Fwd: March At Delurk

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Brian Kubecki (aka QUB) Travis Phillips Delurk Gallery will have an Opening Reception Friday, March 1, from 7pm-10pm. This March Delurk will be featuring new work by three visiting artists. See a one of a kind installation, by Hieronymus, of paintings on canvas and on the wall, inspired by cabinet cards. Brian Kubecki's, I Need You, is a show completely dependent on something for its success – you. Experience a jaw-shattering reexamination of visual art and be a part of something you won't soon forget. Isolation; Something To Die For, new work by Travis Phillips, deals with human intentionality and interplay by combining historical references with contemporary issues. Also featured this month will be selected works by Delurk collective members Chad Beroth, Patrick Harris, Jennifer O'Kelly, Will Safrit, Molly Simpson, Zac Trainor and Dane Walters. As well as Junior Delurkers 10 year old Emily Beroth, and 17 year old Zoe Swindell, and works from NEW Delurk collective members: Chris Powers and Shane-Brumley Ward. Welcome Chris and Shane! Event Info: Opening Reception: Friday, March 1, from 7-10PM. Facebook: March At Delurk

Gallery Hop on Friday March 1st

Here is the link to the March edition of the DADA E-Newsletter:


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Unleashed Art

Deborah Willard

Stop by Unleashed Art Center on 6th Street this Friday evening (7-10) to see our newest addition to the AFAS Public Art Initiative, Sharon Allen's latest works and Community heART Project.

Deborah Willard

Finnigan's Does it Again....

Their annual St Patrick's Day bash is scheduled for Saturday, March 16th....

Facebook.....Here's what Finnigan's has to say about it.....

Black is back. You'll want to know that for "The Wake" on March 16th at the pub. It's going to be our biggest party yet, and we would be so sad for you to miss out. We've even got you covered if you need a place to stay. Now, we've really got you thinking about it, don't we?!

To purchase your tickets or to get more info, click here:
 http://finnigansthewake.eventbrite.com/

You Gotta LOVE February!

The annual CashBash.....at The Garage 

110 West 7th St., Winston-Salem NC 27101
Friday and Saturday February 22 at 7:00pm until February 24 at 2:00am

hosted by Richard Boyd of the Bo-Stevens.

14 bands all coming together for two nights to pay tribute and honor Johnny Cash the man in black...Rockabilly honky-tonk at its finest.

First Friday Gallery Hop

When the first Friday falls on the first of the month, it means the First Friday Gallery Hop takes place on the 1st of the month.  So it goes in February 2013.

So January is over, and you've paid all those xmas bills, right?! Time to get something special for someone special for Valentine's Day.  And what is more special than a one-of-a-kind gift or handmade card? You'll find such treasures all over the place around 6th and Trade Streets. Go ahead, treat yourself to a day in the Arts District, plan a Valentine's Day dinner at one of the terrific restaurants in the area, and get that special gift that will keep you out of the doghouse for awhile.......

 

Black and White Lace Hearts from Earthbound Arts, 610 N. Trade St.

Ron Philbeck Pottery;

available at The Other Half,
560 N. Trade Street.

 

Quilted Card by Sandy Mooney,
available at the Fiber Company,
600 N. Trade Street

 

  Bedroom with Porch Dollhouse, 

an assemblage by Linda Willard, 

The Dollhouse Lady. One-of-a-kind, available at Willy Nilly, 

604-A N. Trade Street.

 

 

 

 

 

Unleash Some Love!

The first of a series of free community events being offered at the Unleashed Art Center for first Friday Gallery Hops.

Unleash your creative spirit! Make a special Valentine for yourself or someone you love...All the materials will be provided, including ready-to-paint wooden hearts, paints and lots of dazzling embellishments, everything you'll need to create a spectacular, one of a kind heart, to be worn as a pin/pendant or made into a magnet for a special decoration!
Facebook event

Unleashed Arts Center, located at 204 West 6th Street,  is a special initiative by The Afas Group whose purpose is to foster an appreciation of art and to encourage the development of emerging artists. The center provides a venue for art shows, seminars, artist demonstrations and includes working artists studios.

Piedmont Craftsmen's Fair: November 17-18 2012 at Benton Convention Center

I grew up with Piedmont Craftsmen. My mother, Linda Willard, is a former exhibiting member for her stitchery. She wasn't one of the founding members, but she was admitted with the 2nd group of artists. Every year in November, we devoted an entire weekend to the fair. She had her booth which she set up to look like a comfy sitting room or den, the perfect environment to show off her embroidered works--decorative pillows, mostly, and the occasional wall hanging. She sat in her chair with the big, oval, stand-up embroidery hoop in front of her, where she basically painted beautiful pictures with woolly yarn and thread. Variegated colors of yarn created shading in flowers and leaves; different kinds of stitches added texture to various design elements. And it all came together to create a softly beautiful picture of graceful flowers, leaves, insects,and birds.

I was old enough to come along as a helper--it meant I could get free admission to the fair using one of her allotted volunteer passes. I don't recall how much I really helped, other than to watch the booth whenever she wanted to take a break.
But I loved roaming around looking at all the fine, imaginative crafts on display, and buying something every year to add to my own collection of fine, handcrafted items-- colorful pottery, clay animal-shaped pins, stuffed animals, and the occasional "splurge" for a hand-woven pillow or wearable. And I guess I inhaled enough creative energy from it all, storing it up inside me until I was ready to unleash it in my adult life.

My mother's craft was a labor of love--tedious and time-consuming. As time went on, it became more important for her to engage in more profitable activities which included selling real estate. And with arthritis settling into her hands and thus interfering with her ability to manipulate a needle and thread, stitchery has been relegated to the archives of her life.

With her 80th birthday barely 3 weeks away, she now channels her creative energy into making and refurbishing dollhouses. But that's another story entirely.

In the meantime, it's well worth your time to visit the upcoming49th Annual Piedmont Craftsmen's Fair

The Fair, which was recently named one of the 10 best fine craft shows in the country by American Style magazine, presents a broad sampling of the finest work available in artist-designed handmade home goods, wearables, jewelry, furniture and decorative items.

It is the keystone event in "6 Days in November," a week-long celebration of art and culture in Winston-Salem, known as The City of Arts and Innovation.

The Fair is at the Benton Convention Center, which is just a hop, skip and a jump from Trade Street, occupying the block from 5th to 6th street, bounded by Cherry and Marshall Streets.

www.piedmontcraftsmen.org

Authoring Action! at Delurk Gallery

First Friday Gallery Hop came and went, but the arts never stop in the Arts District.

Delurk Gallery schedules events and gatherings a couple times a month in conjunction with their current shows.   On Thursday November 8th, Delurk is hosting an Authoring Action event  in honor of the Art-o-mat 15 year anniversary Celebration!

Inviting young adults...20's and 30's for a unique evening out where you are invited to become the artists/authors in an array of participatory art forms...and to get to know how you might support a powerful group of teen authors!

Thursday, November 8 (7pm-10pm*)
Delurk Gallery (207 W 6th Street)
$10 admission includes all of the evening's performances, activities, and appetizers/drinks (must be at least 21yrs old)

*Interactive performances @ 8pm & 9pm
Benefiting the teen authors of Authoring Action!

More info about the event is posted on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/events/453483531369815/ 

Authoring Action is a terrific program that offers young people an opportunity to channel their energy into creative expression rather than into more destructive activity.  Their involvement in other arts community activities gives these kids a chance to be exposed to other forms of artistic expression as well as to perform and be recognized for their own individual talents.

Last month Authoring Action presented a program during Arts on Sunday's "Forever Young" festival, which featured performances by students in R.J.Reynolds High School's visual and performing arts groups.

Below are a few photos of Authoring Action!  in action....Go to their website for more info about the organization and upcoming programs. www.authoringaction.org

RJR Students Perform at Arts on Sunday Festival

Every Sunday in October

Arts on Sunday Festivals are held every Sunday in October and again in May of each year.  The RJ Reynolds High School Visual and Performing Arts groups take the stage during one of the Sundays in each series. Their October engagement is THIS WEEKEND, Sunday October 21st, 1-5 pm. They will treat the crowd to what amounts to a variety show all afternoon.  We get to hear the orchestra and the jazz band perform. Past performances have also included dance routines from the famous Dancing Boots and excerpts from the school's theatrical production of Alice in Wonderland.

How It All Started

 Arts on Sunday Festivals have evolved into one of the premier events series in the Arts District.  The event was conceived a few years ago as a collaborative effort to promote Sunday Brunch at Finnigan's Wake and 6th and Vine restaurants and to provide artists with an opportunity to display and sell their creations.  That handful of tables and some acoustical music in the area between Finnigan's and 619-625 Trade Street has blossomed into a lively Sunday afternoon arts festival that spans the 500 and 600 blocks of Trade Street as well as the 200 block of 6th Street.  Each Sunday features a different theme, with a terrific array of live musical performances.

Music and Artists and Fun, Oh MY!

Other street performers provide additional entertainment. A mime wanders around interacting with kids and adults. Sometimes we get a balancing act demonstration.  Balloon artists, clowns, hula hoops, chalk drawing in the street--guaranteed fun for everyone.  There is always a kid's booth set up where kids get to create something special to take home with them.  Dozens of artists' booths and tables line both sides of the street, and many of the retail shops and galleries are open too.  Meet and greet the artists and watch as some of them create works of art before your very eyes.

Eat, Drink, Shop, Watch Football, Enjoy

The weather forecast for the upcoming weekend is for an absolutely delightful, sunny, mild autumn afternoon.  There is plenty of parking one block away in lots with entrances off Liberty Street, as well as the parking deck at the corner of Cherry and 6th Street.  Our friendly neighborhood bike patrol is there to look out for everyone's safety.  Restaurants and pubs abound. In addition to Finnigan's and 6th & Vine, there is Chelsee's Coffee Shop in the 500 block; and Mary's Too/Breakfast of Course and the District Restaurant in the 700 block of Trade, all of which serve scrumptious meals, cold beverages, and NFL football on wide-screen TVs.

GIT UP OFFA DAT THANG !

If you are one of those who haven't been to Downtown Winston-Salem lately, this is an ideal time to treat yourself to a trip to town!!

The AFAS Group
Trade Street Tracker on Facebook

Fall Frenzy!

Lots and lots going on around here this month!

Piedmont Craftsmen' How2Night

Thursday, October 18th ....which is tomorrow!!!! They have great demo in store for you!  Jelaina Frelitz from Yay! Snacks Bakery will be here for the "Art of the Yeast Roll". She will be demonstrating how to make yeast rolls and talk about her bakery as well. Her yummy treats will be displayed on platters by PCI artists. The event is tomorrow from 6-7 pm. See you there!!!  Piedmont Craftsmen is located at 601 North Trade Street, right at the intersection of 6th and Trade streets. Off-street parking is available.

Well, well. I often tell people that "I don't do food."  I was born with abnormal taste buds.  I don't have a sweet tooth.  I HATED that sugar cube you had to eat in order to get your polio vaccine back in the 60's. And I wouldn't even eat my own birthday cake.  The only thing I can cook expertly is popcorn the way my father did, in a large pan on the stove.
And as a popcorn purist, I don't want anything but popcorn salt on it. No candy gunk, no cheesy stuff, and absolutely no butter, because butter gives me horrible headaches.  Even the smell of butter makes me ill. Which is why I avoid all that microwave stuff. The smell goes all over the place.

But where were we? I get so sidetracked.
Piedmont Craftsmen's How2 Night and Yeast Rolls.  Now the thought of yeast rolls right across the street from me may actually lure me into attending a cooking demonstration.  Will wonders never cease!

Bubbling Well Bead and Tea Bar's MAD HATTER TEA PARTY.

Saturday, October 20th, 3-5pm

Essentials Tea Tasting

... featuring over 90 fine loose teas to drink by the cup or purchase by the ounce. Choose the perfect blend of refreshing tea to serve your family and guests for cookouts, parties, outdoor weddings, or a float down the river. KIDS love them too!

Bubbling Well is offering several beading classes later this month and into November as well.  Visit their website for schedule and cost information.  Bubbling Well Bead and Tea Bar is located at 612 North Trade Street, next to Finnigan's Wake.

Yoga Gallery Lecture

One little word that causes HUGE problems...
"MY"
Lecture by Swami BV Tripurari
Friday, October 19 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

We love "things". Who doesn't, right? From little doodads...to our cars… our houses… pets... family... friends... country.... world.

But WHY do we love "things"? And why do we love our things and not care for another's, not in the same way?

Swami BV Tripurari explains that matter matters when it is MINE. WE are what gives value, meaning to things, not by some intellectualized ranking system, but by extending OURSELVES into them; because we enter our energy into them, dull matter becomes attractive.  (READ MORE)


Yoga Gallery
633 North Trade Street

For a full schedule of classes listed on their website click here:  CLASSES

ROCK THE BLOCK

Time to Party Downtown at Rock the Block Remix!

Winston-Salem's annual musical streetfest happens on Saturday, September 22nd, from 11am till 7pm, spanning downtown from Corpening Plaza to Winston Square Park, to the green spot on 4th Street (I think it's got a name, just hasn't found a permanent place in my brain to reside), to 6th Street between Trade and Cherry Streets.

We get to rock 'n' roll to the sounds emanating from the Rock, Country and Blues stage being sponsored by Ziggy's.  This artist is very, very happy that we didn't get the beach music stage dumped on us.....Sorry, apologies to those of you who like "beach music."  If you don't know what that is, don't worry your rock-and-roll heart too much.

"Beach music" owes its heritage to the old 60's R & B music of the Tams, the Drifters, and the like.  It owes its name to the Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina, where it got tons and tons of airplay.  And back in the day when everybody's summer vacation included at least one trip to Myrtle Beach, it became the sound track to everybody's vacation. 

Mind you, the stuff that falls into the oldies-but-goodies R & B category is pleasant, nostalgic stuff.  But then somebody went and wrote songs about beach music......"I LUV beach music..." and "Myrtle Beach Days" come to mind here.
The thing is, they've all got the same rhythm, same sound, same dance steps.  The band starts up and it's like a whole bunch of wind-up toys start dancing all the same steps, a dance they call the shag.

How this set of dance steps got called the shag, I'll probably never know.  All I know is that once upon a time back in my younger, more foolish days, I knew these 2 guys from England and I took them to a party that had beach music, and a couple girls started talking about shagging in the sand and there was all kinds of back and forth talk about shagging in the sand along with secret behind-the-back chuckles and winks and grins between our two Englishmen....So what was so funny about dancing the shag?  Finally I decided our guys had had enough fun at the girls' expense, so I  told them: in England, "shagging" is a slang term for having sex.

ROCK the BLOCK REMIX

The City of Winston-Salem is shaking things up!! Rock the Block,  the annual end-of-summer street party, was for years held up and down several blocks of 4th Street.

But this year, they're rotating the footprint 90 degrees and placing music stages at 4 different locations, from Corpening Plaza to Winston Square to Civic Plaza to 6th Street in the Arts District. This will allow the major streets through town to remain open and vehicular traffic to move around more freely.  PLUS it takes advantage of several made-for-music-and-crowds outdoor venues.

We are especially pleased that the Arts District will be able to take part in the festival for the first time, as the Rock, Country and Blues stage will be located at 6th Street, between Cherry and Trade Streets. 


http://visitwinstonsalem.com/special-events/view/rock

September Edition, E-news from DADA

Earlier in the year, yours truly took on the task of producing the monthly E-Newsletter for DADA .  This is how I spent my Labor Day "holiday," which, in my book, is just another Monday.

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/September-Gallery-Hop-News-from-the-Downtown-Art-District.html?soid=1101296635754&aid=EUBtsvSw91Q

STELLAR NIGHT on Trade Streeet

Michael Bennett and the "B" String All Stars gave a stellar performance at what has become a much-anticipated annual appearance at the Downtown WS Partnership's Summer Music on Trade event. Lots of beautiful people rocked out, danced, walked their dogs, imbibed various beverages of choice, shopped, and inhaled the refreshing breeze of picture-perfect weather.

And the Bands Play On....

Summer on Trade continues to draw awesome crowds every Saturday night.  Different band each week, different kind of crowd.  But always one thing in common:  People get up and dance.  West End Mambo, a well established local band that plays energetic Latin rhythms, packed the 6th & Trade dance "floor" this past Saturday with people doing all kinds of variations of Latin dance, salsa, rumba, samba, merengue, cha-cha, mambo-sambo-rambo, cha-cha-cha-choo-choo, tango-mango......

I was at my usual station, painting hats at a table in front of my shop (Willy Nilly) when a woman stopped and remarked that she'd never seen such a crowd at a gallery hop.  "No, gallery hop was last night," I attempted to explain to her. "This is Summer on Trade music series, every Saturday night throughout the summer."

DWSP: Alphabet Scoop du Jour

I then tried to clarify further that Summer on Trade is a production of the Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership (DWSP) along with some generous corporate partners, especially Truliant Federal Credit Union. This is its 15th year!! (Even though it draws a decent crowd every week, it continues to amaze me how many local people don't know about what I consider one of downtown W-S's finest --and FREE-- events.)  The stage goes  up at the 6th & Trade Street intersection, with the adjacent blocks of Trade and 6th streets barricaded so that people and cars don't mix it up. Several shops and galleries stay open late for the event, especially those located close to the intersection.

DADA:  Alphabet Scoop du Jour, Part Deux

Gallery Hops, I explained to her, are produced by the Downtown Art District Association (DADA) and are held the first Friday of every month, all year 'round. They involve the entire Art District, with the entire area blocked off from vehicular traffic in favor of such outdoor activities as the recent Tomato Tasting, belly-dance performances,  and much more.  All the studios, galleries and shops keep late hours for gallery hops, many holding receptions to open new art exhibitions.  There are usually other vendors and organizations which arrange with DADA to set up a booth or table in the street.

AFAS:  Alphabet Scoop gone Animal Crackers

The woman was still somewhat bewildered at the thought of so much activity on Trade Street. I decided to boggle her mind a little further when I mentioned that in October we'd have Arts On Sunday, a series of Sunday afternoon art fairs produced by Art for Art's Sake (AFAS).  Her poor head was reeling by now, so I decided to save the detailed explanation for the blog.

The Trade Street Corollary of the Law of Attraction

Now, it seems everybody wants to jump onto the Trade Street bandwagon, as it continues to grow in popularity as a venue for other events.  In July it played host to Krispy Kreme's 75th Anniversary Celebration Bash, which featured a terrific party band and free Krispy Kreme products, especially their famous doughnuts, served hot off a mobile version of  a doughnut bakery.

Earlier this year we welcomed Habitat for Humanity's annual BirdFest, a fundraising effort that for years took place near their ReStore off Stratford Road in an area bordering the historic Ardmore neighborhood. The move to Trade Street was a win-win situation for both Habitat and the Arts District.

Next month we look forward to Bookmarks Book Festival, returning to the Downtown Arts District for the 3rd straight year.  This year they've expanded the footprint for the festival to include the Urban League at 5th and Trade Street and the Downtown School and the 7th and Trade intersection.  Personally, I'm super-pleased to be near the Main Stage at 6th and Trade.  Besides being just beyond the doorstep of my shop, it will open with the appearance of Woody Durham, the famous Voice of the Tar Heels for 40 years. Being a die-hard Tar Heel born and bred (my father was an alumnus, Class of '49, and I graduated in the Class of 1976), I have to answer the call to meet a man whose voice has been such an important part of my life!!

For once, my art-world and my sports-world will collide.  Gotta bookmark this.