Brattleboro area studios take part in statewide open studio tour Oct. 2-3
BRATTLEBORO, VT.: The statewide Vermont Craft Council's Fall Open Studio Weekend Oct. 2 and 3 will include four craftspeople with studios located in West Brattleboro and Marlboro, and a gallery in Brattleboro.
Participating sites will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings. Visitors will have the chance to see demonstrations, purchase handcrafted items, talk to the professional artisans who made them and see the environment where their creative work happens.
To ensure safety during the pandemic, visitors are asked to wear face masks in all indoor spaces.
All four of the Brattleboro area studios participating in the tour belong to members of Brattleboro-West Arts, a group of professional artists and craftspeople who live and work in the watershed of the Whetstone Brook. For profiles of member artists and more information about Brattleboro-West Arts, visit https://www.brattleboro-west-arts.com/osw, where you can view an interactive map of the local stops on your device. For a complete list and maps of tour stops statewide, visit http://www.vermontcrafts.com/OSW/fallmaps-directions.html.
Tourgoers can pick up guidebooks with maps at any participating site statewide. Here are the local tour stops, according their respective numbers in the guidebook:
• 46. Vermont Artisan Designs, gallery and tour information center (indoors)
• 106 Main St., Brattleboro. (buyvermontart.com)
• 45. Orchard Street Pottery (outdoors)
• 658 Orchard St., Brattleboro. (walterslowinskipottery.weebly.com)
• 44. Naomi Lindenfeld Clayworks, colored clay pottery (outdoors and indoors)
• 330 Meadowbrook Road, Brattleboro. (naomilindenfeld.com)
• 43. Chris Lann Designs, jewelry (indoors)
• 1420 Sunset Lake Road, Brattleboro. (chrislanndesigns.com)
• 42. Matthew Tell Pottery (outdoors and indoors)
• 163 Potters Hill Road, Marlboro. (matthewtellpottery.com)
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