New to the tour this year is award-winning artist Tom Hawley. Tom sculpts finely crafted wood objects, primarily clocks and bowls, from found and salvaged wood, finding a way to recycle the downed wood. His magnificent creations are all one-of-a-kind. He enjoys finding inspiration in nature and then using the raw materials to create each piece. Ceramic Artist Geno Lucetic, also new to the tour, finds inspiration from the hues and forms that he sees in nature. Luketic says that he “can see near artistic perfection in the smooth gray of a river rock or the moss speckled stone shaped on a wind tom summit.” He then strives for the same qualities he finds out under the trees of his Glen Helen studio. He works to translate those experiences into functional ceramic works that can be used and appreciated daily. Ceramic Artist Naysan McIlhargey returns to the Tour this year after an impressive three-month show at the Westcott House in Springfield, OH. Naysan fires his pots in a wood fired kiln, spending ten days loading his massive kiln with the firing process taking of five days. Other participating artists include: Karren Brito, Chris Glaser, Pam Geissel, Lisa Goldberg, Bruce Grimes, Michael Jones, Kathy Verner Moulton, Katherine & Steen Pedersen, Alice Robrish and Lisa Wolters.
The self-guided driving tour provides an opportunity for collectors and art enthusiasts to personally visit these creative artists studios and get a head start on their holiday shopping. It provides an opportunity to buy beautiful artwork directly from the artist while getting a first hand look at their studios. Yellow Springs businesses enthusiastically sponsor this successful event. WCBE Radio (WCBE 90.5 FM) of Columbus is the official media sponsor. . Organizers are partnering with the Chamber of Commerce and local businesses to create an occasion for visitors to spend the weekend exploring the arts in Yellow Springs. The weekend, dubbed “ Fall Arts Excursions”, begins Friday night with the Art Stroll in downtown galleries and restaurants, displaying local artists’ work for the evening. It continues over the weekend with the Yellow Springs Artist Studio Tour, a driving tour showcasing the artwork of fourteen distinctive Yellow Springs Artists. There will also be pottery demonstrations throughout the weekend in Kings Yard and three new outdoor sculptures to visit.
Visit one or all of the studios on this free self-guided driving tour. The village of Yellow Springs offers easy access to all of the studios. A list of participating artists and maps marking the studio locations may be downloaded at www.ysarts.org. On the day of the tour, these maps will also be available at: Young's Jersey Dairy north of town, The Winds Café downtown, and the Springs Motel south of town.
Mark your calendar now for next year’s event, which will be on Saturday and Sunday October 16th and 17th 2010. Come see the exciting world of ceramic artists, painters, sculptors, and textile artists - all at their creative best.
A Bit About The Artists
Karren K. Brito
Entwinements
Karren K. Brito makes colorful, pleated silk accessories using shibori-dyeing techniques.
Karren’s award winning shawls and scarves can be found in galleries and boutiques in the United States and Europe. Many days you can see her colorful silk drying outside. Karren has authored numerous articles and a book, has spoken at conferences and workshops around the world and has been an invited artist at many exhibitions.Chris Glazer
Oil Paintings, watercolors, pencils and pastel drawings & stone carvings. Chris’s intention with his art is to open a window for the viewer’s creative imagination, broadening their view of the interconnected world that we share. He creates visual stories told through nature, dreams, and memory, with a Native American influence. Chris is also a talented carpenter and musician.
Pam Geisel
For Quilts Sake
Pam finds inspiration in everything around her: patterns in trees and leaves, designs in a tile floor or the shape of waves. Pam’s traditional quilts, fabric mosaics and wall hangings often have unconventional arrangements. I am also fascinated by the secondary patterns that emerge when quilt blocks are arranged together. Lately, Pam has been doing more exploration with the fabrics and making art quilts that incorporated traditional piecing but in new ways.
Tom Hawley
Hawley Clockworks
As an accomplished architectural and graphic designer, Tom rarely got to build what he designed. Now Tom spends all of his time as a working artist and is involved in process
of creation from beginning to end. Hawley enjoys designing each piece, finding the raw materials (already downed trees) and implementing each design by creating sculptures thus completing the process. Tom sculpts clocks and beautiful bowls in his Yellow Springs studio.Lisa Goldberg
Lisa Goldberg Ceramics
Lisa’s hand-built everyday objects are designed and produced in her country studio. They are decorated using texture, earthy slips and hand-mixed glazes. Lisa creates pots that can be used in daily life as well as bringing beauty and art into people’s homes. Lisa built the only gas reduction soda-kiln in the area on her property 5 years ago. She also makes mixed media masks that are often embellished with found and recycled objects, plant fibers and horsehair. Lisa’s work has appeared in several books and magazines.
Bruce Grimes
Grimes Pottery
Bruce’s functional stoneware pottery emphasizes form and color. His decorative raku ceramics draw upon his background as a printmaker and painter. The surface of his clay works as his “canvas”.
Michael Jones
Michael began working in ceramics in the early 1970s but it became a full time vocation in 1991. His studio is equipped for a variety of hand forming techniques and kilns to accommodate high-fire reduction stoneware as well as low temperature luster work. He currently makes high-fire stoneware functional ceramics inspired by his study in Kyoto, Japan.
Geno Luketic
Geno is a relatively new member of our community and is both studio potter and teacher
.His one-of–a-kind pieces are each inspired by forms found in nature and his home studio is located in the Glen Helen Nature Preserve thus he’s surrounded by constant inspiration. Luketic translates his inspiration and experiences into beautiful functional ceramics to be used and appreciated daily.
Naysan McIlhargey
Miami Valley Pottery
Having studied with two of America’s most prominent wood-fire potters, Naysan was inspired to build a 450 cubic foot anagama style kiln. In doing so, he continues an ancient tradition of functional wood-fired folk pottery. The kiln is fired three times per year, each firing lasting 5 days and reaching temperatures of up to 2400 degrees Fahrenheit. Naysan and his wife, Jalana create beautiful and unique ceramics that are both practical and useful in nature. Their work is on display in the showroom connected to the studio and kiln.
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Kathy Verner Moulton
Kathy is an artist who uses a computer as well as paper and pencils to create whimsical and colorful illustrations. These images are digitally painted on an Apple Computer and printed using archival inks and archival matte paper. Animals are usually found in human activities in familiar surroundings. These illustrations are often inspiration for children’s stories and most recently for a lively show at The Winds Café in Yellow Springs.
Katherine Pedersen
Katherine’s sculptural forms might follow nature or suggest unique abstractions. Forms often become their particular shapes in response to structural qualities inherent in the materials and she returns to some ideas repeatedly. Working variously in wood, stone and clay her resulting pieces ranging in size from eight to eighteen inches. Current works use the body gestures of multiple figures toward conveying human relationships and interactions.
Steen Pedersen
Steen’s drawings and paintings of the nude use delicate distortions to project increased physical energy. Current drawings are made with colored pencil on printmaking papers, but earlier ones used graphite, charcoal or pastel (both oil and chalk). Steen paints with both acrylics and with oils.
Alice Robrish
Alice sculpts the female figure in clay and also creates functional vases and bowls. In her new sculpture series she combines the female figure with driftwood, exploring the concepts of continuity and change. Her sculpture has been exhibited in the Washington DC region, and is currently being shown at the Moka Gallery in Chicago.
Lisa Wolters
Lisa Wolters will be featuring mosaics, tiles and hand-built pieces for walls, floors and tabletops. Lisa's graphic design background has influenced her latest ceramic wall pieces in which she incorporates literature as self-expression. View an outdoor mosaic work in progress.
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For more information contact:
LISA GOLDBERG
937-767-7285
claygirlgo@gmail.com
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1 comment:
What a great line up of artists. I saw their brochure and it was really lush (beautiful colours and layout).
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