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
The center will soon have a buckeye...
Lots happening in my studio!!! The most immediate project is all the preparations for a special show at Art & Light with former student Kate Furman. It is titled TRACES: A SHARED VISION and aptly so as you will see if you come to the show.
This is an extra special exhibition because it brings Kate Furman, former student when she was in Middle School at CCES and me, her former teacher, together to share our visions. I always knew Kate was one of those students who had the passion, work ethic and creativity to be an artist. But I did not see her again until she had a show of her MFA work from Rhode Island School of Design in Greenville. What a fun reunion it was! I was stunned by the maturity, technical quality and the uniqueness of her work. My response was to think to myself how much I would love for us to show our work together some day.....Well, we are doing just that and are having a wonderful time working with each other and with equally creative Gallery Director and artist in her own right, Teresa Roche, as we consider how we will use the walls and rooms of Art & Light to best show off the similarities and differences of our work in a unique way.
TRACES: A SHARED VISION opens from 6-8:00 on Thursday evening, February 9, 2017. The show runs through March 3 and there will be an artist talk on Saturday, February 11th at 10:00 AM. We hope you can make the opening, talk or just drop in to see the show.
For more information - artandlightgallery.com
I still have 2 Ming Rose pieces to airbrush so plan to do that tomorrow, New Year's day... Everything will need a second and possibly a 3 firing but all of that should be done during the coming week... I am relieved to have this much done but the real relief will be when and if I am satisfied with this first firing. The kiln will be cool and ready to unload this Monday so send positive energy flowing my way for a successful firing!
Heres thanking everyone who has given me love, friendship and moral support this year. It is so very appreciated. Enjoy this evening regardless of your plans and stay safe. I will be in touch next year and may it be a special year for all of us, one that offers HOPE for everyone....
Love, Alice
Don't forget that I have a sale going on in my studio until the 1st of the year. Just call, email or text for an appointment for any day except Christmas day! Many of the "Meditation Bowls" are $99, other work is 30% off and rattles are half off. (864)414-0478 or aliceballard64@gmail.com.
Many thanks to all of you who have purchased work from me this year! And thank you to those I am working on projects with during the coming year. It is a great pleasure getting to know all of you! Happy Holidays and may we all have an exceptional 2017!!!
Note that over the holidays, I will be posting upcoming shows and workshops during the next year. They will be posted under events on my site and on Facebook.
Details of work still available for sale following a very successful GREENVILLE OPEN STUDIOS 2016...
Although I do not keep regular visiting hours, you can always call to make an appointment to drop by to have a look.
I have set aside a select group of work discounted at 1/3 to 1/2 off to make room for new work currently in process for shows at Art & Light with Kate Furman in February of 2017 as well as work for another invitational show at Blue Spiral 1 that opens in March of 2007. Call or text 864-414-0478 for an appointment or if you have any questions.
It is amazing how some times the small pieces take so much more time than a large one!
New Half Pods ready for drying, addition of color and first firing...
Roger and I want to extend a special thank you to Michael Ziemer, Mackenzie Patterson and Karen Polstra for helping greet and help educate all the wonderful visitors. Also, thanks so much to some of my special students who came to see what their art teacher does when she is not their art teacher. Last but not least, I thank our precious parti-poodles Jaz and Rosie for delighting everyone with their funny antics and acting as our door bells!
Together, you all made this yet another AWESOME Greenville Open Studios!!!
I hope you will drop by for a visit and to see my latest work and if you come Sunday at 11:00, I will have a GOS's magazine with maps for you if you need one, along with a cup of Starbucks! Don't miss this important annual event! http://www.greenvillearts.com/mac-programs/open-studios/
Notice the wonderful slab work by Glory Day Loflin. The leaf pieces and pinched pieces are mine. Notice the platter that broke.... I have special plans for this piece anyway and will let you know if it works! Glory is going to help me with this idea but she does not know it yet....heh, heh, heh!
Please come by my studio to see what is new and while you are here, check out my beloved garden and out amazing house, renovated by Roger Dalrymple. Roger is our architect and just so happens to be my husband!
A THANK YOU NOTE TO EVERYONE IN THE CLASS...
I am still blown away by the week we shared at Penland! I was so inspired by all of you that I am still living in the feeling of love, healing and joy that permeated the entire week. I send my love and my thanks to each and every one of you in the class. The week with you at Penland was an experience like no other workshop I have taught...
Alice
Cristina, your extraordinary installation brought me to tears of emotion and admiration during my visit last week...
