October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! To join many other Enosburg Falls merchants, many AIR artists are donating 10% of October sales to the battle to defeat this serious disease. So this month, please visit the AIR Gallery and look for the pink labels that indicate participating artists and do some early holiday shopping.

MARTHA OHLIGER

"Born and raised in St. Albans, I have lived my whole life in Northern Vermont. I am a member of the Essex Art League, NVAA and the Bryan Memorial Gallery. I work in traditional oils, doing still life arrangements of dishes in a realistic manner. I chose dishes because I feel they make a statement about family connections and values. Recently, I have tried to add landscapes because this is such a beautiful state we live in."

CARL NEWTON

"I'm a retired Forestry Professor who began making oval bentwood boxes about 5 years ago. I started by making a set of Shaker boxes for my wife, and now I find myself making and selling a wide array of Shaker bentwood items, ranging from boxes and carriers to bureau trays and pincushions. Over the last year or so I have been experimenting with Norwegian style bentwood boxes (called a Tine; pronounced TEE-nah) and sculpted trays. While shaker boxes have their iconic, almost mathematical elegance, the Norwegian items have more of a rugged, individualistic theme that seems befitting their Viking heritage-- a theme that definitely challenges my less well developed right hemisphere."

KITTEN ELLISON

"Not much to say-- the erratic weather this year led me to spend as much time in my garden as possible when the sun was out! Therefore my studio was not visited too often until the end of last month. Having painted some new glass and ceramics, I am presently experimenting with wild images on silk, hopefully to be finished in time for my October reception (on 10/06/11). Sometimes, it is hard to be creative without a little push from a person or an idea, so this time I just let color speak to me."

TESS BEEMER

"I was raised in South East Asia where my father worked for the oil business. We returned to the USA in the 60's when my father bought property in Vermont. Since then, I have lived in Vermont painting local landscapes in a variety of media."