Riverside Artisans Welcomes Two New contributors

Kathy Hicks displays one in all her dramatic and colourful quilts.

OSWEGO – The Riverside Artisans co-operative welcomes two new individuals to their gallery and shop in downtown Oswego.

Kathy Hicks, a well-known and achieved quilter from Sterling, and Cheryl Brown, an established artwork jeweler from Camillus, now have their works available on the Riverside Artisans.

Cheryl Brown poses with an offering of her hand-cut and polished cabochon jewelry.

Cheryl has been creating rings when you consider that 2005. After retiring from teaching expertise at a native excessive faculty, she went to work in a bead shop where she taught others the art of beading. She is primarily self-taught, getting to know new stitches and techniques from beading books and magazines. Her love of bead weaving increased to consist of bead embroidery and bead crochet.

more lately, she all started to wire weave to set stones and fossils. In 2010, Cheryl started promoting her work beneath the identify Windflower Beads. In 2007, Cheryl based the Bead Society of significant long island to promote the paintings of rings advent. She additionally joined the Gem and Mineral club of Syracuse and has been accumulating, slicing, and sharpening her personal cabochons (a stone it really is polished to a comprehensive shape, rather than being reduce) .

Quilter Kathy Hicks started sewing at a really young age, when her exceptional grandmother taught her to sew doll clothing from leftover rags and worn out outfits. by means of high college she turned into sewing her own clothing, nonetheless it wasn't unless 1995 when she made her first quilt.

Kathy constantly has three or four projects within the works at any one time, which brought about her to put money into an extended arm quilting desktop. This now not most effective permits her to conclude initiatives a good deal quicker, but she will be able to now provide a carrier to others who love to quilt, however haven't the skill to conclude their own quilts at domestic.

Riverside Artisans is a cooperative art save and gallery, operated by using native artists and craftspeople, found in the Canal Commons at 191 W 1st street, in downtown Oswego. The keep open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.