Take a studio stroll this weekend with the Mo’town Studio Tour.
Access to an artist’s sacred space is educational, informative, and let’s be honest, a great way to shop for unique gifts. You have your chance this weekend, October 26 and 27, at the sixth annual Mo’town Studio Tour. The tour is a rare opportunity, as not only do you get to see each artist’s various materials in the raw, but you can also notice aspects of the artists themselves that you may not see otherwise: how they organize their supplies, the inspiration they hang on their walls, their works in progress. And isn’t it fun to peek into other people’s spaces?
Three local artists will host guest artists from the region. Local potter and jewelry maker Lisa Giuliani, who also co-created the tour, is hosting jeweler Erika Blair of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, historical ceramicist Jen Allen of Morgantown, and functional sculptor Taylor Mezo of Pittsburgh.
Woodcut artist Bryn Perrott will host Buttcoffin, an artist based in Cleveland, Part-Time Poodle, a small batch clothier from Pittsburgh, CJ Sews, who makes one-of-a-kind wearable art pieces here in Morgantown, and printmaker Christina Kang, who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but was raised in Morgantown.
Artist and educator Shalya Marsh will host abstract painter Betsy Spellman of Clarksburg, the stained glass of artist Aldona Bird of Morgantown, jeweler Samantha McCreery of Wild Indigo Wares, of Morgantown, and ceramicist Milo Berezin, who is based in Pittsburgh.
The studios are open 10 a.m.–4 p.m. on Saturday and noon–4 p.m. on Sunday.
Works by current and previous tour artists will also be exhibited at The Co-op at 131 Pleasant Street. There will be a kick off reception on Friday, October 25, from 6 to 9 p.m., so get there early for craft cocktails and your chance to meet the artists. Go ready to participate in the silent auction, for which all proceeds will go to benefit CERF—Craft Emergency Relief Fund—for hurricane relief.
“This is a fun, town-inclusive art tour,” says Giuliani. “This year we have a bunch of killer artists from West Virginia and the surrounding region. It’s not to be missed!
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