Works By Local Artisans At New Milford RR Station

NEW MILFORD — An exhibition featuring the works of four local artisans will be presented at The New Milford Railroad Station, on Railroad Street, for two upcoming weekends: Friday through Sunday, November 23-25; and Saturday and Sunday, December 8-9. The station/gallery will be open from 10 am to 5 pm each day.

The exhibition will features glass art, jewelry, baskets, homemade soaps and pottery by Linda Banks, Cynthia Battista, Rose Garbien, and Kathy Kairawicz, Rose Garbien.

A portion of the proceeds from each work sold will be donated to The Animal Welfare Society in New Milford.

Award-winning artist Linda Banks, a multi-media artisan, owns and operates Banks Art Studio in New Preston. Her glass has been collected extensively nationally and internationally in galleries, craft centers, schools, libraries, and universities. Glass has become her passion with its color, vibrancy, sparkle and glow.

Cynthia Battista is a jeweler, a basket maker and a sculptor. She is exhibiting her jewelry. She began to incorporate recycled materials, and then to shape more and more of her components by hand to create her unique jewelry, designing her own work using a combination of vision, focus, tension and release to make jewelry.

Rose and Ed Garbien own Bittersweet Ridge, a small cottage business located in Roxbury. Mrs Garbien uses Shetland sheep and English angora rabbits to supply the fiber for wet felting, needle felting and handspun yarn for her art. The couple also produces hand crafted soap and hand cream from their animals.

Kathy Kairawicz creates functional pieces such as bowls, dishes, casseroles and pitchers. She also makes sculptural forms to be used as garden ornaments, using a variety of clay bodies, assorted stoneware, raku and porcelain.

For further information, contact Ms Battista at 860-350-2547 or cbattista254@earthlink.net.