Exhibition & Retail Galleries
Retail Gallery
In our retail gallery, our commitment lies in showcasing the talent of local and regional artists alongside national artists affiliated with Touchstone, including instructors, interns, and staff. Featuring over 80 artists, our collection highlights a diverse array of craft techniques, spanning ceramics, blacksmithing, fiber art, basketry, fine jewelry, and more. Discover a unique assortment of handmade items, perfect for gifting or treating yourself.
Shop in person seasonally: Currently by appointment only until campus reopens in the spring.
Shop online pop-ups: Select items are offered in short-term pop-ups throughout the year.
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Artists & Craftspeople represented in the Retail Gallery:
Update: New Off-season Gallery hours, Tuesday to Saturday 11 am-4 pm or by appointment.
Save the Date!
SATURDAY, DEC 7 | 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Winter Showcase & Holiday Sale
Step into a world of creativity at Touchstone’s annual Winter Showcase & Holiday Sale! Discover unique, handcrafted gifts by over 80 regional and national artists, including Touchstone instructors, interns, staff, and friends. Our expanded gallery and retail space feature a stunning array of one-of-a-kind pieces, perfect for treating yourself or finding that special gift for loved ones.
While you shop, take part in fun make-and-take activities, enjoy light refreshments and appetizers, and browse limited-edition Touchstone merchandise. Be sure to visit our 2024 Intern Exhibition, Tessellate: Fitting Together, celebrating the incredible work of emerging artists who have refined their craft with us throughout the year.
Though our studios are closed for the season, this is a rare chance to immerse yourself in a vibrant art experience exclusively in our galleries. Bring your friends, family, and fellow art lovers for a memorable afternoon filled with art, creativity, and the holiday spirit!
Save the date and spread the word—it’s a holiday event you won’t want to miss!
2024 Bea Campbell Gallery Exhibitions
pictured: 2023 Intern Exhibition
Coming Soon!
OCT (Date to be announced) - DEC 20
2024 Intern Exhibition
Touchstone provides seasonal internship opportunities for emerging artists to live, work, and create on its beautiful 230-acre campus. Throughout their stay, interns are fully immersed and inspired by the ever-changing creative community of the craft school environment. This annual exhibition showcases the Touchstone internship experience by presenting the works of this year’s talented interns.
SATURDAY, DEC 7 | 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Intern Exhibition Reception
Participating Artists:
- Andrew Welton
- Ren Higuera
- Morgan Winter
- Zachary Morphew
- Roxy Bridges
- Art Gibson
- Anissa White
- Chloe Miller
Tessellate: Fitting Together
Tessellate: Fitting Together showcases work by Touchsone’s 2024 seasonal staff. Tessellation – geometric patterning assembled without gaps or overlaps – describes the interconnected practices within the Touchstone community. Each participant’s work engages with patterns, repetition, and geometry in unique ways, whether through form, practice, process, or imagery. Themes of fitting together and meditation resonate throughout, revealing commonalities across the team despite differing methods and styles. Each staff member has contributed two tiles to a central collaborative piece, representing how their individual practices interweave to form a cohesive whole.
Previous 2024 Exhibitions
AUG 3 - SEPT 29
Instructors of Touchstone
This exhibition showcases the creativity, talent, and technical expertise of our current workshop instructors. These professional, accomplished artists are invited from across the country to lead our workshops and successfully develop the skillsets of our workshop participants. A sampling of their works will include mediums of which are taught within our studios. Learn more about our 2024 instructors by viewing their bios on our workshop pages.
Artwork pictured by a sample of our 2024 workshop instructors:
Lisa Geertsen, Tom Bartel, Stacy Lund Levy, Wesley Fleming & Michael Mangiafico, Motoko Furuhashi, Ann Coddington
Participating Artists:
- Phil Ashworth
- Kimberlyn Bloise
- HP Bloomer
- Dan Brockett
- Ann Coddington
- Addison Delisle
Katy Dement
Motoko Furuhashi
Lisa Geertsen
Glenn Horr
Joy Knepp
Nanette Pengelley
- Michele Randall
- Emily Schroeder Willis
- Sarah Sindler
- Joan Stolz
- Andrew Welton
- Travis Winters
*pictured: 2024 Best in Show ‘Ceremonial Spoons’ by Karen Krieger.
**Runner up 'Cloud Mug' by Max Trumpower.
AUG 3 - SEPT 29
Distinctive Drinkware
Through the exploration of utilitarian drinkware, our 2nd annual national juried exhibition serves as a stage to enhance the modern day ritual of crafting and enjoying your favorite beverages! The focus of Distinctive Drinkware is on the function and concept of not only the drinking vessel, but also the objects and accessories necessary for fashioning an elevated drinking experience.
Jurors: 2023 Touchstone Interns
Phil Stephens, Bonnie McEachren, & Eva Polzer
Entry Fee: $30 for up to three entries.
Applications will be accepted online from May 1–June 1.
Accepted Artists:
- Salvador Alane
- Irma R. Barazzone
- Delia Bell
- Annie Boyer
- Shannon Coleman
- Karley Deets
- Isabella Dobbs
- Glen Gardner
- Chance Gordon
- Di-Ann Hand
- Lexie Koch
- Karen Krieger*
- Ian McCarthy
- Stephanie McClain
- Elizabeth New
- Joseph Pine
- Peggy Quinn
- Emily Rangel-Cascio
- Amy Roadman
- Libby Scutt
- Mabel Thaden
- Brad Thayer
- Max Trumpower**
MAY 17 – SEPT 20
Visiting Artist: Theda Sandiford
Free Your Mind @Touchstone
Free Your Mind is a public textile art endeavor led by artist Theda Sandiford, with the objective of gathering, showcasing, embedding, and liberating personal narratives surrounding microaggressions through a multi-sensory installation.
Microaggressions, those nuanced and sometimes unintentional daily interactions, convey hostile, derogatory, or negative messages or assumptions towards historically marginalized groups. The cumulative impact of these routine encounters manifests in tangible consequences—stress, anger, frustration, self-doubt, and ultimately, a sense of powerlessness and invisibility.
This project boldly unveils these interactions to offer a cathartic release. Participants are encouraged to share their experiences of microaggressions by inscribing them onto a ribbon, which is then tied to a net, symbolizing the liberation of these stories from their personal narratives. Each ribbon becomes a tangible “story ribbon.”
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Artist Bio
MAY 4 – JULY 28
Auböck: The Gallet Collection
Located in Touchstone’s Bea Campbell Gallery, with select works placed at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater home in situ.
Auböck: The Gallet Collection presents an exhibition of rare and important works of art and objects from the internationally renowned Werkstätte Carl Auböck, located in Vienna, Austria, and in operation for over 120 years. The Gallet family collection spans five generations and includes examples of metal working, woodwork, ceramics, artwork, architecture, ephemera and more.
SATURDAY, JUNE 1: Public exhibition opening from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. during our Annual Open House.
Standard Clay Co.
Roy W. & Diana L. Arnold
Senator Stefano
Turkeyfoot Farms
Beth & Barrie Athol
Drs. Paul & Diane Kiproff
National Road Heritage Corridor
Richard Burkland
Mary Len Hajduk