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April Issue 2003
Transylvania County Arts Council in Brevard, NC, Features Conversation with Potter Judith Duff
The Transylvania County Arts Council will present an evening conversation with studio potter Judy Duff on Apr. 15, at 7pm, at the Transylvania Community Arts Center, in Brevard, NC, giving an in-depth look at the life and art of nationally acclaimed studio potter Judith Duff of Cedar Mountain, NC.
"This series provides a personal perspective on some of the amazingly talented people who live in Transylvania County," said Jinks Ramsey, former Executive Director of the Transylvania County Arts Council and presenter of the ArtSpeak conversations.
During the program, Duff will discuss her educational background in biology and painting, the beginnings of her professional career, and her frequent travels to study and teach in Japan. A few slides also will give a look at Duff's work and highlight significant moments in her career.
Since 1991 Duff has been a full-time studio potter in North Carolina. While earning degrees in biology and painting, she discovered clay as a way to express form in three dimensions. Working with various clays, Duff makes functional and one-of-a-kind pots with a strong emphasis on form and surface character. She fires with both wood and gas and has studied throughout the United States and Japan. She was chosen to participate in the International Workshop for Ceramic Art in Tokoname (IWCAT), Japan (1999) where she fired naborigama and anagama kilns. In 2002 Duff made her third trip to Japan where she spent two months teaching a workshop, making pots, firing two kilns, and participating in exhibitions. Duff has exhibited nationally and internationally at many juried and invitational shows including the American Shino Exhibition, Babcock Galleries, NY.
Her 2002 awards include: First in Clay, Coconut Grove Art Festival; Merit Award, Atlanta ACC show; Second Place Award, Feats of Clay, Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln, CA; and First Place Three-dimensional, Aesthetics 2002, Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS. The Mid Atlantic Clay Conference in Front Royal, VA will feature Duff as a principle artist in 2003. Articles written by Duff will appear in the summer issue of Studio Potter and the August issue of The Log Book. Duff has taught workshops throughout the United States and her work is represented in several fine galleries. Her work has also been seen on the Discovery Channel's Home Matters.
This program is a reshedule from January's snow storms.
The ArtSpeak conversation series began in October 2002 and has featured Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Brevard High School Mary Beth Shumate; painter, printmaker and owner of the Red Wolf Gallery Ann DerGara; Edward Seese Distinguished Professor of Art at Brevard College Tim Murray; and folk musician Wanda Lu Greene Paxton. All conversations take place at the Transylvania Community Arts Center, 321 South Caldwell Street, Brevard, NC, at 7 p.m.
ArtSpeak is part of the Transylvania County Arts Council's Wine and Wisdom adult education program.
For more information call the Transylvania County Arts Council at 828/884-2787.
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