Our mission is to support and enhance a strong, vibrant community through the development, promotion and coordination of arts and cultural activities.
Upcoming/Ongoing Events: Wake Forest ARTS’ Six Sundays in Spring concert series continues on Sunday, May 20 with Folk Country singer Angela Easterling and local indy musician Arielle Bryant. See our Six Sundays page for more details. Also, please check our Calendar for the latest news.
Do you enjoy the Six Sundays in Spring concerts and/or hope to see more performances? Show your support for a covered stage at E. Carroll Joyner Park by following this link and signing our petition. Every signature helps short term and long term!
Here’s a site where you can put up a blurb about your work, opening, etc., and a link, right next to the one from the Coldharbour London Gallery and the Maison Revue Noire in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. From the site: “The art range is a new site, dedicated to exposing artists and art. We are currently gathering fresh content to post.” Why not? boost your page rank and let the world know about your work!
Introducing the 2012 Busk ’til Dusk Street Busking Competition to be held Saturday, June 9, 2012 from 12pm – 8pm on the streets of Glenwood South in Raleigh. Buskers may sing, play an acoustic musical instrument, dance, mime, juggle, sketch, paint, or perform other appropriate theatrical art. Our panel of judges will decide winners.
Visual artist contestants will be selected and judged by the Local Color Plein Air Paintout committee. Performance artists and musicians must submit a video or video link in conjunction with their application. All the info is here.
Focus On The Coast magazine announces a Call to Artists for its 1st Annual Juried Coastal Fine Arts & Crafts Festival, Aug. 31- Sept. 02, 2012 (Labor Day weekend) at the Best Western Plus Coastline Conference & Event Center in Wilmington, North Carolina. This show is open to all artists residing in the U.S., and prizes will be awarded.
The Appalachian Pastel Society invites artists to submit work for their 2012 National Juried Exhibition to be held October 18 – December 14, 2012 at The Asheville School in Asheville, North Carolina. More than $2,000 in cash prizes and art supply gift certificates will be awarded, including a $1,000 Best in Show Cash Award. Please visit the APS website for the prospectus.
Cullowhee Mountain ARTS, a recently-formed non-profit, is launching a Summer Visual ARTS Series on the campus of Western Carolina University, featuring 4 artist workshops per week, for 6 weeks of the summer, taught by 24 nationally recognized artist/instructors. Please check out their website. The workshops will take place in the recently built $30M Fine and Performing Arts Center with state-of-the-art studios and wonderful housing.
Friday June 8, 2012, 7:00 pm, Steve Gilbert will be reading from his novel, A Lovely, Indecent Departure, a dramatic story of a young, immigrant mother, who, having lost her son in a bitter child custody dispute with his American father, abducts the five year old and flees to her native Italy. While casting light on an unjust legal system and the desperate climate of missing children and parental abduction, at the center of this emotional novel is the determined search for a sense of worth. For more information visit Steve’s website. Come to The Storyteller’s Book Store to hear Steve Gilbert read! He will also be autographing copies of his book. The Storyteller’s Book Store, 158 S. White Street, Wake Forest, NC ● 919-556-3903 ● www.storystorewf.com
Autumn in the Western North Carolina Mountains finds thousands of visitors traveling to the region to observe its amazing fall foliage. What better time is there to celebrate art by bringing artists from far & wide to Historic Downtown Hendersonville to share their stories and art with the community? The Art League of Henderson County created Art on Main in 1959 to provide local artists the opportunity to show their work in a relaxed atmosphere while meeting the public to sell their paintings. You will find all the details concerning this show, along with a .pdf format application form, here.
Wake Forest ARTS is seeking to contribute to the vitality of the Wake Forest community by presenting our own local Artist Market at the Six Sundays in spring concert series. The Artist Market will be held in conjunction with the concert series at E. Carol Joyner Park which is ongoing every Sunday for six Sundays. Each artist has the opportunity to display and sell their original works of art which include, paintings, found metal sculptures, textiles, and jewelry.
Participating Artists: Ivey Blair (metal smith), Kimber Browning (jewelry and handmade hair accessories), Alysha Bushey (jewelry), Hans Boyesen (painting), the Garden Club, with various artists exhibiting works in a variety of media: Nereida Gonzalez-Bridges (textiles – tie-dyed clothing), Robin Hendricks (hypertufa sculpture), and James Lynch found metal sculptures.
For artists: would you like to participate in the Artist Market? Space is still available for a limited time for the following dates: May 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th and June 3, 2012. Please complete the artist application for consideration.
Our annual 6-week concert series, Six Sundays in Spring starts this Sunday, April 29, 3-7 pm. There will be an artist’s market, food, refreshments, and of course music! This weekend we’re presenting gospel music all-male group the Ministers of Worship, opening for our featured artist, Marcus Anderson who will enchant the audience with jazz. Check our Six Sundays page for more information.
