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Haywood County Arts Councilcontinued from Page 16connect her to the DIVINE and are donewhen she “gets out of the way” and allowsthe spirit to flow through her.Dawn Behling earned her BFA inTextile Design from East Carolina University,where she also discovered her loveof screen printing and dyeing on variousfibers. Using her sense of color and visualtexture, Behling created a way of combiningher textile sensibilities and love ofprinting and painting into a unique artisticstyle.Behling continued to explore thisunique artistic vision by earning a MFA atWestern Carolina University. “I love color,texture, and nature. My creative researchcurrently explores the use of organic,abstract images that are taken from natureand recreated in two-dimensional, mixedmedia work. I love to take photographsout in nature; I collect these images dozensof times in one piece so they becomeunrecognizable, abstract designs. I focuson small areas of nature and image themas their own micro-environments. I createmy own interpretation of these environmentsby working with visual textureand repeated pattern in a painterly way,primarily on paper and stretched canvas,however, my work includes a wide rangeof mediums, from wearable scarves tomixed-media collage pieces.”Nancy Blevins is a Haywood Countynative who learned silk dye painting fromBelgian artist, Judith Hue, 35 years ago.This technique is used for clothing, wallhangings, and framed art. She is a longtime member of the Blue Ridge WatermediaSociety; her mediums includesilk dye painting, watercolor, and mixedmedia. Her watercolor education includesworkshops with Pat Weaver, Sue Archer,Harry Thompson, Fred Graff, and SonyaTerpening.Blevins has exhibited at the BiltmoreEstate, Studio D, Leapin’ Frog Gallery,Work by Dawn BehlingWest Queen Studio, and in local streetfairs. While striving for expressive color,Blevins demonstrates that the techniquesused in silk painting and watercolor areinterchangeable and complement each artpiece.Although, the term “mixed media”has only been around since the early 20thCentury, this form of art has been usedsince the 1400s with the application ofgold leaf to paintings and other various artforms. Haywood County Arts Council’sGallery 86 exhibition, Nature Inspired,celebrates the form of mixed media usedto express the influence of nature on itscreator.The mission of the Haywood CountyArts Council is to build partnerships thatpromote art and artists, explore new culturalopportunities, and preserve mountainartistic heritage. This project was supportedby the NC Arts Council, a divisionof the Department of Cultural Resources.For further information check our NCInstitutional Gallery listings, call the ArtsCouncil at 828/452-0593 or visit (www.haywoodarts.org) or (www.facebook.com/haywoodarts).Black Mountain Center for the Arts inBlack Mountain, NC, Offers ExhibitionFocused on Black Mountain CollegeThe Black Mountain Center for theArts in Black Mountain, NC, will presentThe Arts at Black Mountain College, onview in the Center’s Upper Gallery, fromJuly 1 - 26, 2013. A reception will be heldon July 7, from 2-4pm.Based in Black Mountain from 1933-56, Black Mountain College continues tohold sway as a mecca for academics andartists from all over the world. Curated byBMCA Executive Director Gale Jacksonin collaboration with the Black MountainCollege Museum + Arts Center and theNC Western Regional Archives, bothlocated in Asheville, NC, this exhibitfocuses on the school that lived at nearbyLake Eden and brought its influence intomany of the world’s realms of visual art,architecture, dance, music, clay, film,literature, poetry and more.Pieces in the exhibit include paintings,mixed media, and photography, as well asarchival documents about the famous avantgarde college. Works by former studentsand faculty will also include photos ofevents that took place and people who werethere. Among them: A painting by Ati GropiusJohansen, daughter of Walter Gropius,Bauhaus architect who created the originaldesigns for Black Mountain College campus,and who herself was later a graduatestudent under her father’s colleague, JosefAlbers. Black and white photographs offaculty members Charles Olson and LouHarrison by student Jonathan Williams.Lithographs by Emerson Woelffer and RobertRauschenberg. An etching by GwendolynKnight Lawrence. Pieces that tell thestory of what happened in the short span oftwo decades that has impacted the world ofthe arts and academia now for more thanseventy years, and as the foundation ofmodernism, far into the future.Originally housed at the YMCA BlueRidge Assembly, the school opened its owncampus on the opposite side of US Highway70 in 1941, now the site of a privateK-8 school and a boy’s summer camp. Numerousbooks and articles have been writtenabout the college, and a documentaryfilm, “Fully Awake,” premiered in 2008.Work by Ati GropiWhen Professor John Andrews Rice wasfired by the president of Rollins College(FL), an ambitious group of that school’sfaculty determined to start a new college.They chose to locate in the mountains ofwestern NC. Along with those faculty members,a group of European academics andartists who were fleeing the instability of thecontinent just prior to World War II cameto the US and settled into teaching at BlackMountain College – among them, Josef andAnnie Albers.“The new school, according to the firstcatalog, was founded ‘in order to providea place where free use might be made oftested and proved methods of education andnew methods tried in a purely experimentalspirit. . .’. It was one of the first schoolsin the nation to create an educational planembodying the principles of progressiveeducation. One of the major tenets of theschool’s plan was to elevate the fine arts tofull curricular status.“Owing partly to the imbalance betweenthe arts and sciences, Black Mountaincontinued on Page 18Table of ContentsTurtle Island PotteryHandmade pottery byMaggie & FreemanJonesOld Fort ShowroomOpen MostSaturdaysCall 828-669-2713for an appointmentShowroom: 828-337-09922782 Bat Cave RoadOld Fort, NC 28762www.turtleislandpottery.comJoin us for this 4 th annualphotography weekend.September 12 – 15, Montreat, NCPhoto Contest entries due by August 12!For information and to register:www.wncfotofest.comVisitCarolina Artson FacebookGo to this link and“like” us!Carolina Arts, July 2013 - Page 17