Release Date Contact: Gwen Heffner
March 7, 2013 Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea
859-985-5448 gwen.heffner@ky.gov
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BEREA, Ky.
– An exhibit titled “The Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea: Celebrating 10 Years,” opened March 3 at the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea to kick off the center’s celebration of its anniversary year.
The Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea opened in July 2003, and during its first year of operation presented the work of approximately 220 Kentucky visual artists. These founding artist partners were invited to enter works for this exhibit. Works by 52 of the center’s founding artisans are included in this exhibit, which features a wide array of visual art including wooden toys; photography; clothing; functional and sculptural clay; glass; paintings; turned, carved and scrollsawn wood; baskets; folk art; jewelry; wooden boxes; mixed-media works; musical instruments; gourd art; weavings and sculpture.
Each medium represented showcases a myriad of techniques and approaches. Wood artisan
Jack Fifield uses native box elder and walnut trees to create his delicate lathe-turned bowl.
Warren May has constructed a one-of-a-kind Appalachian Mountain dulcimer from coco-bolo wood and inlaid turquoise, Paul Ferrell has turned spalted ambrosia maple into a graceful bowl, and Bob Diehl has created an intricate scrollsawn depiction of “Noah’s Ark.”
Doug and Mary R idley have carved a large cypress knee into their unique painted “Cypress
Knee Santa,” and great whimsy is present in the work of Lonnie and Twyla Money, who have created a unique work in their 3foot tall “Chicken on a Bike.”
Clay is used for whimsical face jugs by Robert Brigl, a long-legged teapot by Suzy Hatcher, an elegantly painted porcelain bowl by Wayne Bates and a spiraling raku sculpture by Wyman
Rice.
Deborah Greene’s sparkling violet and blue jacket heralds the arrival of spring, and Cathy Vigor has created a silk shibori scarf that ripples with rich color. A woven two-toned runner by Martha
Richard showcases pattern weaving, and Lindy Evans has sculpted a miniature of a quilter in her work titled “Yo-Yo Quilter.”

Two-dimensional works in this exhibit include the dramatic digital color photograph by John
Snell titled “Jewel of the Falls,” and a black and white photograph by Bruce Wess that captures a w oodland moment titled “The Road Not Taken.” Mixed media artist Kathleen O’Brien has created a collage of color and texture in her “Garden for Scarlet Tanagers,” and Patricia Ritter has built a third dimension into her multilayered depiction of trees “Reaching Out.”
Glass is dramatically represented by Dan Neil Barnes’ large stained-glass sculpture “Stargate,” and metal works include beautiful bracelets by Ken Gastineau and Rachel Savané.
Participating artists include Ann Adamek, Louisville; Dan Neil Barnes, Lexington; Wayne Bates,
Murray; Larry Blair, Berea; Linda Blumer, Lexington; Robert Brigl, Bowling Green; Marianne
Brown, Lawrenceburg; Susan Brutto, Gravel Switch; Janet Bailey Burch, Crestwood; Cece
Butcher, Somerset; Sally Cammack, Cynthiana; Curran Copeland, Cadiz; Bob Diehl, Louisville;
Kathleen Esser, Lexington; Lindy Evans, Berea; David Farmer, Danville; Paul Ferrell, Crofton;
Jack Fifield, McKee; Ken Gastineau, Berea; Donna Glenn, Deborah Greene, and Suzy Hatcher, of Louisville; Alan Hedgespeth, Henderson; Edith and Pam Hillard, Lebanon; Jana John,
Louisville; Jane Kehrt, Glasgow; Judy Kushner, Lexington; Joy Lait, Louisville; Warren May,
Berea; Lonnie and Twyla Money, East Bernstadt; Lewis Newman, David; Kathleen O’Brien,
Harrodsburg; Virginia Petty, Berea; Marilyn Pfanstiel and Wyman Rice, of Lexington; Martha and Greg Richard, Boston; Doug and Mary Ridley, Paducah; Patricia Ritter, Kettle; Ken
Roberts, Cadiz; Melvin Rowe, Louisville; Rachel Savané, Lexington; Carol Shutt, Hillsboro;
Dinah Smiley, Louisville; Christa Smith, Elizabethtown; John Snell, Jan Treesh, and Cathy
Vigor, of Lexington; David Waltz, Columbia; Mike Ware, Hindman; Bruce Wess, Petersburg;
Thomas R. Williams, Paris; Elizabeth Worley, Lexington.
Color, abstraction, symbolism, innovation, realism and whimsy can all be found in this colorful exhibition, a fitting visual celebration of the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea’s 10 years of showcasing Kentucky’s talented artisans. The exhibit will be on display through Aug. 24.
Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea is located at 200 Artisan Way, just off Interstate 75 at Berea
Exit 77. The center’s exhibits, shopping and travel information areas are open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., with the cafe open from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is free.
The center currently features works by more than 650 artisans from 100 counties across the
Commonwealth. For information about the center’s events call 859-985-5448, go to the center’s website at www.kentuckyartisancenter.ky.gov
. Visit us on Facebook to see images of this exhibit at www.facebook.com/kentucky.artisan.center
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The Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea is an agency in the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage
Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Photos left to right:
“Tea and Horses” by David Waltz; “Garden for Scarlet Tanagers” by Kathleen O’Brien;
“Stargate” by Dan Neil Barnes; “Jewel of the Falls” by John Snell, are all part of the exhibit, “The Kentucky Artisan
Center at Berea: Celebrating 10 Years.”