Discover Your Creative Self at NC State's Crafts Center

This article appeared in the Arts NC State Students Achieve newsletter, which was distributed in the spring of 2001.

The Crafts Center at NC State has been enriching the lives of the community for more than forty years. Students, faculty and the general public enjoy a myriad of educational experiences ina borad range of craft disciplines. Further exploration for the experienced artist in wood, clay, photography, astronomical optics, and lapidary can be gained through independent studio use. Opportunities abound fo rnovies and exprets alike through involvement with several crafts guilds that call The Crafts Center home. The Triangle Wood Turner's Association, the Triangle Potter's Guild, the Old North State Knitters, the Triangle Basket Weavers, and the Triangle ARt Quilters all meet once each month at The Crafts Center and welcome visitors to attend their meetings, most of which are comprised of a special rpesentation or demonstration. Give The Crafts Center a call or check the website at www.ncsu.edu/crafts to obtain meeting schedules.

The Crafts Center Gallery further enhances the educational nature of the University by hosting between five and seven cutting-edge craft exhibitions each year. The Spring 2001 semester will feature presentations by the Triangle Art Quilters, The Crafts Center's own studio members, and the sixth annual exhibition of art from The Windhover, NC State's literary and art publication. Meet the artists and discuss their work while enjoying refreshments at our artist's receptions for each exhibition.

Registration for spring 2001 classes and workshops is currently underway; in fact some classes may already be filled! Classes are offered on many levels in clay, book arts, fibers, art on paper, flat glass, enameling and lapidary, telescope mirror making, photography, and woodworking. Classes are staggered throughout the semester and a second wave of offerings will begin in March. For detailed information about the entire schedule, call The Crafts Center at 919-515-2457 or go online to www.ncsu.edu/crafts to see what's available. Registration for the summer program should begin in early May, with pottery classes often filling in a day or two. The fact that The Crafts Center's cadre of instructors all teach what they do personally love to do, coupled with small class sizes, guarantee the perfect student/teacher ratio for each class, whether it be beginning pottery, advanced water color, painting, or making garden furniture. Students of all ages can find a home for their creative spirit at The Crafts Center.