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Spring Art Fest
Discover the creative arts that are part of the Goshen community!
A celebration of the arts in Goshen kicks off Friday, March 5, 5 – 9 p.m., with the First Fridays Spring Arts Fest. A Youth Art Hop features creative student artwork in downtown stores. Music and dance performances take place at the Goshen Theater (216 South Main Street), sponsored by Goshen College. Details at gofridays.com.
Saturday, March 6, the Fest continues with the 2010 spring Goshen Open Studio tour. Entering its 6th year, the tour features studios, galleries and the work of many area artists.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Those who take the self-guided tour will have the opportunity to view current gallery exhibits, get an inside look at artists’ studios, see work in progress, and purchase original art directly from the artist.
The tour is free and open to all ages.
Questions? Call 574.533.6262
or e-mail tourinfo@eyedart.com
Fall Art Fest
The tour is a bi-annual event. The fall date is set for Saturday, November 6.
Photo gallery
See pictures from the spring 2007 Goshen Open Studio tour.
Spring 2010 tour locations
Dick Lehman and Mark Goertzen
@ Lehman Goertzen Pottery
The Old Bag Factory
1100 Chicago Avenue
(574) 534-1162
dicklehman.com
Visit the Lehman Goertzen Pottery gallery and working studio, filled with custom-made dinnerware and utilitarian ware. Over 100 different products to choose from along with hundreds of one-of-a-kind vessels to meet any household or office need.
Wayne Harshberger
@ Shutterhugs Custom Framing & Gifts
132 South Main Street
(574) 533-2579
shutterhugs.com
Harshberger’s stone sculpture can be anything from abstract, human and animal sculptures carved from alabaster, soapstone and limestone.
Karen Jacob
@ Graber Designs Gallery
208 South Main Street
(574) 534-4394
graberdesigns.com
Local artist Karen Jacob, whose studio is in Graber Designs Gallery, is exhibiting her work, including pastels completed while she was resident artist at Lake Street Gallery in Glen Arbor, Michigan, near the beautiful Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Augmenting her show of new works will be the ongoing paintings, books, and pottery of the Graber family artists and international art and antiques from Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.
Ben Stutzman
@ Eyedart studio gallery
213 South Main Street
(574) 533-6262
eyedart.com
Ben’s working studio and gallery hosts “Process”, an ongoing show highlighting the creative artistic process. Artists represented in this exhibit: Gerrit Huig and Ben Stutzman.
The gallery is also exhibiting selected works by renown, Indiana artist, Harriet Monteith.
Nick Loewen
@ his studio
302 South Main Street
(574) 596-2847
Check out Nick’s painting and sculpture at his new studio at the corner of Main and Jefferson Streets.
Eric Strader
@ Eric Strader Pottery
314 S. Main Street
(behind Maple City Market)
(574) 534-0275
ericstraderpottery.com
Strader’s studio, located behind Maple City Market, exhibits handmade, functional pottery and one-of-a-kind pieces made from stoneware and porcelain clays.
Janis Martin
@ Studio at Greene & Berkey
2211 Berkey Avenue
(574) 825-7787
extendingtheedges.net
See a collection of recent oil paintings exploring the extraordinary in the ordinary. The Studio at Greene & Berkey also offers classes, including two starting in March. Download a flyer (200kb .pdf file)
Sue Hershberger Yoder and Ben Reed
@ Abner Hershberger Art Gallery
Goshen College Music Center
1700 S. Main Street
(574) 535- 7361
gcmusiccenter.org
Sue Hershberger Yoder is exhibiting vibrant prints of all sizes. She teaches surface pattern and fashion design at Syracuse University’s School of Art where she received her MFA. New sculpture by Ben Reed is also on exhibit. Ben recently received his MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
