Annual Summer Open Studio Garden Party

Enjoy the gardens of the Peter Bullough Bullough Foundation with hors d’oeuvres and drinks as we celebrate our summer residents: writer Sarah Tollok, weaver Clara Schulte, and ceramicist Jane Tseng. Tour the studios, visit the resident house, and learn more about our upcoming fall events as you listen to live jazz and take in your surroundings. This event has been graciously sponsored in part by Rosewood Environmental, the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts, and Love at First Bite Catering! Due to an overwhelmingly positive turnout last year, we ask that you please RSVP! While this event is free, donations are greatly appreciated to continue to host this event each year! 

Are you a PBF member? If so, we invite you to join our Member Preview occurring right before this event!

More about the artists:

Sarah Tollok lives in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with her husband and two sons. Her writing can be found in anthologies with Improbable Press, Alan Squire Publishing, Clan Destine Press, Memento Vivere Press, and Chaos and Ink Books. Bookstories, the author’s love letter to the world of books, was released in 2024 with Balance of Seven Press.

Jane Tseng is a Hakka Taiwanese American ceramicist using wheel-thrown and handbuilt clay objects as surfaces and forms to explore the narratives of the imagery around her. Inhabiting and making art in her childhood home in the Shenandoah Valley is a full-circle and yet also a beginning. She draws from the flora and fauna that interchange through the seasons and the contrast between the familiarity and foreignness of the spaces she lives in.

Clara Schulte is a weaver residing in Old Town, Winchester, VA. She learned to weave in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, her home, and continues to act as a steward for a craft that was nearly lost to technology and time. Her focus is the marriage of traditional Appalachian overshot and natural fibers to create timeless and functional homegoods meant to be used, cherished and passed down. When she is not weaving she is walking with her pup, Ginger, reading or camping.