April 27 – June 25, 2016 | Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery Many of Arrowmont’s staff members are makers, craftspeople, and artists themselves. While a background in art-making is not a requirement for a position at Arrowmont, it is usually a passion for art and craft that motivates people to seek out employment at the school. If not a... Read More

Materialities: Contemporary Textile Arts, the Surface Design Association’s 1st International Juried Members’ Exhibition. The exhibit will be on view August 29 – October 31, 2015. The exhibit showcases the work of 67 artists, their work spanning a wide range of textile media, subject matter and presentations. Selected artists are from the US, Canada, Hungary, Iceland, France, Germany, Norway... Read More

Pieces of the Whole, Selections from Arrowmont’s Permanent Collection will be on exhibit in the Sandra J. Blain Gallery from November 7, 2015 through January 8th, 2016. Whether for functionality of the piece, to communicate ideas, or for aesthetic power, the artists highlighted in this exhibit have utilized “the multiple” in innovative ways. Many of... Read More

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is pleased to announce the national juried exhibition Light of the Moon.  Juried by Namita Gupta Wiggers, director and chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Craft|PNCA, in Portland, Oregon, the exhibition is a midwinter celebration of contemporary arts and crafts.  Fifty-two works by forty-one artists will be on display... Read More

August 30 – November 8, 2014 | Sandra J. Blain Galleries On view in the Sandra J. Blain Galleries the Figurative Association: The Human Form exhibition brings together selected presenting, established artists alongside a group of emerging artists whose main focus is the human form and all its variety. The presenting artists were chosen because of their... Read More

October 1 – 31, 2014 | Loggia Gallery Making things by hand has always been part of the way of life for those living in the Appalachian Mountains. In Gatlinburg, Tennessee this holds true for those who have always lived here, especially during the Industrial Revolution when the area was still quite isolated. These strong-willed... Read More

Festoon, a solo exhibition by artist Kimberly Winkle, is on display in Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery May 22 – July 3, 2015, and features expressive woodworking by artist and professor, Kimberly Winkle. Kimberly Winkle uses hardwood to create unique forms based on traditional wooden utilitarian objects, and then activates the surfaces with paint and graphite with... Read More

Time, a collaborative exhibit by Blair Clemo and Jason Hackett is on display in the Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery from September 11 through November 7, 2015. The exhibit showcases an array of utilitarian and sculptural ceramic works measuring time through developed surfaces, symbolic image, and historic and geologic form. Physical characteristics of the works reflect time by... Read More

The 66th Annual Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage’s Featured Artist: Nelson Ziegler, is a solo exhibition by regional artist Nelson Ziegler. The exhibit showcases Ziegler’s oil paintings depicting landscapes and familiar locations within the Great Smoky Mountains and wood turned vessels. His painting, Roaring Fork, is featured on the cover of the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage brochure and their annual T-shirt. The... Read More

Not to Scale: 2015 – 2016 Arrowmont Artists-in-Residence Found on maps, diagrams and illustrations, the term not to scale signifies that the information presented is not objectively accurate; it is a representation of something larger. Applied to this exhibition of work, the phrase simultaneously contextualizes and expands the objects, implying that there is more than... Read More