Save your seat at our Craftastic Cafe on Monday, February 17th. We’ll be hosting two sessions from 11-1 and 2-4.

Guest artist Paige Billin-Frye will be sharing her Cyanotype printing process at our studio April 14th from 11-3pm.

Coming shopping at our studio December 3rd 8am-5pm! Get 15% off if you entertain us by wearing your PJ’s or singing us a song!

Guest Artists Judybeth Greene and Julie Paez will join us this November!

Astral Balance is from my Rock Altar series and is on display along with several more works from this series at the Dumbarton Concerts in Dumbarton Church. You can see a curated selection of Sam’s panos as well. Our art will be on display through February 15 by appointment or you can drop by before the concert on January 27th from 6-7:30 when it’s open to the public.

Join other makers at our studio to catch up while working on your own project.

Hope to see you on Saturday November 5th from 11-3pm!

Rescheduled! New Date Sunday, October 23rd from 10-5

I found this snapshot of what my side of our studio space looked like back in 2016. Oddball spaces and awkward partition walls made it challenging for visitors who walked up the stairs to fully experience our work. I took this picture while I was setting up for a workshop many moons ago…

It’s hot and humid out today which makes me long for my toes to be wiggling in the sand, standing next to the ocean with a breeze that whips my hair and wraps me in summer.

It’s 3pm and all of Sam’s weather apps are open to figure out what preash light he’ll have to work with at the end of the day.

During the summer of 2020 I started stacking rocks in a conscious way. Living through the worst of the pandemic affected everyone differently. I found great comfort in my backyard and not in art which was surprising and frustrating for me.

SAM KITTNER— Nothing like the beach-light to teach you the ever-changing nature of sunlight…how color, tone, shadow, et al changes as the sun’s apparent path moves through the sphere of the wide open sky…how the moving clouds can filter the light in dramatic and subtle ways…how the sunlight itself and the bounced light from the sand and sea paints the scene before you in the most precious and fleeting manner…

We had seven of them. Two Rhodies, one Polish Cross (which came from a science experiment), an Araucana, two Bantams and a Plymouth. We had more than these seven over the course of 7 years, but somehow these seven are the ones I remember the most. They all had names and came from friends and neighbors. They ruled our daily schedule.