Three DayTwo Night Trip Specials. Overnight Accommodations Sunday through Thursday. Day One in Brown County. Overnight lodging with baggage handling Shopping: 300 art, gift, craft shops Lunch: on your own in Nashville, IN Dinner: A wide variety of tasty entrees from which to choose at Artists Colony Inn Restaurant Entertainment: Choice of Storyteller or one of Nashvilles own musical theaters. Day Two in Brown County. Breakfast: Start the day with a hearty home-cooked breakfast in our restaurant. Park Tour: Enjoy a serene ride in beautiful Brown County State Park. Additional fee for park admission of $2.00 per person payable at park entrance; step-on guide available at additional charge Shopping 300 art, gift, craft shops Lunch on own in Nashville, IN Dinner at Artists Colony Inn Entertainment: Choice of Storyteller or one of Nashvilles own musical theaters Overnight Lodging. Day Three in Brown County. Breakfast at Inn Tour T. C. Steele State Memorial: Historic Site honoring Brown Countys most famous artist. Stroll through the gardens, view the paintings in the studio and house. Departure. Package Rates includes dinner, entertainment, overnight accommodations, breakfast, homemade pumpkin bread, shopping coupon book, and baggage handling. Includes taxes and gratuity. One Night Single Occupancy: $135.00 per person Double Occupancy: $95.00 per person. Two Night Single Occupancy: $270.00 per person Double Occupancy: $190.00 per person. For Information: Jeanne Bennett. (800) 737-0255 (812) 988-0600 jeanne@artistscolonyinn.com www.artistscolonyinn.com. Excludes holidays October. Call our sales office for a rate quote. Brown County Indiana Day Trip Specials. Enjoy your meal in our elegant gallery banquet room with a beamed ceiling and a large stone fireplace, completely surrounded by a wonderful collection of Brown County paintings. Shop until you drop as you walk out our door and over 300 art and craft shops await you. Brown County State Park Tour: Enjoy a serene ride in Brown County's beautiful State Park. Marvel at the beauty and abundant wildlife as you wind through the hills and valleys of this spectacular park. (A $2.00 per person park entrance fee will be charged as you enter park. A step-on guide can be arranged for your group's tour for an extra fee.) OR you may want to visit the T. C. Steele State Memorial honoring Brown County's most famous artist. Stroll through the restored gardens that Mrs. Steele created; view the paintings in the studio and house, and the walk along the many trails featuring native plants and wildlife. Includes tax and gratuity price based on minimum of 40 people Lunch: $12.00 per person Dinner: $17.00 per person. Artists Colony Inn Restaurant, Downtown in the heart of Nashville, Indiana Call Us: (812) 988-0600; Toll Free: (800) 370-4703; Fax: (812) 988-9023 PO Box 1099 Nashville, Indiana (IN) 47448

In the Heart of Nashville. 20 Guest Rooms, 8 with Balconies. 3 Suites with Whirlpool Baths. Telephone Color Cable TV. Handicapped Accessible Rooms. All Non-smoking Rooms. Conference Banquet Rooms. Full Baths in Each Room. Dining in Full Service Restaurant. Carriage Rides Outside our side door most times. Complimentary Pumpkin Bread. Free Gift Discount Book Weekdays. Extra Service Requests for tickets, flowers, and tee times. Please Click to Enlarge Our Photos have created furnishings for us typical of a 19th Century inn. Our guestrooms feature four poster or Shaker beds, Windsor chairs, wing back chairs, hand-stitched or early style coverlets and hand-loomed or oriental rugs. Eight of our rooms have overlooking our gardens or the village. All rooms have private baths, coffee pots, queen-size beds, and TVs. The furniture is of cherry or painted in one of the early paint colors used in the 19th century. Our suites are decorated in cherry furniture designed by. Each suite features a bedroom with one or two queen- size beds and TV. The living room has a sofa and TV with VCR-FM radio. The suite also includes a two-person whirlpool and a kitchenette with a microwave, refrigerator and a coffee maker. One suite includes a gathering room which seats fourteen people. (812) 988-0600 ~ Toll Free (800) 370-4703

Special Dinners Luncheons. Downtown Nashville Location. Attentive, Professional, Friendly Staff. Refreshing, Country Atmosphere. Meals Customized to Your Needs. Tours of Gardens Homes of Brown County. Lectures, Storytelling, Entertainment. Special Outings to Art Craft Studios, IU, Museums. Free Parking for Guests. Enjoy our charming 19th Century style Inn, located in the heart of Nashville. A full service facility, we feature 20 quaint overnight rooms with TV, telephones, voice mail, and private baths. We have 3 Executive Suites with living room, bedroom, kitchenette, and whirlpool tubs. Our largest executive suite offers a meeting area for up to 14 people. We offer a rooftop Jacuzzi, outdoor balconies, restaurant and a large comfortable banquet--meeting room with a stone hearth fireplace, complete audio visual equipment and high speed internet access. Artists Colony Inn Restaurant, Downtown in the heart of Nashville, Indiana. Call Us: (812) 988-0600; Toll Free: (800) 370-4703; Fax: (812) 988-9023. E-mail for reservations@artistscolonyinn.com. Contact Our Staff: Sales, Jeanne Bennett - Visit us online at www.artistscolonyinn.com

Within Walking Distance of Shops. Galleries in Nashville, Indiana. Dining, Banquet, Meeting Facilities. 21st Century Amenities ~ Wi-Fi. Relax in our Quaint Inn. Full Service Restaurant. Traditions of the Past. Welcome to the Artists Colony Inn located in the Center of the Village, Nashville, Brown County, Indiana. Click Here for Our Last Minute Specials!!! Since the early 1900s, Nashville and Brown County have flourished as an Art Colony. The artists were inspired by Brown Countys majestic hills, valleys, and streams. Log cabins, split rail fences, vibrant flower gardens, and the country folk added to the charm. They called this place Peaceful Valley. In the early days, the Pittman Inn was the favorite place for the artists to stay and visit with the other artists and tourists. Unfortunately, the Pittman Inn did not survive to add to our local heritage. The Artists Colony Inn was built in memory of this earlier period of our village. The Artists Colony Inn is located the center of Nashville within walking distance of 300 shops and art galleries and a short drive to the famous Brown County State Park. Relax in our quaint Inn that has combined the traditions of the past while enjoying all the amenities of the 21st Century. We are a small boutique hotel that offers a full service restaurant, Bed and Breakfast packages, corporate retreats for the business traveler, dining, banquet, and meeting facilities. We invite you visit the Colonial Craft Shop and our Art Gallery featuring the works of Frederick Rigley and the earlier artists. Things To Do in Brown County. Brown County Indiana entertainment opportunities during your stay with us range from nature hikes in the park to art gallery tours. Little Nashville has live entertainment, line dancing, country bluegrass music in many locations. You can shop till you drop, then relax in our hot tub on the roof. We hope you will come and stay with us and that you too will enjoy Peaceful Valley as the early artists and travelers did. Contact Us: Reservations - reservations@artistscolonyinn.com. Sales, Jeanne Bennett - jeanne@artistscolonyinn.com. Owners, Steve Bibianna Stutsman - bibi@artistscolonyinn.com. Owner, Mary Haller House Manager, Kathy Stringer - kathy@artistscolonyinn.com. Welcome to Artists Colony Inn. Brown County Indiana Entertainment ~ Music ~ Theatre ~ Art ~ Shopping. Artists Colony Inn Bed and Breakfast. (812) 988-0600 ~ Toll Free (800) 370-4703 ~ Fax: (812) 988-9023. PO Box 1099 Nashville, Indiana (IN) 47448 www.artistscolonyinn.com. This site designed by. Log Cabin Web Design

Special Exhibit of Brown County Historic Pottery. Brown County Historic Pottery is made by Susy ODonnell in her Nashville Brown County, Indiana studio exclusively for Artists Colony Inns Colonial Craft Shop. Vases, baskets, and salt and pepper shakers enhance the tables in the restaurant at Artists Colony Inn. Her redware is an interpretation of the Brown County Pottery and Brown County Hills Pottery that was produced in an earlier part of Nashvilles history. Each piece is made with red earthenware, either thrown or molded. Then, after applying a white slip over the piece, an intricate method of carving is used called sgrafitto, which cuts through the slip and outlines the image. The images are then hand painted with watercolors. The motifs are common to the Brown County area and consist of flowers (Cornflowers, Black Eyed Susans, Daisies, Tulips) acorns, persimmons, birds, etc. On the second firing, the glaze on the pots crackles as it cools and an aging technique finishes completes the process. The lead-free pieces are created for decorative use to inspire and are embellished with a touch of Brown County. Susy is basically self-taught, gathering information and tutelage along the way from various masters and observing historical collections in the Pennsylvania Museum of Art. Beginning in 1988, she acquired a wheel and kilns and attended classes in Bloomington, Indiana at Mullet Pottery. A member of the Bloomington Potters Coop in the early 90s, she audited ceramic classes at Indiana University with Tim Mathers, head of the Ceramics Department. In the late 90s, she took classes with master Majolica potter Susan Snyder, learning pertinent techniques relating to Brown County decoration. Many enriching visits with renowned potter, Greg Shooner gave her insight, as well as books and materials related to the field of Pennsylvania German redware. She has made and sold spongeware pottery at the Wilton Historical Society Americana Craftsmanship shows since 1994. Her interest in historic ceramic forms and her exposure to the early American pottery provided a natural evolution, as Brown County pottery involves the same clay and techniques as well as similar aesthetics. Walter and Helen Griffiths and their son, Richard moved to Brown County from Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1932. They wanted to become part of the Brown County Art Colony. Helen had studied art at the Chicago Art Institute, in Paris, France and in Munich, Germany as had some of the Brown County and Indiana artists who lived and painted the hills of Brown. Walter had been an engineer. Their son, Richard was following in his mothers footsteps and was becoming an accomplished potter. They rented three back rooms, the basement, and an outbuilding of the Bartley House located at Franklin and Van Buren Streets. That outbuilding is now Ruths Gardens where you can still see one of their firing kilns in the back of the building. Adjacent to their pottery business, they built a home that is the annex of Ruths Gardens. The business operated 12 months of the year. During the slower months of winter, they would build a surplus of pottery pieces to sell - not only to the tourists who visited Brown County, but to large department stores such as Marshall Fields, L. S. Ayres, and Founkers of Des Moines. Several small shops throughout the country sold their wares and pieces could also be found as far away as England and Germany. The Griffiths paid local residents to dig and process the gray clay from the beds of Salt Creek near Gnaw Bone. This clay proved to be very fine and in most cases equal to or better than the costly imported clay. The process to refine the clay was no easy task. First it was dug and left outside to weather. Then sand and impurities were removed by sifting it through a screen with sixteen hundred holes per square inch. Brown County clay has iron in it so when fired in the kiln, it turns a red terra cotta color. In the beginning, Mrs. Griffiths was in charge of the painting, coloring, and glazing; Mr. Griffith did the molding or carving; and Richard did the throwing of the pottery. Later as their craft became more popular, they hired and trained local residents to help them. The earliest and most notable was Claude Graham who later opened. Brown County Hills Pottery. Thelma Schrougham also learned the business and became quite artistic and proficient in the finishing and the glazing processes. Another apprentice of the Brown County Pottery in the middle 1930s was Karl Martz who opened his own studio, became quite renowned, and was head of the ceramics department of Indiana University School of Fine Arts. The variety of the articles and decorations were surprising. Some of the items made were jugs, jars, candlesticks, cups and saucers, tumblers, plates, casserole dishes, light bases, teapots, vases, hot plates, and toothpick holders. Also, figurines were done in at least fourteen different poses, and realistic fruits made of the clay such as apples, pears, bananas, and mangoes. Some of the decorations were daisies, blue bells, tulips, grapes, dogwood, and pine cones. Usually the main glaze was a cream color trimmed in blue, green, or brown. Brown County Hills Pottery also made pottery with a green and yellow ochre glaze and no decoration. Mr. and Mrs. Griffith died in 1953, but Claude Graham opened Brown County Hills Pottery who used most of the same decorations. During the latter years, they began importing the clays. Information gathered from the family was that Claude perfected the grape dogwood patterns. Other people involved in these pottery businesses were Chud Roberts and Caroyn Ondreicka, Mary Jane Terkhorn, Eva, Geneva and Iva Harden. Many local people used this pottery and they were quite proud that it was made in Brown County. A special exhibit and sale of Susys work will be on exhibit through October in both the dining room and Colonial Craft Shop of Artists Colony Inn. This exhibit will include, teapots, vases, salt and pepper shakers, bowls, mugs, jugs, flower pots, casserole dishes, and colanders with various woodland decorations. joan@artistscolonyinn.com

 Conference and meeting room
 Credit cards accepted
 Dinner may be served in the room
 Access to internet
 Smoke-free guest rooms
 Parking lot
 Private park, garden, courtyard
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 Restaurant
 Shop on premises
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