Open Studio Tour Announced

Saturday, May 13, is the day chosen by the Lakeville Arts Council as the date for their second annual Open Studio event.

Eight artists in Lakeville will be opening their studios in their homes in order to demonstrate their skills as painters, spinners and weavers, shell artists, carvers, photographers, felters, and potters.

Seven additional resident artists whose studios are out of town or not convenient to public traffic will be congregating at Lakeville's historic old town hall at the junction of routes 18 and 105 to demonstrate their photography, basketry, and embroidery. Local novelist and playwright Joyce Walsh will be at the town hall to autograph copies of her two novels, both set in Lakeville.

Brochures listing artists and picturing the featured art work may be picked up at Lakeville's town office building, at the Lakeville Public Library, or at other local businesses. The studios will welcome guests from 10 am to 3 pm. Each visitor may register once at each location for a drawing which will award three prizes in the amounts of $50, $25, and $25 which may be redeemed toward purchases from any of the artists.

The private open studios will include:

Dan Cooney, fine arts painter and sculptor at 59 Main Street

Richard and Carol Tripp, spinners and weavers, at Windy Hill Farm, 134 Main
Street

Pam Levine, shell artist, at 161 Main Street

Robin and Sarah Fielding who do photography, felting, wood carving, and horse
hair braiding at 28 Highland Road

Dave Kraemer who makes pottery at 10 School Street and

Janice Macomber, quilter, at 43 South Kingman Street.

The artists gathered at the historic old town hall will include seven artists: Lynn Ingram, hardanger embroidery; Sheilagh Flynn, pottery; Nancy Yeatts, raptor photography; Preston Saunders, pottery; Beverly Nadeau and Sara Keegan, basketry; and Joyce Keller Walsh, writing.

All participating artists will be informing, demonstrating, or selling their work and hope to see many visitors with whom they can share their passion for their art work. This event is co-sponsored by the Lakeville Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Each location on the tour will be identified by a hand-painted and numbered sign bearing the Open Studio logo created by Lakeville artist Ann Oliveira El Khoury.