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Jocelynn Tice

Friday, April 5, 2013

4 Towns 4 Art Unearths Vibrant Local Arts Scene

The one-day public tour of 18 artists' home studios and workshops in Collingswood, Haddonfield, Haddon Township and Oaklyn will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

Don't look now, says Collingswood jewelry-maker Evelyn Taylor, but the noises are coming from the basement. Or the garage. Or the tool shed. Maybe even in the spare bedroom. Someone could be in there, right now, making art, and you might not even know it.  Taylor is one of the motivating forces behind 4 Towns 4 Art, a grassroots artist community tour of 18 home studio spaces in 4 neighboring towns—Collingswood, Haddonfield, Haddon Township, and Oaklyn. (For a Google Maps itinerary of the tour, click here.) Artists who work in everything from painting, fibers, ceramics, jewelry and sculpture will open their homes to the public from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 6. "We hope that people will take the day and stop at as many of the 18 …

Thursday, January 17, 2013

A Call for Artists Was No Joke in Haddon Twp.

The township will feature local artists on its calendar this year. No, really.

When Jocelynn Tice first heard of a call for artists going out in Haddon Township, she thought it was a joke. "I think it was like 12 years ago, the mayor then, Kathy Hogan, said she wanted to see how many artists were in Haddon Township and about 50 of us showed up at the library," Tice said. "I was like looking around, going, dude really, there's this many. We had no idea." "How many people have continued to paint pretty pictures since they were 5? Like three. I thought maybe five people would show up. I thought I'd just go for the joke of it. But it wasn't a joke." Tice said that's when she first met Kate Burns, who is now the director of the township's business improvement district. Burns is featuring Tice and more than a dozen other …

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