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Carolina Brewery Show
December 2009 - January 2010
Today!
Reception Sunday,
January 3, 2010, 4 to 6 PM
featuring Guild members
& photographs of
the Cat Refuge at
Goathouse Gallery
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Thank You!
to all of you who came out to visit &
helped us have another wonderful
Studio Tour!
2009 winners!
Gallery & Reception
at the Carrboro ArtsCenter
Reception
during Carrboro-Chapel Hill's Friday Night Art Walk,
December 11, 6-9 pm
Gallery
open Saturday & Sunday, 10 am - 10 pm
Visit our blog for more info about this show and reception!
Thank you!
To Jane Bruce & Joyce Bryan
for their gifts
of beautiful pottery presented to
Guild Director Maggie Zwilling &
Guild graphic designer Maggie Wilson
See Joyce/'s work
See Jane's work
NC Potters featured
in Nationwide TV Broadcast
Mark Hewitt
Roger Person
October & November 2009
Carolina Brewery Art Show
Zebra
Reception Sunday,
November 1st
4-6 PM
Kate Ladd:
Featured Artist at
Jordan Lake School of the Arts
a little preview show
featuring small works by
members of the Chatham Artists Guild
show September 14 through October 9, 2009
reception Third Friday Art Walk,
September 18, 6-9
PAF Gallery - NC Arts Incubator
Siler City, NC
A Walk in the Country
Carolina Brewery Art Show
August - September 2009
Reception Sunday, September 6th, 4-6 PM
featuring
Cherie Westmoreland
Shannon Bueker
Phyllis Burns
The August/September Art Exhibit at the Carolina Brewery and Grill in Pittsboro is joyous exploration of today’s Chatham County country life. Phyllis Burns, Shannon Bueker and Cherie Westmoreland craft charming animals and pastoral scenes in clay and canvas. Please join the Chatham Artists Guild in a *Meet the Artists Reception* on Sunday, September 6^th from 4 to 6 PM.
Mark Hewitt Pottery Summer Kiln Opening
goes Local!
Preview:
Friday August 28, 4-7pm
Sale:
Saturday, August 29, 9am - 5pm
Sunday, August 30, 12 noon - 5pm
&
Saturday, September 5, 9am - 5pm
Sunday, September 6, 12 noon - 5pm
The upcoming Kiln Opening at the Mark Hewitt Pottery, just east of Pittsboro, NC, features pots decorated with a new, luminescent, granite glaze, made from our own local "Chapel Hill gravel".
Petrified Forrest:
Forrest Greenslade's new work
Friends of the Pittsboro Memorial Library is pleased to present “Petrified Forrest” by Chatham artist, Forrest Greenslade. Best known for his whimsical animal sculptures and paintings, his new series presents an excursion into the mind of a much more serious artist. Greenslade’s highly stylized, sculptural treescapes are created in modeling paste and tarnished metals on canvas.They depict remembrances on canvas of special woodland places.
"Celebration of a life in art"
The Chatham Artists Guild
Remembers Jackie Hammer
DRAG yourself down to the General Store for an outrageous Burrito Bash
Mark Hewitt Featured at Catawba Valley Pottery Festival
Three years ago celebrated Chatham County potter, Mark Hewitt built a new big kiln to fire alkaline glazes. He already had one kiln the size of a school bus, used for firing salt-glaze, but he likes alkaline-glazed pots so much he felt compelled to build a new kiln. “I guess it was because I love the color green,” says the English-born Hewitt.
Joyce Bryan shares life-long skills at CCCC
Chatham Artist Guild member Joyce Bryon has returned to her roots, teaching pottery skills at Central Carolina Community College.
Carol Owen and Joel Hunnicutt
Color and Form
featured artists for February
at the Piedmont Craftsmen Gallery
Winston-Salem.
February 6 - February 28
Artist reception February 6 7-10pm
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.
Warwick by Carol Owen
Carol Owen 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.
Visit Carol's web site:
http://www.carolowenart.com/
Bottle Form by Joel Hunnicutt
Joel Hunnicutt 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.”
Visit Joel's web site:
http://www.joelhunnicutt.com/
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.
Sixty local artists open their doors to the public starting this weekend for the Chatham County Studio Tour, giving visitors a chance to meet the artists where they work and to enjoy a unique shopping experience.
Founded in 1992, the Chatham Studio Tour is scheduled for the next two weekends—this Saturday and Sunday as well as Dec. 13–14—from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and from noon until 5 p.m on Sundays.
The North Carolina Arts Council's Artful Traveler visited with artists Joyce Bryan, Kathleen Jardine, Siglinda Scarpa, Rita Spina and Edwin White in their studios recently to discuss their work and the impact of studio tours in Chatham County.
Watch the video
The Vintage Fashion Show Extraordinaire
is here again!
Click the link below to see a slide show of all the excitement!
http://www.smokyhollow.us/fashion.html
Behind every piece of art at the Chatham Studio Tour there is an artist’s story
By Forrest Greenslade, reprinted from the Chatlist
When Juan Pons and Forrest Greenslade met only a few years ago, they realized that they had much in common. They both had technical backgrounds. They both were involved with the Chatham Artists Guild – Pons now serves as Vice President and Greenslade as President. Most important, they share a love of nature. They express that love with very different visions at the Carolina Brewery in October and November in a new Carolina Brewery and Grill Show, Force of Nature. Pons’ nature photography presents a life-like glimpse of the natural world he has loved and studied for years. Greenslade expresses a somewhat off beat perspective through his sculpture and acrylic paintings of animals and mythical creatures based on nature. Art- and nature-lovers alike can meet these artist friends at a reception at the Chatham Carolina Brewery on Route 15/501 just North of Pittsboro on Sunday, November 1st from 4 to 6 PM.
