fallarts STUDIO AUDIENCE
Meet some of the artists on this year’s Orange County Artists Guild’s Open Studio Tour By C ailey Ce t an i
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he Orange County Artists Guild’s Open Studio Tour returns for its 28th year during the first two weekends in November, showcasing 114 artists’ works and spaces. In general, studios are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Here are three can’t-miss stops on the tour. Kelly Bodie creates silkscreen and monotype prints that are pressed by hand in her workspace located in her daughter’s bedroom in Chapel Hill. For some of her commissioned pieces, Kelly takes a color preference and a song request from customers and then listens to it twice before making a monotype. Instead of sharing a space, like she’s done in the past, Kelly will display her art in her own home for the first time this year. And as a member of the tour’s map committee, Kelly says she is amazed by the amount of talent and different art styles featured on this year’s iteration. In Carrboro, art lovers have a chance to see two workspaces in one stop. Peg Bachenheimer’s painting studio is just next to her house in a small structure where she works with acrylic and oil paint in addition to hot wax. Her nature-based designs have been part of the tour for the last 12 years. Steven Bachenheimer’s studio is located in one of their kids’ old childhood bedrooms, and there he creates blank books
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using the coptic stitch binding methods. This allows for people to see the pages bound together that would normally be covered with cloth to protect the spine. He learned about book art after taking some classes up and down the East Coast with other artists. “It’s really important and really interesting to see how different people do exactly the same thing because everyone has their own little approach,” Steven says. “And you could just learn an awful lot by seeing [this].” Crawford Horne’s main form of art is pottery with a focus on everyday use pieces like bowls. During the tour, he will showcase both these kinds of pieces plus display items such as centerpieces for a dining room table. Thistle Glen Pottery is adjacent to his house in Hillsborough, and visitors will get to see the space where he creates his pieces, usually in the morning while enjoying a cup of coffee. “When it’s a rainy morning, I can slide the door open and close the screen,” he says. “And it’s quiet. I can hear the rain. And it’s just a very peaceful environment in which to sit there and make pottery.” CHM
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