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Sketchup is free and downloadable from Google. It is a program for 3D design of furniture and more. Students must come to the class with the program already loaded onto their laptop. Learn quick keys, section cuts, material, layering and scenes.
Instructor: John Yurko
Noon-4pm (Please arrive early to set up your laptop.)
For the novice
$60
10 Buxton
Asheville , NC
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Sep 18, 2010
to Sep 18, 2010
09:00 AM
Blue Ridge Heritage Days in Blowing Rock is currently seeking vendors for a Main Street Festival, Saturday, September 18, 2010. This festival is being developed in celebration of the Blue Ridge Parkway’s 75th Anniversary. We are particularly interested in crafts and other products, including foods, which reflect the history and heritage of the Blue Ridge Mountains or which are produced locally. Space is limited and vendors must apply and submit photos and detailed description of their product or art. For more information, please call the Blowing Rock Chamber at 828-295-7851. Fees: Application Fee $10 , nonrefundable. Application will not be processed without the fee. If you are accepted to the festival, you will be asked to pay the booth fee. Booth Fee: $150, for a 10x10 Space on Main Street. Heritage and Traditional Craft Vendors may be invited to demonstrate if appropriate. Vendor spaces are 10x10. Additional space will be provided if you are asked to demonstrate. Power is optional, with an added fee of $25. Vendors must provide their own tent.
Booth Fees: $150, Free to the Public
PO Box 406
Blowing Rock, North Carolina
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Sep 18, 2010
to Sep 18, 2010
Roots + Wings School of Art presents special visiting artist Carol Owen:
Come play with paints and a variety of simple materials to make backgrounds you can use for cards, collages and altered books. We will scrape, stencil, sponge, and stamp, never knowing what the outcome with be! If you liked finger painting as a child, you will have fun in this workshop.
Please bring:
1. Several sheets of cardstock (white or cream colored)
2. A pad of light weight, smooth watercolor paper, (called cold press)
3. a piece of stiff plastic (old credit card)
4. several colors of acrylic paints (the small jars of fluid acrylics)
5. something to use for a palette
6. a jar to hold water
7. basic art stuff: scissors, ruler, etc.
$125
342 Depot Street
Asheville, NC
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Sep 18, 2010
to Oct 09, 2010
09:30 AM
Make Your Own Workbench
September 18 and 25 and October 2 and 9
9:30am-4:30pm
Instructor: Tim Williams
Max. enrollment: 6.
Students will leave with a completed workbench. All materials included. Bench measures 72" long by 24" deep and will be made of white ash. All vice parts will be turned wooden vice screws. The dominant style of this hybrid bench is dominy. The bench is a knock-down style for easy transport.
$1,600
10 Buxton
Asheville , NC
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Sep 18, 2010
to Sep 19, 2010
11:00 AM
A two-day celebration of traditional craft, music and storytelling featuring the World Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle Competition at 2pm Saturday.
free
Milepost 382 Blue Ridge Parkway
Asheville, NC
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Sep 20, 2010
to Sep 22, 2010
03:00 AM
This class is for anyone who has always wanted to paint the old homeplace or the landscape of their dreams. The instructor will share tips and techniques from thirty years as a professional artist. The class will cover the basic elements of painting, using acrylic, watercolor, gouache, or alkyd oil paints. Students will learn how to discriminate and what to leave out of a painting without losing their focus. The emphasis will be on creating small works of art no larger than 16 inches. Richard Tumbleston has lived near Boone since 1979. He has developed techniques in watercolor, dry brush watercolor, egg tempera, gouache, alkyd oils, and acrylic. He holds degrees in studio art and religion and paints full-time. His art takes on the impressions of finely painted landscapes, detailed still lifes, and portraits, and undercurrents of his formal studies often flow in abstract dimensions throughout his work. Special editions of Tumbleston’s paintings have benefited numerous community organizations.
This class is for anyone who has always wanted to paint the old homeplace or the landscape of their dreams. The instructor will share tips and techniques from thirty years as a professional artist. The class will cover the basic elements of painting, using acrylic, watercolor, gouache, or alkyd oil paints. Students will learn how to discriminate and what to leave out of a painting without losing their focus. The emphasis will be on creating small works of art no larger than 16 inches. Lodging is available for students and their families for a modest fee.
$270 (lunch included)
264 Trading Post Rd, Box 40
Glendale Springs, NC
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Sep 21, 2010
to Oct 14, 2010
This class will explore small scale decorative and functional objects using a lathe. The goal of this course is to learn how to make low price point products, such as pens and bottle stoppers, for sell at craft shows. Safety issues, tool upkeep and proper machine function will be covered. At the end of the course, students will have many wood turned prototypes for future mass production. Each student will be provided personal lathe, turning tool kit and wood for the duration of the course. Pen kits are not included in cost of class. All levels welcome.
$125.00
1001 Burkemont Avenue
Morganton , NC
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Networking is one of the major keys to building your art business. But how can you do this in a way that feels comfortable and natural?
This workshop will teach you practical networking skills that feel both authentic to who you are and are easy to engage listenters with. You will leave the evening with the confidence to increase your success rate the next time you are in a large group and want to make the most of it. This is one of the most important skills you can teach yourself as an artist, don’t miss it!
$25
153 S. Lexington Ave.
Asheville , NC
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Sep 23, 2010
to Sep 24, 2010
03:00 AM
This is a two-day fun-filled watercolor workshop for beginners— amateurs and aspiring professionals. Both objective and subjective interpretations of subject matter are discussed and demonstrated. Instructor and student will work with a minimum of art supplies and materials, in a series of enjoyable projects, exploring color, line, shape, and texture, to create beautiful and unified compositions. Lodging is available for students and their families for a modest fee.
$180 (includes lunch)
264 Trading Post Rd, Box 40
Glendale Springs, NC
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Sep 24, 2010
to Sep 25, 2010
The BookOpolis 2010 exhibit opens to the public Friday September 24. Saturday, September 25, is an all day affair as BookWorks hosts an 'open house' for people to view the BookOpolis exhibit, talk with artists, watch demonstrations, participate in cranking the letterpress, sillkscreening or learn a simple binding technique.
BookOpolis is a unique annual event showcasing the studio, exhibiting the work of many talented artists and instructors and introducing many people to Book Arts, Letterpress and Printmaking. Locally based artists as well as artists from across the US and abroad submit work that best represents the integration of Concept and Craft; merging Content and Ideas with Creative Use of Materials, Inventive Construction and Technique.
The 2010 BookOpolis exhibit interprets the theme of Memory and Memory Palaces. Interpretations may include triggers to memory, unpleasant memory, memory loss or deletion, sensation and memory, animal memory, false memory, cultural and collective memory. Exhibited entries are in the form of artists books, broadsides and prints.
Also on Friday evening we announce the winner of the annual raffle of the Small Book Exchange. This set of 15 miniature handmade books is created by regionally-based artist/members of the BookWorks Coop and is housed in a beautifully constructed handmade Memory Ark. Tickets for the raffle are $10.00 each and can be purchased at BookWorks or online at http://www.ashevillebookworks.com/co-op/small-book-exchange/. Funds raised benefit the Artist Residency Program at BookWorks.
A selection of prints and books from the exhibit will remain on display in our gallery until December 10, 2010.
contact: ph: 828.255.8444 e: info@ashevillebookworks.com web: ashevillebookworks.com
Please call us at the studio M-F 1-4PM, email or visit us online at ashevillebookworks.com for more information. The web site has a number of images from previous BookOpolis events.
links:
BookOpolis 2009 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DGdFHDJxMg
BookOpolis 2009 images: http://www.ashevillebookworks.com/bookopolis/
free
428 1/2 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC
