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February 2nd 2012, 09:31And the weathervane stamps are now available as strips of 25 as well as rolls of 3,000 from @USPSstamps https://t.co/QJZ7ssyQ
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February 2nd 2012, 09:23.@WinterthurMuse This birdy in your coll. http://t.co/3rsA6LA1 looks very similar to one of ours, now on a USPS stamp http://t.co/jJIdcsGo
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Hooked in the Mountains — Over 400 Hooked Rugs on View
1HOOKED IN THE MOUNTAINS – OVER 400 HOOKED RUGS ON VIEW AT SHELBURNE MUSEUM
SHELBURNE, Vt. – (Nov. 4, 2011) The Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild’s 15th annual rug and fiber art show, Hooked in the Mountains, is at Shelburne Museum Nov. 12-20.
The week-long celebration of hooked rug art features more than 400 hand-hooked rugs on display in the museum’s Round Barn. The title of this year’s show is All the Live-Long Day: A Celebration of Working, Industry and Innovation. Featured artists are: Betty Bouchard of Richmond, Vt., Bev Conway of Middlebury, Vt. and Helen Wolfel of Newport, Vt.
The event includes three-day workshops, demonstrations and speakers along with fiber arts vendors and weekday morning programs for children.
Admission is $8 for adults, $4 for museum members and seniors. Children 12 and under are free. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except Nov. 20 when the event closes at noon. For more information visit the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild Web site at www.gmrhg.org
Shelburne Museum: Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont is one of North America’s finest, most diverse and unconventional museums of art, design and Americana. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the museum grounds. The museum’s collection includes works by the great Impressionists Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas as well as a prized collection of folk art including trade signs, weathervanes and quilts.
IMAGE CAPTION: Bev Conway, Rufus, hooked rug, Middlebury, Vermont, 2005. Wool on linen backing, 46″ w x 27″ h; Designed and hooked by Bev Conway. Image by Anne Marie Littenberg.
CONTACT: Leslie Wright, Shelburne Museum, 802-985-3346 x 3331, lwright@shelburnemuseum.org
Ellen Banker, Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild, 802-763-2093, 703-401-0499 or blackcatbc@aol.com