Artists’ Reflections:
Selections from the
Wood Turning Center’s Collections
February 4 – March 19, 200 5
Opening Reception: February 4, 2005
First Friday 5:30 to 7:00 pm

This inaugural exhibition in the newly expanded facility of the Wood Turning Center displays the extraordinary range of the non-profit organization’s permanent collections. Over 100 works of wood art have been selected from the permanent collection to be displayed and pared up with current works by fifty of the finest contemporary wood artists from all over the world. In addition, selections from the Center’s extensive collection of archival materials will be on display in its resource library. A catalogue of the WTC permanent collection available for $25.

Artists’ Reflections: Selections from the Wood Turning Center ’s Collections:  exposes the public to the holdings from the Wood Turning Center ’s permanent collection of over 900 art objects and 25,000 books, slides and artists’ files.  The exhibition showcases this extensive collection as well as the creative possibilities of contemporary wood art and the woodturning field. 

“The Center’s collection of objects from the last three decades constitutes a canon that has played a key role in shaping the sensibilities of the recent generation of private collectors.”
Glenn Adamson, Curator of the Chipstone Foundation

“The Wood Turning Center is the premier institution for scholarship in the turning field. Certainly our joint effort in organizing the exhibition and publication Wood Turning in North America Since 1930 could not have happened without the resources of the Center. I remember the early meetings in Philadelphia in which we poured through the slide collection to gather a sense of the shape and history of the field. The biographies of the more than sixty artists included in the exhibition could not have been compiled without the use of the Center’s files. Furthermore, the exhibition and publication benefited greatly by the loans from the Center of nineteen of the 134 objects in the exhibition.”
Patricia E. Kane, Friends of American Arts
Curator of American Decorative Arts, Yale University Art Gallery

To further the appreciation of the Artists’ Reflections exhibit and the education of the wood art and woodturning field, the Wood Turning Center will also be holding these educational events. 

 •  February 5, 2:00 to 4:00 pm , dinner following (registration required) Contact the Center for further information.

Creating & Collecting: Artists and Collectors Chat 

Collectors: Fleur Bresler Artists: David Ellsworth
      Bruce Kaiser Jack Larimore
      Greg & Regina Rhoa Mark Sfirri
      Joseph Seltzer

 •  Gallery Tour and Talk: March 5, 1:00 to 3:00 pm with Albert LeCoff, Executive Director


Visit other Wood Turning Center exhibitions on line: website for details:
International Turning Exchange allTURNatives: Form + Spirit 2004

Cabinets of Curiosities, Co-organized with The Furniture Society, on its three-year national tour.
www.woodturningcenter.org/CofC/cofcindx.html