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Face Jugs and Tiles with Lauren Gallion
Four classes in two weeks:
Tuesdays & Thursdays, July 27, 29, August 3 & 5
3:30 until 5:30 PM
$80 Members; $100 Non-Members
Spaces are still available in the four day pottery class open to teens and adults. Professional ceramist Lauren Gallion will come with pre-thrown jugs. Students will learn how to fashion and attach a face. Face jugs will be fired, glazed and fired again. In addition, students will create decorative ceramic tiles. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn traditional Catawba Valley craft. Check out Lauren's work at www.laurengallionpottery.com. Sign up today! Call 828-327-8576 to register. Click here for Teen Summer Follies brochure with complete class listing.
Image: Steven Abee, Face Jug, From the Collection of Allen & Barry Huffman, gift
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Wired Rings and Things with Jessie McCann
Tuesday & Thursday: August 17 & 19
3:30 until 5:30 PM
$35 Members; $50 Non-Members
(includes LOTS of supplies)
Due to the popularity of her first class, Jessie McCann returns to offer a second two day wire wrapping jewelry class open to teens and adults. Jessie will teach students to make new designs different from those learned in the first class. These include beautiful and funky rings, bracelets and key chains made by wrapping beads and stones with wire. Instructor Jessie McCann is a professional jewelry maker who displays her unique work in the HMA Galleria. Sign up today! Call 828-327-8576 to register. Click here for Teen Summer Follies brochure with complete class listing.
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HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL ERA:
Paintings from the Museum's Permanent Collection
On Exhibit through Fall 2010
1st Floor Whitener Gallery
This exhibition features 16 Hudson River School landscapes collected during the early years of the Hickory Museum of Art by Museum Founder & first Director, Paul Whitener. Most of the works are oil paintings, but the show also includes one drawing and two etchings. Notable artists include Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Worthington Whittredge, John Frederick Kensett and more.
Images: Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Landscape, n.d., oil on canvas, Museum purchase; Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908), Summer Afternoon, Kennebunkport, n.d., oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George Lyerly, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Morgan in memory of Mr. and Mrs. George Lyerly, Sr.
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