Beginning in July 2020, Arrowmont brings together instructors originally scheduled to teach for creative conversations and invites the wider Arrowmont community to participate. This new monthly conversation series is called Instructor Roundtable Discussions, and centers a diverse group of Arrowmont instructors who share a common theme in their artwork. On Wednesday, August 19, the second Instructor Roundtable was held. The topic was Storytelling, and featered Ian Brownlee, Abigail Heuss and Paul Andrew Wandless. (Sadly, Matt Runkle was unable to join the conversation.)
Featured artists:
Ian Brownlee, painting and murals Ian Brownlee employs landscape as a device to capitalize on our basic impulse to weave images into narrative. In his paintings, the use of perspective to create an unexpectedly dramatic spatial illusion permits us entry into what appears to be an independently existent and self-sufficient “world” located neither in the past or the present, but always slightly out of reach and continually open to interpretation. http://ianbrownlee.com/
Abigail Heuss, jewelry and adornment Abigail makes domestic and wearable objects with an unapologetically sentimental focus on narrative. Her work tends toward stories about how we connect to each other, as well as the cultures, and physical spaces we inhabit. Her work is based in the tradition of metalsmithing, but is largely multi-media. https://abigailheuss.com/
Matt Runkle – book arts, printmaking and 2D mixed media Although I work in several different media, I see them all as modes of writing. And when I say writing, I mean the building of narratives through assemblage of fragments. And when I say fragments, I mean the physical, the detritus that combines to form a collage. But I also mean the conceptual, the attempted capture of a thought on a scrap of paper to be put in a drawer for later… What kind of story does this thought want to build? Or rather what kind of story will welcome it? http://www.matt-runkle.com/
Paul Andrew Wandless – ceramics, sculpture, printmaking and writing I’m a storyteller. My art is the vehicle through which my voice can be seen. My personal philosophies and concerns manifest themselves as musings, stories or philosophical statements. These conceptualized ideas then take physical form as visual narratives in my work. This often manifests as figurative art or pictorial scenes, but some works focus solely on objects as symbol or metaphor. A variety of materials are used and each medium and method offers a different visual platform to best serve my ideas. https://studio3artcompany.com/
