May 2013                                                                     Ana Woodall

                                                                                    opsupport@haywoodarts.org

WHO:              Haywood County Arts Council

WHAT:             Seeking Paid Intern

WHEN:            Intern to begin on June 6, 2013 and will work for a 3-month period

WHERE:           Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main Street, Waynesville, NC 28786

Haywood County Arts Council Seeking Paid Intern

Waynesville, NC - Haywood County Arts Council is a non-profit 501(c) organization located in Waynesville, N.C. Our mission is to build partnerships that promote art and artists, explore new cultural opportunities, and preserve our mountain artistic heritage.  We are currently looking for a highly motivated intern to assist the Operations Support.

The internship position includes, but not limited to the following responsibilities:

-          Assist in developing and implementing the Art Council’s communications plan

-          Update and organize marketing/publicity

-          Track the Art Council’s current grants

-          General administrative duties

-          Assist with standardizing communication and marketing processes

-          Grant research

The ideal candidate should be enterprising and articulate, with the ability to handle whatever task is presented with efficiency. Intern should be either an undergraduate or graduate student. Organizational skills, attention to detail, and demonstrated administrative and research skills are also required.  Interest in art gallery management and art administration required.

We are looking for a gallery intern to start by June 6^th and commit 2 days a week or 20 hours a week for 3 months.  This is a paid internship.

Please email your cover letter and resume to opsupport@haywoodarts.org by May 29, 2013 for consideration. No phone calls please.

The Haywood County Arts Council believes in the power of creativity to strengthen communities, support their local traditions, and build pride in their cultural heritage.  This belief motivates us to nurture the growth and accessibility of art and crafts throughout the Western North Carolina Mountains by partnering with civic groups, schools, and other art organizations.  To these ends, the Haywood County Arts Council promotes visibility and support for the visual arts, performing arts, as well as traditional and evolving craft movements in Western North Carolina.

For more information about upcoming Gallery 86 exhibits, concerts, and programs, visit the Haywood County Arts Council online at www.haywoodarts.org, like us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter. The mission of the Haywood County Arts Council is to build partnerships that promote art and artists, explore new cultural opportunities, and preserve mountain artistic heritage. This project was supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.-XXX-

Stanback Gallery Hall

Kathy Sosa – San Antonio, TX

Adornment and Identity, paintings

Norvell Gallery

Diana Greene – Winston-Salem, NC

A Dozen Dresses: The ReCollection, large scale photography

      Osborne Gallery

      Allison Luce – Mooresville, NC

      Significant Moments, assemblages

Woodson Gallery

Kristi Ryba – St. John’s Island, SC

Primoris Ortus, clay sculpture

Young People’s Gallery

The Memory Project – Special progressive collaborative sculpture installation

      Stanback Sensory Garden

Sculptures by Glenn Zweygardt, Alfred Station, NY

Exhibition Dates:         May 25 – September 7, 2013

Opening Reception:    Friday, May 31, 2013

Informal Gallery Talks with Artists beginning at 5pm

Reception, 6-8pm

      Free and open to the public; Donations Appreciated

Gallery Hours:             Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10 am – 5 pm

Tuesday and Thursday, 10 am – 7 pm

Saturday, 11 am – 3 pm

Address:                      123 East Liberty Street

      Salisbury, NC  28144

Located in the East Square Cultural District of historic downtown Salisbury

Walk-in, self-guided tours are welcome during gallery hours. Groups may arrange a guided tour of the exhibitions by calling 704/636-1882 at least two weeks before requested tour.

Admission:                  FREE; donations appreciated

Four female artists examine the function and meaning of memory and its role in nature and nurture in shaping cultural norms for women.  Through vastly different life experiences, creative process and inspiration are highlighted in a woman’s life through visual representation in various mediums.  The exhibition is a feminine and delicate blend of memory and imagination.

Diana Greene (Winston-Salem, NC) discovered that she unintentionally collects dresses. Dresses can be a touchstone or even a talisman for memory.  A Dozen Dresses: The Recollection is a beautiful photographic narrative featuring photographs of different dresses from various stages of Greene’s life. “This series is unsentimental. It explores the theme of fashion as personality, clothes as symbols, dresses as conduits for dreams and mistakes, identity and loss. Clothes change you, please you, pull you down, sex you up or hide you.”  Her special performance piece, based on the photographs, will be shown in the Norvell Theatre on Thursday, August 15 (time tbd).  The show is moving, funny, and visually rich with images, video, and music.  Diana’s photographs have been exhibited at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem), The Light Factory (Charlotte), PhotoSPIVA, university and commercial galleries, and public libraries.  She has earned numerous awards and fellowships, including the Weir Farm artist in residency fellowship and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.  In 2011, the University of Melbourne added several of her works to its permanent collection.  Diana works as a visiting artist in the schools, teaching students narrative writing and photography.  She’s been awarded teaching grants from the Arts Councils of Arizona, NC, and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County.  She holds an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University.  She writes short stories, NPR commentaries, documentaries, and articles about art and artists.

Allison Luce (Mooresville, NC) is an artist and art historian whose work in ceramics, printmaking and sculpture has helped to define a new movement of contemporary artists.  Her current body of work titled Primoris Ortus explores concerns about fragility and femininity.  From afar, her pieces seem to be beautiful flowers of different shapes and colors intertwined with each other, but on closer inspection, the intricate details and flowers begin to look more like snakes and vines.  Using clay as a metaphor for the body, she creates structures that are symbolic of the body and soul. “These sculptures are about birth, growth and temptation. It is this play between innocence and experience that forms the basis of my work. I call into question embedded attitudes, opinions and beliefs regarding the value of woman’s work, the messages and myths regarding family, as well as how longing and nostalgia influence our memory.”  Luce graduated with dual BFA degrees in Painting and Art History from Ohio University, and holds her MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York.  She currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina where she is a studio artist and an adjunct art instructor. She has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions and her work is included in private collections.  She has been a resident artist at the International Ceramic Research Center in Skaelskør, Denmark, the Zentrum für Keramik-Berlin, Germany, and the Shaw International Centre for Contemporary Ceramics at the Medalta International Artists in Residence in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.  She was awarded a Regional Artist Project Grant from the Arts and Science Council of Charlotte.

Kristi Ryba (St. John’s Island, SC) uses vintage family photographs to create paintings based on the iconography and the sacred hierarchical messages of Medieval and Renaissance altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts in Significant Moments. “My intention is to construct a new reality from personal memory combined with family history.  Embedded attitudes, opinions and beliefs regarding the value of woman’s work, the ordinariness of daily life, the significance of memory, and the role of nature and nurture in shaping cultural norms are what interest me.”  Ryba says, “I reconstruct a reality from a borrowed memory and combine personal memory with family history. It is a way to examine and question the culture and ideals of that period of our collective history in which many of us were shaped.” Ryba received her BA from College of Charleston, graduating Magna Cum Laude, and her MFA from Vermont College in Montpelier, Vermont.  Her award-winning work has been widely exhibited nationally and is held in numerous private collection and corporate collections including the Medical University of South Carolina, Maryland Printmakers Society, and Southern Graphics Council.

Kathy Sosa’s series of portraits titled Adornment and Identity is a celebration of women.  With bold striking colors, Sosa creates powerful portraits of women portrayed in her own sense of style and color that is both traditional and modern.  Her two series, Huipiles and Trees of Life are influenced by the rich cultural heritage ofMesoamerica.  The Huipiles series is inspired by the vintage textile patterns of the traditional blouses worn by the Mayan people.  The women in this series are beautiful and proud in the colorful woven and embroidered huipiles against collaged fabric backgrounds.  In the Trees of Life series, Sosa reinterprets a popular Mexican folk art form, originally three-dimensional ceramic folk art forms.  She interprets the Trees of Life two-dimensionally and with a contemporary edge. They depict female figures wearing elaborate headgear filled with symbols representing what the woman is thinking about at an imagined moment in time.  Limited edition prints of Sosa’s work have been sold in a national home decor retail chain.  She has been commissioned by the Texas Conference of Women to paint design icon Martha Stewart. Her creative work has earned numerous awards.  Mrs. Sosa holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in political science, both from St. Mary‚ University in San Antonio.  This exhibition is organized through Katharine T. Carter & Associates.

Please join us in welcoming these artists at the Opening Reception on Friday, May 31, 2013.  Informal gallery talks with the exhibiting artists begin at 5pm.  Reception will be from 6-8pm.  Light refreshments will be served.  Free and open to the public.

In addition to the professional exhibitions, Waterworks will feature a selection of work in a solo exhibition from this year’s Dare to Imagine Award winner, Kaitlin Crouch.  Now in its ninth year, the Dare to Imagine Award is given in recognition of the importance of art in the life of our community and to a graduating senior whose work most exemplifies the creative potential of the human spirit, heart, and hand. This $1,000 award is made possible by a gift from Susan and Edward Norvell.  Kaitlin is an art student of Ms. Stacey Rollins at East Rowan High School.   She plans to attend Western Carolina University to study graphic design and marketing.

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PLAY 

Reception from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. 
Free with membership or regular Museum admission 

 

As the name suggests, PLAY explores themes of leisure, play and creativity and includes many works from the Museum’s Permanent Collection.

 

The family-friendly opening reception will include special entertainment provided by the  Asheville Hoops Troupe, face painting by Asheville Face & Body Painting and interactive games by O.P. Taylor’s of Asheville. Sweet treats and refreshments for all ages will also be provided.Children, families and visitors of all ages are welcome and encouraged to attend.

 

Shown above: Carolyn DeMeritt (1946-), Caitlin/Bubble, 1986/2009. Silver gelatin print, 24 x 20 inches. 2008 Art Nouveaux Purchase, Asheville Art Museum Collection, 2008.28.02.91.

Deadline: Postmarked by June 30, 2013

Awards:

1^ST PLACE:  Your choice of a 3 night stay at The Mountain Muse B&B in Asheville; or 3 free online workshops; or 100 pages line-edited and revised by our editorial staff

2nd PLACE: 2 night stay at the B&B; or 2 free workshops; or 50 pages line-edited

3rd PLACE:  One free workshop, or 25 pages line-edited

10 Honorable Mentions

Guidelines:

Write about a difficult experience in your life, how you overcame this obstacle, and how you were changed by it. Winning stories will be chosen for originality and creative writing style. Stories should be previously unpublished, and should not exceed 4,000 words (double-spaced, 12 point font). Multiple entries are accepted.

Your name, address, email, phone and title of work should also appear on a cover sheet. Enclose a self-addressed, self-sealing stamped envelope for critique and list of winners, and the reading fee of $25 (or $20 for Workshop members) per entry. Please make check or money order payable to Writers’ Workshop, and send to: Hard Times Contest, 387 Beaucatcher Road, Asheville, N.C.  28805.

Emailed submissions may be sent to writersw@gmail.com, with “Hard Times Contest” in the subject. Entry fee is payable online at www.twwoa.org.