Annual Fall Celebration Dinner: October 29, 2011

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!

We are happy to announce that this year's featured artist will be Still Mountain Center co-founder Joy Brown who will speak about her work in clay and the creation and growth of Still Mountain Center. Having recently returned from China, Joy will talk about new projects unfolding that connect her to her family roots.

She is best known for her rounded life-like figures and wall murals in clay and bronze that have evolved over 35 years. Exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, her work embodies a spirit of harmony and joyful optimism with a universal quality that transcends culture, age, gender, and race.

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:

• Ghislaine Mahler, 2010 - Mask artist with 35 years behind her beginning in her native Paris, and continuing in the US with work in masks and custom props for large eheatrical productions such as Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Starlight Express.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Paul Chaleff, ceramic artist/sculptor
• Leslie Parnas, the world renown cello player, with the Tourmaline Quartet
• Christian Sands, child progidy piano jazz player
• Jeff Fuller Trio