Adult Workshop: Enameling Saturday and Sunday, April 25 & 26 Frist Center Registration required, call 744-3355
Saturday, April 25, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Sunday, April 26, 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Frist Center Studios
Nashville-based jewelry artist Susan Thornton will lead this two-day enameling workshop in which all skill levels are welcome. Participants will visit the Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition to examine and discuss some of the enameled artworks on view. Participants will then head to the Frist Center’s studios to create their own enameled works. Everyone will take home a finished piece indicative of the enameled objects included in the exhibition.
Cost: $50 members; $60 non-members. Cost includes all supplies and gallery admission. Participants may bring their own lunches or purchase them in the Frist Center’s café.
Registration: Register for this program by filling out and returning the Workshop Registration Form or by calling 615.744.3355.
Adult Workshop: Oil Painting and the Figure Saturday and Sunday, April 18 & 19 Frist Center Registration required, call 744-3355
Saturday, April 18; 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Sunday, April 19; 1:00–4:00 p.m. Frist Center Studios
Terry Thacker, a Nashville-based artist and professor and chair of the fine arts department at Watkins College of Art, Design and Film, will lead this two-day intensive figure painting workshop. On Saturday, the program will begin with a discussion of the works on view in the Paint Made Flesh exhibition, with the focus on the way artists employ of a wide range of painterly effects to suggest the carnal properties and cultural significance of human flesh. Participants will then move to the Frist Center studios where the discussion will continue during a figure painting session with a nude model. On Sunday, participants will continue working in the studio with the model.
Cost: $50 members; $60 non-members. Cost includes all supplies and gallery admission. Participants may bring their own lunches or purchase them in the Frist Center’s café.
Registration: Register for this program by filling out and returning the Workshop Registration Form or by calling 615.744.3355.
Artist's Forum Friday, April 17, 6:30 p.m. Frist Center Rechter Room, FREE
Artist’s Forum is a program in which local and regional emerging and recognized artists discuss the thoughts and processes behind their work. Participants are encouraged to come and be a part of the dialogue about the artistic process.
Friday, April 17 Featured artists: Rocky Horton and Chris Scarborough
In his most recent studio practices, Rocky Horton utilizes different dilutions of photographic developer chemicals to paint onto exposed photographs. With these “photo paintings” Horton is commenting on the precarious relationship these mediums have had with each other since the invention of photography in the nineteenth century. Horton earned an MFA in Painting from the College of Creative Arts at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including shows at Cheekwood Museum of Art and Zeitgeist Gallery. Horton is currently assistant professor of art at Lipscomb University in Nashville. To learn more about Rocky Horton and to view some of his work visit www.rockyhorton.com.
Chris Scarborough works in photography and drawing to create meticulously detailed images of people who have been manipulated according to the exaggerated characteristics of Japanese anime. His most recent work has developed from this foundation to include the examination of cartoon violence. Scarborough received a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. His work has been included in several national exhibitions, including solo shows at the Foley Gallery in New York City and the Gescheidle Gallery in Chicago. Scarborough’s work is also part of numerous private and public collections, including the Tennessee State Museum. To learn more about Chris Scarborough and to view some of his work visit www.scarboy.net.
State of the Art: Contemporary Lecture Series featuring Andrea Zittel Thursday, April 16, 6:30 p.m. Frist Center Auditorium, FREE
The State of the Art lecture series is designed to bring nationally and internationally renowned critics, curators, and artists to Nashville to share their perspectives on current issues and ideas in contemporary art.
Conceptual artist and designer Andrea Zittel conducts experiments that simplify the everyday tasks of our lives. Using her own life as inspiration, she constantly examines and improves her relationship to her domestic and social environment, and ultimately the environments of others as well. Part artist, architect, environmentalist, crafter, nutritionist, engineer, and designer, Zittel possesses an everlasting enthusiasm for her projects.
Zittel received a BFA in painting and sculpture from San Diego State University and an MFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial and her 2005 comprehensive survey Andrea Zittel: Critical Space organized by the New Museum and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Zittel received the 2005 Smithsonian American Art Museum’s annual Lucelia Artist Award. The artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and Joshua Tree, California, where her A–Z West enterprises is located.
Talking Bodies: Connections Across Disciplines: “Flesh Made Paint” Saturday, April 4, 11:00 a.m. Frist Center Included with Gallery Admission, Members FREE
Portrait paintings offer us close encounters with the faces and bodies of their subjects. But because portraits are the product of prior face-to-face contact between artists and their sitters, they also make claims about the ways the intimate encounter of flesh with flesh can be represented in a painted image.
Gregg Horowitz, associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, will examine the ways the transformation of fleshly encounters into paint has, over the course of the past century, become an increasingly less reliable means of leaving an identifiable record of the sitter. He will explore this topic by examining paintings by Willem de Kooning, Lucian Freud, and John Currin.
Teen Workshop: Oil Painting and the Figure Saturday, April 4, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Registration and fee required, call 744-3355
Terry Thacker, a Nashville-based artist and professor and chair of the fine arts department at Watkins College of Art, Design and Film, will lead this one-day painting workshop in conjunction with the exhibition Paint Made Flesh. Participants will first tour the exhibition and discuss some of the ways artists use oil paint to depict the human body. After, they will move to the Frist Center studios where they will create their own figure paintings during a session with a clothed model.
Cost: $40 members; $50 non-members. Cost includes all supplies and gallery admission. Participants may bring their own lunches or purchase them in the Frist Center Café.
Location: Frist Center Studios
Registration: Register for this program by filling out and returning the Workshop Registration Form or by calling 615.744.3355.
Art Makes Place Panel Discussions Fridays March 27, April 17, May 22-- 6:30 p.m. Studio B, FREE
The Frist Center will be the site for a number of presentations in conjunction with ART MAKES PLACE: Contemporary Artists make Community-based, Public Art in the form of Temporary, Site-specific and Performance-based Artworks.
Art Makes Place is organized by the Nashville Cultural Arts Project, in collaboration with Metro Nashville Public Schools, Vanderbilt University, and the Frist Center, with funding from the Metro Nashville Arts Commission, Vanderbilt University, and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.
Additional information about AMP is available at www.n-cap.org/amp.html.
Remaining Presentations
Friday, March 27, 2009 Artist Bonnie Fortune talks about her work with vulnerable populations.
Friday, April 17, 2009 Chicago-based artist Lindsay Obermeyer talks about her "Attachment Project" piece Location: Rechter Room at the Frist Center
A Life in Art - Talk and Slideshow with Alan LeQuire
Join us this Saturday, March 21, at 10:30 AM, when Nashville artist Alan LeQuire, best known for his monumental Athena Parthenos, the largest indoor statue in the Western world, presents a slideshow and talk about his artistic development as a nationally renowned sculptor at this special event inspired by the current exhibit, Cultural Heroes, in the Art Gallery at Main Library. Light refreshments will be served.
Nashville Public Library Conference Center 615 Church Street Nashville, TN 37219 (615) 862-5804 x6092
There is still some time (and some room) left for you to join one of our upcoming special One-Night-Only classes at artEMBRACE East Creative Arts Studio right next door to the Y-CAP building. If you haven’t checked us out yet, you’re really, really missing out! Just ask one of your neighbors! The building is cozy, the classes are amazing, the teachers are top-notch, and the prices are ridiculously inexpensive!
Classes are $30 and include all supplies (YMCA Members and staff pay only $25!). The Hot Glass (“!”) class is a two-night class, and therefore costs $60 ($50 for YMCA members/staff).
There are three Sessions:
1) Monday & Tuesday, March 23 & 24 (6:30 - 8:30pm): Hot Glass ("!") with Pam Hall – Our Jewelry-Making Teacher extraordinaire is about to take you to a whole other level in the craft of jewelry making. In two nights you will have fabulous jewelry hanging from your person that'll have EVERYONE asking where it came from! And you can smile and tell them, "Oh, THIS? ...I made it." This class is almost sold-out. Call today!
2) Thursday, March 26th (6:30 - 9:30pm): Acrylic Painting with Cindy Wunsch – Many of you already know this is a very popular class with a very cool teacher! Cindy will be leaving us after this class until fall, so this’ll be your last opportunity to experience her magic!
3) Thursday, April 2nd (6:30 - 9:00pm): Printmaking with Marlynda Augelli – Learn to make lovely one-of-a-kind prints and even silk- screening! Last season this class sold out and we had to open up another one! They've since asked for more and we're givin' it to ya!
Registration for the Special Sessions is in advance by credit card, cash, and check only. To register, please call (615) 226-5577, extension 72555 and leave your name and phone number. We will then call you to process your credit card over the phone. For checks, please mail to: YMCA artEMBRACE, 1021 Russell Street, Nashville, TN 37206. Cash may also be brought to this address (the Y-CAP building) prior to class date. Please indicate in your payment envelope which class(es) you would like to sign up for.
NOTE: Classes will take place NEXT DOOR at the YMCA artEMBRACE East Art Studio, 120 South 11th Street, 37206. We’re in the Yellow House with the big tree out front.
ARTini: Paint Made Flesh Friday, March 28 7 p.m. FREE
Join Hans Schmitt-Matzen, associate exhibitions designer at the Frist Center, as he leads an informal conversation focusing on paintings by Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud that are included in the Paint Made Flesh exhibition. Complete your evening with music in the Grand Lobby, martinis at the cash bar, and visiting with friends.
Enjoy a fun-filled day of excitement with friends and family including special art-making activities, storytelling, live music, and dance performances.
The Society of Creative Anachronism will be on hand through the afternoon in the Grand Lobby for discussions of medieval armored combat, fiber arts and illumination.
Medieval Dances are scheduled hourly in the Rechter Room, beginning at 1:30 p.m.
The Centennial Recorder Consort will perform in the Grand Lobby at 1:30 and 3:00 p.m.
Upstairs, in the Art Library and Resource Center, younger visitors will enjoy Story Time: Magic in the Margins: a Medieval tale of Bookmaking, with sessions at 1:45 and 4:00 p.m.
Medieval Combat Monty Python Style will be demonstrated and taught by Nashville Children’ s Theatre teaching artist Eric Pasto-Crosby in the auditorium at 2:00 and 3:30 p.m. Visitors will learn hand-to-hand “combat” moves and put them together in Monty Python-esque skits.
Art activites, including the creation of medieval medallions, reliquaries, and illuminated letters will be available through the afternoon in Martin ArtQuest and Studios A, B and C on the Upper Level.
Family Day Sponsor: Nashville Parent Education Programming Sponsors: Metro Nashville Arts Commission and the Tennessee Arts Commission
Friday, March 20 7 p.m. FREE Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Join Anne Taylor, curator of interpretation at the Frist Center, as she leads an informal conversation on one or two works of art in this exhibition. Complete your evening with music in the Grand Lobby, martinis at the cash bar, and visiting with friends.
The Artist Within A Guide to Becoming Creatively Fit
Upcoming Art Classes
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Painting Made Easy With Whitney Ferre’ Tuesday, March 24th 6:30 to 8:30p At University School of Nashville $55 includes all supplies
In this class Whitney teaches her no-fail method of acrylic painting!
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Why has this class been SO popular for the last 6 years?
Whitney takes the fear out of painting and shows you how the paint and canvas can be a simple tool to use to escape stress, to inspire new ideas, to develop your physiological ability to create change! E-mail Whitney at creativelyfit@aol.com to register!
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Abstract Painting Workshop With Whitney Ferre’ Friday, May 8th 6:30 to 8:30p Saturday, May 9th 11 to 3p Optional Gloss Tuesday, May 12th 6-7p At University School of Nashville $125 includes paints/brushes, you bring a canvas.
Great Mother's Day Gift!!!
In this class Whitney leads you step by step through the layered, textured, “mixed media” approach to acrylic painting. On Friday night you layer fabric, papers and collage items onto your canvas with acrylic paint. Next, we create an abstract, organic design to compliment the free-flowing nature of this painting technique. Saturday we paint in more color, add gold/silver leaf, more collage/paper items and more color! The last step is the “drizzle” step. There will also be a demonstration Saturday afternoon of the gloss technique, using an epoxy gloss. You can come back Tuesday night to gloss your painting with Whitney or choose to do that DIY style at your own home. E-mail Whitney at creativelyfit@aol.com to register.
Gallery Talk: "I've . . . shed my skin / This is the new stuff" Saturday, March 21, 11:00 a.m. Included with gallery admission, Members FREE
Dr. Dana Malone Kennedy, assistant professor of English at Watkins College of Art, Design and Film will present a gallery talk in the Paint Made Flesh exhibition titled, “I've . . . shed my skin / This is the new stuff” (from Peter Gabriel's song “Sledgehammer”). Her focus will be on the use of the body in the poetry of Anne Sexton, who also speaks of shedding skin as an approach to the divine. However, Sexton and feminist theorists have more to say about the body, and Dr. Kennedy will give feedback on paintings toward that end, including Susan Rothenberg’s Orange Break, Daniel Richter’s Duisen, Cecily Brown’s Figures in a Landscape, and Jack Levine’s 35 Minutes from Times Square.
Last Chance to Sign Up for Illuminated Manuscript Workshop Saturday, March 21, 10 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Sunday, March 22, 1:00–4:00 p.m. $50 members; $60 non-members
Michele Herbert, artist and co-owner of Shimai Pottery, will lead participants in a workshop in which they will create their own illuminated manuscripts similar to the ones seen in Medieval Treasures.
We have a few more spots available! Register by filling out and returning the Workshop Registration Form or by calling 615.744.3355.
How to Use Environmental Certification in Your Design
Dear Creative Colleague, Are your clients asking for more ways to "go green" with their marketing while staying on budget? Do you want to incorporate environmental certification into your design practice? Then join AIGA Nashville for a workshop with renowned design educator and Sappi Fine Paper "Print & Creative Specialist" Daniel Dejan, who will give you some tips on designing, printing and selling your work in a more sustainable way. Registration is only $5, but seats are going quick!
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When: Saturday, April 4th 11:45am - 12:45pm
Where: Green Expo Hall of Fame Room, Allen Arena Lipscomb University One University Park Drive Nashville, TN 37204
Registration: There are only 30 seats remaining in this workshop, so RSVP now! Cost is $5 for all participants (to be paid at the door). Entrance fee includes all day access to the Green Expo.
Dr Sketchys Anti Art School Nashville Birthday Celebration
Sunday March 22, 2009
5-8pm
The 5 Spot
$10
Dr Sketchys Anti Art School is ready to celebrate the birthday of Larry The Panty Boy with the lovely Miss Lolly Pop modeling for your artistic pleasure!
Come ready for cake, cake and more cake in this Birthday Themed Session on Sunday March 22, 2009 at The 5 Spot from 5-8pm ONLY $10! Come ready to draw, draw, draw and win some great prizes!
STARTING A NONPROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATION: INCORPORATION & THE TAX EXEMPT APPLICATION PROCESS (CLE Approved) Date: Mon., April 6th, 2009 Time: 5:00-6:30p.m. Co-Sponsor/Location: Nashville Public Television (161 Rains Ave.)
This seminar will discuss:
Starting a new organization v. partnering with an existing nonprofit organization;
The pros and cons of incorporation;
The timeline and steps involved in the process to obtain tax exempt status; and
The challenges of administrating, funding and sustaining a new nonprofit organization.
Presented by volunteer lawyers Corey Stringer and Nicole James from the Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz Nonprofit Institute. This will be a great program for TNVLA volunteer lawyers (or future volunteers!) interested in working with nonprofit organizations.
If you plan on attending, you must RSVP to info@tnvla.org by 10:00a.m. the day of the seminar. This seminar is free to the public. There is a fee for lawyers seeking CLE credit: $40 for TNVLA Member Lawyers; $60 Non-Members (for 1.5 hours CLE credit).
Attendance by a representative of the organization is a prerequisite for seeking assistance from a TNVLA volunteer lawyer with the application for recognition of tax exempt status with the IRS.
Tennessee Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts now part of the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville 211 Commerce St., Suite 100 Nashville, TN 37201 info@tnvla.org (615) 743-3055 www.tnvla.org
Unity Church for Positive Living hosts SpiritFest 2009 Arts & Music Festival. The event will be May 16, 2009. Event Description: live music, activities for kids and approximately 40 booths. Booth Info: 10X10 for $25 Time: the arts and crafts will run from 10-5.
Location: Unity Church for Positive Living is at 4319 Saundersville Road, Old Hickory, TN, the property is several acres, and while it's not on a "main" road it is on a very well travelled road just off Lebanon Road that gets good traffic. We have other events that have had great attendance so we know it will be great!
2009 Nashville Pride Festival will take place at Riverfront Park on Saturday, June 20th from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Visit http://www.nashvillepride.org/ and click “Become a 2009 Vendor”. Download the food vendor application or the market vendor application. Each consists of a contract and an application. It may be printed, completed, and either scanned in an e-mail to me or mailed to the Nashville Pride, Inc. P.O. Box. The application contains details about costs and timing.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR BUSINESSES TO RENT A BOOTH DURING THE DOG DAZE EVENT ON SATURDAY, APRIL 25TH
IF YOU HAVE A BUSINESS OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU SET UP A BOOTH AT THE EVENT
THE COST FOR AN ANIMAL RELATED BOOTH IS $100.00
THE COST FOR A NON ANIMAL RELATED BOOTH IS $200.00
PLEASE CONTACT BECKIE FOY AT REBFOY@HOTMAIL.COM OR CALL HER AT 615-210-3296 TO GET MORE INFORMATION.
BOOTH SLOTS ARE GOING FAST, SO THE SOONER YOU CALL THE BETTER!!!!
You can also go to the website at dogdazeofhendersonville.com to get more information and to print the application form.
This is a great event and will attract hundreds of animal lovers like ourselves, this is a great way to get your business out to the public as well as have a GREAT time!!!!
Don't forget to bring your favorite 4 legged friends!!!
Thank you for your support
Diana Townsend President and Founder of SPA -- DIANA TOWNSEND PRESIDENT/FOUNDER SAFE PLACE FOR ANIMALS S.P.A. P.O. BOX 243 GALLATIN, TN 37066
Contact: Linda McLaughlin, Arts Council of WilliamsonCounty,
(615) 428-3845, linda@artscouncilwc.org
Arts Council of WilliamsonCounty announces March’s “Brown Bag Lunch Bunch” guest speaker, Jeremy Spencer, Firefly Fine Arts Festival.
The Arts Council of Williamson County’s ‘Brown Bag Lunch Bunch’ will meet on Friday, March 13, from 11 am – 1 pm at the Williamson County Public Library (main conference room), 1314 Columbia Pike in Franklin.
Jeremy Spencer, Festival Director, will speak about the inaugural Firefly Fine Arts Festival on June 26-28, 2009 at the beautiful, custom-designed grounds adjacent to the award-winning RenaissanceCenter in Dickson, TN, just 30 miles west of Nashville. The Firefly Fine Arts Festival is a juried fine art and fine craft festival produced through a collaborative effort of Community Arts Development of Dickson County, The Renaissance Center, and the Tennessee Arts Commission. This three-day festival provides an opportunity to not only purchase amazing original art, but to interact with the creative minds that produce the work, all while enjoying performances throughout the day on two stages; children’s activities; diverse and local food and beverage vendors; demonstrations of artists at work; and much more throughout the weekend.
‘Supplies for Soldiers’ collection continues again this month. The Arts Council is collecting supplies for troops stationed in Iraq. They will be collecting simple, everyday supplies for them (preferably something easy to ship). You bring the supplies, they'll get them to the soldiers.
Did you ever wonder where those supplies that we've been collecting have been going? Come and meet Jimmy Finney! Jimmy’s troop was the recipient of the supplies and he is back from Iraq! You are invited to a Potluck Lunch, Monday, March 23rd, 12 - 2 pm at the Franklin – Cumberland Presbyterian Church on 615 West Main Street. If you can't make it to the potluck lunch, Jimmy will also be at 'An Artist's Window' art show on March 20 at the Factory.
Grab your lunch and join them for a lunchtime of artistic fun and camaraderie. You provide your lunch; they’ll provide the location!The Arts Council’s ‘Brown Bag Lunch Bunch’ meets 2nd Friday of most months.
For more information, visit www.artscouncilwc.org, call 428-3845 or email info@artscouncilwc.org.
Chair-ish the Kids is a one-of-a-kind auction of artwork with a chair theme. These pieces are designed by YOU, the artistic member of our community!
Kids on the Block, a program of STARS Nashville, reaches close to 40,000 elementary and middle school children each year using the ancient art of Bunraku puppetry. Through our puppets we are able to reach into the hearts and minds of young people to educate them on difficult life issues such as child abuse, prejudice prevention, and awareness of differences.
Join Whitney & Christy for a long weekend of art, yoga, community, and self-empowerment just 30 minutes from Nashville.
If you really need to invest in yourself and take some time to relax, find your center, and create some kind of change in your life THIS IS FOR YOU!
Click HERE for a detailed Retreat timeline & fees.
We are the artists of our lives. We are responsible for creating the change we desire. This weekend is about learning how to nurture your right brain voice, your Artist Within.
Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, 2298 Rosa Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN
The public is invited to the Artist Lecture Series featuring Boston-based artist, filmmaker, teacher and curator Jeff Daniel Silva. The lecture will take place in the campus theatre, and an opening reception for Silva's exhibit, Epic Measures: Close Encounters of Another Kind, wll be held from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public. This exhibition runs through March 26. For more information about the artist, visit www.jeffdanielsilva.com. For more information about this event, visit www.watkins.edu or call (615) 383-4848.
Attention Arts Organizations, Artists and Arts Enthusiasts - Mark Your Calendars!
Engaging Art: The Future of Arts Participation in America A Presentation by Steven Tepper
March 11, 4:30 p.m.
Nashville Downtown Public Library, 615 Church Street
All arts organizations, artists and arts enthusiasts are encouraged to attend this fast-paced and engaging presentation, which covers the changing ways in which people are accessing and interacting with art and how the traditional arts may need to adapt to changing audience demands. The presentation will explore what it means to participate in the arts in contemporary society, from museum attendance to music downloading. Tepper analyzes key trends involving technology, audience demographics, religion and the rise of "do-it-yourself" participatory culture, drawing on findings from his recent book with Bill Ivey, Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life. His research on arts engagement has been featured at more than 20 conferences and events across the country in the past two years.
About Steven Tepper:
Tepper is assistant professor in the department of sociology and associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. His research and teaching has focused on creativity in society; conflict over art and culture; and cultural participation. In addition to Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life (Routledge 2007), he is currently completing a book on cultural conflict and social change in American cities, to be published in 2010 (University of Chicago Press).
* Co-sponsored by Williamson County Public Library & O'More College of Design *
Williamson County Public Library (main conference room) 1314 Columbia Pike Franklin, TN 37064
We are proud to present a new evening series for 2009. Some of the most renowned local artists will share an up-close and personal glimpse into their lives and their work. The evening starts with a powerpoint presentation, followed by a question and answer period.
March' s Guest:
Ben Caldwell, Copper/Metalworker
March 9
6-8 pm
Ben was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. His interest in art was sparked by his parent’s passion for all things well crafted and beautiful. The weekends of his childhood were spent in antique stores and the studios of artists and craftsmen across the country. Being dyslexic, school was difficult and art became the oasis he went to for sustenance. He studied painting in Boston and New York. After graduating from Tufts University, he spent ten years building musical instruments. Then he apprenticed under Terry Talley, a nationally known coppersmith and silversmith in Bradyville Tennessee. The most important thing he learned from Terry was how to earn a living as a fulltime artist. Today he lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee and supports himself and his family with his art.
Description of Process
Ben starts with a large sheet of copper and applies powdered enamel to create a design. The enamel is torch fired to the copper section by section at temperatures between 1500 deg. F and 1800 deg. F. This allows the copper to oxidize and mix with the enamel and change color. After the copper cools, it is then shaped with a hammer. It is then re-enameled and shaped while still red hot until the final shape and color are achieved.
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