For more information go to https://cerberagallery.com/
My work is now being represented by Hidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte, NC!!! Katharine and Rebecca met with me this past Tuesday when I delivered my first work to them. They are an amazing team and I feel so fortunate to be working with them!
The gallery space is stunning to say the least! It is light, airy and flexible. As you might imagine, I can hardly wait to have a show in this space! We are looking toward the spring of 2018 for my first solo show but in the mean time they will have an ongoing inventory of my work in the gallery available for you to see.
Plan to drop by Hidell Brooks Gallery and meet Katharine and Rebecca soon. The gallery is easy to find and they have great parking. You will also enjoy seeing the work of a host of amazing artists, many being friends from my past.....like Herb Jackson and Virginia Scotchie!
GALLERY INFORMATION AND DIRECTIONS http://www.hidellbrooks.com/
I am delighted to tell you that my 2 Long Pods have already been installed in their new homes! Thank you Katharine and Rebecca!!!
If you have not seen the show, hope you will try to see it. Gallery at Flat Rock has done a brilliant job of installing it and setting the stage for the title, TEMPORAL WITNESS. The exhibition demonstrates how each of the artists in their own very personal way relates to this idea in a variety of mediums.
To those who have seen it or who came to the talk yesterday, I want to thank you for your time, words of encouragement, feedback and all around support. This means so much.....
I put together a slide show to help entice you to go see the exhibition if you have not been or to give you a chance to see it again, or to see it if you just can't make it.
Special thanks to Suzanne and Tom! And to Christina I have to say what a great pleasure it was having a show with you and your amazing work!
PHILIPP EIRICH, director of Cerbera Gallery invited me to join the gallery. Cerbera Gallery is an outstanding and highly respected gallery in Kansas City, Missouri. It well know nationally and internationally.
Currently I have 9 pieces in their on line gallery store and will soon have several works in the Cerbera Gallery itself. It is an honor to have my work represented along side some of the best ceramic artists in the world. You can see my work and other work by going to the following link .
Here is just one piece featured in their inventory!
The talk is this Saturday, May 6, 1 pm, 2017. We would love to see you!
Gallery at Flat Rock, April 13- May 14, 2017,
OPENING RECEPTION, Thursday, April 13, 5-7pcm
ARTIST TALK, Saturday May 6, 1pm
www.galleryflatrock.com , 2702A Greenville Hwy, Flat Rock, NC 28731, 828,698.7000
When finished these will complete a group of 9 Half Pods. They will be fired 2 to 3 times to create the layering of colored terra sigillata and oxides.
Hope to see you at the OPENING on April 13th 5-7 or the TALK on May 6, 2017
What do you think??? Do you have a favorite?
Finding Your Form Through Nature, The Bascom Art Center, Highlands, NC, June 19-23, 2017
ONLY 2 SPOTS LEFT OUT OF 12 Contact information below if you or someone you know is interested. www.thebascom.org/bascom-art-education-workshops
Finding Your Form Through Nature is a hand-building class inspired by the beauty of the natural surroundings of the Bascom in Highlands, NC. Along with all my favorite hand-building techniques, participants will learn to make and use terra sigillata. We will use earthenware and schedule two firings for work that is dry. Other work can be taken home or fired at a later date. Packing and shipping of that work would be extra.
Bring along your sketchbook/journal to record special moments, for sketching and for saving valuable technical information.
NOTE: Participants who have taken "Finding Your Form Through Nature" have the option to plan, with my help if you need it, a focus on favorite hand-building techniques in more depth. For example, you might want to focus on a group of Ikebana containers, moss gardens, organic boxes, or nature platters.
My contact information if you have any questions about the class or want to ask me about a special project you wish to work on. aliceballard64@gmail.com
Registration has started so contact the Bascom to save a place as this class will fill up fast. www.thebascom.org/bascom_art_education_workshops
WORKSHOP INFORMATION FOR A FALL WORKSHOP WITH CULLOWHEE MOUNTAIN ARTS, LAKE LOGAN ARTIST/WRITER Program - PLEASE NOTE THE DATE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO OCTOBER 25TH-OCTOBER 30, 2017
Alice Ballard
"Finding Your Form Through Drawing & Clay"
Skill Level:
All levels
Regardless of your medium, in this process oriented workshop, we will move back and forth between clay and various drawing media, seeking inspiration from the beautiful surroundings of Lake Logan with its host of natural forms within its environment. Working inside and outside the studio, our ideas and materials will be our partners and the creative process will take us on a journey of discovery. Artist who are used to working in two dimensions and those who usually work in three will all benefit from the contrast and combination of these two ways of working. We’ll use earthenware clay and a variety of simple hand building techniques along with doing lots of drawing.
Alice Ballard and Janice Mason Steeves will have some joint sessions, integrating the two classes. Janice will lead the first activity, where we begin each day with a 20-minute meditation outdoors in nature, where we contemplate three questions. Each class will then separate to go about their various workshop activities, but come together on the last day of the workshop to share thoughts on their reflective questions. At the end of each day, Alice will lead the participants in a “Seeing with our hands” drawing as meditation exercise for 20-30 minutes. There will also be a session where the instructors teach each other’s students – so that each group will have the opportunity to feel and experience another medium. These collaborative sessions are very expansive for students and enhance overall experience.
Studio Artist and Teaching Artist Alice Ballard has conducted workshops at University of South Carolina, Francis Marion University, SC, Arrowmont School of Art, the Bascom Art Center, Penland School of Craft, SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities and Cullowhee Mountain Arts. Ballard has an extensive exhibition record. Her work is also in permanent collections at: The Renwick, Washington DC, Mint Museums(s), Charlotte, NC, Greenville County Museum of Art, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, ALTN TN &SC State Collections, numerous commissions for Corporations. Commissions include: 2 SC Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowships, AK Arts Council Fellowship, 3 MAC Grants, Fulbright Fellowship to study in India. Gallery Representation includes: by Christie Taylor Art Consultant, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, Sumter Museum of Art, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC.
http://aliceballard.com/
For more information :
Norma Hendrix, MA, MFA
Executive Director
These 3 Meditation bowls are available in the Umstead Hotel & Spa Gift Gallery, Cary, NC. You can contact Marcelle Kick, <marcelle.kick@theumstead.com> if you are interested in the purchase of one.... I am delighted to have them at the Umstead. especially since they commissioned my first 15 Pod Triangle installation for the entry of their elegant Heron dinning room. I might add, it is worth a trip to the Umstead to take a tour of their incredible art collection, both inside and outside.
Alice Ballard
"Finding Your Form Through Drawing & Clay"
Skill Level:
All levels
Regardless of your medium, in this process oriented workshop, we will move back and forth between clay and various drawing media, seeking inspiration from the beautiful surroundings of Lake Logan with its host of natural forms within its environment. Working inside and outside the studio, our ideas and materials will be our partners and the creative process will take us on a journey of discovery. Artist who are used to working in two dimensions and those who usually work in three will all benefit from the contrast and combination of these two ways of working. We’ll use earthenware clay and a variety of simple hand building techniques along with doing lots of drawing.
Alice Ballard and Janice Mason Steeves will have some joint sessions, integrating the two classes. Janice will lead the first activity, where we begin each day with a 20-minute meditation outdoors in nature, where we contemplate three questions. Each class will then separate to go about their various workshop activities, but come together on the last day of the workshop to share thoughts on their reflective questions. At the end of each day, Alice will lead the participants in a “Seeing with our hands” drawing as meditation exercise for 20-30 minutes. There will also be a session where the instructors teach each other’s students – so that each group will have the opportunity to feel and experience another medium. These collaborative sessions are very expansive for students and enhance overall experience.
Studio Artist and Teaching Artist Alice Ballard has conducted workshops at University of South Carolina, Francis Marion University, SC, Arrowmont School of Art, the Bascom Art Center, Penland School of Craft, SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities and Cullowhee Mountain Arts. Ballard has an extensive exhibition record. Her work is also in permanent collections at: The Renwick, Washington DC, Mint Museums(s), Charlotte, NC, Greenville County Museum of Art, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, ALTN TN &SC State Collections, numerous commissions for Corporations. Commissions include: 2 SC Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowships, AK Arts Council Fellowship, 3 MAC Grants, Fulbright Fellowship to study in India. Gallery Representation includes: by Christie Taylor Art Consultant, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, Sumter Museum of Art, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC.
http://aliceballard.com/
For more information :
Norma Hendrix, MA, MFA
Executive Director
Closes March 3, the last week to come and take a CLOSE LOOK......
Don't miss my charcoal and pencil drawings..... artandlightgallery.com/
Finding Your Form Through Nature is a hand-building class inspired by the beauty of the natural surroundings of the Bascom in Highlands, NC. Along with all my favorite hand-building techniques, participants will learn to make and use terra sigillata. We will use earthenware and schedule two firings for work that is dry. Other work can be taken home or fired at a later date. Packing and shipping of that work would be extra.
Bring along your sketchbook/journal to record special moments, for sketching and for saving valuable technical information.
NOTE: Participants who have taken "Finding Your Form Through Nature" have the option to plan, with my help if you need it, a focus on favorite hand-building techniques in more depth. For example, you might want to focus on a group of Ikebana containers, moss gardens, organic boxes, or nature platters.
My contact information if you have any questions about the class or want to ask me about a special project you wish to work on. aliceballard64@gmail.com
Registration has started so contact the Bascom to save a place as this class will fill up fast. www.thebascom.org/bascom_art_education_workshops
Many thanks to Kate and Teresa for the amazing experience of taking the "blank canvas" of an empty gallery space and working together to install a unique show that truly shows a "shared vision" between 2 artists.
I would also like to thank old friends and new friends who came to the opening and/or the talk. Your questions were wonderful as were your thoughtful reflections regarding not only the individual work but regarding the conversation going on between Kate's work and mine!
If you have not seen the show, please drop by. We would love to share TRACES: A SHARED VISION with you and hope you will let us know what you think about it. We are sure you will see things we missed and would love to hear about it!
For information and hours, contact Art & Light
Try to imagine 3 artists, turning 2 rooms of a gallery into a space that has been transformed by the process and the work!!! This is what Teresa Roche (artist & gallery owner), Kate Furman and I did this past Sunday and Monday. Interestingly enough WE were transformed by the creative and collaborative experience of working together. I will always treasure this experience that brought the 3 of us together in a magical and spiritual way that is difficult to explain....I believe if you come to see the show you will understand how a space or a site, the art and 3 women came together resulting in a special sort of "Happening", not unlike an improvisation! I believe TRACES, makes evident our process. It is the process after all that artists often cherish far beyond the finished work...
My thanks to Kate and Teresa for the memory I will always have of our process of weaving this show together. .... It required respect, trust, risk-taking, focus, sensitivity, and being totally "open" to the possibilities.
If you do visit TRACES, We would love feedback so do share your thoughts about the show on any kind of social networking. We want to hear the good, the bad and any suggestions! Who knows, you might find that your thoughts have inadvertently become part of our next "happening".
A peak at a detail of the show....
The show is a must see and will be up through March 17, 2017.
A heartfelt thank you to the Greenville Center for Creative Arts and everyone else who helped make this such a great show and a new experience for Greenville! Let's do it again!!!!!!
OPENING RECEPTION / THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9 / 6-8 PM
SHOW RUNS FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 3, 2017
ARTIST TALK / SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 / 10 AM
