Sandpudding Studio

Elder Garrison Jones

P.O. Box 81 Readyville, Tennessee 37149-0081

elder@sandpudding.com

 

Exhibitions

2003Finer Things Gallery, 5thAnnual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Nashville TN - "Raw Mother"
2002St. Andrews Sewanee Gallery, Sewanee TN - One Person Show, Frottage and Sculpture
2002Finer Things Gallery, 4th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Nashville TN - "Garden Guardian"
2002Tennessee Association of Craft Artists (TACA), Best of Tennessee Crafts, Biennial Exhibit, Hunter Museum, Chattanooga TN - "Pedestal # 1"
2001American Crafts Council Southeast, Spotlight 2001, Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg TN - "Pedestal # 1" and "Worm Pot"
2001Tennessee State Museum, Best of Tennessee Exhibition, Nashville TN - "the Man" and "a Woman"
2000Finer Things Gallery, 2nd Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Nashville TN - "Garden Bench""Ringed Bird Basin" and "Androgynous Torso"
2000Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Serpents in the Garden, Atlanta GA - "Sweet & Sly Snake"
1999Finer Things Gallery, 1st Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Nashville TN - "Figurative Table", "Face Pot" and "Organic Planter"
1997Cannon County Arts Center, Woodbury TN - Two Person Show, Concrete; Terry Wilemon, Drawings and Paintings
1996Central South Art Exhibition, The Parthenon, Tennessee Art League, Nashville TN - "Chakra Quilt" colored pencil frottage
1996Rutherford County Center for the Arts, Inaugural Exhibition, Murfreesboro TN - "Ark Nouvo" colored pencil frottage
1994Cannon County Arts Center, Woodbury TN - One Person Show, colored pencil frottage
1993Central South Art Exhibition, The Parthenon, Tennessee Art League, Nashville TN - "Bandora's Pox" colored pencil frottage
1983Cleveland State Community College, Cleveland TN - One Person Show and Frottage Workshop
1982Dulin 16th Annual National Print and Drawing Competition, Dulin Gallery, Knoxville TN - "Green Brick" colored pencil frottage
1981Cleveland State Community College, Cleveland TN, One Person Show, colored pencil frottage
 

Awards

2002TACA, Tennessee Crafts Fair, Nashville TN - The Exhibition - Best of Show, "Fertilly Girl 1"
2000Tennessee State Museum, Nashville TN - Cracker Barrel Purchase Award, "Figurative Table"
2000TACA,Tennessee Crafts Fair, Nashville TN - The Exhibition Honorable Mention, "Finial"
1995Tennessee Valley Area Competition, Cleveland State Community College (CSCC), Cleveland TN - Honorable Mention, colored pencil frottage
1993Cleveland Area Community Art Competition, CSCC, Cleveland TN - 1st Place, colored pencil frottage
1991Cleveland Area Community Art Competition, CSCC, Cleveland TN - 2nd Place, colored pencil frottage
 

Craft Fairs

1999-2006TACA, Tennessee Crafts Fair, Nashville TN - exhibitor
2006TACA, Fall Crafts Fair, Nashville TN - TACA Unplugged, demonstration
2002-2005TACA, Fall Crafts Fair, Nashville TN - Empty Bowls, demonstration and donation
2003-2005TACA, Celebration of Fine Crafts, Chattanooga TN - Empty Bowls, demonstration and donation
1999-2002Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville TN - Nashville Garden Club, Wildflower Sale
1999-2001TACA, Fall Crafts Fair, Nashville TN - exhibitor
1999-2001TACA, Celebration of Fine Crafts, Chattanooga TN - exhibitor
 

Gallery Associations

2004Just Looking Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA - sculpture, planters, etc.
1999-2003Finer Things Gallery, Nashville TN - sculpture
1989-1990Wedding Cake Studio, Kennebunk ME - sculptural planters
1988The Garden Gate, Arcata CA - sculptural planters and stepping stones
 

Collections

2003Finer Things Sculpture Collection, Nashville TN - "Garden Guardian"
2000Finer Things Sculpture Collection, Nashville TN - "Face Pot"
2000Tennessee State Museum, Permanent Collection, Nashville TN - "Figurative Table"
2000Cannon County Art Center, Sculpture Commission, Woodbury TN - "Finial on Pillar"
1996Cannon County Art Center, Sculpture Commission, Woodbury TN - "Ash Urn"
1996Children's Discovery House (Discovery Center at Murfree Spring), Murfreesboro TN - "Chakra Quilt" colored pencil frottage
 

Publications

 Home and Garden Television,HGTV, Our Place: Episode OPL-420, April 2003. A segment in which I describe and demonstrate the technique of wet carved concrete. The "HGTV Planter".
Creating With Concrete by Sherrie Warner Hunter; NY: Lark Books, 2001 - featured artist, gallery photos, technique and project chapters. This book is out of print. In paperback as Creating Concrete Garden Ornaments. ISBN 1-57990-179-4.
Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden by Sherrie Warner Hunter; NY: Lark Books, 2005 - featured artist, scattered photos, technique and project chapters. ISBN 1-57990-585-4
"Southern Living Magazine", May 2001, Tennessee Living Section, p.6 - "Androgynous Torso" concrete sculpture.
"San Francisco Examiner", Whole Bay Catalog of Image Magazine, Sunday May 8, 1988 - featured artist, Whole Bay Planters.
 

Memberships

1999-2007Tennessee Association of Craft Artists, 2001-2004 vice president
2001-2007Stones River Crafts Association
 

Education

1999-2002School of Healing Arts, Nashville TN - graduate in kabbalistic healing
1995-1999School of Healing Arts, Nashville TN - graduate in auric healing
1979-1982Middle Tennessee State University - M.S.Biology, August 1982, cum laude
1967-1976Middle Tennessee State University - B.S.Biology, Minors in Chemistry and Art

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