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July Issue 2004
Summit One Gallery in Highlands, NC, Expands Through Collaboration
It all started with Summit One Gallery and
Lucas Patton Design, in Highlands, NC, collaborating to create
a new destination using Chad Lucas' extraordinary talent for interior
design and Mary Adair Leslie's desire to expand Summit One Gallery
to offer functional art. The shop's emphasis is clearly on gracious
entertaining. Lucas will be offering fine furniture, lighting
and accessories for the home, while Summit One will offer everything
you need for a dinner partyall handcrafted.
In comes the Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA. With the opening
of the new Antinori Pottery Studio at the Hambidge Center a wonderful
group of ceramic artists have assembled. The ceramic artists of
the Hambidge Studio are collaborating with Summit One Gallery
to create dinnerware exclusively for Summit One Gallery. The dinnerware
series will be titled, "Sotto Voce".
The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences was founded
in 1934 and its' mission is to provide opportunities for the expansion
of creative vision. The center maintains a national and international
artists' working residency program serving artists from all fields
in an unspoiled natural setting. The Antinori Pottery Studio is
under the direction of Dawn Holder, a year round Hambidge resident.
She graduated from UGA with a BFA in Ceramics and a minor in Latin.
Before moving to Rabun Gap she was a pottery studio assistant
for two years at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center and Co-Director
of Ballroom Studios Alternative Art Space in Atlanta. Holder currently
exhibits at the Anthony Ardavin Gallery in Atlanta.
The ceramic artists collaborating on the dinnerware also include
Priscilla Flowers, Julie Hilliard, Judy Horton, Julia Mather,
Joan Sauer and Dawnell Hughlett. Each artist has their own favorite
technique and talent to give to the project.
Priscilla Flowers prefers hand building/sculptural and functional. She started ceramics under the direction of Harvey Sadow in West Palm, and has exhibited with Jackie Hill's Don't Count Your Chickens Folk Art Show.
Julie Hilliard started her pottery experience
at the John C. Campbell Folk Art School in Bryson City and has
also worked at the Warwoman Pottery in Clayton. She likes to create
functional pottery.
Judy Horton began her study of ceramics at the Sweet Earth Pottery
with Caroline Montague in Clayton and continues for the "pure
joy" of the clay.
Julia Mather prefers wheel thrown pottery and then alters her
functional, yet sculptural pieces; she says her work has a mid
and far Eastern influence. She also began at the Sweet Earth and
Warwoman Pottery.
Joan Sauer, who also began at the Warwoman Pottery, is a hand
builder which has been invaluable in making the molds for the
dinnerware.
Dawnell Hughlett likes to throw on the wheel and hand build equally.
There are many steps in creating dinnerware: the initial concept,
creating the first form (plate, bowl, etc), making sure it all
"fits" together, creating the mold, finding or creating
just the right clay and glaze; then making the actual pieces and
firing. "The teamwork involved has been amazing", says
Mary Adair Leslie. The artists created twenty glazes for me to
choose from. This is a wonderful collaboration, a win-win for
the Hambidge Center and for Summit One Gallery.
The ceramic artists of the Hambidge Studio have voted for the
Antinori Pottery Studio to keep all their profits made from the
sale of the dinnerware to buy new equipment for the studio.
Great things happen when people work togethercollaborate, cooperate,
form a partnership, alliance, association.
For more information about the Hambidge Center log onto (www.hambidge.org). Summit One Gallery and Lucas Patton Design are located in the Apple Mountain Shoppes, on the Cashiers Road, three miles from Highlands' Main Street. For further information call 828/526-2673 or 828/526-4034, or at (www.summitonegallery.com).
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