Arrowmont Craft Conversations: Figurative Symposium & Community Building
In the fall of 2018, New York artist Elissa Bromberg met Asheville couple Jean Shortall and John Olsen at Arrowmont’s third Figurative Symposium. It was their first time at Arrowmont, but it wouldn’t be their last. They were drawn together through the experiences they shared at the Symposium and an admiration for the presenting artists…
Arrowmont Craft Conversations: Figurative Symposium & Community Building through clay
In the fall of 2018, New York artist Elissa Bromberg met Asheville couple Jean Shortall and John Olsen at Arrowmont’s third Figurative Symposium. It was their first time at Arrowmont, but it wouldn’t be their last. They were drawn together through the experiences they shared at the Symposium and an admiration for the presenting…
Episode 5 – Jen Hewett
Episode 05 – Jen Hewett We welcome textile designer and printmaker Jen Hewett to the podcast on this episode. Based in California, Jen is not only an incredible surface designer, but also an educator and writer. She will be teaching at Arrowmont in 2022, and her first book Print, Pattern Sew: Block-Printing Basics + Simple…
Arrowmont Connections: Laura Peery, ceramicist
Inspired by a love for vintage textiles, clothing design and fanciful embellishment, Laura Peery constructs whimsical worlds made of porcelain clay. From the first time her hands were in clay, she knew that she had found her career. Laura creates her clay work as if cutting a dressmaker’s pattern. Her grandmother had a dress shop…
MARY W. THOMPSON AWARDED ARROWMONT’S APPALACHIAN CRAFT AND CULTURE FELLOWSHIP
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is pleased to announce that ᎺᎵ ᏔᎻᏏᏂ, Mary Welch Thompson is the Spring 2021 Appalachian Craft and Culture Fellow. Thompson is a second-generation basket weaver, potter and member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) from the Big Cove Community in Cherokee, NC. Thompson’s Fellowship begins March 1,…
Episode 4: Samantha Fields
Samantha Fields joins us on the podcast to talk about her particular painting practice using airbrushing, but also teaching during a pandemic, and making artwork during crisis. The conversation took place on June 4, 2020, in which the country was grappling with the continued COVID-19 pandemic, but also the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis…
Arrowmont Craft Conversations: Alex Merchant, collagist and painter
Alex Merchant lives comfortably in in-between spaces. His work examines what people do and say in physical and digital spaces; finding common ground will still revealing ideological or aesthetic dissonance through layered images. He uses his own life as a lens to view ambiguous spaces as someone raised in a household both white and Black,…
Arrowmont Craft Conversation: Alex Merchant
Alex Merchant lives comfortably in in-between spaces. His work examines what people do and say in physical and digital spaces; finding common ground will still revealing ideological or aesthetic dissonance through layered images. He uses his own life as a lens to view ambiguous spaces as someone raised in a household both white and Black,…
Arrowmont Craft Conversations: Jacques Vesery
ARROWMONT CRAFT CONVERSATIONS is a video series highlighting artists in the Arrowmont community. Each of the artists in this series offers insights into their work and their reflections on being a part of the Arrowmont community. Today, we feature Jacques Vesery – a master woodturner and sculptor for over 25 years. He is known for…
Black History Month Artist Spotlight: David Driskell
David Clyde Driskell was one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of African American Art. Driskell was an artist, art historian and curator who was pivotal in bringing recognition to African-American art and its importance in the broader story of art in the United States and beyond. Driskell was born in 1931 in…
