Michael And Celia

—EVENT— We’ve been delighted to be a part of the Harker House Pop Up Winter Gallery where our furniture and sculpture—including new work—sits in conversation with a collection of pieces by four other local artists, some of whose work we’ve long admired and others we’ve been delighted to delve into for the first time. We celebrate the pop up’s closing with an event this Saturday, March 29th from 4-7pm with nibbles, wine and community. We hope you’ll consider joining us in raising a glass! Harker House 2404 Salt Point Turnpike Clinton Corners, NY Lauren Lancaster, photographer. Michael Moran & Celia Gibson, furniture makers. Richard Orient, painter & sculptor. Alison Owen, painter & ceramist. Marcie Paper, painter.

Join us at the Pop-Up Winter Gallery @ Harker House for Sunday Brunch with the Artists March 16th, 10:30 to Noon, Casual buffet of Bagel, Lox, Donuts, Coffee, Mimosas & Wine! Tickets $26. Limited space, Gallery link in Bio. Gallery Open Feb & March-Sat & Sun-Noon to 5pm. #dutchesscounty #clintoncornersny #artgallery @lrnlncstr @moranworkbench @marciepaper @alison__owen @richardorientstudio @shopcocoporter

The Pop-up Winter Gallery at Harker House opens today! Opening Reception Sat Feb 8th from 4 to 7pm. Light bites & wine. Five exciting local artists. #dutchesscounty #artgallery #clintoncornersny

Pop-up Winter Gallery @ Harker House Open Saturdays & Sundays Noon to 5pm February 8 to March 29, 2025 Join the Opening Reception: Saturday February 8th 4 to 7pm Local Artists: Photographer-Lauren Lancaster @lrnlncstr Furniture Makers-Michael Moran & Celia Gibson Moran @moranworkbench Painter- Richard Orient @richardorient Painter/ceramist-Alison Owen @alison__owen Painter- Marcie Paper @marciepaper Pop-up Winter Gallery @harker_house_wine 2404 Salt Point Turnpike, Clinton Corners, NY #dutchesscounty #artgallery #clintoncornersny

If you’re in the Hudson Valley on Saturday, join us for a holiday market! Steeped in Branchwater Farm’s spirits, we’ll be ringing in the season alongside many talented crafts folk. You’ll find our table filled with all manner of sustainable, hand crafted gifts: remnant serving boards, turned rolling pins, brass accented candlesticks & table top mirrors. A few of our small furniture pieces, tea tables in particular, will also make an appearance. We’ll hope to see you there!

Fingerhold Candlesticks… For candlelit moments as twilight envelops us and wind whips the tree’s branches. There is something magical about the pool of light cast by a long tapered candle: an inviting warmth & a feelings of welcome for these cold winter months… We are pleased the share our newest small object, asymmetric cylinders anchored with a delicate act of brass rendered in sustainable Hudson Valley Walnut. DM for details or see link in profile.

If you happen to be in the Hudson Valley tomorrow, we’re excited to be joining our friends @branchwaterfarm (among a host of other wonderful folks) with a few small and medium treats from the woodshop! We’d love to see you!

Opening Friday from 5-7pm @moranworkbench “Utility” :: Hand tools, both as implements of work and as symbols of a trade, are deeply entrenched in the physical and psychological construction of our history. Their place in our past is secure; however, their future appears less certain. Will these tools become curiosities of our collective past? In these carvings of Moran's most widely exhibited series, Utility—as a growing body of sculptures—is a depiction of objects designed for function alone. The reversal of materials is an exploration of iron and walnut: their literal strengths and weaknesses, their invested meanings. From carving each head to sand-casting each handle, this series is an homage to hand tools, their construction and function. Featured :: Walnut and Iron Trowel Wine from @grapefruitwines and snacks from @talbottandarding

Sometimes the best and most sustainable choices are the ones that are already around—and in this case have been around for quite sometime... Enter our “new” 1905 Crescent 18" jointer. Built in Leetonia, OH, and weighing in at around one ton, we are very possibly only its third home in 115 years. Starting with an educational/vocational facility in Allentown, PA, it moved to a pattern shop in the 50's, also in Allentown, where we found it. We are proud to bring this Crescent into our workshop for, what we hope is, the rest of our working lives. While the jointer is currently fully functional, we're doing a comprehensive recondition, including a new helical cutterhead, newly poured Babbitt bearings, and of course paint, re-oiling and all of the accoutrements…(there’s plenty more if any of you machine geeks are interested to hear). We're hoping with a little care it’ll be ready for another 100 years of work. Built to be used, to be fixable, and to last...and dare I say all of that with beauty cast into its curves… Welcome home.

The rain clouds are low and mottled today, bringing the season’s arboreal paint box display into moody relief—each leaf a small work of art crafted in marbled paper. As company, beside a sleeping (now suddenly curious) cat, rests my copy of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants. Have you been entranced and welcomed by her expert weaving of fact and wonder and beauty in the natural world? She puts her gimlet prose to work linguistically smoothing tangles of interconnectedness, fixing words for those fundamental and touchstone ideas which resonate with Michael & I but which we fumble to articulate. Kimmerer beautifully braids her joinings—plant listener, botany professor, indigenous woman, single mother, environmentalist… This is me thrusting this book into your hand. I implore you: read it. #robinwallkimmerer

Tomorrow we’ll be speaking about Sustainability during the @fieldandsupply all-virtual Fall Market. If you’d like to hear a few thoughts on the subject, paying particular attention to the ways it binds elements of our work together, we hope you’ll join us at our dining room table for the discussion. You’ll find us there at 12:15 sharp! Find us at on the homepage under F+S LIVE! : : 📷 by @gaylebrooker & @emmalmccann , respectively. : : #fieldandsupply

Hello good folk of Instagram! It’s been quite some time since you’ve seen us here; we are well and safe, feeling mindful of the privileges which have kept us fed, housed and able to continue working. We hope that you too are as well as possible during these harrowing days, finding joys tangled with the challenges. As I’m sure is the case for many of you, for Michael & I, it has felt pertinent in this moment to reflect on those essential tenants by which we set our course both personally & professionally. Our commitment to intersectional environmentalism feels deep and relevant as it ever has, and in this space we’d like to chart a fresh (to us) path to share those ideas & passions & reflections with you—as they exist in our own work as well as within our community, in all of the spider web beauty, nuanced particularity, ever evolving, sometimes puzzling, oftentimes surprising, lace-woven intricacy which that word—community—can contain. We hope that you might join us as we stumble through these imperfect, uncertainties together. . . . 📸 taken pre-Covid by the dear @oliviaraejames