Connect with your local Granby artists at the annual Granby Artists Open Studio weekend on Oct. 4 and 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Open Studio tour invites visitors to artists’ studios to meet the artists, watch demonstrations and find art and gifts. The Open Studio tour map showing the artists’ locations is inserted in this Granby Drummer. Visitors can also read detailed information and download the map from granbyartists.org Thank you to all our generous supporters and donors whose financial support makes this annual event possible!
This year the following artists are participating the tour:
Avis Cherichetti and Linda Yurasevecz will display their pottery art at Avis’s studio, Honey Hill Pottery. Cherichetti will have her raku birds and fairy doors. Yurasevecz will have some new raku pieces. Ongoing demos will feature bowls to be given to the GMHS Honor Society for the 2026 Empty Bowls event .
Sally Sargent-Markey will have watercolor paintings, handmade soft animals, polymer clay jewelry, and small decorative items. During the event she will show how she makes bookmarks and cards with black line drawings. She will be giving away free bookmarks.
Alex Anisimov will be in his gallery at 2 Park Place. Check out his new art work while he gladly answers questions about art, artists, his philosophy of life and the creative process.
Susan Canavan will be at Lost Acres Vineyard showing her crepe paper botanicals. She will have a variety of paper flowers, foliage, and mushrooms for sale and will be showing how she constructs these paper sculptures.
Kathy Ungerleider will be at Lost Acres Vineyard displaying her handcrafted resin sea shell/sea glass artwork and mirrors, decoupage oyster shell trinket dishes, and other unique handcrafted gifts. She will be available to explain her process throughout both days.
Karen Dalecki is a watercolor artist who enjoys a wide range of interests: the New England landscape, house and boat portraits, her flower gardens and abstracts. Her framed paintings will be at the Lost Acres Vineyard location. Commissions are welcomed.
Matthew Mikalonis is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in print media and papermaking. He enjoys engaging with craft by making handmade paper with natural fibers and linoleum cut prints to create narratives inspired by his interests in folk art, antiques, and mythology.
Alexander Sogliero will be displaying his body of work at Lost Acres Vineyard. His portfolio includes portraits, wildlife photography and New England landscapes that are printed in large format, matted and framed—all in-house at his studio at the historic Tariffville Mill in Simsbury.
Don Shaw Jr. will display his photographs at Granby Congregational Church North Campus. His work includes wildlife, landscapes and street scenes.
William Bentley is showing watercolor paintings, which include flowers and still-life subjects. Sketches for future watercolors will also be displayed.
Michael Bentley developed his photographic skills while working in graphic design where he produced album covers, print publications and, eventually, websites. Besides an overriding effort to capture light, color and shape, Bentley’s most recent work has found painterly detail in the garden that is Granby.
Carolyn Dittes is excited to display her new large floor vases along with bowls, mugs, utensil holders and other functional pieces, many with new glaze combinations. She will also have a table of seconds.
George Mattingly is drawn to the natural world, and that has been the focus of his paintings to date. “New way of life—learn and paint, paint and learn—reveals that there is still much more ground to cover.”
Emma Smith’s art consists of acrylic paintings of places she has visited in Europe, Asia and Iceland. She also has paintings of New England scenes. She enjoys traveling and then putting effort into designing and painting a memorable scene.
Anne Marie Elder will be doing carving demonstrations at her home studio. She carves wooden spoons and utensils.
Steve Linde will be showing his oil paintings and pastels at Lost Acres Vineyard.
Save the Date
Granby Artists Association will host its popular Annual Holiday Gift Show on Saturday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Granby Congregational Church’s Cook Hall at its North Campus, 219 North Granby Road. Shop local and support your favorite artists at this one-day event. We look forward to seeing you there! Check our website and the November Drummer for more details.