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Meet the Maker:
Conversations of Meaning
with Craftspeople
Craft Campus lecture/workshop series
This year-long
workshop and lecture series focuses around meaningful conversations
with individual craftspeople, artists, and designers in each one of
the craft media: metal, clay, wood, glass, fiber, and mixed media.
The goal of the series is to link the conversations with the
"Makers" to the life of the viewer/user of contemporary craft. The
power of knowing how experiences with handmade objects and craft
enrich, change, and sustain is what drives this unique series. The
series aims to generate awareness of contemporary craft practices
and their significance in Western North Carolina and beyond.
Connections to other departments are many but highlights may include
connections to Sociology, Environmental Studies, Economics,
Classics, Art, Multimedia Arts/Sciences, Arts and Ideas and History.
All events are free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the UNCA Cultural and Special Events Committee.
Fall Schedule
below.
UNC Asheville
Press Release
September 18th Patrick Hall
Tasmanian Sculptor/Furniture Maker
12:15pm Art History lecture room (Owen 237)
7:00pm Laurel Forum (Karpen 139)
November 18th Josh Copus
Wood-fire potter, UNC Asheville '07
Founder, Clayspace Co-op
12:15pm in Art History lecture room (Owen 237)
An excerpt from Grace Cochrane's essay "Storing the intangible..."
" The cabinet can be seen as a metaphor for the 20th
Century," he says, "it is filled with storage and classification systems, from the sinister kind that has its horrible zenith in the concentration camps where people were reduced to file cards and branded numbers, to the kinds that bind us together: the storage of family treasurers, the keep-sakes of everyday life and the ephemera of personal histories." characteristic of his work is his play with words as double meanings, puns and metaphors. A "cabinet" is not only an item of furniture with storage spaces and drawers, but also a small private room, and Hall's physical forms are imbued with the parallel implications of personal and private spaces. Each drawer is a cabinet within a cabinet; a world within a world. The words "store", "track", "chest", "baggage" and "record" are also used with deliberate multiple meanings."
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The work is fascinating. Students in many areas - from graphics to metal sculpture will find this residency to have the same growth experience for themselves and faculty as the Nina Hole and David Nash residencies of 2006 and 2003. These past residencies have been enormous successes.
Carrizzi’s work explores the ideas, materials, processes, and markets oscillating between mass-produced and one-of-a-kind, trendy and timeless, fashionable and filthy. His design process includes basic form, matter, and speculative research aimed at finding objects of adornment that stimulate, support, and change the way that people respond to objects; and the way that objects relate to their lives. Carrizzi’s jewelry and functional wares engage playful, corrupt, sexual subjects using slick, primary, lickable forms; flowing between the personal, technical, automotive, and absurd. ImagesSeptember 30, 2008 Asheville Citizen-Times article on Meet the Maker: Phil Carrizzi
Josh Copus is a wood-fire potter whose work combines traditional forms and processes with the contemporary art of today. In 2003, Copus founded Clayspace Co-op in Asheville’s River Arts District, initially intending to establish a studio where he and fellow founding members Matt Jacobs and Sean Fairbridge could work in privacy while attending UNCA. Built from scratch with whatever resources its members could lay hands on, the Clayspace has now blossomed into an artist’s haven that includes both studio and gallery space, as well as a vibrant and supportive work environment for a growing community of potters. Since graduating in 2007, Copus has also set up shop in Marshall, North Carolina. His current work in ceramics draws not only on his studies of Korean, Japanese, English, and North Carolinian folk pottery, but also on the strong local traditions of craft and agriculture in his hometown of Floyd, Virginia. With emphasis upon the use of local, salvaged materials and a sense of artistic community, his work represents a vision of ingenuity and self-sufficiency reminiscent of the early American folk potters. Images
November 5, 2008 Mountain Xpress cover story on Josh Copus and Clayspace.
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