Use hollow building techniques to create a head planter in clay that explores a surreal narrative through facial expressions and adornment. Students will learn basic anatomy by working in planes to model their portraits. Armatures, various building, firing and decorating techniques will also be discussed. All levels
Reminder that Tennessee Tech students and employees receive a 25% discount on workshop tuition. Click here for more information!
Learn cheesemaking techniques to make feta and cream cheeses. Learn techniques and strategies to ferment vegetables, fruits, grains, and beans and enjoy fermented foods every day. Participants will taste a variety of ferments and make ferments to take home. All levels.
Reminder that Tennessee Tech students and employees receive a 25% discount on workshop tuition. Click here for more information!
Material Echoes, an exhibition featuring work by Assistant Professor of Fiber Art, Rena Wood, opens Saturday, May 6, 2023 and will run through August 2, 2023, at TN Tech, Appalachian Center for Craft in Joe L Evins Gallery at 1560 Craft Center Drive, Smithville, TN 37166.
Material Echoes is an exhibition of fiber art by artist Rena Wood. Employing vintage textiles and traditional handwork techniques, Wood creates artwork that honors textile histories and past makers. Each piece in the exhibition has been made and re-made, constructed and re-constructed over the past 4 years, to investigate the essential role that memory plays in life. ‘Material Echoes’ relates to familiar textiles and patterns, reminding us of people and places that we may have forgotten. It refers to the reimagining of the handwork process, over and over again, to try and find meaning through obsessive making.
Image: Dissemination (Detail View), Dimensions Variable, 2020-present, hand dyed vintage textiles and coiled wire.
For more information, please contact the Exhibitions Artist in Resident, Brad Silk at bsilk@tntech.edu
Join us Saturday, May 6, 2023, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm for the closing reception of Overlook. Overlook is a group show featuring the work of the resident artists at TN Tech, Appalachian Center for Craft in Dogwood Gallery at 1560 Craft Center Drive, Smithville, TN 37166.
Featured Artists:
Tabitha Thierjung, Glass Artist in Resident
For more information, please contact the Exhibitions Artist in Resident, Brad Silk at bsilk@tntech.edu
Interested in learning a new craft or expanding your artistry? The Appalachian Center for Craft offers hands-on workshops in blacksmithing, clay, fibers, glass, metals and wood. This year, we’re excited to offer fermentation and stoneworking workshops for the first time! Tennessee Tech students and employees receive a 25% discount on workshop tuition! Click here for more information!
Check out a couple of upcoming workshops in Glass and Fibers, below!
Intro to Solid Glass Sculpting with Tabitha Thierjung
May 26-28, 2023
Are you ready to learn how to work with molten glass? Let’s start at the beginning, learning the basic skills necessary to create solid paperweights, flowers, and other sculptures.
Block Carving & Printing on Fabric with Jeanne Brady
May 26-28, 2023
Discover fun, creative ways to print dynamic patterns on fabric by carving soft rubber blocks using simple carving tools and printing with permanent, colorful, non-toxic pigments.
TN Tech Department of English and the Tech Players are proud to present the 33nd Annual Dorothy Printz Pennebaker Memorial Spring 2023 Production
Leading Ladies A Comedy by Ken Ludwig, Directed by Mark Harry Creter
April 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 2023 at 8:00 p.m., Late Show: April 20, 2023 at 10:00 p.m., Matinee: April 22, 2023 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 senior citizens and $5 for all students.
For further information contact the TTU Backdoor Playhouse box office at (931) 372-6595 or go online to www.tntech.edu/bdph/.
“Progression of Scars: A Common Hardship Illuminated Through Art”
Emalee Josef Senior Thesis Exhibition
Senior Thesis Exhibition for Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics
This exhibition presents works that represent a person’s mental health that has manifested into the creation of bound bodies and dark forms. The exhibit will be showcasing larger than life creations along with intimate moments that reflect the human condition. The show was created by sculptor Emalee Josef a graduating student of Tennessee Tech’s School of Art Craft and Design. Josef is extremely excited to share a look at these expressive works that will be the emergence into their career as an artist. These works elude darkness in a way that is not only unsettling but is also familiar. Exhibition is April 20 – May 3, 2023, reception on Saturday April 29, 2023. The exhibit will be at the Appalachian Center for Craft.
Contact the School of Art, Craft & Design for more information: 931-372-3738.
Creative Bliss: Hannah Smith Senior Thesis Exhibition
Senior Thesis Exhibition for Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fibers
This show includes Fiber Art like quilts, crocheted yarn and fabric, coiled pieces, work that is displayed on the floor, and fun lighting. These pieces are very colorful, whimsical, and fun. Smith says, “I don’t want to make art where people say, ‘oh, interesting,’ then walk away; I want people to stop and look at my art, smile because it makes them happy, and maybe even send pictures to people to spread the joy.” The show will be at the Appalachian Center for Craft Gallery on April 20 – May 3, 2023. This show would help to encourage happiness of the people who get to experience it. Depression can be a very hard thing to suffer with and if someone could get even the slightest hint of happiness from this show, the artist would succeed in her goals for this event.
Contact the School of Art, Craft & Design for more information: 931-372-3738.
“Make.Do.2”
April 14-28 the Silver Fern on Spring Street in Cookeville will be exhibiting, Make.Do.2., a group exhibition by Tennessee Tech students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in the School of Art, Craft & Design. The artwork will be displayed in the Fiddlehead Room Gallery. The show opens on Friday, April 14 with a reception open to the public at 5:30p.m.
Make.Do.2., showcases student’s work from a variety of craft, including wood, fiber, ceramic, metals, and painting. From weavings to wood-turned vessels, the exhibition shows every aspect of Tennessee Techs student’s talents.
For information on where to find this exhibition, times of opening and closing, and dates, you can contact the Silver Fern by phone at (931) 854-1089, or by email at thesilverferngallery@gmail.com. Questions for the artists about the show, or other inquiries about the exhibition can be directed to Kwinkle@tntech.edu.
“Senior Capstone Exhibition”
Artists Bridget Graessle (fiber), Beau Fedewa (fiber), and Danielle Hitchcock (design) will be presenting the opening of their senior capstone exhibition for the Bachelor of Science in Studio Arts Degree in the School of Art, Craft & Design at Tennessee Technological University. Join us for the Senior Capstone Exhibition! The exhibition will be presented in the Hilltop Gallery at the Appalachian Center for Craft, located at 1560 Craft Center Drive, Smithville, TN 37166. This free exhibition will demonstrate the extensive efforts and skills they have gained while attending the program at Tennessee Technological University. The exhibition will be presented to the public during the weeks of April 4-17. The reception date will be April 13, 4:30–6:30 pm.
Contact the School of Art, Craft & Design for more information: 931-372-3738.