Cumberland Valley TACA

Scott Hodes is co-president of CV-TACA along with Brenda Stein.  He serves on the fair show committee for TACA.  Scott has worked for 22 years in hot glass:  casting, sculpting, and blowing as well as working with steel, He was a "master" for the 2009-2010 Tennessee Master Craft Artist/ Apprentice Program Best contact: (615) 804-3424  (cell). Hit or miss at (chaosglass@bellsouth.net,

Brenda Stein is co-president of CV-TACA along with Scott Hodes. She has been a TACA member since 2000. She was introduced to TACA by her mentor, the late Charles Alvis.  She has demonstrated at various venues, shown at the fairs, and served most recently as Vice President of our chapter.
Brenda is a woodturner and sculptor who is fascinated by art, form, and material. She combines the beauty of the individual characteristics of our Tennessee woods with a strong form to make things that are pleasing to the eye and good for the soul.  She looks forward to meeting you.  She wants to learning more about you, what you're making, how, and why.
Contact Brenda at 615.662.6388 or email: brendastein@bellsouth.net

Donna Rizzo serves as Vice President and is in charge of the phone tree. She has demonstrated for TACA in the Empty Bowls and shown at TACA fairs. Her "Alice Goes Round" Clay carousel was chosen for the Best of TN arts and crafts 2010 Biennial Show. Contact her at 615-226-9629. Email: rizzoraku@gmail.com

In 2011, CV-TACA will have two people sharing secretarial duties and producing the newsletter.
Sheila Downs works with Alejandro Amezcua and they have been members of TACA since 2002. Sheila has served as CV-TACA secretary for the past 3 years. Her email is silverlark@aol.com.
Jan Quarles Is a new TACA member and a fiber artist with a small dyeing, spinning and felting business, Daily Fibers.  She will work on the newsletter. Reach her a t 615-890-9025 or jquarles@mtsu.edu.

Bill Heim will serve as Treasurer. Bill has done almost every job for our TACA chapter and has been a member for at least 17 years.  He been on the TACA Board for 4 years as Chapter Rep and will be Member at Large this year. He and his wife, Judy, who works as our Webmaster, own Red Oak Pottery. Email them at redoaktn@dtccom.net

In other Chapter news…
KUDOS to Marc Barr, Martha Christian, Ramsey Hall, Sylvia Hyman, John Jordan, Laura McWhorter, Craig Nutt, Donna Rizzo and all other TACA members statewide who were selected for the 2010 Biennial exhibit! 

Events coming up:
33rd Annual TACA Spring Craft Fair!
Centennial Park, Nashville, TN
May 6th, 7th. & 8th, 2011
Friday & Saturday, 10am-6pm;
Sunday, 10am-5pm
(Application deadline Feburary 15)

 
Getting to know each other…

With this issue, CV-TACA will be profiling a TACA artist. Interested in being profiled? Contact Jan Quarles at jquarles@mtsu.

 Emily Tuttle makes multi-color collagraph prints on handmade paper. In the collagraph technique, the printing plate is made from a variety of everyday materials and it is printed on an etching press. Emily carries on the tradition of her family and many others of who made  "something" from nothing. The women in her family made beautiful quilts from scraps and her father grew a bountiful garden from seed. She gathers matboard scraps and textured materials to make printing plates and makes handmade paper from iris leaves and other plants growing in her yard.  She started this approach after a workshop at Arrowmont on "Printmaking on Handmade Paper" in 1989 but she was an art teacher for 15 years. An Arrowmont workstudy summer renewed her passion as an artist and she had her first booth in 1991. Now, her future includes making much more art. Emily, like many artists, says many of her challenges today are marketing and computer- related. But she also centers herself in striving to make new work that is both creative and expresses her inner feelings.

Speaking of art:

Williamson County's 2011 "ART:  UP CLOSE & PERSONAL" cosponsored by O'More College of Design and the Williamson County Public Library, is a great series and many speakers are CV-TACA members. Don’t miss these great lecturers! 

ART:  UP CLOSE & PERSONAL
Monday, February 7  James Threalkill, painter.  6 p.m.
Monday, March 14 Mark Ivie, sword choreographer, sculptor, illustrator and painter. 6 p.m.
Monday, April 11 Shelley Snow, watercolorist. 6 p.m.
Monday, May 9 Bob Jones, illustrator, 6 p.m.
Monday, August 8 Alan Daigre, woodworker, 6 p.m
Monday, September 12 Deborah Gall, painter, 6 p.m.
Monday, October 10 Marcia Billig, public sculptor, 6 p.m.
Monday, November 14 Donna Rizzo, dancer and ceramicist, 6 p.m.

With the exception of February, the series runs the 2nd Monday of the selected months.  It is the 1st Monday in February, as the 2nd is a holiday, and the library is closed.  The lectures are held in the main branch of the Williamson County Public Library on Columbia Pike in downtown Franklin, starting at 6 p.m. with a PowerPoint presentation followed by Q&A, and light refreshments are served, it is free and open to the public.