This year's studio tour is dedicated to Margaret Dudek - 1946-2007. Peg's enthusiasm for the arts and her fellow artists will be missed. She was a founding member of the Artists' Open House Weekend.

Click here for a slideshow of Peg's work

Three of Peg's friends and her daughter will be exhibiting in her honor and offering her work as well as their own for sale:

Margaret Dudek worked in encaustic painting, watercolor, pastel and oils. Encaustic painting is an ancient method using hot beeswax and pigments mixed and heated to fuse the surface and create a glowing, flowing painting.

Linda Shupp will be showing watercolors and pastels. Her work reflects a deep respect for our local land and wildlife; from friendly chipmunks to black bears, and delicate flowers to mighty trees. She creates images that say this place is special. On Monday she will be demonstrating pastel or watercolor painting.

Raquel Sweeny will be exhibiting her watercolors.

Kathy Yulke will be showing oils and pastels.

Kimmy Dudek works in three dimensional mixed media sculpture utilizing clay, metal, cast acrylic and wood. These pieces are influenced by North and South American indigenous people, animals and nature, and reflect dream images. She also works in "chimo", a traditional art she learned while studying in Venezuela, which uses waterbased sepia pigment made from tobacco.

The Dudeks' Poor Farm Studio is located near New Milford on Rte. 492 East 1 1/2 miles off I 81 at exit 223. First house on left past the trailer park. 570-465-3970