Crafts to fill Renaissance Center for TACA biennial display

Release Date: 8/6/2008. Expired: 9/20/2008

The galleries of The Renaissance Center in Dickson will be filled with examples of hand-crafted works when it presents the first Tennessee Association of Craft Artists Biennial Exhibition Aug. 7-Sept. 20.

An opening reception for the juried exhibit in conjunction with the Cumberland Valley chapter of the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists (CV-TACA) will be 6-7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8.

With six chapters and hundreds of members across Tennessee, TACA is one of the state’s largest and most acclaimed artists’ associations. In the Middle Tennessee area, the chapter that represents those artists involved is the Cumberland Valley TACA.

“Most people in the area know of TACA through the annual craft fair held at Centennial Park in Nashville, which is actually a potential showcase for a member of any TACA chapter,” said Amanda Dillingham, curator at The Renaissance Center. “It is at this exhibit that people are exposed to the hand-worked pieces of individual craft artists.”

The work ranges in media from wood to metal to glass and almost everything in between. Many of them work within traditions of materials and processes using that framework to create something new and unique to their own style and concepts.

Cumberland Valley TACA always plays a large role in the May festival due to its association with the area, but it also plays a role in smaller exhibitions around the area, often times individual representatives, but sometimes as a small grouping.

“The Renaissance Center is pleased to be host for a new exhibition to be held every other year in the halls and on the walls of the center,” said Dillingham. “Cumberland Valley TACA will have the opportunity to showcase itself and its individual artists, exhibiting together as a group, under the significantly sized roof of the center allowing for a special viewing of their crafts.”

On very few occasions has the center given the entire space to one exhibit, though due to the size and nature of CV-TACA, this is one of those occasions. With an immense number of members each creating works, which either sit on a base or hang from a wall, it is a chapter full of artists creating beautiful works of art at an extremely high quality.

“Over the years the center has been fortunate to work with members on a singular basis, but never as a whole,” said Dillingham. “So while this will be a new exhibit for the chapter, it will also be a new experience for The Renaissance Center.

“Each artist will create pieces that will be juried for entry to the exhibition. What this produces is a visual display of work that has been chosen as the best of the best, the highest quality work felt fit for display and representation of CV-TACA.”

Working closely with Cumberland Valley TACA and its members, the galleries of The Renaissance Center are pleased to bring its viewers the first biennial exhibition for this talented association of artists and craftsmen.

For more information on the first Tennessee Association of Craft Artists Biennial Exhibition in all galleries at The Renaissance Center Aug. 7-Sept. 20, contact Dillingham at (615) 740-5545 or amanda.dillingham@rcenter.org.

Galleries at The Renaissance Center are open 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday and admission is free.

The Renaissance Center is a fine arts education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Angie Parl                         Nashville

Laura M. Artates             Nashville

Paula Bowers-Hotvedt   Charlotte

Martha Christian             Nashville

John Coburn                    Pegram

Lynn Driver                      Nashville

Leslie Fawcett                  Thompson’s Station

Peggy Hays                      Nashville

Linda Head                       Nashville

Bill and Judy Heim          Lascassas

Scott Hodes                     Nashville

Erin Johnson                    Nashville

Nancy Kula                      Gallatin

Lynne Leeson                  Hendersonville

Linda McLaughlin           Franklin

Ron Olson                        Nashville

Brenda and Greg Pace    Nunnelly

Bets Ramsey                    Nashville

Donna Rizzo                     Nashville

Anne Rob                         Murfreesboro

Wanda Shotwell              Nashville

Brenda Stein                     Nashville

Michael Summers            Watertown

Alison Touster-Reed      Nashville

Lee Ann Walker              Murfreesboro

Visit the Visual Arts Gallery page for more about the gallery.

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