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Sep 08, 2010
to Oct 02, 2010
09:00 AM
More Than Words will be collaborative exhibit between visual artists and writers. The opening reception will be Friday, September 10 during Gallery Crawl.
free
303 School Avenue
West Jefferson, NC
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Sep 08, 2010
to Sep 10, 2010
03:00 AM
This workshop will cover the basic fundamentals of still life painting—working with various materials, setting up a still life, lighting, composition, value, and color. The instructor will demonstrate how to create a beautiful still life painting in just a few hours. Students will begin with a simple, yet elegant setup, and move on to a more complex still life. Each session will include time for discussion and critique, with each student receiving individual guidance. This workshop is suitable for beginners to intermediate students working in oil. A recommended supply list will be provided. Lodging is available for students and their families for a modest fee.
$270 (includes lunch)
264 Trading Post Rd, Box 40
Glendale Springs, NC
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Sep 09, 2010
to Sep 09, 2010
UNC Asheville’s Craft Studies Initiative will launch the fall 2010 edition of “Meet the Maker: Conversations of Meaning with Craftspeople,” with a slide lecture by painter Robert Johnson on Thursday, September 9.
Johnson’s works vividly portray exotic landscapes from New Zealand to the Blue Ridge Mountains in a lyrical manner that dispenses with preconceived notions of the land. Johnson’s paintings are portals to a time when native flora and fauna were undisturbed by human development. His works have been exhibited by many museums including the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Chrysler Museum (VA) and the Asheville Art Museum. A mural by Johnson is also on permanent display above the reference desk at UNC Asheville’s Ramsey Library. Johnson will speak at 7:30 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Owen Conference Center, Owen Hall, third floor. This event is free and open to the public.
free
1 University Heights
Asheville, NC
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Sep 10, 2010
to Oct 08, 2010
Sandy Creek Weavers will have an Exhibiton on Campus at UNC Asheville 9/10-10/9, 2010 in the Highsmith Union Gallery. The Gallery is located on the First Floor of the Highsmith Student Union. Artists will speak Thursday, September 16th at Meet the Maker: Conversations of Meaning with Craftspeople Craft Campus lecture/workshop series in the Gallery from 7-8pm. A recception will follow from 8-9pm. The week of 9/12/2010 Sandy Creek Weavers will conduct a week long artist-in-residence weaving residency using one of their 200 year old floor looms creating a "Fabric Time Capsule" Each person who participates in a residency brings with them an item of sentimental value to be woven into a tapestry which captures their personal and communal history in a "Fabric Time Capsule". The tapestries are left on permanent display as a reminder of the life of those communities. Their work is featured in the "Carolina Living" section of the November, '07 issue of Southern Living Magazine.
Emily has studied weaving at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and at the Taos Institute of Art in New Mexico. Her prize winning work has been exhibited extensively. Her tapestries and rugs are owned by numerous private citizens and commercial enterprises. Operating in the name of Sandy Creek Weavers, her studio is located next to the Cherokee Indian Reservation.
No fee
One University Heights
Asheville, North Carolina
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Sep 11, 2010
to Sep 11, 2010
Appalachian Women's Museum
On Saturday, September 11, 2010, The Appalachian Women’s Museum, located at the Monteith Farmstead 111 Hometown Place Road Dillsboro NC, will celebrate the restoration of the farmstead’s 1908 Canning House Kitchen with the opening of the exhibit “ Women’s Work Preserving the Past Educating the Future.” The exhibit will focus on the traditional purpose of a canning house, the home preservation of food for the winter months and will be from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m..
Funding for this project is provided by grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission Gems of Appalachia: Enhancing Appalachia’s Gateways to the Blue Ridge Parkway, Jackson County N.C. Community Grant, Duke Energy, and Friends of the Appalachian Women’s Museum.
The Appalachian Women’s Museum’s mission is three-fold: to preserve and interpret the important, often undocumented, contributions of women in the cultural and natural history of the Appalachian region; to provide a forum for the understanding of historical events from the perspective of Appalachian Women; and to celebrate the variety and scope of their contributions past, present, and future.
free
111 Hometown Place Rd.
Dillsboro, NC
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Sep 11, 2010
to Sep 11, 2010
Bamboo Craft: How to Cut and splitting the Bamboo Poles.
For all craft and basket maker want to use Bamboo into Weaving Basket. Skill Level: Beginner adult. This course learn how to hold the bamboo pole while cutting with hack saw or bamboo saw. Show several kind of splitting techniques use Bamboo Knife. Practice splitting your poles different method with your Bamboo knife. Bring your hack saw and your Bamboo knife. If you don't have Bamboo knife bay purchase it from Oshima Bamboo School prior to class. Sept. 11th 9:30am-12:30pm Sat.
$65
20 Tuttle Road
Hendersonville, North Carolina
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Sep 11, 2010
to Jan 15, 2011
09:00 AM
Featuring work by members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild and their interpretation through craft of the subject, wearable art.
free
Milepost 382 Blue Ridge Parkway
Asheville, NC
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Sep 11, 2010
to Sep 12, 2010
09:00 AM
Photopolymer plates, which are sensitive to ultraviolet (UV) light, are used regularly in letterpress printing for illustration. A plate can be made by scratching a negative material with a sharp stylus; producing an illustration of one’s own design. The workshop will cover photopolymer plate development from these scratch negatives and the process of printing from them.
$153 + $35 materials fee
428 1/2 Haywood Road
West Asheville, NC
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Sep 13, 2010
to Sep 15, 2010
03:00 AM
This class will introduce the student to landscape painting in oil. The goal is not to make “perfect” paintings but to learn how to render a landscape through good color use, values and basic composition. The idea behind these goals is “premier coups” or “one-shot paintings.” The student will avoid the desire to create polished and overworked paintings and learn instead to handle paint without hesitation, to identify color relationships and strengthen the ability to really see the landscape rather than invent it. Lodging is available for students and their families for a modest fee.
$270 (includes lunch)
264 Trading Post Rd, Box 40
Glendale Springs, NC
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Sep 15, 2010
to Sep 19, 2010
Celebration of the Arts is the annual Rutherford County Visual Artists Guild exhibit and sale. This is a juried show for regional artists featuring painting, pottery, metalwork, glass, textiles, woodwork, and jewelry. Awards in two- and three-dimensional art. Juror: Connie Bostic.
free
Isothermal Comm. College
Spindale, North Carolina
