Jewelry by Zachary Bloom will be featured in our December trunk show.

Zachary Bloom is a Montclair based designer who specializes in custom, one-of-a-kind handcrafted gemstone jewelry. Bloom’s pieces can be found in the Montclair Art Museum and the Newark Museum, as well as many fine boutiques, galleries and jewelry stores throughout NJ. You can visit Bloom’s website at www.accentsinbloom.com to see a preview of his work.

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Roycroft Renaissance Master Artisan Laura Wilder creates limited edition block prints and screen prints, and limited edition archival quality reproductions of paintings. Wilder carves her own designs by hand into blocks, and prints them using a wooden spoon. Her serigraphs are created by hand-painting a stencil onto a screen for each separate color, and pulling ink through the screen using a squeegee

More of Wilder’s work can be seen at LauraWilder.com.

Don’t forget about the other artists featured in our December trunk show!

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Stewart Crick is another artisan whose works will be featured in our December trunk show.

Stewart Crick has been working with wood most of his life. His passion for wood has evolved from a journey that began in his father’s woodshop, continued through the restoration and remodeling of several homes, and continues today as he builds Arts and Crafts-inspired furniture.

While there are many influences that effect the furniture Stu creates, his passion for the philosophies and styles of the American Arts and Crafts movement and the unique, distinctive character of quarter-sawn white oak dominate his designs. In design, the views and philosophies that spawned an opposition to mass-produced furniture, and advanced a return to the virtuous qualities of the independent craftsman, mirror Stu’s beliefs. Honest lines and simple curves, guided by natural forces, and patient attention to details make up his guiding philosophy. Crick searches for wood with a unique character and figure that harmonizes with each part of his vision.

Keep following our blog to see more of our trunk show’s artists and artwork!

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Works from the Motawi tile studio will be available at our December trunk show!

Motawi Tileworks is co-owned and operated by brother-sister duo Nawal and Karim Motawi. Both are passionate about exploring new design and technical ideas, while maintaining a sustainable studio. Motawi Tiles are made from scratch by the Motawis and a creative group of skilled local artisans

Motawi’s historically-informed tile designs are influenced by turn-of-the-century Arts and Crafts
artists and potteries like Dard Hunter, William De Morgan, Pewabic, Rookwood and Grueby. Nawal
believes “in respecting the best of historical design – rendering old motifs in new ways and creating works that will be enjoyed in this lifetime and passed down for generations to come.” Motawi’s current focus is on the block prints of Yoshiko Yamamoto, the graphic art of Frank Lloyd Wright and the architectural ornamentation of Louis Sullivan.

For more information, visit Motawi’s web page.

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Our December trunk show will feature works by many artists, including Door Pottery.

Door Pottery, a small studio dedicated to high quality craftsmanship and uncompromised creativity, brings you the work of contemporary artisans making hand crafted classics. Carefully blending fresh design with graceful glazing, no two pieces that leave the studio are exactly alike. Door Pottery strives to create unique Arts & Crafts style pottery to excite today’s collectors and be enjoyed for generations.

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We’re pausing our virtual tour this week to showcase some of the artists whose work will be featured in our December trunk show. On Monday, we showed you Dianne Ayres’ textile art, today we’re talking about Rosalind Nzinga Nichol’s works.

Rosalind Nzinga Nichol describes her work:

I am a mixed media artist, papermaker and teacher. I began work as an illustrator before developing an interest in mixed media painting and papier-mache sculptures while working a muralist for about twenty years. Since 2000 I have also become a papermaker. Currently my work is focused on combining painting with papermaking as a single medium. I love introducing new students to the ancient art of papermaking. There is a special spiritual quality about this artform that transcends skill sets and allows anyone the opportunity to explore their inner creativity. I make my art and one-of-a-kind stationery products using vintage textiles as inclusions and teach papermaking from my studio in Orange and throughout Northern New Jersey.

For more information, visit her website at TeaAndWings.com or her blog.

Watch this space for more of our trunk show’s artists and artwork!

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Textile artist Dianne Ayres is just one of the artists whose works will be featured in our upcoming trunk show.

The workshop of Dianne Ayres began in 1988 to create textiles in the Arts & Crafts style for the home, including draperies, window curtains, bedspreads, pillows & table runners. Dianne’s workshop uses traditional techniques to make reproductions of period designs and their own Arts & Crafts inspired designs.

She also executes designs for other artists and architects as custom textiles. Dianne and her husband, Timothy Hansen, also collect the linens and the literature of the period, lecture, research and write on textiles and interiors.

Watch this space to learn more about the artists involved in the Stickley Museum’s Holiday Trunk Show!

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The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms’ Holiday Trunk Show will be held on December 6 &7, from 11:00 to 4:00.

Original works by Dianne Ayres, Zachary Bloom,  Rosalind Nzinga Nichol, Stewart Crick, Laura Wilder, Janet Taylor Pickett, Door Pottery and Motawi Tile will be available.

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Many new activities have been added to The Stickley Museum’s Annual Holiday Open House which takes place during the first two weekends in December.  This year’s event will take place between 11:00 and 4:00 on all four days and will offer something for all ages.  The log house will be decked out for the holidays as Stickley and his family would have decorated it.  Evergreen garlands will festoon the staircase and poinsettias, which Stickley described as “the Christmas Flaming Star,” will brighten the three fireplaces. A unique collection of holiday cards from the period will be on display.

On Saturdays during both weekends, “Mrs. Claus” will visit the Log House from 11:00 to 2:00 to talk about the 1899 origin of Mrs. Claus and other seasonal rituals of the period, such as the introduction of the tin cookie cutter and the lavish dessert buffet.  Children can also participate in activities based on holiday celebrations in the early 1900’s such as orange clove pomanders, paper chain garlands, tin stars, stringing popcorn, and of course sampling yummy holiday treats like freshly baked gingerbread or warm mulled cider.

On the first weekend of the Open House, the Museum will present a Holiday Trunk Show. This event features the work of skilled artisans from across the country and is designed to offer families an alternative to the frenzied shopping mall experience.  While parents check off names on their Christmas shopping list by buying beautiful, handmade items, their children can have fun in another part of the museum.

Throughout the Trunk Show weekend, furniture maker Stewart Crick will demonstrate the techniques he uses in creating his Arts and Crafts inspired furniture. The Arts and Crafts views and philosophies that spawned an opposition to mass-produced furniture, and advanced a return to the virtuous qualities of the independent craftsman, mirror Stu’s design perspective. Honest lines and simple curves, guided by natural forces, and patient attention to details make up his guiding philosophy.

On the second weekend of the Open House, The Museum will present holiday performances.  On Saturday, December 13, The Joyful Noise Handbell Choir from the First Presbyterian Church of Whippany will ring in the holiday season between 1:00 and 3:30. Also on Saturday, Homer Hanson will demonstrate the art of paper-cutting from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. On Sunday, December 14, the Community Theatre Performing Arts Company will sing holiday favorites at 1:00 & 2:00 p.m.

Watch this space in the next few weeks as we feature the artists involved in our Holiday Trunk Show!

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