Thousand Islands Arts Center, Home of the Handweaving Museum, Clayton NY, the cultural center of the 1000 Islands

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Welcome to the Thousand Islands Arts Center ~ Home of the Handweaving Museum. Thank you for visiting us! We are open Monday - Friday 9am-5pm and Saturday 9am-4pm.In July and August we will also have Sunday hours 10am-4pm
The Thousand Islands Arts Center is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of traditional arts and handcrafts through educational programs, classes, lectures, exhibits and by maintaining a library and a permanent textile collection.

The Arts Center offers a wide variety of art and handcraft classes for adults, young adults and children. All levels of students, from the beginner to the professional artist, are welcome. Classes are small and enrollment is limited to allow for ample guidance. Our purpose is to encourage the art of handcrafts and to pass on this tradition. Additional educational programs include annual weaving conferences, an after school arts program for children in the spring and fall, elderhostel programs and variety of demonstrations from skilled artisans.

The Handweaving Museum specializes in 20th-century hand-woven fabrics, coverlets, study notebooks, old tools, implements and looms. We encourage weavers to use the extensive resources we have available from lifelong collections of well-known weavers such as Berta Frey, Theo Moorman, Mary Snyder, and many others. The library includes books on weaving, spinning, dyeing, surface designing and textile history. The many study notebooks offer original manuscript drafts, patterns, tie-ups, treadling guides and color studies.

The Catherine C. Johnson Gallery hosts a variety of scheduled art shows and exhibits open to the public April through December.

TheArts Center Store sells original art works, prints, jewelry, fiber art, pottery and carefully selected items from regional artists.

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Weaving History Conference
The Weaving History Conference is scheduled for May 15 - 16 with pre-conference activities on Friday May 14th. For more information call (315)686-4123.

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