Visual Arts Gallery to feature works from Appalachian Center for Craft

Release Date: 7/13/2006. Expired: 8/26/2006

Works by current faculty, resident artists and students of the Appalachian Center for Craft will be displayed in the Visual Arts Gallery of The Renaissance Center in Dickson July 21-Aug. 26.

An opening reception for the exhibit will be 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, in conjunction with the center’s Arts Fusion II celebration of the arts. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.

The Appalachian Center for Craft, a satellite campus of Tennessee Tech University, is located on more than 500 wooded acres overlooking beautiful Center Hill Lake in scenic Middle Tennessee near the town of Smithville (approximately 25 miles west of the main TTU campus in Cookeville). The facility exceeds 87,000 square feet including spacious studios, a retail gallery, three exhibition areas, student housing, library, administrative offices and a café. The center opened in 1980.

The Appalachian Center for Craft promotes excellence in American craft by teaching tradition and innovation in technique, concept and design while providing access to the highest quality craft education, professional artists and career opportunities.

The Craft Center/TTU offers five B.F.A. and Certificate concentrations: clay, fibers, glass, metals and wood. The Bachelor’s degree is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Academic programs are enhanced by the Resident Artist program, in which emerging professional craft artists live and work in the environment of the center. The Artist in Residence program is a one- to three-year appointment and each studio has a resident artist with a BFA, MFA or professional equivalent. The resident artists come from all over the country and abroad to live and work at the center.

The Appalachian Center for Craft offers more than 100 workshops each year in blacksmithing, clay, fibers, glass, metals and wood. There are workshops to suit all skill levels - from beginner to studio professional. Evening and weekend workshops are offered as well as five-day workshops during the summer and room/board is available on-site.

The center hosts up to 25 exhibitions annually in its three galleries. Shows range from the works of regional, national and international contemporary craft artists to faculty, resident artists and student exhibitions.

The center also provides educational outreach programs to more than 3,400 children in the Upper Cumberland region each year. Some programs bring students to the center facilities for lectures, demonstrations and hands-on projects in the studios while other programs take center artists into rural schools for workshops.

For more information on the center, visit www.tntech.edu/craftcenter.

For more information on the Appalachian Center for Craft exhibit in the Visual Arts Gallery of The Renaissance Center, call curator Curtis Southerland at (615) 740-5519 or visit www.rcenter.org.

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

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

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