VERO BEACH — The Main Street Vero Beach (MSVB) Studios & Gallery invite you to the First Friday Gallery Stroll on Dec. 6 from 5-8 p.m. to meet their featured artist for December, Shaker style and unique wooden box maker Darrell Remole.
Galleries in the Arts District along 14th Ave. will provide refreshments and delectables and feature the creativity of numerous local artists at one of historic downtown’s regular events helping to rekindle community pride and focus on the ever more exciting downtown environment.
Mr. Remole crafts the finest quality of Shaker oval boxes and other wooden items out of cherry, maple, birdseye, and exotic woods using traditional Shaker techniques he learned from master box maker John Wilson at the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in Harrodsburg, KY.
Assembled with copper tacks and either copper or wood pegs, Darrell hand-sands and hand-rubs them with natural finish or hand-dyes them in the Shaker colors of green, blue, red, and yellow.
Unlike other box makers who make them full time, Darrell works full time as a Risk Manager for The School District of Indian River County and creates his boxes during his days off.
After starting his business Darmikk Designs in 1998, he was honored with a wholesale order of his Shaker boxes to be sold in the very gift shop at the Shaker village where he stated to his wife after his first visit that “I would love to learn how to make the boxes.”
A few of the other popular items Darrell designs that would make great Christmas gifts are sewing swing carriers, exotic wood clocks, and original U.S. Post Office lock box door banks using oak, cherry, walnut, and other types of wood.
He restores the brass P. O. Box doors and installs them in his handmade wooden banks and/or keepsake storage boxes using dovetail joints, and sometimes combining several types of wood to show off the joinery and details of the particular wood. Each of his one of a kind items is signed and numbered.
Main Street Vero Beach Studios & Gallery is a collective leasing space to artists to create, feature, and sell their work.
Artists presently include Leigh Bennett, Zentangle Meditative Drawing/Intuitive Painting; Bob “Laff” & Leslie Lafferandre, Etchings & Calligraphy; Alice McKenna, Fun Jewelry Design; Ned Noland, Old Florida Landscapes; and Sharon Wilson, Fine Jewelry Design.
Main Street Vero Beach (MSVB) is a nonprofit organization affiliated with the Florida Main Street program and is a member of The National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Nationally, Main Street’s 4 point approach of organization, promotion, design, and economic restructuring has transformed the way communities revitalize, promote, and manage their historic downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts.
Main Streets across America thrive again, living on as places of shared memory where people still come together to live, work, shop, dine, and play.
For anyone interested in becoming a featured artist in the MSVB Gallery, there will be openings beginning in February, 2014.
For more information, please email us at Info@MainStreetVeroBeach.org or visit the website at http://MainStreetVeroBeach.org/MSVBStudios.html.
For additional information, please contact Tammy Adams, Executive Director, Main Street Vero Beach, at (772) 643-6782 or by email at Info@MainStreetVeroBeach.org.
