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Creator Square Craft Business Thursday Feb 22
February 22, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Craft Business Thursday @ Creator Square
Hosted at the Community Arts Center of Cambria County
The Community Arts Center of Cambria County will be hosting the fourth Craft Business Thursday @ Creator Square on Thursday, February 22nd from 6:00-8:00pm at the Community Arts Center’s Goldhaber-Fend Fine Arts Center gallery. The CBT@ Creator Square is a series of monthly lectures featuring a special artist guest speaker. This month’s lecture will include entertainment by local acoustic musician, along with wine, beer, and refreshments. KIM FOX, an artist in the medium of tins and salvaged wood, as well as art teacher, designer and illustrator, will be the fourth speaker in the Creator Square, Craft Business Thursday Speaker Series.
The goals of this series for Craft Business Thursdays @ Creator Square are to: update the community on Creator Square’s progress in anticipation of the building’s renovation and program rollout in 2018-19; discuss concepts like ‘craft business,’ ‘makers movement,’ and entrepreneurialism; feature a talented and accomplished craft business person / maker during each evening’s lecture / workshop.
KIM FOX:
Kim Fox was born in New Wilmington, PA and raised in Stahlstown, PA, a rural area east of Pittsburgh. She currently resides in Mt. Lebanon, PA, a “streetcar suburb” of Pittsburgh. She earned her BFA in Printmaking from the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, in 1994. Her childhood in rural Western Pennsylvania informs her aesthetic, subject matter and choice of materials. She has been making art and showing her work for sixteen years – beginning with more traditional painting and collage when she lived in Florida. After moving back to Pennsylvania and reclaiming her roots, she started to explore the regional arts and crafts with a more rural bent. Six years ago she began working with vintage tins and salvaged wood and patchworking the tin in a way that felt like quilting. Currently, she is researching traditional quilting and the stories behind the patterns. Her tin quilts have been shown in galleries in Pittsburgh, Providence, RI, and Brooklyn, NY. In addition to making her tin quilts, Fox is an itinerant art teacher in regional schools and also is a designer and illustrator. When she’s not making or teaching she’s with her husband and son, their three dogs, a cat, five chickens, and a milk snake. Probably around a fire.
