Upcoming Shows & Events

August 1, 2 & 3 Directions Fine Crafts Show (33rd Annual), Mount Desert Island High School, Route 233 (Eagle Lake Road), 5 miles from Bar Harbor. Friday Evening Aug. 1st 5-9pm, Saturday & Sunday Aug. 2 & 3 10am - 5pm. Meet Maine's finest professional craft designers and artists in this show featuring over 50 artisans and everything from gold jewelry to felted slippers.

August 16 Open Studio with Philip Frey at Philip Frey Studio, Cedar Lane,
Sullivan, Maine. 11am - 3pm. Info 422.2008

August 23 Designing Women Show & Sale, Atlantic Oakes Conference
Center, Bar Harbor, Maine. 9am – 4pm.

September 19, 20 &21 Common Ground Country Fair (Maine Marketplace Area), Unity, Maine. Gates open at 9am.

November 1 Designing Women Show & Sale, Husson College, Bangor,
Maine. 9am – 4pm.

November 14 & 15 The Gifted Hand: Fine Art, Craft & Gift Show, Holiday Inn, 215 High Street, Ellsworth, Maine. Friday noon-6pm and Saturday 10am – 4pm. Info: 207.664.2404

October 25th & 26th 2008 Homecoming Craft Fair & Maine Marketplace, University of Maine Field House, Orono, Maine. 10am-5pm Saturday, 10am- 4pm Sunday. Info: 1.800.934.2586

November 22 Designing Women Show & Sale, The Merriconeag Waldorf School, 57 Desert Rd. Freeport, Maine. Saturday, 9am - 4pm

More to come... keep checking this space to see more shows for Summer and Fall

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 stop 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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