Detail from "Historical Record" by Patrick Hall, 2008

UNC Asheville's Craft Campus will launch a year-long lecture series, "Meet the Maker: Conversations of Meaning with Craftspeople" this month. The series will focus on discussions with artists in various media, including metal, clay, wood, glass and fiber. Tasmanian furniture maker Patrick Hall will kick off the series on Thursday, Sept. 18. He will speak at 12:15 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Owen Hall room 237 and again at 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Laurel Forum. The events are free and open to the public.

Hall was born in Germany and immigrated to Tasmania as a child. He graduated from the University of Tasmania's School of Art with majors in furniture design and printmaking. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout Australia and he has developed a strong following in the United States. For the past 10 years Hall has exhibited at the annual International Expositions of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art in Chicago. In addition to group shows in Australia, the United States and Japan, Hall's work has been featured in more than a dozen solo exhibitions.

For more information about Hall's talk or about the lecture series, click on www.unca.edu/craftcampus/MeetTheMaker.htm or call 828/250-2392.