North Carolina Arts

Archive for October 2010

As a part of the Intersections Project, a collaboration between the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the school system, with the support of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, spent a week working with Asheville multimedia artist Sean Pace to compose works of art using catapults, crossbrows and balloons.

 

The Asheville Citizen-Times has compiled a brief list of opportunities for art lovers in Asheville that will run from now until late November. Artists range from a North Carolina native to French painter Jean Claude Roy.

 

Thirty-nine artists all over Alamance County will open their studios beginning on Oct. 16 for all to visit, shop and learn how these artists produce their work and craft. This is an initiative sponsored by the Alamance Artisans Guild.

Visit the site to download a map of all of the studio locations.

Three local artists and an arts advocate were recognized Thursday, Oct. 7, during the annual North Carolina Awards ceremony.

Gov. Beverly Perdue presented the state’s highest civilian honor to Margaret S. “Tog” Newman for public service; Robert W. Ebendorf for fine arts; Donald Sultan for fine arts; and Carole Boston Weatherford for literature.

Follow the link to read a short biography about each recipient.

In a time when drawing may seem slow and tedious, The Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art in Greensboro is currently hosting an exhibit entitled Drawing Revisited, which surveys North Carolina artists working in mediums such as graphite, ball point ink and conté crayon.

The exhibition will run until Oct. 31–visit the site for more information.