Dancing on Tabletops Studio

02/24/2025

COMING IN MARCH AND APRIL…
Some wonderful opportunities are coming to the Dancing on Tabletops studio this spring. You can indulge your creative spirit and enjoy (hopefully) the beginning of the warmer weather with knowledgeable instructors in a relaxed atmosphere. Join us!!!

March 1-2/ Pottery on the Wheel, $50
March 8/ Fun with Watercolors, $40
March 22/ Birding-Build a Bluebird Box, $45
April 5/ Animals in Leather, $45
April 12/ Mushroom Mania, $60

Detailed information can be found on the DOTTARTSTUDIO.com

01/31/2025

Local history. Local pride!

Frederick Douglas Patterson was the first African American to build motorized cars. His father, Charles Rich Patterson, a former enslaved person, created C. R. Patterson and Sons Company, located in Greenfield, Ohio. Beginning in 1865, the company built fashionable carriages. Frederick Patterson inherited the company upon the death of his father and began building motorized vehicles. The first Patterson automobile, the Patterson-Greenfield, rolled off the line on September 23, 1915. Unfortunately, Henry Ford debuted the Model T on October 1, 1908 and by that point had captured most of the American car-buying market.

Named after the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Patterson was born on September 17, 1871 in Greenfield, Ohio, the fourth of five children born to Josephine and Charles Richard. His four siblings were Mary, Catherine, Dollie, and Samuel. In 1888, Patterson attended Ohio State University where he played football and may have been the first Black player at the school on the varsity team. In his senior year, he left the university and taught school in Louisville, Kentucky for two years. His passion, however, lay in the family business so he moved home in 1897 and joined his father and brother Samuel at C.R. Patterson and Sons. When his father, the family patriarch, and head of the company died in 1910, Frederick assumed leadership of the business and began to gear up to produce the Patterson-Greenfield automobile.

The Patterson-Greenfield sold for $850 and was reputed to be a higher quality automobile than Henry Ford’s Model T, also known as a “Tin Lizzy.” The Patterson-Greenfield car had a forty horsepower Continental four-cylinder engine and reached a top speed of fifty miles per hour. Unfortunately, the Model T had cornered the automobile market. Initially, it sold for $825 in 1908 when introduced to the public, but by 1915, the year the first Patterson-Greenfield debuted, the price had decreased to $360.

From 1915 to 1920, the company produced 150 Patterson vehicles of two styles, the two-door roadster and the big four-door touring car.

01/05/2025

01/05/2025

With the holidays now behind us and looking forward to these calmer January weekends, why not sign up for a basket weaving class at the Dancing on Tabletops Studio? Cathi Friendship will be here to lead us in a basket making workshop that will introduce students to the basics of weaving and also touch on making some natural dyes. Each participant will leave with a unique basket—in plenty of time for Easter! The class is scheduled for January 11, 10:30-12:30. The cost is $40. You can sign up on the DOTTARTSTUDIO.com or through Messenger. See you there.

12/28/2024

With the holidays soon behind us, and looking forward to those calmer January weekends, why not sign up for a basket weaving class at the Dancing on Tabletops Studio? Cathi Friend will be here to lead us in a basket making workshop that will introduce students to the basics of weaving and also touch on making some natural dyes. Each participant will leave with a unique basket-just in time for Easter!! The class is scheduled for Saturday, January 11,
10:30-12:30. The cost is $40. You can sign up on the DOTTARTSTUDIO.com.

12/16/2024

Over the last year the studio has continuously offered a variety of activities to artists and fun loving ‘artists in the making’. The year ahead promises more of the same, with workshops in chair caning, basket weaving, paper making, flat nib calligraphy, felted snowmen, chair painting, macrame, playing with watercolor, and velvet/embroidered hearts to be scheduled between now and the end of March. With Christmas approaching, what a better gift than an ‘experience’ at the Dancing on Tabletops Studio? Check it out on the website Dottartstudio.com or contact me. Gift certificates are available and suitable for all of the opportunities the studio offers!!!

10/30/2024

Tonia McLanahan will be at the Dancing on Tabletops Studio on November 9 to lead a holiday door swag workshop. Get a jump on holiday decorating when you create an evergreen swag, learn to make ‘those bows’ and then add embellishments that you bring from home, all while enjoying the company of others.
(And yes, there will be snacks!!) The class will begin at 10:00 and the cost is $25. Additional swags are $10.

10/28/2024

It’s been a busy fall at the studio with Eric Salyers and Bootsie Robison teaching classes in forging and spinning. It’s fun out here at the Dancing on Tsbletops Studio—come join us sometime!!!

10/24/2024

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of spending time with my new neighbor, Bethany Curee. Bethany has a great ‘eye’, and took these awesome pictures of the studio. I just couldn’t wait to share them!!! Welcome to Greenfield Bethany and family. We’re glad you’re here!