Sherman Artfest Returns to the Town Green for Its Fifth Year
More than 30 artists, live music, and a weekend of buying directly from makers in one of Litchfield County's smallest towns.
June 19-21, 10am-4pm | Sherman, CT
The Sherman Artists Association brings its fifth annual Artfest to town on June 19 through 21, spreading across two venues: Charter Hall above the Firehouse and the Town Green by the Daily Market. Over 30 artists will be selling paintings, photographs, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and fabric art across the three-day run, with a Friday evening opening reception featuring live music by Al Burgasser and Mark Bogues.
The artist list leans toward painters and mixed-media work, with a notable cluster of abstract painters: Mike Kisner works in bold acrylics and oils, producing layered originals with no prints or reproductions; Terry Pasquale moves between acrylic, alcohol ink, and watercolor, and also makes decorative pillows and jewelry from her paintings; Carolyn Cohen, a Massachusetts College of Art graduate, incorporates hand-carved block prints and collage into multidimensional surfaces.
Muriel Stockdale is showing a new direction for her—abstract fabric pieces made from leftover materials from last year's flag project. Robin Levine Daas brings her Trust Your Heart line alongside paintings in acrylic and watercolor, donating 20% of sales to charity.
The landscape painters include Virginia Schaffer in watercolor, Doreen O'Connor working in acrylic and watercolor with a plein air practice, and Jeanne Plekon whose oil painting of Kent Falls is one of the more recognizable images on the organization's social feeds this week. Photographers include Tony Gomez, whose Japan photographs are currently also on view at the Sherman Library through July 29, alongside Linda T. Hubbard, Claudia Griswold, Susan Locke, Roderike Pohl, and Judith Secco. Potters Eva Defranco and Tammy Lewis, glassmakers Kenny Litwack and Vincent Vigliotti, and fabric artist Muriel Stockdale round out the full roster.
Sunday afternoon the Serendipity Winds woodwind quintet—flute, clarinet, oboe, horn, and bassoon—plays a set that runs from classical to ragtime to Beatles.
ARTFEST is free to attend. The SAA's larger fundraiser, the Summer Evening for the Arts at White Silo Farm and Winery, comes on July 11.
Charter Hall, 1 Route 39 North, and Sherman Town Green, Sherman, CT. More at shermanartists.org.
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