“Good things Happen to Bad People” features the work of two recent BFA alumni, Sean Donlon and Frankie Toan,  and the works of  Jesse Fleenor, Emmet Connor, Abby Steiner, and Vivian Dunbar at the Mule Barn Craft Studio in Richmonds Fan District.

 Mule Barn Craft Studio, 2516 Mule Barn Alley, Richmond, VA

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ADA Gallery and VCUarts Department of Craft/Material Studies are pleased to present “Casual Encounters” an exhibition of new work by Kate Hampel & Ben Stout, VCUarts department of Craft/Material Studies 2012-13 Fountainhead Fellows.

exhibition dates: May 3 – 31, 2013

BEN STOUT Originally from Michigan, Ben Stout earned a BFA in ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in ceramics from Ohio University. He has taught at Ohio University, Marietta College, and is currently a Fountainhead Fellow at VCU. Ben has exhibited work at the Sculpture Center in Cleveland, the Kingswood Lower Gallery at Cranbrook, and the Art Stream Nomadic Gallery. His current work explores sights through material interventions designed to navigate the relationship between the internal cloistered space of the gallery and public passageways and thoroughfares, opening onto questions about local shared histories and larger ideas of the public.
Ben Stout received his MFA at Ohio University in Athens, OH. in 2011 and his BFA in ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO in 2006. And in 2005 studied ceramics at the International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary

KATE HAMPEL
Kate holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal. Her work is interdisciplinary and is concerned with gender, power, and taboo. Currently based in Richmond for the 2012-13 academic year as a Fountainhead Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Artspace and VCUarts Department of Craft/Material Studies are pleased to present the works of seven first year MFA candidates in the vcuarts Craft/Material Studies program in an exhibition that spans almost all of thier gallery space. The exhibition is entitled “FO/MENT” and opens on Fourth Friday, April 26, 2013 from 7-10pm and continues through May 19, 2013. The grad students in the show are: Abram Deslauriers, Erika Diamond, Marisa Finos, Brian Fleetwood, Julie Malen, Jared Smith, and Andrea Vail.

Opening Reception for the artists of “FO/MENT”
Fourth Friday, April 26, 2013
7:00-10:00 pm 
Free and Open to the Public

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FAB Gallery, 1000 West Broad Street, Richmond

February 26 – March 9

Opening Tuesday,February 26th from 5-7pm in the FAB gallery, Alternate Worlds is an exhibition featuring the works of Craft/Material Studies graduate students Sarah Briland, Abram Deslauriers, Brian Fleetwood, Shauna Kirkland, and Rena Wood.

Our ideas surface as bright glints riding a wave and are quickly carried away by the flow of time. Fleeting thoughts and imaginings morph and disappear even as we catch sight of them. Can we weight them, map them, capture them for an instant? Can our ephemeral experiences be made manifest in a drawing, modeled in space, or revealed in an image? The work of Sarah Briland, Abram Deslauriers, Brian Fleetwood, Shauna Kirkland, and Rena Wood mines the expanded possibilities of alternate realities and seeks the externalization of internal worlds.

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FAB Gallery, 1000 West Broad Street, Richmond

February 14 – February 23

Opening Thursday,February 14th from 4-6pm in the FAB gallery, S|P[L]ACE is an exhibition featuring the works of a Craft/Material Studies graduate students Sohail Abdullah, Ruby Troup, Alex Hayden, and Julie Malen.

Space, Pace, Place

Lace- water down, spike it, cut it up!

Play Space…

An installation, one piece from many, slack-jawed. The most pressing part of leaving is the trees. They live in public and they need to be guarded. When I left, they had to be left, handed over. A dialectic space, recognizing the inherent vernacular of each artist. Having something to do with something, revisiting what is already taking place.

a curios amalgam,
a shifting equation,
a collage- stuff on top of stuff, artist on artist, art on artist.

Its gonna be cool, you know, drawing, sound, light, wood stuff and glue!
The exhibition as a composite; all four artist variables in the final outcome.

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609 Bowe street, rm 535

Hoss Haley is a conceptually focused American sculptor and painter creating and residing in Asheville, North Carolina.

His sculptures are included in several private collections and commissions in the public art sector, including: Pack Square, Asheville, NC; Charlotte Area Transit System Charlotte, NC; Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX; and Courthouse Plaza, Charlotte, NC

Haley’s work has been featured in several Museums, including New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC; California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.

Haley has taught at workshops throughout the country including Penland School of Crafts, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

LECTURE:THE ROLE OF A MAKER IN THE 21st CENTURY

In this lecture Hoss Haley will present his thoughts on the relevance of the contemporary craftsperson in resent history. He will draw on his own carrier as a maker and observations of others over the past 30 years.

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609 Bowe street, rm 535

Image: Ben Stout(left) Kate Hampel(right)

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Hand-Crafted Entrepreneurship: a making meaning in the marketplace symposium
An examination of the paths that take art from the studio to the patron

Artists/Speakers
Alex Hibbitt, Moderator, Assistant Director, Graduate Chair and an Associate Professor of Art at Ohio University
Daniel Michalik, Panelist, Artist, Founder of DMFD
Heather Mae Erickson, Panelist, Artist, Craftsperson and Designer
Amy Tavern, Panelist, Metalsmith/Studio Jeweler
Day 1
Panel Discussion: Thursday, November 15th from 12:00pm -2:00pm
Student Commons Theatre

Reception: Thursday, November 15th from 2:30-4:30pm
Fine Arts Building Lobby

 Day 2
Student Discussions with Panelists: Friday November 16th 9am-4:30pm
The department of Craft/Material Studies

image| Amy Tavern

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