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February Issue
2011
Center for Craft, Creativity &
Design in Hendersonville, NC, Exhibit on Sustainability
The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design
in Hendersonville, NC, is presenting the exhibit, WNC Models
of Sustainability in Craft Making, on view through Apr. 22,
2011. The exhibition will feature eight studio craft artists working
in residence at EnergyXchange (EE), located in Burnsville, NC,
and Jackson County Green Energy Park (JCGEP), located in Sylva,
NC.
Both EnergyXchange and Jackson County Green Energy Park are national
models that use methane gas from capped landfills along with other
alternative energy sources to fuel ceramic kilns, glass furnaces
and blacksmithing workstations as well as greenhouses. These organizations
serve as business incubators for the artists who are in residence
and for the plant growers, utilizing these renewable resources
to provide economic development as well as business learning opportunities.
The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design hopes to bring attention
to these two unique and forward-thinking organizations by providing
information on the types of renewable resources they use in the
craft studios and exhibiting works by artists who are using these
resources and processes. Craft mediums are not all inherently
"green," therefore it is important to have organizations
such as EnergyXchange and Jackson County Green Energy Park who
are focused specifically on developing green and sustainable practices,
as well as providing business models that are pertinent in the
21st century.
Artists in residence featured from JCGEP are: Clayton Hufford
(glass), Hayden Wilson (glass & metal), Julie Boisseau (mixed
media) and Laurey Masterton (glass). Artists in residence featured
from EE are: Lisa Gluckin (clay), Joy Tanner (clay), Michael Hatch
(glass), and William Baker (clay).
Hayden Wilson's cast aluminum sculptures, which were created using
the foundry at the Green Energy Park, which is possibly one of
the first methane fueled furnaces to exist. Wilson melts recycled
metal down and casts it into new forms that are abstracted and
folded. He states, "The idea of using the byproduct of our
community's waste to power the furnace to achieve this is such
an amazing idea. This furnace works as well as any I have used
over the years and I see no reason why the foundry community shouldn't
embrace this technology in the future."
From EnergyXchange, Joy Tanner creates hand built and wheel thrown
functional pottery. She is participating in a three-year residency
program at EnergyXchange and she currently focuses on the use
of the new wood kiln at EnergyXchange that was built to use the
wood waste that comes into the landfill.
Tanner incorporates subtle details that she observes in nature,
such as "the way a leaf is connected to its stem, the variation
in ripples of water, or the tones of shadows and filtered light. This
interplay between repetition and variation through the use of
line, texture and depth continually brings new discoveries to
my work in clay."
A moderated panel discussion will take place on Wednesday, Mar.
16, 2011, from 7-8pm at UNC Asheville in Owen Conference Hall
in Asheville, NC. Panel Participants are Dee Eggers, Professor
of Environmental Studies at UNCA, Dan Asher, Executive Director
of EnergyXchange, Tim Muth, Executive Director of Jackson County
Green Energy Park, Hayden Wilson, Artist in Residence at Jackson
County Green Energy Park, and William Baker, Artist in Residence
at EnergyXchange.
The mission of the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design is
to advance the understanding of craft by encouraging and supporting
research, scholarship and professional development. Visitors are
invited to walk the Perry N. Rudnick one-mile nature and public
art trail following a visit to the exhibition in the Craft Center
galleries.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call the Center at 828-890-2050 or visit (www.craftcreativitydesign.org).
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