More than 35 artists will show their work at 19 locations in Warren County this weekend at the World’s Greatest Studio Tour and Art Sale.

The event will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in various locations in Bowling Green and Alvaton. A portion of the artwork sales will benefit visual arts in the community. Admission is free.

The tour and sale started about 12 years ago after local artists Marsha Heidbrink and Delaire Rowe saw a similar one during a trip to Santa Fe, N.M., and brought the concept back to Bowling Green.

“We thought it was something other people would like,” Heidbrink said. “Bowling Green has some wonderful artists – a very creative, vibrant arts community.”

Heidbrink said she will have a variety of abstracts, marker pieces and small watercolors.

“I had to go through several bouquets of flowers,” she said, laughing about her watercolor work. “They don’t wait on you.”

She also will have small square drawings, which involve tearing big sheets of paper into small squares that can be worked on in your lap. Heidbrink said she drew her inspiration from pioneer women, who often had to do artwork such as quilts on bumpy roads.

“If they can do that, surely I can sit in the luxury of my home and do that,” she said.

Local jewelry maker Mildred Wallace is taking her first turn as an artist in the show at the encouragement of her friends. A retired Western Kentucky University professor, she has been making jewelry for 10 years. She uses sterling, gem stones, Swarvorski crystals and freshwater pearls in her craft. She likes to do jewelry for special occasions.

“All of it is original design and handmade,” she said.

She prefers people to bring pieces of clothing so she can make jewelry to match it. Wallace remembers how she used to spend hours trying to match her jewelry with her outfit before she started custom-making things to match.

“People say ‘How in the world did you get jewelry to match your outfit?’ ” she said.

Wallace became interested in making jewelry after becoming friends with a woman who had an art degree and was a jewelry maker. When her friend retired, she moved to Reno, Nev.

“I used to go visit her,” she said. “She taught me a lot about jewelry making.”

When her friend died suddenly, she left Wallace her materials. Wallace named her jewelry-making endeavor “Cosette Designs.”

“I named it in honor of my friend,” she said.

Local sculptor Donnie Firkins is in his fourth year in the tour and sale. He plans to show a bronze piece, a stainless steel piece, a copper table with a bottom that has been blacksmithed and carved stone. One piece he is bringing from his show at Magpie Etc., A Gallery of Sorts, in Nashville.

“I make pieces for this show and combine them with pieces I have already made or that have been in other shows,” he said. “I use whatever I’m interested in at that time (for inspiration). It may be a form, a style or a subject that I may have feelings for.”

Artists will be at the following locations:

• Capitol Arts Alliance, 416 E. Main Ave.

Phillip Holder – wall treatments, murals, drawings, acrylic paintings

David Lenoir – woodworking: turned wine stoppers, bowls, weed jars

Kristina Arnold – glass and jewelry

Charles Hurst – metalsmithing

Claude and Lynn Robertson – oils, pastels, mixed media

Laura McGee – hand-painted original silk scarves and wall hangings, silk painting demonstration

• 408 1/2 E. Main Ave., above Morris Jewelry

Alice Gatewood Waddell – paintings, mixed media and jewelry

• Pushin Building Artists’ Studios, 400 E. Main Ave.

Angie Alexieff – oil/acrylic on canvas/burlap, floor paintings, exuberated furniture and commissions

• The Pots Place Studio and Gallery, 428 E. Main Ave.

Mary Hooper Hirst – ceramics

Helen Hooper Hirst – ceramics

Bob Brigl – ceramics

Laura Bain-Selbo – ceramics

• Micki’s on Main, 440 Main Ave.

Misha Ambrosia – watercolors, acrylics, drawings, prints, notecards and more

This location will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

• The Gallery at 916, 916 State St.

Debby Modlin – Australian Swarvorski crystal and cane beaded jewelry

Rhonda Smith – oil paintings

• 663 Huntington

David Jones – drawings, paintings, murals

Kim Jones – hand-woven fiber art, paintings, mixed media

Jacqui A. Lubbers – hand-woven wall hangings, table coverings, scarves

• VSA Arts of Kentucky Gallery, 515 E. 10th Ave.

Delaire Rowe – painting, mixed media, notecards and prints

• Memphis Marsha’s Art Gallery & Classes, 524 E. 12th Ave.

Tom Poole – watermedia

Marsha Heidbrink – drawing, painting, jewelry, notecards

Lynne Ferguson – oil painting, acrylic painting, collage, watercolor, mixed media

• Rickman Pottery, 1121 E. 14th Ave.

Mitchell Rickman – functional stoneware pottery including place settings, casseroles, pitchers, bowls, mugs and more

• Satterfield Law Firm, 313 E. 10th Ave.

Mildred Wallace – “Cosette Designs” by Millie, unusual handcrafted jewelry using precious metals, semiprecious gemstones, freshwater pearls and Austrian crystals

• The Depot, 401 Kentucky St.

Donnie Firkins – sculpture in bronze and wood

Patricia Ritter – fine art in watercolors, pastels, photography, limited edition prints and notecards

Gary Cooper – fine woodworking from selected Kentucky woods, including boxes, office and home accessories, lamps and furniture

Gayle Novick – handmade jewelry, art prints and notecards

Jennifer and Jesse Ray Sims – works on paper and paintings

Tallon Chalmers – mixed media

Susan Lackey – handmade jewelry

• 440 Claremoor

Helen Crocker – watermedia

• 2727 Apache

Nell Peperis – oil paintings and watercolor

• 2831 Palisades Court

Glenda Hepp – jewelry using gemstones, metals, crystals and glass beads

• 285 Bent Creek Drive

Linda Stephens – bead art, beaded necklaces, bracelets and earrings

This location will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

• 4089 Cemetery Road

Colleen Hathaway – quilt artist

• Studio G, 128 H.E. Johnson Road

Karen Genter – paintings, watercolors, photography, pottery, woodblock printing, notecards, computer generated art, stained glass and wood works

• 1909 Lyda Ave.

Kay Zoretic – hand-forged silver jewelry of all types in various stages of completion; some pieces can be hand stamped and personalized on site