Artists with Hopewell connections featured at historic plantation

Weston Plantation's gift shop, All Manor of Things, will feature items from artists with connections to Hopewell on Dec. 13-14. The shop will be open Dec. 13 from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and Dec. 14 from 1-4:30 p.m.

Kay Ackerman is a Hopewell native who teaches history at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pa. She considers her "other life" to be beadwork and is mostly self-taught in off-loom and loomed designs. She has been teaching bead classes for seven years and has shown her work at the Bogigian Gallery at Wilson College and at the Chambersburg Council for the Arts.

Kevin Crowe's Tye River Pottery workshop is in the Blue Ridge foothills where he lives with his wife, Hopewell native Linda Lundquist Crowe. He creates functional stoneware with strong Asian and English roots. In his 30 years of experience as a studio potter he has shown and sold his work in galleries, shops and shows throughout the U.S. including at the Smithsonian in Washington.

Also exhibiting handmade sterling silver jewelry will be George Kind, father of Hopewell High School guidance councilor Kathy Hodson. Susannah Raine-Haddad of Richmond will show colorful paintings and paper art.

Weston Plantation, owned by the Historic Hopewell Foundation Inc., is at the end of Weston Lane, off 21st Avenue in Hopewell. Parking is free.