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.
February 1, 2010 9:19 am.
Contact Greg @ 828.707.1641
www.vineyardcreative.byregion.net
www.constancewilliams.net
www.riverdistrictartists.com
vineface@earthlink.net
GregVineyard@CURVEstudiosNC.com
My main focus is on my Meditation/Tea Bowls, Keepsake Boxes and Communication Animals, and I am also continually exploring new conceptual ideas regarding intuitive assemblage & random-association groupings and tiles, as well as some more traditional items whose ceramic histories intrigue me.
I like hand-made arts and crafts that evoke feelings. I prefer ideation over functionality, and I believe everything has a purpose.
My colorful, tactile out-of-round bowls, along with my other ceramic offerings, invite one to explore, interact and communicate. I believe our artistic endeavors are catalysts in a spiritual process, moving us toward connection, awareness, service, esteem, healing, humility, peace, joy, serenity, light and love.
Carved Celadon Bowl © 2009
Shino Bowl © 2009
Communication Pair © 2009
January 2, 2010 5:12 pm.
Haywood County Arts Council’s Gallery 86 has invited CURVE studios’ Greg Vineyard to curate a show celebrating CURVE studios & garden & its artists called “CURVEilinear“. It’s all about what people see and feel when they walk through the doors of the three historic brick buildings at 6, 9 and 12 Riverside Drive in Asheville’s River Arts District. It’s the CURVE studios & garden working studio experience where vistors seven days a week encounter functional clay and decorative ceramics, textiles and weaving, jewelry, metal works, furniture and paintings, plus a beautifully landscaped garden… with a synergistic communication amongst the group nurtured by artist-owner Pattiy Torno’s desire to incubate a creative community. The show runs from January 11 to February 6, 2010. Gallery 86 can be found at 86 North Main Street in Waynesville, NC. or online @ www.haywoodarts.org
December 20, 2009 8:44 am.
