by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 18, 2015 | Residency Blog |
Look long enough at Julia Harrison’s work and you may feel like you’re staring. That is, in fact, precisely the point. Harrison explains (click here to listen) that “the act of looking really hard at another person to try to figure out what the hell they are thinking...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 16, 2015 | Residency Blog |
“When I’m thinking about things to do,” explains Grant Vaughan, “I’ll go for a walk in the bush.” He doesn’t have far to walk. Vaughan hails from New South Wales, Australia, where he lives on eighty-five acres of bushland. Although his work has shifted over the years,...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 16, 2015 | Residency Blog |
We traveled out to the beautiful environs of New Hope, PA, to visit the studio, showroom, finishing department, Peace House and guest house of gifted wood sculptor George Nakashima. His friendly daughter, Mira Nakashima-Yarnall, gave us a wonderful guided tour...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 15, 2015 | Residency Blog |
The fellows are onto new beginnings. New art pieces are evolving on what seems like a daily basis. Rex is working on a very large sculpture. Zina is working on new techniques and ideas combining turned pieces with traditional Romanian carving. Adrien is beginning work...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 15, 2015 | Residency Blog |
Perhaps none of this year’s ITE fellows are more at home in Philadelphia than Rex Kalehoff, who earned a BFA in sculpture from UArts before moving on to RIT’s MFA program in woodworking. As he tells it, Kalehoff’s work is inspired by long travels around the Pacific...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 12, 2015 | Residency Blog |
It was a day of presenting completed new work, showing sketches of work yet to come, and discussions of ideas shared between collectors, artists and turners. A pleasant luncheon was shared while a slide show of ITE photojournalist fellow Winifred Helton-Harmon’s...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 9, 2015 | Residency Blog |
Photos and Text by Seth Bruggeman – “Today I rejoined my fellow fellows from the Center for Art in Wood residency program, a month since first meeting them. Only minutes after I arrived, Albert LeCoff–the Center’s director and co-founder–joined us for a...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 6, 2015 | Residency Blog |
Not sure how this missed getting onto the blog as I already wrote it 10 days ago – but I am resubmitting it. My sincere apologies to the wonderful Doctors Jeff Bernstein and Judy Chernoff. Their collection was an astounding assemblage of wood artworks from many...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 6, 2015 | Residency Blog |
The fellows are working away and making an assortment of noises with their hands and machines. Some soft – some loud. All of them are reaping wonderful results. Every artist’s sound is unique forming a wonderful cacophony of bangs, shushing, sanding, and...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 2, 2015 | Residency Blog |
Once back from their two weeks of Echo Lake and Washington,D.C./Maryland experiences, the fellows were ready to get to work. Jay Cox, UArts Wood shop Manager, helped get things rolling by providing wood, tools and any additional machinery advice to help fellows to...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jul 1, 2015 | Residency Blog |
Our final collector’s home visit was at Fleur Bresler’s. It was another feast for the eyes as Fleur welcomed us into her lovely abode of art in beautiful spaces. There were so many incredible pieces of art to look at. They ran the gamut from tapestries, to...
by Museum for Art in Wood | Jun 30, 2015 | Residency Blog |
Next location on our collector’s home’s tour was Gigi and Ben Huberman’s. Their elegant home was filled with a wonderful collection of contemporary glass, wood, ceramics, paintings, photography, and multimedia artworks.
