A Natural Influence, Focus Gallery Exhibition
November 15-May 26, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 24, 2024
Contact: Millie Davis
828-298-7928 (Folk Art Center)
[email protected] (Folk Art Center)
The Southern Highland Craft Guild opens A Natural Influence in the Focus Gallery of the Folk Art Center
Location: Folk Art Center | Milepost 382 Blue Ridge Parkway, East Asheville, NC
Hours: Open Daily 10am-5pm
Admission: Free
Focus Gallery Exhibit: A Natural Influence
Dates: November 15, 2024-May 26, 2025
Asheville, NC- The Southern Highland Craft Guild opens its final member-focused exhibition of the year with Natural Influence, featuring both traditional and contemporary craft by five members of the Guild.
Peggy DeBell – paper
Katrina and Joe Miller (collaboration) - metal
Neil Carroll - wood
Daniel Shipman Baron - fiber
Wendy and Joe Edwards - jewelry
Peggy DeBell, fiber artist from Hot Springs, NC, states “I enjoy creating the unexpected from familiar scenes and everyday objects. A pasture with cows and a barn or a bygone building that I snap with my digital camera becomes a kaleidoscope of colors and textures printed onto cloth,then stitched and embellished by slow hands and a meditative spirit. I save aluminum pull off lids from Kozy Shack pudding and sew them onto a painter's drop cloth printed with computer manipulated scans of the tops arranged in geometric designs. Then I construct an elegant purse using pipe cleaners, recycled metal from a bag found at the Salvation Army, novelty trims, antique buttons and spend hours embroidering around the circular shapes with hand dyed pearl cotton.”
A Natural Influence will be on view in the focus gallery upstairs at the Folk Art Center November 15, 2024-May 26, 2025. The Folk Art Center is located in east Asheville. Visit the center daily from 10am-5pm. Admission is free.
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The Southern Highland Craft Guild is a non-profit, educational organization established in 1930 to cultivate the crafts and makers of the Southern Highlands for the purpose of shared resources, education, marketing and conservation. The Southern Highland Craft Guild is an authorized concessioner of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The Folk Art Center is located at Milepost 382 of the Blue Ridge Parkway, just north of the Highway 70 entrance in east Asheville, NC.
Items will be available for purchase online in November. Until then, you can purchase these items through the Folk Art Center by contacting us: [email protected] or 828-298-7928 starting November 14, 2024.
