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Allegany Artisans

Where ideas fly...
by Elaine Hardman

   Betsy Orlando takes the concept of doll, stitches it with a story and presents a creation of far more art than toy. Steve Walker marries metals – gold, silver, copper, brass – hammering them into jewelry or vessels to reflect his Celtic roots.

   Jim Horn melts snippets of plastic into creatures of enormous personality making wearable giggles. His gem-rich colors and humor mold plastic into sculptural pins.

   Everyday Bob Chaffee pushes aside ten thousand necessary acts with a simple, blended word – gottagocarve. A bit of bark becomes a house in his hands. A chunk of wood reveals a Santa. Caricatures are everywhere inside the wood blanks in his studio.

   Nan Fiegl’s family is always making things. A painter with comfortable style and universally appealing designs, Nan lives with furniture made by her son as well as her own paintings and art collected from friends.

   Betsy, Bob, Jim, Nan and Steve are members of the Allegany Artisans, a loose knit, always changing, mass of creativity in Allegany County. What holds them together? Mostly it’s an event called the Studio Tour. They all open their studios and homes for 2 days in October and they let anyone and everyone stop by to watch them work while ideas fly like sparks from the hammers of blacksmiths Spike Jones and Bill Banker.

   They are all part of Western New York’s oldest art trail – The Allegany Artisan Studio Tour. They’ll hold their 19th tour in 2006 with 28 studios tidied up, open and waiting for you.

   There are potters in Wellsville, Alfred, Andover and far north in Fillmore as well as metal workers in Belfast and Hornell and toy makers as far south as Northern Pennsylvania.

   For a list of people, samples of work or maps to locations connect with www.alleganyartisans.com or to be put on the mailing list for a copy of this year’s full-color brochure call 1-800-521-0885 or 585-593-6345 or info@alleganyartisans.com.

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For more information:

www.alleganyartisans.com

Phone: 1-800-521-0885 or 585-593-6345

E-mail:info@alleganyartisans.com.