Member Reception

This special preview reception is for PBF Members only! Not a member? You can learn more about becoming a member on this page!

Be the first to attend our annual summer open studio! Stroll the garden with a chilled beverage while enjoying refreshments from Love at First Bite and listening to live jazz coordinated by Drum Orpheum, then visit the studios of our summer artists in residence: writer Sarah Tollok, artist and weaver Clara Schulte, and artist and ceramicist Jane Tseng. Each artist will also have items for sale, showcasing their individual talents! You’ll also be among the first to see this year’s limited edition print by former PBF artist-in-residence Jason Earl Lord. Following the member reception, join us for the public open studio event beginning at 6pm, which has been graciously sponsored in part by Rosewood Environmental, the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts, and Love at First Bite Catering!

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.