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Carlton Gallery Is Moving Across the Highway

After 21 years in the Creekside Building, Toni Carlton is moving Carlton Gallery across Highway 105 once again, this time to the Antonaccio Fine Art Gallery building. Carlton Gallery will open in this gallery space for the Memorial Day weekend and is pleased to exhibit the art of Egidio Antonaccio. The last days at Creekside are Mother’s Day weekend, and the opening day at the new location is Friday, May 23.

Carlton started in 1982 as a weaving studio called Woven Works. In 1987, she changed the name to Carlton Gallery and moved in the upper level of the Creekside Building that was known as The Kiln Room. Carlton stated, “After many floods, challenges with beavers, raccoons, and a leaky roof it’s a little sad to say good-by to the Creekside Building, but our move into the gallery formerly known as Antonaccio Fine Art is exciting, energizing, and exhilarating.”

Carlton wishes to thank the many artists, literally hundreds, who have helped to create, inspire and support the gallery. Over the years their fine art and contemporary crafts have graced the walls, pedestals, jewelry cases, shelves and gardens. Beginning with weavers and moving into potters, painters, sculptors and jewelry designers, Carlton has selected artists internationally, nationally, regionally and locally known for their talents and expertise in their fields.

One of the first painters to join Creekside Gallery was Warren Dennis, one of Carlton’s art professors at ASU, who still exhibits at Carlton Gallery. Some early gallery artists included Debbie Arnold, Martha Gimlin, Tim Ford, Kathryn Burrows, Wayne Trapp, Norma Murphy, James Kerr, Richard Walters, R.T. Morgan, Stoney Lamar, Bill Brown, Pat and Will Pilchard, Barbara Timberman and Gary Beecham, just to name a few.

Many of her professors from ASU besides Dennis showed their work over the years, including Noyes Capehart Long, Bill Dunlap, Marianne Suggs, Peggy Polson and Ron Propst. As a tribute to those gallery artists who have passed—Anne Wilder, Sharon Kuhne, Dean Adylott, John McLaughlin, John L. Neff, Jerry Clemons, Linda Phillips, Dorothy Williams, Joe Czarnecki, Robert Broderson, Anita Wooten, Margaret Consley and most recently, Tao Strong Stein and David McCaig,--Carlton acknowledges their gifts and the presence they had in the gallery as she says good bye to the building known as Creekside.

Gallery hours are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 11:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. The gallery location is 10 miles south of Boone and 7 miles north of Linville on Highway 105. For info, call 828-963-4288 or click to www.carltonartgallery.com.

Carlton Gallery Studio Sale May 25 and 26

After opening Carlton Gallery in its new location on Friday, May 23, Toni Carlton plans an artist studio sale at Creekside, the old location, on Sunday and Monday, May 25 and 26, Memorial Day Weekend, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Artwork from her private collection, including her grandmother Nellie Carlton’s weavings, art and weaving supplies, four-harness loom, frames, gallery display items, futons and miscellaneous furniture will be for sale. For more info, email info@carltonartgallery.com or call 828-963-4288.