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Strolling Village Artisans and Ballston Spa Rocks
The pottery wheels are spinning in Madeline Gallo’s studio. In another room, Gallo’s strong feelings about the war in Iraq emerge in a provocative clay exhibit by her and Jim Best. Upstairs, Heather Leyh turns on a torch. In the super-hot blue flame, she melts and sculpts rods of glass, creating candy-colored jewelry beads. Posted on June 15, 2008.
Eighteen-month old Harriet Bartlett gets placed in a chair — appropriately entitled “Story Time” — with some assistance by her mom, Bronwyn Bartlett. The colorful chairs are part of a village-wide art project called "Ballston ROCKS!" featuring Adirondack-styled rocking chairs with whimsical designs.
Madeline Gallo, left, and Heather Leyh, both of Strolling Village Artisans, stand outside their Washington Street storefront with two of the approximately 100 chairs on exhibit in and around Ballston Spa as part of "Ballston ROCKS!"
Working in her studio at Village Artisans on Thursday, clay artist Madeline Gallo works on a production of a garden sculpture.
Working Thursday in her shop at Village Artisans, glass artist Heather Leyh of Heather Hollywood Designs makes lampwork beads.
A glass bead, heated by a gas burner, takes shape at Heather Hollywood Designs.
Strolling Village Artisans painter Liza Martinez of Stillwater came up with a picnic scene for her chair, cutting a new back that’s shaped like wine glasses.
“Ballston in Bloom"
“Rock Chair"
“Rock ‘N’ Reel”
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November 22, 2008
