The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design Announces 2017 CCCD Windgate Fellows and Project Grant recipients

Each year, the Windgate Fellowship identifies ten undergraduate seniors with exemplary skill in craft. Awardees receive $15,000 - one of the largest awards offered nationally to art students. 

Now in it’s twelfth year, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design’s (CCCD) Windgate Fellowship marks $1.8 million awarded to 120 emerging craft artists nationwide. Nominated from a national network of 104 university art programs, these makers represent a skilled and motivated next generation for craft. 

The final four CCCD Windgate Project Grants were awarded this year to:
Josh Copus, 2006 Windgate Fellow, Ceramics, Marshall, NC
Brian Fleetwood, 2012 Windgate Fellow, Jewelry, La Mesilla, NM
Ani Geragosian, 2009 Windgate Fellow, Fiber, Salem, MA
Adam Ledford, 2011 Windgate Fellow, Ceramics, Philadelphia, PA

The 2017 CCCD Windgate Fellows are:
Audrey An, Alfred University, Ceramics
Rachel Chalik, The University of the Arts, Jewelry/Metalsmithing
Esther Cho, Virginia Commonwealth University, Wood/Furniture
Emelie Cleveland, Parsons, The New School of Design, Fiber/Textiles
Christina Dietz, Pennsylvania State University, Sculpture/Psychology
Christina Glover, Savannah College of Art and Design, Fiber/Textiles
Breana Hendricks, State University of New York at New Paltz, Ceramics
Amy Hoagland, University of Kentucky, Glass/Sculpture/Paper/Extended Media
Steven Kaplan-Pistiner, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Jewelry/Metalsmithing
Rosa Novak, California College of the Arts, Ceramics/Fiber

NC Artist William Jameson is Featured in Southwest Art

WILLIAM JAMESON is currently featured in Southwest Art, a nationally circulated art publication, with an article in the February issue available at area bookstores. The article can be found on page 82 or visit Bill's website, www.williamjameson.com and go to "Blogs and Videos."

Jameson's painting, "Highway 176 Series," is included in an exhibit of work  which has been added to the permanent collection at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, LA, and his work, "Wishing Creek," is also included in an exhibit of recent acquisitions to the permanent collection of the Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC. 

Born in Honea Path, South Carolina, William Jameson always felt strong ties to his native region. Today, he and his wife, Anne, also a painter (www.annejamesonfineart.com), reside and paint in Saluda NC. 

Bill credits growing-up surrounded by the natural beauty and rich history of South Carolina with inspiring his childhood ambitions of becoming an artist. After studying with Frank Rampola at the Ringling School of Art in Florida, Jameson continued his studies while teaching landscape painting and life drawing as a graduate assistant at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. Bill has drawn inspiration from a wide array of bodies of work, ranging from the drypoint etchings of American landscape artist, Chauncey Foster Ryder to the Renaissance masterpieces of Titian.

Best of the Blue Ridge Art Show in West Jefferson

October 9 - November 21  Best of the Blue Ridge   The Annual juried exhibit begins this week and includes artists from six counties. The exhibit is held at the Ashe Arts Center. 336-846-ARTS.

The Artist reception is October 11 from 5-8 PM. The Ashe Arts Center is located at  303 School Ave. in West Jefferson NC. 

Skyuka Fine Art Opening Reception for "Paintings from Afar"

April 13    Opening Reception for "Paintings from Afar" at Skyuka Fine Art   This is a group show including the works of Richard Christian Nelson, Michael McNamara, Keith Spencer, Jim Carson, William and Anne Jameson, Gary Cooley, Richard Oversmith, Linda Cheek, Dawn Whitelaw and Bill Lovett. The opening reception will be from 5-8 PM.

Skyuka Fine Art is located at 133 N Trade Street in  Tryon NC. 

 

Gallery Minerva Featured Artists

  North Carolina artist, Sharon Dowell expresses the discovery of urban architecture in a way that incorporates energy, tension and vivid emotion. These vibrant works are now available at Gallery Minerva. Photographed above: "Shift 1" and "Shift 2", 96" x 96".




Back by popular demand and arriving just in time for the Holidays, Gallery Minerva is proud to introduce the new works of jewelry artist Jadwiga Cataldo. Stop by the Gallery to view the latest collection.


Gallery Minerva is located at 8 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville NC.

Women of Western North Carolina at Skyuka Fine Art this month

Skyuka Fine Art in Tryon NC is proud to announce its current show "Women of Western North Carolina", on exhibit July 30th through September 1st.  The show features three exceptional artists; Linda Cheek, Shelia Wood Hancock and Kelly Phipps. The work that these three women have produced for this show is truly remarkable. Oils that depict dramatic sunsets at dusk, inviting pastoral scenes drenched in glorious greens and blues in oils and pastels, and charming cityscapes of Tryon, Asheville and Marshall. For more information visit Skyukafineart.com