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November Issue 2006
Upstairs Artspace in Tryon, NC, Offers Last Exhibits of 2006
The Upstairs Artspace in Tryon, NC, is enjoying a diversity of art forms and mediums with the exhibitions: Inside the Teacher's Studio: An Upstate Art Faculty Show and Thin Skins: On Paper, Under Wax. The exhibits continue through Dec. 9, 2006.
Inside the Teacher's Studio features nine mid-career artists who are also on the faculty of educational institutions in South Carolina's Upstate. They are Robert Chance, ceramic art, Furman University; Sydney Cross, printmaking, Clemson University; Linda McCune, drawing, Greenville Technical College-Greer; Jo Carol Mitchell-Rogers, painting, Anderson University; Teresa Prater, mixed media construction, Converse College; Joe Thompson, sculpture, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts; Jason Waggoner, sculpture, Bob Jones University; and Ann Wenz, weaving, Spartanburg Methodist College.
Thin Skins pairs works on paper with art using wax and the encaustic process to enrich visual imagery. The eight artists are Trinity Behrends, Greenville, SC; Page Davis, Tryon; Kyoko Masutani, Constance Humphries, and Heidi Zednik, Asheville, NC; Dusty Benedict, Swannanoa, NC; Felicia van Bork, Davidson, NC; and Corinne Duchesne, Burlington, Canada. A refreshing assortment of subject matter in this exhibit includes loaves of bread, barns, alphabet letters, flowers and paper dolls.
An encaustic demonstration by Dusty Benedict
is scheduled for Nov. 4, at 1pm; the program is free and open
to the public.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call the center at 828/859-2828 or at (www.upstairsartspace.org).
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