My original hand made modern furniture has been accepted for the "Environs: Furniture and Furnishings Exhibit" at the 2007 Festival of the Arts in downtown OKC, April 24-29. This has been a major goal for me since I moved here from Atlanta with my family in April 2003. The Arts Festival was one of the first events we attended here, and I knew that acceptance to the Environs exhibit would be a serious step towards recognition as a genuinely innovative furniture designer.
I have spent the last few years completing enough pieces in my "spare" time (after my regular full-time job as a high-end commercial cabinet builder and time with family) to constitute a distinctive body of work with a recognizable and individual design style. Even more importantly, the furniture is designed to be representative of the possibilities made feasible by the incredible technological leaps of the past few decades: an entirely new way of thinking about manufacturing and order fulfillment known popularly as "micro-fabrication". Haven't heard of it? Don't worry, you will. Especially if you stand within earshot of yours truly for more than ten straight minutes.
I couldn't be more pleased to be in the first Arts Festival of the Second Century here in Oklahoma. You will all be hearing, I hope, quite a lot about me and my plans over the coming year and beyond. I also hope you will all be as proud to have me in your Neighborhood as I am to be here. Life in this State will change considerably over the Next Hundred Years, and it's up to you and me to make sure that those changes are as positive as we can make them. As our Governor said at his recent inauguration, "Dream Big."
For those of you who wish to see examples of my work before the Festival, I have a myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/the_artifactor
Or, you can visit the Velvet Monkey, Too Salon (3003 NW 63rd) near the intersection of NW 63rd and May Ave.
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Mon, January 29, 2007
by Hugh