by Martha Beau | Aug 10, 2017
Every August, Valley Artisans Market holds a Seconds Sale for one weekend. Artists clean out their studios and discount items that are overstocks, seconds, experimental works, or work that has not sold and needs to be cleaned out to make room for new pieces. One of...
by Martha Beau | Jul 3, 2017
Member Peggy Gray makes designer jackets as well as clothing using scraps of interesting fabrics collected from many different sources and from travels. She has just re-stocked the Market with new work, including lovely blouses that are pieces of art while also being...
by Martha Beau | Jun 21, 2017
Peggy Pulling’s introduction to stained glass began in the 1970s. “I was introduced to stained glass when a friend opened a wholesale business in the late 70s,” she says. “She asked me to come to work for her and that was that. Love at first sight.” Peggy’s stained...
by Martha Beau | May 30, 2017
Member Luann Gilligan of Round Lake, NY, has brought in some lovely little fabric purses with interesting buttons to brighten up the market. Check them out – they’ll be gone in a hurry!
by Martha Beau | May 25, 2017
Congratulations to member Martha Starke who has been featured in the artist spotlight in the May/June issue of Simply Saratoga Home & Garden 2017. (Find her feature on pages 25 & 25, as well as on page 154.) All of Martha’s work is garden-inspired. As a...
by Martha Beau | May 24, 2017
Welcome to our newest member, Kris Gregson Moss Kris Gregson Moss is not a quilter. She is an artist who sews pieces of fabric together in interesting shapes, this is true. But she often takes the process a step further by making them into cloth sculptures using wood...
by Martha Beau | May 19, 2017
Congratulations to our newest member Kris Gregson Moss who won first place in a three-dimensional art show at the View Arts Center in Old Forge, NY. She won for a piece of fabric sculpture called “Synchronicity.” Congrats Kris!
by Martha Beau | May 2, 2017
Diana Schleicher often starts a stained glass project — such as a sun catcher or mosaic piece — by allowing the glass itself to suggest a subject. Sometimes it’s a landscape, a bird or insect or some kind of geometric design. “The texture of the glass and the way the...
by Martha Beau | Apr 28, 2017
Kris is a fabric artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally. She has been juried into Quilts=Art=Quilts, Tactile Architecture, Fiber Focus, 150 years of Adirondack Quilts at the Adirondack museum, and the Aullwood Audubon Center. Her work is publicly...
by Martha Beau | Mar 28, 2017
An artist is “a person who produces works in any of the arts that are primarily subject to aesthetic criteria.” If this definition is true, then I am not sure what Barry Targan is. He produces work in MANY of the arts, not just ANY. If you have seen Barry’s work at...
