Art HooHa 2009 will feature art and fine crafts for show and sale by both professional artists and art students who have joined to schedule open studios, home shows, and special gallery hours on the same weekend.

Art HooHa is an unofficial celebration of our creative community and an opportunity to support artists while you find unique gifts for your holiday list (or for yourself). We hope you enjoy our little event and its relaxed atmosphere where you can check out both the goods and the studios, nibble on some cheese, shop for presents and have fun. Bring your friends.

This year the artists of Art HooHa 2009 will be raffling off a fabulous art-ful gift bundle of delight worth over $500 (it's at Heartland Gallery right now if you want to see it). 100% of the proceeds will be donated to A Woman's Place. Tickets will be $1 each or 6 for $5 (or 12 for $10... you get the idea) and will be available at most of the Art HooHa locations throughout the weekend. Tickets will also be available at Furniture Lounge, Heartland Gallery and Beads N Botanicals throughout the week. The drawing will be held Sunday Dec 6th at 4:00pm. You do not need to be present to win -- but you do need to buy a ticket! (more info)

Hooey Batiks Open House
(with studio in basement) 
905 South Lynn Street, Urbana
(217) 344-7637
• Jill Miller / Hooey Batiks - Batiked clothing, pillows, scarves 
• Deborah Fell - Art quilts, hand-dyed clothing, fiber items, silk scarves and mini art pieces
• Gina Manola, CALICO - Game developer and creator of Notable Novelists of the 20th Century™, A fun, strategy-based card game anyone can play! It's the perfect stocking stuffer and all around cool prop for your home.
• Gifted/Tera Miller - handmade items collected from gifted artisans around the country.
• Angie Heaton - HOOTENANGIE - hipster leather cuffs made from recycled belts, groovy shopping bags.
• Shirley Kramer/Double Dog Designs - terra cotta ceramics and ceramic scupture

Firefly Jewels Open House
*Saturday and Sunday only*
712 South Maple Street, Urbana
• Firefly Jewels/Athan Chilton - Glass beads and little jewelry
• Chilton Designs/Geoff Chilton - welded metal sculpture and lanterns
• Julie Watkins/Garnets and Glass - jewelry
• Tammy Soper - crocheted/beaded wire jewelry

Wild Wimmin Craft Collective
*Friday and Saturday only*
709 South Webber Street, Urbana
(217) 390-7998
• Wild Wimmin Craft Collective - shrines, assemblage art, alternative wreaths, and other beaded/bejeweled baubles & whimsies

Griggs Street Potters
(Gallery and Studio)
305 West Griggs Street, Urbana
344-8546
• pots by Charlene Anchor, Betsey Cronan, Ingrid Melief and Reni Franciscono

Heartland Gallery
112 West Main Street, Urbana
(217) 337-4767
heartland-gallery@comcast.net
• Featuring art and fine crafts from the Celtic lands, traditional Indian and Latin American folk art from Kalarte Gallery and the work of over 35 local artists.
(Heartland Gallery web site)

Furniture Lounge Consignment Gallery
126 West Main Street, Urbana
(217) 344-1500
Furniture Lounge Consignment Gallery - specializing in 20th Century furniture and decorative arts. We offer an eclectic selection of styles from 50's Atomic and Danish Modern to Early 1900's Antiques and quality Traditional.
• Featuring artwork by Patrick Harness