CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS
WITH CREATIVITY!

Join us for a day of holiday gift shopping, making and celebrating!

Family Friendly Gift Making Workshops - Ornaments, cards & gift wrap!
The Sierra Chamber Players Performance - Piano & String Quartet!
Smallworks Show - Over 40 Artists' Original one of a kind Smallworks
Resident Instructor Demo’s - Watch our teachers in action!
Holiday Refreshments - Hot Spiced Cider, Iced Cookies & More!

HOLIDAY GIFT MAKING WORKSHOPS:

CERAMICS CLASSROOM:
11am - 12:30pm - CLAY ORNAMENT MAKING WORKSHOP
with Claudia Jeffers / $5 per ornament - Roll up your sleeves for this fun, creative family friendly activity! Adults and children create one of a kind personalized gifts!

PAINTING & DRAWING CLASSROOM:
11am - 2pm - HAND PRINTED CARD & GIFT WRAP MAKING WORKSHOP
with Lani Zila & Andrea Caturegli / $10 for a set of two project items. Learn the art of printmaking with this fun project to create your own hand made cards and custom gift wrap!

MIXED MEDIA ARTS CLASSROOM:
11am - 2pm - PYROGRAPHY/DECORATIVE WOOD BURNING - ORNAMENT MAKING WORKSHOP (Parent Assisted!) / $10 per ornament. Learn the art of decorative wood burning to create beautiful hand made ornaments for friends & family! Parental guidance required!

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RESIDENT ARTIST DEMO’S:

MIXED MEDIA ARTS CLASSROOM - RESIDENT INSTRUCTOR DEMO’S:

11am - 2pm - Intuitive Painting Instructor, Rose Paratore
Watch Rose create an intuitive painting starting with a blank canvas!

12 - 3pm - Watercolor Painting Instructor, Cheri Guerrette
Watch Cheri demonstrates her masterful watercolor techniques!

And various private studio demo’s by 20 resident artists throughout the day!

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CLASSICAL PIANO PERFORMANCE:

11am - 2pm - Pianist Gregory S. Young
Solo performance of Chopin, Satie & Other Classical Works

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PIANO QUINTET PERFORMANCE:

3:00 - 3:45 - The Sierra Chamber Players will perform Schubert’s Trout Quintet!
featuring Judy Youngsten on violin, Sue Nepstead on viola, Franz Ryerson on cello, Margaret Urke on double bass and Gregory S. Young on piano.

If you've been to an ASiF Holiday Open House before, you know there's always something uniquely creative in store for you! Bring the entire family for a fun filled day of holiday gift shopping, making and celebrating!

Though this is ASiF’s final public event of the year, the Smallworks Holiday Show will be on display through the holidays with open gallery hours Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays from 11am - 4pm or by appointment through December 21!

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SMALLWORKS HOLIDAY SHOW:

ASiF’s Exciting & Ever Changing Gallery Show:
Over 40 local artist's small gift-able works! New artists and artworks accepted weekly, creating an ever changing show!

On Saturday, December 14th from 11am - 4pm the Artists' Studio in the Foothills (ASiF) invites the public to its 16th Annual Holiday Open & House Event. Guests will enjoy family friendly gift making workshops, demonstrations by resident artists and instructors, holiday refreshments and a live solo piano performance featuring Gregory S. Young playing Chopin, Satie and other classical works followed by a quintet performed by The Sierra Chamber Players in the center's main gallery. The art center's gallery walls will be adorned with ASiF's much loved annual Smallworks Holiday Show - featuring an ever changing exhibition of one of a kind, original artworks by more than forty local artists.

As tradition will have it, ASiF's Smallworks Holiday Show is an ever changingexhibit - with new artists joining weekly throughout the course of the show - meaning there's always something new in the gallery for you to see! Many agree this is ASiF's finest show of the year offering holiday shoppers a unique one of a kind art gift shopping experience!

For these special events, ASiF's resident artists and instructors are thrilled with for opportunity to share with the public a sneak peek at a few of their many year round class offerings, inviting guests to participate in short family friendly workshops as they demonstrate the use of various exciting materials and techniques.