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Andy Saftel with Roy Milner
October 18, 2019
When artist Andy Saftel visited Blackberry Mountain, he and Blackberry Farm Brewery Director Roy Milner sat down in the Art Studio to talk life and inspiration.
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Andy Saftel
Artist
Andy Saftel was raised in Rhode Island and went on to receive a B.F.A. with an emphasis on Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. After working in the carnival, as a sign painter and a printer at the Experimental Workshop in San Francisco, where he worked with artists printing editions of woodcuts, etchings and paper sculptures, he relocated to Knoxville in the mid- nineteen eighties. He set up a studio and continued making paintings on wood panels influenced by the stained and colored woodblocks left after printing at Experimental Workshop. He also began making sculptures from assorted materials influenced by his work teaching art to children and by the southern Folk Artists, who were working at their peak in the late nineteen eighties.Saftel began exhibiting his work in galleries in Knoxville, Nashville, Denver and Atlanta, leading him to let go of other jobs and focus on his studio work. He has since had over forty solo exhibitions of his paintings, sculptures, prints and collages in Galleries and Museums across the country. Most recently his work was featured in an exhibition at Lanoue Fine Art in Boston, MA. He received a Tennessee Individual Artist Grant from the TN Arts Commission and was selected for the Tennessee/Israel Art Exchange. Last year he traveled to Bangladesh to teach and exhibit under a U.S. Embassy Dhaka Visual Arts Initiative. In Patzcuaro, Mexico he produced the “La Frontera” print series consisting of a 30”x60” color woodcut and four 14”x14” drypoint etchings containing imagery related to the border. This project was partially funded by a TN Arts Commission Professional Development Grant. His work is in the collection of the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Tennessee State Museum, the Hunter Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, the Knoxville Convention Center and many private collections.
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Roy Milner
Brewery Managing Partner
With more than 20 years in and around the craft brewing industry, our Managing Partner began exploring his passion for great beer in Knoxville as a home brewer while attending the University of Tennessee. A native of Chattanooga, Roy has traveled extensively to gather the knowledge and expertise to make the best beer possible. Prior to Blackberry Farm, Roy worked as a brewer with multiple breweries in the Southeast, and has held several Sales and Marketing positions with beer and beverage companies throughout the United States before coming back to Tennessee. Passionate about all things Southern, he is a lover of music, cooking, beverages, and travel, and is proud to call the mountains of East Tennessee home.
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