This year’s eighth ARTfusion Art Show brings new art into some new digs Labor Day weekend.
In previous years, the Cutting Garden’s yellow farmhouse hosted the show, but this year Catherine Mix, owner of the garden, and her husband Tom remodeled it to become their new home. Now she and fellow artists Linda Collins Chapman, Paulette Hill, and Tuttie Peetz will exhibit in Mix’s former tool/potting shed that’s been remodeled.
“(It’s) a large, airy, well-lit, studio/gallery/classroom so I could move my studio out of the second floor of the farmhouse,” Mix, known for pastel and watercolors, said.
She began teaching classes their in the winter and now ARTfusion’s artists are ready to show off their latest works. The group also honors former ARTfusion participant Rocky Fankhouser who died last year.
Artists rearranged the space last week and Mix said she is “excited to share our new gallery with the artists of ARTfusion and the art loving public.”
ARTfusion runs 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Monday, at The Cutting Garden, 303 Dahlia Llama Lane, off Woodcock Road.
Collins Chapman, known for carved porcelain and ceramic sculptures, said each year they design the show anew so that each of the artists accents one another.
Mix said this is the only show she exhibits at and sells her work alongside Peetz, a driftwood artist, who exhibits often but only sells at ARTfusion.
Peetz said she’s been experimenting with incorporating metal and crushed, semi-precious stones into her driftwood pieces.
Hill, a jewelry designer, has been working on her wire-wrapping technique and exploring wire-weaving too.
“For this show it’s the only time to see a majority of our work,” Chapman said.
“It’s the absolute top quality and the biggest show of the year (for me) so I want everything to be the best.”
“We had our best show ever last year,” Mix said. “It keeps building and growing.”