Join Tami Fuller, a second-generation fiber artisan, arts & fiber educator and exhibiting fine fiber artist and Missy Singer Dumars, owner, steward and educator of Crown Hill Farm to create a traditional Winter Solstice Tomte Gnome.
Tomte(n) are traditional authentic Swedish Christmas gnomes, meant to bring good luck and protection during the dark evenings of winter leading to the Winter Solstice.
During this workshop, we'll make them using a combination of traditional wool doll making technique, pre-made felt yardage, needle felt technique. Learn about the heritage Swedish sheep breed, Gotland, as you use some of their locks to finish your Tomte.
You’ll construct a pair of these guardians of the light to be a part of winter traditions in your home for many winters to come!
Monday, December 18th, 11am
$47 Includes:
a workshop + wool materials and tools
Tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis. If you need to cancel your reservation, you may do so (and receive a refund) up to 3 days in advance. Any cancellations less than 3 days before the event will not be refunded unless the event is cancelled due to inclement weather.
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LEAVE CROWN HILL FARM WITH YOUR VERY OWN PAIR of Wool Tomte Gnomes & FULL SPIRIT!
We look forward to sharing this evening of community together with you!
With Love, Missy & Tami
Tami Fuller is a second-generation fiber artisan, and works as an educator and exhibiting fine fiber artist. Her work integrates the traditional foundations of hand-constructed processes with modern technique, using foreign objects and metal as she explores provocative concepts related to female life and experiences. Tami is passionate about inspiring and empowering a new generation of creators by teaching the fiber arts in new, modern contexts which are still strongly rooted in traditional practices. Her workshops are designed with an eye toward revitalizing and modernizing fiber, ensuring the continuation of these skill sets by exposing the art form to new people within new contexts. She teaches throughout WNY and into the North East and has a professional connection to the Pacific Northwest, where her family has a large sheep farm that specializes in breed conservation for rare or at-risk breeds of sheep. Her work has received awards from NY Sheep and Wool and the Carnegie Art Center. In 2022, she was defined as a WNY artist culture-maker and a recipient of the NY Council on the Arts “Creatives Rebuild NY” grant, tasked with rebuilding arts access post-COVID. She is an exhibiting member of the Buffalo Society of Artists and a 2021 Roycroft Emerging Artist. She currently serves as the chair of the Roycroft Emerging Artists Program and was recently appointed Executive Coordinator of the Roycrofters-at-Large, the nonprofit serving modern Roycroft Artisans nationwide, and the primary fiber art event coordinator for the Arts Council of Wyoming County, where she is in charge of educational outreach and fiber arts programming for the FF2024 Fiber Festival. Her work is currently on view as part of the 2023 Art in Craft Media bienniel at the Burchfield-Penney and she was the inaugural recipient of Lake Affect Magazine’s Emerging Art Leadership Award. She works out of her studio at 17 Elm Street in East Aurora, where she also co-operates and co-curates The COMMA Fine Art gallery, in collaboration with two other women artists. See more of her work at her profile on the Buffalo Society of Artist’s website and at oneblubirdstudio.com.
Follow her online at @blubirdstudio and Blubird Studio on Facebook.
I come from a deep tradition of entrepreneurship and business having grown up in a multi-generational family business. From the many chapters of my life, I bring an unorthodox pastiche of skills. With a deep background in business and technology, a life-long involvement in the arts, and a varied spiritual background, I channel the power of connecting people, cultivated aesthetics, sacred awareness, and inspired leadership to every endeavor I undertake.
Having left careers in Theatrical & Entertainment Lighting, as a Therapeutic Massage Therapist and Business Coach I now get to bring everything I know together on my farm, Crown Hill Farm.
Winding up in the farming world grew out of a desire to dig deep into health, wellness, and connection to the land. In an unconventional way, life at Crown Hill Farm is the sum of all the lessons learned along the way, fused with the incredible responsibility of working with the Earth’s natural rhythms. Every part of life on the farm is sculpted around conscious being, with extreme care and attention paid to empowering health, wellness, and simplicity.
As an Entrepreneur and Business coach, I’m a staunch advocate for growing business in a way that is authentic, conscious, accessible and sustainable. These values translate to my farm and to my podcast, Women in Food.