5pm to 8pm
June 5th
Art Night
The T.E.M.P. Gallery The Crossroads Arts Alliance
Transitory Episodic Momentary Provisional
The T.E.M.P. Gallery Georgine Clarke Building
Crossroads Arts Alliance The Crossroads Arts Alliance of the Town of Gordo
is an eclectic and multi-generational group of artists and craftspeople who live and work in and around Gordo, AL (population 1,600), therefore the use of the word crossroads in our name. Our work represents a range of art and artistic craft, from photography, to letterpress printing, to metal work and mosaics. We are actively dedicated to Gordo's growth as a center for art. Our mission is to increase art awareness and education in Pickens County, while enhancing positive partnerships and economic and cultural development.
Glenn House, Sr., former co-chair of CAA, retired after 13 years as a commercial artist in Tuscaloosa and 23 years at the University of Alabama, where he assisted in developing the acclaimed Book Arts Program in the College of Communication and Information Sciences. Assistant professor emeritus House established the program’s paper mill and made the discovery that the plant used in Japan for making their exquisite Kozo paper also grows abundantly in Gordo and West Alabama. House is perhaps best known for designing Tuscaloosa’s famous Moon Winx sign.
Sherri Warner, one of Ma’Cile’s grandchildren working to establish the new Ma’Cile’s Museum of Miscellanea, works in media ranging from book art to concrete, and is currently fascinated with the possibilities of paper mache. She currently teaches art classes at the Gordo Elementary School.
Rhys Greene, mosaic artist and photographer, works from her rural studio in Pickens County. Recent mosaic projects can be seen throughout the Town of Gordo. These include "Bloom Where You Are Planted" benches, "100 Lenses" mosaic camera, and a tiled quilt mosaic at Gordo Elementary School. She has created numerous religious themed mosaics as a gift to St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Fayette, AL. The iconic Kentuck Tree mosaic in Historic Northport was a collaborative project with Linda Munoz. Rhys and Linda are now working on a commissioned mosaic for the new Caring Days facility in Tuscaloosa. Rhys' photos have been purchased for display at the DCH Cancer Treatment Center in Tuscaloosa.
Missy Miles, Gourd Artist and Muralist, works from her studio/gallery (Organic Vessels) in Hamilton, Alabama. Her designs on gourds range from the whimsy to the sublime. Missy started her gourd journey in 2005 and has since won numerous awards from juried shows. In 2008 and 2009 she was awarded the title of Alabama Gourd Queen. Most recently she was awarded Artist Choice at the Jerry Brown Art Festival for the fifth year in a row. Missy is a member of the American Gourd Society, Alabama Gourd Society, Northwest Alabama Arts Council, and the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce. Her mural work can be seen in Marion, Fayette, Lamar counties, and in Pickens County on the side of Mayor Craig Patterson’s Starboard Bookstore.
Suzanne Gray is a letterpress printer, bookbinder, and mixed media artist. She is a glitter queen and a mad cartoonist by night. Her education includes the Bachelor of Visual Arts from Auburn University and the Master of Fine Arts in Book Arts from The University of Alabama. She participates in printing activities at Studio 150 in Gordo. She is, since 1995, Proprietor of Major Tiara Press and Studio, a limited-edition letterpress publisher of southern writers and illustrators and producer of paintings, drawings and mixed media artwork. In 2010, she founded Preacher Street Press, a breakout press for the new decade.
Kathleen Fetters, a photographer who is currently making black and white handcolored photographs colored with pencils, oil pastels, and acrylic paints.. She is also a printer who once thought she would be the last and worst printing student of Glenn House, Sr. She and Glenn are proprietors of the 150 printing studio in Gordo, Alabama, where all visitors are welcome each and every Sunday from 1 p.m. until everyone is exhausted with printing and visitation.
Sandee House, youngest daughter of Gail and Gail House of Gordo is the granddaughter of the late Ma’Cile and Daddy Norman House and niece of Glenn House, Sr. Along with sisters Sherri and Sharon, she is working to resurrect a version of Ma’Cille’s Museum of Miscellanea, to be opened in downtown Gordo, Alabama. Sandee enjoys working in various media from traditional clay to glass, and began working with polymer clay in March 2012. Sandee resides in Atlanta, GA.
Sharon Greenwood, sister to Sandee and Sherri, is another co-founder of the new Ma’Cile’s Museum of Miscellanea. Creating in multiple media – from paint to cuisine to kids – she is now sculpting in oven-bake clay.
Jessica Peterson, a letterpress printer and book artist, is the recipient of CAA’s Book Arts Residency for 2009 / 2010. She has received funding from the Alabama State Council on the Arts for work on an artist’s book about Ma’Cille’s Museum of Miscellanea. Her previous prize-winning book projects unearth and highlight under-appreciated local histories, such as the effect of Hurricane Katrina on Biloxi, MS, and a 1969 race riot in Rochester, NY. She has been a faculty member at Mississippi University for Women, Purchase College, The University of Bridgeport, and teaches in the highly acclaimed University of Alabama MFA Book Arts Program. She operates The Southern Letterpress and Job Printing in downtown Northport, Alabama.
Frank Williams, a ceramic artist also working in glass, screen-printing and photography. He and his wife live in McShan, AL on a microfarm where they are building a new studio. Craig Patterson, a lover of literature who is content with being a seller of books while experimenting in writing. He has now become student of printing under the tutelage of Professor Glenn House, Sr.
The Kentuck Clay Co-op Featured Artists: Elizabeth Thomas Elizabeth Thomas had her first experience with clay just a few months ago right here at Kentuck Art Center. On December 1, 2013, Thomas joined the Clay Co-op and began working right away. She has been working almost every day since and finds the creative process to be a therapeutic experience. Another perk of working with clay is getting her hands dirty.
Shirley “Hayes” Dobbins Shirley "Hayes" Dobbins is an artist and Tuscaloosa native. She has been creating art in some form since she could hold a crayon. She studied Art at the University of Montevallo and graduated in 2001 with a BFA in Studio Art, concentrating in sculpture. Most recently she has been creating “sculptural jewelry” and hand building pottery sculptures. This summer, she has been teaching young minds about the basics of hand building pottery during the Clay Place children workshops.
Music in the: Courtyard of Wonders
The Infinite Monkey Typing Pool
The Infinite Monkey Typing Pool is a rock ‘n’ roll band with harmonies, melodies and literate leanings, playing songs from standards to Shakespeare to Icelandic pop, with a liberal dose of originals about the reasons not to mix grief with tequila, the sublimity of the Krispy Kreme waitress and why circuses, denying love, can be so vicious. In the straightforward sense, it’s Soapy Jones vocalizing; Mark Hughes Cobb on vocals, guitars and possibly keyboards (if I decide my electronic toys can take the outdoor humidity); Jerrell Bowden on guitar and vocals; Micah Rogers on bass; Gaines Brake on sax and Paolo Janet Hernandez on drums. Due to everyone’s busy and diverse schedules, the IMTP plays sporadically, when occasion arises, but various members of this group have gathered in various incarnations, acoustic and electric, for years; from the Dinah Washington Center to Egan’s to the annual Monster Makeover to world-renowned events (somewhat kidding) such as Gordo’s Mule Day and Chickenfest.
In the Courtyard of Wonders The Cob Oven Crew will be at Art Night to make their delicious
Pizza! Open studios
The Kentuck Artists & Clay Co-op
Kentuck's mission is to perpetuate the arts, engage the community and empower the artist.
Kentuck Art Center 503 Main Avenue Northport, AL 35476 205-758-1257 kentuck@kentuck.org