Serving Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, and other towns of the North Carolina High Country
Founded 05-05-05
April 03, 2008 issue
Story by Anna Oakes
The spirit of artistic competition is alive this April, with several juried art shows exhibiting during the monthly Downtown Boone Art Crawl on Friday, April 4.
Beginning at 4:00 p.m., check out what the best local artists have to offer at the Catherine J. Smith Gallery, Turchin Center, Jones House, Nthº Gallery and ArtWalk. The Downtown Boone Development Association sponsors the Art Crawl. For more information, call 828-262-4532.
Nth Gallery and Studios
683 West King Street
On Friday, April 4, the Nth Gallery & Studios will present the Nth Juried Exhibition #2: Art-By-Numbers. The second-ever juried exhibition held at the Nth will feature a variety of works by local and regional artists, all incorporating the conceptual theme of numbers. Three local jurors will decide on winners of the show, and prizes will be awarded.
The jurors include John Bond, owner of The Art Mart; Jamie Carroll, former member of the Nth Gallery and current member of The Collective; and Una Pett, instructor of art at Appalachian State University and first place winner of the Nth Gallery's first Juried Art Show in 2005.
Prizes will include gift certificates from Cheap Joes Art Stuff, Art Mart, Purveyors and various other restaurants and establishments in the Boone area. Nth studio members will also display their Art-By-Numbers themed work in a non-juried display in the smaller gallery room.
The show starts at 7:30 p.m., and light refreshments will be served. Regular attendees to the Nth are invited to bring their own culinary creations or beverages to share, and anything number themed will be welcome-squared!
The Nth Gallery and Studios is a cooperative art venue that seeks to promote emerging and established artists in the High Country region. The Nth Gallery and Studios is located at 683 West King Street, across from the Post Office and above Loretta’s Vendetta.
Catherine J. Smith Gallery
Farthing Auditorium, 733 Rivers Street
828-262-7338
Appalachian State University presents Art Expo 2008, an annual juried student exhibition. The exhibition will run through April 19 at the Catherine J. Smith Gallery in Farthing Auditorium. A reception takes place during the April 4 Art Crawl from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
The award ceremony will begin at 4:30 p.m.; selected artists will receive awards and scholarships.
A jazz trio of students from the Broyhill School of Music will provide entertainment at the circus themed reception. The event is sponsored by the Art Department.
Guest juror Jerry Jackson, assemblage artist and deputy director of the Penland
School of Crafts, selected the artworks from the categories of clay, drawing,
fibers, foundations/fundamentals, graphic design 2D, graphic design 3D/4D,
metalsmithing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Faculty and students also had the opportunity to vote for their favorite work in each category to determine the winners of merchant prizes.
Jones House Community Center
634 West King Street
828-264-1789
The Jones House Community Center galleries of the Watauga Arts Council offer two group exhibits in April. The gallery reception to welcome these exhibits and to release the 13th edition of Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute’s literary and arts magazine Branches is Friday, April 4, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. The reception will include readings of some of the published authors’ works, as well as musical performances by Two Rivers Community School students.
In the Mazie Jones Gallery, illustrations from Branches will be on display. Free copies of the magazine, featuring poetry, prose and art by Watauga and Caldwell County residents, are also available in the gallery. A panel of CCC&TI’s faculty and community members judged the magazine entries.
This year, Lauren Tucker won first place in art for "The Audience," Forrest Yerman took first prize in the poetry contest for his piece "Life" and Liz Ammerman won in the prose category for her piece "The Glorious Mundane."
In the Open Door Gallery, approximately 140 Two Rivers Community School students are exhibiting in a variety of media, including painting, paper sculpture, drawing, puppetry, rock sculpture, papier mâché masks and quilting.
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
423 West King Street
828-262-3017
Two new exhibitions are opening at the Turchin Center on Friday, April 4.
Capturing a Transient World: A Contemporary Look at Louisiana, in Gallery A of the West Wing, is a powerful exhibition focusing on the ever-changing coastal lands of Louisiana. It is an interpretive, multimedia response to the multiplicity of ideas and thoughts surrounding the endangered Louisiana coastline. Participating artists include Karin Eberhardt, Dennis Sipiorski, Delaina LeBlanc, Toby Morriss, Cassandra Seawell and Daniel Kariko, among others.
IN Black & White, in Gallery B and the Mayer Gallery in the West Wing, presents photographs investigating Louisiana’s coastline from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium’s Permanent Collection. LUMCON offers a unique educational course that uses the magnificent and endangered backdrop of the Louisiana estuaries to introduce students to black and white photography.
Also on display are exhibitions that opened in early March, including the finalists of the fifth annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition.
ArtWalk
611 West King Street
828-264-9998
If you desire unique and personal jewelry but lack the skill or time to create it yourself, ArtWalk’s featured jewelry artist Christina Moore is sure to please with her striking jewelry pieces.
Moore, owner of CLM Designs, is a wife and busy mother of three children. She and her family live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Working out of her home, Moore shows her work online as well as at ArtWalk.
Moore creates one-of-a-kind and custom necklaces. The brilliantly colored pendants pair intricate wire wrapping with unique fabrics, sorority letters and distinctive stones. Moore also welcomes custom orders, allowing jewelry lovers to choose birthstones and colors, family names and pictures.
Moore uses only the best materials in her custom made jewelry, including sterling silver, 49-strand professional jeweler’s wire, gold-filled beads, Balinese and Turkish silver, Swarovski pearls and crystals and lead-free solder.
Moore’s jewelry is located on ArtWalk’s main level.