Exhibition on Display: Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

On view from January 27-May 1, 2024. The Southern Highland Craft Guild opens its first main gallery exhibition of 2024 with Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Arrowmont), an Education Center of the Southern Highland Craft Guild since 1960. Featured in this exhibit are Arrowmont’s nationally and internationally recognized practicing artists and university workshop instructors. With over 130 classes being offered in a variety of media, students and instructors come to Arrowmont from across the globe to share skills and ideas, foster new thinking, and participate in artistic growth and creative camaraderie.

For over 113 years, the historic campus of the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, nestled in the Smoky Mountains, has been a place of education. The spirit of this heritage permeates the grounds, buildings, and even the mountain air. The early years were about general education in a settlement school setting, but the curriculum was soon added in mountain handicrafts to preserve skills and provide vehicles of livelihood for area residents. In 1945, the signature summer workshop program was launched during a period of revival in craft education and the school was opened to people from all over the United States who traveled to take art classes in the beautiful Great Smoky Mountains. Sixty-seven years later, that workshop program has evolved into the extensive summer and fall course offerings of classes in contemporary art and crafts. To see Arrowmont’s 2024 workshops offerings, please visit https://www.arrowmont.org/workshops-classes/workshops/

To honor the instructors and showcase their talent, Arrowmont presents an annual group exhibition, presented this year in the Folk Art Center’s Main Gallery. Their work is a true expression of Arrowmont’s vision and mission – to enrich lives through art and craft.

Participating Artists (Arrowmont Instructors) Include:

Tom Bartel

Elizabeth Belz

Lanny Bergner

Dixie Biggs

Sam Briegel

Christian Burchard

Gary Chapman

Sunyoung Cheong

Jeremy Colbert

Felicia Francine Dean

David Ellsworth

Melissa Everett

Roberto Ferrer

Sophie Glenn

Seth Green

Mike Griffin

Rachael Griffin

Bill Griffith

Meredith Grimsley

Sanaz Haghani

Mindy Herrin-Lewis

Jonah Hill

Bryant Holsenbeck

Anna Johnson

Brian R. Jones

C. Pazia Mannella

Joetta Maue

Alex McClay

Stephanie Metz

Rob Millard-Mendez

Wyatt Nester-Pasicznyk

Sisavanh Phouthavong-Houghton

Jerry Bedor Phillips

Trustina Fafa Sabah

Jennifer Sargent

Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder

Lauren Selden

James Bud Smith

Caryl St. Alma

James Thurman

Ann Tilley

Leandra Urrutia

Holland Van Gores

Sherri Warner-Hunter

Kathy Wilcox

Bryan Wilkerson

Ann Coddington

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts will be on view in the main gallery at the Folk Art Center from January 27-May 1, 2024. The Folk Art Center is located in east Asheville. Visit the center daily from 10 am-5 pm. Admission is free. Items will be available for purchase online soon. Until then, you can purchase these items through the Folk Art Center by contacting us: info@craftguild.org or 828-298-7928.