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First Friday | December 7th | 6-10pm Dharma Studio | 160 N. Loudoun St., Winchester, VA  - Shop gifts from regional artists, artisans and crafters!  - Gift Basket Raffle - proceeds will go to local charity - Ugly Sweater Instagram Photo Contest (Prizes will be awarded!) - Drinks and Snacks will be available for purchase - Appearance by Krampus!  VENDORS:   Angry Buddha  - Body care; scrubs, bath bombs, lip balms, body butter Black Radish Handmade  - Hand knits and wovens, handspun and dyed yarns, hand dyed cotton and linen clothes/accessories (adult and children).  Rachel Canada  - Greeting cards, note cards, tea towels with quirky animal themes.  Center Ring Design/Touched By Nature/Skegg  - Soaps, sugar scrubs, body butters, bath salts, shampoo bars, bath bombs, men's grooming line, also small popottery pieces, holiday gift bundles Chestnut's  - Eco-Friendly Beeswax Wraps Drakiln Glass  - Kiln Formed Stained Glass Art, gifts ...

Plaid Friday, Old Town Winchester's version of Black Friday, is just days aways! We open at 8am and will be having deals all day long! Pick up your Shopping Passport from a participating business in Old Town. Visit 8 Old Town Winchester participating businesses for your chance to win a fabulous gift basket!  Attach a receipt from any Old Town business for an additional chance to win! (max 8) Turn in completed passport and receipt(s) by Monday November 26 at Winchester Book Gallery or Espresso Bar. Tin Top Plaid Friday Sale 30% Off* from 8-9am 25% Off* from 9am-12pm 20% Off* 12pm until close 10% Off all purchases from 12pm on *Purchases of $25 or more Small Business Saturday, founded by American Express in 2010, is celebrated every year on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. It is a day dedicated to helping support the local businesses that help to create jobs, boost the economy, and preserve neighborhoods. Tin Top will be giving $10 gift certificates for every $50 you spend!

Tin Top e-giftcards are now available online! These make great gifts for friends and family near and far! Although Tin Top doesn't have an online shop at the moment we are always happy to take and ship orders - just shoot us a message! Click here t o order our e-giftcards today.

Tin Top is seeking artists, makers, vintage sellers, artisan food sellers, and some direct sales consultants - for our Merry Makers Winter Market at Dharma Studio! Our market will take place the evening of December 7th from 6-10 at Dharma (160 N. Loudoun St, Winchester, VA). This is Winchester's First Friday and coincides with our Krampus Night Celebration! A limited number of 6'x4' booth spaces will be available at $50. Selected vendors will be responsible for tables, any displays, and for their sales. To apply, submit your application and the $10 non-refundable application fee by 11:59 pm October 22, 2018. Applicants will be notified by October 23rd.

Sow Cole Creations joins us Saturday, August 25th from 11-3pm Sow Cole Creations is where handmade, moditional pieces are born.  Based out of the Northern area of Virginia, Sow Cole Creations was birthed from the love of visual arts, color, creativity and the desire to share those loves with the people around.   Sow Cole Creations doesn't offer "just another" necklace, earring, accessory.... but STATEMENTS.  Handcrafted statement pieces where traditional and modern collide.  They strive to bring fun and creativity to many aspects of a person's life while also bringing some encouragement. Encouragement to be bold, fun and to stand out in a positive way -  TO BE YOU !  ________________________ SEPTEMBER FIRST FRIDAY! September 7th | 6-9pm  The Marvelous Mechanical Music Maiden  We're shaking things up a bit this coming First Friday  and will host a living sculpture!  Also known as Carmel Clavin  -  specta...

It's that time again for First Friday! This month we are so happy to have regional artist/designer Kelley Wills (Brainflower Designs). You may recognize Kelley's illustrations and designs as she has done posters for many bands in the area such as Jake and the Burtones and Gallows Bound. Kelley will be exhibiting original fine art paintings as well as prints. She will have t-shirts and posters on sale as well - so come on out! Reception: Friday, August 3rd | 6-8pm Meet the Artist  | Light Refreshments Served Free and Open to the Public

Winchester Days is here again and Tin Top is having a Sale! All Karen Freidt artwork is 25%-40% off! That's a steal!  For all other purchases - mention Winchester Days and we'll give you 20% off! 

Opening Reception  Friday, June 1st | 6-8pm Mixed-media artist Karen Freidt joins us from Hampton Roads, VA.  With a mother who is also a local artist and a father who is an engineer, Karen likes to experiment with all types of media, create regularly and question norms.  Art finds a place in all dimensions of Karen’s life. She has found ways to apply her passion through creating fine art, authoring a book, speaking on creativity and innovation globally, creating new NASA innovative courses and programs while showing and selling her work in numerous galleries in Virginia and North Carolina. Freidt says “I spend every night creating art. It is both a stress reliever and a way to unconsciously solve problems while I’m in a sort of meditative state creating .” She received a BFA from Longwood University, a Design Thinking Specialization Certificate from UVA, and attended NYC’s School of Visual Arts !MPACT Residency and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her...

First Friday Opening Reception Friday, April 6th | 6-8pm That's What She Said Art Mallory Jarrell Mallory Jarrell obtained her art degree in composition and art history from Old Dominion University. As a student of art history, she always had a deep appreciation for the iconic classics, but as a smart ass, she had an even deeper appreciation for screwing with things. Never leaving well enough alone, she manipulates images from 50's era advertisements to old Renaissance masters, infusing rich history with today's moronic pop-culture. Tattoo culture, hair dye, or ridiculous hip hop lyrics overlayed atop Botticelli or Vermeer create a juxtaposition of classical old and mindless new that simply cracks Mallory up. When asked about her work in a recent interview, she replied "I'm #$%^ing hilarious." Mallory currently lives as a hot mess in her 1/3 acre chateau in Chesapeake, Virginia with her husband, dog-child Wheeler and cockatiel Sketch. "Mallory Jarrell’s w...

Immortal Mountain joins us once again for Old Town Winchester's Chocolate Escape event!  Go on cacao journey, tasting a variety of Immortal Mountain's herb-crafted chocolate. Bars will be available for purchase as well - but only during the event! 

"Guhbye 2017" by Paul Zdepski Join us this Friday for our first ever State of the Union show! "Goodbye 2017" features nine regional artists who we asked to submit their visual commentary on social and political issues, events, themes or topics of the past year. Reception: Friday, January 19th • 5-7:30pm Featuring works by: Christy Broy, Steena Fullmer-Anderson, Ashley Hoffman, Winslow McCagg, Jody Mussoff, Nancy Polo, Kerry Stavely, Neil Stavely, and Paul Zdepski.

Krampus, Cookies and Cocktails is back!  First Friday, December 1st 6-8pm. Be there!

Plaid Friday starts for us at 7am on November 24th! The earlier you get there the better the deals!  7am-8am: 25% off  | 8am-9am: 20% off  | 9am-10am: 15% off  | 10am-12pm: 10% off   Deals after 12pm include:   Horse and Hare Cards & Prints Buy Two, Get One Free Horse & Hare Brand T-shirts Buy Two Get One 1/2 Off Our first 10 shoppers will get  a free Shop Small tote bag! 

Opening Reception for Julie Maynard: Absence October 14th, 4-6pm Julie Maynard comes to us from Frederick, MD.  Statement for “Absence” Many of the pieces in this show come from a series called “Mass Produced Pigeons” that looks at how things cut from the same pattern develop a stubborn individuality. Several of the framed works use and reuse the images of a handful of pigeons— often as a silhouette, or absence. Julie Maynard -  My work is a form of painting with paper on two- or three-dimensional surfaces, often incorporating found objects and words. 

Artist, Liz Goins from Charles Town, WV joins us in September with Paper Cuts and Book Arts.  First Friday Opening Reception is September 1st • 6:30-8:30 Meet the artist • Light Refreshments Served ________________________________ Elizabeth’s body of work demonstrates her own unique style of papercutting by replacing the traditional use of scissors for an x-acto knife and mixing up the conventional form of papercutting with her own experiments. For example, “I incorporate papercuttings in my altered books as well as making books by hand using papercutting techniques for the book pages. Each papercutting is one of kind. “Even if I recreate a design I can’t help but change a component to create a one of a kind papercutting”. Images for Elizabeth’s papercuttings are inspired by her everyday experiences. ______________________________ Elizabeth resides in Charles Town, West Virginia where she offers workshops in her studio, teaching Book Arts, Papermaking, and Papercutting. Elizabeth t...

Sunflowers by Valerie Lucas OPENING RECEPTION  FRIDAY, JULY 7TH | 6-8:30 TIN TOP ART & HANDMADE Val Lucas, a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, runs Bowerbox Press, a letterpress and woodcut printing studio in rural Monkton, Maryland. She is inspired by the natural world and landscapes, wildlife and farm animals, and the history of letterpress printing. By combining the age-old traditions of hand-set metal and wood type with woodcut images, she creates prints, posters and cards that reflect her diverse interests. Reduction woodcut landscapes capture a broader view with loose marks and vibrant colors, while detailed woodcuts for posters and cards capture the beauty in the small details in nature.

I love to create and I love the schizotypal borderlands where the ideas find us. Those moments just before waking, or in the fugue of a daydream, where little epiphanies line up to taunt the sleeping butterfly who gives birth to our waking world. I paint, sculpt, carve, drill, hammer and chide reality in attempts to materialize some of that strange brew of mostly empty space in which we swim to form a reflection, a hint, a slight whiff of the endless possibilities of Morpheus unbound. I never quite get there, fettered by the tedium of the work-a-day world fear and relative sobriety, but that is the struggle, that is what keeps me going to the next thing as I sing " …in my chains like the sea". I have a RBA with a concentration in Commercial and Fine Art from (what is now) Shepherd University. After college, I worked in museum exhibits and created various interesting works from enamels for the National Cathedral to bigger than life elephant leg for a lawyer's office at Rin...

Shop from Local and Regional Crafters and Artists Painting • Woodworking • Ceramics • Textiles • Printmaking & More See our detailed vendor list  here Activities & Demonstrations Build a Brush Bot with the  Valley Makers Association Henna Art by  The Zen Mama Live Painting by  Clive Turner  and  Abi Gomez Pinwheel Pavilion by artist  Becky Borlan Sand Art with Paint Me! Paint Me! Blacksmithing by  Vin Tin Give Rise Project Jewelry Making with  Marney & Swa    Food and Beverages BBQ by Jordan Springs Market  •  Ice Cream from Red Fox Creamery Escutcheon Beer  •  Pearmund Cellars Wine

Charlottesville artist, Adam Disbrow joins us in May for Portrait of Beauty.   I n his home and abroad, Adam Martin Disbrow is emerging as an exceptional expressionist painter. His work has earned him representation from Alexander Salazar Fine Art in San Diego, California, and he is a resident artist at the Sperryville ARTist Cooperative in Sperryville, VA. His works have sold to collectors around the country. Adam Disbrow’s works combine Abstract Expressionism, German Expressionism, Neo-Expressionism, and impressionism in a style he refers to as, “Major Expressionism.” He focuses on layers of objective conceptuality, pulling upon both history and culture for content. His works are made to sit on the stairway of Man’s  history. “The paintings are a commentary on the history of Man. They address current and ancient issues of religion, politics, and natural order. Freedom, entropy, and time are key concepts of my work. I use chaos to portray beauty. Each piece is designed to ope...

Happy Spring to everyone!  We're very excited Nancy Polo will join us with her Bunny paintings in April! Please join us for her reception on April 1st from 6-8.  Nancy is an emerging artist who lives and works as a chef at Smithfield Farm in Berryville, VA. She was born and raised in the Washington DC area by parents who immigrated from Italy in 1962 and 1966. She has a BA from the College of William & Mary in Art History and an MA from UNC Chapel Hill in Art History. Her works have been shown at the bi-annual Art at the Mill show in Millwood, VA ; A Show of Hands Gallery in Alexandria, VA; Dolcezza in Washington, DC; and her studio, La Capretta , has been included in the Clarke County Studio Tour. "Bunny is a totem animal created to explore hidden desires and unusual perspectives on everyday farm life. Whether in the kitchen, at the easel or attempting to fly a kite, Bunny is always dreaming, and so am I." - Nancy Polo We recently asked Nancy to answer some que...