by Carole Epp | Jan 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is a national art education
center. The School offers weekend, one- and two-week workshops for the
beginner to advanced artist, taught by national and international
practicing studio artists and university faculty. Students work and
learn in professionally equipped studios on a 14-acre residential campus
in Gatlinburg, TN. A series of weekly classes are also offered for
residents of the local community. Workshops and classes are offered in
ceramics, fiber, metals/jewelry, painting, drawing, photography, warm
glass, woodturning, woodworking, mixed media, books and paper.
Our Artists-in-Residence Program provides a supportive, stimulating
work and learning environment for five early-career artists during a
year-long residency. Conferences and symposia bring together artists,
art educators, collectors and others to work in the studios, engage in
dialogue about making art and to discuss issues and trends in the field.
The
public is welcome year-round to visit the campus and view artwork by
local, national and international artists in the School’s five
galleries, which offer a full schedule of changing exhibitions, attend
evening presentations, and visit the Artists-in-Residence studios. The
Marian Heard Library and Resource Center includes print and electronic
materials for research, and displays work from the School’s permanent
collection. The Artist Outfitters Store offers tools and supplies for
students on campus and artists in the community, as well as offering for
sale selected artwork from past Artists-in-Residence.
ArtReach, a collaboration with the Sevier County Schools, provides
nearly 1,200 students, grades 4-12, with an in-depth, full day art
workshop at Arrowmont each year.
Early registration ends FEB 1st!
for more info and to apply:
www.arrowmont.org
www.arrowmont.org/workshops-and-classes/workshops
https://arrowmont.slideroom.com/#/login
by Carole Epp | Jan 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
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| Carol Snyder |
Beyond the Brickyard—Seventh Annual Juried Exhibition
January 16–March 7, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, January 16, 6–8 pm
Bray North Gallery
Featuring artwork by Eliza
Hang Yee Au, Posey Bacopoulos, Jess Benjamin, Renee Brown, Tom Budzak,
Carolanne Currier, Forrest Sincoff Gard, Seth Green, Nathan A. Haney,
Jennifer Hansen Gard, Margaret K. Haydon, Robbie Heidinger, Lauren
Kearns, Robert Kolhouse, Justin Lambert, Clay Leonard, Chris Lively,
Chaz Martinsen, Tim Ian Mitchell, Matthew Mitros, Nick Moen and
Kathryn Adams, Stephanie Osser, Vince Palacios, Becky Pinnick, Lora
Rust, Amy Santoferraro, Thomas Schmidt and Jeffrey Stephen Miller, Carol
Snyder, Rebekah Strickland, John Utgaard, Carolyn Watkins, Eliza Weber
andWilliam Wright.
Archie Bray Website
by Carole Epp | Jan 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
January 18 to March 15, 2015
Arbor Vitae is a body of work resulting from an intensive two
years of research including artist’s residencies in Jingdezhen, China,
exploring fabric formwork at the Centre for Architectural Structures and
Technology, and experimenting with fabrication technologies at
AssentWorks in Winnipeg.
Incorporating Rapid Prototyping technologies into her work,
Grace Nickel’s
large-scale porcelain tree sculptures and installations negotiate the
relationships between the natural and the fabricated, rural and urban,
the austere and the embellished, growth and decay, and life and death.
Her newest work advances her investigations of natural forms pitted
against artificial construction and surfaces separated from and
reintegrated with forms.
Grace Nickel is a practicing ceramic artist who teaches at the University of Manitoba.
More at GraceNickel.ca, Facebook
Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
25 Caroline St. N, Waterloo, Ontario
Opening reception Sunday, January 18, 2015, 2:00 p.m.
Grace Nickel, Host, 2015. Photo by Michael Zajac.
by Carole Epp | Jan 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
ART OF CERAMICS, is a
voyage of discovery through of the world of ceramics today. A material
so fragile yet so bold, every piece an extraordinary work of art. On the
following pages you will discover different artists, who accentuate
their messages through images, transforming ceramics into a visual
identity, the objective of which is to inspire the sense of subtlety,
humour, the condemnation of aspects of the consumer society…. Amongst
those featured are Barnaby Barford, Foekje Fleur and Kate Macdowell,
Lenneke Wispelwey, Ende, Jonathan Adler and Piselli Projects, who put
their stamp on our everyday objects, introducing art into our most
habitual moments.