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Clay Sculpture by Lisa Muller

Clay Sculpture by Lisa Muller

 

Remember  when you were young and your parents always told you that you needed to share? Well you still need to share, just in a different way.

 

With all of the wonderful social media, we now have a great way to connect and support other artists with the click of a button. So today I’m going to show you some fun and easy ways to connect with fellow PA Guild of Craftsman artist, and let’s see if we can’t spread the word far and wide about the amazing art that’s created by this group.

 

Wooden Framed sunglasses by : Matt Muetterties

Wooden Framed sunglasses by : Matt Muetterties

Let’s start connecting and sharing

1. Pinterest board with a collection of work from members of the guild

2. Follow the PA Guild on pinterest

3. Follow the Guild on twitter

4. Follow Handmade in Pa on twitter

5. Like the Guild on facebook

Earrings by Erica Millner

Earrings by Erica Millner

Let’s connect with each other, in the comments below leave a comment sharing where we can find you. Take a few moments to look through the list and connect with some other people that you find interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

Amber KaneMy creative practice is far from the traditional weaver. When warping the loom I never count the ends, I just go until I feel that it's time to stop. I don't follow patterns, I allow and sometimes encourage the yarn to move as it wraps around the front beam. If a string breaks, I work it into the piece. I create from my soul. I speak to the yarn as we weave together, striving to create the perfect connection, and when we become in sync a fabulous scarf, full of honesty, joy, and personality emerges.


Amber Kane - Fabricated Ends

Wayne Art Center’s Plein Air Festival

Michelle Byrne.  After Movie Chat.  Photo © Sam Strike

Michelle Byrne. After Movie Chat. Photo © Sam Strike

If you happened to have found yourself in the Deleware Valley last week, in and around Wayne, you might have come across artists with their easels set up on the side walk, fields, or in local businesses, capturing scenes of the area on canvas.  The artists were taking part in the Wayne Art Center’s Plein Air Festival.  The festival, now in its 7th year, included artists, from Pennsylvania and throughout the United States, that converged on the Deleware Valley to paint local scenes “en plein air,” a French term meaning “in the open air.”  Each of the 30 artists participating, selected from a group of 129 painters that applied to the festival, were required to paint between two and four paintings a day, rain or shine, within a fifteen mile radius of Wayne, Pennsylvania from May 6 through May 10.  Oil painters, watercolorists, and painters of other media captured pastoral landscapes, scenes of downtown Philadelphia and the waterfront, small-town-scapes, and the hustle and bustle of daily life in the region’s markets and businesses.  The works are now on view at that Wayne Art Center and will remain on display and available for sale, through June 29th.

Below is a sampling of some of the works that were created last week throughout the town of Wayne:

Michele Byrne, Catching Up at the Great American Pub, Oil.  Photo © Sam Strike

Michele Byrne, Catching Up at the Great American Pub. Oil. Photo © Sam Strike

Jane Chapin, Best Hoagies on the Main Line. Oil. Photo © Sam Strike

Jane Chapin, Best Hoagies on the Main Line. Oil. Photo © Sam Strike

Stewart White, MD, Diner in the Rain, Oil. Photo © Sam Strike

Stewart White, MD, Diner in the Rain, Oil. Photo © Sam Strike

All photos © Sam Strike of the Radnor Patch

 

Amy Pulliam, a self-taught jewelry artisan and the designer behind Helen Ethel Studio, was raised in the fresh country air and woodlands of central Pennsylvania but later moved to Philadelphia to pursue her studies in Art History. In addition to her work as a jewelry artisan, she is also the research librarian/historian for an historic architectural stained glass window studio in Philadelphia. Discover her Facebook page, etsy shop and blog .


Helen