Maui Crafts Guild: Happenings

Ceramic tile and mask artist, Tracy Lamon, will be the featured artist at the Maui Crafts Guild from September 23 until October 13, 2011. You can meet the artist during her opening reception from 6:30 to 9 PM on Friday, September 23. Refreshments and live music will be part of the festivities at the store, in conjunction with Paia Town’s ‘Fourth Friday’ celebration!

Tracy Lamon has been working with clay for twenty-five years and began her studies in high school, throwing on the potter’s wheel. Her first passions were plates and functional vessels, then moving onto sculptures, masks, and intricately painted ceramic tiles.  Her tropical motif tiles have a high relief design with glazes that appear as watercolors.  Hawaii’s many flora, fauna, and relaxed lifestyles dance across these decorative and functional creations.

Her primitive masks are an original facial sculpture fired in burning sawdust for a raw and scorched look. They are crowned with a headdress of coconut and manila palm fronds.

Fiber artist, Fiama Von Schuetze, will be the featured artist at the Maui Crafts Guild from August 26 until September 8, 2011. You can meet the artist during her opening reception from 6:30 to 9 PM on Friday, August 26. Refreshments and live music will be part of the festivities at the store, in conjunction with Paia Town’s ‘Fourth Friday’ celebration!

Fiama loves the texture and honesty of using natural fibers in her basketry, which she calls “weaving Hawai’i into designer art”.

The artist states, “After weaving for 27 years, it is inspiring to go back to simplicity.  In this exhibit, I want to make each basket using only a single type of fiber. This way, it has it’s own identity, without distraction.”