2010
October 18-24, 2010,
at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
ARROWMONT IN 2010: DARD WAS AN ARTIST - SO ARE YOU!
We will have our annual meeting at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in October, 2010. This is a new kind of venue for us; it promises to be a new kind of meeting. As a way of mixing things up a bit, the Executive Council and Board of Directors (ECBOD) is offering a meeting that is less of a consumer model and more of a participatory one. This will not be a meeting where you come and consume the lectures and other activities we have determined you will like: this meeting will be a creation by you. You will be making, doing, and creating more than you will be listening or watching others do.
This meeting will also be longer than previous ones: we will begin workshops on Tuesday of the conference week. You can come for three days of workshops followed by two days of the conference, for a total of five days. If you can choose it all, the third week of October will be an intense learning experience for you.
The workshop leaders for the first part, Tuesday – Thursday, will be invited by ECBOD. We want to explore aspects of Dard Hunter’s artistic output in paper but also in clay, glass, metal, leather, and book making. If you have ideas about this, please contact one of us. For the conference proper, Thursday night through Saturday afternoon, we will be accepting proposals as usual. The only difference will be emphasis: the seats in the auditorium at Arrowmont are hard plastic: we will not want to sit in them all day listening to lectures. Meanwhile, the workrooms are inviting and there are many different kinds. We will emphasize more hands-on learning and sharing opportunities. Every evening we will have sign-ups for people to show and talk about their work in the auditorium, using the big screen. On one or more occasion we will use the lovely library for portfolio sharing, modeled on the success of this event in Atlanta. This is a chance to show your work in the flesh, in 3-D, in the round.
I plan to have a background event going on: a drop in, no charge theatrical event with an emphasis on puppets and clothes made of hand made paper. I will have a loose script, perhaps a fairy tale, but what I want is an attitude of play that will lead to a performance on Friday night. I am thinking about shadow puppets as well as 3-D ones, and hats/jewelry/accessories for the performers. We will want backdrops painted as well. This will be the height of whoever-shows-up-will-determine-the-event. You can come often or just drop in and make one thing; stay a day or the week. I am holding very loosely to the outcome; mostly I am interested in the process of our mutual giving.
So come, asking not what we can give to you but what you can give to all.
Jill Littlewood,
President, Friends of Dard Hunter, Inc.
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts:arrowmont.org
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