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The Columbia Berkshire Craft Guild will host its 5th annual studio tour during Veteran's Day weekend, November 10-11.  Tour participants will get an intimate look into the artist's creative process as they visit the twelve venues and see the work of 19 guild members. Tickets are now available for $10.00 at the following locations: The Chocolate Moose on Main Street in Chatham, The Triple Nickel on Route 20 in New Lebanon, The Spencertown Academy and The Spencertown Country Store and CCCA Gallery on Warren Street in Hudson

The Studio Tour will kickoff with a brunch from 9:30 - 11:00 on Saturday morning, November 10th at the Spencertown Academy.  A panel of arts professionals featuring Peter Marotta of the Hudson Valley Arts Center, Carol Defner past President and CEO of the Shaker Museum and Barbara Willner President of the Austerlitz Historical Society and 19th Century decorativearts authority will discuss "New Trends in Arts and Crafts Workshops and Collecting." The panel will be moderated by CBCG member and local Chatham Courier columnist Fran Heaney.A question and answer session will follow.  Breakfast is open to all tour ticket holders. Arts and crafts pieces donated by the guild members will be on display. Any ticket holder who completes the entire tour will be eligible to take home one of the beautiful donated pieces.

 An easy to read map will be part of the tour package. Tour participants can visit Davistudio in Sperncertown, where Mary Anne Davis creates her fine porcelain sculpture.  The Chocolate Moose in Chatham will host quilter Bina Evans, muliti media artist Marlene Vidibor and beaders Sue Becker and Christa Niver.   Metalsmith Tom Curran, fiber artist Katherine Houk with painter Cris Winters, sculptor Allison Blake Schofield and painter Willard Ulmer with painter Trudi Roth will open their Chatham studios during the Veterans Day weekend tour.

Philmont painter and fabric artist, Liz McIlvaine will open her house to glass bead jeweler Linda Hartka-Reiss and the tour participants.  Glenn Tunstull will show his paintings in his Claverack studio.  Fiber artist Grace Bischoff will share her Canaan Red Barn Farm with painter Fran Heaney. Tour goers can visit Joanna Greenfield’s silver jewelry studio on Queechy Lake in Canaan.  New Lebanon potter Helen Burton will open her new studio to the tour. Taconic Artisans, located at Pease Farm in Stephentown will be on the tour again this year.

The Columbia Berkshire Craft Guild is supported in part by a grant from the Our Town Fund, an endowment of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and the Columbia County Tourism Bureau.