Pelham Arts Center
Sunday, January 09, 2011
CRAFT-TASTIC & GIFT IT Gallery Opening
December 3, 2010 – January 15, 2011
Opening reception and all-age art workshop:
Friday, December 3, 6:30-8:00pm
Elizabeth Rubidge, “Nell”, Felt
Pelham Art Center announces its annual artisan sale with duel exhibits Craft-Tastic and Gift It as part of Arts
Westchester’s Free Arts Weekend. This year Arts Westchester will host Free Arts Weekend, when the County’s
cultural institutions open their doors for free museum exhibitions, music performances, art workshops,
children’s storytelling, and more. The Art Center will kick-off the weekend with dual exhibits featuring unique
and affordable handmade goods.
Craft-Tastic will showcase a wide variety of visual art, furniture, sculpture and jewelry by various working
artists throughout New York and across the US. Gift It, featured in the Art Center’s front gallery, is a ceramic
sale and exhibit of unique and affordable artworks curated by Leigh Taylor Mickelson of Clay Art Center, Port
Chester, NY. Also on exhibit are handbags created through Healing Arts, an organization in Goma, DRC, which
equips women and vulnerable populations with skills, opportunities, and education so that they are
economically capable to support themselves and their families. All work is for sale and includes a range of
affordable items. Exhibition support received by Bistro Rollin.
Participating Craft-Tastic artists: Jessica Beels, Glenna Evans, Jude Ferencz, Lannie Hart, Healing Arts, Erin
Jenkins, Maia Kaufman, Kaitlin Kerr, KJ Designs, KnitKnit, Virginia Lunt, LAMACEK, Zoila Minaya, Martie
Negri, Jana Niglas, Katherine Park, Rasa Pranckunaite, Josh Randall, Thea Randall, CW Roelle, Elizabeth
Rubidge, Lee Silveri, Yui Terai, Serda Demen-Terry, Thomas Throop, Faith Wilson.
Participating Gift It artists: Andrew Coombs, Bruce Dehnert, Brooke Evans, Deb Lecce, Loren Maron, Stephen
Rodriguez, Kristina Stafford, Julie Tesser, Kyla Toomey, Susan Tunick, Susan Wortman.
December 3, 2010 – January 15, 2011
Opening reception and all-age art workshop:
Friday, December 3, 6:30-8:00pm
Elizabeth Rubidge, “Nell”, Felt
Pelham Art Center announces its annual artisan sale with duel exhibits Craft-Tastic and Gift It as part of Arts
Westchester’s Free Arts Weekend. This year Arts Westchester will host Free Arts Weekend, when the County’s
cultural institutions open their doors for free museum exhibitions, music performances, art workshops,
children’s storytelling, and more. The Art Center will kick-off the weekend with dual exhibits featuring unique
and affordable handmade goods.
Craft-Tastic will showcase a wide variety of visual art, furniture, sculpture and jewelry by various working
artists throughout New York and across the US. Gift It, featured in the Art Center’s front gallery, is a ceramic
sale and exhibit of unique and affordable artworks curated by Leigh Taylor Mickelson of Clay Art Center, Port
Chester, NY. Also on exhibit are handbags created through Healing Arts, an organization in Goma, DRC, which
equips women and vulnerable populations with skills, opportunities, and education so that they are
economically capable to support themselves and their families. All work is for sale and includes a range of
affordable items. Exhibition support received by Bistro Rollin.
Participating Craft-Tastic artists: Jessica Beels, Glenna Evans, Jude Ferencz, Lannie Hart, Healing Arts, Erin
Jenkins, Maia Kaufman, Kaitlin Kerr, KJ Designs, KnitKnit, Virginia Lunt, LAMACEK, Zoila Minaya, Martie
Negri, Jana Niglas, Katherine Park, Rasa Pranckunaite, Josh Randall, Thea Randall, CW Roelle, Elizabeth
Rubidge, Lee Silveri, Yui Terai, Serda Demen-Terry, Thomas Throop, Faith Wilson.
Participating Gift It artists: Andrew Coombs, Bruce Dehnert, Brooke Evans, Deb Lecce, Loren Maron, Stephen
Rodriguez, Kristina Stafford, Julie Tesser, Kyla Toomey, Susan Tunick, Susan Wortman.
