** Due to severe weather, this event is canceled **
Please join HCCC in the Community Room for a talk by featured exhibition artist, Annie Evelyn. Evelyn’s solo exhibition, Multiple Impressions, closes the same day.
About the Artist
Annie Evelyn currently lives in Penland, North Carolina, where she is an artist-in-residence at the Penland School of Crafts. She received her BFA (1999) and MFA (2007) in furniture design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island. Evelyn has taught at Penland School of Crafts, RISD, Anderson Ranch, Parsons-The New School, and other institutions. She is the 2016 recipient of The John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship, and, in 2011, Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Turning and Furniture Design awarded her a Windgate Furniture Residency.
Evelyn’s work has been featured in American CraftMagazine and in The Independent Design Guide: Products from the New Generation (2009) by Laura Housely, among other publications. She has exhibited her work around the country as well as abroad, including countries such as China, France, Italy, and Spain. Her work has been shown at Arrowmont Gallery, Gatlinburg, TN; Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, Asheville, NC; ICFF, New York, NY; Colton Gallery, New Orleans, LA; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; and Kip Gallery, Indiana, PA.
