Town #35 Guilford

November 15, 2008
Guilford Arts Center * Open Studios Weekend

Our real purpose for this trip was the Shoreline Arts Trail ’08 Open Studios Weekend. We started in Guilford, so we headed there along a very scenic Rt. 77, south through Durham and into Guilford. We arrived at the Guilford Art Center where all the artists were represented and where we picked up a map and list of artists. We first visited Alan Davidson, maker of contemporary stained glass. We purchased a cross section of a real chambered nautilus shell mounted in the center of a circular stained glass assembly. It is meant to hang, and is now on display in a window of our home. We would have liked to have purchased more of Davidson’s work, but we showed restraint. We visited several other artists, some sharing a common facility on the Green (Rob Bunting, sculptor, CT Coppersmiths; Rebecca Bunting, Goldsmith; Barbara Shulman-Kirwin, Goldsmith; and Chroma Gallery), including one not involved in the Open Studio, Greene Art Gallery. They featured sea paintings as well as other themes, and had a nice sculpture and kinetic sculpture area outside. (Bob)