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Opening October 20th, the Arden Craft Shop Museum celebrates it’s 20th anniversary with a new exhibition Treasures of Childhood: Growing up in the Ardens!  Please join us at the opening reception starting at 1 pm where we will celebrate the experiences of growing up in the Ardens. Jackie Russell and Billy Brooks, photographer Earl Brooks, August […]

The ACSM is looking forward to welcoming visitors to the Museum on Arden Fair Day!  We will be open special hours on Saturday, August 31st from 11 AM to 5 PM. Our annual exhibition Women Artists of the Ardens 1900-1960 will on display. Additionally, Micah Altman’s beautiful lamps, shown during the Afternoon with the Artist

On August 11th, we are pleased to present another afternoon reception featuring Ardentown artist, Micah Altman. Micah’s artistry is inspired by nature and is beautiful and useful! Her artwork includes handcrafted lamps with one of a kind shades, beaded jewelry and painted jewelry hangers. This promises to be the perfect, enjoyable, relaxing, fun afternoon we’ll

The ACSM is pleased to announce a variety of special open hours for the month of June.  We will be open on Saturday afternoons from 1-3 PM in addition to our regular Sunday (1-3 PM) and Wednesday (7:30-9PM) evening hours. This is great time to stop in and see the current exhibition, Women Artists in the

In May and June, the Museum will be open on Saturdays from 1-3 pm.  Enjoy the spring season by visiting the us during this eminently walkable time of year! As the days warm up be sure to check out our exhibition “Women Artists of the Ardens: 1900-1960”. You are welcome hither!

The Arden Craft Shop Museum is home to many works of art by many different artists.  Over the next months we will be sharing works from our collection by female artists that were not able to be shown in our current exhibition. We will start with works by Katherine “Kate” “Cookie” Dolmetsch Kelly.  Cookie was

On Thursday, November 30th, the Arden Craft Shop Museum lost one of its most caring supporters. James “Jamie” Jamison passed away peacefully at his home just outside of the Ardens. For many years, Jamie was the building manager of the Arden Craft Shop Museum. As a member of the Board of the Arden Craft Shop

The new exhibition at the ACSM, Women Artists of the Ardens: 1900-1960, has so many photographs, pictures, parts, and papers, that it was hard to fit everything into the show!  The displays range from pottery to poems and from greeting cards to stained glass and it all represents work done by the women artists who

After a busy summer season, the ACSM is gearing up for the fall. We will be open with special hours during the Arden Fair from 11 AM until 4 PM. You will be able to see the exhibition which was done for the Afternoon With Artist event on August 13th. The first-ever celebration of poets

Aaron Hamburger was a long time supporter and founder of the Arden Craft Shop Museum with his wife Sally who was a founding Mother of the Museum.  The Hamburgers moved to Arden in 1968 and raised 3 daughters here Marjorie, Amy, and Julianne, and welcomed an exchange student from New Zeeland, Jenny Carr, who was