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Welcome to Whitefish Bay Farm
Gallery, founded in 1982. The gallery is housed in the old granary and
machine shed for
the farm. Much of the building's original character has been retained
even though its functions have been changed.
The Gallery is open from mid-May until mid-October.
Hours are 12-5 daily (closed on Tuesdays). Special events are scheduled
during the season. Throughout the season more
detailed discussions of activities related
to the Gallery will appear in the Ewe Turn Blog.
The Gallery
offers
for sale a
selection
of original fiber artwork and pottery, created by
a number of
artists and
fine crafts people. A
variety of handmade fiber articles, naturally colored and/or naturally
dyed yarns, and roving for handspinning
and felting are always on display and available for purchase. For a
more detailed description of the yarns that we offer for sale go to our
Yarn
Page (coming soon!). Most of
the fiber work is created by artists who reside in Door County,
Wisconsin and their work features fibers raised on their own farms.
The Gallery and sheep barns
provide a background for the vegetable garden. The
first floor exhibit area is our summer and fall
studio
space for spinning, weaving and other fiber related activities.
In addition
to
displaying
artwork, the Gallery is also the summer and fall studio space for the
spinning,
weaving and other fiber related activities of owners Gretchen and Dick
Regnery. Dick is a weaver; Gretchen is a spinner, felter and knitter.
Together they create one-of-a-kind articles featuring wool from the
flock
of white and naturally colored Corriedale sheep.
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Fiber activities are usually taking place when the Gallery is
open.
Dick may be weaving on his 60 inch Glimåkra countermarche loom.
Gretchen may be spinning or plying yarn on either her Watson or Lendrum
spinning wheels, spinning with a drop spindle, or perhaps carding wool
or dyeing yarn or fleece.
There are often art related activities taking place in the gallery or
on
the gallery
grounds. Activities might include spinning on either a wheel or drop
spindle, weaving, a class from the Peninsula Art School
painting on location, a dye pot working to produce beautiful fiber and
yarn, or a wet felting project in process of completion.
Here Gretchen
is carding some of the wool from the sheep, in preparing for a felting
project.
Above is a sampling of yarns that have
all been naturally dyed using plants and mushrooms found on the farm.
It is an ongoing project that has just begun to scratch the surface of
color possibilities that will complement the wool that our sheep
produce for us and for so many other fiber artists.
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