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By Kimberly Young

tillet-feature-article-logo.jpgWalking into Tillett Gardens, you can immediately feel the creativity flowing and pumping through the air. The brightly colored buildings, beautiful vegetation and rascally iguanas seem to draw you in. Around every corner there is another shop or studio with imaginative treasures and gems. It is hard to believe that Tillett Gardens will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary.

Jim and Rhoda Tillett moved to St. Thomas in 1959 and converted an old Danish farm of cowsheds and barns, with no electricity or running water, into what Jim called "a peaceful sanctuary of creativity and wonderment."

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native-arts-cooperative-interior.jpgAcross from Vendor's Plaza, a bright blue building welcomes visitors and longtime residents to the Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative.

The Welcome Center is a perfect fit for the Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative, which has long been a favorite of locals and visitors searching for that perfect, authentic flavor of the island. Locally handmade hot sauces, crafts, dolls, jewelry, soaps, sculptures and paintings are available, as well as writings and music penned and recorded by local artists.

Stop by the new Welcome Center and the Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative next time you are downtown and see the results of vision and cooperation. For more information call the Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative: 777-1153.

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Island Art Directory:
  • Art / Made in the Islands
  • Tillett Gardens Celebrates 50 Years!
  • The VI Welcome Center and Native Arts and Crafts Cooperative

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