Woodworking by Janis Proffitt

April 5-27, 2024
Woodworking by Janis Proffitt
Opening reception: Friday, April 5, 5:00-9:00 PM
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM and Saturday, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM. Additional gallery hours from 5:00-7:00 PM for Gallery 1010 openings on Thu Apr 11, Thu Apr 18, and Fri Apr 26.

Janis Proffitt is a native Knoxvillian. Her roots run deep in the Smoky Mountains. Her great-great-grandfather owned a sawmill in the Greenbrier area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. For over 25 years, she and her sister ran their father’s woodshop in Pittman Center, Tennessee. In the 1980s she taught herself wood burning that she incorporates on to her pieces. With her rich Southern Appalachian Heritage, she creates both traditional and contemporary wood turnings, and her work comes from the head, the heart, and hands.

This new exhibition is in honor of my dad, Ellis Proffitt, for showing me the love of wood and working with it in all the different ways it can be used, from building a house to building a fire and all that’s in between.

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