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Tom
Boley spent an "awesome" week at the John Campbell Folk School in a
class with John Mascoll, entitled Turning Magnificent Vessels. He
turned green wood to make hollow forms and then embellished them with
contrasting bases and top inserts with another contrasting ring and cap
with a finial of some kind. Tom reported it was a lot of fun and now he
is all psyched up about doing that kind of stuff, but wondering if he
will be able to find the time! The School offers classes nearly every
week with about 50 scheduled through May 2011, as seen at: http://www.folkschool.org/index.php?section=subjects&subject_id=46 |
Museum Displays of Turned Wood Renwick Exhibition "A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection" opens September 24th at the Renwick Gallery, with round table discussion at noon lead by Nicholas Bell, Curator, with Fleur Bresler, Michelle Holzapfel, Mark Lindquist, and Norm Sartorius. (Scroll down to Free Public Programs at http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2010/bresler/) The exhibition is on view through January 30, 2011. Wood turning demonstrations will occur at noon on each Tuesday, and at 2 PM on the second Saturday of each month by volunteers from CAW, MCW and CW. When completed, a demonstrator schedule will also be posted on the MCW web site: http://montgomerycountywoodturners.org/default.aspx The discussion panelists above create turned work that incorporates carving and texturing with sculptural qualities that we don't normally see on our Show and Tell table. To see their objects held in the Smithsonian collection (all created years ago), click on these links: On Wednesday, October 6, 2010, at 12pm, collector Fleur Bresler leads a Renwick Gallery talk through A Revolution in Wood, sharing the stories and anecdotes she collected along with the artworks in the exhibition. Meet in the Renwick lobby, 1st floor, at noon. This event repeats on December 1st. On Wednesday, November 10, 2010, at 12pm in the Renwick Gallery 2nd floor, master turner David Ellsworth reveals the lessons he learned turning wood for fifty years. He is one of the artists featured in A Revolution in Wood. David will discuss his book, Ellsworth on Woodturning. A book signing follows. To see this and other events, scroll down the date list at: http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2010/bresler/ Turned Wood at SAAM As wood turners, we have a unique opportunity and incentive to visit the fourth floor of The Luce Foundation Center on the 4th floor in the Smithsonian America Art Museum, at 9th and G St. NW in DC. In isle 54b are some turned wood vessels and objects from the SAAM collection. This space is a former book library converted to display objects in an open storage environment. (See: http://americanart.si.edu/luce/index.cfm, click on Craft, show 50 per page, and scroll down looking for turned wood .) Call for Entries Craft Forms 2010, 16th National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Craft, December 3, 2010 – January 22, 2011. Entry Deadline is SEPTEMBER 16, 2010, and fee is $40. Download the prospectus from http://www.craftforms.com/ or http://www.juriedartservices.com/index.php?content=event_info&event_id=314 Turning 25 – A Celebration will be an exhibition of chapter created pieces for the 25 year AAW anniversary in 2011 at the St. Paul symposium. The exhibit goal is to have every AAW chapter represented and for each chapter to enter a lathe turned work that exemplifies and represents that chapter. A bit more information is at http://www.woodturner.org/sym/sym2011/Exhibit/. While you are lounging on the beach this summer, be thinking of what a joint project fitting within an 8" cube, turned by several or many of our members, would look like. Carvers and other woodworkers will be interested in The Art of Gaman, an exhibit or arts and crafts from the Japanese American Interment Camps, 1942-1946, at the Renwick Gallery through January 30, 2011. Gaman is a Japanese word that means "to bear the seemingly unbearable with dignity and patience". While some of the work falls into a folk art category, there is an amazing display of art and craft talent in these pieces, including a sculpture by Isamu Noguchi which you have never seen before. Sugarloaf Craft Festivals will host two more shows in 2010 at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Gaithersburg, October 8-10 and November 19-21. Artists interested in exhibiting at these or for the 2011 year can download applications from http://www.sugarloafcrafts.com There are several miniature art exhibits around the country each year which include small sculpture. If you are creating small pieces of exhibition quality, usually under 5" in all dimensions, consider entering competitions for miniature exhibits. For example, see the prospectus from the Seaside Art Gallery at Nags Head, NC, http://seasideart.com/EventDetails.aspx?id=26 |
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