LANDSCAPE AS ART, ART AS LANDSCAPE

A seminar for those interested in landscape painting or design

Cooper, Deciduous Forest
Rationale
This series of presentations, for artists and/or gardeners, will answer the following questions
Workshop Leaders
Ray Cooper is a Brevard resident and a painter who has exhibited in America, Europe and Africa. He is also a landscape artist, and has been renovating the Doan Ogden gardens at historic St. Mary's Episcopal (Asheville, NC), where his work has won a Quality Forward award. He is currently renovating one of the gardens at Connemara, the Carl Sandburg National Landmark.

Mark West holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is professor of mass communication at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He has published five books, and his dissertation won awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and the International Communication Association. He is interested in the nature of the found environment and its relationship to social and psychological states.

Marc Yaxley is a well-known guitarist from Brevard, and is a frequent performer at venues in North Carolina and up and down the east coast. His most recent album with his trio, the "Marc Yaxley Trio," is entitled "Setting the Standards" and was recorded live at the Porter Center at Brevard College. Yaxley is also a music educator, and in addition to private lessons teaches at Carolina Band Supply in Brevard and at Heritage Hall School in Hendersonville, NC.

Schedule All events occur on Saturday, June 17, 2006.

10:00 Ray Cooper Landscaping the garden
11:00 Mark West A social archaeology of landscape as art
12:00 Ray Cooper Landscape as fine art: the personal approach
12:45 Marc Yaxley Lunch with musical performance
2:00 Site visits of area gardens with commentary; critiques of participants' artwork/photos of landscapes (optional)
Directions
From the Fresh Market in Hendersonville (the intersection of Highways 25 and 176), take Spartanburg Highway (Hwy 176) to the first hill. At the Cocula Restaurant, at the light, take a left turn onto Old Spartanburg Highway. Heritage Hall International School is on your right, just after the Farm Bureau and across the street from Mediacom.

Sponsorship
This program is funded in part by a Grassroots Grant from the North Carolina Arts Countil, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the the Arts, and awarded through the Arts Council of Henderson County with funding from Henderson County. The program is also funded by Heritage Hall International School.

To register, please print the following form, and mail it and your registration fee to "Landscape as Art", Box 132, 1004 Old Hendersonville Hwy, Brevard, NC, 28712, or include the following information with your check.
The seminar costs $25 for one person, $40 for two, and includes lunch.

You may also register on the day of the seminar, but please call Heritage Hall International School at 693-6845 two days prior to the event so we will be able to plan lunch.

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Our speakers are eager to address your specific areas of interest, so please be sure to let us know. Also, please let us know if you are interested in hearing a response to your own artwork, or if you'd like to visit area gardens which are being renovated by Ray Cooper, or if you are interested in both activities.

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Thanks for your interest!