Elaine Mandrona: The urgent need to make art every day
I’ve been wanting to do this story since she announced to me one day that all she wanted to do every day is make things.
I’ve been wanting to do this story since she announced to me one day that all she wanted to do every day is make things.
Art show at a clinic explores the healing power of art and nature’s beauty.
Pepperell Place Inn has a new art gallery on the premises! Located in the village of Saint Peters, Cindy Walker, inn owner since 2021, says, “I just wanted to bring life back to this house — to bring it back to its glory.”
Rosie Johnson opened her shop two years ago during the COVID 19 pandemic when the world slowed down and stopped. For anyone who knows Rosie, slowing down and stopping doesn’t come easily to her. It seemed like a good time to take a big step, like getting her craft business out of her bedroom and into an actual store of its own.
After 50 years as an artist and now in her 70s, Catherine is feeling an urgency to sell more of her paintings.
She started out making elegant beaded bracelets for the medic alert she used to have to wear, but one thing led to another and then the magic started to happen.
Cindy Walker says chocolate is umami. That’s a Japanese word for “essence of deliciousness” and “overall harmonious state of perfection.” Now all I can think about is how good chocolate tastes.
It’s the first anniversary of the Saturday’s Artisan Market (S.A.M.) in St. Peter’s this weekend and if you don’t know what that is, you’ve been missing a great monthly craft sale event.