Photos by: Phil Grout
Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, nine Carroll County artists’ studios will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday, December 6 and 7 with a wide array of locally produced gifts, including one-of-a-kind jewelry, handmade stoneware, miniatures and unusual photographs.
All studios will be open on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Maps of the studios’ locations may be obtained at the Carroll County Arts Council and the Office of Tourism. Included on the tour are:
Joyce Shaum, 2943 Stone Road, Westminster, 410-346-6617 (jpsmaggie@yahoo.com), a nationally acclaimed basket maker and Linda Van Hart, Toll House Studio, 955 Baust Church Road, Union Bridge, 443-340-0955 (lindavanhart@earthlink.net), a popular jewelry maker. Mosaic tile and glass artist Sandi Love will also present her work at Toll House Studio.
Shiloh Pottery, 1027 Brodbeck Road, Hampstead, 410-239-8888, www.shilohpottery.com, will feature the work of potters Ken Hankin, Nick Corso and Stephanie Wilhelm.
Hill Farm, 935 Bloom Road, Westminster, 410-857-4387 (gwen@ssfs.org), where Gwen Handler and Larry Fisher will feature wool creations as well as handcrafted wooden ware, handmade journals, photographs and beeswax candles.
Cat Tracks Studio, 811 Rolling Ridge Dr., Westminster, 410-848-1452, where Carolyn Seabolt will offer handpainted one-of-a-kind silk and batik wearables. The studio will also feature the wire jewelry of Toni Javins.
Thistledown Farm Pottery, 3225 Roop Road, Taneytown, 410-751-1832 (thistledownfarm.wailes@gmail.com), offers stoneware architectural sculptures of barns, houses, churches and birdhouses by Laura Wailes. Her daughter, Kelsey, specializes in nature and animal themes in her drawings, offered as originals and prints. Fiber and bead artist Joannne Strehle Bast will also offer her unique sculptures at Thistledown.
Elisa Dasher, at Honeysuckle Pottery, 2300 Francis Scott Key Highway, Keymar (elisadasher@hotmail.com), creates decorative and functional stoneware pots.
Veteran potters Cliff and Natica Losee of Pigeon Hills Pottery, 3100 Carrollton Road, Finksburg, 410-239-5092, are well known throughout the East Coast for their stoneware chowder mug.
Good Contrivance Farm, 2015 Emory Road, Reisterstown 443-605-3851, will feature the landscape paintings of Pat Brodowski (patbfarm@hotmail.com), and the urban still life photographs of James Singewald (www.photo215.com).
Editor’s Note: Phil Grout, the writer of this article and a regular contributor to Carroll Magazine in his capacity of photo-journalist, will also be showing his work at the Cat Tracks Studio in Westminster.
