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Guilford Craft Expo Brings Artists to the Green
The Guilford Craft Expo brought 180 nationally-recognized craft artists to the Guilford Green from June 19 to 21. Click here for a Slideshow of photos by Susan Lambert, Guilford Courier.
Read More...Shoreline Arts Trails, Grows, Flourishes
by Jenn McCulloch, Zip06 More than 16 years ago, Barbara Shulman-Kirwin and a group of five other local artists teamed up to form the Shoreline ArtsTrail. The first year, six artists made a postcard that was sent to their family and friends encouraging visits to an open-studio weekend. The next year, seven more artists joined…
Read More...Lofink Goes Hands-On to Help ‘Soup for Good’
by Pam Johnson, Zip06 October 31, 2018 As the new resident potter for Guilford Art Center (GAC), Dana Lofink is going hands-on to help a great cause, GAC’s sixth annual Soup for Good. She’s had a hand in making many of the unique pottery bowls that will be given away as part of the event….
Read More...Lofink Goes Hands-On to Help ‘Soup for Good’
by Pam Johnson, Senior Staff Writer, Shore Publishing, October 18, 2018 As the new resident potter for Guilford Art Center (GAC), Dana Lofink is going hands-on to help a great cause, GAC’s sixth annual Soup for Good. She’s had a hand in making many of the unique pottery bowls that will be given away as…
Read More...Treasures Aplenty at the Guilford Art Center Craft Expo
The Guilford Art Center’s annual Craft Expo had more than 180 nationally recognized craft artisans from many states around the country on the Guilford Green for a three-day event that started on July 13 and ran through July 15. • Visit online photo gallery
Read More...Denise Isaac: A Model Volunteer for GAC
by Pam Johnson, Senior Staff Writer, Zip06 July 03, 2018 If the creative minds at Guilford Art Center (GAC) could craft a model volunteer to help the non-profit inspire and promote community participation in the visual arts, they’d design someone just like Denise Isaac. A Branford resident of 11 years, Denise has lived in several…
Read More...At Guilford Art Center: Art is for everyone in this class
By Sarah Page Kyrcz, March 13, 2018 Googly eyes, shiny jewels, pipe cleaners, swatches of fabric and bright, multicolored feathers are neatly arranged on long tables awaiting the start of the Guilford Art Center Unified Art Class. Within minutes after taking their spots around the horseshoe-shaped table, there is no order at all as the…
Read More...Filling GAC’s Artistry is a Joyful Job for Albergo
By Pam Johnson, Shore Publishing, November 15, 2017 Talk about work you love—Elena Albergo has the joyful job of finding the best inventory possible to fill a unique shoreline shopping destination, Artistry at Guilford Art Center (GAC). Now through Sunday, Jan. 7, Artistry’s array of holiday gifts beckons from GAC’s gallery. It also spills into…
Read More...Best Artisans Jewelry Store: The Shop at the Guilford Art Center
by Kelly Goddard, Shoreline Times Jewelry pieces made from enamel, ceramic, semi-precious metals and stones, glass and silver sparkle in the lighted cases and shelves of The Shop at the Guilford Art Center. Everything from necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings, The Shop has it all. “We have a very broad range of different types of…
Read More...Burnham Lands Inspiring Residency at Guilford Art Center
By Pam Johnson, Zip06, October 10, 2017 Just weeks into her new role, Tori Burnham will throw herself in to directing GAC’s Bowl-a-Thon this Saturday, Oct. 14. Working with GAC potters, Tori will add her whimsical style to a potters’ production line of hand-crafted bowls. “I’m really excited; it’s going to be a big day,”…
Read More...Guilford Arts Center shows its stuff at age 50
By Joe Amarante, New Haven Register, July 21, 2017 The latest exhibit in this art-loving shoreline town is “The Friday Night Painters Show Their Stuff” in the Mill Gallery at the Guilford Art Center, which gives us works by “a feisty, dedicated, close-knit group of painters, some of whom have been working at GAC since…
Read More...Making a Masterpiece at the Guilford Art Center Annual Craft Expo
The Guilford Courier, July 2017 The Guilford Art Center held its annual Craft Expo this weekend on the Guilford Green. Here, Claire Leu (left) holds up her colorful scarf which she created with the help of Julian Dresser (right). Shibumi Silks offered expo patrons the chance to create their own original silk scarfs. ( Read…
Read More...GAC Celebrates Exhibit with Opening Reception
The Guilford Art Center’s opening reception of the faculty and student art exhibit on Friday, February 3. • See a photo gallery from the event here.
Read More...Good for GAC: Resident Potter Monica Hewryk
By Pam Johnson, Senior Staff Writer, Zip06 Published October 19, 2016 As the new Resident Potter at Guilford Art Center (GAC), Monica Hewryk feels a bit like a kid in a toy shop. That suits her playful style with clay and her joyful approach to collaborating with others perfectly. The New Britain resident and newly…
Read More...Fiery competitor Parkinson forges reputation as bladesmith
by Lisa Backus, New Britain Herald, August 14, 2016 Matthew Parkinson can recall the vivid arc of sparks the first time he saw a blacksmith at work, when his parents took him to Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts as a child. “There were sparks flying everywhere,” the 40-year-old New Britain resident said. “It was just…
Read More...Jasmine Gonzalez, Guilford Art Center Resident Potter, Featured in Gallery
Zip06, Published August 11, 2016 Guilford Art Center will stage an exhibition of the ceramic works of Jasmine Gonzalez, the center’s resident potter since January 2015. The exhibition is on view in the gallery Friday, Aug. 12 through Sunday, Sept. 4, with a closing reception on Thursday, Septe. 1, from 5 to 7 p.m. Gonzalez…
Read More...VIDEO: The Art of Blacksmithing
JP Coleman, WTNH News 8 Photojournalist and Dylan Hyman, wtnh.com Staff It’s hot, it’s loud, and a bit dirty, but one Connecticut artist says it’s all he has ever known. Mace Vitale is a blacksmith at the Guilford Art Center. Mace says that while some believe blacksmithing is a dying art, it is actually very…
Read More...From a Long Tradition, Maximum Creativity
by Pem McNerney, Living Editor, Zip06 Traditional quilts are usually made of three layers, including a cover, then the padding, then the backing. But when the craft evolves into art, it doesn’t always have to be exactly that, says Diane Wright of Guilford, a studio art quilter who is one of the curators of the…
Read More...‘Forged in Fire’ Victors Reception, Display of Works
Guilford Art Center (GAC) will hold a reception and temporary display of works by its GAC blacksmith instructors and Forged in Fire winners, Mace Vitale and Matt Parkinson, on Thursday, Sept. 17 from 5 to 7 p.m. This event will celebrate their victories on the new History Channel series, as well as provide the public a chance…
Read More...Guilford bladesmiths prove they’re a cut above other sword makers
AS SEEN ON FOXCT An age-old art form is in the spotlight thanks to a reality program that showcases the talents of the country’s best bladesmiths. A bladesmith is a craftsman who makes knives and swords. Mace Vitale, of Guilford, and Matt Parkinson, of Wolcott, both won the competition on the History Channel reality show…
Read More...Guilford bladesmith wins History Channel competition show
New Haven Register, by Tim Rizzo, August 15, 2015 Photo by Catherine Avalone It’s not coincidence that William Mace Vitale, or “Mace” as he prefers to be called, is a bladesmith whose middle name is also that of a medieval weapon used to cause blunt force trauma in early 3200 B.C., which is created by…
Read More...Finding New Perspectives at the Guilford Art Center Expo
From Zip06, July 21, 2015 Photo by Kelley Fryer, The Courier Brian and Patty Donahue were impressed with the Richard Gayle Photography booth at the Guilford Art Center Expo held last weekend on the Green. Expo welcomed thousands of guests and featured works by more than 180 of the country’s most distinguished artisans. (Read More)
Read More...GAC is Top Guilford Shopping Destination
The shop@ Guilford Art Center was just featured as a top shopping destination in Guilford by the e-list. Click here to view the list and map of all shops featured in the guide.
Read More...Teen learns blacksmith trade from Iron Age, forging a trade at Guilford Art Center
By Sarah Page Kyrcz, Shoreline Times Photo by Catherine Avalone, New Haven Register Ben Cohen’s blackened hands, resting near the red-hot coal forge in the Guilford Art Center blacksmithing shop, are just one visible example of his commitment to this ancient art. “A desire, a desire to do something with your hands,” is what it…
Read More...GAC Selects Talented Gonzalez as Resident Potter
by Pam Johnson, Senior Staff Writer, Shore Publishing With talent and promise in her hands, Jasmine Gonzalez is happy and excited have been selected as the first Resident Potter for Guilford Art Center’s (GAC) newly-launched residency program. Fresh from the University of Hartford, Hartford Art School (BFA 2014, major in Ceramics and Sculpture; minor in…
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