Upcoming Shows & Events

July 24 + 25 Grand Lake Stream Folk Art Festival in Grand Lake Stream Maine. For info call (207) 796-8199.

July 30, 31 + August 1, Directions Fine Crafts Show (Maine Crafts Guild Show), Mt. Desert Island High School, Eagle Lake Road, Mt. Desert, ME. Friday July 30, 5pm to 9pm, Saturday July 31, 10am to 8pm, and Sunday August 1, 10am to 4pm.

August 21 + 22 Art and Fine Crafts Show at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center - 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth Maine, 04105. For info call 207-807-4300 or email.

August 28th Picnic Music + Arts Festival, Lincoln Park on Congress Street and Franklin Arterial, in Portland ME. 11am to 6pm. I'll be sharing a booth at this event with Linden O'Ryan, pending acceptance. 

September 10, 11 + 12 Laudholm Nature Crafts Festival at Laudholm Trust and the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, 342 Laudholm Farm Road, Wells Maine, 04090. For info call 207-646-4521 or email trust@laudholm.org.

September 24, 25 + 26 The Common Ground Country Fair - 294 Crosby Brook Road, Unity Maine, 04988. For info call 207-568-4142 or email mofga@mofga.org.

October 22 + 23, Beads and Baubles Downeast Fall Bead Show, Ramada Inn, 215 High Street, Ellsworth, ME 04605. Friday, noon to 7pm, Saturday, 9am-4pm. A bead and jewelry show featuring approximately 20 vendors. For more info please visit www.giftedhandshow.com/events.htm

November 6th, Designing Women Show and Sale, Husson College Center for Family Business, Bangor, ME. 9am to 4pm.

November 12 + 13, The Gifted Hand: Fine Art, Craft + Gift Show, Ramada Inn (Tennis Court Area), 215 High Street, Ellsworth, ME 04605. Friday 11am to 7pm, Saturday 9am to 4pm. The Area's premier winter craft show, featuring 60 artisans, a café area, and a Silent Auction to benefit Schoodic Arts For All. $2.00 admission, children 12 and under free. A portion of admission benefits Schoodic Arts For All. For more info call 207.664.2404 or visit www.giftedhandshow.com. Generously sponsored by Maine Magazine and Maine Home + Design. 

November 27th, Designing Women Show + Sale, Frank Jones Center, 400 US Highway 1 Bypass, Portsmouth NH, 03801. Saturday, November 27, 2010 from 10 am - 4 pm.

Galleries & Stores

You can find Christina's artwork and/or puppets at the following galleries and stores:

You can sometimes find work at my Etsy Shop that I don't have on my website.

Class Opportunities

I am available for private lessons at my studio thru the summer months.

Lesson fees (as of April 2008):

Private lessons are $25/first hour and & $15 each additional hour, plus a materials fee depending on what the project is.

The materials fee for puppetmaking is typically $5.00.

Group lessons are $20/person for 1 1/2- 2 hours. A group is 3 or more people.

Please call me at 664.2404 or email me to set up lessons.

Studio Hours

Summer Studio Hours by appointment Saturdays, Sundays or Mondays or by chance. Located at 15 Wood Run, Lamoine, Maine. Please email or call 207.664.2404 for more information.

Directions to Fern House Studio (please call ahead before visiting)

Directions from High Street, Ellsworth or Down East Maine:

1. From High Street head out of Ellsworth on US Rte 1 (as if going to Hancock) for about 4 miles
2. Turn right onto the Mud Creek Road (just before Shirley’s Yarns and Crafts). [if coming from Sullivan/ Down East, turn left onto the Mud Creek Rd.]
3. Go to the end of the Mud Creek Road (about 3 miles), turn left at
the yield sign onto rte. 204 (Pinkham’s Flats Road)
4. Continue about a mile. You’ll see a sign for the Walker Road on the right... take this turn. (If you get to Marlboro, you’ve missed the turn).
5. Go about a mile on the Walker Road... you’ll see my mailbox with “15 Wood Run” on it on the right. Turn left onto the dirt road, Wood Run, across from the mailboxes.
6. Mine is the first house (on the right). You’ll see a purple sign that says “Fern House Studio”. The studio is the small building on the right of the driveway.

Directions from Mt. Desert Island:

1. Take Route 3 towards Ellsworth.
2. Shortly after the Acadia Zoo, make the right - hand turn onto Route 204 to Lamoine
3. Continue on rte. 204 until you come to a stop sign (a few miles)...At this stop sign, take a right onto Route 184 south .
4. Continue on for 1.7 miles, and you’ll see the Lamoine Grammar school on the your right. Then very shortly, .2 miles, after the school, bear left, sort of crossing the road, onto the Mill Road.
5. Go 1.1 miles to the end of the Mill Road...at the stop sign, take a right onto the Walker Road (you are almost there)
6. After going a short distance (.3 -.4 miles) on the Walker Road, you’ll see my mailbox with “15 Wood Run” on it on the right. Follow directions from #5 above.

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