By Eric Saperstein on Jun 26, 2009 in Adventure Blog, Artisans' Causes | Comments Off on Eric and Teri’s Pork Slam Adventure w/ Ted Nugent – Still 2009 Fall Booking’s Left!
Eric Saperstein & Theresa Tonte stopped in for a Sunrize Safari’s Pork Slam in November of 2007, on the route back from dropping off a New Wave Gothic Table in St. Paul, MN. We both came home with wild boar over 300lbs, if you’re up for some close quarters boar hunting stop in just outside of Jackson, MI. The event includes a private acoustic concert by Ted Nugent and catered wild game feasts. Fall of 2009 is likely booking up quick, we’d suggest locking in your hunt now to avoid waiting another year.
By Eric Saperstein on Jun 23, 2009 in Affiliate Features, Artist Marketing | 3 Comments
Alice is a singer songwriter with a big dream and alot to say. Working on 5th CD with The Alice Project, writing songs for TV and film and embracing life every day:
“Lead Singer/writer/acoustic guitarist/piano… sometimes. Alice makes lyric and melodic driven acoustic/alternative/indie rock that will connect with lovers of Carole King, Aimee Mann, Suzanne Vega, Jill Sobule and John Lennon. Songs about faith, armchair warriors, love, botox, and regifting are neatly wrapped in masterful instrumentation. Alice is outspoken, funny…a master story teller…and extremely honest.” – Alice Leon – lead diva, rhythm guitar, keyboards. (Photography by Dan Komoda)
By Eric Saperstein on Jun 22, 2009 in Affiliate Features | 1 Comment
“To me, braiding a rug is a lot like painting a picture. The painter starts with a blank canvas and a palette of colors, and lets his heart and mind tell his hand what to do. The quality of the end product depends on the technical skills of the painter, but more importantly on the feeling that the painter is able to impart to the canvas…a feeling that comes from the inner self. The former can be taught, the latter is a gift. The same is true of braiding. There are certain technical skills that can be taught, but the quality of the end product depends on the creativity of the braider.” – Marge Yonda
By Eric Saperstein on Jun 20, 2009 in Affiliate Features | Comments Off on Pergamena – The Last American Parchment
Pergamena is the last active tannery producing true skin parchment in the United States as a commercial venture. There are a few individuals I’m sure, but none that we know of that are beyond home made batches used for their own purposes. Pergamena meticulously handcrafts each parchment using carefully researched ancient methods and their own modern ingenuity.
By Eric Saperstein on Jun 17, 2009 in Artist Marketing, Custom Hand Made Furniture, General Blogging, Woodcarving & Sculpture | Comments Off on What’s Your Passion? – Artistry That Goes with the Grain (Reprint)
We all want balance in our lives. Eric Saperstein (right) finds it by living in two worlds. While at MetLife, as a member of ESS Enterprise Technology Solutions, Eric is immersed in the hi-tech, highly team-oriented world of a senior software deployment engineer. But on his own time, he practices a more ageless and solitary pursuit: the fine art of hand-carved, custom-made furniture, including reproduction period furniture, original designs and antique restoration and conservation.
By Eric Saperstein on Jun 13, 2009 in Affiliate Features, Artist Marketing | Comments Off on Kagen Schaefer – Mathematics Woodworker
Kagen Schaefer: A Colorado based woodworking mathematician creates unique puzzle boxes and furniture with worldwide recognition.
By Eric Saperstein on Jun 11, 2009 in Affiliate Features, Green Topics | 1 Comment
Klise Manufacturing, Artisans of the Valley’s source for over 5,000 unique and high quality machine and hand carved wood products including moldings, corbels, appliques, rosettes, panels, columns, feet, and other unique items recently achieved their first Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) certification!
By Eric Saperstein on Jun 9, 2009 in Artist Marketing | 1 Comment
Today Artisans of the Valley formally exceeded 2,000 designer leads received through our membership in The Trade Only Design Library. As part of our ongoing marketing program we arranged for a series of Features and Showcases where TODL broadcasts information about our products and services to their entire membership of over 47,000 designers, architects, corporate purchasing agents, and concierges.
By Eric Saperstein on Jun 5, 2009 in Affiliate Features | Comments Off on Horton Brasses Launches Their New Seventh Finish!
Recently Horton Brasses announced a seventh finish available in their line of high quality reproduction furniture hardware. Six finishes has been the norm, so they decided to introduce something new, and this introduction is huge. It’s not as simple as a new product or size; instead they are offering an entirely new finish for every piece of brass hardware they make. Artisans of the Valley offers Horton Brasses hardware on all commissions and as options on their restoration projects.
By Eric Saperstein on Jun 4, 2009 in Architectural | Comments Off on Architectural Accents – Leverage Visual Appeal & Continuity in Furniture and Architecture.
Designers, home owners, builders, architects: If you’re involved in any project requiring a unique hand detailed architectural feature, Artisan of the Valley is offering a complete line of architectural products in a vast array of styles, shapes, and sizes including corbels, moldings, columns, capitals, pilasters, appliqués, rosettes. The line has been dubbed “Artisans Architecturals,” and is central to our plans to extend into new lines of business as well as new markets.
