Upcoming Studio Tours

I will again be doing the Carroll County Artists Studio Tour, Taneytown, MD locationhttp://ccartists.com/ Dec 5-6 as well as the Countryside Artisans Studio Tour Dec 4-6 plus 11-13 in Dickerson, MD http://www.countrysideartisans.com/.

At The Taneytown location in Carroll County only, I am clearance discounting my knitted and felted hats at $50 to $75 (were $89 to $149) as I am moving on to other things. JOanne

Update by Joanne

Wow, has time been flying. My solo show is over as well as Holiday shows at the Yorktowne Chapter of the PA Guild of Craftsmen, the Hanover Area Arts Guild, and the York Art Association.  I am flattered to report that I won awards at the latter two.

I am now recovering from my second foot surgery this year and hope to be able to actually wear hard shoes this winter. I can't remember the last year I was able to have boots. It will be a new experience to have warm feet this winter.

While I have given up successive weekends of craft shows, I am preparing for two studio tours the first 2 weeks in December, one in Carroll County, MD and the other In Dickerson, MD. I do miss the meeting of customers that craft shows gave me. I will have an assortment of my machine embroideries, my pet paintings, my felted hats and accessories, my photography as well as my beadwork. I will be alternately demoing machine embroidery and beadwork at the Carroll County location in Taneytown.

Photos of last year's Studio Tour at Thistledown Farms in Taneytown, Carroll County Studio Tour:

In addition, I am the designated blogger for the month of November for the Potomac FiberArt Gallery in the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA. Check me out there. Joanne

Machine Embroidery Exhibit Opening

Just before the opening of my machine embroidery exhibit "Thread Pictures at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center in Frederick, MD last Saturday. Ben, Jerry and Apolo helped me open the exhibit which runs upstairs through the end of September. The National Quilt Exhibit has the big gallery space downstairs and is a real treat. I was surprised to find the Delaplaine a dog friendly environment. We were on our way(dogs too) to the Boston area to visit my husband's mother who broke her hip at a stopover between Philadelphia and my brother-in-law's summer cabin in Maine. So now she is stuck in a rehab unit near Boston and appreciated the company. My kids are fortunate to still have all 4 grandparents in their 90's. Joanne

Machine Embroidery Exhibit continued

I went down to Frederick, MD today to hang my machine embroidery exhibit at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center. I have the little upstairs room and managed to get 20 thread pictures finished and framed for the exhibit. The National Quilt Show taking up the bulk of the gallery space looks awesome. The opening is Saturday 3-5PM and both exhibits will run through the month of September. Here are the latest 2: Joanne

Machine Embroidery Exhibit

I am almost finished the set of machine embroideries for my one person exhibit at the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center in Frederick, MD. I just finished framing the 19th one. I hope to complete 2 more this weekend as my dog agility seminar has been cancelled due to Irene. Subjects range from flowers to architecture (windows and doors) to lighthouses to animals. Hanging will take place next week. The opening is Saturday, Sept 3, 3-5 PM. Here are a few of the latest. Joanne

French Window 1

Zinnias

Window Box Geraniums

Black Eyed Susans

Thursday Group Painters Exhibit, Towson MD

There, I finally figured out how to get the whole invitation to my Studio Thursday Group Painters Exhibit downloaded properly. It will be a fantastic exhibit. I am definitely the newcomer to painting and honored to be included in such an august group of painters. Here are a few of my pet portraits:

"Good Hair Day"

 "Prince of Wales"

 "Claire"

 "Curiosity Did What!"

 "Biscuit, Did I Hear Biscuit?"

"Happiness Is"
                                      
"Sheltie"

 "Palm Puppy"

I Just Felt Like It--Studio Tour

The fantastic panels pictured in my previous blog sessions of Dogwood in the four seasons were a collaborative effort of the Potomac Fiberarts Guild felting subgroup "Daughters of Genghis Kahn" (as we call
ourselves). If you missed them at our Saville Gallery show 'Just Felt Like
It' in Cumberland, Maryland you will have another opportunity to view them
at the Countryside Artisans Tour April 15, 16, 17. See also work of guild
members: Rae Cumbie, Jeanne Bohlen, Nancy Pollack, Grace Mahanes, Joanne
Bast, Roz Houseknecht, Renata Maile-Moskowitz, Kathy Korin and Bev Thoms,
all at Tiewyan Artisans. *
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*For more information: www.countrysideartisans.com. Click on Artisans,
Tiewyan Artisans and then *studio notes**
*This is a self-directed driving tour of 12 studios scattered in the rural
countryside of (mostly) Montgomery County.*

Below are a few of my small felted hangings that will be available at the studio tour. I hope any of you in the area will be welcomed at Bev Thoms Studio, Tiewyan Farms. Joanne

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I am also happy to announce that I will be the featured blogger on the Potomac Fiberarts Gallery blog for the month of April. Join me there at http://potomacfiberarts.blogspot.com/

I Just Felt Like It Exhibit

The I Just Felt Like It Exhibit is now open at the Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD. Since I posted photo sequences of the creation of the "Spring" nuno felted-wool on tulle-banner, I thought that I would post a few photos provided to me by Roz Houseknecht of the finished banners.

Summer, Fall and Winter: Felted and fulled

Allegheny’s Arts Council’s Saville Gallery in Cumberland Maryland.


The show runs from 10 March until 2 April 2011.

Saville Gallery is located at 9 North Centre Street, Cumberland, MD 21502; 301-777-ARTS; www.alleganyartscouncil.org

Gallert hours: Mon-Fri 9AM-5PM; Sat 11AM-4PM

Banners in place: Fall and Winter

 Summer

 Spring

Members of the Study Group participating in the exhibit include:

Joanne Bast, Bev Thoms, Roz Houseknecht, Zita Simutis, Dalis Davidson, Sharon Janda, Kathy Korin, Grace Mahanes, Paige Garber, Renate Maile-Moskowitz, Francine Stefancic, Terri Fisher, and Jeanne Bohlen

Here we are at the opening:

Sorry, but I happen to be missing from the opening as I had already left on my trip up the coast of Norway--more about that later. Joanne

Machine Embroidery "Three Apples" in Exhibit

I am pleased that my machine embroidery "Three Apples" has been accepted into the Adams County Arts Council Seventh Annual Exhibit to be held at Schmucker Art Gallery of Gettysburg College, 300 N Washington Street, Gettysburg. PA 17325  717-337-6080

Gallery Hours 10AM-4PM June 18-27
Opening Reception Friday June 18, 5-7PM
Awards 6PM
Building is wheelchair accessible

Hope to meet any of you who are close by at the opening.

"Three Apples" was also shown in the Blackrock Tribute to Fiber Arts Exhibit earlier in the year in which I won an Honorable Mention Award. It is based on a photograph of a window in a beautifully quaint UNESCO Heritage site village in Portugal. Joanne