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Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
Appalachian State University
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
PO Box 32139
Boone, NC 28608-2139
828/262-3017 (ph) 828/262-7546 (fax)
August 12, 2011
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For More Information Contact: Megan Stage, 828-262-6084 ext 105 or stageme@appstate.edu
or the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, 828-262-3017
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Turchin Center for the Visual Arts Announces
Fall Exhibition Celebration on September 2, 2011
Boone, NC – Appalachian State University’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts is bringing in the fall
season with their Fall Exhibition Celebration on Friday, September 2, 2011 as part of Downtown
Boone’s First Friday Art Crawl. From 7-9 p.m., the Turchin Center will be open for all visitors to come
and celebrate the current exhibitions on display, meet some of the artists, listen to live music by John T.
Woodall and enjoy a refreshing beverage from the cash bar. A special “Donors Only” preview will be
held prior to the reception from 6-7 p.m.
The new exhibitions being celebrated on September 2 are Sanctuary: Val Lyle, John Scarlata: Living
in the Light: A Retrospective & Other Works and Northmost: R. Martin Stamat. Sanctuary is in the
center’s Mayer Gallery and Living in the Light: A Retrospective & Other Works will be featured in
Galleries A & B in the West Wing. Both exhibitions will be on display until January 21, 2012.
Northmost will be displayed in the Catwalk Community Gallery, East Wing until October 29, 2011
while the Halpert Biennial ’11 in the Main Gallery, East Wing and Selections: Works from the Turchin
Center Permanent Collection in the Mezzanine Gallery, East Wing will continue to be on display
through December 3, 2011.
Val Lyle’s current traveling exhibition, Sanctuary, continues her exploration of what it means to
be a human being in Appalachia. This installation will be in its eighth incarnation of the exhibition
and Lyle will create major new work designed specifically for the environment that the work is
displayed within. Val Lyle received her BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design with emphasis
on sculpture and printmaking, and her MFA from East Tennessee State University with emphasis
on ceramic sculpture. A portion of this project was funded by a grant from the Tennessee Arts
Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Organized by the family, friends and colleagues of beloved Appalachian State Photography
Professor, John Scarlata (1949-2010), Living in the Light: A Retrospective & Other Works will
feature works by the Southern photographer who designed this exhibition in partnership with The
Wellington B. Gray Gallery at East Carolina University in early 2010. A native of Long Island, New
York, Scarlata studied photography at Brooks Institute of Photography and received his MFA from
the California Institute of the Arts in 1976. He held teaching positions at UNC-Charlotte, Penland
School of Crafts, Virginia Intermont College and served as chair of the photography program in the
Technology Department at Appalachian State University.
Martin Stamat’s work in Northmost concentrates on the role of nature, microcosms and found
objects that took hold of his imagination as a child that would otherwise go unnoticed. The
subjects present in Stamat’s work span from textures and found objects to cultures and civic
concepts. A native of the piedmont area of North Carolina, Stamat studied sculpture, photography
and anthropology at the Australian National University, the University of New Mexico at Taos and
Appalachian State University. He currently lives and works in Boone, NC.
More information on continuing exhibitions, Halpert Biennial ’11 and Selections: Works from the
Turchin Center Permanent Collection can be found by visiting www.tcva.org.
About the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts presents exhibition, education and collection programs that
support Appalachian State University’s role as a key regional educational, cultural and economic
resource.
The Turchin Center is located at 423 West King St., in Boone. Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Tues.Thurs. and Saturday, and Noon-8 p.m., Friday. The Center is closed Sunday and Monday, and
observes all university holidays. There is no admission charge, although donations are gratefully
accepted.
For additional details about the Turchin Center, becoming a donor, the upcoming exhibitions, to be
added to the mailing list or to schedule a tour, please call (828) 262-3017 or visit www.tcva.org.
You can also follow the Turchin Center on Facebook and Twitter @TurchinCenter.
Sponsors
The Turchin Center receives critical support from a group of outstanding media sponsors that are
dedicated to promoting the arts in our region, including: The Mountain Times, Watauga Democrat, the
High Country Press, the Winston-Salem Journal, WNC Magazine, Charter Media, Mountain Television
Network, Mix 102.3, Oldies 100.7, WFDD 88.5, WDAV 89.9, WETS 89.5 and WASURocks 90.5FM.
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