Harvey K. Littleton + Friends: A Legacy of Transforming Object, Image & Idea
November 19, 2006 - March 3, 2007
Harvey K. Littleton, of Spruce Pine, North Carolina is a renowned artist and master teacher. Considered a national treasure, Littleton is founder of the contemporary studio glass movement in this country and abroad as well as inventory and progenitor of the versatile vitreographic print making process.
This exhibition is intended to highlight the experimental nature of the
fascinating and versatile vitreographic processes that Littleton and his
colleagues continue to develop - and relates how each Littleton Studios
select artist meets the challenge of the medium. In addition, to offer
a comprehensive interpretation process and to enhance the teaching mission
of the museum as a learning laboratory, the exhibition will include a
selection of Harvey K. Littleton studio glass sculpture and early ceramic
work. The exhibition will also include a selection of Littleton's important
personal collection of 19-20th century historic and contemporary studio
glass as a vital educational, teaching and research resource providing
for significant interpretation of the Littleton legacy.
A primary purpose of the exhibition is to focus on the artist as inventor, offering unique ingenuity, experimental concepts, new media and the creative process, as a bridge to critical thinking and experiential learning across disciplines. As a teaching resource, the museum will focus not only on the provocative power of the object and the image, but also the idea, from concept to manifestation, in all its varied forms.
Each Littleton Studio visiting artist selected will have a representative vitreograph included, as well as a work in their considered principal medium; e.g., Jim Tanner (ceramics/bronze); Warrington Colescott (prints/watercolor); Clarence Morgan (painting); Dale Chihuly (glass); Claire Van Vliet (prints); Sergei Isupov (sculpture); Karen Kunc (prints); Herb Jackson (prints); Judith O'Rourke (prints); Erwin Eisch (glass); Italo Scanga (sculpture); and others.
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