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"CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR 2ND ANNUAL WORKS IN WOOD SHOW"
1999-07-28 until 1999-07-28
David Rago Auction Center
Lambertville, NJ, USA United States of America

A call for entries for the juried 2nd Annual Works in Wood Exhibition has been announced. Artists interested in receiving an application are asked to send a self addressed stamped envelope to Wood, 4 Runnemede, New Hope, PA 18938. Deadline for application is September 1, 1999 for the show opening October 16, 1999 at the David Rago Auction Center, 333 North Main Street in Lambertville, New Jersey ( across the bridge from New Hope, PA). The exhibition is open to all artists who use wood as their primary medium in any category including sculpture, contemporary craft, fine furniture, and conceptual works. There will be cash awards in various categories. Applications are also available at the Golden Door Gallery & New Hope Information Center in New Hope and Riverbank Arts in Stockton, NJ. Anyone interested in sponsoring an award or being placed on the reception mailing list may call 215-862-3396.

Jurors for this year's exhibition include: Mira Nakashima-Yarnall, vice-president and Design Director of the internationally renowned Nakashima Studios, who has exhibited her work in fine galleries and museums around the world. She has designed and supervised construction of a Vermont home of Steve Rockefeller; designed and supervised the Nakashima Memorial Room at James Michener Art Museum, coordinated the Soul of a Tree Retrospective show and catalog in Japan, 1993: Full Circle traveling show at the American Craft Museum,1989- 1990; as well as operating the Nakashima Studios in New Hope. Robin Larsen, arts consultant/artist who has juried and curated numerous art and contemporary crafts exhibitions for galleries, art centers and museums including the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, River Arts Center, Contemporary Arts Corridor, Kennedy Foundation, Muhlenberg College, as well as for her own contemporary arts gallery which she operated for twelve years in New Hope, PA. She serves on panels for the Pennsylvania and The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and formerly served as the Executive Director of the New Hope Arts Commission. Albert LeCoff, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia's international educational association dedicated to promoting the art and culture of lathe turning. LeCoff has organized symposia and exhibitions to promote lathe turning for more than twenty years and has lectured at such notable events as Rencountres Europeenes de la Tournerie in France and the American Craft Council in New York. He has curated exhibitions for the Michener Art Museum, Winterthur Museum, Berman Museum of Art, Hagley Museum, and Yale University.


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