The Rudnick Art + Nature Trail is a 1.2 mile trail on the property where the CCCD is located. When you visit, plan on seeing our current exhibit and taking a stroll. In this photo, little Lumi peaks out from behind one of the Fiddlehead sculptures made by Harry McDaniel.

University of North Carolina Press
Release Date: July 2010
544 pages, 8 x 11, 409 color and 50 b&w photos, notes, index
Cover Price $65
ISBN 978-0-8078-3413-8

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This Book is a Project of The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design.

This exhibit features the work of nineteen students from UNC-Asheville, Western Carolina University, Appalachian State University, and Haywood Community College who were selected to work with Tasmanian sculptor and furniture maker Patrick Hall. The residency was graciously hosted by Rob Pulleyn, owner of Marshall High Studios in Marshall, NC, and took place in May 2009.

This exhibit features selected work by students who participated in this residency, as well as documentary photographs showing the sculpture they created during the residency titled “In Sunshine or In Shadow.” Also on display will be the completed piece from the residency (housed outside).

The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design organizes an international artist residency once every three years to provide an opportunity for college students from this region to work with an internationally renown craft artist. These efforts focus on developing collaborative skills and working in an atmosphere that is different then their academic settings.

For more information about the residency that took place last year, including documentary photos, please visit http://www.craftcreativitydesign.org/education/hall.php

Western Carolina University seeks applications for the 2010 Outdoor Sculpture Competition. Open to sculptors working in the Southeast (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia, West Virginia) 18 +. No entry fee. 5 works selected for 1-year exhibit. Winners will each receive a $2,000 honorarium plus complimentary lodging. Deadline (not postmark) August 6, 2010. Download application at: fineartmuseum.wcu.edu.

Art Trek Tryon, a free self-guided tour of more than 40 artists’ studios will be held on Saturday, July 24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, July 25, Noon to 5 p.m. Studios and galleries ranging from one room in an artist’s home to separate buildings for studio and a gallery are open to the public in Saluda, Tryon, Columbus, NC and Landrum, SC. The art covers most styles and materials including: painting, drawing, woodturning, ceramics, fabric art, metal work, and indoor and outdoor sculpture. Most of the art is for sale.

A brochure with map and driving directions is available from the Upstairs Artspace in Tryon, the event sponsor, and other area businesses. It can also be downloaded at upstairsartspace.org or by calling the Upstairs at 828 859 2828.

An exhibit of work by participating artists opens with a preview party at the Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, on Friday, July 23, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The exhibit will continue through August 21, 2010.

The 32-year-old Upstairs Artspace is a nonprofit contemporary art gallery exhibiting art and craft by leading artists of the Southeast, especially the Carolinas. For more information call the Upstairs at 828.859.2828.

Call for papers and proposals.
All disciplines invited.

The legacy of Black Mountain College continues to influence contemporary culture in multiple realms. This conference aims to investigate its history as well as the multiple paths of influence, actual and possible, identifiable in the contemporary world and beyond.

Co-hosted by The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and
the University of North Carolina at Asheville

Keynote Speaker: Kenneth Snelson
Kenneth Snelson is a major American sculptor with work in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., museums in Holland, Australia, Japan and Germany and public art commissions all over the world. He also holds several U.S. patents. Snelson was a student at Black Mountain College in the summers of 1948 and 1949, where he worked closely with Buckminster Fuller, and where he discovered the principle known as "tensegrity". Known primarily for his gravity defying sculptures, Snelson is also an accomplished photographer with a particular interest in panoramic photographs. The recent publication Kenneth Snelson: Forces Made Visible traces this important artist's five-decade career.

“Figurative Association: The Human Form in Clay” will feature eight internationally and nationally known ceramic and mixed media artists from six states who use the figure as the main theme in their sculpture.

The artist/presenters include:
Tom Bartel - Janis Mars Wunderlich - Robert Brady - Arthur Gonzalez  - Tip Toland - Beth Cavener Stichter - Lisa Clague - Anne Drew Potter

The symposium is being coordinated by Arrowmont’s Program Director Bill Griffith with assistance from Debra Fritts, a noted Georgia ceramic artist and Arrowmont instructor and Thaddeus Erdahl, current Arrowmont Resident Artist in Ceramics.

A series of lectures, panel topic discussions, demonstrations and gallery exhibitions will make up the three-day symposium.  Additionally, each artist/presenter has invited an emerging figurative sculptor of their choice to be represented in the Invited Artists Exhibition, which will be one of the highlights of the event.  Arrowmont and Debra Fritts will each also invite an emerging figurative artist to participate. “One vital, educational component of this symposium is the identification of 10 emerging artists in the ceramic sculpture field and the invitation to exhibit their work alongside the highly respected national Presenters Exhibition,” said Arrowmont Program Director Bill Griffith, adding, “This again speaks to Arrowmont’s commitment as a leader in education and support in promoting the careers of the next generation of artists.”
  
For more Symposium details, fees and registration information visit www.arrowmont.org or call (865) 436-5860.

The Craft Reader, edited by Glenn Adamson
Published by Berg Publishers

The CCCD proudly supported this text with a Windgate internship.

From the canonical texts of the Arts and Crafts Movement to the radical thinking of today's “DIY” movement, from theoretical writings on the position of craft in distinction to Art and Design to how-to texts from
renowned practitioners, from feminist histories of textiles to descriptions of the innovation born of necessity in Soviet factories and African auto-repair shops, The Craft Reader presents the first comprehensive anthology of writings on modern craft.

Covering the period from the Industrial Revolution to today, the Reader draws on craft practice and theory from America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The world of craft is considered in its full breadth – from pottery and weaving, to couture and chocolate-making, to contemporary art, architecture and curation. The writings are themed into sections and all extracts are individually introduced, placing each in its historical, cultural and artistic context.

Bringing together an astonishing range of both classic and contemporary texts, The Craft Reader will be invaluable to any student or practitioner of Craft and also to readers in Art and Design.

Glenn Adamson is Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is author of Thinking Through Craft and co-editor of The Journal of Modern Craft.

String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art
by Elissa Auther

String, Felt, Thread presents an unconventional history of the American art world, chronicling the advance of thread, rope, string, felt, and fabric from the “low” world of craft to the “high” world of art in the 1960s and 1970s and the emergence today of a craft counterculture. In this full-color illustrated volume, Elissa Auther discusses the work of American artists using fiber, considering provocative questions of material, process, and intention that bridge the art–craft divide.
Drawn to the aesthetic possibilities and symbolic power of fiber, the artists whose work is explored here—Eva Hesse, Robert Morris, Claire Zeisler, Miriam Shapiro, Faith Ringgold, and others—experimented with materials that previously had been dismissed for their associations with the merely decorative, with “arts and crafts,” and with “women’s work.” In analyzing this shift and these exceptional artists’ works, Auther engages far-reaching debates in the art world: What accounts for the distinction between art and craft? Who assigns value to these categories, and who polices the boundaries distinguishing them?
String, Felt, Thread not only illuminates the centrality of fiber to contemporary artistic practice but also uncovers the social dynamics—including the roles of race and gender—that determine how art has historically been defined and valued.
Published by University of Minnesota Press and just released in December 2009.
Elissa Auther is associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design is an inter-institutional Center of the University of North Carolina.

The mission of the regional UNC Center is to support and advance craft, creativity and design in education and research, and, through community collaborations, to demonstrate ways that craft and design provide creative solutions to community issues. The mission of the nonprofit CCCD is to support the mission of the UNC center through funding, programs, and outreach to artists, craft organizations, schools in the community, region and nation.

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