Graham Campbell
Craft/Material present Graham Campbell
Thursday, March 6, 11a.m.
Fine Arts Building room 238
Graham Campbell grew up in South Africa. For a dozen years he mixed formal studies in architecture, work in residential construction and technical theater, and running a woodworking workshop. In 1983 he spent a year traveling through Europe and the USA before moving to upstate NY to study at the Wendell Castle School. He subsequently completed an MFA degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. After teaching at both schools he was hired to head the wood program at the Appalachian Center for Craft at Tennessee Technological University.
He has continued in this role for the last 18 years, but also stays active as a juror and workshop instructor. He served two terms on the board of the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists and in 1999 he hosted the annual conference of the Furniture Society, which met at the Appalachian Center for Craft.
His studio work is now produced in a recently built woodshop at his house in the woods of Tennessee. He works back and forth between several families of objects with different characters and histories. Sometimes there is intermarriage.
