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2nd Annual Mobiles over Asheville |
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Friday,
Nov. 21, 2008
at Mobilia, 43 Haywood Street in downtown
Asheville
6:30 pm - Artist’s Reception with live
music, food prepared by Zambra, Mela, The Corner Kitchen, Filo
Pastries and Coffee, fine local beer crafted by Asheville’s
newest Brewery - Wedge Brewing Company and wine.
7:30
pm - Live Auction with Auctioneer John Hill
$15 admission -
Advance Tickets + Info: 350-8484
The
mobiles will be exhibited November 4th - November 21st at
Mobilia
Over twenty Asheville artists have stepped beyond
their beloved mediums to create individually-designed mobiles ranging
from an interactive wire, textile, and sound piece designed by
collaborators Receiver and Deceiver & Brooke Priddy to Sandra
Garcia’s medley of colored glass and wood. These fascinating
creations will be offered at a live benefit auction gala on Friday,
November 21st at Mobilia, 43 Haywood St. in downtown Asheville.
Proceeds from the auction will benefit the Black Mountain College
Museum + Arts Center.
In 2007, Mobiles Over Asheville’s
entrée into Asheville’s fundraising circuit, the event
raised over $5,000 to support the Black Mountain College Museum +
Arts Center. Mobiles, suspended in space, turning and spinning with
the currents of the wind, are captivating and elegantly artful
creations. MOBILES over Asheville gives Asheville artists and
residents an opportunity to celebrate this extraordinary art form
more fully.
Rick Melby, Chris Kobler, Hertha Horwitz and Kelly
Prestwood have returned for a second year of expansive expression
with new artists Stina Anderson and Alex Greenwood joining the ranks.
All together there are over twenty participating artists. With a year
to focus on this new medium, the artists are anxious to demonstrate
their second round of unique hanging, twirling, and sensory
stimulating genius.
Mobiles were popularized by the artist
Alexander Calder in the 1920s as an outgrowth of his work with
kinetic toys and wire sculpture. A visit in 1930 with the artist Piet
Mondrian helped him make the shift into abstraction, and the modern
mobile was born. Calder, who died in 1976, went on to have major
museum shows at MOMA and the Whitney Museum and to create many large
sculptures and commissions (mobiles and stabiles), which can be found
worldwide.
Almost 50 years ago, Black Mountain College closed
its doors, yet its recognized importance and impact on world culture
still resonates. The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
offers a glimpse into the spirit of the revolutionary liberal arts
college where learning was based upon a strong sense of community,
free inquiry, creativity and experimental vision.
MOBILES
over Asheville participating artists: 
Stina Anderson + Bobby Haughey
Connie Bostic
Eric Gebhart
Sandra Garcia
Alex Greenwood
Lynne Harty +
Billy Sproul
Michael Hatch
Hertha O. Horwitz
Jeff Kinzel
Chris
Kobler
Rick Melby
Brita Nordgren
Adam Pitman
Kelly Prestwood
Brooke Priddy + Matt Schnable
Caroline Rhyne
Mark Schweitzer
Matt Waldrop + Jennifer Brock
Richmond Smith and the 6 year old
collaborative team of Annie Madox, Ella Judson, Lucy Mullen + Sam Fleming
Mobiles over Asheville sponsors: Mobilia
Contemporary Furniture Store, Leslie Shaw Design, Glazer
Architecture, Samsel Architects, Hedy Fischer & Randy Shull,
Laurie Corral, Cynthia Turner & Ed Ayers, Zambra, Mela, The
Corner Kitchen, Filo Pastries and Coffee and The Wedge Brewing
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