Spring Arts & Crafts Fair

The Sewanee Arts and Crafts Association’s (SACA)May 2016 Fair will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, May 7, at Shoup Park on University Avenue in Sewanee. This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by SACA.
There will be art and crafts for sale including clay, glass, metal, paintings, photography, wood and much more.

SACA Arts & Craft Fair in Shoup Park on Saturday

The Sewanee Arts and Crafts Association’s Fall Craft Fair will be on Saturday, Oct. 17, in Shoup Park, across the street from the University Book & Supply Store. The fair, which will happen rain or shine, will be 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Admission and parking are free. Scheduled participants include: Bob Askew, watercolors; Amanda Bailey, needlework; Matt and Linda Barry, plants; Traci Boswell, copper jewelry; Natasha Brunton, Sewanee Mountain makings; Susan Church, wooden boxes; Susan Cordell, pottery; Phyllis Dix, ornamental work; Sandy Gilliam, photography; 

Burki Gladstone, pottery; Mary Beth Green, painted boxes; Marcus Hilder, blacksmith; Connie Hornsby, art quilts, hand-dyed scarves; Dennis Jones, jewelry; Jasper King, chainsaw carving; Bill Knight, wooden toys; Marjorie Langston, lampworks; Cheryl Lankhaar, oil painting; 

Bill Mauzy, wood turning; Mary McElwaine, jewelry; Becky Miller, sewing; Luise Richards, sewing; Darlene Seagroves, crochet; Jeanie Stephenson, bronze sculpture; Ron and Melodee Thomas, glass and copper; Merissa Tobler, pottery; Carol Vandenbosch, mosaics; 

Maggie Vandewalle, watercolors; Ron Van Dyke, recycled metal art; Wanda Webb, jewelry; Laurel York, block prints; Debbie Welch, candles.

Spring Arts & Crafts Fair

The Sewanee Arts and Crafts Association May 2014 Fair will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, May 10, at Shoup Park on University Avenue in Sewanee. This event is free and open to the public. Exhibitors will include:

John Adams, folk art brooms; Philippa Anderson, copper enamel creations; Bob Askew, painting; Matt and Linda Barry, plants; Natasha Brunton, jewelry; Ginny Capel, home-baked goods; Susan Church, woodwork; Barbara Coffelt, stained glass; Phyllis Dix, draped figures, birdhouses, stained wood ornaments; Reilly Earle, scroll saw woodworking;

Mitchell Garner, handmade soy candles; Sandy Gilliam, photography; Burki Gladstone, pottery; Marcus Hilden, blacksmith; Bryan Jackson, forged and welded utensils and sculptures; Jasper King, chainsaw carving, canned goods; Norman King, native American crafts; Bill Knight, woodworking, toys, lathe-turned items; Marjorie Langston, handmade glass beads; Cheryl Lankhaar, oil painting;

John Malaspino, woodworking, tables, chairs; Bill Mauzy, wooden bowls and platters; Randy McCurdy, pressed flowers in stained glass; Mary McElwain, sand castings, silverware jewelry; Becky Miller, handmade handbags, homemade baked goods; Katherine Mulloy, embroidery on linen;

Sherry Nickell, flame-worked jewelry and sculpture; Christi Ormsby, clayware; Ben Potter, hand-cut copper figures;Claire Reishman, pottery; Luise Richards, hand-sewn tote bags and accessories, crochet; Darlene Seagroves, quilts, crochet, birdhouses; Mike and Kathy Stephens, homemade bath and beauty products; Jeanie Stephenson, bronze sculpture; Judy Tew, handmade dolls; Merissa Tobler, pottery; 

Sarah Vance, goat’s milk soap; Maggie Vandewalle, watercolor painting; Ron Van Dyke, welding; Missie and Steve Webb, chain mail jewelry, cigar box guitars; Debbie Welch, handmade candles; and Laurel York, linocut prints, knitted dolls.

So Many Ways to Enjoy the Mountain!

There are a multitude of activities on the Mountain this weekend: Family Weekend at the College, Taizé (see p. 4), readings at IONA: Art Sanctuary (p. 15), art exhibits in Carlos Gallery in the Nabit Art Building and in the University Gallery, the Fannie Moffitt Stomp (p. 14), the Sewanee Arts and Crafts Fair (p. 12), as well as an abundance of athletic contests. 

Here are two great ways to see the Domain offered by the Sewanee Herbarium.

Walk Through Abbo’s Alley—A Family Weekend tradition. Meet Mary Priestley at 7:45 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Quadrangle for this easy one-hour walk in the Abbott Cotten Martin Ravine Garden. There are a surprising number of things to see and learn on this familiar trail.

Tour Sewanee’s newly-designated arboretum—Meet Margaret Woods at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 13, at the arboretum map kiosk at the corner of University and Georgia avenues, near Convocation Hall. 

Woods, a George Washington University-trained landscape designer whose practice focuses on the use of native plants and the importance of environmental stewardship, will lead a leisurely and informative stroll around campus.

Wear appropriate shoes on all of these walks. Picking flowers and digging plants are prohibited.

For more information about Herbarium events call 598-3346. 

For a full calendar of events across the Plateau, as well as information about restaurants, services and shopping, go to <www.TheMountainNow.com>.

Vogel Creates Naturally Dyed Yarns for SACA

When you walk toward Lynne Vogel’s studio in Sewanee, you pass by a number of Dutch ovens, stock pots and buckets that look as if they’ve been set out to catch rain or debris. But what is actually happening in those containers is something a bit mysterious and very beautiful.

Vogel, a longtime hand-spinner of yarn and knitter extraordinaire, has moved to dying her wool using only native plants to achieve luminous colors that reflect the palette of this Mountain.

“I am intrigued by trying to evoke colors from objects in nature,” she said recently at her studio. From a suitcase filled with skeins of wool she pulls out one dyed to a rich, warm brown color, created by soaking the yarn in water steeped with black walnuts from her neighbor’s yard. She gently fingers a blue-gray skein dyed with elderberries and gathers skeins of a soft green dyed with Queen Anne’s Lace. Coreopsis flowers turned the water orange, but yielded apricot-colored wool that will become fingerless gloves or a fluffy scarf. 

Together with Jan Quarles, Vogel will be displaying and selling her hand-dyed wools, knitting patterns and some knitted objects at the upcoming Sewanee Arts and Crafts Association’s (SACA) Fall Fair on Saturday, Oct. 12, in Shoup Park. Quarles, who has collaborated with Vogel for many years on spinning and knitting projects, is a professor of communication at MTSU but has spent her free time “spinning and playing with color since the 1970s.”

Vogel described her interest in dying with found objects. “This was a good summer for gathering things to dye,” she said, noting that the abundant rains meant fertile vegetation.

“All these are natural dyes on natural fibers,” Vogel said. After using synthetic dyes for most of her career, she is delighted to be using the plants and fibers she can find in her backyard.

At the crafts fair Quarles will showing her eco-dyed scarves and fabric that have been dyed by binding the flora directly to fabric, simmering together to transfer the color from the leaf to the fiber.

Vogel is well-known beyond the Mountain for her knitting patterns, often described as “elegant with an edge.” She said, “My designs are artful yet classic enough to cross fashion barriers.”

The hand-spinning Vogel has long practiced has influenced her pattern design. “Spiraling patterns especially intrigue me because the spiral is a symbol of the vortex of creation,” she said. “Every time I spin yarn I hold the tiny vortex of the point of twist between my fingertips. Hand spinning is all about the point of twist, how fibers are pulled into this vortex to become yarn.”

Vogel is the author of two books about knitting: “The Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook” and “The Twisted Sisters Knit Sweaters.” Her knitting patterns can be found at <www.ravelry.com>. 

—Reported by Laura Willis

Crafts Fair at Shoup Park

The Sewanee Arts and Crafts Association May 2013 Fair will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, May 11, at Shoup Park on University Avenue in Sewanee. Exhibitors scheduled to participate are:

John Adams, Appalachian brooms and wood hiking sticks; Carroll Anderson, book binding and terrariums; Phillippa Anderson, copper enameling objects; Apples Gone Wild, gourmet and caramel apples, caramel sauce; 

Bob Askew, watercolor and oil paintings, note cards and prints; Ginny Capel, Sewanee Sweets, vintage recipes and baked goods; Tom and Susan Church, woodworking; Barbara Coffelt, stained glass; 

Coyote Cove, soap, bed and bath products; Reilly Earle, woodworking; Heather Foley, creatures made from repurposed wool sweaters; Drex Freeman, wood-stained glass kaleidoscopes;

Sandy Gilliam, photography; Burki Gladstone, pottery; Preston Greer, Miss Pokey’s old-fashioned lemonade; Shyanne and Megan Griffith, homemade baked goods; Marcus Hilden, blacksmith; 

Jasper King, chainsaw-carved wooden bowls, jams and jellies; Norman King, native American crafts; Bill Knight, handmade wooden toys and lathe-made items; 

Bill Mauzy, wooden bowls; Randy McCurdy, flowers under glass;June B. Miller, creations from metal and earth; Becky Miller/Judy Tew, purses, dolls and baked goods; Sherry Nickell, flame-worked glass; 

Christi Ormsby, clayware; Ben Potter, copper, tin angels; Claire Reishman, pottery; Luise Richards, travel sets, totes, aprons and towels; Rustic Greenhouse, plants, herbs and ferns;

Darlene Seagroves, quilts, bird feeders, aprons and potholders, pillows;Jeanie Stephenson, bronze sculpture; 

Carolyn Tocco, oil paintings, note cards; Sarah Vance, Cudzoo Farm, goat’s milk soap; Carol and Glenn VandenBosch, mosaic originals; 

Ron Van Dyke, recycled metal creatures, furniture; Margie Vandewalle, watercolors; Debbie Welch, Full Circle Candles; Enid York Hancock, jewelry, Celtic motifs, small copper sculpture; and Laurel York, kudzu baskets, lino block prints.