|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Wood Turning Center
501 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106 USA
Tel:215-923-8000
Web: www.woodturningcenter.org
Contact Person: Suzanne Kopko
|
|
|
|
March 17, 2007 |
|
|
|
For Immediate Release: |
|
|
|
It’s time to call attention to turned wood art being created in
art and craft departments around the country!
ROLL CALL: Wood Art from Current Teachers and Students
(Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA) The Wood Turning Center is proud to announce the creation of ROLL CALL, an exhibit bringing together work by students and faculty from college wood art programs. This is the first time for this theme and the first time these eight schools have shown their work together. Come in to view these fledgling artists before they launch their careers and see the work of their practicing artist/teachers who serve as their role models. The opening reception for Roll Call takes place on June 1st from 5pm to 7:30pm.
A handful of furniture and turning programs in college art departments across the country help nurture and define the role of wood as an art medium. Amidst the dematerialization of most art media, wood continues as a strong concentration among students wanting hands on experience and meaningful relationships with objects. These programs serve as conduits for the passing of traditional idioms- both technical and aesthetic - as well as promoting critical discourse that will influence the future of the medium and its cultural import.
Juried by participating faculty members, Roll Call features work produced in an academic studio environment and as such offers a unique blend of broad influences, learning modes and critical voices. These young artists question assumptions regarding ‘craft vs. art’ as well as boundaries between “wood art” and “studio furniture” in new and challenging ways.
The participating schools include:
• Bucks County Community College, Newtown, Pennsylvania
• Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, Pennsylvania
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania
• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
• Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan
• University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Students and faculty representing the eight schools include:
• Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA
 Benn Manns, Derek Weidman, Michelle Eckert, Ward Stevens and Mark Sfirri (faculty)
• Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA
Megan Snyder, Todd Steffy, and Karen Ernst (faculty)
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
Ronald Bowser, Nicole Dudley, Eric Hoover, Matthew Nauman, Tenley Schmida, Andrew Scott, Michael Stadler, Christopher Weiland (faculty) and Steve Loar (faculty)
• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA
Trevor Kent, Oliver Pettinato, Crystal Heiland and Bob Marsh (faculty)
• Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Brigit Bruning and Amy Forsyth (faculty)
• Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
Greg Cejka, Joseph Graci, Renee Kirchenwitz, Alexander Pollock, Chris Kurszewski and William Leete (faculty)
• University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Jason O'Brien, Jason Saul, Marcy Vanderburg and Jake Antonelli (faculty)
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Gareth Griffith, Jon Delp, Lewis Irving, Terah Sullivan and Doug Finkel (faculty)
The Wood Turning Center:
At its Old City, Philadelphia location the Center features contemporary wood art in changing exhibits, a permanent collection showing the diverse range of wood art, a research library, and an eclectic mix of merchandise in the Museum Store. The Center is open Tuesday – Friday, 10am – 5pm and Saturday 12pm – 5pm. Admission is free, a donation is appreciated and used to further the Center’s mission. For more information, please call 215-923-800, email info (at) woodturningcenter.org or visit www.woodturningcenter.org.
Programming at the Center is supported in part by generous funds from the following Foundations and Benefactors: Dr. Cleland Blake, Fleur Bresler, Harvey Fein, Henry Jordan, Bruce Kaiser, Albert and Tina LeCoff, Terry Moritz, Judson Randall, Greg and Regina Rhoa, National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Wachovia Foundation and Friends of the Wood Turning Center. Corporate Sponsors include Caviar Assouline, Chase, and Penn State Industries.
Wood Turning Center
The Wood Turning Center is an art and educational institution whose mission is the growth, encouragement and enhancement of individuals creating art from wood and other materials with a primary focus on turned and carved wood objects, and the appreciation of such art.
|
|
|
Contact: Suzanne Kopko
Phone: 215-923-8000
Email:
Additional Images available upon request
###
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
