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Penland School of Crafts
Penland School of Crafts is an international center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Penland offers one-, two-, and eight-week workshops in books & paper, clay, drawing, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking and letterpress, textiles, and wood. The school also offers artists' residencies, community collaboration programs, and a gallery and information center.
penland.org
Penland School of Crafts is an international center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Penland offers one-, two-, and eight-week workshops in books & paper, clay, drawing, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking and letterpress, textiles, and wood. The school also offers artists' residencies, community collaboration programs, and a gallery and information center.
penland.org
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North Carolina Pottery Center
Promoting public awareness & appreciation of an ongoing tradition in North Carolina.The North Carolina Pottery Center showcases the remarkable history and on-going tradition of pottery making in North Carolina. Located in Seagrove, one of the state's key historical and contemporary pottery producing regions, the Center is your first stop in exploring North Carolina's rich clay heritage. The state's pottery communities range from the mountains to the sea, and it is that wide-ranging diversity of styles, techniques, and history that the Center preserves and protects. Our permanent exhibit of more than eight hundred pieces of pottery, artifacts, and photographs traces North Carolina's pottery history from prehistoric Native Americans to the present. The display interprets the impact of social, technological, and economic change on the state's most unique cultural resource. Changing exhibitions of historical and contemporary work are also on display.
http://www.ncpotterycenter.org/
Promoting public awareness & appreciation of an ongoing tradition in North Carolina.The North Carolina Pottery Center showcases the remarkable history and on-going tradition of pottery making in North Carolina. Located in Seagrove, one of the state's key historical and contemporary pottery producing regions, the Center is your first stop in exploring North Carolina's rich clay heritage. The state's pottery communities range from the mountains to the sea, and it is that wide-ranging diversity of styles, techniques, and history that the Center preserves and protects. Our permanent exhibit of more than eight hundred pieces of pottery, artifacts, and photographs traces North Carolina's pottery history from prehistoric Native Americans to the present. The display interprets the impact of social, technological, and economic change on the state's most unique cultural resource. Changing exhibitions of historical and contemporary work are also on display.
http://www.ncpotterycenter.org/
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John C Campbell Folk School
For more than 80 years, the Folk School has encouraged all students and guests to become a part of the community through all-school activities such as concerts, dances, presentations and meals. People with varying interests are given a chance to come together through song, art, nature, gardening, cooking, storytelling and writing.
folkschool.org
For more than 80 years, the Folk School has encouraged all students and guests to become a part of the community through all-school activities such as concerts, dances, presentations and meals. People with varying interests are given a chance to come together through song, art, nature, gardening, cooking, storytelling and writing.
folkschool.org
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Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is a national art education center. The School offers weekend, one- and two-week workshops for the beginner to advanced artist, taught by national and international practicing studio artists and university faculty. Students work and learn in professionally equipped studios on a 14-acre residential campus in Gatlinburg, TN. A series of weekly classes are also offered for residents of the local community. Workshops and classes are offered in ceramics, fiber, metals/jewelry, painting, drawing, photography, warm glass, woodturning, woodworking, mixed media, books and paper.
http://arrowmontgalleries.org/
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is a national art education center. The School offers weekend, one- and two-week workshops for the beginner to advanced artist, taught by national and international practicing studio artists and university faculty. Students work and learn in professionally equipped studios on a 14-acre residential campus in Gatlinburg, TN. A series of weekly classes are also offered for residents of the local community. Workshops and classes are offered in ceramics, fiber, metals/jewelry, painting, drawing, photography, warm glass, woodturning, woodworking, mixed media, books and paper.
http://arrowmontgalleries.org/
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East Carolina School of Art and Design
The mission of our ceramics concentration is to support students in the skill-based, intellectual, and personal development necessary for professional artists. Our curriculum addresses the importance of technical information and skill, and requires rigorous ideation and critique processes through which students train to articulate their visual and conceptual language. Our facilities and studios accommodate all aspects of ceramics processes and maximize the benefits of community-based learning. East Carolina University School of Art and Design offers bachelor of fine arts and master of fine arts degrees with a concentration in Ceramics.
Undergraduate courses in ceramics include hand building, wheel throwing, mold making and casting, kiln design and construction, clay and glaze chemistry, problems in installation, individual researches, and senior exhibition.
MFA candidates complete 60 semester-hour credits during their three-year residency. Graduate-level work focuses on individual researches and one-on-one mentoring with faculty. Graduate courses include seminars, readings, professional practices, and thesis. Research and teaching assistantships are available.
The mission of our ceramics concentration is to support students in the skill-based, intellectual, and personal development necessary for professional artists. Our curriculum addresses the importance of technical information and skill, and requires rigorous ideation and critique processes through which students train to articulate their visual and conceptual language. Our facilities and studios accommodate all aspects of ceramics processes and maximize the benefits of community-based learning. East Carolina University School of Art and Design offers bachelor of fine arts and master of fine arts degrees with a concentration in Ceramics.
Undergraduate courses in ceramics include hand building, wheel throwing, mold making and casting, kiln design and construction, clay and glaze chemistry, problems in installation, individual researches, and senior exhibition.
MFA candidates complete 60 semester-hour credits during their three-year residency. Graduate-level work focuses on individual researches and one-on-one mentoring with faculty. Graduate courses include seminars, readings, professional practices, and thesis. Research and teaching assistantships are available.
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New Aesthetic
Nash-Edgecombe High Schools Juried Art Competition
The New Aesthetic Exhibition showcases art from students enrolled in 9th-12th grades in public, private, and home schools in Nash and Edgecombe counties. This exhibit is located in the main galleries during the Spring Exhibitions each year.
http://arts.imperialcentre.org/education.html
Nash-Edgecombe High Schools Juried Art Competition
The New Aesthetic Exhibition showcases art from students enrolled in 9th-12th grades in public, private, and home schools in Nash and Edgecombe counties. This exhibit is located in the main galleries during the Spring Exhibitions each year.
http://arts.imperialcentre.org/education.html
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Barton College of Art and Design
The Department of Art and Design prepares each student by fostering development of artmaking skills and cultivating the creative voice through historical, analytical, and theoretical understanding of the visual arts. The Art Education program readies students for teaching K-12 visual arts. Through challenge and nurture, students become dedicated and successful artists who incorporate effective communications techniques, critical thinking strategies, global perspective, and community involvement.
www.barton.edu/art/
The Department of Art and Design prepares each student by fostering development of artmaking skills and cultivating the creative voice through historical, analytical, and theoretical understanding of the visual arts. The Art Education program readies students for teaching K-12 visual arts. Through challenge and nurture, students become dedicated and successful artists who incorporate effective communications techniques, critical thinking strategies, global perspective, and community involvement.
www.barton.edu/art/
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North Carolina Wesleyan College
North Carolina Wesleyan College is a local and regional center for the performing, visual, and literary arts.
The Dunn Center for the Performing Arts houses a large theater, a recital hall, two galleries, classrooms, and a spacious lobby. This facility supports an annual series of concerts and performances with season and individual tickets available through the Belk Box Office. The Powers Recital Hall is used for more intimate performances with smaller audiences.The Mims Gallery and the Civic Gallery feature visual arts exhibits and are used for numerous events and meetings.
In addition, The Dunn Center is the venue for courses leading to a Major in Theatre and campus-produced performances.
The Thomas J. Pearsall, Jr. Building houses the Welcome Center with the Four Sisters Gallery incorporated into the lobby. Campus visitors may enjoy viewing selections from the Lynch Collection of Outsider Art on display in this modern gallery.ncwc.edu/arts/
North Carolina Wesleyan College is a local and regional center for the performing, visual, and literary arts.
The Dunn Center for the Performing Arts houses a large theater, a recital hall, two galleries, classrooms, and a spacious lobby. This facility supports an annual series of concerts and performances with season and individual tickets available through the Belk Box Office. The Powers Recital Hall is used for more intimate performances with smaller audiences.The Mims Gallery and the Civic Gallery feature visual arts exhibits and are used for numerous events and meetings.
In addition, The Dunn Center is the venue for courses leading to a Major in Theatre and campus-produced performances.
The Thomas J. Pearsall, Jr. Building houses the Welcome Center with the Four Sisters Gallery incorporated into the lobby. Campus visitors may enjoy viewing selections from the Lynch Collection of Outsider Art on display in this modern gallery.ncwc.edu/arts/
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The Sawtooth School
The Sawtooth School is located in the heart of downtown Winston-Salem, NC, the “City of Arts and Innovation.” A nonprofit funded partner of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, the Sawtooth is housed in the Arts Council’s Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts.
As the only community art school in Winston-Salem, the Sawtooth plays an integral role as the “incubator” for visual artists, art lovers and art collectors. We offer a broad range of classes and workshops for all ages and skill levels from beginner to advanced. In addition to our adult classes, we have a very strong youth program that provides age-appropriate courses throughout the school year as well as art camps during the summer months.
Many of our faculty members are professional artists and craftsmen who produce and exhibit their own work. We keep our student-to-teacher ratio low to allow plenty of hands-on learning from our instructors. Our smaller studio classrooms provide an ideal creative environment.
In addition to art instruction, the Sawtooth serves the community by exhibiting art throughout the year in the Eleanor and Egbert Davis Gallery. Annual events include faculty and student shows along with various other thematic installations. The Sawtooth Shop, adjacent to the Gallery, sells a variety of handcrafted items produced by the local and regional artists who teach classes at the Sawtooth School.
The Sawtooth School is located in the heart of downtown Winston-Salem, NC, the “City of Arts and Innovation.” A nonprofit funded partner of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, the Sawtooth is housed in the Arts Council’s Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts.
As the only community art school in Winston-Salem, the Sawtooth plays an integral role as the “incubator” for visual artists, art lovers and art collectors. We offer a broad range of classes and workshops for all ages and skill levels from beginner to advanced. In addition to our adult classes, we have a very strong youth program that provides age-appropriate courses throughout the school year as well as art camps during the summer months.
Many of our faculty members are professional artists and craftsmen who produce and exhibit their own work. We keep our student-to-teacher ratio low to allow plenty of hands-on learning from our instructors. Our smaller studio classrooms provide an ideal creative environment.
In addition to art instruction, the Sawtooth serves the community by exhibiting art throughout the year in the Eleanor and Egbert Davis Gallery. Annual events include faculty and student shows along with various other thematic installations. The Sawtooth Shop, adjacent to the Gallery, sells a variety of handcrafted items produced by the local and regional artists who teach classes at the Sawtooth School.
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Pocosin Arts
Pocosin Arts is dedicated to nurturing creativity through arts education. Located a few steps from the banks of the Scuppernong River we are surrounded by water, wildlife and the natural beauty of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, making it an ideal place to leave your daily routine behind and immerse yourself in one of our creative workshops. We offer evening, weekend, one-day and one-week workshops in metals, clay, photography, drawing, painting, textiles and others. We bring artists from all over the country to teach workshops in all media. Pocosin Arts also offers artist residencies that are tailored to the needs of individual artist.
Pocosin Arts is dedicated to nurturing creativity through arts education. Located a few steps from the banks of the Scuppernong River we are surrounded by water, wildlife and the natural beauty of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, making it an ideal place to leave your daily routine behind and immerse yourself in one of our creative workshops. We offer evening, weekend, one-day and one-week workshops in metals, clay, photography, drawing, painting, textiles and others. We bring artists from all over the country to teach workshops in all media. Pocosin Arts also offers artist residencies that are tailored to the needs of individual artist.
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The EnergyXchange
The EnergyXchange clay studio is 30’x50’ and is divided in four equal parts for the resident artists. The studio is equipped with a community sink, with hot and cold water, compressed air, first aid station, cleaning equipment, plus each artist is supplied with a roll cart. Outside the studio under a covered breeze way are two electric bisque kilns. Further down the walk is a shed that houses the ‘high-fire’ methane kiln. Attached to the back of the studio is an ample storage area for the artists’ supplies.
As part of the residency program EnergyXchange has a business center for the artists. Each artist is supplied with a large desk and chair, file cabinet, and computer with wireless internet. In addition, they share with staff a networked printer, fax machine, and credit card machine.
Another benefit of the EnergyXchange residency program is the on-campus gallery. Here the artists gain experience in setting up their displays and handling gallery sales. Visitors to EnergyXchange are common May through December. They enjoy meeting the artists and visiting the gallery to see and purchase the finished pieces of work.
The EnergyXchange clay studio is 30’x50’ and is divided in four equal parts for the resident artists. The studio is equipped with a community sink, with hot and cold water, compressed air, first aid station, cleaning equipment, plus each artist is supplied with a roll cart. Outside the studio under a covered breeze way are two electric bisque kilns. Further down the walk is a shed that houses the ‘high-fire’ methane kiln. Attached to the back of the studio is an ample storage area for the artists’ supplies.
As part of the residency program EnergyXchange has a business center for the artists. Each artist is supplied with a large desk and chair, file cabinet, and computer with wireless internet. In addition, they share with staff a networked printer, fax machine, and credit card machine.
Another benefit of the EnergyXchange residency program is the on-campus gallery. Here the artists gain experience in setting up their displays and handling gallery sales. Visitors to EnergyXchange are common May through December. They enjoy meeting the artists and visiting the gallery to see and purchase the finished pieces of work.
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VisionOur vision is a community of art lovers who understand the importance, the necessity, and the beauty of visual art. Artspace should be known for breaking down barriers to visual art – barriers for emerging artists to show their work, barriers for established artists to break new ground and change direction in their work, barriers for the public to understand and interact with artists, and barriers that may prevent the public from viewing art, creating art, or purchasing art.
HistoryLocated in downtown Raleigh in the historic Sanders Ford building, the Artspace facility was once the city’s livery and later Sanders Ford Car Dealership. Today this 30,000 square foot facility is home to over 30 artists working in a variety of media, along with three exhibition spaces, education space, a gift shop, and administrative offices. Artspace is one of the largest open studio environments in the country and the premier organization of its kind in North Carolina.
The concept of opening an art center and cultural corridor in downtown Raleigh originated from a group of community leaders who approached the City of Raleigh in 1980 with this vision. The Raleigh Arts Commission established a task force to explore the need and interest in a multipurpose art facility. This committee made 2 recommendations: 1) the Sanders Ford building as the best location for the art center and 2) the art center incorporate as a nonprofit organization.
In 1986, the City Market area suffered from problems relating to urban decay and was in need of revitalization. In many ways Artspace and its founders were pioneers in downtown Raleigh, convincing arts organizations and artists to join them in creating this new visual art center and bringing visitors to a then blighted area.
Since 1986, Artspace has continued to evoke excitement in the community and raise awareness of the arts by providing a unique environment where artists can collaborate, where the public can interact with working artists and experience firsthand the creative process, and where children and adults can learn to express their own creativity in classes and workshops.
Since its inception, Artspace has inspired more than 2 million visitors and served as the heart of Raleigh’s visual art community. Artspace offers more than 100,000 visitors annually over 30 challenging and award-winning exhibitions, interactive workshops to over 2,000 school-aged children each year, art programming for at-risk youth, classes and workshops to over 3,000 youth and adults annually, and approximately 100 public events open to all in the community free of charge.
HistoryLocated in downtown Raleigh in the historic Sanders Ford building, the Artspace facility was once the city’s livery and later Sanders Ford Car Dealership. Today this 30,000 square foot facility is home to over 30 artists working in a variety of media, along with three exhibition spaces, education space, a gift shop, and administrative offices. Artspace is one of the largest open studio environments in the country and the premier organization of its kind in North Carolina.
The concept of opening an art center and cultural corridor in downtown Raleigh originated from a group of community leaders who approached the City of Raleigh in 1980 with this vision. The Raleigh Arts Commission established a task force to explore the need and interest in a multipurpose art facility. This committee made 2 recommendations: 1) the Sanders Ford building as the best location for the art center and 2) the art center incorporate as a nonprofit organization.
In 1986, the City Market area suffered from problems relating to urban decay and was in need of revitalization. In many ways Artspace and its founders were pioneers in downtown Raleigh, convincing arts organizations and artists to join them in creating this new visual art center and bringing visitors to a then blighted area.
Since 1986, Artspace has continued to evoke excitement in the community and raise awareness of the arts by providing a unique environment where artists can collaborate, where the public can interact with working artists and experience firsthand the creative process, and where children and adults can learn to express their own creativity in classes and workshops.
Since its inception, Artspace has inspired more than 2 million visitors and served as the heart of Raleigh’s visual art community. Artspace offers more than 100,000 visitors annually over 30 challenging and award-winning exhibitions, interactive workshops to over 2,000 school-aged children each year, art programming for at-risk youth, classes and workshops to over 3,000 youth and adults annually, and approximately 100 public events open to all in the community free of charge.