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Thursday, September 22, 2011 | LangleyAdvance
Studio tour
Rural senior shares her passion for art
Artists are opening their studios to warmly welcome visitors during the 3rd annual
Langley Art Studio Tour Sept 24-25 & Oct 1-2, 2011, 10am-5pm
Lora Armbruster opens up her home gallery to visitors this month.
45 juried artists • 17 art studios • 6 “Stops of Interest” Take a self-guided tour and visit artists’ studios and other stops of interest nestled throughout the community. See lots of art, talk to the artists, and take part in free workshops and demos.
by Roxanne Hooper rhooper@langleyadvance.com
For information and printable guide-map, visit:
www.langleyartstudiotour.ca Thank you 09081663
Full-colour printed guide-maps are available at: Wendel’s Bookstore & Cafe (Fort Langley) Milsean Shoppe (Aldergrove) Porter’s Bistro Coffee & Tea House (Murrayville)
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er chickens are clucking and ducks beaking off, letting Lora Armbruster know a guest is coming up the driveway to her rural Langley home. Putting down the axe she’s been using to chop firewood for the impending winter cold, Armbruster offers a virtual tour of her 3.5acre hobby farm from the stoop, pointing out the outbuildings, the ponds, numerous yard art (including a six-foot birdhouse), and flower and vegetable gardens, then back around to her home. She leads the way up a flight of stairs to the former deck overtop her two-bay carport, which was converted into her cherished 20X30 art gallery. Especially since the creation of her gallery in 2001, Armbruster’s Clovermeadow Crescent property has become a safe haven that she shares with other artists and art enthusiasts, alike. She’s led workshops, taught classes, and hosted en plein painting
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Lora Armbruster has a studio in her basement and a gallery over the carport of her Langley home. sessions for aspiring and experienced artists. And for the next two weekends, she will open up her inspirational property to the public. She’s one of about 40 artists and 18 studios participating in the third annual Langley Art Studio Tour. • Much more online at www.langleyadvance.com
Langley Art Studio Tour
Saturdays and Sundays, Sept. 24 and 25, and Oct. 1 and 2, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tour maps and workshop schedules are available for download from www.langleyartstudiotour.ca
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