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| Patrick Owens, Self-portrait in abandoned house, Tallassee, AL 2013 |
We are pleased to announce that several
of the Art Department's continuing students and recent alumni will be at the
Penland School of Crafts on various forms of assistantships or scholarships this
summer. The Penland
School of Crafts is a national center for craft education located in North
Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. Penland's focus on excellence, its long
history, and its inspiring, retreat setting have made it a model of
experiential education. The school offers workshops in books and paper, clay,
drawing and painting, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking and
letterpress, textiles, wood, and other media. Penland sponsors artist
residencies, a gallery and visitors center, and community education programs.
In summer Session 1, May 29—June 10, Carey Morton (MFA in
Art candidate, sculpture emphasis), is the recipient of the Clemson
University Art Department and Center for Visual Arts Scholarship Award . He is taking the Building the Fox Canoe with Bill Thomas. As the course description informs: “Fox is a
decked, double-paddle canoe, a boat intended for protected waters and lakes.
Fox boasts two water-tight compartments for storage and flotation and a
comfortable seatback and caned seat. She is 14-foot 7-inches long with a beam
of 30 inches and a finished weight of just over 40 pounds. Each student will
build a boat using CNC-cut parts and the stitch-and-glue method. We’ll have
them ready to float at the end of the workshop (paint and varnish will be added
at home). We’ll also build simple double paddles.”
Bill
Thomas is a studio artist and small boat designer who has taught ar the WoodenBoat
School (ME), Chewonki (ME), Lowell’s Boat Shop (MA), and as an online course
instructor at Craftsy and Off Center Harbor.
He is a registered Maine Guide and leader of kayaking and sailing
classes.
Also in Sumer Session I, Emily Tucker (BFA in Art alumna, drawing emphasis, 2016) will take the
Nature Notes workshop in drawing and painting from Robert
Johnson and Ken Moore. Emily received the Windgate work-study
scholarship. As
stated in the workshop description: “The workshop will be taught by a botanist
and an artist whose work centers on the natural environment. We’ll cover a
simple method of taking notes and sketching in the field using a portable kit
that contains everything students will need. We’ll take field trips to
beautiful natural areas to learn about the plants and ecosystems of the
Southern Appalachians. Back in the studio we’ll study botanical specimens and
produce small watercolor paintings from the sketches made during our
excursions.”
Robert Johnson is a studio artist who has taught at Haystack (ME),
Arrowmont (TN), and Penland. He has
received a NEA/Southern Arts Federation grant and several North Carolina Arts Council
fellowships and grants, and he is represented by Blue Spiral gallery (NC). Ken Moore is a botanist and the
assistant director emeritus of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. He has taught at the North Carolina Botanical
Garden, the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, and Penland.
In summer Session 2, June 12-14, we have:
Patrick Owens
(BFA in Art candidate, printmaking emphasis) received a work-study scholarship from
Penland. He will be taking the
letterpress workshop "Kern, Baby, Kern" with Colin Frazer and Eleanor
Annand. According to the description, “Through the medium of
letterpress printing, students in this workshop will build a visual awareness
of typography. We’ll explore letterforms and their composition in space, how
typography helps readers navigate text, the expressive qualities of type, and
the history of typography and printing. Students will become familiar with
hand-setting type, typesetting on the computer, polymer plate making, and
machine-carving (CNC) type. We’ll get our hands dirty while making beautiful
typographic prints.”
Eleanor Annand is the creative director at 7 Ton Design and
Letterpress (NC); teaching: Asheville Bookworks (NC); Penland Core fellowship;
exhibitions: Blue Spiral (NC), LIGHT Art+Design (NC). Colin Frazier is a designer at The
Service Bureau (TX) and professor at Montana State University. Hi work is in the collections of the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Ogden
Museum (New Orleans).
In
summer session 4, July 10 - 22, 2016, Deighton Abrams (MFA candidate, Art, ceramics) will serve as a
Studio Assistantship for the Clay
with a Life of Its Own workshop taught by Esther Shimazu. The description reads: “In
this workshop we’ll make detailed expressive figures using standard pottery
handbuilding techniques (pinch, coil, and slab). Working with stoneware,
students will begin with a small maquette and then compose their figures from
hollow clay body parts with individually modeled teeth, fingernails, and
toenails. We’ll pay particular attention to heads, hands, and feet. For fun and
contrast, we’ll use porcelain for eyes and teeth. Students will learn strong
joinery techniques to allow for unique gestural expressions.”
Shimazu
is a studio
artist who has taught at: Anderson Ranch (CO), Santa Fe Clay, and Penland, with
selected exhibitions at Kunstform Solothurn (Switzerland), Robyn Buntin Gallery
(Honolulu), and the Craft Alliance (St. Louis).
She is represented by John Natsoulas Gallery (CA), and her work is in
the collections of the Honolulu Museum of Art, St. Louis Art Museum, Cincinnati
Art Museum, Kutani Collection (Japan), and the Hawaii State Foundation on
Culture and the Arts.
Also in Sumer Session 4, Lexi Mathis (BFA in Art alumna, drawing emphasis, 2016) received a
scholarship from the Clemson University Art Department to take Goedele Peeters Figure Drawing to Printmaking
workshop. This course description reads:
“Each
day of this intensive workshop will include several sessions of life drawing
with a model, including full-body drawing, portraits, and anatomical studies.
We’ll draw on paper with charcoal, watercolor, pastel, ink, bister, and other
media. Then we’ll work in the print studio to translate these drawings into
prints through drypoint, monotype, and linoleum cuts with relief stencil.”
Peeters
is a Professor at the Municipal Art School Kontich and Berchem in Belgium, and
has also taught at the Hochschule Kunst & Design in Switzerland),the Cultural Center Tripoli in Libya), and the
University of Michigan. Prof. Peeters exhibitions
include the International Print Center (NYC), International Print Triennial
(Poland), and Gallery Pinsart (Belgium).
