Color and Form
Chatham Artists Guild members Carol Owen and Joel Hunnicutt are the featured artists for February at the Piedmont Craftsmen Gallery in Winston-Salem. The show runs from Feb. 6-Feb28 with an artist reception on Feb. 6 from 7-10pm. The exhibit will focus on mixed media Spirit Houses by Owen and turned wood pieces by Hunnicutt.
Carol Owen (http://www.carolowenart.com/) has been a professional artist for 30 years, working initially as a weaver and papermaker, and now in mixed media. Carol Owen sees her Spirit Houses as protective icons of family history, "My Spirit Houses are shrines to family memories. They make sacred those shards of the past that have made us what we are," she describes. Enshrining memories of family and home and incorporating personal mementos which celebrate the people, places, and events important to us, Owen’s unique, three-dimensional assemblages honor people's most intimate histories and truest treasures.
Joel Hunnicutt (http://www.joelhunnicutt.com/) works to create vessels out of the organic medium of wood, vessels with the elegance and luminosity of glass. “Using the technique segmented turning, “I am able to achieve shapes and designs that are usually associated with the ancient pottery forms of Greece, China and Egypt,” he says. “The use of classic forms and vibrant colors create a delight to the senses.
Segment turning involves cutting wood into small, precisely measured pieces, then gluing the pieces together into forms that will be turned on a lathe into the final design. Toners and dyes are added to lacquer during the finishing process to give the vessel a unique luminescence.”
Since 1963, Winston-Salem, North Carolina has been home to Piedmont Craftsmen, Inc., a guild founded by craft artists and collectors to honor the work of the hand (http://www.piedmontcraftsmen.org). The organization carries on a centuries-old regional tradition dating back to the eighteenth century when the first Moravian settlers established their workshops, laid out their garden plots, and set up housekeeping in the lovely rolling hills of the Piedmont. Furniture makers, potters, weavers, metalsmiths and glassblowers, their goods were recognized as the finest available in the southeast.
The Chatham Artists Guild (http://www.chathamartistsguild.org/) is a non-profit organization of regionally and nationally recognized visual artists. Each December, Guild members open their studios to the public through the Chatham Open Studio Tour.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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ART THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY
At the Opening Show for the 2008 Chatham Studio Tour, renowned painter Jane Filer presented the first prize to Roy Lindholm for his photograph "Myrtle Beach II". "You can just imagine so many stories when you look at this wonderful photo, she exclaimed. Many of Lindholm’s photographic stories will be on display at the February/March Chatham Artists Guild Show at the Carolina Brewery Show. The Carolina Brewery and Grill is located in Pittsboro on Highway 15/501, near Lowe’s Home Improvement store.
Meet Roy Lindholm at a free artists reception on Sunday, March 1st from 4:00 to 6:00PM.
Dr. Roy Lindholm learned photography as a useful tool in his former life as a geologist. “I’ve always loved photography and used it extensively to spice up my geology lectures at the George Washington University,” he explains. The Lindholms moved to Chatham County in 1996, after he retired, just a few months before Hurricane Fran arrived. “My photo epiphany came in late 2002 when I bought my first digital camera and a month later a massive ice storm hit Chapel Hill," he remembers. “I was engulfed by /Kodak Moments/”.
Lindholm’s favorite subjects include dragonflies, butterflies, flowers, medieval European towns and any other interesting scene that strikes his fancy. “I rarely photograph people other than daughters, granddaughters and the UNC women’s soccer team” he notes.
With the digital camera and computer Lindholm creates art in the form of /art photos/. “Unlike some of my artist friends, I use the computer with /Photoshop/ to enhance digital images”, he stresses. “Some are so completely changed that I call them /fantasy photos /while others are pretty much as they came from the camera.”
Lindholm has had one-man shows at the Governors Club, the North Carolina Garden’s Totten Center and the Chapel Hill Library, and has displayed photos in the ChathamArts Gallery.
The Chatham Artists Guild (http://www.chathamartistsguild.org/) is a non-profit organization of regionally and nationally recognized visual artists. Each year, Guild members open their studios to the public each December through the Chatham Open Studio Tour. Visitors travel throughout lovely rural Chatham County to meet artists in their own work spaces, and share their ideas on art and the creative process.
Caption: Myrtle Beach, a photograph by Roy Lindholm
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Chatham Arts’ 100 Mile Film Series
ChathamArts
115 Hillsboro Street
Pittsboro NC 27312
919.542.0394
www.chathamarts.org
The Sustainable Cinema series runs every fourth Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. The series screens documentaries and independent films involving producers, directors, subjects and/or locations within 100 miles of Pittsboro. We like to keep it local! Proceeds benefit
Pearl Diver is the story of two sisters, how they are haunted by the twenty-year-old murder of their mother, and what happens when an accident rips away the layers of secrecy and buried trauma surrounding that night.
This film won BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE at the Winnipeg Int'l Film Festival and at the East Lansing Film Festival, the CRYSTAL HEART AWARD at the Heartland Film Festival, the GRAND JURY PRIZE at the Indianapolis Int'l Film Festival and BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at Woods Hole Film Festival. It has also screened at the St. Louis Int'l,
Admission is $5 and $3 for students for films at The General Store Café. The General Store Café provides a buffet dinner for $10 and also offers a cash bar. It is located at
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