Art Tiles are made by Janice Walrafen in her studio located at AllTogetherNow! Community Arts Center in East Montpelier Vermont. The studio and the beautiful 1800’s farmhouse is powered by the sun with photovoltaic solar trackers and back-up batteries.
Janice began making tiles in the early 1990’s inspired by the beauty of nature and the desire to bring this beauty into peoples homes through decorative tile.
Creating original designs and creating molds of them, Janice hand presses, carefully dries, fires and glazes each tile, creating multiple yet unique tiles. She also creates one-of a-kind artistic murals and Custom Design murals.
Additionally, Janice creates sculptures, vessels, and masks using slab technique.
You can purchase her work at:
- Capital City Farmer’s Market in Montpelier during the summer season
- Artisan’s Gallery in Waitsfield VT
- NEK Artisans Guild in St Johnsbury VT
You can also purchase tile or commission a custom design mural, directly from Janice at the Contact/Order page.
Bio: Janice was raised in the Sonoran Desert of Central Arizona by her artist/potter mother with her two sisters. Spending her youth attending art/craft fairs and enjoying hiking and biking, she moved East to attend Antioch College in Yellow Springs Ohio in 1981, then to NYC to receive a BFA in Sculpture from the School of Visual Arts in 1986. She met Bread and Puppet Theater and also discovered the All Species Project in 1987 which brought her to Vermont and to one of her other passions, community puppet pageantry.
Check out the AllTogetherNow! website to see what additional creative projects Janice is engaged in.