“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” IMPORTANT DATES AT A - Antoine de Saint-Exupery GLANCE This may seem a strange quote to use as I ask you to consider coming to a workshop ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE at Arrowmont. We provide instruction which explores materials and celebrates the APPLICATION DEADLINE created object. But I also know that time spent at Arrowmont offers opportunities for February 1, 2015 exploration, discovery and growth that engage not only the head and hand, but the heart. The skills and techniques learned in a workshop represent personal accomplishment, but EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE there is satisfaction in immersing oneself in a shared experience in the company of others February 1, 2015 who understand both your interest and your passion. It is the sharing among students Registration fee of $50 is waived and instructors which makes the experience rich in unexpected ways. for early registration In 2014 Arrowmont completed a major accomplishment. In purchasing our campus we preserved a legacy of education extending over a hundred years into the past and made EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM it possible to set our sights on what can be accomplished in the next hundred years. APPLICATION DEADLINE We protected six buildings on the National Register of Historic Places and secured our March 1, 2015 beautiful historic campus. Our thanks go out to the tens of thousands of students and instructors ‐ and the more than one hundred Artists‐In‐Residence ‐ who have left their SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE BILL MAY marks during their time here. This is an organization guided by a mission of enriching March 1, 2015 for most EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR lives through art, but our success is measured by the experience of each individual that Check the website as some scholarships spends time as part of our community. have a rolling deadline If you have been to Arrowmont before, I know you understand exactly what I am attempting to describe. Everyone here looks forward to welcoming you back in 2015. If you are contemplating coming to Arrowmont for the first time ‐ or even enrolling in your first workshop ‐ know that you will be welcomed and encouraged regardless of your previous experience, your age or your educational background. We are proud of the quality of our facilities and studios, and we value our instructors and the talent and experience they bring to the workshops, but our conviction is that people bring out the best in each other when they are seeing rightly with their hearts. Whether you are finishing an MFA, or exploring and satisfying an interest you have long anticipated, Arrowmont welcomes you to join in shared exploration and discovery. Whether walking through gallery exhibitions on the way to your studio, sharing meals, conversation and laughter, struggling to refine an idea, discovering new materials and techniques, or collaborating with others, I believe you will be inspired by the time spent here. Please join us in this special place. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME .................................................... 2 OTHER PROGRAMS ..................................... 50 LEGACY WEEKEND ....................................... 4 REGISTRATION AND WORKSHOP FEES ....... 51 MASTER WEEKEND ...................................... 5 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE ............................ 52 2015 WORKSHOPS HOUSING AND MEALS ............................... 54 STONE/MIXED MEDIA/ SPECIAL TOPICS ........................................... 6 SCHOLARSHIPS .......................................... 55 WOOD .......................................................... 8 EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE ....................... 56 METALS/ENAMELS/JEWELRY .................... 16 ARROWMONT & YOU ................................ 57 FIBERS/TEXTILES/BASKETS ........................ 21 WORKSHOP BASICS ................................... 58 PAPER/BOOKS ............................................ 31 REGISTRATION FORM ................................. 59 GLASS ........................................................ 34 PAINTING/DRAWING/ PRINTMAKING/PHOTOGRAPHY .................. 36 CLAY ........................................................... 42 ARROWMONT SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS is a place for people who seek meaningful and energizing art experiences. It is a place for people of all ability levels, ages, and backgrounds. It is a place where ideas and skills, seeing and creating come together in myriad ways. 3 LEGACY WEEKEND MARK ST. LEGER • WOOD Rocking Weekend—Turned Boxes, LEGACY WEEKEND • APRIL 9 — 12, 2015 Now in its second year, Legacy pg. 9 Weekend will focus even more in depth on Arrowmont’s rich history, Appalachian culture and heritage and its setting in and ties to the beautiful JOHN PHILLIPS • WOOD natural setting of the Great Smoky Mountains. Re-discovering the Appalachian Banjo, pg. 9 Partnering again this year with Weekend offers ample opportunity FRANCES FOX • WEAVING the Friends of the Smokies, Legacy to catch up with old friends, interact Traditional Mountain Weaving/ Weekend encourages Friends of with the local community, the artists Heritage Weaving, pg. 21 Arrowmont and Friends of the and performers, and get to know the JEANNE BRADY • TEXTILES/SURFACE Smokies to participate in an campus community. DESIGN outstanding educational and cultural Personal Memories on Cloth, pg. 22 experience. Don’t miss the annual exhibition of Arrowmont’s Artists-in-Residence. MARY W. THOMPSON • BASKETS Legacy Weekend offers new and Meet the artists at the opening Cherokee White Oak and River Cane Baskets, expanded interdisciplinary reception. The local community, pg. 22 programming integrating workshops, students, instructors and guests are BOBBIE CREWS • PAINTING guest speakers and storytellers, music, invited to the opening reception on Reflections, Light and Magic, pg. 36 social gatherings, gallery openings Friday, April 10, 2015, 7:00 pm to and hikes in the Smokies. Legacy 9:00 pm. JOHN DIGIACOMO • PHOTOGRAPHY Moving Beyond Your Creative Comfort Zone, pg. 36 BRIAN NETTLES • CLAY Turning and Burning: Wheel Thrown Pottery, pg. 43 LENTON WILLIAMS • TRADITIONAL BROOMS Traditional Appalachian Style Broom- making, pg. 6 JOEL G. ZACHRY • NATURE STUDIES Spring’s Natural Wonders, pg. 6 4 MASTER WEEKEND MASTER WORKSHOP WEEKEND · OCTOBER 15 — 18, 2015 Working with master artists is a centuries-old practice that provides advanced students an environment in which to hone skills both technically and conceptually. Master teachers contribute inspiration, insight, guidance and challenge, in addition to instruction. Arrowmont has designed a Master Workshop Weekend session in October of eight classes taught by carefully selected instructors with many years teaching, exhibition, and publication achievements. These classes are open to experienced students only and are for those seeking intense studio time, meaningful discussions, critiques, questions and risk taking. With a focus on developing one’s personal voice, the weekend workshop activities include: related readings, some drawing, modeling, discussion and investigation of individual imagery and design elements. The weekend will also feature a moderated panel discussion among the master instructors. STONEY LAMAR & DAN ESSIG • WOOD GYÖNGY LAKY • FIBER Scratching the Surface, pg. 8 Architectural Textiles: Thinking and Building in 3-D, pg. 30 NORM SARTORIUS • WOOD Wooden Spoons—To Stir the Soul not the Soup, JO STEALEY • PAPER/BOOKS pg. 16 3D Calisthenics, pg. 33 CHARLES LEWTON-BRAIN • DON LAKE • PAINTING METALS/ENAMEL/JEWELRY New Perspectives on Painting: Wait! What Foldforming Introduction, pg. 20 Was That Again?, pg. 42 GRETCHEN GOSS • ENAMEL MICHAEL SHERRILL • CLAY The Vitreous Image, pg. 21 For the Love of Material: Finding the Human in Material, pg. 49 5 STONE APRIL 9 — 12 • WEEKEND APRIL 9 — 12 • WEEKEND MIXED MEDIA SPECIAL TOPICS JOEL G. ZACHRY SPRING’S NATURAL WONDERS LEGACY WEEKEND CLASS What better season than spring to enjoy LENTON WILLIAMS the wonders of landscape, plant life and TRADITIONAL APPALACHIAN STYLE animal activity in the Smokies? Your biology BROOMMAKING instructor will share many “show and tell” examples of nature’s treasures and participants LEGACY WEEKEND CLASS will take short informative hikes in the neighboring national park. You will take home During this class students will be making a new-found knowledge of emerging flowers several small hand tied brooms and brushes and leafing trees and useful skills for detecting in the Appalachian style including small cob animal inhabitants. Students will gain web brooms, hearth or RV brooms and several confidence in avoiding and handling wildlife types of practical whisk brooms, as time encounters, and perhaps most importantly, allows. You will use natural broom corn and leave with new friends. Open to all skill levels. natural handles provided by the instructor. COURSE FEES: $340 Students will also learn to make a beautiful shaker style dustpan; a necessary item for every Joel Zachry is a retired biology professor and kitchen and shop. Students can work at a pace completed the 2,175 miles of the Appalachian commensurate with the number of brooms Trail in 2005. He is the owner of Great Outdoors desired. Students will experience some fun Adventure! Travel and has guided small groups along the way and leave the course with the to Alaska since 1988. He is an instructor and equipment necessary to start making brooms at director of the UTK/NPS Smoky Mountain Field home. Open to all skill levels.