http://valfa.com Nobody can tell when a tradition begins, but hundreds of families have started with Vaillancourt Chalkware. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:29:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://valfa.com/2011/salisbury-mansion-at-christmas/ http://valfa.com/2011/salisbury-mansion-at-christmas/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:38:23 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=2804 Once the home to one of Worcester County’s wealthiest families, the Salisbury Mansion has been restored and furnished based on surviving architectural evidence, information found in the voluminous family papers and manuscript collections, and is Worcester’s only historic house museum. Each year, in celebration of the Holidays, the Salisbury Mansion, as part of the Worcester [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2011/salisbury-mansion-at-christmas/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2011/blackstone-area-students-illustrate-a-christmas-carol/ http://valfa.com/2011/blackstone-area-students-illustrate-a-christmas-carol/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:30:05 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=2730 In honor of the presentation of “A Christmas Carol” performed by the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens, Vaillancourt Folk Art has held an illustration contest open to High School and Middle School students in the Blackstone Valley area. The theme of the work needed to be a scene from “ A Christmas Carol”. The medium [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2011/blackstone-area-students-illustrate-a-christmas-carol/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2011/introducing-the-24kt-gold-finished-interlocking-santa-ornament/ http://valfa.com/2011/introducing-the-24kt-gold-finished-interlocking-santa-ornament/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:13:42 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=2699 Since 1984, Vaillancourt Folk Art has created high quality, hand-painted Christmas collectibles from their Sutton, Massachusetts studios. With a focus on “Made in America,” including their 2004 line of an Et Cetera featuring Maine and Virginia companies, Vaillancourt Folk Art has teamed up with Massachusetts’ Photofabrication Engineering, Inc. (“PEI”) to unveil an elegant interlocked, 24kt [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2011/introducing-the-24kt-gold-finished-interlocking-santa-ornament/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2011/hallow-wine-pairing-to-benefit-to-sutton-food-pantry/ http://valfa.com/2011/hallow-wine-pairing-to-benefit-to-sutton-food-pantry/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:16:35 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=2543 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHOCOLATE AND “HALLOW”WINE TASTINGPortion of ticket sales benefit to Sutton Food Pantry On Friday evening September 16th , from 5 to 8 pm,Vaillancourt Folk Art will host a Chocolate and Hallow-Wine Tasting.  The pairing of chocolate and wine is a wonderful indulgence, made even better when it will benefit the Sutton Food [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2011/hallow-wine-pairing-to-benefit-to-sutton-food-pantry/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2011/best-of-show/ http://valfa.com/2011/best-of-show/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:43:05 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=2504 Since returning to the retail show circuit in 2008, Vaillancourt Folk Art has truly enjoyed the summer show on Nantucket that benefits the early education group “Small Friends on Nantucket” called the “Event Under The Tent.” The show, which lasts from the preview party on Thursday night through Sunday afternoon displays some great artists, both [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2011/best-of-show/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2011/new-starlight-fun-center/ http://valfa.com/2011/new-starlight-fun-center/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 19:10:39 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=2389 Vaillancourt Folk Art is proud to have worked with the George A. Ramlose Foundation in the release of the newest Fun Center for the Starlight Foundation of New England at UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center. Robert Wing, the Director of Child Life Services at Umass Memorial Children’s Medical Center, along with Jonelle Prill-Tate, the Community [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2011/new-starlight-fun-center/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2011/5-year-lease-signed/ http://valfa.com/2011/5-year-lease-signed/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:27:13 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=2071 Vaillancourt Folk Art is happy to announce that it has renewed their lease for 5-years keeping their Gallery, Studio, and Museum at the Sutton, MA Manchaug Mills. The nationally recognized Christmas studios moved to their current location in 2007 after moving from an 1800s Farmhouse located in Sutton on Armsby Road. The current space where [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2011/5-year-lease-signed/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2011/enewsletter-combined-with-new-traditions-groupings-perfect-fit-for-vaillancourt-folk-art/ http://valfa.com/2011/enewsletter-combined-with-new-traditions-groupings-perfect-fit-for-vaillancourt-folk-art/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:05:57 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=2063 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Family traditions made one step easier to start and complete Sutton, Massachusetts – April 4, 2011 – When entering the spring and summer months, many do not think about family owned Vaillancourt Folk Art who has made a name for themselves nationally in the Christmas industry. This is changing with the introduction [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2011/enewsletter-combined-with-new-traditions-groupings-perfect-fit-for-vaillancourt-folk-art/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2011/connie-porcher-headlines-lecture-series/ http://valfa.com/2011/connie-porcher-headlines-lecture-series/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:34:23 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=2041 Collector’s Weekend lectures serve multiple purposes; the primary being is offering some outside perspective from industry leaders. This year when we wanted to focus on ornaments there was no better person to ask than Connie Porcher, the publisher and editor of the nationally known ornament magazine Celebrate365. Having started her magazine in 1999 to focus [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2011/connie-porcher-headlines-lecture-series/feed/ 0 http://valfa.com/2011/american-pickers/ http://valfa.com/2011/american-pickers/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:55:02 +0000 Vaillancourt Folk Art http://valfa.com/?p=1839 First aired on January 24th, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz asked Vaillancourt Folk Art to provide a contemporary Chalkware piece from America’s original chalkware studios to show on the History Channel! They chose the custom made and painted Abraham Lincoln piece which is shown, along with a tid-bit of information on chalkware, within the first [...]]]> http://valfa.com/2011/american-pickers/feed/ 0