gallery. You know Bix – the LOUD one – who thinks there is food whenever he sees a human walk by! Bix is now 2 months old and sweet as a button. Dear, OLD uncle Luigi rounds out this group. Luigi was our first born, 10 years ago and has a boucle yarn named after him! He is still quite the character and very friendly!
SWEET Class…felted owls!
Making Felt Owls
Date: Sat, July 11, 1:00-3:00pm
Description: Learn how to sculpt your own little owl from unspun wool! You will learn the basics of needle felting while sculpting a sweet little owl and take home enough materials to make another at home!
Note: Taught by fiber artist Susi Ryan of The Felted Gnome Knows. Susi’s work has been displayed at GIAW, The SPACE Gallery, Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Market Place, Champlain Leather and Brown Dog Books and Gifts. She has been working with wool for 5 years and is inspired by her little pixie of a daughter.
Who: All ages, 8 and above! Minimum: 4
Instructor: Susie Ryan
Cost: $30.00 Materials fee payable to instructor: $25
Sign up now! http://grandisleartworks.com/programs/
Stuck in Vermont: Island Video!
Island Harvest Days/Foliage Open Studio Weekend
Open Studio Weekend takes place Saturday and Sunday of the first weekend in October. Authenticity and quality are at the heart of the event.
Vermont Crafts Council members who are Vermont visual artists and craftspeople, galleries, educational sites, may participate.
Participants agree to open their studios to the public for the weekend, create an educational element to their event, and distribute promotional materials of their own and the Vermont Studio Tour Guide.
Most Vermont craftspeople work in studios located in or close to their residences. These are places of production and inspiration located in downtowns as well as at the ends of dirt roads. Wherever their locations, they are exciting places to visit because they reflect the dynamic yet organized process that is used to produce the finished work of art.
The studio itself is enormously informative because you can see at a glance how the artist works. You see the swatches that have not been chosen for the quilt or the work that is experimental or not serious enough for the gallery. Buying or ordering work during an Open Studio sale is a unique experience because you have the opportunity to speak to the artist directly.
