Vol. 16, No. 3 March 2012 - Carolina Arts

Yadkin Cultural Arts CenterHome of theYadkin Arts CouncilArrowback Rocker by Matthew ComerMarch 9 - April 28, 2012Hand-crafted FurnitureChair-making demonstration, March 9, 5:30pmMay & June - Courage, paintings that Inspire(touring exhibit)July & August - 2nd Annual Juried Arts ShowSept & Oct - To be announcedNov & Dec - Exquisite Miniatures by Wes andRachelle SiegristYadkin Cultural Arts Center at the Gateway to the Wine Countryis less than 30 minutes from Winston-Salem, NC, and less than an hourfrom Charlotte, NC. Take the Downtown Yadkinville Exit off Hwy 421.The Center is a cultural complex housing:• A state of the art exhibition gallery• A full service wi-fi café serving food, beer and wine• A beautiful outdoor plaza, stroll way and fountain• The YARD working artist studios and Gift ShopOpening Fall 2012 - the Performing Arts Theater!226 East Main Street • Yadkinville, NC 27055 • 336-679-2941Open Monday - Saturday • www.yadkinarts.orgUNC-Greensboro in Greensboro, NC,Offers Narrative Works from the 1930sThe University of North Carolina atGreensboro, NC, is presenting the exhibit,Telling Tales: Narratives from the 1930s,on view in The Gregory D. Ivy Galleryand The Weatherspoon Guild Gallery atthe Weatherspoon Art Museum throughMay 13, 2012.Don’t forget about our website:www.carolinaarts.comEdward Laning, Coney Island Beach Scene, 1938,oil on canvas, 35 5/8 x 41 3/4 in. Gift of hisfamily in honor of Mr. Benjamin Cone’s 80thbirthday, 1980.Artists of all periods have used narrativeimagery to teach, enlighten, and/orinspire viewers. Derived in the past fromliterature, Biblical scripture, mythology,or history, narrative art created during the1930s continued to record these themes aswell as the dramatic economic, social, andpolitical changes that were taking placeacross the nation. Artists who advocatedboth representational and abstract stylesattempted to capture the spirit of their age- a time marked by the bleak reality of theGreat Depression as well as the upliftingoptimism linked with the machine age andits promise of progress. While works bySocial Realist and Regionalist artists - theart market’s dominant styles at the timeabound,images by other artists whoseconcerns were more psychologicallypenetrating are also included.Edmund Lewandowski, “Factories”, 1936,watercolor on paper, 18 1/4 x 23 in. Courtesy ofthe Fine Arts Program, Public Buildings Service,U.S. General Services Administration Commissionedthrough the New Deal art projects.The 1930s saw great changes in Americapolitically, socially, and aesthetically.It was the decade in which PresidentHerbert Hoover made the “Star SpangledBanner” America’s national anthem, the1933 World’s Fair - called “A Centuryof Progress”- was held in Chicago, andHenry Ford established $5.00 per dayas the minimum wage. The 1930s alsosaw the opening of San Francisco Bay’sAlcatraz maximum security prison where,for its first four years, prisoners were notallowed to talk, Babe Ruth hit his 700thhome run, Billboard magazine publishedits first music hit parade, and MargaretMitchell published her only book, GoneWith the Wind.The exhibition was organized by ElaineD. Gustafson, Curator of Collections.On Mar. 31, from 2-3pm, art historianEllen Wiley Todd will give a lectureentitled, The Lusty Modern Matron: Sex+ Commerce in Kenneth Hayes Miller’sPaintings.For further information check ourNC Institutional Gallery listings, call theMuseum at 336/334-5770 or visit (http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/).You can find past issues all the way back toAugust 2004!You can find past articles all the way back toJune 1999Also don’t forget about our two blogs:Carolina Arts UnleashedCarolina Arts NewsSend us your email address to be addedto our list to receive notice of eachmonthly issue.info@carolinaarts.comTable of Contents Carolina Arts, March 2012 - Page 27