Wednesday, February 9, 2011

A New Look for February





Ah February! The shortest month of the year has more than its share of special days to celebrate. Valentine's Day comes first with it theme of love and its accent on the color red. This is followed soon after by Presidents' Day which adds the patriotic colors of white and blue to the predominant red. Our shop comes alive with its new color scheme!
On entering, you will see a display featuring several of our artists' work celebrating the color red. Then, look to your left and you will see the Artists of the Month, Randy Snyder and Martha Cant, have arranged a counterpoint to all that red with a display featuring blues and gold and underlined by black.
Then explore the rest of a tiny jewel box of a store. The celebratory colors of red, white and blue will catch your eye throughout.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Changing Space

The 500 square feet that make up the interior of the Artisans' Co-op gets rearranged on a monthly basis. The holiday colors that predominated through the month of December, segued into more muted and tertiary colors in January.
January's artists of the month , Edie Nelson and Angel Fiorito-Leddy, set the tone with a display featuring muted purple and green footwear by Angel and sweaters in calming blue/green tones by Edie. The colors were picked up by displays throughout the shop. First seen upon entering is a display in the neutral colors of beige, brown and mushroom with accents of soft greens and blues. The windows have glass work in blues, greens and an occasional purple which play well with the color theme.
The artists who design the shop change on a monthly basis, depending on their availability, and the color palate changes at the whim of the designers.
Re-evaluating the displays on a monthly schedule allows all the pieces in the shop to take center stage at some time during the year.