Acorn Studio

SHARED METALWORKING STUDIO

Acorn Studio is a work-only studio attached to the metal studios Hickory & Chestnut. Spanning about 200sq feet, it has an exterior door, is heated by a wood stove (wood for heating to be purchased by tenant), access to a shared shop bathroom, and has access to fresh raspberries during the summer months.

This studio is ideal for a metal worker, welder, fabricator or machinist. It shares a roof and doors with multiple other metal artisans, and tool sharing and collaboration is common.

**Please NOTE, because this studio is attached to active metal working shops, any pursuits in this area will have some degree of impact with metal dust from adjoining studios. This studio is also heated by woodstove with no back-up heat source, so is not a good studio for any materials that cannot freeze and thaw during winter).

BASE RENT - $275/month; UTILITIES - $50/month

Utilities include: electric, internet, snow removal & lawn care (tenant must provide their own cut wood for heating in the woodstove)

17 minute drive from Ithaca.
12 minute drive from Trumansburg.
15 minute drive from Hector/Burdett.
**We are not on or near a bus line, you must have your own vehicle.

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Built by Chris Langenberg in the early 2010s as an addition to the famed Durand’s Forge. The space is managed by ARQtist Chris Langenberg.

The Metal Shops a.k.a. “The Nut House” include Black Walnut, Hickory, Chestnut, and Acorn spaces.

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MEMORIES OF ACORN

  • David Van Nostrand mowing the apple orchard in 1993 or 1994. You can see the Black Walnut space behind the apple tree. The dark rectangle to the right of the telephone pole shows the "lean-to" which became the Chestnut and Acorn spaces.

  • Crowd dancing in the Acorn Studio to Ariel Arbisser Band. February 2025. Photograph by Michael Smith

  • Crowd dancing to Ariel Arbisser Band. February 2025. Photograph by Michael Smith.

  • Ariel Arbisser performing in Acorn Studio. February 2025. Photograph by Michael Smith.

ARQTISTS IN THIS SPACE OVER THE YEARS

  • Welding and fabrication by Chris Langenberg

  • Wrought iron and metal work by David Parker.

“Take me to the moon” forged iron rocket by Durand Van Doren. Built and painted in the 2010s. Picture taken in 2021.