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September Issue 2005
Upstairs Gallery in Tryon, NC, Features Penland School of Crafts
The Upstairs Gallery in Tryon, NC, is
hosting the exhibit, Penland School of Crafts: Mind, Hands,
Materials, featuring 15 resident artists and core students,
past and present, who are affiliated with the famous
teaching institution. More than 80 works of art in a variety of
mediums fill the Upstairs' spacious exhibition areas. The
exhibit opens on Sept. 8 and continues through Oct. 29, 2005.
The artists participating are: Vivian Beer (furniture), Marilyn
Brogan (textile, mixed media), Angela Bubash (jewelry), Jennifer
Bueno (glass, mixed media), Thor Bueno (glass), Kathleen Campbell
(photography), Day Dotson (jewelry), Amy Jacobs (paper, textile),
Annalisa Jensen (paper, textile), Matt Kelleher (ceramics), Robert
Levin (glass), Brian McGee (furniture), Cynthia Rohrer (prints),
Melissa Sullivan (photography), Natalie Tornatore (ceramics).
Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Founded in 1929, today the school holds classes in books and paper, clay, drawing, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking, textiles and wood. Resident artists live there for three years; core students stay for two years.
The Upstairs Gallery is excited to be introducing so many fine Penland artists to the North Carolina foothills and the upstate of South Carolina. In addition, an exhibit of contemporary Italian landscape paintings by Carol Beth Icard and Jean Stover is showing concurrently with the Penland show.
On Sept. 25 at 2pm the gallery's popular "Walk & Talk" informal tour of the art is conducted by several artists.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the gallery at 828/859-2828 or at (www.upstairsgallery.org).
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