Bellevue, WA—On Saturday, January 31, Bellevue Arts Museum will host a day of discussion and exciting presentations in conjunction with the exhibition BAM Biennial 2014: Knock on Wood. The symposium will address the narrative potential and material properties of wood in art.

The opening presentation will be by Peter Korn, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship and author of Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman, which won the 2014 Maine Literary Award. Korn has been a furniture maker since 1974 and has been exhibited nationally in galleries and museums.

Following Korn's opening presentation will be two panels composed of artists featured in the Knock on Wood exhibition. The first panel will address the materiality of wood and will be facilitated by Albert LeCoff and will feature presentations with Taiji Miyasaka, Laura Buchan, and Helga Winter. The second panel facilitated by Sierra Stinson, curator and founder of Vignettes, will feature Kimberly Trowbridge, Aaron Levine, and Drew Michael.

Artist Gord Peteran will close the day, and will address his "furnitural" works in wood as well as his current projects. Peteran is a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto, and has also taught at Sheridan College in Oakville, the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, the Haystack Mountain School in Maine, the Penland School in North Carolina and The California College of Arts.

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