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Sunday, November 23, 2008
3:00-5:00pm
Asheville and surrounding communities will join the global TELLABRATION! Spirit for the twelfth year, as Asheville Storytelling Circle hosts the local event on Sunday, November 23, 2008, 3:00 p.m. at the Folk Art Center on Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville.
Information: 828-274-1123 or 828-658-4151. |
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HOLIDAYS WITH THE GUILD
Sunday, November 30th, 2008 - Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
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Throughout the holidays the Folk Art Center will be abuzz with holiday cheer. The full schedule of live music, shopping, children’s events and daily craft demonstrations promises to entertain while the greenery, holiday décor and, of course, fine handcrafts will delight.
Let’s not forget Allanstand Craft Shop at the Folk Art Center, the oldest craft shop in the country, where you can always find beautiful, one-of-a-kind gifts for everyone on the Holiday shopping list. This Christmas, Allanstand will be displaying an array of handmade dolls created by members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild.
Click on the "details" button to your right for the complete schedule of events.
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GUILD ARTISTS' HOLIDAY SECONDS SALE
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
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Saturday, December 6, 2008
10:00am-4:00pm
The Guild’s Annual sale provides an opportunity for individual members and the organization to sell overruns, discontinued stock and studio seconds in a festive atmosphere during the holiday season. Artisans of the Guild will be liquidating their handcrafts of 2008 just in time for Christmas. Examples include potters who have discontinued a glaze color, jewelers who are trying a new concept, and glass artists and weavers with overstocks. Discounts range from 10 – 50% off of retail prices.
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New Traditions: Cabinetmaking
Saturday, October 4th, 2008 - Sunday, January 11th, 2009
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| All members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild were invited to showcase their creative interpretation of cabinetmaking in this exhibition. The show provides visitors the opportunity to experience the talent of this juried membership organization as participants stretch their boundaries and create new traditions. |
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| Folk Art Center Focus Gallery |
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Robert Stephan and Heather Allen-Swarttouw
Saturday, October 11th, 2008 - Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
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2008 Focus Gallery Schedule
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 - Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
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| Planning ahead? Click details to see the 2008 schedule of exhibitions in the Focus Gallery at the Folk Art Center. |
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Craft Traditions:
The Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection
An ongoing exhibition
This exhibit of approximately 200 works features the best of traditional woodcarving, textiles, furniture, basketry, pottery, dolls, and other crafts of Southern Appalachia, dating from 1855 to the late 20th century.
The Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection represents the historical crafts of southern Appalachia. Many pieces date from the 19th century and were collected in the Asheville area by Frances L. Goodrich, a founding member of the Guild. Goodrich came to the region in 1890 to do educational and organizational work as a volunteer for the Presbyterian Home Mission Board. She had not planned to work in the crafts field, but rather, the idea was thrust upon her in the form of an antique bedspread. |
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THE ROBERT W. GRAY LIBRARY COLLECTION
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The mission of the Robert W. Gray Library is to collect, preserve, and make available for research materials concerning the appreciation and knowledge about traditional and contemporary crafts - particularly the craft heritage of the Southern Appalachian region.
Library materials relate to craft work from around the world and in all media with historical background as well as "how-to" information. There are also materials on regional history and development.
The collection contains over 7,000 books and exhibition catalogs, 45 current periodical titles as well as many that have been donated and are no longer available. A recent addition is an audio-visual area where visitors may choose from over 100 craft-related videos.
While the resources do not circulate, the materials are available for use on site. There is a Xerox machine for photocopying materials for personal use.
The Library is open whenever the Folk Art Center is open- every day from 9-6 (5pm in winter). It is housed on the second floor, to the left of the receptionist desk. The collection catalog is available on the library's computer at all times and a librarian is present four day's a week( T-W-Th-F) to assist users. The staff is happy to work with you on research questions. |
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| The Craft Revival website, headquartered at Western Carolina University, has attracted hundreds of hits after just 18 months in operation, and the number of hits is expected to climb as more information is added to the growing, online collection at http://craftrevival.wcu.edu/ . Anna Fariello, leader of the state-funded project, says visitors to the site are finding the beginnings of a robust digital archive of materials from the Craft Revival of the late 1800s and early 1900s. “This was an important period for our region of the Southern Appalachians,” she says. “Without the Craft Revival, much of the work of the mountain crafts people would have been lost and their handcrafting skills might have died out. That means there would have been only a very limited foundation for today’s continuing craft activities.” Instead, the revival triggered the growth of handcraft guilds, weaving centers and folk schools, attracted tourists, scholars and artisans to the region; helped to promote the sale of traditional mountain crafts; and shaped the development of new craft forms as mountain tourism flourished. |
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| In this section you'll find web links to organizations affiliated with the Southern Highland Craft Guild - as well as a retrospective gallery of Guild Logos. |
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Murray Johnston
Murray Johnston ~ Art Quilts |
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Mountains and sky, rocks, wood and water mingle to create an intriguing, inspirational resource. We see and hear and taste the land that surrounds us. To pull out the abstracted memories and piece them into rhythms that evoke a response is my primary goal. Colors and natural images are a universal language and the conversations I have with these works are a constant, exhilarating challenge.
Currently – I explore new dimensions and challenges of quilt and fiber construction in my own studio in Alabama.
Using primarily commercial cotton fabrics, along with some hand painted fabrics, as well as some handwriting on fabric - I create my quilts directly on a work wall. Beginning with an idea /memory, it then grows and changes as I work to become the unique expression of the original memory. The surface design is a combination of fabric collage and machine piecing. The whole image is enhanced with free form thread drawing, outlining and filling in the environmental shapes.
I create medium to large quilts that float on the wall of a home or public space.
I also do smaller work that is framed in a small box or reveal frame and works equally as well on a table or shelf as the wall.
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