More Beautiful Pieces from Cheryl and Cecily

 Please join us on Friday June 1, 2012 for the opening reception of  this beautiful show in our Small Gallery.  The reception runs from 6:00 pm to8:30 pm.

Both Cheryl Gutmaker and Cecily Callahan- Spaulding are members here at VAM and their beautiful works are available every day.  I have seen the show after it was put on display and it is just beautiful. 

 If you are not able to come to the opening, please come by in the weeks to follow to see this lovely work displayed. 

Valley Artisans Market is also sending out a call for artists to join our artist cooperative.  Please refer back to the Call For Artist's blog post which explains in detail our policies and jury details.  See you soon!

Glass and Paper, Cheryl Gutmaker and Cecily Callahan-Spaulding

Glass and Paper

Landscapes and History Books

Cheryl Gutmaker and Cecily Callahan – Spaulding

May 25 – June 19, 2012

Reception June 1, 2012 6:00 – 8:30 PM

Valley Artisans Market

25 E. Main Street

Cambridge, NY

      Landscapes have been a traditional art form for centuries. Recent developments in glass manufacturing have allowed a new type of landscape to be created by fusing glass. During the past two years, I have begun to explore the many possibilities available for use in the fused glass landscape.

      The work in this show reflects the beginnings of a major shift in the way I work with glass. I have moved more towards a painterly image rather than a purely functional approach. My landscapes are made totally from glass; there is no paint used in this process. The illusion of depth is produced through the careful layering of tiny bits of glass called frit, graduated size of components within the piece and multiple firing of successive layers of glass in the kiln. Using these techniques, I have endeavored to create the felling of beauty and joy that I experience when reflecting on walking in nature.

Cheryl Gutmaker

     

        Over the last forty years a rich and varied body of work has grown from craftsmen and artists creating traditional handmade books to new book forms of imagination and wonder. As an artist, I am fascinated by books and history.   My work is within the book as art tradition.  A variety of book forms have been the vessels over time that have given us a connection to our common past.  Information, stories, ideas, visions and mysteries have been transferred through language to make up a collective    body of thought that enriches and enables our modern life.  

     My work is a celebration of this connection.  Each piece is an expression of specific cultures, images, rituals and languages that are part of our collective memory.  They are a new take on what it is to be a history book.  The works communicate visions of our past through color, texture and a mix of old and new images.  Come see the show on a spring day and enjoy a creative history lesson like you have never seen before.

Cecily Callahan - Spaulding

DebraAnn Salat

DebraAnn Salat is a hand embroidery artist who has been with Valley Artisans Market since March of 2011.  DebraAnn learned how to hand embroider from her grandmother when she was just a child.  Hand embroidery has been a constant in her life since that time.  She starts with a simple drawing and lets her embroidery needles do the work from there.  That makes all of her pieces one of kind as she follows where ever the needle leads her. 

DebraAnn loves to use variations of color and she has said that her favorite projects are made of tangled up threads where she picks just the right color and then decides where to place it in her work, random and planned at the same time.  She does many different types of hand embroidery, from primitive, to abstract to realism and her favorite stitch is the french knot and many of her pieces feature them.  Debra also writes her own blog: http://www.tanglestitch.blogspot.com. and sells her work on Etsy.

Just a Reminder

Hi All!  Just a reminder that the our own Carolyn Kibbe and her daughter Kate Torpey are still our featured artists in the small gallery.  The opening was a great success and it was a pleasure to meet Kate for the first time.  Some of Carolyn's work is from a trip last year to Mongolia.  It is a beautiful exhibit and well worth a trip to Cambridge.