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Welcome to Whitefish Bay Farm Gallery. 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. Below are some images of Whitefish Bay Farm Gallery and some of the work exhibited there.
The first floor exhibit area is also our summer and fall studio space for spinning, weaving and other fiber related activities.
The 60 inch Glimåkra countermarche loom is used for the larger weaving projects in the Gallery.
A variety of handmade fiber articles are always on display and for sale. All of the handwork is done by fiber artists who reside in Door County. Much of their work employs fibers raised on their own farms.
The Gallery and sheep barns provide a background for the vegetable garden.
The second floor of the Gallery originally was built to store the grain raised on the farm. These are two views of the main exhibit areas on the west wall of the one time granary.
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There are often art related activities outside the gallery. Here members of a pastel class from the Peninsula Art School taught by Bonnita Budysz are using the area around the Gallery for their workshop.
Fiber activities are usually taking place when the gallery is open. Spinning or weaving are daily activities, along with the basics for fiber preparation. Here Gretchen is carding some of the wool from the sheep in preparing for a felting project.
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.
(We wish to thank David Currie, for the use of his photographs for many of these images. David exhibits both color and black and white photography at the Gallery.)
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