Annual Fall Celebration Dinner: November 6, 2010

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Throughout the year Still Mountain Center provides opportunities to bring people together who are committed to the Arts. One of our main events is the Celebration dinner in the fall. There is a magic created from the collaboration of artists, musicians, and people from all walks of life who love art. Join us this fall!

Some of the featured artists and musicians who performed or gave slide presentations about their work at the Still Mountain Center celebration dinners over the years:

• Dan Snow, 2009
  Artist in stone construction, author and teacher, spoke about evolution of his work. His stone constructions have included utilitarian works and sculpture of a purely abstract nature. He is the author of In the Company of Stone and Listening to Stone.
• Toshie & Marico Chigyo, 2008
  Influenced by the women in their big family who sewed and worked with their hands, they have worked in sashiko for over 30 yeras. Sashiko is a traditional Japanese craft originally devised by the wives of farmers and fishermen to patch and increase the warmth of work clothes, featuring decorative patterns of white running stitches on cotton cloth dyed with natural indigo. They will show slides and speak about the evolution of their work, which has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Japan and across the U.S.
• Jacques Kaplan - passionate about art and discovering and nurturing new artists through his famous Paris-New York-Kent Gallery. His business acumen, his knowledge of the art world, his love for art, and his desire to help others transform their lives have made him a beacon of inspiration for others
• Jeff Shapiro, an internationally known ceramic artist whose art form is rooted in the traditional arts of Japan
• The combined Cypress and Nutmeg String Quartets, performing the rarely heard Mendelssohn String Octet - the work that marked the beginning of his composition maturity
• The experimental music of Sons of Another Planet, Greg Olson, Wayne Kirby, Roy Wooten, a group who created its own music and its own innovative instruments. They gave a musicians' clinic and performance.
• A concert on all-clay instruments by Barry Hall's Burnt Earth Ensemble
• Arthur Williams, creator of "MOCA, NY," the Museum of Ceramic Art in New York City
• A slide retrospective by Elizabeth McDonald, an accomplished ceramic sculptor
• A slide retrospective by Janice Gordon, a sculptor and mixed media artist from New York City
• Romig Streeter, ceramic artist, with Aran and Maria Willow, caterers/ organic farmers who grew, prepared and presented the food, working closely with Romig
• John Marshall, drummer, and his jazz group
• Paul Chaleff, ceramic artist/sculptor
• Elizabeth MacDonald, ceramic artist/sculptor
• Leslie Parnas, the world renown cello player, with the Tourmaline Quartet
• Christian Sands, child progidy piano jazz player
• Jeff Fuller Trio

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