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Washi Patterns
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"Double White" Bowl
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"Triplets" Bowl
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Amber Carved Teapot and Bead
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Carved Green Teapot
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Double Cuts
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Gwen Heffner
Craft - Clay
Irvine, KY
Biography
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General Services:
Freelance Writing, Commissioned Work, Workshops, Art Criticism, Panelist (Peer Review)
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Grade Level: College
Type of Experience and/or Past Schools and School Districts: Workshops and Lectures: "Approaching Galleries" & "The Artist's Self Critique" workshops-Dairy Barn. 2004 "Into White - Carving Porcelain" - Workshop & Lecture, Centre College. "Life After Graduate School"- Lecture, Ohio University. 2002 Porcelain workshops, 1986-1996 - John C. Campbell Folk School Prestonsburg Community College & Floyd County Schools.
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Independent Curator for such venues as The Ohio Craft Museum, The Asheville Art Museum, Southern Highland Craft Guild, Appalachian Center for Crafts, and Lexington Art League. Five Woman Public Mural -"Patterns of Culture" in Berea, KY. Mural painted on the side of the headquarters of MACED in Berea, Kentucky, 2000
Facilitator - Kentucky Arts Council Community Forums- 2002 Arts Consultant with "Arts Kentucky" - Kentucky Peer Advisory Network
Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea - PR/Programming/Curator of Exhibits - (2003 - present) |
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"Al Smith Fellowship" - Kentucky Arts Council
"Early Times Scholarship" - Kentucky Museum of Arts & Design
"Corsaw Collection" -International Ceramics Museum at Alfred, NY
"Ceramics Monthly Magazine" - permanent collection
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