C E R T I F I E D O R G A N I C
Dorchester, New Hampshire
We would like to thank the following generous sponsors of the 2009 Traditional Arts Fair:
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D Acres of NH is
supported in part by a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the
Arts & the National Endowment for the Arts.
Upper Valley Food Co-op
D Acres
of New Hampshire1997-2009 Twelve Years of Progress Towards SustainAbility
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Traditional Arts Fair
2009 is the Year of Traditional Arts & Ecology
Welcome traditional artists and art lovers!
This is a printable pdf. file that outlines the days events.
Please call or email for more specifics.
The Fair culminates with a performance by NH icons Jacqueline & Dudley Laufman aka The Two Fiddles
Confirmed Attendees will be: Rob Hudson- Master Blacksmith Bob Weick performing Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn Modern Times Theatre- Bread and Puppet All-Stars Jim McHugh- wooden spoon maker Gary Hamel- dying and spinning Joyce Bouley- pottery Jim and Marcia Newcomb- bee-keeping & candles Jane Darling- Basket Making Cheryl Johnson- watercolor landscapes Beverly Walker- prismatic painting Susan Wei- shibori dying Cynthia Robinson- sculptures from nature Diana Burdette & Donna Simonds- crocheting & knitting Megan Mowins- glass fusing Irene Kim- ceramics Shelia Williams- bookbinding Jane Nash- Circle Dancing Joyce Bouley- hand-building ceramics Sharon Dunigan- ceramics Ryan Harvey- photography Kathleen Peters- wool felting
Workshop Presenters: Diana Burdette and Donna Simonds Workshop Title: Basics of Crocheting and Knitting; Make Your Own Scarf! Workshop Description: Learn the basics of crocheting and knitting. Using eyelash yarn and a crochet hook each participant will walk away from this fantastic workshop with a brand new scarf! Bio: Diana has been knitting since she was just seven years old and began crocheting in her early 20s. Donna has a remarkable thirty years of knitting experience, thirty-five years of sewing experience and twenty years of bead-work under her belt! Learn from true traditional crafts-women! Cynthia Robinson Workshop Title: Making Art with Nature Workshop Description: This workshop includes a story, observing and collecting local natural materials, designing and building sculptures that can also be used as shelters by local animals and insects. This workshop is perfect for children and families. Bio: Cynthia Robinson, an eco-artist, was a painter for more than twenty years, and now uses all kinds of materials and processes to make artworks centered on environmental issues and ideas. She is an experienced art educator, has taught all ages of students including preschool, elementary, high school, up to Elderhostel students for over twenty-five years. Her current environmental art education business, “Eco Art a la Carte” takes her to schools and communities all over New Hampshire for workshops, long-term programs and artist in residence weeks. Jim and Marcia Newcomb Workshop Title: Making Beeswax Candles and Beekeeping Basics Workshop Description: Learn the basics of beekeeping including the age old craft of candle making using Shekinah Mountain Farms beeswax. Each participant will get to make their own candle to home and help light up their day. Bio: Jim and Marcia own and operate Shekinah Mountain Farms where they offer honey and a wide variety of honey and beeswax products. Rob Hudson Workshop Title: Hot Metal – Intro to Blacksmithing Workshop Description: Learning how all our ancestors made what we need of raw material. We use what we need today…cars, refrigerators, needles and pins, but we don’t know where they came from – iron ore! Bio: For thirty five years Rob has been a self-employed blacksmith. In 1999 he was recognized as the “best blacksmith in the world”. Previously, he focused on knives, but more recently he has focused his energy on teaching. Gary Hamel Workshop Title: Dying Wool with Native Plants and Flowers Workshop Description: Learn how to dye wool with native plants and flowers. Start by taking a nature walk and collecting materials, dye wool and workshop will continue into the afternoon as Gary makes variations on the color and sits at his wheel and spins. Bio: Gary has been dying and spinning for five years. He has been an exhibiting artist in the North East for thirty years. He is listed as “who’s Who in American Art”. Jacqueline and Dudley Laufman: Two Fiddles Workshop Title: Old Time New Hampshire Square and Barn Dance Workshop Description: Jacqueline and Dudley specialize in Virginia reels, circle dances, square and contre dances, and dances from the colonial period to the present. Everyone is able to join in the dances; no experience needed. Bio: Just this year Jacqueline and Dudley were awarded the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts, the National Heritage Fellowship by The National Endowment for the Arts. Since 1986, Jacqueline and Dudley Laufman have been playing for dances as Two Fiddles. Prior to that, Dudley, who has been playing and calling dances for over fifty years, has been the leader of the Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra, the first dance band to make an LP recording, in 1971, of the New England jigs and reels most often used for dancing. Judith Wright Workshop Title: Painting with Oils ($4material fee) Workshop Description: Learn oil painting basics and finish a 9*12” oil painting. Bio: Judith has painted with oils for 40 years, including landscapes, portraits, still life and water-scenes. Judith has won several awards and has paintings in private collections. She has studies at Norman Rockwell’s artist school and received private teaching from E. John Robinson, renowned sea-scape painter. Jan Nash Workshop Title: The Art of Community Circle Dance Workshop Description: Teaching and sharing traditional village dances to modern choreographies for all ages. Bio: Jan has recently completed a two-year circle dance training based on women’s traditional dances at Neskaya in Franconia, NH. She has been circle dancing since 1999. Sheila Williams Workshop Title: Hand Sewn Bookbinding Workshop Description: Using a variety of new and used papers, boards and traditional techniques you will construct a journal and/or artist book to take home and use. Please note that there are 12 spots available for this workshop, there is a $2 material fee, and all participants should be 14+. Bio: As a graduate of RISD Sheila learned a lot of things, but her most useful education has been from working hands-on with other artists. She learned bookbinding in the studio of Jim Bottomley, book restoration at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, attended Book Arts Jamboree with a bunch of really fun book artists and worked as a librarian for the City of Keene. Demonstration Artists: Megan Mowins Demo Title: Lamp Working Demo Description: Will display how to make simple pendants and beads using basic glass making techniques. Will work with Pyrex. Bio: Megan is a resident of Salem, MA. She has been blowing glass and lamp working for almost five years. She is currently teaching part-time at the Diablo Glass School in Boston. Bob Weick Demo Title: Marx in Soho, A Play by Howard Zinn. Demo Description: American education, America’s super rich ruling class, corporate mergers, prisons, and the media are some of the issues Marx confronts during the course of the play. With “ Marx in Soho playwright and historian Zinn shows his characteristic gift at accurately humanizing but not sentimentalizing people most historians ignore at best, or disfigures at worst. Zinn’s dialogue doesn’t preach, rather it is full of mischievous humor. The play vibrates with Marx’s ideals and dreams but behind the play the ringing of Zinn’s powerful and wise voice can be heard crying for social change and human justice. Bio: Celebrated actor Bob Weick has been actively touring MARX IN SOHO for 4 years with over 160 productions around the country from Maine to California. In his day job Weick is a farrier and family man. Renowned Historian and activist Howard Zinn is widely known for his books “ A People’s History of the United States,” and “The Twentieth Century” Rose Friedman and Justin Lander Demo Title: Traditional Theatre for Modern Times Demo Description: Modern Times Theatre makes puppet shows for the street, the school, the barn, the pasture, and the subway. The shows convey a general dissatisfaction with post-modern convenience and promote a return to good old-fashioned difficulty. Bio: Modern Times Theater is Rose Friedman and Justin Lander, a husband and wife duo who trained together for five years in the prestigious halls of the Bread and Puppet Hands-in-the-Dirt Academy. The theater has performed at the Green Mountain Cranky Festival in Montpelier; the Puppet fusion festival in Raleigh, N.C.; Great Small Works spaghetti dinners in New York City; and in numerous bars, clubs, and basements with the Boxcutter Cabaret. Beverly Walker Demo Title: Prismatic Painting Demo Description: Casual demo of a watercolor in progress, andwering and questions from observers. Bio: Beverly is a long time artist; AA in Fine Arts; juried member of NHAA; exhibited in many juried shows in NH, CT, OH, and a past member of Artistic Roots Coop Gallery in Campton, NH. Cheryl Johnson Demo Title: Watercolor Landscape Demo Description: Cheryl will complete three to four watercolor landscapes over a two hour period. Bio: Before becoming a well known artist in this region Cheryl owned a printing business. She is a current active member of Artistic Roots and Squam Lakes Artisans. She teaches classes and has studio space at 75 Main st, Plymouth. Jane Darling Demo Title: Basket Making Demo Description: During this six hour demonstration Jane will make a utility style farm basket from start to finish. Bio: Jane studied with a master basket maker, Betty Ashley, for one year. She has been making and teaching basket making for thirty five years. Joyce Bouley Demo Title: Hand Building Pottery with Clay Demo Description: Learn how to create a three-legged vase and other pottery products through hand building with clay. This technique does not require electricity. Bio: Joyce works in Campton, NH. She has been working with clay for twenty five years. Her work is displayed at Artistic Roots in Plymouth and Squam Lake Artisans in Holderness, NH. Jim McHugh Demo Title: Spoon Carving and Jewelry Making Demo Description: Bio: Jim is a jack of all trades! Kathleen Peters Demo Title: Felting without Knitting Demo Description: Kathleen will be wet felting a foundation and will then needle felt an image. This is followed by more wet felting to solidify the image in the felted fabric. Bio: Kathleen left a career in engineering to become a fiber artist four years ago. Since then, she has become a juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen and an active member in the Cardigan Mt. Art Association. She allows her love for material science and nature to be coupled with felting to create handmade, fine felt. Ryan Harvey Demo Title : Bringing the Mountains Home Demo Description: Photographers, homesteaders, mountaineers, etc. For Sarah and Ryan Harvey homesteading brings life in the mountains home. Slideshow will showcase stunning photography from the heights of New England to their homestead endeavors. Slideshow will highlight mountain photography of the White Mountains to the Adirondacks of New York. Bio:Ryan is a homesteader, mountaineer, photographer, educator, and ecologist specializing in the northeastern mountains and northern forest. He has served many capacities in the northeastern mountains in public land management. Currently he works with the White Mountain National Forest and maintains a trails/wildland stewardship consulting business: Wildland Services. Sharon Dunigan Demo Title: Pots on a Wheel - How Do They Do That?! Demo Description: Come watch wads of clay begin the journey towards functional, fine craft. It’s an interesting process! Bio: By day Sharon teaches visual arts to 300 kids in Campton, N.H. Evenings will find her with a mug of coffee in the studio down the hill from her old, active farm house! It’s a fine life! Demo Title: Herding Demo Description: Lana will be demonstrating how to herd farm dogs using ducks. Bio: Lana began training professionally in 1977. After years of competitive obedience training, she got her first Border Collie, started going to sheepdog trails and never looked back. She lives in Danbury, NH with assorted sheep and goats, ducks and chickens, her four border collies and when she’s not working with them, she is spinning, weaving or felting. Susan Wei Demo Title: Exploring Fabric Painting Demo Description: Susan will be demonstrating the art of fabric painting using acrylic paints. She will review preparation for dying fabric, how to stretch fabric like a canvas, and sun prints. Bio: Susan has been a practicing textile artist for the past 4-5 years full time. Irene Kim Demo Title: Learn to Throw Pottery Off the Hump Demo Description: Throwing many small forms off of one large piece of clay Bio: Irene mostly works on a small scale, making wheel thrown forms. Lidded objects are also currently in the rotation.
Check back for more updates on who will be teaching at our 2009 Traditional Arts Fair!
If you are an artist and are interested in participating please contact us at info@dacres.org or by phone at (603) 786-2366.
**No one will be denied access to D Acres workshops & events due to inability to pay.
Complete registration or please call or email us at info@dacres.org
Thank you!
We will be providing space for vendors. If you are interested in vending at the 2009 Traditional Arts Fair please contact us at info@dacres.org or by phone at (603)786-2366.
We are currently seeking sponsorship for our 2009 Traditional Arts Fair. If you are interested in sponsorship or a donation of any kind we would greatly appreciate your participation. Please feel free to contact us at any time either by email at info@dacres.org or by phone at (603) 786-2366.
Thank you!
Food Beverages (coffee) Fabrics Art materials Paper (any size, including poster board) Cardboard Photograph film Pens and pencils Chairs Folding tables Pop-up Tents
Special thanks to our sponsors:
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
Friends of the Arts
Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network
Hannah Grimes Marketplace www.hannahgrimes.com
Event at D Acres of New Hampshire!
At D Acres, the environment and our local community come first. We strive to utilize only reusable plates, silverware, glasses, mugs, and napkins. Food is 90% organic and choices depend upon what can be harvested from the gardens, and what has been canned, pickled, frozen or stored in the root cellar from an earlier harvest.
E-mail us at info@dacres.org with information regarding the type of event you would like to host, the date, how many hours you will need the space, and whether you prefer indoors or outdoors. We will e-mail you back with prices and availability. You can also contact us by phone at (603) 786-2366.
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