The Travel Section of the New York Times for Sunday, October 24, 2010 features “36 Hours in Asheville” with photos by Rebecca D’Angelo. @ 2pm on Saturday, it tells you to go to CURVE studios & garden to partake of the ceramic wonders of Fran Welch, Akira Satake, Maria Andrade Troya & Patty Bilbro… Thanks for the love!
North Carolina Pottery: Diversity & Traditions
There’s a nice exhibition at the N.C. Mint Museum of historical and contemporary N.C. Pottery from the the Mint’s permanent collection. Featuring various important ceramic regions of North Carolina, Diversity & Traditions includes ceramics drawn from the Mint’s permanent collection. The exhibition includes pieces from such well estabilshed regions as Seagrove, the Catawba Valley, the Moravian settlement in Forsyth County, the mountains, and Penland.
Included in the exhibition are pieces by Curve Studio artists Kyle Carpenter and Akira Satake. Kyle Carpenter’s “Wren Platter” and Akira Satake’s “Teapot” were donated to the Mint Museum’s permanent collection by the Delhom Service League in 2008.
Akira Satake, one of the newest artists working @ CURVE studios & garden will be in Atlanta for the American Craft Council Show @ the Cobb Galleria Centre, March 11 to 14, 2010. Please visit with him there or if you are going to be in Washington, DC April 22 to 25, 2010, you can see new work @ (one of our countries most prestigious) The Smithsonian Craft Show. If you happen to be in Asheville the weekend of April 23 to 25, 2010, please visit us @ CURVE studios & garden for our Spring 2010 Open House Weekend.
public.craftcouncil.org/atlanta
www.smithsoniancraftshow.org
Contact Akira @ 828.275.7612
www.akirasatake.com
akirasatake@gmail.com
akira@CURVEstudiosNC.com
Bio: Akira Satake was born in Osaka, Japan and has been living in the U.S. since 1983. In 2003 he relocated from Brooklyn, New York to Swannanoa, North Carolina, where he built a Japanese Kyushu-style oil kiln and a wood-fired kiln.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions and awards:
The Smithsonian Craft Show, 2008~2010
Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, 2007~2009 • National Award for Excellence in Contemporary Clay 2007
Invited artist for Israel pottery symposium 2009
Permanent collections • The Mint Museum & The Sparta Teapot Museum
Artist Statement: For me, the act of creation is a collaboration between myself, the clay and the fire. Collaboration means finding what the clay wants to be and bringing out its beauty in the way that the beauty of our surroundings is created through natural forces. Undulations in sand that has been moved by the wind, rock formations caused by landslides, the crackle and patina in the wall of an old house, all these owe their special beauty to the random hand of Nature. The fire is the ultimate random part of the collaborative equation. I hope the fire will be my ally, but I know it will always transform the clay in ways I cannot anticipate.
Kohiki Pitcher © Akira Satake 2008
Chawan © Akira Satake 2009
Wood Fired Kohiki © Akira Satake 2008
The Grand Shift is complete @ CURVE studios & garden. #6 is still home to the studios of Pattiy Torno, Meagan Chaney & sutherland Handweaving which includes Barb Butler & Karen Donde. #9 (both floors) is now Constance Williams Studios & Gallery. Constance Williams has her encaustic painting studio & lots of new gallery space on the ground floor. Constance is sharing the upstairs ceramic heaven with Greg Vineyard, Fran Welch, Cassie Ryalls & Jenny Mastin where each will have working studio & gallery space. #12 (downstairs) is now home to Maria Andrade Troya (moving over from #9) & Kyle Carpenter (of Clayspace Cooperative fame). Akira Satake (from his house) & Linda McFarling (from Phil Mechanic Studios) come over during the next month. See the transformation! We will celebrate our new artists @ our 2010 Spring Open House, April 23-25, 2010.