FACULTY NEWS

Kimberly Winkle, Director of the School of Art, Craft & Design, represented TTU at the recent joint national symposia of the American Association of Woodturners and the Furniture Society in Kansas City, MO.  She led a panel entitled, The Venn Diagram:  Inclusion, Exclusions and Intersections.

Additionally, Winkle is exhibiting in the invitational show, SMOOTH: Mangle Boards of Northern Europe & Contemporary Concepts through July 22 at the Center for Art in Wood, in Philadelphia.

ALUMNI NEWS

Dylan Loftis, (BFA 2015) was recently accepted into Virginia Commonwealth University's M.F.A. program. Mirrah Johnson (BFA 2017) was awarded an assistantship at Penland School of Crafts for the summer.  All summer she is assisting children’s craft classes. Wood student, Cornelia Overton, will start the Masters program in landscape architecture at Rhode Island School of Design this fall.

RESIDENT NEWS

Lydia Johnson, ACC Clay Artist-in-Resident, is included in the exhibition "Sign of the Times" at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, July 21 - August 27. Johnson will be exhibiting alongside Shalene Valenzuela, Pattie Chalmers, and Richard Nickel.

SUMMER WORKSHOPS

There is space available in Graeme Priddle & Melissa Engler's "Surface! Surface!" (wood), and Anderson & Jessie Bean Bailey's "Mold-making and Slip-casting for Functional Objects" (clay). While some openings remain in a few of the 2017 workshops this summer, they are filling fast. Visit our workshop  page  for more details and to register.

ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS

Enrollment is open for fall and spring one-day workshops! Fall and spring workshops are designed to give complete beginners, advanced beginners, or those who want to brush up their skills access to hands-on experiences in blacksmithing, clay, fibers, glass, metals and wood. Click here, for complete details or to register.

SUMMER 2018 WORKSHOPS

A preview of the Appalachian Center for Craft's summer 2018 workshop calendar is now  available. Details and registration will be available in August.

WORKSHOP FACULTY NEWS

ACC workshop instructor, Clay Foster, was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the recent American Association of Woodturners Symposium in Kansas City.  He and John Jordan will be co-teaching a woodturning workshop next summer at the ACC.

EXHIBITIONS

June 21 – July 31 | Lori Larusso | Front Gallery May 15 – August 7 | Summer Workshop Instructor Showcase | Gallery One May 19 – August 18 | Summer Bachelor of Fine Arts Student Showcase | North Windows Gallery May 22 – July 17 | Monika Meler | Gallery Two July 24 – Sept. 4 | Kimberly Riner | Gallery Two