Upcoming Shows & Events

June 26th+ 27th Arts Across Ellsworth Arts Festival, Maine Grind Building (upstairs), 192 Main Street, Downtown Ellsworth. Friday June 26th,10am-5pm & Saturday June 27th, 10am-4pm. 17 Artisans in a juried show. Info: 207.664.2404

July 10 + 12 (Friday + Sunday). I'll be the guest artist at Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. 137 Pleasant Street Blue Hill, ME. Info. 207.374.2811

July 24th + 25th Arts Across Ellsworth Arts Festival, Maine Grind Building (upstairs), 192 Main Street, Downtown Ellsworth. Friday July 24th,10am-5pm & Saturday July 25th, 10am-4pm. 17 Artisans in a juried show. Info: 207.664.2404

August 1st-30th I'll be showing my watercolors at Archipelago, The Island Institute Store 386 Main Street Rockland, Maine 04841 Info: 207.596.0701

August 8 (Sat.) 9am-4pm. Designing Women Show + Sale. Atlantic Oakes Conference Center, Bar Harbor, ME

August 13, 14 & 15. Northeast Harbor Invitational Fine Arts and Crafts Show, Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor, ME.

September 12 (Sat.) + September 13 (Sun.). Landholm Nature Crafts Show. Landholm Trust Nature Preserve, Wells, ME

November 7 (Sat.) 9am-4pm. Designing Women Show + Sale. Center for Maine Business, Husson University, Bangor, ME

November 13 + 14 (Friday, 10am-5pm + Saturday, 9am-4pm). The Gifted Hand: Fine Art, Craft + Gift Show. The Holiday Inn, 215 High Street, Ellsworth, ME. Info. 207.664.2404

November 21 (Sat.) 9am=4pm. Designing Women Show + Sale. Merriconeag Waldorf School, 57 Desert Rd. Freeport, ME

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

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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