The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design hosts Torqued & Twisted, an exhibition exploring the work of nine furniture makers and sculptors who use the technique of bending wood in innovative, unusual and eloquent ways. Feb. 10 – June 29, 2012 Wood bending is typically accomplished through one of three approaches—steaming, laminating or greenwood bending. Steaming [...]
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Exhibit: Torqued & Twisted
Posted in Arts & Thoughts Artistic, Education & Knowledge Sharing, tagged art exhibit, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Torqued and Twisted on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Interactive Crochet/Environmental Exhibit: The Asheville Reef
Posted in Arts & Thoughts Artistic, Community Development, Education & Knowledge Sharing, tagged Center for Craft, Coral Reef Project, Creat, crochet, interactive exhibit, The AshevilleReef on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
THE ASHEVILLE REEF a Satellite of the worldwide Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef May 9 – August 12, 2011 Western North Carolina is joining a global effort to crochet a coral reef. As part of the unique project, the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef by the Institute For Figuring in Los Angeles, which unites non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry with [...]
Sustainability and Craft
Posted in Arts & Thoughts Artistic, Education & Knowledge Sharing, tagged Center for Craft, craft, Creativity and Design, sustainability, UNCA on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Louisiana Artist at Center for Craft, Creativity and Design
Posted in Arts & Thoughts Artistic, Cool Yard Yonder, tagged Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Loren Schwerd, Louisiana, Mountain Xpress, Mourning Portrait, New Orleans, Rebecca Sullock, St. Claude on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just back from New Orleans, and having stayed in the Ninth Ward, near St. Claude Ave., I’m keen on Loren Schwerd’s exhibit and am planning to get out to Hendersonville to see it. Mourning Portrait, above, is made from human hair extentions found near the St. Claude Beauty Supply after Katrina. “Hair acts as the [...]
