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Robert Johnson, landscape painter
A visual storyteller, Robert Johnson immerses himself in the natural environment. The subjects of his works range from how technological advances and man’s greed are destroying our natural world to the vitality, peacefulness and lyrical beauty of our preserved parks and lands. Johnson’s paintings are like portals to another time, reminiscent of an era when the diversity of flora and fauna existed undisturbed by human development, intact and reliant on its own system of balances. Dutifully making notes and intricate sketches, Johnson often exaggerates scale and detail. These sketches, combined with his vibrant memory, are the backbone of Johnson’s studies and paintings later made in his studio. He chronicles the exotic locales from New Zealand and Ecuador to the spectacular regional landscapes of North Carolina Nature Conservancy lands and Blue Ridge Parkway. His transcendental paintings dispense with preconceived notions of the landscape. Halcyon in nature, his excursions are exercises in looking. Dutifully making notes and intricate sketches, Johnson playfully rides the creative current of his imagination, often exaggerating scale and detail. These sketches, combined with his vibrant memory, are the backbone of Johnson's studies and paintings later made in his studio. Johnson received his BS degree from the University of Louisville (KY) and his MFA degree from Mills College (CA). He has received a number of grants, including a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Grant, that have funded excursions to exotic places in the U.S. and abroad. Most recently, Johnson provided illustrations for a new environmental publication titled End of Eden. His work has been exhibited in many museums, including North Carolina Museum of Art, Morris Museum of Art (GA), Chrysler Art Museum (VA) and the Asheville Art Museum (NC). Robert currently works from his studio in North Carolina. Biographical information made available by Blue Spriral 1 Gallery in Asheville, NC. Blue Spiral 1 is one of the galleries that represents Robert Johnson's work.
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Victoria Hyatt Sowers of the Sandy Creek
Weavers Thursday, September
16, 7pm
Part of Weaving Our Lives
Together: A Fabric Time Capsule, sponsored by the Office of
Cultural Events and Special Academic Programs.
The Meet the Maker lecture will be followed by a reception in Highsmith Gallery with food and drink. This event is free and open to the public. Full schedule of events below. The art of weaving runs deep in the roots of the Hyatt family. When she was eighteen years old, Emily Hyatt learned to weave from an instructor on the Cherokee Indian Reservation. She passed her love of weaving to her daughter Victoria Hyatt Sowers who has been weaving since she was eight years old. Victoria will facilitate the weaving of our UNC Asheville Fabric Time Capsule during a one-week residency in September. Since 1998, Emily and Victoria have been known professionally as Sandy Creek Weavers. On historic utilitarian looms they create contemporary works of art. Their specialities are rugs, tapestries, wall hangings and memorial weavings. Their work can be found from New York to Florida in homes, galleries, banks, even a congressional office. They have received numerous grants from the NC State Department of Cultural Resources including support for a one woman show of Emily's work titled Looming Identity which explored the symbolism of fiber in identity. Their work has been featured in Southern Living and Handwoven magazines. In addition, Emily and Victoria are renowned throughout the Southeastern U.S. for their school and community weaving residencies which "capture time in a tapestry". Their unique approach to "story telling" through tapestry making has been noted by local news media everywhere they have appeared. “The challenge to create new ways of weaving that are not traditional inspires me. I create weavings from my head through emotion, thoughts, and vision that are not “textbook” if you will. The surprise of the outcome is fascinating.” Victoria Sowers.
Other events tied to Weaving Our Lives Together: A Fabric Time CapsuleOn ExhibitSeptember 10 - October 6Highsmith Union Gallery, lower level Highsmith Union One-week ResidencySeptember 13 - September 17Bring an object that represents you to weave into the Time Capsule Tapestry. Drop in for a few minutes or bring a group a plan to stay a while. Schedule at UNCA.edu/highsmith/gallery or call to make an appointment 828-251-6991 examples of objects include: sheet music, instrument strings, bike parts, sports uniform, medals, jewelry, ties, fabric from a significant piece of clothing, small photo (3 x 4” or smaller, laminated), computer parts, paint brushes, glasses, writting/print-out made into a scroll, patches, or sign your name on a piece of fabric.
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Gail Fredell, studio
furniture maker
For over 30 years I have pursued a career of studio furniture work, teaching and arts administration. My work is in the permanent collection of SF MOMA, the Oakland Museum, Stanford Universtiy Memorial Chapel and the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. I have taught extensively at the college level nationwide and in summer workshop programs at Penland, Haystack and Anderson Ranch. I served as Director of the Furniture Program at Anderson Ranch from 1993 to 2001, and recently as Director of Development for the Furniture Society from 2009 to 2010. I have recently moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where I continue to pursue my studio furniture work. My current projects range in scale and context from residential, functional furniture to public sculpture, for both interior spaces and landscape settings. With the support of a 2010 NCArts council Artist Fellowship, I will be returning to a full-time studio schedule, with the model of alternating commission work with my own work for gallery and museum exhibition. I will be teaching the 8-week, Spring Concentration course at Penland School of Crafts in 2011 with furniture maker and turner Jacque Allen, and will be participating in “The Furniture Divas” exhibition at the Fuller Craft Museum, opening in February of 2011.
Gail Fredell
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Arnie Zimmerman, sculptor
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Fred
Horowitz, author of Josef Albers: To Open Eyes/The Bauhaus, Black Mountain
College, and Yale
This event is co-sponsored by the Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center.
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