16th Annual Art, Craft and Service Auction

16 Hands - Ambrosia Farm B&B - Brian Andreas - Animal Care Center - Jayn Avery - A'Court Bason - William (Billy) Bell - Joanne Bell - Regina Brinegar - Blue Mountain Framing - Shirley Ann Burgess - Tim Burke - Christine Byrd - Lee Chichester - Curtis Coates - Steve Cochran - Cold Spring Farm - Michael Costello - Dutchies View B&B - Earth Dance - Alina Ever - Fit to be Tied - FloydFest - Willard Gayheart - Glenda George - Keith Grenoble - Lora Leigh Giessler - Good Food for Good People - Keith Grenoble - Maureen Hearn - Susan Icove - Doug Iverson - Joey Jones - Joan Boyer Kopp - Toni Lamburti - Penny Lane - Mama Lizardo's Pizza - Sarah McArthy - Mountain High Tie Dye - New Mountain Mercantile - Mary North - Oddfellas Cantina - Old Church Gallery Quilters Guild - Jeannie O'Neil - Catherine Pauley Phoenix Hardwoods - Presidio Arts - Coy Quackenbush - T.J. Reddy - Colleen Redman - Jeri Rogers - Paul Rossi - Eli Schwartz-Gralla - Seeds of Light - Shorts Fitness Center - Starroot - Elisha Sigle - Hadassah Manualynn Stowe-Faison - Martha Sullivan - Cheryl Sweeney - Rainbow Takiah - Aven Tanner - Caroline Thomas-Potter - Terry Walters - Tenley Weaver - Susan Webber - Deb Wildman - Emily Williamson - Winter Sun - Jeanne Woods - Woodsong Instruments . . . and others TBA!

16 Hands (pottery)

Ambrosia Farm B&Bis donating a one night stay Jan. '05- April '05 including a full home made breakfast. Ambrosia farm is located on Cox Store Road in Floyd County.

Brian Andreas has donated 3 limited edition prints.

Animal Care Center of Floyd is donating one neuter or spay and a nights board. Pets must be current on their rabies, distemper, andKennel Cough vaccination. Dr. Meredeth McGrath / Dr. Karen Lanz 745-2004

Jayn Avery- is a self taught potter/sculptor and 20 year resident of Floyd County. As one of the founders and early administrators of Blue Mountain School, Jayn fully supports the school and the arts. Her devotion to creativity in all aspects of life is expressed in her personal work and her contributions to art education. She has donated one large Blue Heron Pottery Teapot and one large Blue Heron drip coffee pot to the 2004 Auction.

A'Court Bason- 47 year old artist/musician sort of. Samuel A'Court Ashe Bason, amateur mystic, lives a hermitic life among the ruins of a 30 some year old commune where the hills are ground round with love. His writing, music and paintings reflect spiritual journeys into other places and present time. A'Court's work is currently being shown at Oddfellas Cantina (through the holiday season).

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Joanne W. Bell, a long time Floyd resident, gathers inspiration from the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains that she feels fortunate to call home. She fashions her art through the use of dried flowers that she grows and gathers herself. These flowers are hand painted to enhance and extend their color life, pressed between beveled glass and soldered with lead free solder, using traditional stained glass soldering techniques. Joanne embellishes her work with a unique soldering style and the use of stained and etched glass. Her work is sold throughout the Mid Atlantic and Midwest states at juried art and craft shows.

William (Billy) Bell has been a professional landscape photographer for over 10 years. He uses traditional darkroom techniques and large format camera equipment to record the beauty of the Appalachian Mountains, where he has lived for most of his life. Billy also has a collection of the regional seascapes and images of some of the extraordinary gardens and classic architecture of the eastern United States. Following the example of the pioneers of photographic art, he uses archival materials and processes and individually hand prints every one of the original, limited edition photographs to capture those magical moments of light and time.

Blue Mountain Framing - Custom Framing and Art Gallery in Christiansburg is donating a $20 giftcertificate.

13 year old home schooler Abby Bowen has been drawing since the age of 5. A resident of Floyd, her work has been displayed and sold her work at the Jacksonville Center. She has generoussly donated 6 framed origional pencil drawings.

Shirley Ann Burgess, licensed massage therapist, certified Rolfer, and glass artist, began her healing arts career in 1987. She is trained in Swedish Massage, Connective Tissue, Myofacial Release and has trained with the Upledge Institute in cranial sacral release, zero balancing with Fritz Smith. She studied Reiki II with Liz Tarr and graduated from Potomac Massage Therapy Institute in 1995. Shirley ann has been practicing massage therapy for over 15 years and includes a body/mind/spirit approach in her practice. Shirley Ann will offer a Rolfing session for the 2004 BMS Auction.

Tim Burke - working in glass for 20 yearsn he currently does large commissioned work and reproductions, as well as his own original art. Tim worked as a machinist at Virginia Tech, and apprecenticed for several years. He took glass blowing and art courses at Pilchuck, and at Alfred University, Penland and Haystack in Maine. His pieces range in price from $20.00-$2500.00. Tim is donating beautiful small turquoise blue glass vase.

Floyd author Lee Chichester has donated a copy of her book, "Falcons and Foxes in the UK: The Makings of a Hunter."

Curtis Coates has lived in Southwestern Virginia for 12 years. After having lived the fast paced life of a successful businessman in Greensboro, North Carolina, Curt decided to give it all up for a simpler life. For a while he trained horses, but found that being a fierier was more rewarding. For ten years now, Curt has been a blacksmith in the Floyd area. His real passion in life is writing and playing blues music which he has been doing for over 30 years. He performs regularly with his blues band, the C.C. Coates Band. In 2003 he taught music at Blue Mountain School. This year Curtis will again perform as the main entertainment for the auction!

BMS webmaster Steve Cochran is offering to build and host a 2 page web site that will enable you to share information about your business, family, project or passion with the rest of the world. The site can include your own logo (or a masthead designed by Steve) plus several additional images per page (you provide), a feedback form and links to as many as a dozen other sites. Or, these 2 pages can be applied to the price of a more elaborate package that can include features and services such as shopping carts, galleries, guestbooks, traffic monitoring, domain name registration and advanced hosting options.
Contact Steve by email or phone (540) 745-6708 to discuss details and options.

Cold Spring Farm - Tanya Hobbs is a long time Floyd resident and past BMS parent. She has been working with horses, teaching lessons, training, boarding, breeding and selling for years. Currently her farm is located near Rt. 8 and the Parkway. As well as working on her farm, she also teaches and supports the Takoa riding program in Floyd, and is active with the Pony Club and 4-H.
  Tanya is donating one horseback riding lesson (must be 6 years or older).

Dutchies View B&B is donating a 1 nights stay for 2, anytime in the next 3 months, except holidays. Included a large buffet breakfast, and home baked cake, coffee and tea in the evening.
Tel: (276)930-3701 or Email: anker@swva.net

Pat Sharkey began Earth Dance in 1987 as an expression of her love for the earth, precious gems and minerals, the rainbow skin which we walk upon. Earth Dance has provided Pat with an intimacy with many parts of the earth and with the greater history of the earth through the lives of these ancient minerals. Now joined by her husband Dave Brown they have opened a shop in Downtown Floyd in between Yellow Pony Fine Art and Mama Lizardo's Pizza, where their fine jewelry and minerals are on exquisite display with enthusiasm to share these gifts with others.

Alina Ever is an artist living in Floyd, VA. My greatest teacher is the guidance of greater consciousness through my feelings and inner impulses. When I am aligned, divine energies, in the form of images, colors, textures, shapes, and figures are channeled through me to the painting. I see my art as a unique expression of my individuality.

Finders Keepers - new local antique shop located on 221 N downtown Floyd, has donated a painted antique mirror.

Fit To Be Tied - Linda and Phil Reany have owned and operated their family run tie dye business successfully for over 10 years. They have seasonal stores in Emerald Isle, NC and Cincinatti, Oh. And travel to music and craft shows up and down the east coast. Their 3 children were among the first students of BMS.

FloydFest is donating 2 weekend passes for 2005.

Willard Gayheart - Pencil Artist, Nostalgic Glimpses of The Appalachians. "Capturing the Essence of Appalachian People with Uncompromising Artistry". Willard will be donating one of his beautiful full sized framed drawing and 1 or 2 matted drawings.

Glenda George
  I am orrigionally from California, have lived about 20 years in Wilmington, North Carolina during two different stints and have retired in Floyd county with my husband.
  I learned how to quilt in 1984 in Wilmington, and made a couple of bed quiltsand then had a long absence from making guilts as I got sidetracked from raising goats and sheep when we moved back to California. Cheese making and wool spinning took my time there as well.
  After returning to Wilmington in 1994, I took up quilting again and very soon started making art quilts rather than bed quilts. I find them generally quicker to make, more challenging to create and only limited by my immagination.
  I often use paint, stamping and other embellishments on my quilts and usually use my hand dyed fabric to make them.

< "Tempestuous Tea Party" (25"x36") Apliqued, stamped, hand dyed and hand painted fabrics. valued at: $350.00

Good Food for Good People is a local fresh produce distributorship owned by Tenley Weaver and Dennis Dove. Tenley has been market gardening and canning for over 20 years. She grows and sells organic fresh vegetables and home canned delicacies with her daughter SummerRain who attends Blue Mountain School. Good Foods is donating 2 gift baskets from their farm's harvest.

Keith Grenoble has been fascinated by North American prehistory since 1972. Everything from the cooking pot to stone tool manufacturing. Currently, Keith is teaching primitive living skills at various locations around the Mid-Atlantic region. He and his wife Shirley ann Burgess have their son, Walker, enrolled at Blue Mountain School.

Maureen Hearn expresses her creativity in jewelry. Her metal of choice -- beautiful, yet rarely used in fine jewelry making -- is copper, reflective of her hometown of Copper Hill, Virginia. Maureen is donating a necklace and earring set.

Susan Icove makes eclectic lamps.
  She lives in an 1880's brick house a mile off the Blue Ridge Parkway, with her husband, two children, four horses, four dogs, a cat, and a rat. Her studio is in an 1880's brick carriage house next door.
  As a artist-crafter, she has seen several phases. She started as a potter. She made handpainted furniture. She did computer graphics.
  Now she works with a variety of media, and primarily in metals. She likes the immediacy of metal compared to work in clay.

Doug Iverson - has been living in Floyd County for over five years. His enthusiasm for his work is infectious and it is obvious that he sees and understands what mysteries and possibilities live in wood. No longer willing to cart his wares to markets and festivals, he lets word of mouth do the marketing and is available for wood turning commission work. You ll find him busy turning and grooving on the spirit of the wood in his shop on Ivy Drive.

Altered Earth

Joey Jones has a pottery studio at home, and has just opened the Altered Earth Gallery on 221 S. in downtown Floyd next to Chics Antiques, where many of his finished works are displayed for sale.

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Joan Boyer Kopp - Using a rich, vibrant palette of color, Joan paints charming Americana scenes of the past. You are invited to take a leisurely stroll through her paintings online at joanboyerkopp.com. Brimming with activity, each quaint and nostalgic painting tells its own story. She creates "everyday life" as she imagines it was, during a special era when life was simpler and slower paced.

Toni Lamburti - a NYC native, Toni now has her magical home in Floyd County.She creates distinctive clothing, sold at The New Mountain Mercantile in Floyd, and many National Rennaissance Faires.

Penny Lane has expressed her life long love of nature as a craftswoman producing unique and durable jewelry out of decorated tree fungi. Penny resides here in the county and her jewelry can be found locally at New Mountain Mercantile.

Mama Lizardo's Pizza - Offering downtown Floyd great Pizza, Italian food . . . and now,
an ice cream parlor!

Sarah McArthy - Potter

Mountain High Tie Dye - Michelle Bankey sells her fantastic tie dye designs here in Floyd County at her new studio and gift store at Borderland on 221 South.

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  Peace Sign tie-dye T-shirt

New Mountain Mercantile is locally owned and operated by Christine Byrd, Theresa Cook and Kalinda Wycoff. The store is filled with an eclectic blend of artistic gifts produced by over 100 local and regional artists and craftspersons, including clothing, jewelry, pottery, baskets, beads, cards, candles and much more for the discriminating buyer.

Mary North is a well known regional watercolor artist. She has begun working with Papier Mache. “My mother was a sculptor in papier mache,” Mary reveals. “Since her death, her spirit has inveighed me to begin working in the gooey mess! More often I work with poetry and water color.”
Her “Zat” is created from papier mache, oak balls and cut wood. Mary graduated from the New England School of Homeopathy this Fall and is now a classical homeopathic consultant.

Oddfellas Cantina is one of Floyd's favorite spots is donating a Sunday brunch for 2 (tax and tip not included), in addition to catering the Auction itself!

Old Church Gallery Quilters Guild has donated a handmade green and gold tone quilt.

Jeannie O'Neil comes from a family of women artists and has turned a love of painting, color and women's clothing design into Floyd's own "Marcella's" This truly unique boutique is housed in Jeannie's Grandfather's medical office on Main Street in Floyd, beside the Baptist Church.
  Following the Auction on Saturday, Jeanie is having a "Gala Shopping Event" at the Harvest Moon's upstairs showroom on Rt. 8 in Floyd, Saturday from 4pm.-7pm., and again on Sunday the 21st from 1pm. -6pm. Jeanie is donating a $25 gift cirtificate to Marcella's botique good for any of her own wearable art.

Catherine Pauley is a member of the Floyd Artist Group and long revered art teacher at Floyd high school, has mentored many a student with her kind encouragement. We are honored to have her among the artists donating to this years auction.

Phoenix Hardwoods - Woodworking and One-of-a Kind Furniture
Bill and Corrin Graefe - 540-745-6403

Presidio Arts

Coy Quackenbush -
"If shards of pottery were discovered years from now around the home of Coy Quakenbush, archeologists would be puzzled at its similarity to the work of artisans in Mata Ortiz, a remote settlement in northern Mexico."

T.J. Reddy was born in Savannah, GA on August 6, 1945, and spent his later youth in Brooklyn, NY. He earned a BA in history and a master's degree in education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and has done graduate study in the MFA program at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC. He has spent more than 30 years developing his skills as a painter, poet, performing artist and educator.

Author Colleen Redman has donated copies of her two books, "The Jim and Dan Stories" and "Muses Like Moonlight."

Jeri Rogers began her photographic career as a fashion model in New York where she studied under leading fashion photographers. Her occupations have included photojournalism, publishing, teaching children pinhole photography, portraiture, wedding photography, and video production.

Paul Rossi is a photographer with an eye for the unusual. At his studio "Bent Light," in Blacksburg, he shoots and develops children's portraits in a unique way, revealing the beautiful, more subtle, inner qualities difficult to capture in the moving child.

Seeds of Light, located on Main Street in Blacksburg and at Market Square in Roanoke carries beads, rocks, jewelry, clothing, art (local and afar), drums and much, much more.

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Shorts Fitness Center, located on Rt 8 North in Floyd, is donating a massage.

Ellen Shankin, a member of the 16 Hands group, is a nationally known potter whose functional stoneware is characterized by strong organic form and earth tone glazes. Recipient of an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, she teaches workshops around the country and has been published in many ceramic books and magazines.

Elisha Sigle is a graduate of Floyd High School, and later Warren Wilson College in Swannanoah, NC. Elisha has always had the talent and spirit of an artist. Between High School and college she had a collaborative jewelry and bead making business for 4 years called Appalachian Trade Beads. Currently she has a specialty pillow making business, Shamvara, and is a part time massage therapist and teacher at the Blue Ridge School of Massage in Blacksburg.

Eli Schwartz-Gralla was born and raised on a small farmstead in Check, Va. Where he was home schooled most of his life. After apprenticing eith a local blacksmith and a silversmith, he learned about glass blowing from his brother Toby, and fell in love with it. He now travels to many craft shows with his blown glass art and sells in stores along the east coast with growing success.

Pat Sharkey began Earth Dance in 1987 as an expression of her love for the earth, precious gems and minerals, the rainbow skin which we walk upon. Earth Dance has provided Pat with an intimacy with many parts of the earth and with the greater history of the earth through the lives of these ancient minerals. Now joined by her husband Dave Brown they have opened a shop in Downtown Floyd in between Yellow Pony Fine Art and Mama Lizardo’s Pizza, where their fine jewelry and minerals are on display.

Starroot was born in Germany and moved to the United States in the mid 1980's. A painter, musician and an aspiring eco-village founder, Starroot attends her visions and dreams as if her very life depended on it. The result is that Floyd County shares the harvest of her rich creative life and unflagging spirit.

 

Hadassah M. Stowe Faison is a native of North Carolina, where she currently resides. She has lived in SWVA in years past, and is excited to be contributing an origional piece of her art to this years auction, as well as performing as the opening act with TJ Reddy for the silent auction.

Martha Sullivan is a Floyd County resident who often teaches pottery to young people in her studio on Moore Road and to adults in workshops far and wide. She is currently offering a class at The Jaxonville Center.

Cheryl Sweeney is an award winning artist who recently moved to Virginia from North Carolina. She successfully combines her training in classical realism with her passion for impressionism and is best known for her poetic pastel landscapes. Cherl has traveled throughout the United States painting, teaching and exhibiting her work. The rural landscape is her main source of inspiration, and she is particularly attracted to the rolling hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Cher has been a freelance illustrator since 1993. She lives and paints in Floyd County. She will be graciously donating a Giclee archival print of a Floyd County landscape.

Rainbow Takiah - Has donated several pieces of handmade hemp jewelry.

Aven Tanner grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains and moved to Floyd in 2001. She has a degree in Art Education and a Bachelor of Fine arts from Radford University. In 2003 she tought Art classes at Blue Mountain School and William Fleming High School in Roanoke. She has a passion for clay and mixed media paintings. Her inspiration comes form nature, humanity, family and other artists. As a wife, mother , BMS parent, and art teacher, it is hard for her to find time to create Art. Yet when she does, she is renewed and reminded of the importance of creating and connecting.

Caroline Thomas-Potter, a recent immigrant from Chapel Hill, NC (where they must miss her terribly), is currently the art and music teacher at BMS. She is also one of the organizers this years auction. Her work in clay has a playfully unique style and functionality. She and her family run Ambrosia Farm, a new B&B in Floyd. Her 10 year old son Ian is a student at BMS.
  Caroline is donating 2, one and a half hour pottery classes, and a couple pieces from her orrigional one of a kind cley creations.

Teri Walters, a resident of Floyd, enjoys expressing herself through her polymer clay creations. If she can get a smile, or better yet, a giggle or a chuckle, then at that time her task is complete and she is quite satisfied with herself. Samples of her artwork can be seen at the New Mountain Mercantile and Teresa's Treasure in Floyd and Art On A Mission at the Tanglewood Mall in Roanoke.

Tenley Weaver is the founder and continuing force behind "Good Food For Good People" and a Gymnastics teacher at The June Bug Center in Floyd. She is donating 1 private or semi-private gymnastics lesson.

Susan Webber - a new BMS parent and certified massage therapist, is contributing 3 full body massages to this years Art Auction.

Deborah Randolph Wildman strives to bring inspiration from nature to life in her prints, drawings and paintings. Her goal is to use this inspiration with a childlike freedom of expression. She lives on her farm in Floyd with her husband, Davis, son Eli, daughter Aila, dogs, cats and chickens. Her son attends Blue Mountain School.

"Sol Turtle"
framed oil and pastel

plus:  four matted linoleum block prints
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I am a 23 year old native Floyd County artist, with a special talent for portrature, and an affinity for landscape and nature. I discovered the power of my artwork in highschool, and continued to cultivate my talents with the help of the well loved Catherine Pauley, local artist Barbara Cupps, and other wonderful teachers.

I continued my art educarion at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, discovering the wonderful world of color, and new realms of creativity and expression. Another rather major discovery was how much I missed and was in love with my beautiful home in the mountains of South West Virginia. The torpor of the city will never hold a candle to the fresh air, colors, textures, and miraculous wonder of this land. I returned home after a year of school, and am happy to still be a part of the growing community of artists who reside here.

I spend alot of my time doing commissions of all different sorts, mostly portraiture. This is challenging and rewarding work, and always very special to the people who commission me to draw them. However, I would like to spend more time doing artwork that comes from my own heart, as the satisfaction is, I have to say much more.......satisfying to my artistic yearnings.

I work mostly in pastels for their ease and versatility, and richness of color. I also have a great love of watercolor and colored pencil. I hace done oil and acrylic painting, as well as a bit of sculpture. doll making, and costume design. I enjoy working from photos as they never seem to shift around on you. I have done quite a bit of live drawing and plein air landscape, and have done live portrait drawing for different events. I have also dabbled in the enormously fun and freeing art of caricture. I teamed up with a local "Santa Claus" a couple of years ago and illustrated a children's book called "The Christmas Chair", which was a wonderfully fun challenge which I'd like to do more of.

I take great pride on my versitality, which I believe serves me, and those who commission me well. My greatest artistic ambitions include writing and illustrating and illustrating a sucessful and widely published childrens book, and painting a beautiful mural of considerable size in a prominent loation. I hope that I will acheive these and many more goals in my lifetime.

I am currently displaying my work at Cafe' Del Sol in the town of Floyd, and am available for commissions.

Winter Sun is the retail outlet of a trans-continental women's clothing and home decorating business. owner Anga Miller, a long time member of the Floyd community, recently moved the store andmain office and retail outlet of her successful Florida and catalog clothing (and now home decorating) business WinterSun. WinterSun has assembled a community of artists in Equador that creates bolts of uniquely dyed fabrics -- honestly there is nothing in the cloth world more beautiful than WinterSun dyed fabric. This all natural fiber cloth is made into elegant and comfortable wearables for women and now, decorative touches for the home.

Jeanne Woods lives in Willis, VA. When pressed for information about herself, Jeanne confessed that she works for the fun of it and created "Woodswear" (custom sewing and accessories) primarily to support her full blown bead addiction.

Woodsong Instruments
< . . . lovingly crafted from bamboo and coconut shells hand-selected and harvested by Woodsong craftspeople. Lovely beads and attractive counterweights are artistically added to create the aesthetically pleasing sight and sounds of a Woodsong Wind Chime.

Michael and Tracy Ann Costello have their studio, Costello Sculpture on Yellow Pony Farm in Willis. The work has evolved from carving all stone sculptures to using wood as the primary medium, combined with stone. Each piece of wood is cut, smoothed, stained and brought to an appropriate finish for its function. Stone pieces are carved and usually polished as well. Costello works can be found in the legendary Blue Spiral Gallery in Asheville, NC, as well as at shows and galleries and homes throughout the country. Most recent works have a marvelous kenetic element to them. The Costellos have 3 children, and are former BMS parents. They have recently opened their Yellow Pony Fine Art Gallery in on S. Locust St. in Floyd.
Contact: Michael & Tracy Ann Costello
540-763-3433