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Highland Rim Members,
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2010 Officers:
President:
Rob Harvey
Vice-president:
Kim Winkle
Treasurer:
Noreen Grisolano
Secretary:
Laurie Hall
Historian:
Carol Ventura
Board Reps:
Chery Cratty
Membership Coordinator:
Tim Hintz

The Highland Rim Chapter is one of six active chapters of The Tennessee Association of Craft Artists. The chapter's geographical area includes Macon, Clay, Pickett, Fentress, Overton, Jackson, Smith, Dekalb, Putnam, Cumberland, White, Van Burren, Warren, and Cannon counties. Chapter members participate regularly in TACA activities, including the Tennessee Crafts Fair in Nashville. We meet four times a year either at the The Appalachian Center for Craft or in members' homes. Frequently those meetings include a studio tour. Members participate in annual exhibitions (right: Joyce Sievers). Information about membership and how to join TACA is on the TACA membership page.

Since 2000, Highland Rim has been responsible for the craft exhibition area of the Cookeville Fall Fun Fest. Many of our members participate in the Fall Fun Fest. Jim McGie (right) is a Master Heritage Artist who utilizes simple hand tools to produce rocking chairs, dough bowls, rustic bark baskets, hand-carved spoons, footstools, benches, neck hauling yokes, and guitar stands just as they were made in days gone by.

Susan DeMay (left) is known for her colorful stoneware pottery. The background image used for the header on this page is a detail of one of her ceramic pieces.

Noreen Grisolano (below) teaches at the "Kids Booth".

Tim Hintz (left) prepares hickory bark for his ladder back chairs.

Rob Harvey (right) and his salt-fired stoneware pottery.

Upcoming Fairs:
- 14th Annual Celebration of Craft at the Appalachian Center for Craft, Saturday, March 31, 2012 / 10am-5pm (central)
- 41st Annual TACA Spring Craft Fair, May 4th, 5th, & 6th, 2012, Centennial Park, Nashville (chapter booth info and application).
- 32nd ANNUAL TACA Fall Craft Fair, Sept. 23 - 25, 2011 (chapter booth info and application)
- Fall Fun Fest Art and Craft Fair, September 9 and 10, 2011, Cookeville (for more information about the Fall Fun Fest see www.fallfunfest.com).

News and Events:

- BIENNIAL TACA SHOW: At the TN State Museum, 9/20/12 – 10/31/12. More info to follow.
- CHAPTER SHOW: CAST chapter and our chapter show at Belmont. New deadline is 1/9/12. All submissions are digital. You don’t have to have the same exact piece for the show that you submit but it must be in the same medium. Show is 8/13/12 – 10/20/12. Any questions? See show info or contact Rob Harvey.
- BRUCE BAKER WORKSHOP, Thrive not Survive. Appalachian Center for Craft (Smithville, Tenn) March 24 and 25, 2012: Price is $120 before 1/31/12. Need as many people to sign up before 1/21/12 as possible because if enough people don’t sign up then we won’t have the workshop. Make checks payable to Highland Rim TACA and send to Noreen Grisolano, 285 Austin Bottom Rd, Baxter, TN 38544, if postmarked by 12/24/11. For more information and on-line payment see http://www.tennesseecrafts.org/featured-events.html

Next Highland Rim Chapter Meetings:
Saturday, February 11, 2012 – NOON – ACC
Friday, April 13th – 6pm – place TBA
Saturday, September 15, 2012 – noon – place TBA
Saturday, December 8, 2012 – noon – Carol and Andrzej’s house
Please RSVP the host before each meeting!

Other Chapters of Tennessee Association of Craft Artists (TACA):
Craft Artists of Southern Tennessee (CAST)
Cumberland Valley
Memphis Association of Craft Artists (MACA)
State of Franklin
TACA West

We hope that all Highland Rim members will join our Yahoo HR TACA group or Facebook to keep in touch!

Last updated on January 14, 2012. Comments? Send an e-mail to Andrzej Gutek.