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Janaury Issue 2003
The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design in Hendersonville, NC, Features Works Which are Mountain Inspired
The mountains of Western North Carolina, with its rolling hills and lush blanket of trees, provide a great source of inspiration to many. Perhaps that is why we have the fourth largest concentration of craft artists in the country living in this area. People creating beautiful works which speak to the beauty of their surroundings. In celebration of works of this nature, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design in Hendersonville, NC, proudly announces its first exhibition of 2003, Mountain Inspired. The exhibition will be on view from Jan. 10 through Mar. 28, 2003.
This exhibition, of work by artists includes
works by the finest regional craftsmen with faculty and three
students from Appalachian State University. The array of
media includes glass works, fiber, jewelry, and printmaking.
Artists featured in the exhibition include: Stanley Mace Andersen,
Mary Babcock, Mollie Doctrow, Sondra Dorn, Miyuki Imai, Murray
Johnston, Martha Matthews, John Nygren, Bernie Rowell, and Molly
Sharp. The Art Department of Appalachian State University has
selected three students to participate in this exhibition including:
Jennifer Barron, Benjamin Carter, and Christopher Lane Davenport.
Stanley Mace
Andersen
Stanley Mace Andersen lives in Bakersville, NC. He has been working in clay for over twenty years, making utilitarian ware for the kitchen and table. Anderson uses the majolica technique in order to decorate his pots.
Mary Babcock is an Assistant Professor of Fibers at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. She has recently moved to this area from the Arizona desert. Babcock is "reminded here of the beauty of impermanence, nature's echoes of time passing, the cool stillness of death, and the promise of re-emergence."
Mollie Doctrow
Mollie Doctrow is an Assistant Professor of Art at Brevard College in Brevard, NC. Her woodcuts are made from sketches she makes on location while communing with nature. "Native habitats, the plants, insects, animals, and rocks that are unique to a particular place, are the subject of my artwork," says Doctrow.
Sondra Dorn has been a resident artist at the Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC, and at the Arrowmont School of Craft in Gatlinburg, TN. Her work is in the collections of the Westin Hotel (NC), the Hyatt Hotel-Penns Landing (PA) and the Moheganson Casino Resort (CT).
Miyuki Imai
Miyuki Imai, originally from Tokyo, Japan,
is a resident at Penland School of Crafts. She has earned
a BFA in textile design from the Musashino Art University, Tokyo
and an MFA in fibers from Arizona State University, Tempe.
Murray Johnston is from Birmingham, AL, where she has a studio
in her home. She taught herself how to quilt after being
inspired by a Smithsonian exhibition of contemporary quilts in
1980. Johnston's arts quilts can be seen both in the Blue
Spiral 1 Gallery, and the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway,
both in Asheville, NC.
Martha Matthews graduated from Mary Baldwin
College in Staunton, VA, with a BA in Art History and Painting,
attended the Art Students League in New York City, and has been
weaving for 27 years. Her realistic and figurative tapestries
have been in invitational and juried exhibitions in the US, Canada
and Kenya and have appeared in various magazines, as well as several
books on fiber art.
John Nygren and his wife/partner Sharon live in Walnut Cove, NC,
where he has a studio. An accomplished and widely collected artist,
Nygren has used the technique of lampworking and flameworking
on hot glass since 1972. A love of nature, form, and color informs
all of his work. He is passionate about ecology and the environment,
and has always worked with recycled container glass.
Bernie Rowell
Bernie Rowell lives in Asheville, NC, where she maintains a working studio. "In the mountains of Western North Carolina beautiful landscape and nature predominates. Patterns of light on the Pisgah Range, the diversity of trees and plants, and seasonal changes all bring inspiration for my art. My current series of painted landscape quilts represents a synthesis of twenty years of making fiber art," says Rowell.
Molly Sharp is a jeweler who lives and works in Flat Rock, NC. She is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, and has exhibited in the Guild's fairs and in American Craft Council shows.
The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design is a regional inter-institutional Center of The University of North Carolina. Their mission is to support, advance and integrate craft, creativity and design into lifelong learning and solutions for the community through research, education and community collaboration.
The Center will be holding Tea Time Talks on Jan. 28, Feb. 25, and Mar. 18, 2003 at 2 pm. This exhibition is co-sponsored by the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy, (www.main.nc.us/clmc).
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Gallery listings, call the Center at 828/890-2050 or visit their
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