I wondered why I was always attracted to soft shades of orange and green until I picked this up in Falls Park on our morning walk....a fallen bloom from a tulip poplar tree!
WAY TO GO 7/8 ART CLUB & thank you Allison Brown for joining in the fun!
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Last Friday evening on May 1, 2015, Kate Furman, a former student, opened a highly publicized exhibition called "Defining She" at Artistry Workshops & Gallery at 12 Andrews St., Greenville, SC. I fact, I would like to applaud them for a very effect use of social media to get the word out! Having said that I want to tell you it is an excellent show, one of the best I have seen in quite some time and well worth your time to go and see it!
Kate recently returned to Greenville, after completing an advanced jewelry and metals degree at Rhode Island School of Design. In photographs the work is impressive and stands alone in its uniqueness but in reality the work completely took my breath away! The creative vision is like no other as you will see for yourself. Yet, the work couples Kate's amazing skill with metals with the roughest of Nature's materials in a way that is both stunning and startling! Kate, no doubt has a working relationship with her materials that pays homage to those amazing discoveries one can make in the natural world, if only you take the time to look....
Emily Clarke, Jessie Kendall and Rachel Vann also had superb offerings for the show. Though each young woman had a highly personal and vastly different vision for their work, the work created a strangely elegant harmony...
You really must not miss this show! artistry workshops and gallery greenville sc
The Artistry - Home
Emily was Roger's Mom. She and I shared a deep love for flowers and gardening. When she passed away and Roger was packing up her house in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I told him to pull up some of her favorite iris, put them in a box and mail them. He did and now Emily's iris are not only blooming in mass in front of our home but you can see them up and down our street in front of other people's mailboxes who also loved them! They are the old fashioned scented kind that also happen to be very hardy. I am sure Emily would be delighted!
Fun & laughter galore! I only wish I could show their wonderful smiles but then, I think you get the picture! This is what keeps me coming back to teaching Middle School art in case you ever wondered!
"One-Stop Open Studios 2015" is a special exhibition at the Metropolitan Arts Council. The exhibit runs from April 29 through June 17, 2015 and will be open to the public during Artisphere weekend hours. For details contact MAC http://www.greenvillearts.com/
My small ceramic sculpture, "Acorn and Cap" will be shown in "One-Stop Open Studios 2015". This is always a wonderful show to visit if you want to see a large number of small but excellent works of art by Greenville's best artists. If you are just starting an art collection, this is a great place to begin!
Acorn & Cap, part of an installation called "A Walk Remembered", white earthenware with terra sigillata, approximately 10 x 10 x 10inches
Our 5 "rescue fish" are swimming in our rusty wheelbarrow waiting to return to a clean pond! I call them our "rescue fish" because I purchased them as tiny feeder fish some 5 or 6 years ago. We started with 15 feeder fish for $2.50 at PetsMart. Rosie, our parti poodle, caught 3 to play with, a copperhead bit one and others seemed to mysteriously disappear, probably a raccoon smart enough to reach under the net. These gorgeous survivors are now close to a foot in length and happy to return to a clean pond!
My studio window in the background....
Roger's studio in the background...
Starting with classes taught by some of Greenville's finest artist teachers!
I had a tour yesterday and I promise you it is "jaw dropping" and has a clear vision for the arts that you will LOVE!
Cherington Shucker
Executive Director
Physical Address:
Greenville Center for Creative Arts
25 Draper Street
Greenville, South Carolina 29611
Mailing Address:
Greenville Center for Creative Arts
P.O. Box 2206
Greenville, South Carolina 29602
E: cherington@artcentergreenville.org
C: 646-825-1859
Alice Ballard will be teaching a ceramics class at Cullowhee Mountain Arts on the campus of Western Carolina University. "Finding Your Form Through Nature" runs from June 28-July3, 2015. It is for all levels and is a hand-building class inspired by nature. The class has a few spots left. If you are interested look at the flyer above for details.
You may also check it out on her site/blog alice-ballard.squarespace.com/blog or call her at (864)414-0478 or email aliceballard64@yahoo.com.
As I looked upward, it was like looking up in awe when seeing for the first time the brilliance of the colors in the stained glass windows of Saint Chapelle in Paris. While standing in the corridor of shadow created by tall red tips I gazed with a smile at the leaves of greenish gold serving as a backdrop for the wisteria's many shades of purple, lavender and deep violet. What a sight to behold!
Perhaps less fragrant but no less beautiful, I took note as Carolina jasmine danced on its vine in yellow splendor at the far end of the tunnel of shade by my house.
The venue where my work is being shown is 104 East Main Street, Lake City, SC.
Sculpture is everywhere in the historic and charming town of Lake City.
104 East Main Street from the inside looking toward the railroad track.
Roger and his assistant Jaz.
Half-Pods unpacked and ready for installation.
One Half-Pod up and nine to go....
10 minutes later...
20 minutes later...
30 minutes later we are packed and ready to go!
The job is done and we are about to head home. Thanks Roger, your expertise made the installation "a piece of cake". Having Jaz and Rosie along offered a party atmosphere and moral support. After all, they are parti poodles and see this as their job in our family.
The drive home through fields of brilliant green winter hay and saffron yellow canola plants was breathtaking! There was also a purple haze that topped some of the brilliant yellow canola fields. The complementary nature of these two colors together still lives on as a vivid memory or our trip to Lake City.
Our very best wishes to Lake City and the ArtFields Committee for their hard work launching ArtFields 2015! May it be the best event yet!
Even as they begin to wilt and reach downward toward the earth from which they came, they continue to be elegant and graceful...