Gatlinburg, TN's Arrowmont Showcases Creations by its Artists-in-Residence

The Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is featuring the works of its 1996-97 Artists-in-Residence through May 15 in the Sandra J. Blain Gallery. The show includes bodies of work by Sondra Dorn, textiles; Jill Oberman, sculpture; Andy Shaw, pottery; and Clark Walker, jewelry.

The Artists-in-Residence program is designed to give pre-professional, self-directed artists time and space to develop a major body of work in a creative community of students and visiting faculty. Four to five artists are selected annually to participate in the 11-month program.

Each artist lives on the Arrowmont campus in a shared home and works in a private studio in the new resident artist studio complex. Residents provide their own food and materials. In addition to pursuing their own work, residents are required to work for Arrowmont eight hours per week in a variety of assignments.

The Arrowmont campus is located on seventy acres of wooded hillside, providing a place where students can immerse themselves in an atmosphere of inspiration and creativity.

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is an internationally known visual arts complex located three minutes from the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in east Tennessee. The Sandra J. Blain Gallery is open year-round to the public, 8:30-4:30, Monday-Saturday.

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