Tennessee Craft- Southeast is having its 20th annual Holiday Studio Tour on the Mountain 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 5, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 6. Tennessee Craft-Southeast is the regional branch of Tennessee Craft, the statewide organization that supports and promotes all handmade crafts in Tennessee.
At its inception, the local studio tour ranged from Chattanooga to Tullahoma, but gradually, the tour focused increasingly on the Sewanee area because of the concentration of artists and exhibition spaces on the mountain.
Thirty local and regional artists will show their work, ranging from textiles, sculpture, jewelry, pottery and glass to paintings, cast bronze, metal work and wood work.
Sewanee artists who will open their studios to the public during the tour include Bob Askew, Claire Reishman, Archie Stapleton and Merissa Tobler.
Other Sewanee locations displaying work are the Potter home, the Greenspace Art Collective, the American Legion Hall, Locals Gallery, Claiborne House (Otey’s parish hall), Shenanigans and the Spencer Room at St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School.
Additionally, there is a group exhibition of all artists’ work in the St. Andrew’s-Sewanee Art Gallery, located in the center of the Simmonds Building at SAS. Most sites host several different artists showing their work, while the SAS Art Gallery presents an exhibition from all members of the group, in addition to SAS faculty and students. Most works featured in the Studio Tour Exhibition are for sale at the Gallery.
There are six sponsors for the Holiday Studio Tour this year: Monteagle Inn, Mooney’s, Shenanigans, Locals, Sewanee Inn and the Blue Chair. Studio Tour brochures are available at each of these local businesses.
Bright yellow signs mark the tour route, and maps are available at all locations on the tour, as well as at all sponsors’ locations and on the Tennessee Craft-Southeast website,
<tennesseecraft.org/members/chapters/southeast>.
<tennesseecraft.org/members/chapters/southeast>.
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