Events Schedule 2024
Barbara Fryefield Beginning Oil Painting Workshop (4 Sessions)
Dates: July 23, July 30, Aug 6, Aug 13 | Time: 10-2pm
COST: $300 Plus Supplies
Gallery Walk
Date: July 26 | Time: 5-7pm
Featured Artist: Simone Wood, Watercolor Painter
Featured Musician: Ricky Kuncicky
Diane Kuehn One-Day Silk Dying Workshop
Date: August 3 | Time: 10-4pm
COST: $125 Plus $30 Supply Fee
(Supply Fee Due on Day of Class)
Diane Kuehn One-Day Silk Dying Workshop
Date: August 4 | Time: 10-4pm
COST: $125 Plus $30 Supply Fee (Supply Fee Due on Day of Class)
WILL OPEN IF CLASS ON AUGUST 3 FILLS UP
Cynthia Wilson Three-Day Acrylic Painting Workshop
Date: August 7 - 9 | Time: 10-4pm
COST: $375 Plus Supplies
"Meet The Maker"
Date: August 17 | Time: 12-4pm
Featured Artist Demo: Maureen Chapman, Painter
Maureen will be demonstrating her skillful techniques in mixed media painting which includes, oil, charcoal and acrylic.
"Currently residing in Lake Toxaway, NC, I began my journey as an artist in Brevard, NC. My home, being surrounded by the wild inspired my ambition to capture nature and the animals that visited my backyard. I first experimented with watercolors and other mediums such as clay but then discovered a love for acrylic and oil painting. My passion for nature and art continued to grow over the years, taking direction from many instructors. I’ve since matured as an artist and have developed my own style. Every time I paint my goal is to express nature; capturing its beauty and animating spirit through colors, shapes and textures."
Gallery Walk
Date: August 23 | Time: 5-7pm
Featured Artist: Nancy Mcaninch, Jewelry Designer & Metal Smith
Featured Musician: Marc Brown along with Mark and Sally Wingate
Diane Kuehn Creating Botanical Prints on Fabric Workshop
Date: August 23 - 25 | Time: 9:30-4pm Daily
Optional 4th Day August 26th - min 3 people ($150)
COST: $450 Plus $60 Supply Fee
(Supply Fee Due on Day of Class)
"Meet The Maker"
Date: September 21 | Time: 12-4pm
Featured Artist Demo: Sam Moore, Wood Carver
Sam will be demonstrating some very cool hand carving methods that he uses to create his very special brand of wood sculpture.
"My artistic voice is an intimate canvas where my personal experiences, observations of the natural world, and the depths of my inner thoughts and emotions converge. Rather than being preoccupied with conveying explicit meanings, my primary focus is on the evocative expression of emotions—emotions that are inherently personal to each person and open to interpretation.
My work spans the spectrum from optimistic anticipation to melancholic reflection. I am drawn to the intricate dance between love, resilience, and compassion, each of which finds its place as recurring motifs. This is my voice, unflinchingly personal — and earnestly grateful for the privilege of translating the complex tapestry of my inner world into tangible art forms."
Gallery Walk
Date: September 27 | Time: 5-7pm
Featured Artist: Sam Moore, Wood Carver
Featured Musician: Ricky Kuncicky
"Meet The Maker"
Date: October 5 | Time: 12-4pm
Featured Artist Demo: Jerry Maxey, Basketry
Jerry Maxey is a master basket maker and mixed media artist. He will be demonstrating his basketry skills.
"Since childhood, I have worked with wood in various ways, building things and refinishing furniture at my father’s upholstery shop. He taught me how to do chair caning.
In my early thirties I found myself living in a small apartment in a new city where, for the first time, I had no access to a workshop. Desperate for something to make, I tried drawing, writing, cross-stitch, sewing, but nothing was satisfactory. Since childhood, I have worked with wood in various
Then a weaver friend of mine gave me a couple of little books with basket patterns in them. Only a few hand tools were required and no workshop was needed. I made a couple of baskets and I became obsessed.
For the first few years, my materials were limited to dyed rattan and sea grass. I worked to find ways to make each basket unique. I got access to a wood shop and began to make baskets with wooden bases, then later with wooden rims and rings.
The characteristics of the wood inspire the form of the basket. The basket’s rim and base will usually come from the same log. I love taking rescued firewood and transforming it into art.
I do not draw or write down the patterns in advance, but have a clear picture in my mind how each piece might turn out. For me, each piece I make is a sketch for the next piece and the patterns evolve over time. Sometimes I will repeat a particular pattern or construction, but no two works are ever quite alike."
Molly Sharp Two-Day Pebble Jewelry Making Workshop
Date: October 12 - 13 | Time: 10-4pm
COST: $325 Plus $25 Supply Fee
(Supply Fee Due on Day of Class)
"Meet The Maker"
Date: October 12 | Time: 12-4pm
Featured Artist Demo: Kelly Lanning Phipps, Painter
Kelly will be in the gallery demonstrating her painting techniques in oil.
"My artistic voice is an intimate canvas where my personal experiences, observations of the natural world, and the depths of my inner thoughts and emotions converge. Rather than being preoccupied with conveying explicit meanings, my primary focus is on the evocative expression of emotions—emotions that are inherently personal to each person and open to interpretation.
My work spans the spectrum from optimistic anticipation to melancholic reflection. I am drawn to the intricate dance between love, resilience, and compassion, each of which finds its place as recurring motifs. This is my voice, unflinchingly personal — and earnestly grateful for the privilege of translating the complex tapestry of my inner world into tangible art forms."
"Meet The Maker"
Date: October 19 | Time: 12-4pm
Featured Artist Demo: Diane Kuehn, Mixed Media Artist
Diane will be demonstrating her masterful skills with polymer clay jewelry and silk dying.
"An emphasis on color, textures and patterns can be found throughout my work, which includes both jewelry and wearable fiber art.
Cloth has historical roots and ethnic flavors that excite me. My lifelong appreciation and love of handmade textiles motivated me to explore historical and contemporary methods for embellishing cloth. I primarily use two dying methods in my work today: Shibori and Contact Botanical Printing, sometimes called Eco-Printing.
My inherent curiosity and love for learning set me on a path to study under some top international artists. My most recent adventure involved traveling to Japan to explore their centuries old textile traditions and studying the art of Shibori, which involves folding and binding fabric to create resists, resulting in intricate patterns and textures when dyed. Witnessing their culture, learning the history, practicing the art, and meeting local artisans was one of the highlights of my life. Although I practiced Shibori before going to Japan, it is now cemented in my designs.
When I learned you could dye cloth with leaves and plants, I became very excited to join my two loves: textiles and plants. After collecting many of the leaves in my own garden, the pigments in the plants are transferred to fabric with direct contact and heat. The unpredictable nature of eco-printing ensures each piece is truly an original.
Working with polymer clay allows me to create unique one-of a kind jewelry pieces which complement my fiber work. I offer a line of polymer clay magnetic scarf or lapel brooches and other jewelry."
Gallery Walk
Date: October 25 | Time: 5-7pm
Featured Artist: Ann Candler, Painter
Featured Musician: Marc Brown along with Mark and Sally Wingate
"Meet The Maker"
Date: October 26 | Time: 12-4pm
Featured Artist Demo: Steven Segal, Weaver
Steven will be on hand to talk about all things he does to make his masterful scarves.
"I've been weaving for about 20 years. My fascination with fiber and yarns started after visiting a farm show. There I was introduced to alpacas, and how their fleece was shorn, cleaned, spun, and turned into beautiful garments by knitting and weaving.
The entire process fascinated me so I had to learn more. Not only did I start weaving with a fervor, but I also bought a herd of fiber animals, decided to co-publish a fiber magazine, bought a bunch of looms, and opened my own studio/retail space.
I enjoy all aspects of weaving but tend to concentrate on using natural fibers such as bamboo, silk, and Tencel (a blend of natural fibers). I weave these fibers together to create unique designs for both men and women.
Before becoming a weaver I was a graphic designer. The skills I learned in that industry were beneficial in forming my understanding of how colors and patterns behaved in the textile field.
Each project presents different challenges. Every pattern I create takes into account the weight and style and color of yarn, and how that yarn will interact with others in the same project. Plus of course how it will look on the wearer!"
Gallery Walk
Date: November 22 | Time: 5-7pm
Featured Artist: Steve Joslyn, Metal Work Artist
Featured Musician: Marc Brown along with Mark and Sally Wingate
Gallery Walk
Date: December 20 | Time: 5-7pm
Featured Artist: Small Works Show
Featured Musician: Marc Brown along with Mark and Sally Wingate
"Meet The Maker"
Date: December 21 | Time: 12-4pm
Featured Artist Demo: Ann Candler, Painter
Join us for the final demonstration of the year and watch Ann Candler put her oil painting skills to canvas.
"My goal is to create paintings that evoke a sense of peace and expansiveness for the viewer. My work is both a response to the immense beauty of the world, and to its inherent and induced complexity.
I work with subject matter that I connect with visually and symbolically - from natural places in the region, to references of places where I have lived or traveled. I am drawn to lakes, rivers, trees, and back-lit scenes, to the quiet grandeur of filtered light, and to the silhouettes it creates.
Though my work is highly representational, I am influenced by, and have reverence for, both classical and modern art in my painting. I use the framework of the subject matter as an opportunity to work with color relationships and textural subtleties, to translate atmosphere and experience into paintings, through thoughtful placement of layers, and layers, of oil paint.
Moments captured in a painting at times become allegorical - symbols of broader, more universal human themes that I hope will have as much resonance for the viewer, as they do for me."