The museum’s studio artist program is open to visual artists working in all media. While taking advantage of large, well-lit studios, artists provide opportunities for school and public audiences to observe art in process.
3rd Floor Studios
Kyle Buckland and Jennifer Counts-Buckland
Studio Artists Kyle Buckland and Jennifer Counts-Buckland are located on the third floor landing.
Using any and all artistic media to express her talents, Jennifer Counts-Buckland is forging her own path as a working artist in the region. Whether it’s painting, mixed media, photography, sculpture, or jewelry, her vision is never compromised. You can find her work in local shops and galleries around the area or you can check it out online at: www.jcountsfineart.blogspot.com and http://www.grassrootsjewelry.blogspot.com/
Kyle Buckland is a plein air landscape painter. His understanding of the complex philosophies regarding impressionism and his ability to capture sunlight and colored atmosphere is uncanny for an artist of his age.
Come visit Kyle and Jennifer and watch them work their artistic magic.
Val Lyle
Val Lyle received her BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design with emphasis on sculpture and printmaking, and her MFA from East Tennessee State University with emphasis on ceramic sculpture. Lyle returned to Appalachia after many years creating and exhibiting art in New York City. As an Adjunct Professor of Art and Lecturer for the past 12 years, she continues to engage in social activism and promoting the arts. Lyle’s family has been in this area since the mid-1700’s.
Val Lyle’s current traveling body of work “Sanctuary” will be in its eighth incarnation at The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts from September 2011 to 2012. Each exhibition includes major new works designed especially for the environment it is displayed in. The National Endowment for the Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission partially funded The Turchin Exhibition and a catalog for the project titled “These Truths: The Brutal Tenderness of Appalachia.” Lyle is in museum, corporate, and private collections, and has public sculpture currently installed in bronze, ceramics, and fiber.
Website: http://vglyle.com/
Blog: http://sweatandvisions.blogspot.com/
Email: Val@ValLyle.com
1st Floor Clay Studio
Cecelia Pippin
Studio artist Cecelia Pippin has been an art educator at William King Museum in the youth and adult programs since 1999. She also is an adjunct faculty member at Virginia Intermont College, in the Evening and Weekend College, where she teaches prospective elementary school teachers how to use art in the regular classroom.
Come wander through the clay studio and let your imagination run away with the possibilities.
In addition to teaching at Virginia Intermont College, Cecelia also teaches classes at William King Museum. For a full listing of classes, please visit the classes page under the learn tab.
1st Floor Photography Studio
Erika McClintock
Studio artist Erika McClintock received her first undergraduate degree in Media Studies with an emphasis in Photography from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1997. She received her second BA in Media Communications from the University of Pittsburgh in 2010.
McClintock is currently working on two ongoing series of photographs. The first is a series of environmental portraits titled Family Portraits. The second series has focused on McClintock’s exploration of her new home – specifically East Tennessee, and in much broader terms, the South in general. Born, raised and educated in the Midwest and having spent the previous 7 years in Pittsburgh, PA – McClintock’s understanding of the South was informed primarily through literature, photography and media.
Examples of her work can be viewed at http://erikamcclintock.tumblr.com/.
