Arts & Crafts at the Market

This will be the biggest showing I have this spring. This year I'm concentrating on getting my work out through galleries and some craft sites like Etsy. One such gallery is the Marshall Art Gallery in Greensboro. An exceptional place with super friendly people and exquisite items for sale. I consider my self very lucky to have shown and sold some of my Beggars Bowls there. Here's the write up for the Crafts at the Market. Hope to see you there. BTY, mention my blog for a 10% discount on any one item of mine you purchase

Spring Arts and Crafts at the Market
Sunday, March 22, 2009
11 am-5 pm
More than 80 local craft artisans exhibit and sell handmade crafts, including pottery, home decor, hand-crafted pottery, jewelry, florals, fiber arts and wearables, soaps, sculpture, wood, folk art, and more. Find unique gifts for birthdays, Easter, Mother's Day, graduations and weddings. Admission and parking are free.

Holiday Arts & Crafts at the Market

December 14th!! This Weekend!! At the incredible Greensboro Farmers Curb Market on Yanceyville Street, across from the old War Memorial Ball Park. This market, which can trace it's roots back to 1874, continues to serve the area well with locally grown fruits and vegetables on Saturday and Wednesday mornings. Come by for some good coffee or tea and pick up something there for breakfast too, while you browse the great selection of goods. This Sunday is one of their many special events and I'll have some of my latest creations there. I'm excited about my transformation of Mokume Gane to cuffs and earrings. The billets I made from Copper and German Silver turned out great. Come by and check them out! I'll also have a selection of enamels there in the form of trinket dish's and Beggars Bowls. See you there!

Holly Arts & Crafts Festival 08

I'm wide open for the Holly Arts & Crafts Festival this Saturday in Pinehurst, NC. Downtown with the golf carts whizzing by and plenty of people, hopefully with lots of disposable income to spend on quality arts (like mine). Look me up if you make it down.

Art in the Arboretum 08

Well another festival is over for the year. What a great venue. The Greensboro Arboretum was in the best shape I've seen it in years. Unfortunately I don't make it over there very often, but you could tell, much work had been done to make it extra nice for the crowd that came out on Sunday. This year, there was a cash prize for first in show. I came close....well, in a way. Bennett Glass Art, from Winston-Salem, won. And, they happened to be right next to me. They received a cash prize and the opportunity to display their work at the Shops at Friendly. I don't know what the numbers were but the great weather surly helped in drawing a good crowd to the event. I saw quite a few familiar faces from the ,Greensboro Farmers Curb Market plus other old friends. Made some new ones , too. Well, better get back to work.

Art in the Arboretum Latest

Mark your calender for Art in the Arboretum, this Sunday. October 5 from 1-6 PM. The juried art and fine craft event will be held in the Greensboro Arboretum, located just off W. Market Street and Wendover Avenue within Lindley Park. Parking and Admission is free.

Featuring

• 50 artists with pottery, metal sculpture, paintings, jewelry, dolls, wood crafts, fiber art, and more
• Entertainment on 3 Stages
• The new Fiesta Stage featuring dancers from South America
• Art Bark – the canine art activity
• Art Quest art activities for children
• The International Food Court – featuring Riva’s Trattoria and Zaytoon Café (there will also be hot dogs, lemonades, funnel cakes, coffees, and ice cream)
• Master Gardeners Nature Cart
• Face painting
• And more...

Art in the Arboretum is this Sunday, 1-5

The long term forecast is for sunny skies and a high of 73 degrees for Sunday afternoon. Sounds like a great time to get out and take in some art in a beautiful setting. What I like about this venue is the diversity of items and artists you see. Excellent music and food for your enjoyment will be there. So, instead of brunch, come on out and get some lunch in the park and stop by my booth. I'll be at number 4.

Art in the Yard

Here's your chance to catch some fun art from a few of our excellent artists in a local setting. So if you're out and about, maybe from the Tate Street festival, drop on by and tell them you saw their ad on my blog. I'll probably drop by after the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market. See you there!

Thanks to the Folks at Grove Winery.....

....for a great time out in Gibsonville. Lots of interesting people met and friends made. What else could one want from life? The demos went well with lots of people stopping by to look and talk. Made some copper objects and rings and gave away a few. Hope this instilled an appreciation in our metalworking endeavors and maybe inspired a few to try it. See you at Arts In the Arboretum next month.

Coming up this weekend is my first time at the Grove Winery in Gibsonville. I will be dragging some of my tools over there and doing some fold forming demonstrations, also, some general cold forging of copper. Hope the showers hold off, It wouldn't be much fun doing demos in the rain. The Winery says,
Art at the Grove
Mark your calendars. September 13th & 14th is the big Crafts in the Grove week-end where we will be featuring the work of local artists and crafters on the patio. Painting, photography, jewelry, carving, pottery, glass blowing and handmade furniture. We'll also have demonstrations, food, wine tastings, a special free grape tasting and horse-drawn carriage tours of our estate vineyards. Fun for the whole family.

Hope to see you there. This past weekend at the Rockingham County Folks Festival we had a great time with the folks up in Wentworth, NC. The Rockingham County Arts Council put on this festival. With the crowds being unsure about the extent of hurricane Hanna Saturday, we started off a little slow. Things picked up on Sunday with a small but enthusiastic crowd. Lots of interesting people met along with seeing some old friends in the RC Pottery Guild which was set up beside me. Next year, without Hanna, I'm sure a big crowd will show. Hope to see some of you folks at Crafts at the Grove this weekend.

Lazy Daze Arts & Crafts Show

Lazy Daze is coming up this weekend if the hurricane doesn't decide to spoil our party. I'll keep you posted. I'm featuring my new clock collection. Check out the slide show to the right.

Great Festival!

Thank you, great customers, for making the Greensboro Bicentennial Heritage Festival a smashing success for Metallic Artistry and the folks that braved wind , rain, cold and sun, my hats off to you. It was great seeing old friends and making new ones over the weekend. Hope to see you all again real soon. It was so neat to see the celebrations all over downtown with real craft demonstrations in the Center City Park and those great antique autos. They were so interesting, and so were the enthusiasts that loved and cared for them. It's so much fun to talk to folks with so much passion for their interests. We are truly blessed with so many talented people in this area.
Saturday started out with everybody dodging showers 'til sometime after 12 when it finally settled down, some sun could be seen and everyone saw it was safe to venture out without getting too wet. We had a great afternoon, although the wind was bad in some areas, we were sheltered somewhat on Davie Street by the YWCA. I've been to enough of these I've got a pretty good feeling for wind dynamics and had most of my displays fairly low profile. Some others on the street didn't fare so well. Early on, a bad gust took down a potter's rack with hours and hours of work along with it. Unfortunately that's one of the risks that go with the territory. We pour our hearts and soul into our endeavors, present them to the world with our hearts in our hands only to have them dashed to destruction or rejected. We artists have to be a tough lot sometimes. But, the rewards are worth the price. Check out the two young ladies in their 40's classic clothes. All day we saw vintage and costume clothes worn by period actors some with Original vintage clothes from Design Archives on Tate Street. I've always loved the old WWII era movies, and these two looked like they just came through a time bridge which opened up on our street. I had to get a shot. Thanks ladies!! Oh, by the way check out the sign just to the left of the black hatted young lady.....it says, "1st Place Best of Show". That's a first for me. Thanks judges for knowing a good thing when you see it and rewarding our hard work!
The other pic is of the tent with sis Ann on the left and Miss Karrie Detwiller. Karrie collaborates with Metallic Artistry occasionally with some of her exceptional jewelry. Quite a few customers availed themselves of her beautiful work over the weekend. I met Karrie at the Carrboro Arts Center where she teaches numerous classes in metalworking techniques. Her young mind is a treasure chest of metalworking knowledge. I had her Chasing and Repousse class and hope to incorporate some of that into my work soon. Stay tuned! Her classes are well worth the 50 minute drive from Greensboro if you're thinking of expanding your skill base. So, time to get back to work for the next show coming up. Later...Ed.

Holly Arts & Craft Festival, 2007

This is our setup at the Holly Arts & Craft Festival in Pinehurst this year. What a neat place. The town had a distinct village feel to it. As a matter of fact I think they call it a village. This was our first time at this venue and we did pretty well. Lots of interesting people. We were set up on the back street from the main drag but had lots of traffic anyway. Hopefully if the show is still there (hearing rumors of major changes)next year we can get up on the main drag. Lots of beautiful things in a nice setting. That's Sarah on the right with a customer.