The June Artisan Trail Tour is a 3-day tour featuring over 45 sites across Floyd County area with activities at artisan home studios; galleries and shops; wineries; farms and farm markets; and restaurant and lodging sites.

Site activities include the sales and exhibit of fine art, hand-craft and farm products; classes and demonstrations, and talks at sites throughout the county.

Some sites will offer specials to tour visitors with discounts or complementary items.  Demonstrations and talks include paper-making, furniture-making, pottery, patchwork quilting, wax batik, woodworking, blacksmithing, painting, coffee roasting, medicinal herbs growing and use, alpaca ownership & products, honeybees, and more. 

  A staffed information table at the downtown Community Market Pavilion will remain open throughout the tour to provide a town location for information, brochure and map, and updated daily schedule. 

             2013

   Tour Hours

Friday, June 14, 10am-5pm

Saturday, June 15,

          10am-5pm

Sunday, June 16    12-5pm 

Tour Schedule Page

  for  listings of Special activities -    demos, classes, talks - at sites for June  Tour. 

 Tour Artists listing

    & Map page

 For list of participants, contact info, map & June Tour general site information.

Participating Artists &  Businesses

     for 2013 include: 

Pottery & Ceramics:   Frog Hollow Pottery /Ron & Susan Sutterer,

Sarah McCarthy,  Ellen Shankin, Tom Phelps, Andrea Denniston,

Seth Guzovsky, Wendy Wren

Woodworkers & Furniture: Brad Warstler, Bill & Corinne Graefe, Swede McBroom, Ernest Bryant.

Fabric & Fiber: Jenna Pynn, Alice Walker,

Jewelry: Maureen Hearn, Anne Armistead

Fine Artists: Karen Sewell, Joli Ayn Wood, Gretchen St. Lawrence

Photographery/Papermaker: Gibby Waitzkin

Femo Clay artist: Teri Walters 

(as well as many other artisans represented at participating galleries)

GALLERIES & SHOPS:

Bell Gallery and Garden, Troika Contemporary Crafts Gallery, New Mountain Mercantile,

Floyd Arts Association, The Jacksonville Center for the Arts, The Jax Galleria,  Over the Moon Gallery,

The Floyd Artisan Market, Jeanie O'Neill Gallery & Boutique, Woolly Jumper Yarn Shop 

FARMS & FARM MARKETS/SHOPS: 

Floyd Farmers Market, Republic of Floyd, Ocotilla's Mountainside Alpacas, 

Harvest Moon, Riverstone Farm, Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary, 

Heaven & Earth Medicinal Herb Gardens at Blue Ridge Center for Chinese Medicine, Specialty Herb Garden Design

EAT & DRINK:

Natasha's Cafe, Mickey G's Bistro & Pizzeria, Dogtown Roadhouse, Oddfella's Cantina & Tapas Bar, 

Red Rooster Coffee Roaster & Black Water Loft, Tuggles Gap Restaurant and Motel,

Woodberry Inn Restaurant & Bar, Hotel Floyd, Ambrosia Farm B&B, 

Grateful Bread Bakery & Artist Garden, Historic Pine Tavern

The Tour is being facilitated by the community organization SustainFloyd as part of their goal to help create a

local sustainable economy based on local assets.