About the Teacher Another specialty of the shop is the unique and interesting classes taught by Joanne Mitchell. She has been teaching for over 20 years and enjoys getting to know her students as she watches them learn her techniques and tips for crafting.  She has taught crafts at the Geneva Recreation Department, Joanne's Country Crafts, Tompkins County BOCES, and the Gannet School at the Rochester Museum & Science Center.  She has studied with Helen Barrick, MDA, Maxine Thomas, Ros Stallcup, Ginger Edwards MDA, Tina Sue Norris, CDA,  Brenda McPeek, CDA, Catherine Holman, Barbara Jenkins, CDA, and Kathy Owens, TDA, and many other nationally known painters and stencilers.  She is a member of the Stencil Artisans League and the National Society of Decorative Painters. Joanne is also known as Queen Mother of Joanne's Rouge Chapeau Gang, a Red Hat Chapter.  You can take a ride with her anytime in her spiffy red hat automobile!!  Raspberry Patches' Motto is:   Come to class, have fun working on a new project, learn new techniques, and meet lots of fun and interesting people! You will love the faux finished brick floor in the shop and the many painted furniture projects, theorems, scherenschnittes, and other crafts on display throughout the house and shop.

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