Colrain Artisans Studio Tour

   

Saturday November 8th and Sunday November 9th, 2008

10 am to 5 pm

Featuring several new artisans!

(New artisans for the 2008 tour will be added soon, please check back)

Last year's tour was a huge success, attracting over 300 registered visitors, who enjoyed maple glazed fried dough, and the talents and charms of Colrain's diverse artisans. See map below.

For a list of B & B's in our area, click here

Enter raffle at each studio for a chance to win one of our wonderful holiday gift baskets.

Colrain, Massachusetts is one of the last, great "undiscovered" places. Tucked beneath the Vermont state line and above the Deerfield River, Colrain has long been a refuge for artists, artisans and others looking for someplace beautiful and affordable in which to do their work, while appreciating and preserving the area's pastoral past. Colrain's diverse artisans invite you up to their hilltops and vales to demonstrate their crafts and display and sell their wares. The rendezvous point will be Pine Hill Orchards, where you can sample products and pick up a map showing the farms and studios you might otherwise never find! However, you may begin the tour at any studio or farm. This is who we are:
Leigh Morrell at the forge.

Ceacey Henderson and Nancie Rich display their graphic skills.
Russ Peck pouring soy candles.
 
Genie Shearer holds a decorated plate Carole Adams, demonstrating supply and process. Al Ladd sands a cutting board.
Matt Shearer pouring berry jam Cliff Daniels and a fresh pot. Lynn Fisher spins some wool.
Chip and Sherri Hager with a tray of maple sugar. Kenny Noyes at the lathe. Bob Ramirez tends his angora goats.
A stone hand garden sculpture, by Tony Palumbo. Mike Purrington roughs out a bowl. Ruby Rice as Sacred Art

 
Peggy Davis creating calligraphy. Ruth B. McDowell trimming threads from a quilt

 
Click on the highlighted to visit their website:

Carole Adams- Whispering Pines Farm
Colrain Mountain Candleworks, Soy candles
Cliff Daniels, pottery
Peggy Davis Calligraphy and Joe Kurland Klezmer Music
Lynn Fisher, woven fiber
Tony Palumbo, Garden Hands,and neon art, and fine art
Chip & Sheri Hager, Hager Bros. Farms, Maple products
Ceacey Henderson and Nancie Rich, paper art
Cynthia Herbert and Bob Ramirez, Keldaby Farm, Mohair
Al Ladd, Inlaid wood jewelry boxes and cutting boards
Ruth McDowell, Art quilts and quilt books
Leigh Morrell, Metalsmith
Ken Noyes, JR, woodworking
Mike Purington, Turned Bowls
Ruby Rice,www.vhasanctuary.com
Eugenia Shearer, decorative painting
Matthew Shearer, Bear Meadow Farm, Jams and jellies
For a list of B & B's in our area, click here

Colrain is in Northwestern Massachusetts, northwest of Greenfield, 10 minutes drive west from the I-91 exit 26 rotary where 1-91 meets route 2.

Click here for a detailed printable map of the tour (PDF file.) If you have trouble with this try here.

The tour is supported by: Colrain Business Association, Bank of Western Massachusetts, TD Banknorth and Shelburne Falls Area Business Association

Last year's Additional Sponsors:

Victoria Howell DVM

Canepari's Lawn Care

High Pocket B&B

Village Auto

Strawberry Fields

Hager Bros. Farm

Morrell Metalsmiths

Colrain Mountain CandleWorks

 
2007 tour raffle gift basket winners were: Cindy Churchill-Colrain, Kathy Ross-Bernardston, Pam Patron-So. Hadley, Nancy Pretto-Greenfield, Ellen Weeks-Colrain 2007 tour raffle gift basket winners were: Cindy Churchill-Colrain, Kathy Ross-Bernardston, Pam Patron-So. Hadley, Nancy Pretto-Greenfield, Ellen Weeks-Colrain
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