Marilyn Campbell, artist
Kincardine, Ontario, Canada

Dennis Carr, scholar
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, US

Liam Flynn, artist
Limerick, Ireland

Hilary Pfeifer, artist (click to read her Blog!)
Portland, Oregon, US

Vincent Romaniello, photojournalist
Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, US

Neil Scobie, artist
Lower Bucca, Australia

Jo Stone, furniture maker
New Market, New Hampshire, US


The ITE Program:

The participants begin their residency in Philadelphia on June 9, 2006. They will live, travel, and work independently and collaboratively throughout June and July. Typical activities include visits to museums, nature areas, historic sites, and other public and private collections of art. Hosted by the University of the Arts (UArts), studio time will focus on discussions, studio work, experiments, and collaborations. Any and all exploration is encouraged and built into the program. Discussion, stimulation, insights, and artistic and personal growth are the only expectations.

On Saturday, July 15th the ITE Resident Fellows will share their skills and talk about their work at the annual Open Community Day. This all day event will take place at the University of the Arts in the Wood Working Department in Anderson Hall, 333 South Broad Street. The artists will demonstrate the methods they use and share insights about their creative process and the final results.

The grand finale to the ITE will be the annual exhibit, allTURNatives: Form + Spirit, which will reflect the residency experience including the objects produced before and during the residency, photos or films depicting the ITE experience and artist statements that personalize the influences and impacts of their experience. The ITE exhibition will be on view at the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia from August 4 through October 21, 2006. The opening reception will take place on First Friday, August 4, 2006, followed by an allTURNatives conference Saturday afternoon where the artists will discuss their work and the residency experience.

Resident Fellows for the 2007 ITE Residency Program will include: Peter Oliver, New Zealand – artist; Jean-François Delorme, France – artist; Peter Harrison, US – furniture maker; Sean Ohrenich, US – artist; Siegfried Schreiber, Germany – artist; and Lynne Yamaguchi, US – photojournalist.

Applications for the 2008 and 2009 ITE program are due on October 1, 2006. For further information on the ITE program and the application process, visit www.woodturningcenter.org.


The International Turning Exchange is supported in part by generous funds from the Arcadia Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, The William Penn Foundation, the Windgate Charitable Foundation, Anonymous Friends and Foundations, and the Friends of the Wood Turning Center. Corporate Sponsors include Caviar Assouline, Oneway Manufacturing, Penn State Industries and Stubby Lathe/ Omega Manufacturers.


Information about the 2006 ITE Resident Fellows:

Marilyn Campbell, Canada (artist) became interested in woodworking after she helped her husband build a 36-foot sailboat. This introduced her to woodworking and also renewed an urge for “making”. The natural world inspires her work, an inspiration that twists its way through her imagination. Campbell sees the residency program as an opportunity to expand and refine the direction of her art. Having worked collaboratively, she looks forward to acquiring the knowledge that rubs off when artists work together.

Dennis Carr, US (scholar) is a doctoral candidate in the History of Art at Yale University and a Henry S. McNeil fellow in American Decorative Arts and Material Culture. Carr’s dissertation focuses on the furniture makers of early Rhode Island 1636-1740. The ITE residency will allow him to study in more depth the techniques of traditional wood turning in the eighteenth century, and to discuss with contemporary craftsmen their methods. He will also learn how to turn and looks forward to learning how to turn some of the basic, regular shapes that are common to classically inspired eighteenth-century American furniture. He also will witness the more complex techniques that are practiced by artists today.

Liam Flynn, Ireland (artist) comes from a family steeped in the woodworking tradition. Turning gradually overtook all his other woodworking activities and he has been turning fulltime since 1988. From the start Flynn developed an interest in vessel making, working with green wood, then blackening or ebonizing the wood. For him, the form always takes precedence over the grain pattern. Flynn is interested in using the opportunity that the ITE affords to move his work from using elements of the vessel to exploring new avenues, hopefully taking his work in new and exciting directions. Flynn believes the interactions with the other artists, the scholar and photojournalist will be of great benefit to him.

Hilary Pfeifer, US (artist) is a mixed-media sculptor with a diverse background in the art and craft fields, including metal smithing, ceramics, furniture making and woodworking, drawing, and book and fiber arts. Pfeifer constantly brings new materials and skills into her repertoire. By integrating traditional methods with modern materials, she seeks to bring attention to the importance of the craft in art. The ITE residency offers the chance to exchange ideas with creative people working in other materials. You can read her "blog" at: http://hilarypfeifer.blogspot.com

Vincent Romaniello, US (photojournalist) has expressed himself through a variety of media from painting to music and advertising. From Philadelphia, Romaniello moved to California toattend art school where he studied fine art, illustration, design, printmaking and a variety of art-related subjects. Once again in the Philadelphia area, he has become more involved in video. This combines many of his loves: image making, story telling and music. His plans include documenting the arts scene in Philadelphia from First Fridays to local galleries to open studios. For Romaniello, the ITE is an exceptional opportunity to document the work of the resident artists. Having access to artists over an extended period of time is rare, and will help him understand each artist and their work with depth.

Neil Scobie, Australia (artist) began his woodwork career as an Industrial Arts Teacher, teaching for 20 years with woodworking as a sideline. After retiring 10 years ago, he is committed full-time to woodworking. Scobie’s focus has shifted over the years and now is focused mainly on custom made furniture. Living in rural Australia, he feels it is easy to become isolated and bogged down. For him the ITE offers an opportunity to create links with other artists to critique and evaluate each others’ work. Through these collaborations, he seeks to develop new design concepts since the constant flow of furniture and turning orders leaves him little time to experiment.

Jo Stone, US (furniture maker) comes to the ITE program with a Masters of Fine Art in Furniture Design. Stone’s work is inspired largely by natural forms. For her, function goes beyond the utilitarian; it is important that a sculpture or piece of furniture function within given perimeters of logic if it is to have meaning. Contemporary wood turning is of great interest to Stone because she has limited hands-on experience on the lathe. This residency could change that, providing a pivotal influence both conceptually and technically. The interaction with artists knowledgeable of turning techniques who also create sculptural and functional works in wood provides a great growth opportunity for her work.



The Wood Turning Center:
The Wood Turning Center is a Philadelphia-based, not-for-profit arts gallery and resource center which promotes the field of wood art, turned and carved. Through educational programs, exhibitions, preservation, promotion, and a permanent collection, the Center encourages artists and cultivates a public appreciation of wood art. Founded in 1986, the Center has become an internationally-recognized source of information and assistance to artists, scholars, curators, collectors and the general public.


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