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August 31, 2016

Meet This Artist: Sculptor Eddie White is exploring on a large scale

Sculptor Eddie White starts with a piece of paper or a thin sheet of plastic. He cuts intricate lines – sometimes parallel, sometimes curved – and carefully twists the ribs apart…. Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist | Tagged With: Artist, Chatham County, Come Out & Play Sculpture Show, Creative Process, North Carolina, Public Art, sculptor, sculpture, Silk Hope, steel

July 30, 2016

Meet This Artist: Allison Tierney is exploring the objectness of paint

Artist Allison Tierney is known for applying paint in a “non-traditional”style. But paint isn’t the only thing she is applying to her canvases. “My pieces often employ found items that… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Art Show, Artist, Arts education, Chatham Arts Council, Community, Creative Process, emerging artist grant recipient, exploration, explore, foraged, found objects, gallery show, mixed media, painting, Pittsboro, recycled

June 2, 2016

Meet This Artist: Leandra Strope is empowering girls to find their voices

While other toddlers were smearing yogurt in their hair and coloring on the walls with crayons, Leandra Strope at age two was learning to play the violin. “My mother was… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist | Tagged With: auditions, choir, Chorus, Community, concert, ensemble, girls, Music, performance, Recipients - Grassroots Arts Grants, Sisters' Voices, summer camp

April 27, 2016

Meet This Artist: Young Authors, Bright Lights

When Chatham County’s media coordinators put out a call for original stories, more than 500 elementary and middle school students delivered. Autobiographies, works of fiction, pop-ups books, poetry – they… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: artists, Arts education, authors, books, Chatham County Schools, Literary Arts, Margaret Pollard Middle School, North Chatham Elementary, Siler City Elementary, students, writers

March 29, 2016

Meet this Artist: Liz Bliss is a Cirque Performer with a Flare

Chatham County artist Elizabeth Robertson (aka Liz Bliss) is a cirque performer, aerial artist, acrobat, stilt dancer, fire dancer and instructor. “I tend to think of myself more as a… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: acrobatics, aerial, arts, circus, cirque, costumes, Creative Culture, Cultural Events, dance, face painting, fire dancing, hooping, make-up, stilt walking, stilts, theater, theatre

March 6, 2016

Meet This Artist: Linda Booker fuses art and issues through documentaries

As a child, Linda Booker was especially drawn to these three things:  art, reading and the little brook that trickled near her home.  The latter provided a quiet retreat where… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist | Tagged With: art, beach, Chatham County, conservation, documentary, film, Media Arts, non-fiction, North Carolina, Pittsboro, plastics, video

December 18, 2015

Meet This Artist: Meredith Bridges – shoemaker, weaver, sculptor, teacher

Meredith Bridges can make herself a pair of shoes, weave a blanket, construct a pack basket and craft a shaker box. She does so with creative flare, a respect for… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: crafting, crafts, leather, leather working, leatherworking

November 26, 2015

Meet This Artist: Joey Howell Creates in Paints & Notes

In the deep woods of Chatham County, Joey Howell has found synchronicity between his two art forms. He plays music to create “visual imagery that transports the listener” and he… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, County Happenings, Events, Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured, Uncategorized | Tagged With: Art Show, Artist, Chatham Artists Guild, Chatham County Studio Tour, Cultural Events, Joyful Jewell, Meet This Artist, musician, painter, Siler City, teaching artist

September 25, 2015

Meet This Artist: Diali Cissokho Blazes a New Chapter

Musician and songwriter Diali Cissokho was born into a long line of West African griots, who have been passing down history through song for seven centuries. From a small fishing… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: kora, Music, Senegal, West Africa, world music

June 26, 2015

Meet This Artist: The Passions and Preoccupations of Painter Julia Kennedy

Julia Kennedy has known for some time that she has a passion for vintage muscle cars (she drives a 1967 Chevy Impala SS 3964), Korean pickled crab, dark mystery novels… Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: abstract, Julia Kennedy, painting

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