News
July 2019
WEB – Educators Retreat
July 16, 2019 – Remake Learning
The Educators’ Retreat at Touchstone Center for Crafts provides a week of professional development that will enhance an educator’s own creativity…
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WEB – Community Foundation of Fayette County
July 3, 2019 – CFFC
Touchstone Center for Crafts – The word “crafts” may bring to mind a childlike image of popsicle sticks, yarn, and glitter, but the “crafts” at Touchstone Center for Crafts refer to the…
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May 2019
GO! List 05-30-19
May 30, 2019; Uniontown Herald-Standard
Touchstone Center for Crafts will host the 2019 open house from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 2. This event is free to visitors who can …
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Touchstone Center for Crafts sets open house
May 29, 2019; Tribune-Review; By Mary Pickels
Touchstone Center for Crafts will hold an open house from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. June 2 at its Farmington, Fayette County, site. The free event will introduce visitors to…
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Touchstone’s Community Open House
May 28, 2019; Pittsburgh Current
Visit Touchstone in the Laurel Highlands for a FREE Open House featuring studio demonstrations, artist pop-up shops, gallery exhibitions, kids craft activities, food vendors, and more!…
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Open House Press Release…
- 05-23-19: Touchstone’s community open house brings artists and organizations together for a fun, free, family-friendly event
Top events in Pittsburgh this weekend
May 21, 2019; NEXTpittsburgh
DC2 Symposium at Touchstone Center for Crafts … invited to retreat to the tranquil Laurel Highlands center for the first annual symposium presented …
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Touchstone Center for Crafts
May 16, 2019; Remake Learning
Touchstone Center for Crafts offers immersive learning experiences in seven fully equipped studios including blacksmithing, ceramics, glass, fine …
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Professor Kristen Letts Kovak Exhibits at the Touchstone Center for Crafts
May 14, 2019; CMU School of Art – Carnegie Mellon University
“Vessels in Five Dimensions” explores the spatial fluidity between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional forms. Professor Kristen Letts …
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April 2019
Hammer time: Local blacksmith shares his craft
Apr. 19, 2019; Observer-Reporter; By Dave Zuchowski
A year after his initial introduction to the craft, Shriver said he picked up … She enrolled in a blacksmithing course at the Touchstone Center for Crafts …
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March 2019
Monmade: Growing a W.Pa. economy of artisans, crafters in smaller cities and rural areas
Mar. 18, 2019; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; By Joyce Gannon
Two high-profile arts centers in Fayette County — Fallingwater and Touchstone Center for Crafts — have also agreed to provide exposure to the…
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February 2019
Regional artistic, maker opportunities abound
Feb. 3, 2019; Tribune-Review; By Mary Pickels
From sipping while painting to sketching with charcoal, molding hot glass, dyeing fabric or woodworking, opportunities exist for crafts people from novice to advanced to practice their artistic and making skills…
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January 2019
Fayette County awards tourism grants to 26 entities
Jan. 23, 2019; Uniontown Herald-Standard; By Frances Borsodi Zajac
East End United Community Center, Uniontown, $5,650 tourism education … Touchstone Center for Crafts, Farmington, $13,500 marketing grant for…
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Officials with Touchstone Center for Crafts excited for upcoming 2019 season
Jan 3, 2019; Uniontown Herald-Standard; By Rachel Basinger
The blend of favorite workshops and the addition of some new events have officials with Touchstone Center for Crafts in Farmington excited about the upcoming 2019 season…
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April 2018
Press Releases…
- 04-09-18: Makers Gather Together: Makers Symposium Weekend Including Alchemist Picnic V
- 04-09-18: For the Love of Iron: Tenth Annual Jim Campbell Hammer-In with Rivers of Steel Iron Pour
March 2018
Press Release…
- 03-07-18: Touchstone Center for Crafts Board of Directors Selects Lindsay Ketterer Gates as New Executive Director