2020 WORKSHOPS
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WELCOME TO ARROWMONT IMPORTANT DATES This catalog is dedicated to Bill May. We have not previously done something of this kind but with Bill’s impending retirement, I want to AT A GLANCE recognize his contributions to Arrowmont. Bill, from all of us — Board of Governors, students, instructors, and staff, we wish you the best in your new endeavors and bestow upon you the title of Executive Director Emeritus.
“All people have the ability to be creative” Bill May, most anytime he speaks of Arrowmont. ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE APPLICATION DEADLINE These last few years at Arrowmont have been both “exciting” and challenging: February 1, 2020 • Exciting because so much has happened, from the forest fires that consumed two of our dormitories but led to the building of a new, larger, more modern and far better equipped one: EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE • Challenging as a result of a $33,000,000 comprehensive campaign containing a 2:1 challenge that has so far enabled Arrowmont to February 1, 2020 successfully raise more than $30,000,000 of that total. Registration Fee of $50 is waived for Early Registration Looking back even a little further, many predicted the demise of the school about the time we learned that we had to purchase the land that we had been on for almost 100 years. But, with a lot of help and superior leadership, we met that challenge too. WORK-STUDY APPLICATION DEADLINE None of these successes just happened. People were and are the reasons for our tenacity and determination to make all these good things March 1, 2020 happen. The combination of staff, Bill May’s leadership, and a committed Board of Governors are the principal reasons for the good fortune that has come to Arrowmont. For the past eight years with Bill at the helm, supported by a competent staff, and extraordinary donors who SCHOLARSHIP believe in the school, Arrowmont has moved into the future equipped for the challenges that lie before us. APPLICATION DEADLINE March 1, 2020 As we were planning Moving Mountains, the campaign to secure Arrowmont’s future, Bill announced that at the end of the campaign, he would retire. In anticipation of Bill’s retirement, a nationwide search was conducted for his replacement. We found that person among Please check the website Arrowmont’s student body — Jim Scarsella, a Michigan woodturner and corporate leader, was hired as deputy director. arrowmont.org for updated deadlines as some scholarships Jim has a unique set of qualifications: From his award-winning woodturner experience to his more than twenty years’ professional have a rolling deadline and management experience including building and operating an anesthesia management and clinical services company. He has expert others may re-open mid- leadership skills including finance, contracting, personnel management, and operations experience. Jim’s passion for arts and crafts and summer for Fall applications. woodworking were the reason he left his very successful business to devote himself to Arrowmont. For the past two years, Jim has worked closely with Bill May and staff, learning about Arrowmont and leading the day-to-day operations. Upon Bill’s formal retirement, ARROWMONT’S 75TH Jim will assume the executive directorship of Arrowmont. ANNIVERSARY JUBILEE — A CELEBRATION OF 75 YEARS AS The Board of Governors and staff have utmost confidence in Jim and his ability to lead Arrowmont into A SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS the future. We are all excited about the future and the opportunities and challenges it will bring. March 21, 2020
You are an important, indeed, the most important piece of the future. Arrowmont is a school and as such, UTILITARIAN CLAY VIII its students and instructors play a vital role in creating the Arrowmont experience. As you peruse this NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM — catalog and plan your summer, I encourage you to share it with your friends and family. We look forward CELEBRATE THE OBJECT to seeing you and your friends on campus this upcoming season. September 9 – 12, 2020 REGISTRATION OPENS And to Bill May from all of us, a heart-felt well-done. APRIL 1, 2020
Dr. Steven Gottlieb, President, Board of Governors
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WELCOME 1 WOOD 59
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE 4 WORKSHOP BASICS 70
TWO WEEK SESSION 6 HOUSING & MEALS 71
WEEKEND SESSION 6 REGISTRATION & WORKSHOP FEES 72
MASTER TURNING SERIES 7 SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES 74
SPECIAL TOPICS 9 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE 75
CLAY 15 GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS 76 2D ARTS: DRAWING · PAINTING · PRINTMAKING · PAPER & BOOK ARTS 27 COMMUNITY PROGRAMS 76
FIBERS · TEXTILES · BASKETS 37 ARROWMONT HISTORY 77
METALS · ENAMELS 49 2020 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
SPECIAL TOPICS CLAY 2D ARTS: DRAWING, PAINTING, PRINTMAKING, PAPER, BOOK ARTS
MARCH 26 – 29 (WEEKEND) Maureen Aderman · Janet Link · Audry Deal-McEver Lisa D. Line Joel Zachry
MAY 24 – 30 Matt Repsher · Jamie Bates Slone Kristina Arnold · Billy Renkl
MAY 31 – JUNE 6 Mallory Wetherell · Xia Zhang Greta Songe · Heinrich Toh
JUNE 7 – 13 Rebecca Hutchinson · Brenda Lichman Gary Chapman · Matt Runkle
JUNE 14 – 20 Mark Errol Ian Brownlee
JUNE 21 – 27 Mason Cooley Israel Davis · Salvador Jiménez-Flores Melissa Harshman & Casey Weldon
JUNE 28 – JULY 11 (TWO WEEKS) Bill Thomas Doug Jeppesen · Curt LaCross James Ehlers
JULY 19 – 25 Magda Gluszek · Kate Maury Hollie Chastain · Carol Weber
JULY 26 – AUGUST 1 Ana M. Lopez Thomas Lucas & David Todd Trost · Leslie Nichols Nan Smith
AUGUST 2 – 8 Paul Andrew Wandless Joseph Pintz Jodi Reeb
OCTOBER 4 – 10 Anne K. Beyer · Stephanie Lanter Christine Garvey · Gretchen Schermerhorn
OCTOBER 11 – 17 Peter Dellert Osa Atoe · Andrea Moon Susan Moss · Sarah Shebaro
OCTOBER 18 – 24 Taylor Robenalt · Bill Wilkey Daniel Essig · Stuart Kestenbaum & Susan Webster
OCTOBER 25 – 31 Elyse-Krista Mische Sandy Blain · Todd Pletcher Lindsey Meyers Carroll
NOVEMBER 1 – 7 Brett Beasley Lynn Corsi Bland · Nicole Uzzell · John David Wissler
NOVEMBER 8 – 14 Doug Lowman HP Bloomer · Matthew Dercole Rachel Simmons
NOVEMBER 15 – 21 Lynnette Hesser & Steve Loucks · Jiyoung Chung · Dietlind Vander Schaaf Lynne Hobaica 5
FIBERS · TEXTILES · BASKETS METALS · ENAMELS WOOD
Emily Nicolaides · Billy Ray Sims Emily Shaffer Janice Levi
Jim Arendt · Amy Putansu John Cogswell · Abigail Heuss Teresa Audet · Chris Hoehle
Leslie Pearson · Ann Tilley Sue Amendolara · Mi-Sook Hur Joshua Almond · Barry Gross
Crystal Gregory · Kenya Miles Julia Harrison Trent Bosch · Jackson Martin
Helen Geglio · Katie Grove · Jan Wutkowski Angela Caldwell Nicholas Flaherty · Abby Mechanic
Gasali Adeyemo · Shana Kohnstamm Emily Culver · Ricky Frank David Ellsworth
Polly Jacobs Giacchina · Aaron McIntosh · Tanya Crane Dan Tilden Kim Mirus
Margaret Leininger · Laura Mongiovi Anne Havel · Deb Karash Beth Ireland · Kimberly Winkle
Katherine Diuguid · Julia Gartrell · Joshua Shorey · James Thurman · Michael Lee Lynette Youson Umut Demirgüç Thurman
Jovencio de la Paz · Beth Hester · Jillian Moreno Jennifer Wells Daniel Clay · Avelino Samuel
Jackie Abrams· Sonya Philip Anna Johnson Wyatt Severs · Mark Sfirri
Christine Zoller Mary Hettmansperger Donna Zils Banfield · Michael Cullen
Kathryn Clark · Akemi Cohn Rachel Shimpock Michael Hosaluk · Lisa York
Lanny Bergner · Clare Verstegen Lauren McAdams Selden Sally Ault · Lindsey Mulheron Liden
Pat Hickman · JoEl Levy LoGiudice David Jones Heather Ashworth · Jim Scarsella
Joetta Maue · Lesley Patterson-Marx Tom McCarthy · Joshua Shorey Derek Weidman
Deborah Fell · Mark Hendry Rachel Kedinger Dixie Biggs & Betty Scarpino TWO WEEK SESSIONS
WEEKEND SESSION
Arrowmont’s weekend sessions are perfect for those who only have a few days but want to learn and create. They are designed to offer ample opportunity to catch up with old friends, explore different media, and interact with artists and community members. These weekend workshops offer the opportunity to take advantage of the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains and learn a new craft or hone existing skills.
MARCH 26 – 29, 2020
MAUREEN ADERMAN EMILY NICOLAIDES PMC AND FUSED GLASS JEWELRY P.10 ALL THINGS CIRCULAR WEAVING P.38
AUDRY DEAL-MCEVER EMILY SHAFFER PLAYING WITH PATTERN: CREATING ARGENTIUM SILVER FABRICATION P.50 ORNATE SURFACE DESIGNS ON CLAY P.16 TWO WEEK SESSION BILLY RAY SIMS JANICE LEVI TRADITIONAL SPLINT WOVEN In addition to one-week and weekend workshops, Arrowmont offers two-week sessions IT’S NEVER TOO EARLY FOR ORNAMENTS P.60 FISH CREEL OR PURSE BASKET P.38 for those media, techniques and projects that need more than one week to complete or to achieve proficiency. The two-week session instructors are masters in their disciplines, LISA D. LINE JOEL ZACHRY exceptional teachers, and are university professors and working professional artists. These FOLLOWING THE PATH OF LIGHT SPRING: THE ART OF NATURE P.10 workshops offer the opportunity to take advantage of Arrowmont’s location at the gateway to IN OIL PAINTING P.28 the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and to immerse yourself in a unique experience. JANET LINK EDIBLE DRAWINGS: DECORATING COOKIES P.10 JUNE 28 – JULY 11, 2020
TANYA CRANE CURT LACROSS SUSPENDED TOPOGRAPHIES IN ENAMEL P.52 CAPTURING THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN CLAY P.19
JAMES EHLERS AARON MCINTOSH EXPLORATION AND IMPRESSION P.30 QUEER STRATEGIES FOR TEXTILE THINKING P.41
POLLY JACOBS GIACCHINA KIM MIRUS THE MEETING OF FIBER WOVEN EXPLORATIONS P.41 TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS P.41 DAN TILDEN DOUG JEPPESEN EXPLORING NATURAL DESIGNS LIGHT IT UP: WOOD FIRING THE TRAIN KILN P.19 IN WOODTURNING P.62
BILL THOMAS BUILDING YOUR OWN FOX DECKED CANOE P.11 MASTER TURNING SERIES 7 7
MASTER WOODTURNING WORKSHOPS
Arrowmont launched a new Master Class series of woodturning workshops in 2019. Returning for the second year, a group of the world’s best turners and instructors will teach a new series of in-depth and creatively challenging workshops geared to the experienced turner.
TRENT BOSCH MICHAEL HOSALUK JUNE 7 – 13, 2020 OCTOBER 18 – 24, 2020 PERSONAL EXPLORATION OF TURNED DESIGN IN TURNING P.65 FORMS AND SURFACES P.61 DIXIE BIGGS & BETTY SCARPINO DAVID ELLSWORTH NOVEMBER 15 – 21, 2020 JUNE 21 – 27, 2020 WOODCARVING: POWER PLAY P.67 OPEN BOWLS TO HOLLOW FORMS P.62
AVELINO SAMUEL AUGUST 2 – 8, 2020 SPIRAL CARVED AND STRAIGHT CARVED VESSELS P.64
MARK SFIRRI OCTOBER 4 – 10, 2020 GAME HUNTING IN NORTH AMERICA P.64 “I was able to experiment, take risks, and create in a community of artists and in an atmosphere that fosters creative and critical inquiry. It was an invaluable experience that I will cherish for a lifetime.” — SARAH-ANNE MARRAFFINO, BILL GRIFFITH ART EDUCATOR FELLOW 9 9
SPECIAL TOPICS
At Arrowmont, we do our best to classify workshops by media. Increasingly, the creativity of making eludes easy classification or exists between two (or more) media. Browse through this section to find those experiences that will expand your own creativity and that push the limits of disciplinary knowledge. From boats to bicycles, cookies to craft theory — you may be surprised to find a topic that is special to you. SPECIAL TOPICS
MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND
MAUREEN ADERMAN JANET LINK JOEL ZACHRY PMC AND FUSED GLASS JEWELRY EDIBLE DRAWINGS: SPRING: THE ART OF NATURE DECORATING COOKIES During this workshop students will learn What better time than spring to ramble to work with precious metal clay (PMC) In this workshop students are introduced and enjoy the artistic wonders of landscape, which is a unique form of clay that when to the tools, materials and techniques plant life and animal diversity in the fired yields pure metal. It can be shaped by to create elaborately decorated cookies. Smokies? Students should bring to class hand or by using molds like any soft clay. Through demonstrations and practice you a camera, cell phone and sketch pad to One of its unique qualities is that it can will explore the design potential of line, record some of nature’s finest art forms be fired with small pieces of fused glass. texture, scale and color by decorating for further study that include wildflowers, Participants will begin by making multiple a series of gingerbread cookies with trees, and maybe a bear or two. You will glass cabochons and using them to create royal icing, sanding sugar and candies. learn about critters and the forest while jewelry pieces. During this course you will Discussions include drawing, design and making like-minded friends. Open to all complete multiple pieces of jewelry while planning layered compositions. Using skill levels and prepare to hike a few trails receiving personal attention and the ability only round pastry tips, participants will to see it all. COURSE FEE: $435 to work at your own pace. This class is a practice flooding, piping and embellishing great way to gain inspiration and express to become familiar with the eccentricities Joel Zachry is a noted photographer, writer, your creativity. Open to all skill levels. of the tools and medium. Students will presenter and hike leader and a retired COURSE FEE: $450 leave class with a collection of cookies and Tennessee Community College administrator the foundation necessary to continue their and biology professor. He has been with the Maureen Aderman is from Clarence, New York exploration of this unusual craft. Open to University of Tennessee National Park Service and is a full-time studio artist in East Amherst, all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $400 Smoky Mountain Field School as an instructor New York. She earned her BS in Studio Art from since 1980 and its co-director with his wife Nazareth College of Rochester and a BA and Janet Link is a full-time artist and resident since 2013. Together, they own and guide for MFA in Art Education from the State University at Anchorlight in Raleigh, North Carolina. Great Outdoors Adventure!, enjoy travel and are College at Buffalo. She has taught and assisted She has taught drawing at Louisiana State authors of Bears We’ve Met, Short Stories of classes at various art conferences and schools University, Centre College, Meredith College, Close Encounters. Zachry has hiked the 2,175 including Glass Craft and Bead Expo, Hot North Carolina State University and Penland. miles of the Appalachian Trail. Glass Horizons, Pittsburgh Glass Center and Every December she completes an edible GOWITHGOAT.COM Arrowmont. HANDMADEBYMOE.COM drawing project — a limited edition gingerbread snowflakes decorated with royal icing and sugar. JANETLINK.COM 11
JUNE 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK JUNE 28 – JULY 11 · TWO WEEKS JULY 26 – AUGUST 1 · ONE WEEK AUGUST 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK
MASON COOLEY BILL THOMAS ANA M. LOPEZ PAUL ANDREW WANDLESS BAMBOO BICYCLE WORKSHOP BUILDING YOUR OWN WHY CRAFT? MOLD MAKING: CERAMICS FOX DECKED CANOE AND MIXED-MEDIA During this workshop students will From the time of the Industrial Revolution, build a custom bamboo bicycle frame In this workshop students will construct individuals have chosen to create decorative This workshop will introduce students that they can equip to ride once all the their own fox canoe using stitch-and-glue art objects with pre-industrial materials to basic mold making, modeling and components are built. The frame is built with planks glued to length so the boat and technologies ranging from the personal casting. The focus is on making small in class. Students will need to complete can be fully assembled during class with to the political. In this workshop students molds and sprigs using a variety of the wheels, etc. at home. You will learn the paint and varnish to be completed at will explore examples of those who have approaches. During class participants the basics of frame geometry, frame size, home. The fox canoe is a decked double chosen craft and why they create it. will create plaster molds, bisque molds proper placement of bamboo poles on the paddle canoe that is paddled like a kayak Through discussion, lecture, field trips and rubber latex molds for use with clay. jig, and techniques for constructing the with a more open cockpit. The canoe (a and visual media you will learn about You will use silicone rubber molds to cast frame and final finish. The class includes 14' 7" long, 30" beam, and 80" cockpit this process. There will be no making of non-clay materials and positives will be hands-on examples of components needed weighing just over 40 pounds) is intended physical objects in conjunction with this created with clay, plasticine, chipboard and to complete building the bicycle. Open to for exploring protected waters along the class. Open to all skill levels. found objects appropriate for the different all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $675 coast, lakes, backwaters and creeks. Each COURSE FEE: $450 mold making materials. Students will also participant will leave class with their own experiment pulling forms from the molds Mason Cooley operates a woodworking studio boat and a deeper understanding of boat Ana M. Lopez is an associate professor of with casting slip, clay, white plastic, wax, in Western North Carolina where he designs construction. Please note that the boat kit Metalsmithing and Jewelry at the University of cement, paper pulp and pewter. Ceramists, and builds custom furniture. He received his and materials fee is $1485.00 to $1585.00. North Texas. She holds an MFA in Metalsmithing sculptors, 3D Design instructors and K–12 BFA and MFA from the Art Center College of No boat building experience needed. Open from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and an teachers can benefit from participation. Design in Pasadena, California. Aside from his to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $1155 MA in the History of American Decorative Arts Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 professional career, he is an avid cyclist who from The Smithsonian Associates and Parsons also explores philosophy, science and design. Bill Thomas is a designer, maker and teacher School of Design. Lopez is the author of the Paul Andrew Wandless is an artist, author, Cooley’s interdisciplinary curiosities piqued his who lives in rural Maine. He has been a reference book Metalworking Through History: educator and curator based in Chicago, Illinois. interest in building bamboo bicycle frames. self-employed custom woodworker and An Encyclopedia, as well as numerous other Wandless authored Image Transfer on Clay and BAMBOO-BIKE-BUILD.BLOGSPOT.COM boatbuilder for 40 years. He designs kayaks, scholarly articles and presentations. 500 Prints on Clay, Image & Design Transfer canoes and other small boats. Thomas teaches ANAMLOPEZ.COM Techniques. He is featured in “Fundamentals woodworking and boatbuilding in his own shop, of Screen Printing on Clay with Paul Andrew at the WoodenBoat School, Arrowmont and Wandless.” He conducts workshops in clay, across the U.S. BILLTHOMASMAKER.COM prints, sculptures, paintings and drawings. STUDIO3ARTCOMPANY.COM SPECIAL TOPICS
OCTOBER 11 – 17 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 25 – 31 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 8 – 14 · ONE WEEK
PETER DELLERT ELYSE-KRISTA MISCHE DOUG LOWMAN REUSE, RECYCLE, REGENERATE: GO BIG: FROM SKETCHBOOK HANDWOVEN CHAIR CANING SCULPTURE FROM RECYCLED TO WALL MATERIALS During this workshop students will discover In this workshop students will learn to the art and beauty of the handwoven chair The goal of this workshop is to utilize transform small drawings into large scale caning craft. In addition to helping to revive inexpensive recycled and found materials artworks. Class begins with drawing what has been called “a dying craft,” you to design and create simple sculptures and exercises followed by participants creating will rejuvenate your antique chair into an models for larger ones. Students will begin their own large canvas poster. You will honored family heirloom for your home. with drawings, then proceed to making discover various enlargement methods During class, beginners will learn the models scaled to reflect their ultimate including overhead and LED projection, seven-step traditional chair caning method sculptures. During class, armatures of old-school artograph, grid methods and while advanced students will expand their foam, wood and wire are covered along free hand. Students will become familiar knowledge with more complicated patterns, with the use of various materials including with preferred drawing and painting such as the daisy pattern. Moderate hand papier mache, plaster, cardboard, tin cans materials and will experiment with strength is required, and no recent shoulder, and found objects. Shaping and forming different masking and stenciling techniques arm, or hand injuries are recommended. these materials quickly and spontaneously, to add flare to their compositions. The class COURSE FEE: $675 participants will develop their artistic vision will culminate in creating a collaborative through simple assignments and their own mural on the Arrowmont campus. Doug Lowman lives in Telford, Tennessee where creativity. Hand tools will be used and Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 he began chair caning after retirement from the may include a bandsaw and a welder. No chemical industry. He is a member of the Seat advanced tools or techniques are required. Elyse-Krista Mische is a mixed media artist, Weavers Guild, Tennessee Craft, Overmountain Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Hospice caregiver and bird enthusiast from Weavers Guild and the Holston Valley Appleton, Wisconsin. She participates in Woodworking Club. Lowman received Educated as a biologist, Peter Dellert is a residencies nationwide and was a 2017–18 Best of Show and an Honorable Mention furniture maker, sculptor and artist living in Arrowmont Artist-in-Residence. Elyse-Krista at Tennessee Craft Exhibitions for Holyoke, Massachusetts. He has operated creates murals for Appleton businesses and his handwoven caned chairs. a woodworking business since 1983. His has ongoing large-scale collaborations with FACEBOOK.COM/APPRIDGECHAIRS work has been shown at ICFF and across Goodwill Industries of Wisconsin’s LGBTQ the U.S. Dellert has taught at Arrowmont, Youth and Neighborhood Partners. Haystack, Snow Farm and North Country LIFEPROPAGANDA.COM Studio Workshops. PETERDELLERT.COM 1313 “I had never been to Arrowmont before the Utilitarian Clay Symposium. I felt welcomed and immediately comfortable, from the very moment I arrived at Arrowmont. I am compelled to say how grateful, appreciative and downright happy I was to be a part such a special community of makers and thinkers. We all know the life of a studio potter can be quite isolating so having the opportunity to be surrounded by so much positive energy and like-mindedness was inspiring and refreshing. The future feels ripe with possibility and potential.” — DOUG PELTZMAN, UTILITARIAN CLAY VII PRESENTER 15
CLAY
Clay workshops continue to be one of Arrowmont’s most popular disciplines with 35 workshop offerings in 2020. Peruse these courses and you will be sure to feel inspired to experience wheel- throwing, handbuilding, functional and conceptual workshops with a focus on atmospheric firing, surface decoration, narrative sculpture or figurative clay. And, mark your calendars! Arrowmont hosts the eighth Utilitarian Clay VIII: Celebrate the Object National Symposium, September 9 – 12, 2020. This symposium, held every four years since 1992, enjoys a national reputation in the ceramics community. Visit Arrowmont’s website for more details.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Arrowmont hosted the 1972 NCECA Conference. An estimated 700 clay enthusiasts attended — and it snowed that spring weekend in Gatlinburg! CLAY
MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND MAY 24 – 30 · ONE WEEK MAY 24 – 30 · ONE WEEK MAY 31 – JUNE 6 · ONE WEEK
AUDRY DEAL-MCEVER MATT REPSHER JAMIE BATES SLONE MALLORY WETHERELL PLAYING WITH PATTERN: CREATING THERE’S A PATTERN HERE SCULPTING THE HUMAN FIGURE CLAY AS A CANVAS: GRAPHIC ORNATE SURFACE DESIGNS ON CLAY IMAGERY ON PORCELAIN During this workshop students will In this workshop students will learn to In this workshop students will explore develop pattern on vessel forms. Class view the human figure objectively by In this hands-on workshop students will various ways to add rich surface pattern demonstrations include wheel throwing breaking it down into parts. You will begin experiment working with two- and three- and design to clay through experiments and handbuilding techniques. Using these by sculpting the eyes, nose, mouth and ears dimensional objects. Participants begin with carving, slip application and creating techniques as a foundation, participants creating multiple tiles and small vignettes. by creating simplified functional and/ their own stamps. You will learn tricks to will experiment with pattern to create This exercise leads to creating a complete or sculptural forms made from porcelain, make the process less intimidating that multi-layered and creative surfaces. You portrait out of clay. Class discussions which will later serve as their canvas. include producing stencils and guides will then move into surface treatments include exploration of the anatomy, Then you will learn how to convert found and developing underglaze transfer paper using inlay and stencil methods with underlying bone structure, musculature, imagery into stencils to be transferred techniques. The presentation of historic colored slips on greenware. All work will expression and surface. Participants will onto bone-dry clay. Working with a and contemporary ceramics slideshows be made in cone 5 clays and be glaze fired also explore decorating their work with variety of underglaze washes allows you will provide participants with contextual using a clear glaze in the electric kilns. underglazes using airbrushes and spray to build surface to paint detailed and understanding of the many ways to use Students are encouraged to bring sketches guns. Open to all skill levels. realistic images on porcelain. Students are surface design while creating opportunities and source materials that relate to forms COURSE FEE: $600 encouraged to bring to class a variety of to discuss the elements of design. Open to and patterns. Both wheel throwing and printed images as reference during their all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 handbuilding are encouraged. Open to Jamie Bates Slone is an assistant professor work. Open to all skill levels. all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 of Ceramics at the University of Oklahoma. COURSE FEE: $600 Audry Deal-McEver is a potter from Nashville, She received her MFA from the University of Tennessee. She has a BFA in Ceramics Matt Repsher is a long-term resident at the Kansas and a BFA from the University of Central Mallory Wetherell is an associate professor from Ohio University and studied at Burg Penland School of Craft. He earned his BFA in Missouri. Her work addresses the fragility of the and head of Ceramics at the University of Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Ceramics from Pennsylvania State University human spirit during physical and mental illness. Nebraska at Kearney. She holds an MFA from Design in Halle, Germany. Her work has been in and an MFA from Indiana University. Repsher JAMIEBATESSLONE.COM the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth exhibitions as diverse as the American Museum has taught ceramics at Indiana University and and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Tyler of Ceramic Art, the Disjecta Contemporary Arts the University of New Mexico and he was a School of Art and the Archie Bray Foundation. Center, and the Nashville International Airport. resident at Pocosin Arts in 2015. In 2014, Wetherell was named an emerging Deal-McEver has taught at Middle Tennessee artist by Ceramics Monthly and she exhibits State University and at community education her work widely, with recent shows in Georgia, and workshop centers. AUDRYDEALMCEVER.COM Tennessee, California and Iowa. MALLORYWETHERELL.COM 17
MAY 31 – JUNE 6 · ONE WEEK JUNE 7 – 13 · ONE WEEK JUNE 7 – 13 · ONE WEEK
XIA ZHANG REBECCA HUTCHINSON BRENDA LICHMAN A TERRA COTTA THAT GROWS DEVELOPING PERSONAL SCULPTURAL “SLIP” INTO SODA FIRING FORM INSPIRED BY PLACE During this workshop students will During this workshop students make their own chia form using terra In this workshop students will explore will discover approaches to creating cotta. By learning and sharing tips and sculptural handbuilding skills, personal thrown and altered pottery using slip tricks in handbuilding, participants form development and the use of form techniques that enhance forms fired in will be encouraged to create their own inspiration from place. Demonstrations an atmospheric kiln. You will learn how physical terra cotta form around the idea will include clay, fiber and paper clay to alter forms by pushing, pulling and of their own mythology. During class preparation, along with fiber and clay manipulating clay while adding slip you will discover that you are a complex building techniques. Participants will decoration. The class will cover flashing creature and the sum of many things, be encouraged to develop individual slip techniques, in-depth discussions of including beliefs, visual culture and your conceptual directions exploring the the soda firing process and glazing for the surrounding environment. This class rigor of personal development and one’s soda kiln. Students should bring three to is for students with cross interests in individual voice utilizing observed local five bisque fired pots that will be glazed clay, horticulture and experimentation. form inspiration. The workshop will be and fired to cone 10 using the instructor’s Intermediate experience level is necessary. balanced between harvesting content, slip and glaze recipes and engage in the COURSE FEE: $600 demonstrations, discussions and studio loading and firing of Arrowmont’s soda construction time. Open to all skill levels. kiln. Throwing skills preferred but not Xia Zhang is a multidisciplinary artist and COURSE FEE: $600 necessary. COURSE FEE: $600 visiting assistant professor of Art at the University of Tulsa. She earned her MFA in Rebecca Hutchinson is professor of Brenda Lichman is a studio potter in Wichita, 2015 and has completed residencies with Ceramics at the University of Massachusetts, Kansas. Her work has been exhibited in Sonoma Ceramics, Vermont Studio Center, Dartmouth. Her sculptural work is shown notable exhibitions, such as the 23rd Arrowmont and The Growlery. Zhang is always across the U.S. and internationally at Strictly Functional National, 50 Women: in search of a good process and is interested museums in Taiwan, Italy and South Korea. A Celebration of Women’s Contribution to in biographical and historical narratives and In 2015, she received the “Women to Watch” Ceramics and Heartland Table, an exhibition anti-racism. XIAYZHANG.COM recognition from the National Museum of project pairing potters with chefs. Lichman’s Women in the Arts. Hutchinson has curated work has been published in Surface Design and juried exhibitions and participated for Ceramics and 500 Teapots, Volume 2. in residencies national and international BRENDALICHMANPOTTERY.COM residencies. REBECCAHUTCHINSON.COM CLAY
JUNE 14 – 20 · ONE WEEK JUNE 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK JULY 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK
MARK ERROL ISRAEL DAVIS SALVADOR JIMÉNEZ-FLORES AND CASEY WELDON CLAY POTS AND COLOR SPOTS OBJECTS AND IMAGES RASCUACHE/SOUTHERN KITSCH: NARRATIVE SCULPTURE
In this workshop students will create forms This workshop explores the potential of Incorporating personal stories, history, narrative, symbolism and found objects, this on the wheel and through handbuilding screen-printing to produce images that are workshop parallels the resourcefulness and resilience of both Rascuache and Southern- while learning ways to activate the surfaces applied onto clay objects. Students will kitsch cultures. Rascuache and Southern kitsch come with loaded histories, contradictions through a variety of techniques. You will use handbuilding and wheel-throwing and dichotomies. The goal is to reclaim, celebrate and study how these aesthetics make learn about inlay, paper transfers, paper to produce pottery and sculptural works. the most of what is available to create fine art. Students will explore various handbuilding masking, slip and underglaze layering and Screen-printed newsprint transfer methods methods, posting and stacking techniques, basic surface application, and assemblage. gain knowledge on how these decorating with slips and underglazes are covered. Through demonstrations, slides, in-class activities, readings and group discussions, this methods can join forces to bring high You will discover the necessary steps for course will be a constructive collaboration promoting a critical learning environment. impact through low-tech methods. creating imagery in Photoshop, exposing Class conversations will focus on the content and context of student work. By making Ultimately participants will add complexity screens and printing. Participants will also sculpture, students with an interest in culture, storytelling and self-identity will gain or to their work with easy-to-learn and utilize screen drawing fluid and screen filler enhance their handbuilding skills, ceramic surface techniques, and ability to design and affordable techniques. Open to all skill to produce images directly to screen. create a modular ceramic sculpture or installation. Open to all skill levels. levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 COURSE FEE: $600
Mark Errol is a full-time lecturer at Valdosta Israel Davis is an artist and educator from Salvador Jiménez-Flores is an interdisciplinary Casey Weldon is an artist and lives in Chicago State University in Georgia, where he teaches Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has taught more artist and assistant professor in Ceramics at where she teaches at Lillstreet Art Center and Ceramics and 3D Design. He is the co-owner than 40 workshops on his techniques both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In his the Chicago Ceramic Center. Her extensive art of Plough Gallery in Tifton, Georgia where nationally and internationally. Davis has been work, he explores the themes of colonization, education started at the Alabama School of exceptional craft and fine art are showcased. included in over 100 exhibitions at such venues migration, “the other,” stereotypes and Fine Arts. She earned her BFA at the School Errol is a ceramic artist who uses architecture, as the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New futurism. Jiménez-Flores is a recipient of grants of the Art Institute of Chicago where she interior design and fashion as inspiration for Orleans, and at The Society for Contemporary from the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & graduated with the James Nelson Raymond his work that is often brightly colored and Craft in Pittsburgh. His creative endeavors Sculptors and the New England Foundation for Fellowship Award. Weldon received her MFA at utilitarian. He has exhibited both nationally include new works that combine ceramics, the Arts. SALVADORJIMENEZFLORES.COM Kendall College of Art and Design with a full- and internationally. MARKSMUD.COM digital fabrication technologies and mixed ride fellowship. KCWELDON.COM media. ISRAELDAVIS.COM 19
JUNE 28 – JULY 11 · TWO WEEKS JUNE 28 – JULY 11 · TWO WEEKS JULY 19 – 25 · ONE WEEK JULY 19 – 25 · ONE WEEK
DOUG JEPPESEN CURT LACROSS MAGDA GLUSZEK KATE MAURY LIGHT IT UP: WOOD CAPTURING THE HUMAN BODY LANGUAGE ORNATE OBJECTS AND THE FIRING THE TRAIN KILN ELEMENT IN CLAY EMBELLISHED ASSEMBLAGE The body is an amazing vehicle for During this workshop students will create In this workshop students will learn emotional expression. Subtle gestures, This workshop will explore ornate their work and then fire it in Arrowmont’s about the unconventional methods they such as flexed toes or curled fingers, surface embellishment and a variety of train kiln. Through class demonstrations, can use to fabricate life-like subjects in can be used to communicate rich visual construction methods through press molds slide talks and class discussions, you will clay. Techniques covered include how to narratives. During this workshop students and slip casting. Students will create press explore the ideas of making work for a build realistic subjects through various will produce one full-figure sculpture molds from objects they bring to class as wood firing. Discussions will include glaze surface techniques. During the first week, with a solid building technique, which well as assemblages from slip cast craft and non-glaze surface treatments and participants will explore the possibilities they will learn to hollow and reassemble. molds they own. The exploration of surface strategies for placing work in the kiln for of working on an armature. Discussions Basic proportions and anatomy are through press molded textures enhances a desired outcome. Post firing treatment include anatomy, the construction process demonstrated, as are the use of a simple hand-built objects (and wheel thrown of the kiln and the work will be covered, and conceptual development. The second armature. Small maquette studies will work) and assemblages from slip casted along with the allusive idea of “making week will be spent refining your sculptures be created and used for inspiration and objects from hobby molds can be altered it” as an artist. No prior wood firing and delving into the post firing processes surface experimentation. Participants may or added to create a dynamic narrative. experience is necessary. Open to all skill to achieve strikingly cosmetic exteriors. take their finished green-ware home. Bring Participants will be encouraged to explore levels. COURSE FEE: $1050 Students will be introduced to new visual inspiration to class in the form of and improvise. Open to all skill levels. approaches on how to address surface and images or sketches. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Doug Jeppesen is an associate professor discuss working with resins and various COURSE FEE: $600 of Art at Waubonsee Community College in acrylics. Open to all skill levels. Kate Maury lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota where Sugar Grove, Illinois. He holds a BA and BFA COURSE FEE: $1050 Magda Gluszek earned an MFA from the she is a studio resident at the Northern Clay from the University of Tulsa, and an MFA from University of Florida in 2008. She lives in Center and teaches full time as a professor in Northern Illinois University. Jeppesen has Curt LaCross has a BFA from Central Michigan Lakeside, Arizona, where she is on the Art the School of Art and Design at the University presented at the International Wood Firing University and an MFA in Ceramics from faculty and is gallery director at Northland of Wisconsin-Stout. Maury received a BFA from Conference at Northern Arizona University and Michigan State University. While LaCross’ work Pioneer College. Her hikes and travels inspire the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the Second European Wood Fire Conference focuses on the external figurative form, it speaks her artwork. Gluszek has been a resident artist the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred at Guladagergaard International Ceramic of the internal human psyche. His interest grew at Arrowmont as well as in Greece, Spain and University. Her work is featured in both juried and Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark. He also after researching Carl Jung and the archetypal Italy. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally invitational shows at national and international organized and hosted the 2016 International image. He is particularly interested in the and internationally. MISSMAGDAG.COM venues and is an exploration of surface and Wood Fire Conference at Waubonsee shadow archetype and its presence in human assembled cast objects. KATEMAURY.COM Community College. DOUGJEPPESEN.COM nature. INSTAGRAM: @THEBULLDOZER CLAY
JULY 26 – AUGUST 1 · ONE WEEK JULY 26 – AUGUST 1 · ONE WEEK AUGUST 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK
THOMAS LUCAS AND DAVID TODD TROST NAN SMITH JOSEPH PINTZ PRINT AND CLAY FIGURATION: STYLE AND VOICE BISQUE MOLD BASICS
During this workshop students will experiment with drawing and printing images on In this workshop students will learn how to In this workshop students will design clay by hand using a range of techniques including screenprinting, relief and lithography. create content and drama in a sculpted self- their own bisque molds and create hand- You will utilize simple tools to develop image and text compositions on both flat and portrait. The goal is to create a resonant, built earthenware vessels with a strong curved surfaces. Using low fire clays, drawing and transfer of images through printing will anatomically correct likeness that reflects emphasis on form. The focus is on the allow for participants to create tiles, vessels and sculptural form. This can serve as a canvas style and voice. Participants begin by creative exploration of form rather than for color, shape, mark-making, photographic images and pattern. Participants will use making plaster body casts to be used as finished results. You will explore the use different clay slips, stains, and modified underglaze and glazes on mainly low-temp clay perceptual tools, along with photographs of terra sigillata and glaze on utilitarian or bodies with the firing done in electric kilns. Expect a wide range of results. Open to all and life drawings. Using various elements sculptural work and get preliminary results skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 including depth, clarity and light, students fired in the electric kiln. Participants will will use facial expression, gesture, clothing also prepare a low-temperature soda firing. Thomas Lucas is the founder and master David Todd Trost is a ceramic artist and and ornamentation to interpret personality, Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 printer of Hummingbird Press Editions and educator based in Chicago, Illinois. He is create mood and evoke content for their is an assistant professor at Chicago State the director of the Ceramics Department at sculpture. Class discussions include Joseph Pintz teaches at the University of University. He has taught at the Tyler School of Lillstreet Art Center. He received his MFA at sculpting style and narrative image Missouri in Columbia and earned his BA at Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and making. Students will depart with a solid Northwestern University and an MFA at the the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, the a BFA at Pennsylvania State University. Trost modelled sculpture, color glaze tests University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His ceramic Penland School of Craft, Arrowmont, and Ox- has spent the last 18 years teaching at various and life casts, plus an understanding of work explores the role that domestic objects bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency. Lucas universities and art centers throughout the armatures, plaster and rubber molds. Open play in fulfilling our physical and emotional has had exhibitions at Chicago State University; Chicago area. DAVIDTODDTROST.COM to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 needs. Pintz has been a resident artist at the South Side Community Art Center, Chicago; Archie Bray Foundation and the Roswell Artist- Elmhurst College; N’Namdi Contemporary, Nan Smith is a figure sculptor and installation artist in-Residence program. ICONCERAMICS.COM Miami; and in Skopelos Greece, Isreal and in Gainesville, Florida. As professor emerita at the Morelia Mexico. THOMAS-LUCAS.COM University of Florida, Smith has received numerous awards including the UF Doctoral Mentor Advisor Award, UF Research Foundation Professor and SEF Regional Fellowship in Sculpture. She is a four-time recipient of the Florida Arts Council Artist Fellowship and has served as juried Lark Books’ 500 Figures. NANSMITH.COM 21
OCTOBER 4 – 10 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 4 – 10 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 11 – 17 · ONE WEEK
ANNE K. BEYER STEPHANIE LANTER OSA ATOE TRAIN AND RETAIN SLIPPERY: ANALOG 3D LEARNING FROM CLAY’S PRINTING IN CLAY GRADIENT OF PLASTICITY The focus of this workshop is on firing the train wood kiln. Students will gain During this workshop students will In this workshop students will discover knowledge of systematic material testing discover slip trailing, traditionally a how to utilize each of clay’s phases of and experimentation. Through each stage decorative surfacing process in ceramics, as plasticity from liquid to bone dry. This of the process, you will document your the foundation for building sculptural form. will make your work easier and allow you work through kiln logs and reference Students interested in seeing linear drawing to create more complex functional pieces photographs. After the firing, the class emerge from flatness or in exploring a of pottery. Participants will learn how to will examine the outcomes and reflect on handmade, manual, low-tech version control moisture in their pieces and to the results as a group. Discussions include of digitally designed and mechanically take advantage of the crucial phases of clay glaze application, loading techniques and produced 3D prints will enjoy this new- such as the soft leather hard phase. During firing strategies. Participants should bring but-old technique. From making the class valuable information will be shared cone 10 stoneware or porcelain bisque ware paper clay slip, developing blueprints, and including trimming, forming handles pieces from home and be prepared to learn making plaster matrices to engineering, and spouts and clay skill vocabulary. and burn. Open to all skill levels. construction, risk taking, coloring, firing, This workshop is particularly helpful for COURSE FEE: $600 and presenting small pieces, participants will students who only have weekly access to pause, learn between the lines, and examine clay outside of class. Wheel throwers and Anne K. Beyer is an adjunct professor of their personal vocabularies. Open to all skill handbuilders are welcome. Open to all Ceramics at the Paducah School of Art and levels, however basic knowledge of ceramics skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Design. She earned her BFA from Albion is helpful. COURSE FEE: $600 College and an MFA from Indiana University. Osa Atoe lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Beyer spent the years in between firing a Stephanie Lanter is assistant professor of is a musician turned ceramicist, making mostly variety of wood kilns. She is currently designing Ceramics at Emporia State University. She has functional work for a living. She began taking and building an anagama at her home studio in an MFA from Ohio University and a BA from community clay lessons in 2013 and completed the countryside. ANNEKBEYER.COM Xavier University. Lanter has exhibited work a post-baccalaureate program for ceramics at internationally, published writings and taught Louisiana State University in 2018. since 2000. She has had residencies at the POTTERYBYOSA.COM Archie Bray Foundation, Red Lodge Clay Center, Anderson Ranch, and more, and is an active Artaxis member. STEPHANIELANTER.COM CLAY
OCTOBER 11 – 17 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 18 – 24 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 18 – 24 · ONE WEEK
ANDREA MOON TAYLOR ROBENALT BILL WILKEY FORM AND LAYER STORY TELLING WITH TEAPOTS ROUGH AND REFINED: A AND TINY SCULPTURES GUIDE TO FINDING FORM During this workshop students will explore various handbuilding methods In this workshop students will discover the During this workshop students will constructing layered textures to form basic components of handbuilding and will focus on creations being made both on sculptural structures. Coil building, create unique teapots and tiny sculptures and off the wheel. Demonstrations will press-mold casting, the dowel method and based on their personal narratives. You include sketching, designing molds for pinching will be demonstrated to create will explore conceptual ideas and the use handbuilding tableware and throwing. multiple parts. During class you will of symbols in your work while learning Participants will use reductive processes to construct an abstract, figurative or layered to hand build, underglaze, glaze and refine forms while adding slips and glaze small-scale sculpture with innovative, luster. Demonstrations will include how that accentuate the soda firing process. hand-built components. Discussions will to construct in porcelain and navigate Bring to class your enthusiasm and love of focus on different types of handbuilding its intricacies. Participants will receive making pottery. Open to all skill levels. clay recipes, oxides, and slips and glazes individualized instruction regarding COURSE FEE: $600 related to firing schedules. Bring your their work and goals throughout class. sketchbook to engage in an exciting Be ready to sculpt with porcelain and Bill Wilkey is a studio artist living in Helena, perspective on form and pattern. Pieces create amazing, fun art that tells a story. Montana. He received his MFA from the will be bisque fired only. Open to all skill Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 University of Missouri, Columbia and a BFA from levels, however some prior experience in East Tennessee State University. Wilkey exhibits clay is helpful. COURSE FEE: $600 Taylor Robenalt is a professional artist who nationally and has been featured in Ceramics lives in Sarasota, Florida and teaches at the Monthly as an Emerging Artist, as well as a Andrea Moon is the director of education at Ringling College of Art and Design. Robenalt cover article for Pottery Making Illustrated. He Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design and a won the International Residency Award from was also the recipient of the Joan Lincoln and studio artist. She received her MFA from Texas NCECA to travel to Vallauris, France during Lillstreet Fellowships as a long-term resident Tech University and a BFA from Bowling Green the summer of 2019. In 2020, she will show at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic State University. She lectures and exhibits at NCECA and have a solo show at the Canton Arts. WILKEYARTS.COM nationally and internationally. Moon believes Museum of Art. She is represented by national in supporting an active craft community and galleries. TAYLORROBENALTCERAMICS.COM cultivating a creative environment for students and emerging artists. ANDREALMOON.COM 23
OCTOBER 25 – 31 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 25 – 31 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 1 – 7 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 8 – 14 · ONE WEEK
SANDY BLAIN TODD PLETCHER BRETT BEASLEY HP BLOOMER HANDBUILDING: IDEAS AND FIRING THE WOOD KILN IF IT’S NOT FUN, WHY BOTHER? SODA FIRING: COLORFUL SURFACES TECHNIQUES FOR DEVELOPING FORMS AND SURFACES During this workshop students will load In this workshop students will learn the During this workshop students will and fire the train kiln and learn how to fundamentals of wheel thrown pottery. learn about making, glazing and creating In this workshop students will explore ways prepare their work with glazes, slips and During class you will also work through decorated surfaces for the soda kiln. to make functional ceramic pieces personal wadding. When the work is prepped, technical issues that could impede your The class will cover making forms that and expressive. You will use hand built (slab, participants will load and fire the kiln. creative process. There will be guided best work for the glazing techniques. coil, press-mold) and wheel components Demonstrations include making a variety exercises and participants will receive Demonstrations concentrate on glaze to construct composite forms. Surface of work for a wood firing with an emphasis personalized attention. Works that have application, masking, sourcing inspiration, markings and textures may be developed, on fluid forms. Class discussions cover been properly dried will be bisque fired. firing and loading as well as some basic altered, or enriched utilizing additive and/ various kiln designs, firing techniques and Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 making methods. Various firing methods or subtractive processes. Class discussions cooling cycles while firing the kiln. After will also be discussed. Students should will cover form, surface and appendage the firing, you will have an opportunity to Brett Beasley has taught Ceramics classes bring their own bisque ware. This class possibilities including handles, feet, and make work alongside the instructor as the ranging from formal academia to community requires basic ceramic skills. lips and their relationship to historical kiln cools. No prior wood firing experience cultural centers. He earned his BFA from the COURSE FEE: $600 and cultural pieces. Demonstrations will is required for the workshop. Open to all University of Florida and an MFA in Ceramics include how to make cups, vases, pitchers, skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 from East Carolina University. He has been HP Bloomer is adjunct professor at Colorado butter dishes, bowls and open weave forms. an active member of the National Council on Mountain College in Aspen, Colorado. He Your pieces will be bisque fired only with Todd Pletcher is the facilities development Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) since attended the University of North Texas and discussions about slips, oxides and glaze director at Clay by the Bay in San Francisco, 2011. Beasley exhibits his artwork at both the received his BFA and an MFA in Ceramics. His related to your firing temperature. Open California. He received his BFA from Goshen national and regional level. work focuses on highly decorated utilitarian to all skill levels, however some clay College in 2005 and was a full-time studio BEASLEYCERAMICS.COM forms which draw inspiration from his interest experience is necessary. COURSE FEE: $600 potter until moving to his current position in architecture, painters and designers who in San Francisco. Pletcher was a Ceramic’s explore a relationship with the land and nature. Sandy Blain is professor emerita of Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist in 2015 and his work is He has been an Artist-in-Residence at The at UT in Knoxville, and director emerita at shown internationally. PLETCHERPOTTERY.COM Carbondale Clay Center, Arrowmont and at the Arrowmont. She remains active at the Arizona Cobb Mountain Art & Ecology Project. State University Ceramics Research Center. Blain HPBLOOMER.COM serves as adjunct faculty at the Mesa Art Center and as a consultant to national arts organizations. SANDYBLAIN.COM CLAY
NOVEMBER 8 – 14 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 15 – 21 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 15 – 21 · ONE WEEK
MATTHEW DERCOLE LYNNETTE HESSER AND STEVE LOUCKS LYNNE HOBAICA NARRATIVE ANIMALS SERVE WITH FINESSE ON THE SURFACE/OFF THE SURFACE
In this workshop students will create During this workshop students will learn to improve their throwing, handbuilding and In this workshop students will explore animals with clay and use simple armatures glazing skills while making unique dishes for serving. You will discover how to alter bowl building narrative pots using various to build solid clay forms. You will consider and cylinder forms by darting, stretching, reforming and assembling them. This will be handbuilding techniques including slab pose and expression with the form, learn followed by participants embellishing their creation with carvings, sprigs, lids, handles building, coiling, pinching and bisque techniques for adding detail, then hollow and more. Various clay methods will be demonstrated, and discussions include design molds. You will begin the narrative by out and examine finishing possibilities. concepts and glazing techniques. Individual instruction is offered as well as assistance in attaching sculptural elements that extend Demonstrations will include glazing glazing student’s individual pieces. The serving dishes finished in time will be glazed and off the surface of the form. The narrative and coloring of eyes, animal anatomy, fired to cone 6 in the electric kiln while making wonderful serving dishes throughout the continues by painting and carving on the specialized tools and use of mixed week. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 surface and building up colorful imagery media. Discussions will include the use through layers of underglaze and slip. The of narrative elements of the sculptures. Lynnette Hesser is a full-time artist working Steve Loucks is professor emeritus from class includes strategies and resources for Previous experience with clay not required. in the studio with husband, Steve Loucks, in Jacksonville State University and a full-time participants to develop ideas and build Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Wellington, Alabama. She holds a BA from studio potter and ceramic artist. He received confidence in their ability to draw and Denison University in Granville, Ohio, a BFA and his MFA from the New York State College encouragement to approach making with Matthew Dercole works as an instructor and MFA from the University of Florida, and an MSEd of Ceramics at Alfred and his BFA from the playfulness and curiosity. Open to all skill technician in Ceramics at the University of from Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana. He levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Hartford. He received his MFA in Ceramics from Alabama. She received the Alabama State was the winner of the Alabama State Council the University of Iowa. He has participated as Council on the Arts Fellowship in Crafts in 2011. on the Arts Craft Fellowship twice and the Lynne Hobaica lives in the Blue Ridge an Artist-in-Residence at the Lux Center for the LYNNETTEHESSERCERAMICS.COM Southern Arts Federation Endowment for the Mountains of North Carolina. She received her Arts, Lillstreet Art Center, Rebuild Foundation, Arts. STEVELOUCKSPOTTERY.COM BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA in Arrowmont and Watershed Center for the Conceptual Ceramic Sculpture at the University Ceramic Arts. Dercole has held instructor of Art and Design in Linz, Austria. Hobaica positions in Ceramics at multiple art centers has exhibited work in the U.S. and abroad, and universities across the U.S. participated in national and international MATTHEWDERCOLE.COM residencies, interned at museums and worked in galleries. LYNNEHOBAICA.NET 25
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2D ARTS: DRAWING, PAINTING, PRINTMAKING, PAPER, AND BOOK ARTS
Arrowmont’s 2D offerings continue to grow and diversify. Whether working with a press or with a paintbrush, these workshops consider not only methods of image and mark-making, but the surfaces themselves. Courses this year take the canvas to new levels with installation-based workshops, zines, and murals. Bring your sketchbook and prepare to explore everything with pencil in hand.
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MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND MAY 24 – 30 · ONE WEEK MAY 24 – 30 · ONE WEEK
LISA D. LINE KRISTINA ARNOLD BILLY RENKL FOLLOWING THE PATH OF USE EVERYTHING: DRAWING COLLAGE: COOPERATING LIGHT IN OIL PAINTING AS INSTALLATION WITH FOUND IMAGES
Capturing a moment in time and space is During this workshop students will In this workshop students will explore the business of oil painting, but it doesn’t work with a variety of materials (paper, a variety of approaches to collage with happen by chance. In this workshop ink, plastic, fabric and wood) to translate an emphasis on historical models. The students will explore the crucial building thought to physical form, using the principle goal is experimentation in the block of traditional representational oil mechanics and meaning of specific development of personally expressive painting, which is the sensation of light. spaces on campus to create conceptually collages using found imagery, and an The class consists of science, geometry, art layered installations. You will explore understanding of the unique ways that history and observation that will yield making modular building blocks to create collage speaks. Although participants big results for your individual painting installations that can be deconstructed will experiment with cutting and gluing practice. Best practices in paint mixing, and taken home. Participants will work techniques, a fruitful collage practice is using mediums and pigments, and with expanding a project’s impact by using not always based in manual skills. “It is building the layers of an oil painting will documentation as both record and as perfectly legitimate to use found objects as also be covered. Participants will work secondary object. The focus is on realizing pictorial elements,” Guillaume Apollinaire individually and as a group to increase your individual visions along with in-depth wrote in 1913, “they may be new in art, but their power as painters. Both beginners class discussions. Open to all skill levels. they are already soaked with humanity.” and experienced painters will plan, craft COURSE FEE: $600 You are encouraged to bring materials to and complete one or more small paintings class in addition to those provided. Open that demonstrate increased mastery of the Kristina Arnold is on the Art faculty at Western to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 perception of light. Open to all skill levels. Kentucky University and lives in Bowling COURSE FEE: $400 Green. She holds an undergraduate degree in Billy Renkl is a professor of Art and Design Community Health from Brown University and an at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, Lisa D. Line lives and operates an oil painting MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University an artist, and a freelance illustrator. He has studio near Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, Knoxville. Arnold works primarily exhibited at The Jule Collins Smith Museum at National Park. She has a BA from Xavier University. as an installation artist (in media ranging Auburn University, the Taylor Bercier Fine Art in Line’s paintings are exhibited regionally and from paper and fibers to blown glass) with New Orleans, the Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, nationally. Her work was recently included in the themes drawing conceptually from her former and at the Indianapolis Arts Center. Renkl has a Christians in the Visual Arts three-year national background and interest in public health. picture book forthcoming from Cameron Kids. travelling exhibit titled “Beauty.” LISADLINE.COM KRISTINAARNOLD.COM BILLYRENKL.COM 29
MAY 31 – JUNE 6 · ONE WEEK MAY 31 – JUNE 6 · ONE WEEK JUNE 7 – 13 · ONE WEEK JUNE 7 – 13 · ONE WEEK
GRETA SONGE HEINRICH TOH GARY CHAPMAN MATT RUNKLE EXPLORING ART MAKING HIGH ROLLING MONOPRINTS CHARCOAL AND EXPRESSIVE THE MIXED-MEDIA MEMOIR WITH ACRYLICS MARK MAKING: A PAINTER’S During this workshop students will APPROACH TO DRAWING Where do words meet image in the In this workshop students will work discover applications for monotypes and stories we tell? How can materials we primarily with acrylics and ink in order the transfer of imagery using inked Xerox In this workshop students will explore encounter day-to-day relate to our personal to delve deep into the process of art copies as a plate and non-toxic paper charcoal as a drawing medium for expressive narratives? In this workshop students will making. The unique properties of acrylic lithography on an etching press. The mark making. The goal is to develop a discover how to use different media to tell paints make them a fantastic medium emphasis is on balancing process, play and personal approach with loose and aggressive a story. The media can include comics, for traditional painting, mixed media content by building rich layers of color, mark making and to combine additive graphic novels, artist books, dioramas and experimentation. You will work on composition and imagery. Participants and subtractive techniques using charcoal. and sequential panels along with the ways various types of paper while exploring still will explore a variety of materials and While charcoal is the primary medium, you might amalgamate these modes. life, landscape, abstract art and collage methods to create depth and space between participants are encouraged to use other Participants will explore collage, low- techniques. Class discussions will include backgrounds and foregrounds using media such as conte crayon, spray paint, tech printing methods (pochoir, Xerox basic color theory and color mixing. Open texture, mark making and brushstrokes. By powdered and water-soluble graphite, ink transfers), box-making and book structures to all skill levels, however some drawing incorporating pattern, shape and imagery and gesso. Students will also explore various with a focus on incorporating found experience is helpful. COURSE FEE: $600 from your own photographs and drawings, alternatives to paper. The class focuses on materials into their mixed-media memoirs. you will create dialog and narrative in your mark making as it relates to abstraction and Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Greta Songe lives in Coralville, Iowa and one-of-a-kind work. Open to all skill levels. later students may opt to explore different is an assistant professor of Art at Kirkwood COURSE FEE: $600 ways these same techniques can be applied Matt Runkle is a writer, cartoonist and book Community College in Cedar Rapids. She to observational drawing for a provocative artist who lives in Oregon. He has taught at received her BFA from Louisiana State University Heinrich Toh is a studio artist and educator fusion of abstraction and realism. Open to the San Francisco Center for the Book, the and an MFA from the University of Iowa. Songe based in Kansas City. He is a graduate of the all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 University of Iowa, at Penland School of Craft, creates artwork in the realm of painting, Cleveland Institute of Art and the La Salle and at the University of Nevada–Reno. As a surface design and illustration. College of the Arts in Singapore. He has taught Gary Chapman is a professor of Art at the member of the College Book Art Association GRETASONGE.COM at the Kansas City Art Institute and at Art University of Alabama at Birmingham and has board, his work has been exhibited nationally. Centers around the country. Toh’s work is in a BA and BS from Berea College, and an MFA Runkle’s work is also in the permanent private and public collections, including the from Cranbrook Academy. He has had over collections at the Library of Congress, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. 70 solo exhibitions around the U.S. Chapman Newberry Library, Virginia Commonwealth HEINRICHTOH.COM has participated in numerous exhibitions at University and the University of Wisconsin– regional, national and international venues. Milwaukee. MATT-RUNKLE.COM GARYCHAPMANART.COM 2D ARTS
JUNE 14 – 20 · ONE WEEK JUNE 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK JUNE 28 – JULY 11 · TWO WEEKS JULY 19 – 25 · ONE WEEK
IAN BROWNLEE MELISSA HARSHMAN JAMES EHLERS HOLLIE CHASTAIN OIL PAINTING MADE SIMPLE GO GREEN: SAFER INTAGLIO EXPLORATION AND IMPRESSION EXPLORING COLLAGE USING WOVEN PAPER In this workshop students will learn about Are you interested in “greening up” your This two-week workshop is divided the basics of oil painting. The class covers intaglio studio and tired of those nasty between a week of drawing and exploration During this workshop students will stretching canvas, drawing, painting and fumes? This workshop covers safe studio of Gatlinburg, followed by a week of discover different methods and applications varnishing. Participants will discover a practices for intaglio printing. Students creating a relief print in response to your of collage and explore substrates, materials variety of oil painting mediums and ways will use big ground for hard/soft ground observations. Students will participate and adhesives. You will practice a paper to properly take care of finished works. Oil applications, airbrush for aquatints and in visual scavenger hunts and record weaving technique creating texture and paints have a reputation for being difficult coffee lift ground for sugar lift. Safer their findings in a sketchbook. This shape to use as a major element in your to use and slow drying, however you will ground removal and clean-up are discussed imagery culminates in a study for a print finished mixed media composition. Class learn that doesn’t have to be the case. as well as oil-based and water-based inks. to be produced during the second part demonstrations and examples will cover One-on-one instruction will help students Participants will leave with a sample plate of the workshop. You will transfer the incorporating paint, mark-making tools discover their own style. You will leave class of various processes. This workshop is image to a linoleum block and learn and adding embroidery elements into your with a painting of your own design. Open ideal for seasoned printmakers who want carving techniques and crosshatching work. All materials will be provided, and to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 to clean up their shop practices, however methods. At the end of class, your participants will take home a completed it is also applicable for those with no prior work will be showcased in a class print piece and learn the skills and classroom Ian Brownlee is a painter and muralist based intaglio experience. COURSE FEE: $600 exchange. Students will leave class with experience to further explore mixed media. in Asheville, North Carolina. He received his artifacts of their various experiences and Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and studied Melissa Harshman teaches in the Printmaking interpretations of Gatlinburg. Foundation at the California College of Arts and Crafts in and Book Arts Department at the Lamar Dodd drawing skills are required. Hollie Chastain is an artist and illustrator living Oakland, California. His work has been featured School of Art at the University of Georgia. COURSE FEE: $1050 and working in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Using in various publications, including New American She received her MFA from the University of mainly paper, she combines found images with Paintings. Brownlee has painted several large- Wisconsin, Madison. Harshman has exhibited James Ehlers is a professor of Engraving Arts at modern colors and compositions to create work scale murals and exhibited his work in galleries widely throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her Emporia State University. He has an MFA from full of originality and narrative. Her work has across the country. He specializes in narrative awards include a Willson Center for the the University of Florida. He has lead workshops been exhibited internationally and is held in and his paintings incorporate stories of history, Humanities and Arts Research Fellowship and at Frogman’s Printmaking Workshop, IMPACT private collections around the world. ecology and mythology. IANBROWNLEE.COM a 2019 Senior Faculty Research Grant titled Printmaking Conferences in Scotland and HOLLIECHASTAIN.COM Explorations in Papermaking. England, and in the U.S. Ehlers has exhibited in MELISSAHARSHMAN.COM Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Norway, Romania, The Republic of Macedonia, Turkey and the U.S. INSTAGRAM:@JEHLERS928 31
JULY 19 – 25 · ONE WEEK JULY 26 – AUGUST 1 · ONE WEEK AUGUST 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK
CAROL WEBER LESLIE NICHOLS JODI REEB BUILDING THE SURFACE: SCRIPTO-VISUAL DRAWING ENCAUSTIC PAINTING: DRAWING AND COLLAGE BETWEEN THE LAYERS The role of text in visual art is center stage In this workshop students will explore in this experimental drawing workshop. During this workshop students will explore mixed media drawing and layering Working with the fundamentals of encaustic painting to create translucent, techniques that result in intimate, low drawing, students will explore how words layered, smooth and textural surfaces relief works of art. You will create at least are used to create pattern, imagery and only achieved with molten beeswax. one finished collage and mixed media meaningful content. The workshop Class discussions include a history and drawing. During class, there will be a introduces participants to forms such as description of encaustic painting, basic series of exercises and methods presented calligrams, asemic writing and erasure supplies and tools needed as well as safety, for using tacks, wires and adhesives to poetry while working with mediums such preparation of supports, and application of build the surface of the artwork. Also, as typewriters, pen and ink, and graphite. grounds and fusing. Demonstrations will narrative content is explored with a keen You will find inspiration from artists using provide an overview of techniques such as awareness to the elements of line, shape, text as an integral part of drawing. Each image transfers, collage, oil pigment sticks texture and color. To create your work, student will take home a selection of their and creating texture working with masks you are welcome to bring a collection of original works and a new appreciation of and stencils. The focus is on image making small objects, unfinished sketches and the relationship between text and imagery. and the development of your aesthetic miscellaneous papers to include in your art. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 and artistic growth. Students will have Come tell your story in collage. Open to time to create, join feedback discussions all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Leslie Nichols operates her studio in Bowling and participate in one-on-one instruction. Green, Kentucky. She is well known for her Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Carol Weber works from her home studio works created on manual typewriters which are in Downers Grove, Illinois. She is a recently featured in Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology Jodi Reeb has been a full-time artist and teacher retired professor of Art and Design from South published by Laurence King and The Art of in Minneapolis for over 20 years. She has a BFA Suburban College where she taught for nearly Typewriting published by Thames and Hudson. in Printmaking from the Minneapolis College 30 years. She has exhibited her work nationally Her work has been recognized with grants of Art and Design. Her work has been shown and internationally and is a curator for Gallery from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, nationally and is in numerous collections. Reeb 201 at Argonne National Laboratory. AAUW, Women’s Studio Workshop, Kentucky received the Minnesota Artist’s Initiative Grant CAROLWEBERART.COM Foundation for Women and the Great Meadows in 2018, is a CORE Instructor for R&F Handmade Foundation. LESLIENICHOLSART.COM Paints and teaches workshops in her studio and across the U.S. JODIREEB.COM 2D ARTS
OCTOBER 4 – 10 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 4 – 10 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 11 – 17 · ONE WEEK
CHRISTINE GARVEY GRETCHEN SCHERMERHORN SUSAN MOSS SELF-PORTRAITS FOR THE FUTURE SCULPTURAL PAPER THE SKETCHBOOK HABIT
In this workshop students will examine During this workshop students will learn An active sketchbook and journaling the self-portrait to reflect on identity to build armatures and molds for creating practice can facilitate artistic growth. and experience within a context. 2D and three-dimensional paper forms. After an In this workshop students will discover 3D material demonstrations presented overview of basic papermaking techniques, a sketchbook practice that is low risk include alginate mold-making, plaster- you will learn to make forms from wire, and exploratory. During class you will casting, photocopy-transferring and mixed reed, mesh and nylon, which act as support work with gouache, colored brush pens, media techniques. These methods give for high shrinkage abaca and flax pulp. markers and water-soluble pencils, and participants a jump-start into drawing Participants will also learn to create plaster respond to a range of mark-making and form and reflecting on the world around molds to create both 2D bas relief works, writing prompts. Your visual and written them. Each technique is paired with a as well as 3D pieces. The emphasis is responses will serve as inspiration for conceptual exercise allowing students to on working with a variety of pulp-from reflecting on artistic goals, generating discover the history of self-portraiture translucent and high shrinkage, to opaque ideas and recognizing the idiosyncratic and to capture something personal and and low shrinkage. Students will leave patterns of your art making. Class universal about a specific time period. with a collection of samples and handmade exercises will be designed to promote an Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 paper sculptures. Open to all skill levels. ongoing sketchbook habit. Beginners COURSE FEE: $600 and experienced sketchbook keepers are Christine Garvey most recently was an assistant welcome, and previous drawing experience professor of Practice and area head of the 2D Gretchen Schermerhorn is the artistic director is not required. COURSE FEE: $600 Art Foundation at the University of Texas at at Pyramid Atlantic in Hyattsville, Maryland. She Austin. She received her MFA from Concordia has an MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State Susan Moss teaches drawing and textile art University Montreal and a BFA from Washington University and has completed residencies at courses at Fort Lewis College in Durango, University in St Louis. Garvey received a 2016 The Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Women's Colorado. Her drawings, mixed media work Fulbright Research Grant from the Italian Studio Workshop, Columbia College Center for and spontaneously stitched embroideries have Commission, Concordia University’s Faculty Book and Paper, Seacourt Print Workshop in been exhibited nationally and regionally in of Fine Arts Fellowship, and a City of Austin Northern Ireland, and California State University. over ninety venues. Moss has been marking Community Initiatives Grant. She divides her Schermerhorn has received artist awards from on surfaces since childhood including paper time between Austin, New York and Italy. the Maryland State Arts Council and the Arts and tablecloths, fabric, and craft and archival CHRISTINE-GARVEY.COM Humanities Council of Montgomery County. paper. SUSANMMOSS.COM GRETCHENSCHERMERHORN.COM 33
OCTOBER 11 – 17 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 18 – 24 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 18 – 24 · ONE WEEK
SARAH SHEBARO DANIEL ESSIG STUART KESTENBAUM AND SUSAN WEBSTER FULL SCREEN TEST: SCULPTURAL MICA BOOK WORDS AND IMAGES MONO SCREENPRINTING FOR CONSISTENT VARIETY In this workshop students will explore During this workshop students will create images that inspire writing, writing that creating and filling a hand-bound book. inspires images, and generate work that can combine the two. Daily activities will include Utilizing the screen as a matrix, this Utilizing a binding that has withstood the writing and drawing as prompts to generate your work. Various low-tech printmaking workshop will combine the expressive test of time with its elegance, flexibility techniques such as gelatin-plate process, direct stencil and monotype drawing will be nature of drawing and painting with the and strength, you will first bind a book of covered. Participants will use a variety of tools and techniques, such as drawing, painting crisp stencil forms of screenprint. Students wood, fine papers and ridged translucent and collage to make their image and text components. You will discover different formats will learn traditional and experimental mica sheets. You will then cut, hammer, including simple book structures, one-of-a-kind pieces, and broadsides and you are techniques in screenprinting working with glue, paint and sew back into the pages encouraged to experiment. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 a variety of water-soluble materials. Multi- creating niches, alcoves and windows to layer printing, registration, off-the-cuff house and protect its relics, images and Stuart Kestenbaum is a poet and former Susan Webster is a visual artist who works techniques and drawing/blending colors words. Participants will work with mica, director of the Haystack Mountain School of with a variety of materials and processes. directly on the screen will be demonstrated. both the natural and manmade forms of Crafts. He has been a visiting writer at art She has taught at Haystack Mountain School Throughout the week, participants will this material, and become familiar with programs including Penland School of Craft, of Crafts, Penland School of Craft, Center for create a small multilayer edition as well its unique characteristics. During this the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Rhode Contemporary Printmaking in Connecticut, as unique prints on a variety of paper. class students will create a series of book Island School of Design. His most recent book Studio Artworks Center (Jerusalem, Israel) Cutting Rubylith and shooting photo structures experimenting with a variety of is How to Start Over (Deerbrook Editions 2019). and developed a model art program in the emulsion stencils will also be at the core materials and techniques. Open to all skill Kestenbaum is Maine’s Poet Laureate. prison system in Maine. Recent exhibits include of this course. Open to all skill levels. levels. COURSE FEE: $600 STUARTKESTENBAUM.COM Maine Jewish Museum and Maine College COURSE FEE: $600 of Art’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Daniel Essig is a studio artist and workshop SUSANWEBSTER.NET Sarah Shebaro is an artist, designer and instructor living in Penland, North Carolina. instructor who lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. She He is a recipient of the North Carolina Artist is based at Striped Light, a Letterpress studio and Fellowship Grant. His work has been collected record label she co-founded in 2015. She has by the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick taught in universities and craft schools including Gallery, the Mint Museum and the University of the Pratt Institute, University of Tennessee, California at Santa Cruz McHenry Library. Manhattan Graphics Center, Temple University DANIELESSIG.COM and Penland. Her work has been included in exhibitions nationally and abroad. SSHEBARO.COM 2D ARTS
OCTOBER 25 – 31 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 1 – 7 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 1 – 7 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 1 – 7 · ONE WEEK
LINDSEY MEYERS CARROLL LYNN CORSI BLAND NICOLE UZZELL JOHN DAVID WISSLER DRAWING WITH CHARCOAL MIXED MEDIA IN ACRYLICS PAPER, PULP AND SCULPT PAINTING IN THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS In this workshop students will encounter This workshop offers students experimental This workshop is designed for those an immersive drawing experience geared approaches to combining water media interested in taking sheets of handmade During this workshop students will enjoy toward creative expansion and growth with textured mediums, fabric and collage. paper and creating 3D forms. Students the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains while building an image with charcoal. You will learn how to combine disparate will discover a variety of ways to make through observation and painting. Joining Class demonstrations and discussions will techniques into finished pieces, mixing armatures by incorporating found objects, the great tradition of Constable and Corot, include developing an idea into a finished methods and materials. The focus of the both natural and man-made. Overbeaten participants will paint every day, so be drawing, experimenting with mixed media class in on the process and the journey of flax and abaca are the primary pulps you prepared for all types of weather. After and working large-scale. Participants art making instead of the finished artwork will use, capitalizing on their translucent working “en plein aire” you will return to will develop drawing skills through daily itself. Participants will find their own and high shrinkage qualities. Participants the studio for critique, conversation and to exercises and focused sessions on a subject voice through art journaling, discussion, will add indigo and walnut dye at the prepare for the next day. Walking will be matter of their choice. Brainstorming, demonstrations and private critique. conclusion to add natural color to their involved, so mobility is important. Previous problem-solving and feedback are an The curriculum includes working studio final sculptures. In order to incorporate outdoor experience preferred. Open to all integral part of the workshop. Open to time, slide presentations and individual personal elements, a hunter/gatherer skill levels. COURSE FEE: $650 all skill levels, although some drawing guidance. At the end of the week the approach will be encouraged by taking experience is recommended. student will have a new inventory of ideas advantage of the grounds at Arrowmont John David Wissler is the former president of COURSE FEE: $600 and ways to use them in future work. and/or bringing pieces from home. Open the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation in Maine and Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 current chairman of the board of the Mount Lindsey Meyers Carroll is a professional Gretna School of Art in Pennsylvania. He artist who lives in Helena, Montana and is Lynn Corsi Bland is an artist who works in a Nicole Uzzell is a studio artist and professor received his MFA from the Parsons School of the education manager at the Archie Bray variety of media in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. She of Art at Forsyth Technical Community College Design in New York. His studies include travel to Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. She received has an Art and Design degree from Florida State and teaches clay handbuilding at the Sawtooth France, Italy, Russia, Switzerland and Germany. her BA in Fine Arts and Spanish Literature from University, Tallahassee, Florida. Bland’s work is a School for Visual Art in Winston-Salem, North Wissler was awarded artist residencies at the the University of Montana. Carroll works in combination of paint, fabric and found objects. Carolina. She received an MFA in Sculpture at Heliker-LaHotan Foundation in Maine and the realism through large-scale charcoal and mixed Her teaching experience includes Arrowmont; Lesley University College of Art and Design in Borgo Finochietto in Tuscany, Italy. media drawings and has taught classes on Cullowhee Mountain Arts, Silva, North Carolina; Cambridge, Massachusetts. Uzzell is a two-time LANCASTERGALLERIES.COM/ARTISTS/JOHN- drawing fundamentals and figure drawing. Sevierville Arts Council; and Daytona Beach recipient of the Regional Artist Grant from the DAVID-WISSLER LMCSTUDIO.COM Community College. Her work has received Arts Council of Winston-Salem Forsyth County awards and been showcased in numerous who exhibits nationally. NICOLEUZZELL.COM magazine publications. LYNNCORSIBLAND.COM 35
NOVEMBER 8 – 14 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 15 – 21 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 15 – 21 · ONE WEEK
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THOMAS LUCAS & DAVID TODD TROST P.20 RACHEL SIMMONS JIYOUNG CHUNG DIETLIND VANDER SCHAAF CREATIVE SELF-REFLECTION JOOMCHI AND BEYOND ENCAUSTIC: LAYERS, JACKIE ABRAMS P.44 THROUGH VISUAL JOURNALS TRANSLUCENCY AND SEE THROUGHS In this workshop students will explore STEPHANIE LANTER P.21 Stuck in a creative rut or just need time to joomchi, a unique Korean traditional way This workshop takes students beyond the reflect on your life? During this workshop of making textured handmade paper using basics involved in working with encaustic, ELYSE-KRISTA MISCHE P.12 students will explore the connections water and eager hands. You will discover offering a deeper understanding of how to between creativity, self-reflection and its history, practice and role in Korean create paintings that suggest luminosity, depth mindfulness through the visual journal, society, as well as learning the hands-on and dimension. Emphasis will be placed on which is a unique fusion of creative techniques and reinterpreted adaptations creating a sense of light, the balance and weight writing and art. You will learn how to use into a contemporary art form. Joomchi of composition, and expressing meaning techniques like erasure poetry, guided creates strong and painterly textured surfaces through an exploration of accumulating marks, memory and sensory writing, image by layering and agitating Hanji (Korean drawings and imagery. You will learn greater transfers, monotype printmaking, drawing, mulberry papers). Its usage is diverse and control with both painting and fusing and collage and basic bookbinding in your can be incorporated into surface design, will have plenty of time to develop your own journal practice. Each participant will collage, new ways of drawing, or for wearable, personal ideas and visual vocabulary. Open leave class with a hand-bound mixed unconventional body ornaments. Joomchi to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 media visual journal and a sense of artistic can also be used as 2D and 3D sculptural renewal and connection with others. objects that are functional or fine art oriented. Dietlind Vander Schaaf lives in Portland, Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Maine and is a core instructor for R&F Handmade Paints and the former president of New England Rachel Simmons teaches printmaking, book arts, Jiyoung Chung is an artist, freelance writer Wax. She holds an MFA from the University of comics and visual journals at Rollins College and independent curator who has developed San Francisco and an MA from the University of in Winter Park, Florida. She earned her MFA the innovative method of Joomchi into a Southern Maine. She has exhibited nationally in Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State contemporary art form. She received a BFA in and been featured in Maine Home Design, Décor University. In her socially engaged projects, she Painting from Rhode Island School of Design Maine, and Downeast magazines. She has invites participants to collaborate with her as and her MFA in Print/Media from the Cranbrook taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, they explore their personal relationships with Academy of Art. In 2010, she curated the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Penland nature. In her journal practice, she reflects on International Korean/American Joomchi show School of Craft, New Hampshire Institute of her adventures in Antarctica and Namibia as for European Patchwork Meeting in France. Art, The Encaustic Center, R&F, Maine College well as on her everyday adventures at home. Chung has authored a how-to book titled of Art, and at Zijdelings in the Netherlands. RACHELSIMMONS.NET Joomchi & Beyond. JIYOUNGCHUNG.COM DIETLINDVANDERSCHAAF.COM “My experience at Arrowmont was nothing short of amazing. I really had a sense that it was a tight- knit and welcoming community. I made some great friends during my time there that I still talk to!” — SALMA MICHELLE GARCIA, WORK-STUDY 3737
FIBERS, TEXTILES & BASKETS
Workshops held in Arrowmont’s Fibers and Textiles studios span a broad range of techniques, from basketry and sculpture to surface design and quilting. Fibers, textiles and basketry also provide a diverse field for issues of concept and form. Arrowmont offers workshops richly steeped in historical and cultural traditions as well as those that push these boundaries into new areas of discovery. This summer and fall, Arrowmont will also host two national fiber and textile conferences: National Institute of American Doll Association (NIADA) and the International Millinery Meet-Up. Prepare for a creative year in fibers by taking in these 2020 offerings.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The National Basketry Organization (NBO) was founded at Arrowmont in 1999 in conjunction with a national conference and juried exhibition titled, “From All Directions.” Today there are over 650 members. NATIONALBASKETRY.ORG FIBERS ∙ TEXTILES ∙ BASKETS
MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND MAY 24 – 30 · ONE WEEK MAY 24 – 30 · ONE WEEK
EMILY NICOLAIDES BILLY RAY SIMS JIM ARENDT AMY PUTANSU ALL THINGS CIRCULAR WEAVING TRADITIONAL SPLINT WOVEN FISH A MENDED IMAGE INTRODUCTION TO WEAVING CREEL OR PURSE BASKET In this workshop students will learn about Thrift and pragmatism can be a wellspring The goal of this workshop is for students the techniques of circular weaving. These During this workshop students will learn for novel fiber solutions. In this workshop to plan a woven project, dress a loom and include how to turn an embroidery hoop to render basket material from two of the students learn about expanded techniques weave a fabric of their own design. During into a loom and how to warp a hoop with most beautiful of traditional basketmaking in mending textiles to create useful and class you will learn the back-to-front an open center, as well as discovering basic materials: southern white oak and northern beautiful expressions that go beyond utility. warping method and weave a variety of tapestry weaving techniques. Your end goal black ash trees. You can choose from Explore patchwork and mending traditions basic structures that include plain weave, is to acquire various approaches to finishing these options to yield a treasured, woven from throughout the world while creating twills and basket weave in the colors of your own circular woven wall hanging. heirloom. Participants will create a fishing representational narratives. Techniques your choice. Participants will also weave Participants will also work with a variety creel or purse woven on a mold using will include appliqué, embroidery boro, a set of sample fabrics to wet finish and of yarns to create tons of texture. Students hardwood splint that they will learn to sashiko pattern creation, and invisible compile into a swatch book. An emphasis have the option to bring their own yarn of split, shape and process from a harvested mending. While making, participants will is placed on preparing materials and setting any fiber and weight. You will leave class tree. Finishing elements can include a explore and expand the meaning of images, up the loom, which is the most labor- with at least two finished wall hangings. cherry wood or leather lid and strap for objects, and how technique choices can intensive part of the process. Students will Open to all levels. COURSE FEE: $400 your basket. During class you will discover better serve their ideas. Open to all skill discover weaving lingo and tour necessary the traditional methods used for hundreds levels. COURSE FEE: $600 equipment for weaving. This class is for Emily Nicolaides is a weaver and teacher in of years, and leave with a beautiful, one- beginners and for those who want to Richmond, Virginia. In her studio practice, of-a-kind basket. Open to all skill levels, Jim Arendt is an associate professor of Visual graduate from ridged heddle weaving to she focuses on circular and shape-weaving however you must have enough hand Arts and gallery director at Coastal Carolina the four-shaft floor loom. Open to all skill working on hoops, handmade frame looms, and strength for handling edge tools and University. He received his BFA from Kendall levels. COURSE FEE: $600 on her four-harness floor loom. She teaches greenwood processing. COURSE FEE: $400 College of Art and Design and an MFA from workshops in Richmond and online through her the University of South Carolina. Recently, Amy Putansu teaches weaving in the weaving course. Her work has been shown by Billy Ray Sims was born in East Tennessee and Arendt received First Prize during Fiberarts Professional Crafts program at Haywood Alma’s RVA and 68 Home in Richmond. lives in Maine where he is a journalist and editor. International 2019 and was a 2018 finalist Community College in Clyde, North Carolina. EMILYNICOLAIDES.COM He makes baskets on commission and his work is for the Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize, She earned her BFA in Textiles from the Rhode in collections including the Smithsonian and the Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, Island School of Design and has been weaving Essex Shipbuilding Museum. Sims’ basketry spans Pennsylvania. His work is included in the in various capacities ever since. Her ondulé traditional styles from Gullah baskets, Cherokee Arkansas Art Center’s permanent collection wall pieces can be found at the Blue Spiral 1 River Cane, New England Black Ash and native of contemporary craft. JIMARENDT.COM Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina. Appalachian White Oak. BILLYRAYSIMSBASKETS.COM PUTANSUTEXTILES.COM 39
MAY 31 – JUNE 6 · ONE WEEK MAY 31 – JUNE 6 · ONE WEEK JUNE 7 – 13 · ONE WEEK JUNE 7 – 13 · ONE WEEK
LESLIE PEARSON ANN TILLEY CRYSTAL GREGORY KENYA MILES INTEGUMENTARY EXPERIMENTS PANTS PARTY WOVEN LACE STRUCTURES: UNEARTHING PIGMENT: NATURAL INTERSECTIONS AND ARTICULATIONS DYES AND EARTH PIGMENTS During this workshop students will create The purpose of this workshop is to explore small 3D sculptures using wire, hog the fundamentals of clothing design and In woven cloth, warp threads are In this workshop students will discover the intestines, fabric, paper and wax. Using construction while focusing on making anchored at both ends then crossed at origin, process and transformative material simple hand tools, participants will learn pants. Students will begin with the simplest a 90-degree angle by weft threads to uses of natural earth pigments (mineral and to make free form wire armatures covering construction and work their way to the create interlacements of right angles. oxide clay) and natural dyes. Participants them in gut, and then embellishing more complex. Then you will learn how to During this workshop students will will study colorants from an historical lens them by adding layers of fabric, paper, choose fabric, hone fit and explore style. investigate patterns that manipulate and experiment with applications of earth encaustic wax, personal ephemera and small Sewing techniques covered include legs, those right angles, allowing threads to pigments and natural dyes and their uses in embeds. The goal is to better understand waistbands, closures, pockets and more. bend and curve once removed from the alternative forms such as paint, watercolor/ making sculptural textiles and working Expect to leave class with at least three tension of the loom. Participants will gouache, lake pigments and pastels. Open with alternative materials. Participants completed pants or muslins, and with be introduced to processes including to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 may bring personal ephemera such as accompanying personalized paper patterns open weave, leno lace and huck lace. small buttons, thread, bits of fabric, or to add to your home sewing library. Augmented by readings, discussion and Kenya Miles is a lead gardener at the Natural handwritten letters to embed in between Open to all skill levels, however previous collage you will explore the cultural and Dye Initiative in Baltimore City and is the artist layers of the gut to create a more expressive experience using a sewing machine is social associations of your materials to and alchemist at Traveling Miles Studio, a narrative piece. Advanced students can required. COURSE FEE: $600 uncover embedded meaning. Students one-woman textile and fine art studio utilizing create multiple forms and bifurcated will create a sample of each introduced sustainable materials from earth pigments to shapes. Open to all skill levels. Ann Tilley is a textile artist, clothing designer structure before designing and producing natural dyes. Her work honors ancient practices COURSE FEE: $600 and teacher who lives in Liberty, North Carolina. an original work of their own. Open to all while drawing on a distinctive contemporary She maintains a studio art practice, working skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 voice. Miles has traveled the valleys of Oaxaca, Leslie Pearson is a multimedia artist who lives in in color knitting. Tilley earned her BFA in Mexico to the red clay roads of Ntonso, Ghana North Carolina. She has a BFA from Southeast Fashion and Fibers at the Savannah College Crystal Gregory is a sculptor and assistant to develop her process with years of wandering Missouri State University, an MA in Museum Studies of Art and Design in Georgia. She has also professor in Fiber at the School of Arts and and apprenticing around the globe. from Newcastle University and an MFA in Textile worked in a variety of small-scale garment Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky. TRAVELINGMILESSTUDIO.COM Design from East Carolina University. Pearson studios and factories, including two eponymous She has a BFA from the University of Oregon utilizes many materials, processes and techniques clothing lines. Her teaching aesthetic blends and an MFA from The School of the Art to create sculptures, installations, encaustic disciplined production techniques with Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited paintings and handmade books exploring themes home-sewing freedom and playfulness. in museums and galleries nationally. of memory and identity. LESLIEKPEARSON.COM ANNTILLEYHANDMADE.COM CRYSTALGREGORY.ORG FIBERS ∙ TEXTILES ∙ BASKETS
JUNE 14 – 20 · ONE WEEK JUNE 14 – 20 · ONE WEEK JUNE 14 – 20 · ONE WEEK JUNE 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK
HELEN GEGLIO KATIE GROVE JAN WUTKOWSKI GASALI ADEYEMO CLOTH, NEEDLE AND STITCH: WILD BASKETRY: WEAVING FELTS, FEATHERS, FABRICS: TRADITIONAL YORUBA BATIK, ADIRE A KEEPER’S QUILT WITH NATURAL MATERIALS MILLINERY TODAY ELEKO AND TIE-DYE WITH INDIGO
During this workshop students will In this workshop students will use Millinery (hat-making) is an old craft In this workshop students will explore explore contemporary ways to consider wild-harvested plant materials including that constantly changes due to the traditional batik, adire eleko and tie-dyeing stitched layers of cloth, using an cattails, iris, tree bark and vines to create introduction of new materials and ways techniques while learning about the arts improvisational approach to making art baskets using a variety of techniques. to use time-honored expertise. In this and culture of the Yoruba people from a from the textile detritus of everyday life. The class will cover twining, regular, and workshop students will discover millinery native Nigerian artist. You will experiment The focus will be on rediscovering the random weaves, as well as embellishments techniques including blocking, creating with patterns and vibrant color using pleasures and potential of hand stitching and cordage. Students will get hands- contrasting insets of shapes flush into wax, paste resist, indigo and fiber dyes to and working with a direct, collage-like on experience preparing bark and vines the hat, feather work to create feather produce beautiful cloth. Open to all skill process. Students will sample different and participate in harvesting/plant flowers and floating feathers. You will levels. COURSE FEE: $600 materials and techniques, then move on identification walks. Throughout the also learn ways to clip, curl and shape to create a hand-quilted artwork using week, participants will finish multiple luscious fabrics to create fashion-forward Gasali Adeyemo grew up in Ofatedo, Nigeria the textile legacy of their own lives. This unique baskets depending on which small hats for all occasions. Professional and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the opportunity to turn all the special materials and technique combinations embellishment and finishing techniques studied for six years at the Nike Center for fabric scraps, vintage linens and precious they choose. If you love to go out into are also covered. Open to all skill levels. Art and Culture and taught there for four worn clothing you have been saving into nature and explore the possibilities for COURSE FEE: $600 years. His artwork has been exhibited in a highly personal, contemporary quilted making art, then this workshop is for you. Bayruth, Germany. A participant in the World piece. Open to all skill levels. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Jan Wutkowski studied millinery at the Craft Summit, the Maiwa Symposium and the COURSE FEE: $600 Melbourne School of Millinery in Australia World Batik Conference, Adeyemo conducts Katie Grove is a full-time studio artist and basketry and has been creating bespoke hats and workshops and presentations about indigo Helen Geglio is an artist and cloth keeper who teacher based in the Hudson Valley of New York headpieces since 1995. Wutkowski teaches textiles and the Yoruban culture. lives in South Bend, Indiana. She has a BFA from State. She has a background in fine arts and at arts and crafts schools throughout the U.S. AFRICANCRAFT.COM/ARTIST/GASALI the University of Michigan School of Art. Geglio her work is held nationally in private collections. as well as in England, France, Ireland and works in fiber, creating quilted works with bits Grove is best known for using sustainably Australia. She has been teaching millinery and pieces of abandoned domestic textiles. Her harvested wild materials to create unique baskets since 1998 with an emphasis on honoring work has been exhibited at Quilt National, Quilt and sculptures in a variety of techniques. She traditional techniques while experimenting Visions, Artist as Quiltmaker, Quilts=Art=Quilts, spends most of the year teaching basketry and embracing new materials and techniques. SDA Beyond the Surface, and at Arrowmont’s classes along the east coast and working in her HATSHATSHATS.COM Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery. HELENGEGLIO.COM studio. KATIEGROVESTUDIOS.COM 41
JUNE 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK JUNE 28 – JULY 11 · TWO WEEKS JUNE 28 – JULY 11 · TWO WEEKS JUNE 28 – JULY 11 · TWO WEEKS
SHANA KOHNSTAMM POLLY JACOBS GIACCHINA AARON MCINTOSH KIM MIRUS SCULPTURAL FELTING THE MEETING OF FIBER QUEER STRATEGIES FOR WOVEN EXPLORATIONS TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS TEXTILE THINKING This workshop will focus on the interplay In this workshop students will explore of wet-felting and needle-felting techniques During this workshop students will learn Many of us are taught textiles through a variety of woven structures while to produce solid three-dimensional objects about and enhance their hand weaving traditional processes with rigid parameters. learning tips, tricks and techniques for with an emphasis on form and color. methods for the creation of sculptural During this workshop students will learn weaving efficiently on floor looms. You Using wire, found objects and wool as vessels and wall pieces. You will explore the boundary-less potential of non-linear will experiment with materials, colors armature, students interested in creating and advance the techniques of twining, techniques of textiles. These include and concepts as you create several woven dynamic sculpture will explore their own coiling, knotless netting, crochet, simple discovering felt making, crochet, off-loom samples on different looms while learning designs. Wool varieties, tools, surface felting, stitching and random weave. tapestry and piecework through a queer many woven structures. Participants will design and finishing techniques will be The utilization of natural and man-made lens. Through critical readings and group build on their discoveries while designing covered. Demonstrations and structural flexible fibers will assist in the layering, discussions, you will focus on the textile’s and weaving a project independently problem solving will lead to independent weaving textures and finding material capacity as provocation, intervention, while exploring color and concepts. exploration and personalized skill sets. relationships to develop your design interruption and genre-blurring between Throughout class you will gain the No previous felting knowledge is required ideas. During class participants will various media, dimensions, time and space. knowledge and confidence to create your but those students who already know one be encouraged to explore, investigate, Participants will select one or two of the own woven work. Open to all skill levels. technique are encouraged to delve into construct and create. Open to all skill demonstrated techniques to focus on an COURSE FEE: $1050 the other. Note: Both techniques require levels. COURSE FEE: $1050 identity object in week one, and then create a repetitive arm and hand motion. responsive installation or performance based Kim Mirus is an artist, educator and COURSE FEE: $600 Polly Jacobs Giacchina studied at San Diego on that object in week two. Instruction craftsperson who weaves visualizations State University and independently while will encourage body-responsive, identity- of environmental and social data using Shana Kohnstamm is a full-time studio-artist exploring natural materials and choosing affirming and decolonized approaches. Open traditional craft techniques. She has a BFA in living in Bethesda, Maryland. Her fascination fiber to create her organic sculptural art. She to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $1050 Crafts, a BA in Art Education, and a National with wool as a medium motivates her to push has exhibited in galleries and museums both Board Certification for teaching art. Mirus the boundaries of what we expect of textile and nationally and internationally. Giacchina has Aaron McIntosh lives in Montreal, Canada and has taught at Penland School of Craft, The fiber art. Her joy of experimentation translates been published in American Craft Magazine, is an associate professor of Fibres/Material Crucible, and numerous public schools. She to the artwork she creates. Kohnstamm’s work Fiber Art Now and several books on fiber art. Practices at Concordia University. He is an has enjoyed completing artist residencies and has been featured in Fiber Art Now, Worldwide POLLYJGFIBERART.COM exhibiting cross-disciplinary artist and has been research across the U.S., internationally and Colours of Felt, Mr. X Stitch, TextileArtist and published in The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, in the Arctic. KIMMIRUS.COM Dyeing House Gallery. SHANAKOHNSTAMM.COM the Surface Design Journal and the Journal of Modern Craft. AARONMCINTOSH.COM FIBERS ∙ TEXTILES ∙ BASKETS 42
JULY 19 – 25 · ONE WEEK JULY 19 – 25 · ONE WEEK JULY 26 – AUGUST 1 · ONE WEEK JULY 26 – AUGUST 1 · ONE WEEK
MARGARET LEININGER LAURA MONGIOVI KATHERINE DIUGUID JULIA GARTRELL WEAVING IN PLACE DYING FIBER ELEMENTS FOR FLIGHTS OF FLORAL FANCY RADICAL REPAIR WORKSHOP EXPERIMENTAL WOVEN AND During this workshop students will NON-WOVEN CONSTRUCTION This workshop introduces students to the This workshop will explore the art of experiment with natural and locally iconic periods throughout history when creative repair. Beginning with traditional sourced dye materials and fibers to create This workshop will explore the processes floral motifs abound in embroidery and are techniques on fabric such as darning, a woven document of a physical place. associated with natural dye and textiles. interpreted in styles reflecting each period patching and appliqué, students will begin You will also explore various design Students will dye cellulose fibers with and culture. During class you will take with the building blocks of mending. You techniques to create meaningful and indigo and other dyes. You will discover advantage of the natural surroundings of will explore visible mending and discover engaging interpretations of place using various fabric manipulation techniques Arrowmont for your creations. Participants conceptual possibilities of repair. The class color, texture and form. Demonstrations including weaving, stitching and will design and stitch their own floral- will also include the study of mixed media include expanding the use of hand- pleating to create two-dimensional and/ inspired samples and experiment with materials, such as gluing, inlay and fiber spun yarn or raw fibers using tapestry or three-dimensional forms. Additional surface design techniques including eco- techniques. Participants are encouraged to techniques, variegated tones in warp and materials such as wire, rope, faux fur, and printing and various methods of direct bring their own objects and textiles that weft, and simple construction alterations sticks are available for the participant’s application to complement the stitched need repair and to investigate the campus after the fabric is off the loom. Readings, experimentation with construction. Open details. Open to all skill levels. for creative mending opportunities. The discussions and presentations will to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 COURSE FEE: $600 instructor will bring a traveling repair shop, further help participants contextualize housed in a vintage camper, to demonstrate the relationship between place and Laura Mongiovi is an associate professor of Katherine Diuguid is a studio artist specializing further sculptural mending possibilities. materiality of cloth. Open to all skill Art at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. in hand embroidery and textiles. She has Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Through her work, she investigates historical taught embroidery and textile workshops details about time and place. Mongiovi both nationally and internationally as well Julia Gartrell is an artist and educator based Margaret Leininger teaches at DePaul exhibits nationally and internationally. In as university courses at North Carolina State in Durham, North Carolina. She has an MFA University and lives in Chicago, Illinois. She 2019, she co-organized the Deeper Than University. She has been awarded artist in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School co-manages the artist-run space, Compound Indigo: Southeast Textile Symposium and residencies at the North Carolina Museum of of Design. Her work explores the notion of Yellow. Leininger has been awarded numerous is a 2018 recipient of the Northeast Florida Art and at Penland School of Craft. Diuguid “making do” and material plasticity. She has grants, fellowships and residencies and has Community Foundation Individual Artist Grant. has worked on special projects for Durham participated in residencies at the Fine Arts Work exhibited work across the country. She has LAURAMONGIOVI.COM Cathedral in the U.K. and at the Art Institute of Center, Duke University Power Plant Gallery, published articles in Surface Design Journal, Chicago. KATHERINEDIUGUID.COM Arrowmont, Ox-Bow, and others. Gartell has Spin-Off Magazine and Selvedge Magazine. exhibited nationally and internationally, and MAGGIELEININGERART.COM has taught at Arrowmont and universities across the U.S. JULIAGARTRELL.COM 43
JULY 26 – AUGUST 1 · ONE WEEK AUGUST 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK AUGUST 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK AUGUST 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK
LYNETTE YOUSON JOVENCIO DE LA PAZ BETH HESTER JILLIAN MORENO SWEETGRASS BASKET WEAVING FLOATWORKS: AN INTRODUCTION THE LANGUAGE OF BASKETS YARNITECTURE: BUILDING TO OVERSHOT WEAVING EXACTLY THE YARN YOU WANT In this workshop students will learn how In this workshop students will discover to (coil) weave by hand to make the most During this workshop students are a variety of basketry methods while This workshop will provide students the traditional basket that was used to separate introduced to overshot weaving as an weaving a series of panels or samplers (each tools they need to spin an intentional the rice in fields. This historical art form experimental and innovative approach approximately 12" x 12") using rattan yarn and learn the why’s and how’s of is from the coast of Sierra Leone, West through a simple design and pattern materials. Techniques presented during yarn construction. Through sampling, Africa and was brought to America by drafting. Overshot weaving is a traditional class include spoke construction, rib work, participants can make choices in fiber enslaved people over 300 years ago. During American style used to make blankets, lashing, preparation of rims, twill weaves, and spinning techniques and create yarns class you will discover that the materials coverlets and pillowcases for the home. chase weave, braid stitch, twining, three- consistent in size, draft and ply and explore used are naturally grown along the coast Participants will discover that this style rod wale and spiral weave. Participants will techniques for spinning color without of South Carolina and include sweetgrass, uses supplementary wefts and includes be introduced to smoked reed, dyed reed, dyeing. Working with solid colors and pine needles, bull-rush and palmetto palm. contrasting colors, abstract geometries, sea grass, waxed linen and paper splint to hand painted braids, students will mix, The only tool used during the time was eye-dazzling patterns and furrows that yield be used as accents to natural reed materials. blend and manipulate color and color flow an animal bone, but today a utensil and contemporary compositions. You will learn Students will add a wide variety of weaving to create yarns both unique and beautiful. scissors are used. Open to all skill levels. proper weaving techniques and design, techniques to their knowledge of basketry At week’s end, you will spin an intentional COURSE FEE: $600 along with your personal exploration of and may expect to create at least six panels yarn for a specific project to gain rhythm, geometry, color and line. Some during class. Open to all skill levels. confidence in spinning and mixing color. Lynette Youson is a fifth generation sweetgrass experience on a floor loom is helpful, COURSE FEE: $600 Adventurous beginners who can make basket weaver from the low country of South however this course is open to all skill a continuous yarn will dive deeper into Carolina and a sweetgrass after-school levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Beth Hester is a maker, teacher and student of spinning basics, while more experienced instructor. She started weaving as a child, basketry who lives in Allen County, Kentucky. spinners will experiment beyond the yarns learning her craft from her great-grandmother Jovencio de la Paz is an artist, weaver and Having learned techniques from Ollie and Lestel they have been making. Open to all and has continued to weave with her mother for educator who is an assistant professor and Childress, and Leona Waddell, she is honored skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 over 45 years. Youson is dedicated to sharing head of Fibers at the University of Oregon in to be a bearer of south-central Kentucky’s white the historical importance of this ancient art Eugene, Oregon. He received an MFA from the oak basket tradition. A partner in The Basket Jillian Moreno lives in Ann Arbor and authored form. She has appeared on the CBS Sunday Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from the Maker’s Catalog, Hester creates patterns, Yarnitecture: A Knitter’s Guide to Spinning: Morning and has been the subject of numerous School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is also products and learning opportunities through Building Exactly the Yarn You Want. She is newspaper and magazine articles. One of a co-founder of the international collaborative teaching and hosting workshops around passionate about exploring the structure of her Rice Fanner Basket is on display at the group Craft Mystery Cult, established in 2010. Kentucky. BASKETMAKERSCATALOG.COM yarn and color, and using them in knitting, Smithsonian American Art Museum. JOVENCIODELAPAZ.ORG stitching and weaving. JILLIANMORENO.COM FIBERS ∙ TEXTILES ∙ BASKETS
OCTOBER 4 – 10 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 4 – 10 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 11 – 17 · ONE WEEK
JACKIE ABRAMS SONYA PHILIP CHRISTINE ZOLLER BASKETS, PAPER, COLOR: CLOTH INTO CLOTHES EXPLORING THE PAINTERLY HEXAGONAL WEAVE ASPECTS OF SCREEN PRINTING: Before mechanized production, cloth was SCREENS AS BRUSHES During this workshop students will create a precious commodity. In this workshop baskets inspired by the ancient Asian students will learn basic garment sewing, Screen printers have used screens to create technique of openwork hexagonal weave. in addition to strategies for cutting fabric beautiful repeat patterns on fabric for Using contemporary materials and painted and incorporating piecework into whole multiple uses. In this workshop students cotton papers, you will weave the first cloth patterns. You will discover a variety will discover a unique process using screens layer using this technique which is similar of modifications and fabric manipulation to build surfaces in a more painterly way. to the Shaker cheese baskets. This will be techniques in order to alter length and Using textile paints and fiber reactive a framework to interlace the second and to create different necklines and pocket dyes, participants will use blank screens third layers, or for layers of random weave styles. This class is ideally suited for and various types of stencils to build and color. Students will be introduced to handweavers and textile lovers, however layers of imagery and create one-of-a- the possibilites of form, size and color while simple patterns offer easy entry to those kind compositions. Participants will also exploring the sculptural possibilities. Open sewing clothes for the first time. This class explore painting directly on to screens to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 is open to all skill levels, however previous before printing to create work which takes experience using a sewing machine is advantage of watercolor and silk painting Jackie Abrams lives in Brattleboro, Vermont required. COURSE FEE: $600 techniques. Students will be given a unique and has been a basket maker since 1975 while way of working with this limitless process. apprenticing to an 81-year-old traditional basket Sonya Philip is an artist, designer and teacher Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 maker. Since 1990, she has explored plaiting and lives in San Francisco, California. She has techniques, the use of heavy cotton paper as a an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Christine Zoller lives in Greenville, North material, and the possibilities of contemporary In 2012, she started a project called 100 Acts Carolina and is a recently retired associate basketry. She exhibits at shows, galleries of Sewing, making dresses while documenting professor emeritus from East Carolina University and museums, and has been highlighted in the process. As a self-taught artist, she enjoys where she taught for 22 years. She now looks numerous fiber arts and fine craft books. She the freedom of exploring and stretching forward to a full-time life of creating new teaches throughout the U.S., Guatemala, the mediums, while referring to work in project work, conducting workshops and expanding United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. series. 100ACTSOFSEWING.COM her business selling silk scarves and beaded JACKIEABRAMS.COM jewelry. Zoller has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally and has taught workshops across the country. 45
OCTOBER 18 – 24 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 18 – 24 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 25 – 31 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 25 – 31 · ONE WEEK
KATHRYN CLARK AKEMI COHN LANNY BERGNER CLARE VERSTEGEN IMPROVISATIONAL EMBROIDERY KATAZOME: NATURAL DYE AND INDIGO THE ART OF METAL MESH PRINTED TEXTILES SCULPTURE AND BASKETRY The goal of this workshop is for students to Katazome is a traditional Japanese rice paste During this workshop students will unlock delve into an improvisational approach to resist technique that is applied through a In this workshop students will create their creative potential while learning to embroidery by breaking rules, embellishing, stencil and colored with natural dyes and/or biomorphic and geometric sculptural design and print original patterns and designing and experimenting. This is a class earth pigments. In this workshop students constructions out of metal mesh. You images on cloth. You will start with simple where you can enjoy the process of stitching will learn basic Katazome and explore will discover the myriad of form making monoprinting followed by screen printing and the creative process. Participants will images representing their own story. The possibilities by manipulating, cutting and on fabric using transparent, custom mixed study the work of contemporary embroidery class covers cooking rice paste, making connecting stainless steel, aluminum and pigments with infinite color options. artists around the world, discuss design soymilk, mordant, brushing and painting brass mesh. Participants will also explore During class students will acquire skills in inspiration and creativity, learn helpful with natural dyes and steaming to set colors. the world of flame painting by using a using shapes, color overlays, visual textures working techniques, and experiment with Participants will dip rice-pasted fabric into propane torch to draw/paint on stainless and photographs to produce yardage and stitching, embellishment and presentation the indigo dye pot to create intensive shades steel mesh. The techniques covered in smaller compositions. Screen stencils used techniques. You will become more relaxed of blue including the technique of Sumi ink. class include wire wrapping and edging during class include wax crayon, contact and innovative with embroidery and Tsutsugaki, which is freehand drawing with techniques and how to incorporate silicone paper and photo emulsion. Participants will create unique pieces of art works, rice paste in a pastry tube, will add to your caulk and glass frit into your meshwork will receive valuable information and embroidery samplers, wearable art, or an creative possibilities. The application of earth designs. Open to all skill levels. tips, and the pace is swift – but fun. The embroidered sculpture. Open to all skill pigments is also covered. Students will take COURSE FEE: $600 goal is to learn from scratch, refresh your levels. COURSE FEE: $600 home a variety of experimental fabric pieces knowledge and perfect your skills. Open to use as a guide for future projects. Open to Lanny Bergner is a full-time mixed media to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Kathryn Clark is a textile artist who lives in all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 installation, fiber and sculptural basketry artist Sonoma and San Francisco, California. Her who maintains his studio near Anacortes, Clare Verstegen is an artist and educator art reflects global societal issues. Her work Akemi Cohn was born in Yokohama, Japan and Washington. He received his MFA in Sculpture living in Tempe, Arizona. She is professor has been exhibited widely across the U.S. studied traditional Japanese dyeing techniques from the Tyler School of Art. His work can emerita at the Herberger Institute of Design and featured in publications including The for 10 years under Master Haru Izumi. She has be found at the Seattle Art Museum and and The Arts at Arizona State University, Craft Companion, Quilts and Human Rights an MFA in Fiber Art from Cranbrook Academy the Museum of Art and Design. In 2005, where she headed the fibers program for and Craft for the Modern World: The Renwick of Art. Cohn has taught at the School of the Art Bergner received a Gold Prize at the Cheongju years. Her screen printed and collaged felt Gallery Collection. Her “Washington, D.C. Institute of Chicago and at craft schools, the International Craft Biennale and 2010 he was works have been exhibited nationally and Foreclosure Quilt” is part of the Smithsonian International Surface Design Conference, and one of five American artists to exhibit in the internationally and published in Surface American Art Museum’s permanent collection. Zijdelings (Netherlands). AKEMISTUDIO.COM prestigious 13th International Triennial of Design Journal, Fiberarts, Fiber Art Now and KATHRYNCLARK.COM Tapestry in Łódz, Poland. LANNYBERGNER.COM American Craft. CLAREVERSTEGEN.COM FIBERS ∙ TEXTILES ∙ BASKETS
NOVEMBER 1 – 7 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 1 – 7 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 8 – 14 · ONE WEEK
PAT HICKMAN JOEL LEVY LOGIUDICE JOETTA MAUE BREATHING BASKETS ALTERNATIVE SURFACE THE STITCHED IMAGE DESIGN TECHNIQUES The focus of this workshop is to encourage In this workshop students will explore the students to explore openwork textile During this workshop students will experimental photographic processes of structures that include knotted netting explore surface design techniques for cyanotype and Vandyke on textiles. You and knotless netting. You will learn to mark making and repeat pattern making. will also learn how to draw with thread reserve space for air and the importance of Through classroom demonstrations and techniques to enhance, add, layer and utilizing what is “not there” to build into creative work sessions, participants delve respond to the resulting imagery. This studio projects, using a range of materials. into the fundamentals of dye discharge, class explores technique, personal ideas Participants will discover how to become bleach discharge, ice dyeing and rust and conceptual development to gain a comfortable with netting techniques dyeing. Designs will emerge as you learn deeper understanding of the process. and understand how they can be used to to master each process employing a variety How to work autobiographically as well as express ideas in sculptural baskets. The goal of techniques including shibori (folding, utilize photographic imagery, textiles and of the workshop is discovery and to provide pole wrapping, clamp resist) and stenciling. words are covered. Participants will learn ways for students to push their own limits Students will also explore stamping to digital negative techniques, alternative of imagination about what they have to say remove and add color to raw silk and cotton photo emulsion and stitching. You will in their work. Open to all skill levels. fabric. At the end of class, participants also discover that photo processes are COURSE FEE: $600 will have samples and yardage to use in unpredictable and involve experimentation. clothing, art quilts or fabric collages. Open Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Pat Hickman lives in Haverstraw, New York to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 and her studio is at the Garnerville Arts and Joetta Maue is an independent curator and Industrial Center. She is a professor emerita JoEl Levy LoGiudice is a full-time studio artist lecturer at Northeastern University in Boston of Art at the University of Hawaii. Hickman living in Ashland City, Tennessee. She is and the Massachusetts College of Art. In her has twice received NEA grants and is a fellow the former director of the Office of Arts and work she uses photography and embroidery of the American Craft Council and serves on Creative Engagement at Vanderbilt University. techniques to explore themes of intimacy the National Basketry Organization Board. Her LoGiudice has taught at the Appalachian and the psychological domestic landscape. gate commission, Nets of Makali’i–Nets of the Center for Crafts, Florida Community College, Maue holds a BFA and MFA and exhibits in Pleiades, stands at the entrance of Maui Arts & The Clearing Folk School and at the John C. galleries and museums across the country and Cultural Center. PATHICKMAN.COM Campbell Folk School. Her work is exhibited internationally. She is a featured artist and throughout the southeast and is included critic in several books, journals and television in numerous collections. FACEBOOK.COM/ broadcasts. JOETTAMAUE.COM RAGTIMEDESIGNSWEAVING 47
NOVEMBER 8 – 14 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 15 – 21 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 15 – 21 · ONE WEEK
YOU MIGHT ALSO BE INTERESTED IN THE FOLLOWING WORKSHOPS
TERESA AUDET P.60
ANGELA CALDWELL P.51
HOLLIE CHASTAIN P.30
LESLEY PATTERSON-MARX DEBORAH FELL MARK HENDRY MARY HETTMANSPERGER P.54 INVENTIVE MARBLING: EXPLORING THE BORO STITCH AS EXPLORING ANTLER BASKETRY THE POSSIBILITIES OF TOOLS A BRUSH STROKE DOUG LOWMAN P.12 AND TECHNIQUES In this workshop students will be Our world moves very fast. This retreat-like introduced to combining the beauty of During this workshop students will explore boro workshop will focus on slowing down natural shed deer antlers with artisan the art form of marbling on paper, where and relishing in process rather than product. style basket weaving. During class you prints are made from pigment floating on Students will create small compositions and will combine nature and art to create liquid. Participants will learn traditional use these designs to jumpstart their new fanciful and functional Appalachian pattern techniques, along with endless work. This is not a technique workshop where antler baskets. By exploring various possibilities for invention, improvisation you learn how to hand stitch, but how to use drilling techniques and sculptural forms, and experimentation. You will learn to the stitch line as mark making on cloth, the participants can also create their own prepare a marbling bath, adding mordant brush strokes that make the composition unique antler weavings, using a variety to paper and custom mixing colors. complete. During class, the Gee’s Bend of organic colors and natural materials Students will create a variety of marbled Quilters, and Boro and Kantha stitching including vines, cordages, reeds, grasses papers exploring color and pattern practices are examined. Each day will open and fibers. Open to all skill levels. while using tools that they make. Paper with a design presentation and participants COURSE FEE: $600 stencils, found papers, atomizers, rakes, will explore personal mark making combs, droppers, stylus and whisks will preferences in groups. Supplies needed are Mark Hendry is a full-time artisan specializing expand your toolbox and open a world of minimal and no machines are necessary. in historic handcraft with a focus on using possibilities for this versatile medium. With Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 natural materials. With over 30 years’ finished papers, participants will have the experience as a professional teacher of fine option to create simple non adhesive book Deborah Fell has been a professional educator and performing arts in private, public and structures and collages. Open to all skill for over 30 years and an Artist-in-Residence magnet schools, Hendry travels the country levels. COURSE FEE: $600 in Mendocino, California, the Vermont Studio teaching all levels and ages. He teaches Center, and at the University of Illinois. Her regularly for the John C. Campbell Folk Lesley Patterson-Marx is a teaching artist in work has been on the front cover of Art Quilting School, is a member of the Southern Highland Nashville, Tennessee. She received her MFA from Studio and she was featured in the January Craft Guild, and is the director and resident UNC Chapel Hill. Patterson-Marx incorporates 2017 Patchwork Professional in Germany. Fell artist for Mountain Heritage Handcraft, marbling into her works, which have been has exhibited in South Africa, Holland and located in Blue Ridge, Georgia. exhibited across the U.S., Great Britain and The France and she won the Quilts Japan Prize at the MHCRAFTED.COM Netherlands. LESLEYPATTERSONMARX.COM Visions Art Museum in 2018. DEBORAHFELL.COM “My first class at Arrowmont was dramatic for me. For the first time I was in a room with 15 entirely different people — but we all had in common the JOY of hitting metal with a hammer. I’d never had anyone else who I could relate to in that way. Arrowmont provides an education on every level, and it changed my life.” — SUSAN CARRUTH, DONOR, ESTABLISHED THE BARBARA LUCILE MAPLES SCHOLARSHIP IN METALS 4949
METALS & ENAMELS
Arrowmont’s Metals and Enamels workshops remain popular especially with returning instructors John Cogswell, Sue Amendolara, Ricky Frank, Mary Hettmansperger and Tom McCarthy. Many new instructors round out the 2020 schedule, teaching diverse workshops in metal spinning, welding, stone setting, die forming, cloisonné and experimental mixed media and alternative processes. Take a close look at these 25 offerings in metals, enamels and glass.
METALS ∙ ENAMELS
MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND MAY 24 – 30 · ONE WEEK MAY 24 – 30 · ONE WEEK MAY 31 – JUNE 6 · ONE WEEK
EMILY SHAFFER JOHN COGSWELL ABIGAIL HEUSS SUE AMENDOLARA ARGENTIUM SILVER FABRICATION CUPS: A HOLLOWWARE WORKSHOP PAINTING WITH GLASS: AN DIE-HARD: JEWELRY MAKING INTRODUCTION TO ENAMELING USING THE HYDRAULIC PRESS During this workshop students will In this workshop students will study utilize fabrication techniques to create a the traditional hammer and forming During this workshop students will explore Hydraulic press die-forming is a versatile variety of jewelry forms with Argentium techniques by which silversmiths shape exciting ways to create imagery with process, producing smooth volumetric silver. Argentium is a sterling silver alloy or raise two-dimensional flat sheet metal transparent and opaque enamels on copper forms in metal used to create jewelry and with the magic properties of germanium. into three-dimensional volumetric cups. and silver. You will explore techniques such small sculpture. In this workshop students It is tarnish resistant, adaptable, fuses Participants will discover that metal as stenciling, graphite application, use of will create their own jewelry or objects by better than sterling silver, and does not blank is subjected to a series of sequential decals, cloisonné, champlevé, and painting exploring various types of die-forms. You fire scale. Participants will learn more hammering operations. You will learn with watercolor enamel. Participants will use low-tech processes and materials about these exciting properties and how that in the initial stages, the plasticity will learn both kiln and torch firing that are easily manipulated to create simple- to put them to use. Class demonstrations (malleability) of the metal is exploited as options. Whether you are an experienced to-complex pieces. Texturing, embossing, include annealing, granulation, soldering the desired silhouette evolves. In the final metalsmith hoping to create lovely glass sweat soldering and making multiples are and fusing. You will add function to your stages, the form is refined and finished gems to enhance your work, or a newcomer covered as well as surface embellishments. argentium pieces with effective, handmade off (planished). All stages of the raising to the medium, this course will be a fun Techniques such as sawing, filing and clasps and earring hooks. Finishing operation, from initial design to finished overview of what enameling has to offer. drilling are covered and will assist techniques are also explored. Open to object are covered. Students will also learn Basic metalsmithing skills will be useful, participants in completing their individual all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $400 about various hammers, stakes (metal but not necessary. COURSE FEE: $675 projects. Open to all skill levels. forms) and their specific usage, as well as COURSE FEE: $600 Emily Shaffer owns and operates her other forming and assembly techniques. Abigail Heuss is an associate professor at contemporary jewelry brand from her studio in Competent basic metalworking skills Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia Sue Amendolara teaches Jewelry/Metals at Belfast, Maine. She received her BFA in Crafts are required. COURSE FEE: $600 where she teaches 3D Design and Metalsmithing Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. She has an concentrating in Fine Metals and a BS in Art courses. She holds an MFA in Metal Design MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington and Education from Kutztown University. Her work John Cogswell is a jeweler, silversmith, educator from East Carolina University and a BFA in a BFA from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Her can be seen at juried craft shows and galleries and author/illustrator. He taught at SUNY New Jewelry and Metalsmithing from the University metalwork has been exhibited internationally and across the country. Shaffer is a recipient of Paltz, New York, Parsons School of Design, the of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Her work has her work has been in American Craft, Metalsmith the J. Allen Pawling Craft Memorial Award, an Pratt Institute and Hofstra University. Cogswell been shown in national and international and Ornament. Her work is in the permanent American Craft Week 30 Under 30 Rising Star, is the former director of the Jewelry and exhibitions and been published in several books collection at The Renwick Gallery of the a 2017 Halstead Grant Top 5 Finalist, and the Metalsmithing Department at the 92nd Street and magazines. Huess makes domestic and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington 2018 Halstead Grant winner. Y. He is an author, illustrator and a technical wearable objects with a sentimental focus on D.C. and the White House Collection of American EMILYSHAFFERSTUDIO.COM consultant for several contemporary jewelry texts. narrative. ABIGAILHEUSS.COM Crafts. SUEAMENDOLARA.COM 51
MAY 31 – JUNE 6 · ONE WEEK JUNE 7 – 13 · ONE WEEK JUNE 14 – 20 · ONE WEEK JUNE 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK
MI-SOOK HUR JULIA HARRISON ANGELA CALDWELL EMILY CULVER MATCHING ENAMEL JEWELRY CARVED STONE AND CUSTOM SETTING HARD AND SOFT: MAKING NEW APPROACHES: ALTERNATIVE WITH YOUR OUTFIT THE CONNECTION MATERIALS AND PROCESSES IN Say “so long” to common cabochons and JEWELRY/OBJECT MAKING This workshop focuses on drawing and basic bezels. In this workshop students Creating connections with textiles and painting in vitreous enamel. Students will learn to carve medium-hard rocks metal can be challenging. In this workshop During this workshop students will explore should bring to class photographs of their and stones using a variety of approaches, students will explore ways to combine mixed various ways to incorporate alternative favorite dresses and/or silk scarves with with an emphasis on hand tools and media and textile elements with traditional materials that complement their metal patterns. You will refresh the garments low-tech lapidary techniques. You will metalsmithing techniques. Through samples designs. This class is for those with an using watercolor enamels, underglaze enjoy having creative control over your and small projects, you will experiment interest in adding new texture, color and pencils, overglaze china paints, and pen and stones and your settings. Participants will with combining sewing, riveting, and movement into their work. Participants ink. Participants will learn to render, draw, create a unique setting that shows off their other means to creatively assemble various will gain a broader knowledge of working mix colors, make marks and add details shaped and polished stone and finish at materials. Participants will learn to devise across various materials and develop a on enameled copper. During class you will least one wearable piece, such as a pendant step-by-step instructions to connect your better understanding of how their decisions complete a series of small enamel pieces or brooch. Class demonstrations include pieces, with a special focus on planning are reflected in the jewelry or objects for brooches, earrings and pendants which introducing a range of tensioned and ahead and problem solving. Demonstrations they create. Class demonstrations include match the outfit of your choice. No previous embedded settings and findings. Previous include sawing, soldering and riveting metal cold connections, mechanisms and drawing and painting experience are soldering experience is required. along with knitting, crocheting, felting and attachments. Discussions center on how required. Open to all skill levels, however COURSE FEE: $600 embroidery. Historical and contemporary to work within material families such as basic enameling skills, such as sifting and work will be presented to offer inspiration woods, fibers, rubbers and plastics. Open firing, are helpful. COURSE FEE: $675 Julia Harrison is a Seattle-based artist, and insight into student’s choice of materials to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 educator and Jewelry/Metals manager for Pratt and design. Open to all skill levels, however Mi-Sook Hur is an award-winning enamelist and Fine Arts Center. She has taught workshops at some experience in metalsmithing and Emily Culver is an instructor in the Craft/ metalsmith who is professor in the School of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland knitting is a plus. COURSE FEE: $600 Material Studies Department at Virginia Art and Design at East Carolina University. Her School of Craft and the 92nd Street Y. She Commonwealth University in Richmond, work focuses on the realistic images inspired enjoys carving after years of working with Angela Caldwell is a full-time studio artist Virginia. She received an MFA in Metalsmithing by nature and she explores the modern studies wood. Her recent carving projects feature and lives in Bloomington, Indiana. She is an from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in of Limoges techniques. She wrote a chapter materials including cement, soap, jet, brick, exhibiting artist, currently pursuing an MFA in Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM from the Tyler School about her painterly techniques in The Art agate and obsidian. JULIAHARRISON.NET jewelry and fibers. Her work examines memory of Art at Temple University. In addition to of Fine Enameling. Hur is a former artist-in- and women’s role in society through traditional exhibiting work nationally and internationally, residence at John Michael Kohler Arts Center craft. ANGELACALDWELLJEWELLRY.COM Culver was also a 2017–18 Arrowmont Artist-in- and the Jentel Foundation. MISOOKHUR.COM Residence. EMILY-CULVER.COM METALS ∙ ENAMELS
JUNE 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK JUNE 28 – JULY 11 · TWO WEEKS JULY 19 – 25 · ONE WEEK JULY 19 – 25 · ONE WEEK
RICKY FRANK TANYA CRANE ANNE HAVEL DEB KARASH CREATIVE ENAMEL COLOR: SUSPENDED TOPOGRAPHIES DIMENSIONAL ENAMELING: CREATING DIMENSION WITH LAYERS, CLOISONNÉ AND BEYOND IN ENAMEL ENAMEL IN 3D TEXTURE AND VOLUME
In this workshop students will apply New worlds are ready for you to discover in This workshop will explore the creation In this workshop students will discover creative enamel color to cloisonné and enameling. During this workshop students of dimensional pieces, soldering and how to spice up jewelry by combining champlevé projects (including argentium will discover intentional and experimental enameling using a torch to enable the simple techniques with interesting surfaces and metal clay) using transparent, opaque approaches in enameling to capture those piece to be set. Students will discover and multiple layers. You will learn how to and opalescent enamel colors. Using this moments on the surface of metal. There is that many pieces can be enameled, after paste solder to make soldering multiple enamel color vocabulary, you will blend, an emphasis on exploring the potential of soldering, if a torch is used rather than a elements easier and to bump up your gradate, layer, band and bridge to create natural materials such as sand, steel, silver kiln. During class, equal weight will be finishing skills to make your piece look its a never-ending array of color possibilities. and gold foil as well as glass beads as a given to planning, forming and creating very best. Participants can also bring found Participants can also experiment freely means of creating spontaneous surfaces. the piece in metal, followed by enameling. materials to add to their work. During by building up layers to create personal Participants will learn about liquid and Participants will also experience shared the week, this class will join Anne Havel’s imagery and expressive design. There dry-sifting enamels as well as painting demonstrations with Deb Karash’s class, Dimensional Enameling: Enamel in 3D will be demonstrations on using both enamels. Class demonstrations focus on Creating Dimension with Layers, Texture class for a torch enameling demonstration. commercial and hand-made foils. The class composition and finishing techniques. and Volume. Soldering and enameling Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 also includes lectures, video, handouts and Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $1155 skills will allow for more flexibility in lots of hands-on “making” time. Many design and are highly recommended, but Deb Karash lives and works in Asheville, students will leave with 10–20 samples. Tanya Crane is a professor of the Practice not necessary. Open to all skill levels. North Carolina and has an MA in Jewelry and Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $675 at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at COURSE FEE: $675 Metalwork. After spending many years as Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. a full-time studio jeweler, she now teaches Ricky Frank is a master enamelist and has She received degrees in Metal and Jewelry Anne Havel is an enamelist, metalsmith and workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad. made cloisonné jewelry for over 35 years. As a from SUNY New Paltz and the University of lampworker living in Pawlet, Vermont. She Karash’s work is sold in fine craft galleries and self-taught artist, he has exhibited his award- Wisconsin, Madison. Crane received the Artist has been a studio artist for 18 years. Havel is on her website. DEBKARASH.COM winning jewelry at the Smithsonian Craft Show Award from the Society of Arts and Crafts in treasurer of The Enamelist Society, Pocosin Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum Craft Show. He Boston and had a solo exhibition of her metal and the Enamel Guild North East. She chairs is a frequent instructor at Arrowmont and has work at the National Ornamental Metal Museum the Educational Endowment Committee of the taught at the Florida Society of Goldsmiths, in Memphis, Tennessee. Society of North American Goldsmiths. Her work Rio Grande Jewelry and the Enamelist Society TANYAMONIQUEJEWELRY.COM is in the permanent collection of the Enamel Arts Conference. RICKYFRANK.COM Foundation and numerous private collections. CRAFTHAUS.NING.COM/PROFILE/ANNEHAVEL 53
JULY 26 – AUGUST 1 · ONE WEEK JULY 26 – AUGUST 1 · ONE WEEK
JOSHUA SHOREY JAMES THURMAN SCULPTURAL STEEL SMALL-SCALE METAL SPINNING
If you like machines, sparks, fire and In this workshop students will work with making strong and inexpensive things aluminum, copper and pewter to learn that last, then this workshop is for you. It the basic tool usage of metal spinning and will explore industrial steel as a material will produce several vessel designs. Metal in sculpture. Students will learn and spinning is a great technique for both the experiment with the technical and artistic production of numerous pieces and one-of- uses of steel, including welding, basic a-kind artworks. It is a quick way to form forging, hot bending and cold working vessels from flat disks of metal. Using a techniques. You will use a variety of woodturning lathe, you will push the disk manual and power tools to shape, connect, into shape while spinning. Students with grind and finish steel. Participants with an interest in woodturning, metalsmithing, an interest in sculpture, furniture making, enameling, and/or jewelry will be able to industrial design, blacksmithing, or add small metal vessels into their designs. automotive crafts will leave class having Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $675 made large scale, durable and inexpensive structures. Open to all skill levels. James Thurman is an associate professor COURSE FEE: $600 and program coordinator of Metalsmithing and Jewelry at the University of North Joshua Shorey is an artist and furniture Texas in Denton. Since earning his MFA in designer in Knoxville, Tennessee. He earned Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of his MFA in Sculpture from The University Art, he has incorporated metal spinning, wood of Tennessee in 2017. Shorey owns and turning and metalsmithing into his studio operates BAPO Design in Knoxville, a custom practice to create a wide range of tableware furniture and sculpture studio specializing in and jewelry. Thurman has taught workshops woodworking, steel fabrication, and precious in metalsmithing and woodturning across the metal casting. JOSHSHOREY.COM country as well as in Japan and Turkey. JAMESTHURMAN.COM METALS ∙ ENAMELS
JULY 26 – AUGUST 1 · ONE WEEK AUGUST 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 4 – 10 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 11 – 17 · ONE WEEK
UMUT DEMIRGÜÇ THURMAN JENNIFER WELLS ANNA JOHNSON MARY HETTMANSPERGER SMALL ENAMELED VESSELS TEXTURE AND COLOR SAW, SET, SOLDER SENSE OF PLACE: MAKING PLACES, BOXES, METAL AND MORE During this workshop students will learn The goal of this workshop is to explore the This workshop will focus on exploring how to apply a variety of enameling traditional enameling technique of basse- basic soldering techniques with an In this workshop students will create techniques on small vessels and dishes taille. Students will discover metalworking emphasis on creative problem solving box structures that will be transformed including sifting, basse-taille, sgraffito, methods that enhance enameling, roller and the incorporation of found objects through metalwork, collage, encaustic and underglazes, overglazes and use of foils. printing, stamping textures and etching into your work. Students should be ready embellishment into personal places to hold Those with an interest in enameling the base sheet of copper. Once the metal to develop their metalsmithing skills, artwork, found and personal items. Using and metalsmithing will gain experience work is completed, participants will work including sawing, soldering and setting. compartments, cages, doors, windows and in working much more dimensionally. with enamels emphasizing the texture of Class discussions include professional utilizing many alternative techniques you Participants will also explore the interaction the metal, layering opaque and transparent, practice methods, design and studio setup. will define the spaces. Participants will use of multiple enameling techniques with a and incorporating liquid enamel and P-3 to Come with interesting objects that can be metalwork, weaving, paints, fiber, clay, variety of copper forms created through enhance the texture in the metal. Students incorporated into jewelry, a playful attitude concrete, encaustic, collage, repurposing different metalsmithing processes. Open will also experiment with grinding away and ready to make multiple wearable pieces and many surface applications as they to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $675 the base coats of enamel, pencil drawing, by the end of the workshop. Open to all create their boxes. Students may also make watercolor enamels and firing alternative skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 jewelry, sculpture or other small works of Umut Demirgüç Thurman teaches jewelry and materials into the enamel surface. A art to put into their boxes. Open to all metalsmithing as adjunct professor at the basic understanding of enameling and Anna Johnson is a studio artist living in skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 University of North Texas, Denton. She has metalsmithing is helpful. COURSE FEE: $675 Asheville, North Carolina. Her work is exhibited an MFA from the University of North Texas in internationally and has appeared in numerous Mary Hettmansperger is the owner of Gallery Metalsmithing and Jewelry, and a BFA from Jennifer Wells is a studio artist and educator, publications, including American Craft Magazine, 64 in Wabash, Indiana. She has been teaching Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, originally from the U.S., who lives and works in Metalsmith Magazine, and CAST: Art and Objects. internationally for over 30 years in Australia, Turkey in Textile Design. Thurman exhibits Italy. She has completed several residencies at Johnson has taught at Penland School of Craft, New Zealand, Ireland, the U.K. and Singapore. her artwork in solo and group exhibitions and Arrowmont, the Pocosin Arts in Columbia, North Arrowmont and Haywood Community College. She has conducted workshops at Arrowmont, teaches metals and jewelry workshops in the Carolina and at the Jentel Foundation near ANNAJOHNSONJEWELRY.COM Penland School of Craft and at national and U.S. and Turkey. UMUTDEMIRGUC.COM Banner, Wyoming. She teaches workshops on regional Fiber Conferences, Art and Craft various enameling and metalsmithing techniques Schools, and private Guilds. Hettmansperger throughout Europe and the U.S. Wells serves on has also produced three DVDs on surface the Board of Vita Institute, and her work is in the design and jewelry for Interweave. collection of the Enamel Arts Foundation and the MARYHETTS.COM Racine Museum. JENNWELLS.COM 55
OCTOBER 18 – 24 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 25 – 31 · ONE WEEK
RACHEL SHIMPOCK LAUREN MCADAMS SELDEN SHAKE AND SHOOT CUT, BEND AND JOIN: POWDERCOAT TWO WAYS WELDING FOR ALL
During this workshop students will explore If you want to check off welding from two powdercoat application methods. your bucket list, then let’s do it together. Powdercoat is durable and versatile and This hands-on introductory workshop can be applied to metal, glass, wood, cork, provides students the basics of cutting shells, stone, concrete or anything that can metal, tacking pieces of metal together, fit in a toaster oven and withstand 400° gas welding and MIG welding. Students Fahrenheit. After the base coat is laid, you are challenged to design and fabricate will discover several manipulations to take a sculptural work with select materials. it to the next level. The class will include Class discussions focus on safety, types of fun tips, tricks and stories of victory and equipment and how to properly operate the failure that are sure to comfort and push tools. Safety glasses, helmets and gloves your creations forward to success. Various are provided; however, participants are techniques and the use of color conquered encouraged to bring their own shields and will also be covered. Open to all skill levels. leather welding apparel if available. Let’s COURSE FEE: $600 make art. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $600 Rachel Shimpock is a professor of Metals and Jewelry at California State University at Long Lauren McAdams Selden is an associate Beach where she received her BFA in Metals and professor of Jewelry and Metalworking Jewelry. She received an MFA in the Jewelry/ at Stephen F. Austin State University in Metals program at San Diego State University. Nacogdoches, Texas. Her work has been Her work has been shown extensively in the exhibited in solo, invitational and juried U.S. and is part of the collection in Oregon exhibitions at national and international venues. Museum of Contemporary Craft and The Enamel Selden’s outdoor sculptures have been on public Arts Society based in Los Angeles. Shimpock’s display in various cities across the country, and publications include Humor in Craft and two recent sculptures were acquired by the San periodicals such as Metalsmith and Ornament Marcos Arts Commission for their permanent Magazine. RACHELSHIMPOCK.COM sculpture collection. SELDENART.COM METALS ∙ ENAMELS
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DAVID JONES TOM MCCARTHY JOSHUA SHOREY RACHEL KEDINGER HANDS, TOOLS AND TRICKS MENDING: COLLABORATING BRONZE CASTING ENAMELING AT LARGE WITH BROKEN OBJECTS In this workshop students will focus on Humans have been casting bronze for In this workshop students will learn to traditional and inventive metalsmithing During this workshop students will use thousands of years. This workshop is an form and enamel sheet copper and steel. techniques while producing jewelry and traditional metalworking skills in non- introduction to the methods and materials Using shallow bowl and tray forms as a small objects or sculpture. You will discover traditional ways to return broken objects of bronze casting. Students will learn how starting point, this workshop will cover the endless possibilities with fabrication to life. You will discover that mending is to make molds, melt metal, pour it into techniques to manipulate and join sheet being at the heart. Techniques include not just repair, it is the use of brokenness to solid shapes, and polish and finish castings. metal such as mini welding, hammering, forming, forging, soldering, sawing, cold inspire a new direction for an object. Class By learning how to mold and cast bronze, bending, texturing, riveting, fusing and connecting, chain making, rings and demonstrations include traditional jewelry participants interested in jewelry making, folding. Along with methods in forming stamping, and utilization of wire and sheet repair skills with an emphasis on how these sculpture, casting at home, or casting and fabrication, participants will learn metal. There will be a strong emphasis can be exaggerated to become new design any other metal will gain a thorough to apply liquid and powdered enamels to on using recycled metals and materials, elements. Other demonstrations will be understanding of the processes, tools and dimensional surfaces. This workshop will as well as advice on where to source these determined by the broken object’s students materials necessary for this ancient art emphasize experimentation with color, materials. Class demonstrations will assist bring to class with them. Some examples form. Open to all skill levels. form and texture in the enameling kiln. in building your knowledge and personal include drilling ceramics and glass and COURSE FEE: $600 Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $675 narrative. Students should arrive with open riveting on curved surfaces. This class eyes and willing hands. Open to all skill is for the advanced beginner and above. Joshua Shorey is an artist and furniture Rachel Kedinger is an artist who lives in levels, however basic metalsmithing skills Knowledge of high temperature soldering designer in Knoxville, Tennessee. He earned Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received are a plus. COURSE FEE: $600 and basic hand tool skills are required. his MFA in Sculpture from The University her BFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from COURSE FEE: $600 of Tennessee in 2017. Shorey owns and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. David Jones received his BFA from Kutztown operates BAPO Design in Knoxville, a custom She participated in the Core Fellowship University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Tom McCarthy lives in St. Louis, Missouri and has furniture and sculpture studio specializing in Program at the Penland School of Craft. She Jewelry and Metalsmithing at the Tyler School made jewelry for over 35 years. He has an MFA woodworking, steel fabrication, and precious primarily makes forged and fabricated objects of Art in Philadelphia. Since 1988, he has from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His metal casting. JOSHSHOREY.COM with a focus on utilitarian use. Kedinger been studying and teaching at Penland School work is in numerous collections including the Mint enjoys collaborating with local museums, of Craft and taught at its Spring of 2017 Museum of Craft and Design. McCarthy teaches organizations and businesses to promote craft Concentration. In 2012, he was a professor of workshops across the country and contributed a and design within her community. Jewelry and Metals in Cortona, Italy through the chapter to The Penland Book of Jewelry. In 2006, RACHELKEDINGER.COM University of Georgia studies abroad program. he was awarded a Fellowship in the Arts from the State of Florida. TOMMCCARTHYJEWELRY.COM
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LANNY BERGNER P.45 “When I first learned of Arrowmont, some 20 years ago, it meant little more to me than simply being an arts and crafts school where I might someday take a woodturning class. But with a little time, I learned it was a lot more. In fact, it was and is a place for life changing experiences.” — STEVE GOTTLIEB, ARROWMONT BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT 5959
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Along with a rich and long woodturning history and state of the art woodturning and woodworking complex, Arrowmont continues to be regarded as the center of the national scene for wood enthusiasts of every ability. With 37 course offerings, from bowl and sculptural turning, canoe and chair building, chip carving and box making, you are sure to discover more than one workshop you won’t want to miss.
HISTORICAL NOTE: In October, 1985 Arrowmont hosted international conference and exhibition, “Woodturning: Vision and Concept,” with 250 attendees. The conference concept was initiated and coordinated through the efforts of renowned woodturner David Ellsworth and Arrowmont director emeritus, Sandy Blain. The idea of forming a national woodturning organization germinated during that event, and the American Association of Woodturners (AAW) began in 1986. Today there are over 16,000 AAW members world-wide. WOODTURNER.ORG WOOD
MARCH 26 – 29 · WEEKEND MAY 24 – 30 · ONE WEEK MAY 24 – 30 · ONE WEEK MAY 31 – JUNE 6 · ONE WEEK
JANICE LEVI TERESA AUDET CHRIS HOEHLE JOSH ALMOND IT’S NEVER TOO EARLY SCULPTURAL WOODWORKING AND IMPROVISATION IN THE ROUND: AN THE CONSTRUCTED VESSEL FOR ORNAMENTS EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES INTRODUCTION TO WOODTURNING Small vessels, such as bowls or vases, are The purpose of this workshop is to explore During this workshop students will Woodturning offers the craftsperson a most easily turned on a lathe, however the processes for making traditional, explore new ideas and expand their joyful immediacy that is unlike any other what is the process to create a work inside-outside and faux open-segmented material vocabulary while learning kind of woodworking. In this workshop that is larger and less symmetrical? ornaments. Students will also learn how basic woodworking techniques of students will learn the technical skills In this workshop students will adapt form and proportion are necessary for furniture making and sculpture work. they need to unlock the unlimited creative contemporary boatbuilding techniques to completing elegant heirloom turnings. These techniques include safety, simple potential of the lathe. The class will focus construct larger sculptural vessels. Using During class you will turn thin, delicate joinery, model-making and prototyping. on tool sharpening, safety, mastering the the bandsaw, table saw and a variety of finials and create an ornament that only Participants will explore alternative basic cuts, and good form and design. hand tools, you will learn how to fashion appears to be segmented. Several species of mediums such as weaving with wood You will build confidence and refine your a strongback, setup forms, bend ribbands, wood, plus banksia pod, will be used. You and reeds, creating armatures with technique with ample hands-on practice and build up surfaces to create hollow, will also discover precise measuring, tool wire, and working with a variety of fiber as you complete a variety of turned objects volumetric forms of your own design. techniques and sharpening, color choices, media. Through daily demonstrations and such as mallets, cocktail muddlers, bottle Topics covered include steaming wood, decorating and creativity. Students will individual guidance, students will think stoppers, bud vases and bowls from rolling a bevel and applying cold-molded produce at least three heirloom ornaments creatively and problem-solve in their work. both kiln-dried and green wood. Open veneers, as well as some basic carving and plus several practice turnings and a huge You will begin by producing a one-day to all skill levels and geared towards finishing techniques. Open to all skill sense of accomplishment. Open to all skill vessel project and spend the week designing the beginner. No prior woodworking levels. COURSE FEE: $675 levels. COURSE FEE: $450 your own project that can be a bookshelf, a experience necessary. COURSE FEE: $675 collection of spoons, or a sculpture. Open Joshua Almond is a sculptor living and working Janice Levi is a retired drama teacher and to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $675 Chris Hoehle is a woodturner and shop monitor/ in Orange County, California. He was an alternative school counselor living in Central technician for the community woodshop at the associate professor of Art/Sculpture at Rollins Texas. She has been turning wood for 19 Teresa Audet is an artist and furniture maker Denver Tool Library in Denver, Colorado. He College in Winter Park, Florida. He holds a BA years and has presented at both regional and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has a BFA began his study of woodworking 15 years ago from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee national symposia as well as clubs across the in Furniture Design from the Minneapolis College at Red Rocks Community College, then further and an MA in Wood from the Herberger nation. Levi is known for her purses and jewelry of Art and Design and has studied woodworking refined his skills by attending workshops at Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona but also enjoys turning heirloom ornaments, at the Mt. Fuji School of Woodworking in Japan. Arrowmont and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. State University, Tempe, Arizona. Almond works many of which are enhanced with pyrography She exhibits artwork, teaches woodworking Hoehle’s work was featured in the Center for primarily in wood to create sculptural forms that and color. She also frequently writes for several and participates in residencies at craft schools Furniture Craftsmanship’s 2013 exhibition explore ideas about the body, landscape and woodturning magazines. JANICELEVI.COM nationwide. TERESAAUDET.COM Turning Twenty. STUDIOCSH.COM the environment. JOSHALMOND.COM 61
MAY 31 – JUNE 6 · ONE WEEK JUNE 7 – 13 · ONE WEEK JUNE 7 – 13 · ONE WEEK
BARRY GROSS TRENT BOSCH JACKSON MARTIN PEN MAKING FOR THE PERSONAL EXPLORATION OF RIGHT ANGLES, CURVING BENDS NEXT GENERATION TURNED FORMS AND SURFACES In this workshop students will learn In this workshop students will learn The goal of this workshop is for students the basics of two seemingly disparate the latest in pen making, casting and to master the turning process of the techniques: picture framing and steam- stabilization techniques. You will work hollow form using good technique and bending wood. You will examine with a variety of materials including exotic technology to make it easier, better and meticulous miters, reliable rabbets and wood, stabilized wood, biologicals, acrylics faster than ever before. The hollow form, judicious joinery. During class participants and laser cut pen kits. The Gisi segmenting or vessel, is a wonderful object to use as will investigate creative curves, brilliant method, along with stabilizing wood and a canvas for multiple types of decorative bends and tantalizing twists. Both skillsets casting your own acrylics, will be a focus of possibilities including coloring, carving are utilized to craft beautiful picture the class. Different finishing techniques will and sandblasting. After participants create frames with amazing steam-bent wood be demonstrated and mastering a CA glue their object, they will take it to the next accents. Open to all skill levels. finish will be stressed. Marketing tips and level and be encouraged to design objects COURSE FEE: $675 tricks will be shared and how to display and that are meaningful. Recent experience sell your one-of-a-kind masterpieces. Dan is recommended, as this is a fast-paced Jackson Martin lives in Asheville, North Symonds, an expert on fountain pens, will class and students will explore advanced Carolina and is an associate professor of Art at be an assistant instructor. Open to all skill concepts. COURSE FEE: $800 the University of North Carolina. He received his levels, however basic skills of pen making is BFA from Middle Tennessee State University and a plus. COURSE FEE: $675 Trent Bosch has been woodturning his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of professionally for 25 years and earned his Art. He has exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Barry Gross started creating fine pens 20 BFA from Colorado State University. His work Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts and Pratt years ago with exotic woods. He is a double is displayed in numerous fine art galleries, Institute Sculpture Park. Martin has taught at NICHE Award finalist and was commissioned the permanent collections of museums and East Tennessee State University, College of by The White House to make pens for foreign craft centers and in many private collections Charleston and Penland School of Craft. dignitaries. Gross is a member of Who’s Who worldwide. Bosch has taught and demonstrated JACKSONMARTIN.COM for Outstanding Achievements in the field his techniques for turning and sculpting wood of woodturning. For 15 years he has been a throughout the U.S. and abroad. featured demonstrator for The Woodworking TRENTBOSCH.COM Shows and for national AAW events. BGARTFORMS.COM WOOD
JUNE 14 – 20 · ONE WEEK JUNE 14 – 20 · ONE WEEK JUNE 21 – 27 · ONE WEEK JUNE 28 – JULY 11 · TWO WEEKS
NICHOLAS FLAHERTY ABBY MECHANIC DAVID ELLSWORTH DAN TILDEN SHAKER STOOLS 2.0 SHAPING WOOD: OPEN BOWLS TO HOLLOW FORMS EXPLORING NATURAL MANIPULATING MATERIAL DESIGNS IN WOODTURNING In this workshop students will be adapting In this workshop students will make open the classic shaker stool design to make it The most obvious trait of wood as a bowls and hollow forms on the lathe by During this workshop students will create their own. You will be learning about and material is its linear structure. In this incorporating the design concept of “line woodturning projects with a natural design. building on the inherent strengths found workshop students will manipulate as volume” rather than “line as shape.” You will begin by turning a simple bowl. in the traditional design and modifying wood to create curves, volumes, and You will use digital images to reference the Class discussions will include safety, tool it using modern technology to bring it three-dimensional forms. You will begin influence other turners have experienced in sharpening and prepping your wood for into the 21st century. Participants will class by designing and creating a spoon. their careers and critique your own work. the lathe. The goal is for participants to design and build a stool using lathe and Discussions include how to plan, mark and Participants will learn the refinements incorporate raw features from the tree in bandsaw techniques that will allow for prepare material for shaping. Participants of using the Ellsworth Signature gouge their work. Students will turn a variety maximum creativity and innovation. You will explore various shaping techniques and should have a good understanding of pieces, including a hollow vessel, while will experiment with surface texture and with the use of hand tools. You will then of the instructor’s book, Ellsworth on designing their creation around the painting and finishing techniques before create another spoon or object of your Woodturning. Ellsworth’s hollowing tools material’s natural beauty. Open to all finally learning how to weave a stylish and original design. Open to all skill levels. and Crown Signature Gouges are available skill levels. COURSE FEE: $1155 comfortable seat on your groundbreaking COURSE FEE: $675 for use and/or purchase. Students are free creation. Open to all skill levels. to bring their own tools and hollowing Dan Tilden lives in the Pacific Northwest where COURSE FEE: $675 Abby Mechanic is the manager of the Making systems. Open to advanced-intermediate he has been teaching and mastering his craft in Center at Parsons School of Design in New to advanced-skill levels. COURSE FEE: $800 woodturning for almost 20 years. He has taught Nicholas Flaherty is a woodworker, furniture York City. She received her BFA from the at major woodturning symposiums around the maker, woodturner and contractor living in Maine College of Art with a concentration in David Ellsworth operates his own private country and showcased his work in some of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is an Artist- Woodworking and Furniture Design. Mechanic school of woodturning at his studio in nation’s top art shows and exhibitions. Tilden in-Residence at University of the Arts in also leads spoon carving workshops across Weaverville, North Carolina. He has become likes to design his hollow forms around natural Philadelphia where he received his BFA and the country including Fort Houston in Nashville, known as one of the premier designers of features using rare burl wood he sources. has taught and demonstrated stool construction Tennessee and The Wing in New York. hollow wooden vessel forms. Ellsworth is a TILDENWOODTURNING.COM at local schools and at the Wharton Esherick ABBYMECHANIC.COM fellow and former trustee of the American Museum. Flaherty’s work has been exhibited Craft Council and received the prestigious and displayed at the American Craft Council Master of the Medium award in wood. He is the Conference, American Association of recipient of the Lifetime Membership Award Woodturners Symposium and the Center for from the American Association of Woodturners. Art in Wood. NICHOLASFLAHERTY.COM ELLSWORTHSTUDIOS.COM 63
JULY 19 – 25 · ONE WEEK JULY 19 – 25 · ONE WEEK JULY 26 – AUGUST 1 · ONE WEEK AUGUST 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK
BETH IRELAND KIMBERLY WINKLE MICHAEL LEE DANIEL CLAY TOOL MAKING FOR TURNERS WOODWORKING NITTY-GRITTY: TABLES TURNED, BURNED AND CARVED CHIP CARVING: THE FUNDAMENTALS AND BEYOND In this workshop students will be During this workshop students will learn In this workshop students will explore the introduced to the simple act of making the fundamentals of woodworking while possibilities found in the turned form. Chip carving is an ancient, decorative and sharpening tools made from bar and constructing a small table. The elements You will turn forms on the lathe using woodcarving technique where faceted chips round stock. You will learn appropriate of woodworking covered include wood a variety of different techniques. Class are removed from a wooden surface to create grinds for spindle gouges, parting tools, preparation, joinery and finishing. The discussions will include bowl and hollow geometric patterns, ornamentation, figurative skews, hollowing tools and carving knives. safe and proper use of power tools and turning, sharpening and honing, the use imagery and lettering. In this workshop Once made, participants will learn proper hand tools will also be covered. While of power carving and various carbide burs, students will learn the fundamentals of chip cutting techniques to create turned and learning these techniques, participants will pyrography and milk paint to further carving including proper technique, tool carved objects as well as some jigs to help design and build their own table utilizing enhance the turned form. Participants will care and sharpening, choosing and preparing hold objects while turning. This class will traditional mortise and tenon joinery. go beyond the visual and discover how the materials, understanding wood grain, and provide a safe and supportive atmosphere The goal is for you to gain confidence and tactile qualities can raise the level of their finishing completed work. Participants will for all students. Tool making will rally up competence in the woodworking shop work. You will share ideas while making be encouraged to create their own carving your skills and help resolve most problems while enjoying the process of transforming shavings and having fun. Open to all skill patterns and personal style and employ that occur in your shop. This class is for the raw materials into a beautiful table. Open levels. COURSE FEE: $675 their carving skills in new and creative ways. beginner to the intermediate. to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $675 By completing creative technical exercises, COURSE FEE: $675 Michael Lee is a professional studio artist decorative panels and works of original Kimberly Winkle is a professor and director of who lives in Pearl City, Hawaii. He has been carved art, you will gain technical know-how Beth Ireland lives and works in Saint Petersburg, the School of Art, Craft & Design at Tennessee a featured demonstrator at national and and gain confidence to explore new, creative Florida where her studio provides woodworking Technological University. She holds a BFA in international symposiums and has conducted applications for surface carving in wood. with a specialization in architectural and artistic Ceramics from the University of Oklahoma workshops across the U.S. including Arrowmont. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $675 woodturning. She earned her undergraduate and an MFA in Furniture Design from San Lee’s work is displayed in numerous public degree from the State University College at Diego State University. Her workshop teaching and private collections including the Renwick Daniel Clay is a woodworker and artist living in Buffalo and an MFA in Sculpture from the experience includes, Haystack Mountain School Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, the State Knoxville, Tennessee. He designs and makes Massachusetts College of Art. Ireland has of Crafts, Penland School of Craft, Arrowmont, Foundation of Culture and Arts, Hawaii State Art original and custom furniture, home decor been involved in a traveling art/craft project Anderson Ranch Art Center, The Center for Museum, Mobile Museum and Yale University. items and artwork and travels the U.S. teaching entitled "Turning Around America since 2010." Furniture Craftsmanship, John C. Campbell Folk LEEWOODART.COM chip carving. Clay’s writing on chip carving has She also teaches the three-month Professional School and the Appalachian Center for Craft. been featured in Fine Woodworking Magazine. Woodturning Intensive at The Center for KIMBERLYWINKLE.COM SATURDAYBOXCOMPANY.COM Furniture Craftsmanship. BETHIRELAND.NET WOOD
AUGUST 2 – 8 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 4 – 10 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 4 – 10 · ONE WEEK
AVELINO SAMUEL WYATT SEVERS MARK SFIRRI SPIRAL CARVED AND THE TABLE. GAME HUNTING IN NORTH AMERICA STRAIGHT CARVED VESSELS During this workshop students will design Ever lament the fact that the one you really During this workshop students will learn and build a one-of-a-kind table. Starting wanted got away? Here’s your opportunity how to select material suitable for carving with a discussion on the characteristics of to recapture that moment and go home and hollow the vessel to the required wall wood, you will jump into design and create with a trophy to hang above the fireplace thickness for carving. You will discover full-scale drawings. The class covers the and tell stories about your big adventure. factors to consider when deciding the machines used for the dimensioning and This workshop will focus on multi-axis number and width of segments for a vessel. shaping of rough lumber into finely crafted spindle turning and includes carving, In addition, participants will learn how to furniture, including getting the most out texturing and finishing. Students will learn carve, shape and sand the segments. Other of the router for fine details made easy. layout, turning techniques and sharpening topics covered in class include texturing Participants will discover the structural as they pertain to multi-axis spindle (including burn texturing), finishing aspects of joinery with a focus on using turning. Open to all skill levels, however and the making of feet, collars and floating mortise-and-tenons. Finishes, previous turning and/or carving experience turning finials. This class is best suited texturing and milk paint are also explored. is preferred. COURSE FEE: $800 for intermediate-to-advanced students. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $675 COURSE FEE: $800 Mark Sfirri is professor emeritus from Bucks Wyatt Severs is a studio artist located in County Community College in Pennsylvania Avelino Samuel is a native of St. John, Virgin Western Kentucky. He has taught at Arrowmont, where he managed the Fine Woodworking Islands who is retired from teaching and is now the Appalachian Center for Crafts, the Paducah Program from 1981 to 2017. As a furniture a full-time woodturner. He earned his BS in School of Art & Design, Penland School of maker and sculptor, he incorporates multi-axis Industrial Arts Education from North Carolina Craft, the John C. Campbell Folk School, and turned forms in his work. He has demonstrated A&T State University and an MS in Industrial at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. His work has his techniques worldwide. In 2010, Sfirri Education from Eastern Michigan University. been exhibited at the Cedarhurst Center for the received the Distinguished Educator Award Samuel conducts workshops at Arrowmont and Arts, Evansville Museum of Arts, and Indiana from the Renwick Alliance and in 2012 he was other craft schools. University. Wyatt’s work has been featured on honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award Kentucky Educational Television, and in 500 from the Collectors of Wood Art. Cabinets, Woodworking Magazine, Making MARKSFIRRI.COM Good, and Maker Moxie. WYATTSEVERS.COM 65
OCTOBER 11 – 17 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 11 – 17 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 18 – 24 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 18 – 24 · ONE WEEK
DONNA ZILS BANFIELD MICHAEL CULLEN MICHAEL HOSALUK LISA YORK PATTERNS, TEXTURE AND COLOR THE ART OF THE BOX DESIGN IN TURNING ORGANIC WOODCARVING
This workshop focuses on techniques In this workshop students explore the art In this workshop the emphasis is on form During this workshop students will learn used in the instructor’s Illusions in of box making while discovering ideas that and surface design to create unique objects. how to combine multiple pieces of wood Wood body of works. Students will use fall outside the box. You will learn how to Students will experience demonstrations and carve an organic shaped sculpture that woodburning tips and rotary powered apply patterns, texture and colors to the of the many aspects of surface design holds an object. The class will focus on tools to create textures and patterns on surfaces of the boxes. Emphasis will be using carving techniques that include idea development on paper and creating an their woodturnings. Milk paint, Gesso on using the bandsaw to shape and sculpt woodburning, and coloration using paint actual three-dimensional sculpture. You and acrylic paints will complete the boxes with pleasing curves while exploring and dye. You will discover addition, will gain the needed knowledge to do basic illusion, deceptively transforming the unusual, fun, or even zany shapes. This subtraction, cutting and reassembly. additive techniques of combining multiple pieces into pottery, ceramics, cloisonné, class is perfect for the beginner who is All techniques will be considered to best pieces of wood, and subtractive methods glass or hammered metal. Students will curious about making things from wood execute your ideas in creating a personal of carving rounded shapes using a variety learn to turn and decorate their forms. and is equally appropriate for the expert expression of your work. Open to all of hand and power tools. Prior experience Class demonstrations include how to use who is looking to experiment and create skill levels. COURSE FEE: $800 using power tools is beneficial, however the patterns and colors on the turned forms something new and fresh. Open to all skill class is open to all skill levels. and applying patterns. You will leave class levels. COURSE FEE: $675 Michael Hosaluk lives and maintains his COURSE FEE: $675 having learned techniques that you can use studio near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and is in your own shop. Prior turning skills are Michael Cullen makes furniture and sculpture recognized internationally, and in Canada, as Lisa York is a wood and ceramic artist located helpful, but not required. Open to all skill in his workshop in Petaluma, California. He one of the world’s most creative woodturners. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin who creates functional levels. COURSE FEE: $675 received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Hosaluk is a member of the Royal Academy art for special occasion and daily use. She University of California, Santa Barbara and of Art and Honorary Lifetime member of the has an MFA from University of North Dakota Donna Zils Banfield began teaching worked in machine design before pursuing a Saskatchewan Craft Council. He received the and apprenticed under Kevin Crowe at Tye woodworking in 2007 in her studio in Derry, career in studio furniture. Michael divides his Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Craft River Pottery. York has exhibited her work New Hampshire. She has been creating works time by creating furniture, teaching and writing in 2006 and the Lieutenant Governor General internationally and was an Artist-in Residence of art in wood since 2001. Her symposia articles on design and technique. Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2011. He has in China, Hungary and Germany. She has presentations include Totally Turning, SWAT, MICHAELCULLENDESIGN.COM lectured and demonstrated throughout Canada, exhibited at art projects in Tanzania, Guatemala Virginia Woodturning Symposium, the American the U.S, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, and Nicaragua. LISAYORKARTS.COM Association of Woodturners International France, Norway and Israel. Symposium in Portland Oregon, and the Irish MICHAELHOSALUK.COM Woodturner’s Guild Annual Seminar. LIVEALIFELESSORDINARY.COM WOOD
OCTOBER 25 – 31 · ONE WEEK OCTOBER 25 – 31 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 1 – 7 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 1 – 7 · ONE WEEK
SALLY AULT LINDSEY MULHERON LIDEN HEATHER ASHWORTH JIM SCARSELLA PUT A LID ON IT BOARD TO BEAUTY: THE TRADITIONAL SHAKER BEYOND THE BASIC BOX ESSENCE OF WOODWORKING BOXES UNPACKED In this workshop students will turn lidded In this workshop students will utilize the containers in many shapes and sizes from During this workshop students will The Shaker box is an elegant yet efficient woodturned box form to do a deep dive a very small pill box to a large lidded bowl. experience every part of fine woodworking utilitarian box requiring minimal materials into surface embellishment and decoration. The focus is on creating good form that is from preparation to final assembly, while and equipment to produce. In this Although topics covered will include box functional. You will explore different lid creating their own table. The focus is workshop students will make a series of design, wood selection, grain orientation styles and create the proper lid fit for the on form and function as well as beauty, individual and nesting boxes, trays and and turning methods, the primary focus function of the container. Participants will elegance and design. This workshop goes carriers. During class students will discover will be on methods of surface detailing. explore a variety of knobs, handles and beyond the normal woodworking process a variety of finishes including milk paint Relief carving, texturing, woodburning, finials and experiment with textures and and participants explore wood alteration, as a traditional Shakers finish and other branding and various coloring methods embellishments to transform the containers sculpture, surface design and blow torch options for more natural ones. Techniques will be explored. Participants will complete from ordinary to awesome. Some turning techniques. You will become familiar and skills presented will include a brief several boxes during the workshop, experience is helpful, however open to all with wood preparation, planning, grain history of Shaker boxes, preparation of and most importantly leave with an skill levels. COURSE FEE: $675 orientation, movement, moisture content bands for a successful bend, intricacies of understanding of several new methods for and seasonal differences. Students will learn proper bending, the process of building adding detail and color to their work. Some Sally Ault lives in San Diego, California. She has extensive detail in process, safety, jointing, a box onto itself, and basic tool skills and prior experience at the lathe and using been turning for 19 years focusing on turning planing, ripping, crosscutting, glue-ups and finishing techniques. Open to all skill rotary carving tools will be beneficial. boxes and containers, because of their mystery. finishing while building their final product. levels. COURSE FEE: $675 COURSE FEE: $675 Ault teaches at turning clubs and symposiums. Open to all skill levels. COURSE FEE: $675 She is the vice president of Programs for the Heather Ashworth is head technician of the Jim Scarsella is an artist and arts administrator San Diego Woodturners and a member of the Lindsey Mulheron Liden is the resident Wood Studios at Arrowmont. She received her who resides in Sevierville, Tennessee. After American Association of Woodturners and woodworking artist at the John C. Campbell BFA in Furniture Design and Utilitarian Ceramics a career in anesthesia and business in the Women in Turning. Her work is shown in several Folk School and operates his fine woodworking/ at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. Detroit area, he is the deputy director at galleries and has won many awards. banjo building business in Brasstown, North Ashworth has been in the woodworking world Arrowmont and works on his art from his home SALLYAULT.COM Carolina. He studied at Warren Wilson College since high school, where she was originally studio. Scarsella has exhibited and taught and received his degree in classical percussion interested in architecture and construction. By woodturning and carving throughout the U.S. at the University of North Carolina, Ashville. her senior year, she attended a trade school and has had his artwork or writing published in Liden also studied woodworking at Haywood in St. Louis, Missouri where she developed American Woodturner, More Woodturning and Community College in Clyde, North Carolina. more furniture-based skills. INSTAGRAM: @ Woodturning Magazine. JIMSCARSELLA.COM MULHERONCRAFT.COM THESENSIBLESHAKER 67
NOVEMBER 8 – 14 · ONE WEEK NOVEMBER 15 – 21 · ONE WEEK
YOU MIGHT ALSO BE INTERESTED IN THE FOLLOWING WORKSHOPS
BILLY RAY SIMS P.38
EMILY CULVER P.51
BILL THOMAS P.11
DEREK WEIDMAN DIXIE BIGGS AND BETTY SCARPINO MASON COOLEY P.11 LATHE BASED WOOD SCULPTURE WOODCARVING: POWER PLAY POLLY JACOBS GIACCHINA P.41 This workshop is a freeform exploration of The goal of this workshop is for students to expand their woodcarving skills using unorthodox carving techniques with the power tools and to learn new techniques in transforming their designs into relief-carved, PETER DELLERT P.12 structure focused on understanding various three-dimensional forms. Advanced students from all wood-related disciplines (turning, shaping processes. Students will learn to furniture making, sculpture, printmaking) will receive hands-on instruction for the JAMES THURMAN P.53 use multi-axis turning, supplemented with safe and effective use of rotary and power-carving tools. Rasps are essential to achieving other tools such as angle grinders, rotary smooth surfaces and students will learn which ones work well. A variety of hardwoods DOUG LOWMAN P.12 carvers, carving chainsaws, airbrushes and will be used to determine what works best for your projects, primarily using air- or propane torches. Techniques taught include kiln-dried wood, however wet wood carving will also be covered. While working on MARK HENDRY P.47 ways to achieve novel and exciting shapes individual projects, daily demonstrations will help guide student’s activities. These include and designs. The wood lathe is at the tips on making sanding less tedious. Presentations will encourage the development of center of this class but rather than turning personalized designs and participants are welcome to bring objects ready to carve. Open bowls and vessels, expect to turn animals, to those who have experience using woodworking tools/machines, as well as knowledge flowers or other items possessing a unique of wood and its properties. COURSE FEE: $800 visual language of circles and arcs. Open to all skill levels, however experience with Dixie Biggs lives in Gainesville, Florida and Betty Scarpino is an internationally recognized drawing, turning and dexterous hand skills has been a studio woodturner/artist since wood sculptor, woodturner, woodcut printmaker are advised. COURSE FEE: $675 1989. Having a degree in Agriculture, and and teacher whose work is represented in more a love of the outdoors, much of her work than 20 museum collections. The Collectors Derek Weidman is a full-time sculptor who lives incorporates a botanical theme. She is best of Wood Art awarded Scarpino their Lifetime in rural Pennsylvania close to Philadelphia. known for her meticulously carved “leaf- Achievement Award in 2015. Her work expresses He has spent nearly two decades working with wrapped” vessel. Biggs has demonstrated and a strong sense of joy and self-confidence and wood and a decade exploring the sculptural taught her techniques at regional and national lifelong pleasure of working with wood. Her capabilities of a wood lathe. Weidman is known woodturning symposiums, woodturning clubs studio in Indianapolis is replete with forms for innovating and pushing the boundaries and craft schools around the U.S. and abroad. partially explored and potential new sculptures of multi-axis work, expressed in his animal DIXIEBIGGS.COM camouflaged as chunks of wood. series which reside in public collections and BETTYSCARPINO.COM museums, and many private collections around the world. DEREKWEIDMAN.COM
6969 WORKSHOP BASICS
People enroll at Arrowmont to be immersed in art — away from the pressures and responsibilities of daily life. Partnered with exceptional instructors and quality instruction, the housing, meals, evening programs, and access to well-equipped studios provide an environment for stimulation and inspiration. Students may choose never to leave campus during the workshop session. However, if an outing is desired, Gatlinburg is just down the driveway. Located on a 13-acre wooded hillside in downtown Gatlinburg, Tennessee at the edge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Arrowmont offers a secluded retreat experience and a busy tourist center.
WEEK AT A GLANCE
ONE WEEK CLASSES begin on Sunday with WEEKEND CLASSES begin on Thursday check-in between 11:00 am and 6:00 evening and continue through Sunday pm. Classes begin at 7:30 pm following at 3:00 pm. dinner at 5:30 pm and a Welcome & Orientation Program at 6:30 pm. Classes THE ARROWMONT CAMPUS IS ACCESSIBLE. continue Monday through Friday, 9:00 Arrowmont studios and housing facilities am–5:00 pm and studios are generally are accessible on a campus that is open until 1:00 am for students who considered moderate mountain terrain. wish to continue to work. Nightly slide A gradual walk up a short hill to most presentations by instructors, resident facilities is necessary. If special housing artists and studio assistants take place or other requirements are needed, Monday through Thursday at 7:00 please discuss this with the registrar at pm in the Arrowmont Auditorium. the time of registration so we can best Following slide presentations on Thursday accommodate these needs. is Studio Stroll — a chance to visit all of the studios, chat with students and DEPARTURE Shuttle service is available instructors, and see what has been made from Knoxville McGhee-Tyson Airport. during the workshops. Studio clean-up is Call Elite Taxi at 865-296-9180 to make Friday afternoon with departure on reservations for arrival and departure time Saturday morning. at least two weeks in advance.
TWO-WEEK CLASSES follow the same Arrowmont provides bed linens and general schedule, but students may work towels. Coin laundry facilities are located in the studios through the weekend in on campus for personal laundry. between weeks of instruction. Studio Stroll occurs on the last Thursday evening of the session. HOUSING & MEALS 71
ON-CAMPUS HOUSING
TEACHERS COTTAGE & STUART COTTAGE are rustic and charming houses with air- conditioning. They includes single, double and triple rooms sharing common bathrooms. Prices are per person and include meals. ONE WEEK TWO WEEKS WEEKEND
SINGLE · 1 PERSON PER ROOM (SHARED BATH) $616 $1302 $322
DOUBLE · 2 PEOPLE PER ROOM (SHARED BATH) $526 $1102 $282
TRIPLE · 3 PEOPLE PER ROOM (SHARED BATH) $466 $972 $262
RED BARN is a renovated historic structure, now fully air-conditioned. It offers double, triple and dormitory style rooms accommodating 4–13 people, all with shared baths. Prices are per person and include meals.
DOUBLE · 2 PEOPLE PER ROOM (SHARED BATH) $466 $972 $242
TRIPLE · 3 PEOPLE PER ROOM (SHARED BATH) $426 $902 $222
DORMITORY · 4–13 PEOPLE PER ROOM (SHARED BATH) $396 $842 $212
NEW DORMITORY is four stories, has an elevator and offers private rooms and baths, a central gathering place, and a lovely screened in porch with fireplace. Prices are per person and include meals. Students generally live on campus during their workshop in order to take full advantage of the immersion opportunity, to get to know their fellow students, and to spend as much SINGLE · 1 PERSON PER ROOM (PRIVATE BATH) $900 $1855 $425 time as possible focused on their work. Campus housing options include single, double, triple and dormitory rooms in four buildings. All buildings and dormitories are air DOUBLE · 2 PEOPLE PER ROOM (PRIVATE BATH) $700 $1455 $355 conditioned. Rooms are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
Campus housing prices include three meals daily in the Staff House Dining Hall. Meals are served Sunday dinner through Saturday breakfast for one-week and two-week classes and Thursday dinner through Sunday lunch for weekend classes. Although we cannot provide LIVING OFF-CAMPUS special options for everyone, vegetarian meal choices are available for each meal. Students may choose to stay off-campus. Information on off-campus housing can be No camping buses, trailers or RVs are permitted on Arrowmont property. No pets, except obtained from the Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce, call 800-588-1817 or visit service animals, are permitted. gatlinburg.com. Students staying off-campus may purchase meal plans.
If you are interested in extra comfort and privacy, Arrowmont offers fully furnished MEAL PLANS · If living off campus $250 $546 $132 apartments. Call 865-436-5860 for details. REGISTRATION & WORKSHOP FEES
Classes are filled on a FIRST-COME, FIRST- Workshop registration is NON- SERVED BASIS and early registration is TRANSFERABLE from person to person. recommended as class sizes are limited A person may transfer their enrollment and fill early. Arrowmont believes that from one class to another within the diversity of students, including varied same year, presuming space is available. skill levels and backgrounds, enriches Transfer requests must be in writing and the educational experience for all. will not be accepted less than 30 days Arrowmont accepts all persons regardless prior to workshop. A non-refundable $25 of race, color, national origin, gender, transfer fee will be charged for sexual orientation or religion. Students each transfer. must be 18 years or older to attend an adult workshop. In addition to the course fee your enrollment in a workshop also includes the following:
REGISTRATION CHECKLIST MATERIAL FEES are collected on the last Register before February 1, 2020 and the day of every workshop. These fees include registration fee is waived. the cost of materials that are requested by the instructor that corresponds REGISTRATIONS ARE ACCEPTED ONLINE AT with their course offering and will be arrowmont.org or by phone, provided by Arrowmont prior to the 865-436-5860. class arrival. Material fees may also include materials provided by instructors. PAYMENT may be made by check, money These costs are shared among the class order, or credit card (MasterCard, VISA, members. Material fees do not include Discover, or American Express). Payments student purchases prior to a workshop, by credit card may be made by calling or individual purchases from the Supply 865-436-5860 or through PayPal. To Store. Arrowmont will provide students pay a workshop balance online, visit with an approximate range of materials arrowmont.org/workshops-classes. fees and information provided by the instructor. $50 NON-REFUNDABLE FEE This one-time registration fee enables CANCELLATIONS you to register for as many workshops All cancellations must be made in writing as you like during 2020. It is not by mail, fax or email (no phone calls necessary to register for multiple classes please). A cancellation fee of $100 will at the same time. be charged on cancellations received more than 45 days prior to the start of $300 DEPOSIT FOR EACH CLASS the workshop. Cancellations received 45 This deposit reserves a space in the days or less before the beginning of the workshop. Full payment of all charges workshop receive no refund of deposit. is due 30 days prior to the beginning of the workshop. 73 SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
Arrowmont offers many scholarship opportunities to enable students to attend workshops at reduced cost. Scholarships are intended to make Arrowmont’s programs available to the broadest population of students. Scholarships provide partial or full coverage for tuition, housing and meals. Scholarships are awarded based on financial need and/or other criteria depending on the source of the funds. Available scholarships are described below. For detailed scholarship application information, go to arrowmont.org or call 865-436-5860.
FRIENDS OF ARROWMONT SCHOLARSHIPS THE BARBARA LUCILE MAPLES SCHOLARSHIP 865-430-4101. Letters may also be copy of their driver’s license, utility cover full tuition for a specific workshop. provides 100% of workshop tuition, dropped off or mailed to our offices at bill, or phone bill as proof of residence Qualifications for a scholarship include meals and basic housing for one metals or Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, to Cynthia Bellacome, Registrar, at financial need and commitment to enamels workshop per year. Established 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. [email protected] before class personal artistic goals. Skill in a particular by Susan Carruth to honor the legacy of starts in order to receive their scholarship. medium is not required. All skill levels her art professor Barbara Lucile Maples, EDUCATOR SCHOLARSHIPS provide 50% may apply for scholarships. Recipients the scholarship is designed to benefit of workshop tuition for one workshop are responsible for the costs of fees, metals and jewelry artists and those per educator per year and is open to any FELLOWSHIPS & lodging and meals. interested in jewelry, metalsmithing, educator regardless of discipline. This ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE Apply online at arrowmont.slideroom.com enameling and like disciplines and who is a non-competitive scholarship. K–12, APPLICATION DEADLINE · March 1, 2020 have financial need. HOW TO APPLY ∙ technical school, community college, THE ARROWMONT ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE Applicants will complete a letter detailing college and university faculty are eligible. PROGRAM was established in 1991. The THE DR. JUDITH TEMPLE their interest and need and include their Open to all skill levels. HOW TO APPLY ∙ program provides early career, self- SCHOLARSHIP FUND provides 100% top three workshop choices. Letters Educators must submit a current copy of directed artists time, space and support of workshop tuition, meals and basic should be emailed to Cynthia Bellacome their pay-stub as proof of active educator to experiment and develop a new body of housing for a one or two-week workshop. at [email protected] or faxed status to Cynthia Bellacome, Registrar, work over an 11-month residency from These scholarships are for promising, to 865-430-4101. Letters may also be at [email protected] after they mid-June to late May of the following talented students who could not attend dropped off or mailed to our offices at register for the workshop and before their year. Artists are given a monthly stipend, Arrowmont without financial assistance. Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, workshop begins in order to receive their shared housing with private bedrooms Applicants must provide images of their 556 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738. scholarship. Pay-stub must show name, and meals (during workshop sessions), work and letters of recommendation. APPLICATION DEADLINE · March 1, 2020 school name and current date — income and a private well-lit studio with climate Apply online at arrowmont.slideroom.com and other personal data may be redacted. control, a basic work table, shelving and APPLICATION DEADLINE · March 1, 2020 THE VERNON AND ANITA BOWEN sink. The program encourages early career SCHOLARSHIP IN HONOR OF EDRA EAST TENNESSEE COMMUNITY artists who embrace community and THE STEVE AND CAROLYN GOTTLIEB MCHARRY provides 100% of workshop SCHOLARSHIPS provide 50% workshop enjoy working in a team environment to SCHOLARSHIP FOR VETERANS covers tuition, meals and basic housing for at tuition for one workshop per person apply. Visit arrowmont.org/artist-in-residence 100% of workshop tuition, meals and least one kitchen work-study student per year. This is a non-competitive for full details. Apply online at arrowmont. basic housing for a one-week workshop. annually to attend a workshop at scholarship for Tennessee residents in the slideroom.com APPLICATION DEADLINE ∙ The scholarship is for returning or Arrowmont. Applicants are eligible following counties: Anderson, Blount, February 1, 2020 disabled soldiers, or a financially beginning with kitchen work-studies in Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, deserving student who is pursuing 2019. HOW TO APPLY ∙ Potential awardees Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, THE BILL GRIFFITH ART EDUCATORS woodturning. Open to all skill levels. may self-nominate or be nominated by Hamilton, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, FELLOWSHIP provides a four-week Apply online at arrowmont.slideroom.com an Arrowmont staff member, instructor, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, residency annually for one K–12 art APPLICATION DEADLINE · March 1, 2020 or other member of the Arrowmont Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea, teacher. Recipients receive a studio, community. Applicants will complete a Roane, Scott, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, housing, meals and enrollment in a letter detailing their interest and need and Union, Washington. Scholarships open one-week workshop. Images are required. include their top three workshop choices. to all skill levels. HOW TO APPLY ∙ After Apply online at arrowmont.slideroom.com Letters should be emailed to Fran Day registering for a workshop, East Tennessee APPLICATION DEADLINE · March 1, 2020 at [email protected] or faxed to community members must submit a EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 75
SUMMER FALL
Applications will be accepted between Applications will be accepted between January 1 – March 1, 2020 May 1 – July 1, 2020
SIX WEEK WORK-STUDY FOUR AND SIX WEEK WORK-STUDY SESSIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE SESSIONS WILL BE AVAILABLE May 23 – August 9, 2020 September 19 – November 22, 2020
GENERAL WORK-STUDY IS AVAILABLE NOTE: If applying for a scholarship or IN THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS: educational assistance program, students Kitchen, Maintenance, Supply Store, will be registered after they are accepted Housekeeping, Gallery, and Studios. and agree to the awarded amount. For more information about applying for scholarships, Educational assistance is awarded based visit arrowmont.org or call 865-436-5860. on one week of class tuition for each full work week of assisting the full-time staff. Student-employees receive one week of class for each 40–42 hour weeks of work assisting the full-time staff. These student- EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE: WORK-STUDY OPPORTUNITIES employees are expected to work up to 16–18 hours during the weeks they are in Arrowmont is looking for interested individuals to assist full-time in the many class as well. departments on campus. Those who participate in the work-study program are an integral part of Arrowmont’s operations, and are considered student-employees. This The Studio and Gallery positions require program also provides an opportunity for people with limited financial resources an art background and image submission. to participate in classes. Meals and lodging are provided and as a condition of their Art experience is not required for the employment, student-employees are expected to live on campus. Arrowmont considers other work-study positions. A letter of individuals who are mature, team oriented, self-motivated, and interested in the arts. application must address the following High energy, commitment, financial need, communications skills, and the ability to lift areas for all positions: seriousness of 50 pounds are required for these positions. intent, relevant work experiences, work ethic, financial need and ability to live in Housing is dorm style with coin operated laundry available on site. Travel, material a community setting. fees, and other art supplies are the responsibility of the student-employee and are to be paid weekly. Classes are assigned based on availability. It is important for those applying to commit to the entire session that is requested, though one is able to apply for multiple sessions.
To apply, and for further application details, please visit arrowmont.slideroom.com or contact Rebecca Buglio, program and studio manager at 865-436-5860 ex.38 or [email protected]. GALLERIES & PROGRAMS
SANDRA J. BLAIN GALLERIES GALLERIES THE SANDRA J. BLAIN GALLERIES offers a year-round schedule of national and regional exhibitions that complement and support workshops, conferences and programs. Serving as an educational resource, the exhibitions enable students and visitors to learn about various media, techniques and ways artists express ideas through their work. Many works are for sale with proceeds supporting individual artists and the 2019–2020 ARTISTS-IN- mission of the School. RESIDENCE EXHIBITION March 14 – May 16, 2020 THE GEOFFREY A. WOLPERT GALLERY is focused on exhibiting solo and small group exhibitions by emerging and established contemporary craft artists. Presenting seven shows a year, the space also provides Arrowmont resident artists with three months of exhibition time during 2020 INSTRUCTORS EXHIBITION their residency. May 23 – August 15, 2020 THE JERRY DROWN WOOD STUDIO GALLERY displays selections of Arrowmont’s Permanent Collection, as well as group and conference exhibitions. UTILITARIAN CLAY VIII EXHIBITION August 29 – December 5, 2020 THE WEST COMPLEX GALLERY is a new gallery space which provides an opportunity for Arrowmont Work-Studies to exhibit their work during the National Workshop season, and small exhibits throughout the year.
GEOFFREY A. THE GIFT GALLERY features works donated by Arrowmont students, volunteers, residents and instructors. All works are for sale and 100% of the WOLPERT GALLERY proceeds benefit scholarships and programming.
FOR MORE EXHIBITION AND RECEPTION DETAILS, VISIT ARROWMONT.ORG/VISIT/GALLERIES
2019–2020 ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE MID-RESIDENCY EXHIBITION December 11, 2019 – January 25, 2020 COMMUNITY PROGRAMS MARIAN G. HEARD RESOURCE CENTER is a encompasses a wide range of diverse art non-lending library available to students, experiences including use of specialized KIM MIRUS & SHANNA FLIEGEL TWO- COMMUNITY CLASSES are offered in the residents and visitors. The Marian G. equipment. Students participate in one PERSON EXHIBITION winter months in professionally-equipped Heard Resource Center is located in the of five different workshops including January 29 – March 28, 2020 studios with skilled teaching artists main building on campus and houses over drawing, photography, pottery, painting, offering a variety of media and learning 10,000 books and reference materials on printmaking, textiles, sculpture, metals SPRING WILDFLOWER PILGRIMAGE opportunities. Complete information about art history, art techniques, and teaching and woodturning. ARTIST-OF-THE-YEAR: community classes for adults, young adults resources related to all media of craft. ALEX FOSTER EXHIBITION and children is available online. A computer lab enables instructors FACILITY RENTALS provide the perfect April 1 – May 2, 2020 arrowmont.org/classes and students to access the Internet for location for conferences, corporate retreats, additional research and to print from a business meetings and family gatherings. UTILITARIAN CLAY VIII EXHIBITION THE SUPPLY STORE is open year-round and connected black & white and color copier. Housing, meals, presentations and art- August 29 – November 28, 2020 is Gatlinburg’s only full-service art supply Most of the campus is wireless for those making are easily accommodated on store. The Supply Store sells Arrowmont who bring a laptop. campus. arrowmont.org/facility-rental specific merchandise. The store carries supplies for work in most media and art- ARTREACH annually provides more than FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FACILITY related books, and houses the Showcase 1,200 students (grades K–12) from Sevier RENTALS, CALL 865-436-5860. Gallery, a retail gallery that represents over County schools with an in-depth, full- 60 artists. arrowmont.org/visit/art-store day art workshop at Arrowmont. Content ARROWMONT HISTORY 77
ARROWMONT SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS
MORE THAN A PLACE…ARROWMONT IS A COMMUNITY From its inception, Arrowmont changes lives. In 1912, the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women founded a settlement school that transformed the area into a thriving community with education, health care, and a cash economy based on locally-made crafts. When the county took over public education in 1945 the School found a new purpose in arts and crafts education, providing an opportunity for individuals to share common ground in a nurturing, creative community. At the turn of the 21st century, Arrowmont overcame new challenges — purchasing the ancestral 13-acre campus, rebuilding after the 2016 wildfires that destroyed three buildings, and expanding programs and outreach. Today, more than 1,500 students attend National Workshops annually. They return year after year to experience something important — a connection with craft, with the mountains, and with each other. In 2020, Arrowmont celebrates 75 years as a school for arts and crafts.
“My Arrowmont Experience was amazing. I Every dorm and building is updated met so many new people from different parts with new amenities while retaining their of the country and with very different distinctive character. Each studio is backgrounds who loved the same craft.” equipped with top-of-the-line facilities. Exceptional instructors will inspire and “I’ve never had a space where I’ve felt so guide you throughout your workshop free to be myself artistically and to be session. Conversation circles, fireplaces surrounded by like-minded individuals.” and murals can be found across campus to foster creative conversations and “I learned so much due to the supportive peaceful reflections. You can enjoy your people and the welcoming environment. My time without the obligations of daily instructor was beyond outstanding due to life — delicious meals and residential his patience, focus, and determination to amenities are part of the Arrowmont have everyone leave with a completed project. Experience. You will leave Arrowmont My class was filled with hard workers and with new memories, skills, and lifelong demonstrated wonderful teamwork when friends. We invite you to join us in this each of us needed it.” special place and to be a part of our creative community in 2020. Your time at Arrowmont is an immersive experience. The historic mountain campus ARROWMONT.ORG | 865-436-5860 | is a retreat in the heart of Gatlinburg, [email protected] Tennessee. A new entrance, expanded parking and campus-wide upgrades mean the School is accessible and comfortable. ARROWMONT SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS
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