2013 Mountain Maryland Art Sale and Tour
The 2013
Mountain Maryland Art Sale and Tour will take place over two weekends this
coming fall: Saturday and Sunday, October 19 & 20 and Saturday and Sunday,
October 26 & 27. On all four days of the event, all participating Tour
locations will be free and open to the public from 11:00AM to 5:00PM.
Coordinated by the Allegany Arts Council on behalf of the many talented visual
artists in Western Maryland, the Tour has grown for more than a decade to
become a highly anticipated annual event. Free guidebooks for the Tour will be
available by mid-September. |
| Chandelier Earrings by Macee McCunn |
This
year’s Mountain Maryland Art Sale and Tour will feature 41 participating
artists (several of whom are new to the Tour), so there will be lots of great
artwork to experience and enjoy! As you make your way around from location to
location, be sure to register for your chance to win a $100 cash prize during
each weekend of the Tour. You may register to win at each location where you
stop to visit participating artists. The more locations that you visit, the
more chances you have to win! Winners will be contacted by phone or email after
each weekend.
In
advance of your visit, be sure to check out www.artsaleandtour.com, which
is the official website for the Mountain Maryland Art Sale and Tour. The web
site will provide you with detailed information about each participating
artist, downloadable driving maps, and links to additional information about
hotel accommodations, other area attractions and special getaway promotions. For
questions about the 2013 Mountain Maryland Art Sale and Tour, please call the
Allegany Arts Council at 301-777-ARTS (2787).
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| Acrylic painting by Sibyl MacKenzie |
Sibyl MacKenzie will be joining me on the tour (artist 21) at the Manhattan Golf and Gallery! Her work is lovely and quite vibrant!
I've even created an area inside the larger studio so everyone can stay out of the cold and be able to shop for Christmas gifts. Of course, I still have lots of cleaning to do because I have three small areas you can step into to see how and where I do what I do. If time and space allows, I even plan on doing a little jewelry demoing. Meanwhile, it's back to cleaning and back to creating new work!
I picked up some Golden London Pride (feeling like Spring and wanting to plant something) at Alden Farms. Mixed in with all the plants, David Therriault makes way cool garden type sculptures. 
Passion leaked out of Tina Brown, from Morningstar Studio, as she spoke of oil spills of the past and how they affected nature, plants and animals. She was able to portray how she felt to the world through her abstract images and is pictured with my two friends, Olga and Pam. I had met her one time before and thought she was shy. Oh balls, she is a pistol! 
One of my talented and wonderful friends, Dalis Davidson at Dancing Leaf Farm was also on the tour with her fabulous wool and jewelry stuffsesssss! I picked up some of her awesome dyed merino sheep wool roving. She has these fabulous kits to get you started on felting and my daughter and I already started to play. Sharp little needles! We don't have a clue what we are doing or what we are going to do with them, but we are making balls anyhow! 
Oh balls, balls, balls!!!
