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Grovewood Gallery debuts new exhibition for the holiday season: "Craft in Toyland"

Opening Reception: November 18 from 2 - 5pm

Showing through December 31, 2017

Craft in Toyland opens on Saturday, November 18 at Grovewood Gallery in Asheville, just in time for the holidays. This group exhibition will showcase handcrafted toys and games – all American made! Also on display will be a collection of antique wooden toys from the heyday of Tryon Toy Makers & Wood Carvers, on loan from Tryon, North Carolina resident Rick Dunn.  

An opening reception will take place on November 18 from 2 – 5pm, free and open to the public. This show will remain on view through December 31, 2017.

Craft in Toyland will feature works by 10 artists and craftspeople from across the country, including toys by local makers Paul Frehe, Greg Krolick, Sarah Owen, and Alicia Williams of Heartwood Rocking Horses. This exhibit will also showcase works by Julia Calhoun, Elizabeth Swing of Emergolde, Joe Godfrey, Delilah Iris, Lumpy Buttons, and Wolfum. All handcrafted toys and games will be available for sale, with the exception of Rick Dunn’s collection of antique toys.

 

For nearly 20 years, Dunn has been collecting wooden toys made by the renowned Tryon Toy Makers & Wood Carvers, a children’s toy and fine craft company established in 1915 by two enterprising, artistic women: Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale. The Tryon toys were the finest made in the United States at that time, and today, the surviving toys and woodcarvings are highly sought after by collectors.

Before starting Tryon Toy Makers & Wood Carvers, Vance and Yale lived in Asheville’s Biltmore Village, where they, along with Edith Vanderbilt, founded and ran what would become Biltmore Industries, a successful woodworking and weaving business. In 1917, a couple of years after Vance and Yale moved to Tryon, Mrs. Vanderbilt sold the business to Fred Seely, Edwin Wiley Grove’s son-in-law, and it was relocated to a site adjacent to The Grove Park Inn, where Grovewood Gallery is housed today. While learning the ropes of the weaving trade, Seely frequently corresponded with Vance and Yale, seeking advice and also trading information on new fads in techniques.

Today, Julia Calhoun, who is one of the featured artists in Craft in Toyland, is working to keep the Tryon Toy Makers & Wood Carvers’ artisan legacy alive. She is the 4th individual owner of the business and has recently begun bringing the enterprise back with the production of some of the earliest toys designed by Vance and Yale, working from antique sets and photographs. She will be showcasing a reproduction of a wooden circus set, an early item in the company’s history that is extremely rare. “The only one we know of is in the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh,” Julia says. “A second one was located a few years ago in Boston but sold before our local collector could get to it. I had to draw my pieces from a photo of the one in the Museum.”

If you plan on seeing the exhibit, and want to learn more about Eleanor Vance and Charlotte

Yale, you can take a guided history tour, which starts at the Biltmore Industries Homespun

Museum located next door to Grovewood Gallery. The tour touches on Vance and Yale’s time spent in Asheville, before they relocated to Tryon and founded their new company. Tours are offered Wednesday - Saturday at 1pm and will run through the end of December. You can learn more by visiting www.grovewood.com/history-tours.

Textile and ceramic installations at the Penland Gallery

Although a conversation generally happens between two people, it’s certainly possible for artwork sharing the same space to suggest a dialogue. That’s the premise of the “Conversation” series of two-person shows at the Penland Gallery. This year’s entry is titled Conversation|What Remains, and it features work by artists Rachel Meginnes and Kelly O’Briant. Meginnes works primarily in textiles and O’Briant in ceramics, but neither of them limit their work to traditional materials. The exhibition runs from October 3 through November 19 with a reception on Saturday, October 7 from 4:30 - 6:30 PM. 

Rachel Meginnes is a former Penland resident artist who creates striking and soulful artwork from found textiles combined with various materials and processes. The pieces in this exhibition all began as vintage quilts—some were made from the quilt top while many were created from the compressed and stitched batting that’s inside the quilt. Meginnes works on these surfaces with paint, gold leaf, image transfers, stitching, sanding, and other materials and techniques to make pieces that suggest abstract paintings but retain traces of the patterning, colors, and wear patterns of the original quilt. She transforms these old, discarded textiles into compelling objects that evoke memory, loss, and the past. 

Although Kelly O’Briant’s work is rooted in her experience as a maker of functional pottery, she has been creating complex forms and installations that incorporate references to functional objects. Central to this show is her piece All the Good Things, in which dozens of gold-lustered porcelain bowls containing porcelain seed forms sit on porcelain objects that resemble concrete blocks. O’Briant says that the seeds represent her migratory life and the generosity of the people she has encountered along the way. Another series traps familiar pottery forms in blocks of resin while a third is a group of small porcelain houses marked with pressed outlines of household utensils. Like Meginnes’s wall pieces, these objects display their own history. The work of these two artists will fill the Penland Gallery’s main exhibition space, and the hope is that a lively conversation will ensue. 

Also on display, in the Focus Gallery, will be a group of sleek utilitarian objects made from steel by Marc Maiorana. Outside the building is a stone sculpture by Carl Peverall, a monumental steel sculpture by Hoss Haley, and a recently created installation made of manipulated natural materials by Susan Goethel Campbell. The Visitors Center Gallery has an ongoing display of work related to Penland’s history. The Penland Gallery also has work for sale by several hundred artists affiliated with Penland School of Crafts. 

The Penland Gallery and Visitors Center is located at Penland School of Crafts on Conley Ridge Road, just off Penland Road in Mitchell County (near the town of Spruce Pine). It is the first building on your right as you enter the Penland campus. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM and Sunday, Noon-5:00 PM; it is closed on Mondays. 

For more information call 828-765-6211 or visit penland.org/gallery.

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