The Granby Artists Association presents its Annual Open Studio Tour on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 4 and 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This favorite October event in Granby is now a week earlier. Meet the 18 participating artists at their home studios or in gallery spaces and learn how they make their work. Most artists will have art and gifts for sale. See granbyartists.org for more information.
Many of the artists will be doing demonstrations, so come to learn and watch them work. Avis Cherichetti and Linda Yurasevecz will have pottery demos throughout the weekend, while potter Carolyn Dittes will demonstrate wheel throwing at 3:45 p.m. on both days. Sally Markey will be making bookmarks and cards with line drawing. Sue Canavan will be making crepe paper flowers. Anne Marie Elder will be hosting demos and workshops throughout both days that celebrate colonial-era craftsmanship, from spoon carving to heritage woodworking. Laura Eden will show how she paints her birch watercolors and explain her egg tempera painting process. This will be a fun and informative weekend so come out and meet your local artists!
At Lost Acres Vineyard, 80 Lost Acres Road
Susan Canavan: crepe paper botanicals; Karen Dalecki: watercolors; Alexander Sogliero: landscape and portrait photography; Steve Linde: oil paintings and pastels; Kathy Ungerleider: seashell resin artwork
At Granby Congregational Church North Campus, 219 North Granby Road
Michael Bentley: photography; William Bentley: watercolors; Matthew Mikalonis: handmade paper and printmaking; Don Shaw, Jr.: photography
At Honey Hill Pottery, 31 Barn Door Hills Road
Avis Cherichetti: pottery; Linda Yurasevecz: pottery
At home studios or galleries
Carolyn Dittes (14 Baycrest Drive): pottery
Sally Sargent Markey (137 Wells Road): watercolors and polymer clay jewelry
Emma Smith (6 Cranberry Lane): acrylic paintings
George Mattingly (349 Salmon Brook Street, 2nd floor): oil paintings
Alex Anisimov (2 Park Place Gallery): oil paintings
