Green Hill Center for NC Art in Greensboro, NC, Launches Social Media Fundraising Campaign

Today, Green Hill Center for NC Art, in Greensboro, NC, launched I Heart NC Art, a social media campaign to raise awareness and funding to support working North Carolina artists, as well as support the next generation in North Carolina. Green Hill Center for NC Art has set a goal to reach $31,250 before March 15, 2013.

The campaign name I Heart NC Art is titled to create a focus around North Carolina Artists. Since its founding in 1974, Green Hill Center has presented and sold artwork of over 9,700 visual artists and engaged nearly 1 million visitors through free access to The Gallery, ArtQuest, and The Shop. Green Hill Center connects people to art through open, accessible, and personal experiences. With North Carolina at the center, Green Hill Center produces original exhibitions, invest in North Carolina artists and educate people of all ages.

“In today’s economic climate, non-profits must be astute in figuring out how to explore new ideas without creating a financial burden on the organization. Green Hill Center’s supporters are varied and loyal but we must reach out to new supporters and friends, and using social media as a tool to accomplish this is essential,” said Laura Way, Executive Director of Green Hill Center for NC Art, “Today, our Center must raise funds to support ArtQuest, the exhibition program and general operations—we start each year from dollar zero; we need the support of many to achieve all that we do each year. We steward every dollar wisely, and make careful and deliberate decisions on where to allocate our resources. The funds from I Heart NC Art will be used to support the programs our community values, and will help us remain a healthy, sustainable organization this year, and the next 38.”

“Green Hill Center has been around for 38 years, and after 38 years we know what the community values in our programs through its participation and support. This campaign is a means to help support those programs that our community has indicated are valuable to them.  This is not just the Greensboro community, but the community of artists across the state.  The funds raised will be unrestricted funds to help support our exhibitions, ArtQuest and our general exhibitions.”

Donors who give to the “I Heart NC Art” campaign receive online recognition for their gift. Supporters and advocates are asked to use #IHeartNCArt on twitter and “Like” on Facebook to help amplify the message. The following are tools to share or send to friends, family and colleagues.

For more information visit (www.greenhillcenter.org).

NC Entrepreneurship Center in Greensboro, NC, Gears Up for Fourth Annual Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts Conference – Feb. 9, 2013

UNC-G is gearing up for its fourth annual Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts Conference, which helps artists learn how to make a living from their passion.

The event, hosted by the North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center and the university’s Entrepreneurship Cross-Disciplinary Program held on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, will feature artists and other speakers sharing how to develop successful ventures. The conference drew more than 350 attendees last year, comprised of emerging and mid-career artists and students.

“The conference is intended to assist artists in going from survival to success with hands-on tools they can implement the next day,” said Dr. Dianne H.B. Welsh, conference co-chair and founder. “This is about having artists work full time on their art and not have to supplement with outside employment.”

The conference in Elliott University Center will feature a full day of entrepreneurial training by experts across the visual, performing and literary arts. The theme for the 2013 conference is “Connect, Collaborate, Create,” with topics including “Artists and Community Engagement: New Thinking Yields New Options,” “Music Without Borders: Building a Career Though Unconventional Collaborations,” “Out of the Office – Leaving the Corporate World,” “How to Be a Profitable Artist” and “My Dream on the Giant Screen.”

The opening speaker will be Roy Underhill, host of PBS’ “The Woodwright’s Shop” and founder of The Woodwright’s School. The lunch keynote will be Dennis Quaintance, CEO and chief design officer of Quaintance-Weaver Hotels and Restaurants. Other speakers include Harvey Robinson from Monkeywhale Productions; singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett; sculptor Ken Thompson; writing and publishing couple Deb and David White; and Doug Borwick, author of the new book “Building Communities, Not Audiences: The Future of the Arts in the US.”

The conference will be preceded by the popular “Iron Pour” at sculptor Jim Gallucci’s studios on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.

The cost of the conference, which includes all sessions, meals and a reception, is $60 for the general public and $40 for students. A limited number of stipends for UNCG students are available (visit http://entrepreneurship.uncg.edu for scholarship forms). The Iron Pour is $15, followed by a $10 reception at the studio.

Key sponsors for the event include North Central College, The Coleman Foundation, UNCG’s Entrepreneurship Cross-Disciplinary Program, AT&T, American Express, PostcardMania, UNCG’s Center for Creative Writing in the Arts and Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff.

For more information and to register, visit (http://seac.uncg.edu).

Green Hill Center for NC Art in Greensboro, NC, Announces The NC Art Outreach Project for NC Abstract Artists – Deadline Jan. 1, 2013

The Green Hill Center for NC Art in Greensboro, NC, announces The NC Art Outreach Project, a program offering artists local, national, and international opportunities for exposure and professional advancement through access to networks. The project allows artists the opportunity to connect with art professionals and offers a platform for sharing opinions in a collegial atmosphere. The NC Art Outreach Project is an opportunity that has been made available by the generosity of the Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation.

Artists will present digital images of their work in a Pecha Kucha format presentation in The Gallery at Green Hill Center. On Feb. 16, 2013, from 9am to 5pm, the top 60 selected artists will present 20 images in front of a panel, discussing each slide for 20 seconds (allowing for a six minute presentation). The panel will consists of Edie Carpenter, Director of Curatorial and Artists Programs, Green Hill Center staff, and other visual arts writers, curators and artists from across the state. After the presentations the floor will open for an informal exchange with the presenting artists. On Mar. 1, 2013, twenty artists will be selected to move on to the next set of presentations on Tuesday, Apr. 23, 2013, from 10am to noon where their work will be reviewed by a panel of art professionals from New York City. The panel of art professionals will be giving a public talk prior to that event on Monday, Apr. 22, 2013, from 5:30-6:30pm at Green Hill Center for NC Art.

April 23rd NC Art Outreach Project Panel Participates include:
Edie Carpenter, Director of Curatorial and Artists Programs
Miles Manning, Director of the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in New York
Lilly Wei, New York-based independent curator and critic
Peter Plagens, American painter, art critic and novelist
Independents exhibiting artists: Brett Baker, Mark Brown, Ashlynn Browning, Philip Lopez & Bonnie Melton

The call-for-artists is open to visual abstract artists currently working in the state of North Carolina. Qualifying artists include artists who have studied in a North Carolina degree program, taught professionally in North Carolina, maintained ongoing professional relationships in North Carolina, or who have previously resided in the state. Abstract works in two or three dimensions are eligible; however, photography, film, and video works will not be eligible for this program. All works must have been made within the last five years. Green Hill Center will accept submissions on a first-come, first-serve basis. Green Hill Center curatorial staff will review all applications and select participants based on submitted images and applications and available spaces. All submission materials must be received by January 1, 2013. Register online at (www.greenhillcenter.org) and click on the “NC Outreach Project” button.

Green Hill Center for NC Art is located at 200 North Davie Street, in the Greensboro Cultural Center. Green Hill Center is the only non-collecting institution dedicated to presenting, promoting, and advocating contemporary visual art and artists of North Carolina.

For more information visit (www.greenhillcenter.org).

15th Annual Artstock Studio Tour Takes Place in Greensboro, NC, on Oct. 13 and 14, 2012 – The Community Art Show Calls for Entries – Deadline Sept. 14, 2012

The 15th Annual Artstock Studio Tour and the newly opened Interactive Resource Center (IRC), 407 East Washington Street in downtown Greensboro, NC, will host the second annual “The Community Art Show” between Sept. 27 through Nov. 7, 2012.

An Opening Reception with refreshments and live music hosted by IRC volunteers will be held on Thursday, Sept. 27, from 6-8pm. For IRC hours of operation, please call 336/332-0824 or visit (www.gsodaycenter.org).

“The Community Art Show” is a non-juried, multi-discipline exhibition for participating Artstock artists, IRC artists and all community fine artists.

Call to Artist Guidelines: Artwork must be appropriate for a diverse public audience; art must be  ready to hang; artist must supply contact information and wall label for their artwork; one piece per artist; artwork may be no larger than 3’ x 4’ or heavier than 25lbs; artist must supply hanging supplies or pedestal.  Delivery and hang-up dates are Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 13 and 14 at the IRC between 9am-3pm. Pick-updates are Thursday and Friday, Nov. 8 and 9 at the IRC between 9am-3pm.

“The Community Art Show” gives artists from the IRC an opportunity to install and show their artwork along with established Greensboro artists, teaching them the basics of artwork exhibition and giving them pride in their work.  As one IRC artist said, “I always had art in me, but I didn’t take myself seriously as an artist until other people started to.” This art show gives public awareness to the homeless within our community and allows for interactivity with them within a common, but different way.

For more information about the Artstock Studio Tour, please visit (www.artstocktour.com) or how to submit artwork to “The Community Art Show”, contact Carolyn Owen, 336/643-6428. For more information about the mission and services of the IRC, visit their website (www.gsodaycenter.org) or call 336/332-0824.

 

 

 

Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC, Offers Artist Talk by Curtis Mann – Sept. 6, 2012

Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC, will offer an Artist Talk with Curtis Mann, co-presented by SECCA and the University of North Carolina Greensboro on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, @ 5pm. The event is free and open to the public.

Curtis Mann, “Pointing Woman”, 2010

Curtis Mann blurs the borders between photography, painting, journalism and fiction as he transforms photos of the Middle East and North Africa into fluid re-imaginings of perception and place. Join Mann for an illuminating artist talk as he shares insight into the process behind the making of his work, and the motivations behind his unique models of erasure and interpretation.

The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in  Winston-Salem, NC, is presenting the exhibition, “Curtis Mann: Modifications”, on view through Sept. 16, 2012.

For further info call the Weatherspoon at 336/334-5770 or visit  (http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/).

 

 

 

University of North Carolina at Greensboro (NC) Receives Grants for Weatherspoon Art Museum

The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro, NC, has been awarded grants by two national foundations: $80,000 from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and $10,000 from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.

The Warhol Foundation grant will support two major exhibitions: “Diana Al-Hadid” (February 9 – May 5, 2013) and “Nancy Rubins: Fifteen Years of Flying High” (February 10 – May 6, 2014). The Firestone Graham Foundation award will support the catalogue for “Diana Al-Hadid”.  Both projects enhance and expand upon the Weatherspoon’s long reputation for producing thought-provoking exhibitions.

“I was absolutely ecstatic to hear the news,” said Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions of the Weatherspoon, “We are truly honored by the Warhol and Firestone Graham Foundation’s recognition of our commitment to presenting the best and most innovative contemporary art.“

Al-Hadid’s exhibition in Spring 2013 will be her first solo museum survey and will be accompanied by the first monograph on her work. Rubin’s exhibition in Spring 2014 will be the first to consider the relationships between the artist’s work on paper and her sculpture, as well as other aspects of her art that have been given little attention.

“The support of the Warhol and Firestone Graham Foundations means the world to us. With dwindling resources over the past four years, the backing of organizations such as these is essential for us to continue to present unique exhibitions of the work of seminal artists such as Al-Hadid and Rubins,” notes Nancy Doll, Director.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts was established in 1987 to foster innovative artistic expression and the creative process by encouraging and supporting cultural organizations that in turn, directly or indirectly, support artists and their work. The Foundation values the contribution these organizations make to artists and audiences and to society as a whole by supporting, exhibiting and interpreting a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practice.

The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation is dedicated to fostering awareness and appreciation of contemporary visual art, particularly through the support of catalogues and other publications that document exhibitions of work by emerging or under-recognized artists.

For further information call the Museum at 336/334-5770 or visit (http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/).

 

 

 

Visiting Artist Phoebe Washburn Offers Lecture at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC – April 3, 2012

Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, will offer a lecture by visiting artist Phoebe Washburn on Tuesday, Apr. 3, 2012, at 7:30pm in Bryan Jr. Auditorium at the Frank Family Science Center. The event is free and open to the public.

New York-based installation artist Phoebe Washburn creates monumental-scale works utilizing discarded and recycled materials such as wood from pallets, cardboard boxes and newspaper, and fish tanks. Her painstaking process involves elements of chance and obsessive repetition. She compares the activity of producing her sculptures, which requires a team of assistants, to beavers building a dam, and adds, “The shapes are less about form than they are about the activity involved in amassing and assembling the forms.”

Called “one of the country’s most closely watched young artists,” Washburn has shown at the Deutsche Guggenheim, the 2008 Whitney Biennial and she is represented by Zach Fehlauer Gallery in NY. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts (NY), and is the daughter of Parker ’69 and Arthur ’69 Washburn.

For further information call Louise Boothby at 336/316-2483.

Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, Offers Multimedia Spoken Word Performance – Feb. 10, 2012

Poetic Portraits of a Revolution, a multimedia spoken word performance by Will McInerney, Kane Smego, Mohammad Moussa, and Sameer Abdel-khalek, will take place on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, from 7:30-9:30pm in Guilford College Art Gallery, located in Hege Library,, 5800 W. Friendly Ave., on the Guilford College campus in Greensboro, NC. The public is invited to attend this free event.

Poetic Portraits of a Revolution is a theatrical multimedia performance incorporating spoken word, video, and photography that seeks to give a glimpse into the stories and emotions behind the popular movements in Egypt and Tunisia. The event will be followed by a Q&A session.

Members of PPR, left to right, top to bottom: Mohammad Moussa, Kane Smego, Will McInerney, Sameer Abdel-khalek. Courtesy of PPR.

Produced by the Academy Award-winning organization Empowerment Project, Poetic Portraits of a Revolution sent nationally recognized spoken word poets and youth educators Will McInerney and Kane Smego along with project translator and interpreter Mohammad Moussa and professional photographer and videographer Sameer Abdel-khalek to Egypt and Tunisia from June 15 – August 9, 2011. The team collected oral histories, captured photographs and video, and created poetic reflections that depict the sights, sounds, and emotions of life in both countries during this time of transformation. Poetry and recordings from their journey have been featured in radio segments broadcast nationally on the American Public Media show The Story with Dick Gordon, as well as on the WUNC program Morning Edition. All of the material gathered during the trip is currently being transformed into a live theater performance, a photographic and poetry installation, a book publication, and a film production. Poetic Portraits of a Revolution seeks to utilize art and first hand accounts to highlight the human experience behind these powerful social movements.

“The privileges and rights we have are something we cannot take for granted,” Abdel-Khalek said. “Also, we need to help others achieve that self determination and their struggles overseas because it is what connects us as humans—we actually need to care about one another in a globalized way, and it can promote peace and not war.”

The performance is offered in conjunction with the exhibition, Esse Quam Videri: Self Portraits by Bahraini Muslims, which features twenty-four portraits collaboratively created by Muslims living in Manama, Bahrain and NC artist Todd Drake. The photographs are the result of a project funded by a Fulbright-Hayes Grant and support from the US State Department.

Drake visited Bahrain last May to conduct photography workshops for Bahraini youth and photography aficionados. During his workshops, Drake collaborated with Bahrainis from diverse backgrounds to explore concepts of identity and perspectives of themselves. The objectives of the workshop included promoting a richer understanding of Muslims and Islamic culture in America, building bridges between the United States and Bahrain, and deepening friendships in and across cultures.

Co-sponsors for the performance and exhibition are the Center for Principled Problem Solving and the American Friends Service Committee.

Esse Quam Videri: Self Portraits by Bahraini Muslims, an exhibition featuring 24 portraits collaboratively created by Muslims living in the Kingdom of Bahrain and NC artist, Todd Drake, is now on view through Feb. 29, at Guilford College Art Gallery.

This event is free and open to the public.

For further information call 336-316-2438 or visit (www.guilford.edu).

Green Hill Center for NC Art in Greensboro, NC, Offers Artists with Multiple Talents During First Friday – Jan. 6, 2012

The Green Hill Center for NC Art, located at the Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N. Davie Street in Greensboro, NC, on Jan. 6, from 6-9pm, during Greensboro’s First Friday events.

Join Green Hill Center to celebrate exhibiting artists with multiple talents. Winter Show artist Mark Stephenson will perform a collection of show tunes followed by The Rabbit Collective, which includes two Winter Show artists, Keith Buckner and Lisa Woods. Music begins at 7pm.

Light refreshments will be served. Cash bar. Free and open to the public.

For further info call the Center at 336/333-7460 or visit (www.greenhillcenter.org).

North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center at UNC Greensboro in Greensboro, NC, Offers Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts Conference – Feb. 11, 2012

The Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts Conference is an event specifically designed for emerging, mid-career professionals and students in the literary, performing, and visual arts. This conference is designed to teach practical skills that can be implemented in your business tomorrow and beyond!

The conference takes place on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, from 9am-6pm, at the Elliott University Center at UNC Greensboro in Greensboro, NC.

Learn how to turn artistic passion into a living. This artist-led conference will present entrepreneurial strategies and resources for student artists and emerging artists to become self-supporting. The conference will feature numerous speakers in breakout sessions covering the areas of Literary, Performing and Visual Arts.

Take advantage of this opportunity to meet and network with successful artists and make strong connections for the future.

REGISTRATION FEES
Registration (Before Feb. 10) $53 (student discount rate $38)
Registration at Door $65 (students $45)
(Fees include all sessions, meals and reception)

Visit the conference website at (http://seac.uncg.edu) to get more information, which includes a list of speakers, registration, agenda and schedule of the event. Registration is now open. Visit the website to sign up for this great opportunity at such a reasonable price. Please spread the word on this wonderful opportunity to grow successful artistic entrepreneurs.

For conference questions: visit our website at (http://entrepreneur.uncg.edu), e-mail to (ncec@uncg.edu) or phone 336/256-8649.

Also consider joining the Tri State Sculptors Association at an optional Iron Pour Demonstration on Friday, Feb. 10, 2011. (Admittance to Iron Pour not included in registration ticket; you must purchase a separate ticket to this event in order to attend – $15).

Optional Friday Evening Reception on Friday, 2/10/11 (Admittance to Friday Reception not included in registration ticket; you must purchase a separate ticket to this event in order to attend – $10).