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Meet the Artist |
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Tom Sippel is the owner
proprietor and primary craftsman/artist of Stick and Stone Studio. He received
his training at SUNY New Paltz and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston. He has been making furniture and cabinets professionally for 15 years,
and carving and making art ever since he can remember. Tom formerly worked
for Payne-Bouchier of Boston, and Tibbetts Woodworking of Windsor, Massachusetts.
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He is
also a successful sculptor, with his stone and wood sculptures regularly
presented in shows and installations around New England. A gallery of recent
sculptures is a forthcoming addition to this site. |
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Stick
and Stone Studio is located in Cummington, MA, a classic
rural New England town in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. The Studio
is on the site of the former Cummington School of the Arts. It includes a 1500
square foot studio-shop, a separate carving shed, and a few summer live-work
studios which are rented out to artists who need a rural retreat in which to
paint, write or sculpt. It also includes the main house where Tom lives with
his family. The house, also an important part of the school, was formerly the
site the Cummington Press. Now it is private, and is part of the greater Potash
Hill Community of the Arts. |
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Potash Hill Community of the Arts
is the formal name of an informal intentional community which has developed
on the site of the old arts school. It includes six private independent
households located over sixty acres.The community
represents an opportunity for individuals to share in some common objectives
while remaining independent and private. The fruits of this endeavor have
included a community garden, hiking trails, a new sauna, an outdoor sculpture
show and a concert series.
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Stick and Stone Studio is a private entity, yet it is located within this "loose
knit" community, and has contributed to many of these community projects. |
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