Upcoming Shows & Events

September 23, 24 & 25, Common Ground Country Fair in Unity, Maine. The gates open at 9am every day. I will be selling my work in the Maine Marketplace Area.  

October 6th-10, CMCA's Work of the Hand Show at Pascal Hall, 86 Pascal Ave. Rockport, Maine. Collectors preview evening on Thursday October 6th, 6-8pm, The show is also open on October 7, 8, and 10 from 10am to 5pm and October 9 (Sunday) 1pm to 5pm. This show benefits the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.

October 14 & 15, the 3rd Annual Beads, Baubles & Fleece Downeast Fall Bead, Jewelry & Fiber Show at the Ramada Inn at 215 High Street, Ellsworth. Featuring 50 vendors selling Czech glass, crystal, gemstone, pearls, lampworked glass, dichroic glass, porcelain, felt beads, seed beads, focal beads, and more! Also, vintage and new buttons, findings, and beading supplies. This year, the show is expanded to include fiber vendors selling hand-dyed yarn, roving, handwovens and handknits, upcycled fiber goods, felted items and more! Several local artisans will be on hand selling their artfully created jewelry as well. Please join us! Times: noon to 7pm on Friday and 9am to 4pm on Saturday. For more info, call 207-664-2404 or email fernhousestudio@roadrunner.com.

November 5, Designing Women Show & Sale at The Center for Family Business at Husson College in Bangor, Me. Show hours 9am-4pm. 

November 11 & 12, The Gifted Hand Show at the Ellsworth Ramada Inn, 215 High Street, Ellsworth, Me. Show hours: Friday 11am-7pm & Saturday 9am-4pm. This year, 65 amazing artisans will be showing their work at this 6th Annual Show. For more information, call 460-1243 and speak with Christina.

December 2011, I'll be opening another Gifted Hand Pop-Up Shop in downtown Ellsworth...more info soon!

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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