FREEDOM SCHOOLS BLOG POST PART 2: EAST TENNESSEE FREEDOM SCHOOLS SUMMER PARTNERSHIP WITH ARROWMONT
– By Elyx Martinez, 2022 Summer Arrowmont Visions Intern This summer Arrowmont partnered with East Tennessee Freedom Schools, a summer learning program in Knoxville where K-5 students learn reading and writing skills and develop wellness, music, and art practices. The program encourages a love of reading, increases student self-esteem, and reduces summer learning loss. Kelly…
Freedom Schools Blog Post Part 1: East Tennessee Freedom Schools Summer Partnership with Arrowmont
– by Ellyx Martinez, 2022 Summer Arrowmont Visions Intern At Sarah Moore Magnet Academy, students K-5 spend six weeks of their summer learning and mastering key reading and writing skills. The program that brought them here, East Tennessee Freedom Schools, is devoted to cultivating positive attitudes toward learning and reducing summer reading loss. In addition…
Jean Benoit, 2022 Bill Griffith Fellow, spends July at Arrowmont
Arrowmont’s 2022 Bill Griffith Art Educator Fellow, Jean Benoit, is currently on campus for her summer fellowship. At the start of the month, she enjoyed a two-week session mixed-media and ceramics mold-making workshop with Bobby Tso. This week, she participates in Arrowmont’s Legacy Program for K-12 art educators as a student in Tina Curry’s Creative…
ARROWMONT CONGRATULATES MARGIT AND EARL WORSHAM, 2022 CONSERVATIONISTS OF THE YEAR
On a Friday evening in May, Margit and Earl Worsham stood in front of family, friends, and fellow conservationists on stage in Nashville. They were presented with a unique mahogany award shaped like a peregrine falcon in flight. The couple were being honored at the Tennessee Wildlife Federation’s 57th Annual Conservation Awards. The award: 2022…
Gratification at Arrowmont’s 2022 Spring Pentaculum – by Carolyn Servid
Gratification at Arrowmont’s 2022 Spring Pentaculum by Carolyn Servid Eight eager and excited women writers attended Arrowmont’s May 2022 Spring Pentaculum. Seven of us had worked together online for three years, under the guidance of the eighth writer, Katey Schultz, who brought us to Arrowmont. We would sorely miss two others who couldn’t attend. We’d…
Instructor Exhibition 2022
May 23 – July 22, 2022 | Sandra J. Blain Galleries Arrowmont’s workshop instructors are nationally and internationally recognized artists and university faculty. With over 125 classes being offered in a variety of media, students and instructors come to Arrowmont from across the globe to share skills and ideas, foster new thinking, and to participate…
2022-2023 Kenneth R. Trapp Intern: Kelli Fisher
Welcome to Kelli Fisher, Arrowmont’s first Kenneth R. Trapp Intern. The Kenneth R. Trapp Assistant Curator Internship is a new opportunity, awarded annually to an early career curator, arts researcher, or art historian. Kelli Fisher received her MA in art history and museum studies at Syracuse University. Fisher’s research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American…
STARRY NIGHT 2022 – 131
131 Title: “Andrews Bald” Artist: Katherine Tucker Donor: Margit Worsham Media: Oil on Canvas, Salvaged Barn Wood Dimensions: 30.75″ x 26.75″ Value: $2,000 Katherine Tucker paints not only what she sees, but how she feels as she creates each new canvas. In this oil painting, Tucker depicts popular Smoky Mountains summit, Andrews Bald, the National…
Starry Night 2022 – 133
133 Title: Hand-raised, Patinated Silver Kiddush Cup Artist: John Cogswell Medium: Stirling Silver Dimensions: 7″ x 3″ x 3″ Value: $2,750 “Hammer ‘raising’ has been an essential activity of metalsmiths for thousands of years. Though I still employ traditional techniques, I try to use them in a contemporary manner. I believe that a well-designed piece…
Starry Night 2022 – 132
132 Title: “Untitled” Maple Vessel Artist: Garrett Reece Barnett Medium: Woodturned Spalted Maple Wood Dimensions: 4″ tall x 8.25″ diameter Value: $500 This elegant, turned wooden vessel was crafted in the Arrowmont wood studios by Garrett Reece Barnett in 2013. Garrett used the natural, variegated colors of spalted maple wood to create the rich variation…
