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Blowing Rock Art and History Museum in Blowing Rock, NC, Offers Works by Margaret Morley The Blowing Rock Art and History Museum in Blowing Rock, NC, will present The Carolina Mountains: Photography of Margaret Morley, on view from Feb. 20 through Apr. 25, 2013. Morley, a biologist, writer, illustrator, and educator, visited western North Carolina in the 1890s from New England. She spent years traveling the region, documenting her finds and photographing scenery and the daily lives of Appalachian people. Her discoveries were published by Houghton Mifflin, and her book, The Carolina Mountains, become very popular. In 1914, Morley donated over 200 of her original photographs to the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. From this collection, approximately 50 photographs have been selected to be part of a traveling exhibition of her work. In addition to the photos, the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum will have period artifacts accompanying several of the images to add a three-dimensional element to better visualize life at the turn of the The Arts Council of Henderson County is celebrating the importance of art in a child’s life. Three exhibitions are planned for Henderson County elementary students, secondary students, and their mentors. This series of exhibits will be presented as a thematic unit called Mentors & Students, on view at First Citizens Bank in Hendersonville, NC. The Art of Our Children elementary student exhibition, the first exhibition of the series, will open with a reception on Friday, Feb. 8, from 5:30-7pm, and run through Feb. 22. The second show in the series will feature Henderson County’s art teachers in the fourth annual Art Teachers Create, which will on view from Mar. 1 - 15. Secondary students will be featured in the third show of the series, Artists of Tomorrow, on view from Mar. 22 through Apr. 5, 2013. Musical and/or theatrical performances by Henderson County students are planned for each of the opening receptions held the first day of the exhibits from 5:30-7pm. Mentors & Students is open to all public, private, parochial and home school students and teachers in Henderson County. Teachers, students and parents looking. Mentors & Students is sponsored in part by First Citizens Bank, Capital Options, Inc., and the Henderson County Education Foundation. The Arts Council of Henderson County is a community organization that pro- century. BRAHM hosts exhibits, educational programs and classes that promote the visual arts, history and heritage of the mountains of western North Carolina. For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at 828/295-9099 or visit (www.blowingrockmuseum.org). Arts Council of Henderson County Offers Student Related Works at First Citizens Bank in Hendersonville, NC Chinese Table by Autumn, 1st Grade Don’t forget about our website: www.carolinaarts.com You can find past issues all the way back to August 2004! You can find past articles all the way back to June 1999 Also don’t forget about our two blogs: Carolina Arts Unleashed Carolina Arts News Send us your email address to be added to our list to receive notice of each monthly issue. info@carolinaarts.com Research Fund Program for independent and graduate scholars, the Windgate Fellowship Award Program for emerging craft artists graduating from universities, and the Windgate Museum Internship Program for craft-focused curatorial internships within museums. Additionally, the Center motes, advocates for and nurtures the arts in Henderson County and Western North Carolina. The Arts Council is supported in part by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources; funds administered by the Community Foundation of Henderson County, Henderson County, and Henderson County Travel and Tourism. For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Arts Council at 828/693-8504 or e-mail to (acofhc@bellsouth.net). Brookgreen Gardens in Murrell’s Inlet, SC, is offering two new exhibits including: Willard Hirsch: Charleston’s Sculptor, on loan from the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, and Recent Acquisitions showcases art and history objects that are new to the Brookgreen collection. Both exhibits are on view in the Rainey Sculpture Pavilion through Apr. 21, 2013. A native of Charleston, SC, Willard Hirsch (1905–1982) trained at the National Academy of Design and the Beaux Arts Institute in New York during the 1930s. UNC Asheville’s Center for Craft, Creativity & Design in Hendersonville, NC, Offers Works by Ismini Samanidou He studied under notable architectural sculptors Robert Aitkin (1878–1947) and Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870–1952), and learned superb modeling techniques under Edward McCartan (1879–1947) and Gaetano Cecere (1894–1985). He worked as a sculptor in New York for nearly a decade and under the auspices of the New York Federal Art Project he contributed The UNC Asheville’s Center for Craft, weaving itself. By closely examining and sculptural pieces to a number of that city’s Creativity & Design in Hendersonville, NC, analyzing this information, I then recon- public building projects. is presenting Topography: recording place struct it in woven form.” After serving in the military during – mapping surface, a solo exhibition of tex- Samanidou finds inspiration in the fab- WWII, Hirsch returned to Charleston tiles by Ismini Samanidou, on view through rics of her native Greece, as well as in the where he felt his work could make a great- Mar. 1, 2013. The exhibition will then move cultures and techniques she has encountered er impact. Though the artistic community to Utah as the artist’s US tour continues. in other parts of the world. “I am interested of Charleston had thrived in the decades Samanidou, who graduated from the in traditional textiles from different cultures between the two World Wars, it was domi- Royal College of Art in London a decade and the stories that are hidden within them,” nated by painters and printmakers. Hirsch ago, brings her solo exhibit from the UK, says Samanidou. reentered his hometown bringing with him where it was on display at the Craft Study The Center for Craft, Creativity & a passion to infuse the community with Centre in Surrey. Design advances the understanding of craft three dimensional works of art. Trained to Samanidou says her work reflects “the by encouraging and supporting research, work in a variety of media, ranging from impermanence and beauty of the everyday, scholarship, and professional development terra-cotta and plaster, to wood and metal, evidence of decay seen in architectural in the United States. The Center administers he established a studio on Exchange Street surfaces, weathered landscape, natural three national award programs: the Craft and successfully welcomed sculptural surfaces, macro images of plants, even continued above on next column to the right commissions from private collectors and Page 22 - Carolina Arts, February 2013 Table of Contents convenes national meetings, curates exhibitions, programs lectures and workshops, and sponsors international residencies. For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Center at 828/890-2050 or visit (www.craftcreativitydesign.org). Brookgreen Gardens in Murrell’s Inlet, SC, Offers Two New Exhibits The Pelicans, 1982, Willard Hirsch (American, 1905–1982) Bronze, 8 1/2” x 8”. Courtesy of Hirsch Family Collection. Image Courtesy of Douglas Pinkerton. public institutions. Over the course of his career, Hirsch exhibited his work at the National Academy of Design, National Sculpture Society, Whitney Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and in numerous galleries and museums in the Southeast. Some of Hirsch’s best known work is on permanent exhibition in Charleston’s public parks and buildings, including bronze sculptures in Washington Park, White Point Garden, the Gibbes Mucontinued on Page 23
Brookgreen Gardens continued from Page 22 seum of Art garden, and Charles Towne Landing State Park. As Charleston’s premier sculptor of the twentieth century, this exhibition examines the body of work Willard Hirsch developed over his fiftyyear career. In the last three years, Brookgreen Gardens has received more than 85 gifts of art and historical objects. Its art collection has expanded in breadth and depth, adding to the roster several new artists, different materials such as basswood and spalted holly, and innovative techniques including tinted resins and multi-colored patination of metal. The generosity of donors, both artists and collectors, has been vital to the expansion of Brookgreen’s unparalleled collection of American figurative sculpture and its growing collection of objects pertaining to the history of its land and people. In the same spirit as that of Brookgreen Gardens’ founders, Archer and Anna Huntington, many individuals have helped to build on their legacy through significant donations of funds, single objects, personal collections, and archival material. This exhibition showcases selected works acquired since 2010 and celebrates each of the generous donors. Brookgreen Gardens, a National Historic Landmark and non-profit organization, is located on US 17 between Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island, SC. The gardens offers one of the largest collections of outdoor sculpture in America. This preeminent collection of American representational sculpture includes - 560 works by 240 artists - representing such well-known artists as Charles Parks, Daniel Chester French, Carl Milles, August Saint-Gaudens and Anna Hyatt Huntington. For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Gardens at 843-235-6000 or visit (www. brookgreen.org). Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, Features Works by Troy Wingard Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, is presenting Preciousness, an exhibition by artist Troy Wingard, on view in the Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery through Feb. 22, 2013. Wingard describes his mixed media pastel portraits as an exploration of the “ideas, identity, culture and individualism” of the artists he depicts in a piece. “I use chalk, paper and gold leaf to construct a likeness, which reinforces their uniqueness,” he says. “I then symbolize their portraits with imagery and materials that emphasize the idea of preciousness.” Wingard’s series have been showcased throughout the country and in magazines such as The Pastel Journal and New American Paintings. His work addresses the spiritual aspects of visual art, while attempting to capture the subtle and quiet moments of internal reflections. The Lexington, SC, native earned a BFA in graphics design from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a MFA in drawing and painting from the University of Georgia (UGA). As associate director of the Latin America Studies Abroad Program at UGA, he has managed and taught drawing and painting study abroad art programs in Cuba, Costa Rica, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. He What-Not by Troy Wingard, pastel, wood, goldleaf and paper, 52” x 40” x 20” currently serves as the foundations and undergraduate coordinator for the Department of Visual Arts at Southeastern Louisiana University. For further info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call 843/349-2711 or visit (www.coastal.edu/bryanartgallery/). The Arts Council of Fayetteville/ Cumberland County in Fayetteville, NC, Offers Look at Musical Soul The Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County in Fayetteville, NC, is presenting Songs From The Soul, a national traveling exhibition featuring James Brown and other icons in music history, on view at The Arts Center, through Feb. 16, 2013. The free exhibition features colorful portrait illustrations and educational text panels that celebrate and explore the contributions of Smokey Robinson, Bo Diddley, Marvin Gaye, Quincy Jones, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin and more. Through original life-size portrait illustrations, historic photographs and caption panels, visitors to Songs From The Soul examine the relationship between music, history and culture in many genres – jazz, rhythm & blues, gospel, soul, disco and rock and roll. Based upon historical text captions, and 23 portrait illustrations by international artist Wolfram Schramm of Gerlingen, Germany, and 15 black and white photographic portraits from the William Gottlieb Collection, Songs From The Soul explores influences of African-American icons found throughout our popular culture and The Civil Rights Movement. More artists that seem to come to life in Songs From The Soul include: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat “King” Cole, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, B.B. King, Little Richard, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, Gladys Knight, Mariah Carey, Donna Summer, Patti LaBelle, and Berry Gordy Jr., the founder of the Motown record label, the Apollo Theatre, Cotton Club, Soul Train. For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Council at 910/323-1776 or visit (http://www. theartscouncil.com/). Don’t forget about our blogs which offer more info about the visual art community in the Carolinas like Carolina Arts News at (http://carolinaartsnews.wordpress.com/) which provides info about Call For Entries, Juried Exhibit Results, and other Artists’ Opportunities. Just type in what you’re looking for in the search box. Table of Contents �� images by dorian hill �� ATTENTION CRAFTERS! Come join the Seventeenth Annual “Blessing Of The Inlet” SATURDAY • MAY 4, 2013 • 9am - 4pm Belin Memorial United Methodist Church Murrells Inlet, SC • www.BlessingoftheInlet.com Spaces are approximately 12’x12’ for $40. Deadline for vendor applications is April 30, 2013, First Come - First Served For further information and to request an application, Call Judy Irish at 843-424-0509, E-mail to: jki328@yahoo.com or Mail to: 455 Sunnehanna Drive #156, Myrtle Beach, SC 29588 Carolina Arts, February 2013 - Page 23
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