Edited by Mark Shapiro
University of North Carolina Press
192 pp., 8 x 11, 82 color, 39 b&w photos, notes, bibl., index
Cover Price $40

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Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The body of work she has produced in her more than sixty years in the studio is remarkable for its depth, personal voice, and consistent innovation. Many of her pieces defy category, invoking body and landscape, pottery and sculpture, male and female, hand and eye.

Equally compelling are Karnes's experiences in some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation: from the worker-owned cooperative housing of her childhood, to Brooklyn College under modernist Serge Chermayeff, to North Carolina's avant-garde Black Mountain College, to the Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point, New York, which Karnes helped establish as an experiment in integrating art, life, family, and community.

This book, designed to accompany an exhibit of Karnes's works organized by Peter Held, curator of ceramics for the Arizona State University Art Museum's Ceramic Research Center, offers a comprehensive look at the life and work of Karnes. Edited by highly regarded studio potter Mark Shapiro, it combines essays by leading critics and scholars with color reproductions of more than sixty of her works, providing new perspectives for understanding the achievements of this extraordinary artist.

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

L to R: Patrick Hall with students standing with "In Sunshine or In Shadow" piece created in Marshall, NC. Photo Credit: © Ben Walters, www.benwalters.net; Patrick Hall welding with students; “In Sunshine or In Shadow” at night in Marshall, NC. Photo Credit: © Ben Walters, www.benwalters.net

In Sunshine or In Shadow: A Residency & the WNC Students Who Were There
April 16 – August 13, 2010

Brent Skidmore, Blonde Variables of a Canyon, fiddleback English maple, walnut, basswood, maple and acrylic paints, 77 x 34 x 16", 2003
Catharine Ellis, 1,100 Steel Threads, wool, stainless steel, 103 x 32", 2008
Kate Vogel & John Littleton, What do you hold?, glass and metal base, 6 x 16 x 73/4", 2009
Terry Gess, Teapot, white stoneware, salted, 8 inches, 2009
Margaret Yackey, Neckpiece #6, cast polyurethane resin, sterling silver, mica bronze, 1.5 x 7", 2009

OUT OF THE BOARD ROOM & INTO THE STUDIO
Aug. 27 - Dec. 3, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, Aug. 27 4-6pm

With the mission “to advance the understanding of craft by encouraging and supporting research, scholarship and professional development," who better to serve on your board than some of the best artists, makers and thinkers in this region? That’s been one of the important components to the successes that have taken place over the past decade under the watch of Dian Magie, Executive Director, who retires in September.

“Out of the Board Room and Into the Studio” is intended to feature the creative talent of The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design’s board and it’s retiring director, while also encouraging people to learn more about the organization. As a UNC Asheville Center, CCCD serves many audiences in the craft field, from students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, to leading scholars, curators and museums. Please stop by and learn more about our programs and our board!

Featured in this exhibit:
Virginia Derryberry - painting
Judith Duff - pottery
Catharine Ellis - textiles
Terry Gess - pottery
David Hutto - photography
Stoney Lamar - wood and steel
Jeana Kline - textiles
Dian Magie - pottery
Rob Pulleyn - ceramics
Michael Sherrill - mixed media
Brent Skidmore - furniture
Jody Servon - mixed media
Kate Vogel - glass
Megan Wolfe - ceramics
Margaret Yaukey - jewelry/metals

Other board members who provide exceptional knowledge and resources that are not featured in this exhibit: Denise Drury, Jenny Moore, Stan Hubbard, Leisa Rundquist, Jean McLaughlin and Lee Mulligan.

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 Center for Craft, Creativity and Design is Center of the University of North Carolina Asheville.

The mission of the Center is to advance the understanding of craft by encouraging and supporting research, scholarship and professional development. The mission of the nonprofit CCCD is to support the UNCA center through funding, programs, and outreach to national and regional artists, craft organizations, schools, and the local community.