Craft / Material Studies

Thursday, January 31 @ 2:00pm

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.

Tuesday, January 29th @ 12:00pm

609 Bowe street, rm 535

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

image| Amy Tavern

Monday, November 12th @ 12:00pm

609 Bowe street, rm 535

Anna Von Mertens was the recipient of a 2010 United States Artists Simon Fellowship and a 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award. Von Mertens’s solo exhibitions include her 2003 MATRIX installation at the Berkeley Art Museum that traveled to the University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara in 2005. Her 2006 show at Jack Hanley Gallery As the Stars Go By travelled to the University Art Museum, Cal State Long Beach in 2007 and the Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco in 2009. Additional solo shows include Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY; Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; and Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. She has been part of numerous group exhibitions including the 2012 deCordova Biennial; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX; Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; White Box, New York; The Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont; Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY; Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Anna Von Mertens received her BA from Brown University in 1995 and her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in 2000. She currently lives in Peterborough, NH.

Thursday, October 11th @ 3:30pm

609 Bowe street, rm 535

David East is  currently serving as Chair of Ceramics at the Maryland Institute College of Art, David S. East has taught and been a visiting artist at numerous locations including University of Missouri-Columbia as an Assistant Professor (2001-2007), Alfred University, Kansas City Art Institute, Massachusetts College of Art, Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, Washington University, Ohio University and Tainan National College of Art, Tainan, Taiwan. David’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in juried and curated exhibitions, most recently at the GICBiennale 2011, Icheon, Korea and in solo exhibition at the Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, NY, NY. He has received numerous awards including an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council, and those from the Lighton Foundation, the McKnight Foundation. He was in residence at the European Ceramic Work Centre in 2007 and was the Visiting Artist in Residence at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA in the fall of 2010. David received his B.F.A in Ceramics from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls (1997) and his M.F.A from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2000).

Tuesday, September 25th @ 12:00pm

609 Bowe street, rm 535

Tanya Aguiñiga (b.1978) is a Los Angeles based furniture designer/maker raised inTijuana, Mexico. Tanya’s work is informed by border experiences: the interconnectedness of societies, the beauty in struggle and the celebration of culture. She uses furniture as a way to translate emotions into a three dimensional objects and tell stories trough color and touch. Her work encourages users to reconsider the objects they use on a daily basis by creating work that explores an objects’ unseen aspect, such as half chairs that rely on the wall to function and whose image is only complete as its shadow is cast upon the wall.

She has also dedicated much of her time to using art as a vehicle for community empowerment. She has been a member of Border Art Workshop BAW/TAF, a bi-national artist collaborative for ten years. Through BAW/TAF she helped to build and run a community center in an impoverished area of Tijuana built on trash from the US. For the 6 years she worked there, she focused on bringing national and international attention to the community’s plight through arts only based programs.

In the US, she worked on diversifying audiences through arts education at the San Diego Museum of Art and at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum through outreach programs. She has also done a great deal of work for migrant rights through art installations across Mexico and the US.

Tanya is now working on ways to combine furniture design and community activism. Her formal education includes a BA in Furniture Design from San Diego State University and an MFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She was recently awarded a prestigious United States Artists Fellowship and was named a USA Target Fellow in the field of Crafts and Traditional Arts. Her work has been exhibited from Mexico City to Milan and included in major international publications such as Wallpaper magazine and “Pure Design, Objects of Desire” published by Monsa Editions in Spain.

Lecture: Thursday, March1st at 12:15pm in the Bowe Street Bldg., 609 Bowe Street, rm 535
Co-Sponsored by the Anderson Gallery and Painting and Printmaking

Rosemarie Fiore was born in 1972 in Mount Kisco, NY and currently lives and works in New York City. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL and her BA from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Fiore’s work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad including Art on Paper 2010 Biennial Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (2010); Fire Works, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ (2010); Pyrotechnics, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY (2009); and Anthem, Longwood Art Gallery, The Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY (2009). Fiore has been selected for the NYFA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, New York, NY (2009); the BRIO Grant, Bronx, NY (2009); the Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY (2007); the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program, New York, NY (2003); the Special Editions Fellowship, Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, NY (2002); Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY (2001), the Workspace Grant, Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY (2001); and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, Skowhegan, ME (1999).website

*Fiore’s firework drawings and glass sculptures will be on view at the Anderson Gallery

May 24-July 29, 2012.

Lecture: Tuesday, April 17th at 4pm in the Bowe Street Bldg., 609 Bowe Street, rm 535

Emily Hermant is a Canadian installation artist whose work has been shown in museums, galleries and festivals in Canada, the United States, South America and Europe. She received her BFA in Studio Arts and Religion from Concordia University, Montréal, Québec in 2004, and her MFA as a Trustee Scholar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010, where her work was supported by a grant from the Fonds québécois de recherche sure la société et la culture (FQRSC). She is currently based in Richmond, VA where she is 2011-12 Visiting Assistant Professor in Craft and Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. website