June Issue 2000
Summer House Gallery in Highlands, NC, Shows Exhibits of Glass and Paintings
South Carolina favorites, Tommy Lockart and Mark Woodham, (One Eared Cow Glass in Columbia, SC) are exhibiting for the first time in the Highlands/Cashiers area of NC. The exhibition will take place at The Summer House Gallery in Highlands from June 2 through June 11.
Lockart and Woodham are graduates of the University of South Carolina, Studio Arts Department. They opened their own studio in 1992, One Eared Cow Glass. (There is a story behind the name - check it out at www.onrearedcow.com). The artists/craftsmen use techniques and tools dating back thousands of years. Each piece of art is hand crafted from 2400° glass. Lockart and Woodham work in an almost choreographic manner to manipulate the molten glass into works of art, then sign and date each piece to assure its originality. They specialize in original, yet affordable, works of art. The exhibition will include functional pieces, as well as glass sculptures.
Rosemary Clark Stiefel will open an exhibition
of her new works at The Summer House Gallery on June 16 continuing
through July 4. The exhibition will include works in watercolors
& acrylics. She is a member of the Georgia Watercolor Society,
was a key artist with The Georgia Festival of the Arts in Italy
and has served as a consultant to several corporations on issues
of design and color. She has had commissions ranging from Chateau
Elan Winery, Sharian Rugs. Inc. to the Grace Episcopal Church
in Gainesville, GA; she has also, worked with garden designer,
Ryan Gainey, by creating garden ornament designs for the Ryan
Gainey Collection. Also in collaboration with Gainey, she
created ten watercolor paintings (one for each chapter) of his
book The Well-Set Table. Recently, Stiefel has been working
closely with the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, accepting a commission
to design a scarf (produced by "Echo Designs" of New
York) for the Gardens; and teaching classes in watercolor and
conducting workshops on "Nature as a Source for Creativity".
Reflecting upon her work, Stiefel says "The two main subject
matter sources I have used since I began drawing as a child are
architectural or botanical. Combining the two has become my main
style over the years, with an occasional reference to flight".
Stiefel has been an art activist for many years, having served on the Georgia Council of the arts, the Congressional Advisory Committee of the Arts-4th District, the Georgia Panel of Information on the Arts, the Arts Festival of Atlanta, the Southern Arts Federation, the Atlanta Boy Choir and many other boards and councils.
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