The Art of Giving

Each year the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts presents its special holiday show titled “The Art of Giving.” Our member artists create a wonderland of art and fine crafts to provide a wide variety of gift giving choices. Tomorrow, the gallery will be transformed with our work and some lights into this magical art emporium.

For The Art Of Giving

I’ve been working the past few weeks creating new sculptures, and one-of-a-kind ornaments for our holiday installation. Two of the new sculptures are specifically holiday themed. I shared one of them, Holly & Mistletoe, with you a few weeks ago. He was the raccoon with a working lantern who was collecing holly and mistletoe. The second is titled “It’s Snowing!” and features a reclining polar bear inside a bamboo ring who seems fascinated by the falling snow. You can find this hanging sculpture in the window of HGA starting tomorrow.

Needle felted anthropomorphic polar bear hanging sculpture inside bamboo ring, with crystal embellished wool snowflakes. For Art of Giving show
It’s Snowing!

Don’t forget, I am bringing in a varied selection of one-of-a-kind ornaments as well. Each is an original mini-sculpture that can hopefully become a cherished part of your holiday traditions.

  • mini sculpture athropomorphic needle felted chipmunk ornament with basket of acorns going to night market
  • needle felted and hand beaded snail ornament
  • needle felted mouse ornament with candy cane and cocoa going to night market
  • Anthropomorphic needle felted zebra ornament adorned with a festive polka dot scarf
  • anthropomorphic needle felted mouse ballerina ornament to adorn the tree
  • needle felted ornament with pair of polar bears teaming up to adorn tree with star
  • needle felted ornament - bear holding book and mug of cocoa named for Icelandic "Jolabokaflod" tradition
  • Anthropomorphic needle felted camel ornament with tree
  • Needle felted ornament - donkey with baskets of glass bead ornaments
  • Aurora Reflection needle felted wool "painting" on a dryer ball ornament
  • needle felted white stag ornamen
  • needle felted flamingo with a tinsel scarf ornament
  • needle felted Musk Ox with elf hat ornament
  • needle felted anthropomorphic turtle ornament with holiday package
  • needle felted elf cottage holiday ornamets with balloon lights
  • needle felted holiday ornament from dryer ball based on A Christmas Carol
  • needle felted lobster with ball holiday ornament
  • needle felted octopus with snowballs holiday ornament
  • needle felted beaded jellyfish holiday ornament
  • needle felted shark with present holiday ornament
  • needle felted whale with santa hat holiday ornament
  • needle felted holiday ornament with cardinal bird on branch design
  • needle felted holiday ornament with silhouetted moose/lansdcape design
  • giraffe with hat and scarf one-of-a-kind needle felted holiday ornament for 2024
  • rabbit with skates, helmet and stick one-of-a-kind needle felted holiday ornament for 2024
  • mouse with spoon-skis one-of-a-kind needle felted holiday ornament for 2024
  • Chicken (bird) with antlers one-of-a-kind needle felted holiday ornament for 2024
  • raccoon with snowball one-of-a-kind needle felted holiday ornament for 2024
  • Emperor penguin chick (bird) with hat one-of-a-kind needle felted holiday ornament for 2024
  • polar bear with cocoa one-of-a-kind needle felted holiday ornament for 2024
  • Frog with mistletoe one-of-a-kind needle felted holiday ornament for 2024

Come check out the work of all my artist/owner parners. There will be something to catch everyone’s eye. The opening reception for the Art of Giving show will be the evening of Black Friday, November 29th from 6-9 pm. HGA will also again have a special “Holiday Pop-up” sale on Saturday, December 7th. I will share more infomation on that event in a future post.

graphic for the Art of Giving HGA's annual holiday art show
Art of Giving

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