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For ASID members, whether your work is commercial or residential, let New Morning Gallery, representing functional handcrafts and furniture, and Blue Spiral 1, exhibiting fine arts and crafts, be your PRODUCT RESOURCE.

We hope you will be able to visit Asheville, but we are also able to work with you long distance. With the creation of a private web site for each project, we can offer options that you and your client can view at your leisure.

Honoring the Earth Series,
A Benefit Art Show and Sale Held at Blue Spiral 1
A benefit art show and sale, Honoring the Earth Series, will be held at Blue Spiral 1
April 1 – May 11.

The project was designed to honor the memory of regionally recognized ceramic artist Clara “Kitty” Couch, and to raise money for land conservation in Western North Carolina. Couch was killed in an automobile accident in January 2004 while traveling overseas. Her 4 daughters inherited her final body of work entitled the Earth Series, large organic vessels inspired by natural forms.

The opening reception, featuring a multi-media presentation, will be held at 4:30 pm on Friday, April 4, at the Fine Arts Theatre on Biltmore Avenue next door to the gallery.The cost is $20 per person to benefit the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy (CMLC) and the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (SAHC). This reception is SOLD OUT.

The opening reception for Honoring the Earth Series will include a life-of-the-artist presentation by Couch’s grandson, biologist Ian Breckheimer; a reading by friend, teacher, and colleague Paulus Berensohn; and a short film by friend and videographer Jeff Goodman. Paulus Berensohn is author of Finding Your Way With Clay, a classic ceramic arts primer that inspired Couch’s career. Refreshments will be served.

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Will Henry Stevens had a profound love of nature that permeated his work throughout his life. In thinking about a way to honor the memory of Stevens beyond his paintings John Cram knew it had to involve nature.

Blue Spiral 1 has created a Will Henry Stevens Revolving Loan Fund to benefit the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy and the Conservation Trust for North Carolina. Both non-profit organizations are dedicated to the protection of the Appalachian landscape and its manificent nature resources for present and future generations. A percentage of his sales is donated to this fund.

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Garden and Gun Magazine: 21st Century Southern America features a Julyan Davis article "Refined Oils" by Randall Curb with photographs by Peter Frank Edwards.

Click for the article in it's entirety.

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TUTORIALS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

SPRING AND SUMMER TUTORIALS 2008

PAINTING THE LANDSCAPE

Exhibits in Atlanta and Asheville will have me painting in town and on the Blue Ridge Parkway beginning next month. In response to a general interest in my teaching, I am organizing painting demonstrations in the field for a limited number of students. For rates and further information please contact the studio by phone at: (706) 982 1418 or  by email at: julyan@julyandavis.com.

JULYAN DAVIS
www.julyandavis.com

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Ward Nichols has graciously given Blue Spiral 1 permission to reproduce his painting, Puzzling, to benefit the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Three hundred fifty giclée prints of this unusual landscape painting have been signed and numbered by Ward. 
 
The prints can be acquired for $300 (price includes sales tax) from Blue Spiral 1, New Morning Gallery or the office of Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy.  Your check should be made out to Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy or SAHC.

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“Cummins One” by Dana Brown has been accepted to the American Watercolor Society National Exhibition in New York.
 
 This is her second time to show work with the American Watercolor Society (www.AmericanWatercolorSociety.org)

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Barbara Fisher art work has benn selected for the book cover of "On Freedom Street" from Eastern Washington University Press
http://www.ewu.edu/ewupress/fiction/freedomstreet.htm

On Freedom Street chronicles the story of a Turkish boy, Mehmet, and his twin journeys, one from the snowy mountain village of his birth to the warm Mediterranean city of Adana, the other from the comforting presence of his mother into the world of other women. Mehmet has grown up as one of ten children, raised in humble surroundings by a mother whose husband vanished years ago. Innocent, observant, and profoundly non judgmental, Mehmet is never one to question his circumstances. Life is something that unfolds, and he accepts its cruelties and sorrows as well as its strange magic and surprise. Written with a delicate, quiet compassion and a stunning depth of honesty, On Freedom Street is a book about honor, love and loyalty. But equally it is a book about women--women as mysterious and wise creature who, in very quiet, unobtrusive ways, keep the world steady and alive.

 

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Sally Rogers just received a large-scale sculpture commission for downtown Charlotte; across the street from the Arts and Science Council, next block from the Trade/Tryon intersection. We look forward to visuals as they become available.
Below is a photo of one "Euronyme" 2006, a commissioned piece in stainless steel and verde jaco granite (6' 8"H) in Sarasota, Florida

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