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Even if it is warm that weekend, the breeze from the river and the shade from the park’s trees will keep you cool as you stroll around viewing beautiful work by local artisans…Kerry Ellen is just one of many artists who will bring their best handcrafted treasures for you to see at the 5th Annual Grafton Art Fair! Live music too! Free fun for those who love beautiful things in a beautiful setting…
11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, at The Grove Memorial Park at Main and Market streets in Grafton.
I had such a lovely time here last year – a delightful way to usher in the holiday season & re-visit my former home town of Webster Groves, Missouri – this event puts you in the right mood for holiday celebrating and shopping. I will be there with my glass jewelry & small dishes and my friend Tabitha, the Knitting Journeyman, will be there with her handmade treasures too…Buy local – buy handmade – give art from the heart!
Treat yourself to this free artist studio tour!
http://www.arteasttour.com/ (general info)
http://www.arteasttour.com/tourmap.html (tour map)
For additional information:
email: arteasttour01@hotmail.com
Kerry Ellen’s Corner:
This year I will be showing my handmade fused glass jewelry at By Design, 136 Front Street, in Alton, Illinois. Owner Lillian Bates describes By Design as “custom couture clothing and fiber art”: visit http://www.lillianbydesign.com/.
Kerry Ellen, Glass Artist
Fused Glass Jewelry and More
(Pendants, Necklaces, Earrings,
Small Dishes and Tiles)
Showing at: { By Design,
136 Front Street, Alton, Illinois
ARTIST STATEMENT:
For me, glass is all about transformation. You take simple sand, heat it up, and it becomes glass, which can either be liquid or solid, clear or opaque, rough or smooth, cold or hot. Glass is stronger after it has been fired in the kiln. Dichroic glass both transmits and reflects color. Sometimes it changes colors after it has been heated: I’ve put in bright orange glass, and when it cooled off, it was neon green. When I open the kiln to see how everything “cooked”, usually, it’s like Christmas morning, full of happy surprises! But if I don’t like the way a piece turned out, I just recycle it and try again. Glass gives you second chances…
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13th Annual ARTEAST Studio Tours – October 16 & 17 – 11 -5 |
Kerry Ellen: Telephone: (618) 463-1507; email: kvwordsmith@hotmail.com;
web site: kerryellen.wordpress.com; etsy store: etsy.com/shop/kvwordsmith
Here’s where I’ll be for my next glass & jewelry show – please come, learn about ways to get and stay green, hear live music, and see my recycled glass goodies, right next to the Mighty Mississippi River!
For more info, go to: http://riverfrontamphitheater.com/earthtones/
Perfect to go with your favorite jeans! These lapis-look dyed agate stones look like denim. Small round blue beads are sodalite. With cream spacer beads.
Necklace & earrings – set for $30.
by Kerry Ellen
Never happened before – never will again – glass bubble pendant, on silver fibroid glass capped with pink glass for a dazzling hot pink combo – not your ordinary dichroic glass piece!
fused glass, double-layered for strength, annealed slowly, comes with gold bail, ready to wear with a chain or cord – 3 inches long, 2 inches wide.
Available from my Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/kvwordsmith
by Kerry Ellen
You never know what will happen with dichroic glass – I took some clear glass with yellow-gold hearts and fired them on red glass – and came out with this aqua-hearts! What fun!
FASHION SHOW!
Art Glass Jewelry Sale
Thurs. July 30, 5-9 PM
Atrium of Alton Holiday Inn
3800 Homer Adams Parkway and College Ave.
Supporting Community Hope Center, Cottage Hills
