This site is in perpetual construction---we are always adding new gourd art and other information!
To take a look at other items for sale, just click on the mask, vessel or Kachina picture or use the menu. Please, E-mail Margaret for purchasing information.
To read another article about Margaret, see the Fountian Hills' "Let's Go" article on Margaret's gourd artwork, click here!
Upcoming Events
ART ON THE AVENUE
EVERY THURSDAY
OCT.-APRIL
12:00 NOON-5:00 P.M
AVENUE OF THE FOUNTAINS
FOUNTAIN HILLS, AZ
RIO VERDE C.C.
LADIES 18 HOLE LUNCHEON
NOVEMBER 8
FOUNTAIN HILLS GREAT FAIR
FRI., SAT., SUN.
NOVEMBER 11,12,13
I WILL BE TEACHING
TWO MASK
CLASSES AT THE
WUERTZ FESTIVAL
IN FEBRUARY
CHECK THEIR SCHEDULE
Living the gourd life: Sullivan brings her ‘girls’ to Great Fair
by Nichole Chivers
Visions of gourds keep Margaret Sullivan awake at night. When her husband takes her fishing, he sits in the boat relaxing while she hunts down rocks for her gourd art bases.She has transformed her Southwest home into a gourd art gallery.In 1998, Margaret and Fred Sullivan moved to Rio Verde with plans to retire and visit with their three daughters and grandchildren. She wanted to travel and he wanted to golf. However, her life of leisure was disrupted when Margaret stumbled upon a gourd centerpiece at a cocktail party. Fascinated, she borrowed text and books about gourds and traveled to a gourd farm in southwest Phoenix.Her daughter bought Margaret her first bag of gourds for Mother’s Day. What is it? A gourd grows in a field like a pumpkin but takes a year to harvest. At least 35 varieties of gourds exist. “What you can do to wood, you can do to a gourd,” she says. Margaret specializes in creating diverse kachina dolls, masks and gourd bowls. Boxes of bare gourds reach the ceiling of Margaret’s garage barely leaving enough room for a car. READ MORE of Take Five's interview with Margart here!
New one day classes, 5-6 people-lots of individual attention you get to pick the subject!!! (MASKS, KACHINAS, VESSELS, WOODBURNING, CARVING, ETC.) Cost is $79.00 if you bring a cleaned gourd. I'll have cleaned gourds on site for you to purchase Classes are at my Rio Verde home 9:00-4:00. Everything included except feathers, if applicable. Call 480-471-0017 or e-mail
me at MSull3519@aol.com. for questions:
Friday, October 28 - weaving class (This class is full)
Saturday, November 19
Saturday, December 10
Perfect way to get a group of friends together to work on
a project and have a fun day!!!
TEAM TEACHING WITH SHELLEY FLETCHER AT HER HOME IN LAVEEN,
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, new
MEDICINE SHIELD CLASS-These
two examples are just the beginning of what you can accomplish in this
fabulous wall hanging. We'll carve, woodburn, inlay - The possibilities are
endless!! Class is $79.00, everything included. E-mail Shelley at laveenfletcher@msn.com. or Margaret at msull3519@aol.com for more info.
TEAM TEACHING WITH PAPER CLAY ARTIST DENNIS WEBER AT THE RIO VERDE COMMUNITY CENTER. Tuesday and Wednesday, December 13 and 14. Two day class creating a clay portrait of yourself with jewelry embellishments from your mother's, aunt Sally's, or Goodwill's jewelry box!! This of clay portrait will not look anything like who you see in the mirror, rather will be a creation of who you see yourself as today in your jorney thru life. (Mine would probably be wild, long, black hair, beautiful large eyes and lips with jewels in my ears, hair, etc.!!!) This two class will be 9:00-3:00 each day, cost is $150, everything included except the jewels. You'll bring a sack lunch and drink, and the second day, wine will be provided at lunch to free those creative ideas you didn't know you possesed!! Call Margaret at 480-471-0017, or e-mail me at msull33519@aol.com for more inforation. BEGINNERS WELCOMED!!!
