Press Releases 2005
Shop Here For Holidays!
CONTACT: Janet Peterson, Marketing and Public Relations DirectorTEL: (856) 825-6800, Ext. 108
FAX: (856) 825-2410
E-MAIL: jpeterson@wheatonvillage.org
The holiday season opens with the Village’s annual Studio Sale, November 25, 26 and 27, in the Event Center. No admission ticket required to attend. Items include Wheaton Village overstocks, prototypes and seconds. It is first come, first serve, and quantities are limited. In addition, Wheaton Village resident ceramic artist, Terry Plasket, and studio artists Melanie Guernsey and David Leppla, will have a sale of their work during this three-day period. Items are reduced 50 to 70 percent. A glass snowflake will be given to anyone who makes a purchase of $25.00 or more (one gift per customer). Hours: November 25, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., November 26, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and November 27, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The General Store offers a wide variety of traditional crafts, toys for children of all ages, stemware, rice bowls and sushi plates, and everyone’s favorite penny candy.
The Brownstone Emporium features a large selection of Fenton Art Glass and Judaica plus blown, fused, cast and pressed glass created in the Village’s Glass Studio. Holiday trees decorated with a wide assortment of handmade glass ornaments, Possible Dreams figurines, Byers Choice Carolers, snowmen, Santa figures and angels of all descriptions can be found in the Christmas Shop.The Arthur Gorham Paperweight Shop has a large selection of paperweights made in the Village plus American and World Glass Studio production paperweights from such makers as Caithness Glass and The Glass Eye Studio. One-of-a-kind works of art from Paul Stankard, Kathy Richardson and Josh Simpson are available as well as colorful, handmade marbles.
Fine crafts and
contemporary sculpture in glass, ceramic, metal, textile and mixed media
are featured
in the Gallery of Fine Craft. The Gallery’s current exhibit celebrates its
tenth anniversary. On display and for sale are the most recent studio and
sculptural glass work from artists represented in the Gallery. Other items
include animal banks, wind bells, glass and wood boxes, glass and ceramic
chimes, wooden and clay instruments, glass jewelry, ceremonial Judaica,
stained glass kaleidoscopes, silk and paper mobiles, snowball glass and
one-of-a-kind goblets.
A ticket is
required to visit the Museum of American Glass, Glass Studio in the T. C.
Wheaton Glass Factory, Woodcarving, Flameworking and Ceramic
Studios, and Down Jersey Folklife Center. Both the Museum of American
Glass exhibition, “Particle Theories: International Pâte de Verre and
Other Cast Glass Granulations,” and the Down Jersey Folklife Center
exhibition, “Apprentice Wizardry: Mastership/Apprenticeship in Folk Arts,”
continue through December 31. Hands-on family activities (papermaking and
create a holiday ornament) will be offered December 10, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
in the Event Center.
Admission: $10.00 Adults, $9.00 Senior Citizens and $7.00 Students (ages 6 to 18). Children 12 and under are free on Saturdays and Sundays when accompanied by a paying adult. The Village will be open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., through December 31. The Village is closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day. For more information, call 856-825-6800 or 1-800-998-4552. Visit on the web at www.wheatonvillage.org.
Wheaton Village strives to ensure the accessibility of its exhibitions, events and programs to all persons with disabilities. Provide two weeks notice for special accommodations. Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Wheaton Village received a general operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of Cultural Affairs in the Department of State.
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WheatonArts strives to ensure the accessibility of its exhibitions, events and programs to all persons with disabilities.
Provide two weeks notice for special accommodations. Patrons with hearing and speech disabilities may contact WheatonArts
through the New Jersey Relay Service (TRS) 800-852-7899 or by dialing 711.