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Asheville Fine Art Show presents works by brilliant artist Michael Brennan May 19 & 20 Nestled in North Carolina’s picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains, the City of Asheville is known for its historic architecture, vibrant arts scene and premier equestrian events, and on May 19 & 20, the cozy Asheville suburb or Fletcher will be home to both the Asheville Fine Art Show and Asheville Saddlebred Classic Horse Show. Appropriately, show’s organizer Hot Works, LLC, has chosen Tallahassee, Florida modern artist Michael Brennan as its featured artist for the show. Included in his body of wildlife works are a collection of chiseled equestrian studies engrafted over vintage paper collages. The combination serves to highlight the intelligence and power of the horses he depicts. Brennan traces his interest in equestrian subject matter back to 2010 when he was exposed to the world of fox hunting and equestrian events. “Someone asked

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me to do a rendition of a horse for a charity event,” Brennan recalls. “I hadn’t been around horses or horse people before that. The passion they have for owning, training and riding their horses was like nothing I’d ever seen before.” Several of these new acquaintances invited Brennan to visit their horse farms or watch their kids compete at shows. Michael eagerly accepted. He spent hours carefully observing the geldings and mares and how they interacted with their owners, trainers, and riders. “They’re brilliant and even playful if you know how to read them,” Michael asserts. “It starts with their eyes and ears. That’s how they tell you if they’re approachable or not.” And not surprisingly, many of Brennan’s equestrian portraits paint a picture of the horses’ moods and predilections as revealed through the mirror of their eyes. Other of Brennan’s collaged equestrian works center on the grace, agility, and power lurking beneath their elongated ‘Brennan’ continued pg. 27

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producer of The Autumn Showcase of Local Art, previously held at the Balsam Mountain Inn. They believe that with ARTQUEST they are raising the public appreciation of the many accomplished artists in Haywood County, as well as enriching the cultural image of the county and boosting the local economy through the arts. As part of this endeavor, we will be partnering with another Haywood County business, LeapFrog Tours. LeapFrog Tours will help provide transportation to some of the more outlying studios. ARTQUEST HAYWOOD Opening reception, Thursday, May 3, 6-8pm. Visit www. artquesthaywood.com to learn more about the participating artists and locations of their studios.

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CONTENTS Volume 21, NO. 8

COLUMNS / DEPARTMENTS

ART AND MORE FEATURES

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Asheville’s Grovewood Gallery to Host “Spring Awakening” — A Pediatric Patients’ Exhibition to Benefit Arts For Life AmiciMusic presents four-hand and two piano programs in April plus a Ragtime Romp Cover and Art Show: Patricia Cotterill reminisces France though fabulous paintings Wild birds use ‘Nesting Balls’ to help build beautiful homes at Grovewood Gallery

Art Show: Grand Opening in Black Mountain with the Art of Phil Kurz and Concert Flood Gallery April 14 310 Art: For the birds

Art Classes Asheville Gallery of Art: Johnnie Stanfield “Memory Makers” for April at Asheville Gallery of Art Food/Drink: Local restaurants help with the search to cure AIDS April 26 with WNCAP Bill Walz: Expansive silence Health: How to stay young and live longer

Publisher/Layout and Design/Editor: Dennis Ray Poetry Editor: Carol Pearce Bjorlie CONTACT US: Rapid River’s Arts and Culture Magazine is a monthly publication in WNC. Mail: 85 N. Main St. Canton NC 28716 Email: Info@rapidrivermagazine.com Phone: (828) 646-0071

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The Asheville Symphony and Conductor Jayce Ogren Explore Musical Expressions of Nationalism April 14 Linda Pannullo hosts internationally renowned mosaic instructors

Cover Photo: The elegant French lady is rushing home ahead of the looming storm behind her, dropping some fruit in her haste. By Patricia Cotterill.

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ART EVENT Asheville’s Grovewood Gallery to Host “Spring Awakening” — A Pediatric Patients’ Exhibition to Benefit By Staff Reports Arts For Life benefit Arts For Life. Grovewood Gallery will also donate 10% of all regular gallery sales from the nonprofit that exhibition’s provides pediatric opening day. patients and their “We’ve families with arts (Detail) “Ground Level in the Garden” engaged in education and enmultiple partnerships with Arts For gagement opportunities. Life throughout the years,” says An opening reception will take Ashley Van Matre, Marketing Manplace on Saturday, April 7 from 2-5pm and feature live music by the ager at Grovewood Gallery. “The work they do in our community is so Haw Creek Sweet Hots, ice cream inspiring. We’re excited to celebrate by The Hop, and craft activities for the creative efforts of their budding kids. Admission is free. young artists and provide them with Spring Awakening is curated by an opportunity to showcase their Annie Rogers, Program Director, art in a public space for everyone to and Anna Long, Program Coordienjoy.” nator at Arts for Life. The exhibit will Every day across North Caroshowcase spring-themed works of lina, Arts For Life’s team of staff art created by pediatric patients in the Arts For Life educational art pro- members, volunteers, interns, and teaching fellows brighten the lives grams. All artwork will be available and healthcare experiences of for sale, and 100% of proceeds will

April 7-23, Grovewood Gallery in Asheville will host Spring Awakening, a pediatric patients’ exhibition to benefit Arts For Life, an Asheville-based

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children and families facing serious illnesses and disabilities. By bringing visual art, music, and creative writing education into hospitals and clinics, they help these children and teens remember that they’re not just patients: they’re artists, musicians, and poets, with a world of possibility at their fingertips. Arts For Life’s educational art programs decrease patient stress and anxiety, keep patients active and engaged, and help families cope with the realities of illness during the most difficult times of their lives. They turn hospital rooms into artist studios, where children can focus on building a mosaic tile, writing a poem, or crafting a song—not on the pricks, pokes, and treatments they’re about to receive. Since 2001, Arts For Life has delivered top-notch art, music, and creative writing lessons. Last year, their teaching team taught more than 22,000 lessons to over 6,900 patients, siblings, and family members.

Grovewood Gallery Hours Monday -Saturday from 10-5:30pm, and Sunday from 11–5pm. www.grovewood.com • call (828) 253-7651. For more information on Arts For Life, or to donate, visit artsforlifenc.org.

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Artists Breakfasts Draw Crowds Artists, collectors and patrons are gathering in Asheville’s River Arts District for monthly socials. Artists’ Breakfasts are held on the last Thursday of each month. Up next: March 29, 10-1pm at 362 Depot. Organizer Richard Baker of Richard Baker Studios says he is pleased with the turnouts for the first two events. “It’s good to see the artists networking. And it’s also nice to meet Asheville’s art patrons.” Many of the 10 artists of 362 Depot are on hand to talk to those who attend for the

By Staff Reports camaraderie and food and to see new works. “People are coming in,” Baker says, “meeting the artists and purchasing artwork.” Coffee is provided and guests are welcome to bring food to share. Recent events have drawn attendees from Asheville and points beyond including Saluda, Hendersonville, Waynesville and Weaverville.

For more information, follow 362 Depot and Richard Baker on Facebook or call (828) 234-1616.

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AmiciMusic presents four-hand and two piano programs in April plus a Ragtime Romp “Four-Hand Festival” and “Two Piano Panache” will showcase some of the great repertoires for four-hand piano and two pianos while “Ragtime Romp” will highlight the music and history of the beautiful ragtime era at the beginning of the 20th century. April 26 and Friday, April 27, at 7:30pm. “FourHand Festival,” with music by Chopin, Dvorak, Saint-Saens, Chabrier, and more can be heard

on Saturday, April 28 at 7pm at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall and on Sunday, April 29 at 2pm at White Horse Black Mountain. “Ragtime Romp” will be a one-time concert on Saturday, April 28 at 3pm at the home of Dick and Ann Bury in the Givens Estates. www.amicimusic.org and click on the link to the Asheville Concerts at the top of the page.

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“Untitled #4” (Feb.10, 2015) Kurz’s note: “colors partly from some earrings” miniature watercolor

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On April 14, 6 - 9 pm, an extensive exhibition featuring the artworks and writings of Phil Kurz will announce the new location of the Flood Gallery Fine Arts Center in Black Mountain, NC. Located at 850 Blue Ridge Rd, the Flood Fine Arts Center is pleased to announce it’s new location in the Black Mountain River Arts District, near Veteran’s Park. Curated by Cynthia Hatfield the evening with also feature Introductions by Oguz Erdur and Keith Frederick and include live American Folk music by TRIO OF FRIENDS all at the new location at 850 Blue Ridge Rd. Phil Kurz was born in Washington, D.C. in 1951 and lived, worked and exhibited within a few miles of there in Kensington, Maryland. His extended family had already spawned generations of painters, dancers, artisans and writers who saw the beauty in the world and tried to share that with others. Phil’s work shows the influences of the Russian Expressionists and Asian artists he most

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“Prometheus” (2008) … gave fire to the Mortals and was punished by the Gods by being chained to a cliff, to be attacked by an eagle forevermore. (Greek) by Phil Kurz — oil on bookboard

admired, yet it is uniquely his own. In addition to his myriad drawings and paintings, he was an incredibly prolific writer. He developed an extensive comic-strip/ graphic-novel, produced journals, a revolutionary manifesto, scrapbooks, abstract visual narratives, all enclosed in his custom wood-crafted boxes. Phil’s art ranges in style from realistic figures & illustrations to geometric & organic abstractions. Highlyintelligent, sober, honest & sensitive, the schizophrenia that plagued him also informed him. “In short,” states Oguz Erdur, professor of Anthropology at UNCA, “ Phil’s art attracts me, draws me in and promises a tragic encounter—tragic in the sense that life itself is tragic: we all know what happens at the end. But that tragedy becomes a beautiful one when we encounter those whose company gives us joy and solace by allowing us to recognize a piece of ourselves in their lives, past and present. And that to me is the definition of anthropology anyway: a detour to the self that goes through the other… “ A percentage of sales of select works will go to the

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“The Ganges Comes to Earth” (2008) After it was decided that the river Ganges should flow on Earth, its strength began to break up the planet. Shiva put his hair under it, to slow the fall. (Hindu) by Phil Kurzn — oil on bookboard

Unicef Safety in School Fund and the Asheville Southside Kitchen in memory of Phil Kurz. An 84-page full-color exhibition catalog will also be available for sale. Flood Gallery Exhibit runs April 14 - June 3 Flood Gallery Fine Art Center— new exhibition space in Black Mountain 850 Blue Ridge Rd, IF YOU GO

Unit A-13 • Black Mountain, NC 28711 • Next to Veterans Park floodgallery.org • (828)273-3332 • Look for us on Facebook for updates. carlos@floodgallery.org The Flood Gallery Fine Art Center educates, challenges and inspires the community through music, film, literary, and contemporary art. These events are open and free to the public.

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310 ART

“Red Wing” by Fleta Monaghan,10x10, encaustic

For the birds This is a wonderful time of year when the birds migrate back to our region and join the birds that stay put for the winter.

310 ARTist and gallery owner in the River Arts District, Fleta Monaghan, feeds the birds year round at her Fairview home, and there are plenty of feathered visitors. Migration time is a source of inspiration as year-round residents visit daily and seasonal birds leave and arrive. Birds can have so many symbolic meanings for artists and a source of great inspiration. This can lead to extraordinary collections and new directions in art. “My inspiration came in the fall when a huge flock of blackbirds visited the feeding stations in my yard. I had never seen this type of blackbird in the area, and they 10 Vol. 21, No. 8 — RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — April 2018

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descended on the feeding areas full force, with over 100 birds in the flock. They had guards on the edge of the yard to keep out all the wildlife. Even the squirrels dared not venture into the yard. I just had a strong feeling they had come for a reason to give me a message of hope. While they were protective of their new and temporary turf, they worked so well together, taking turns guarding and feasting. Their movements were deliberate and purposeful. In this time of disconnect, it gave me hope that we could all find a way to work together with purpose and dignity. I had been feeling an inherent lack of focus also, and this visitation seemed to put me back on a purposeful creative path. They left as suddenly as they had arrived and left plenty of seed for the other birds.” ‘Art’ continued next pg.

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(L-R) “Spring Snow” 8x8, encaustic. “Long Ago and Far Away” 10x10, encaustic. Both by Fleta Monaghan.

‘Art’ continued This visit inspired Monaghan to make a collection of mixed media small artworks with birds as the focal point. It started with crows, ravens, and blackbirds, and since has expanded to small paintings of bluebirds, hummingbirds, and owls. It turns out that everyone loves crows and birds in general, and many of the pieces have flown off to new homes around the country. She has spent some of her creative winter time expanding this collection of small works while experimenting with all sorts of mixed

media techniques using encaustic as a primary medium. Master printmaker and instructor Dona Barnett, also a River Arts District artist, has also been inspired by birds. Years ago, her professor at UNCA told her that her “work is about whispers.” This can be seen in the subtle ambiguity in the handling of the images she uses, often birds, nests or eggs. Why birds? The woods in her Fairview neighborhood where she lives seem to attract crow family groups, and she ‘Art’ continued on pg. 29

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Marvelous Mondays with Lorelle and Nadine Beginner and Up! Open art studios Mondays with instructor to guide you - start and continue year round in our Monday classes, 9:30-12:30pm and 1-4pm. Come the dates that work for you! See 310art.com for schedule and sign up. Beginners welcomed!

Workshops: Coming Soon Encaustic Comprehensive - Apr 7, 8

Dramatic Light in Watercolor - Apr 14 Welcome to Pastels - Apr 21 Oil Stick Painting - Apr 28

Layers, Encaustic Mixed Media. Special Guest Michelle Belto - May 7, 8, 9 Alcohol Ink - May 12

Mapping the Journey. Special Guest Eric M. Scott (acrylics mixed media) - May 19, 20 Encaustic Pendants - June 7

Classes for adults at 310 ART, 191 Lyman Street, #310, Asheville, NC 28801 www.310art.com gallery@310art.com (828)776-2716 Adult classes, beginner and up, most materials provided. Register online or at the studio. Vol. 21, No.8 — RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — April 2018 11

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Patricia Cotterill reminisces France though fabulous paintings The latest show at Posana restaurant in the Adler Gallery is titled STORM and runs through June 17. It is curated again by Constance Vlahoulis. “My interpretation of the storm theme is titled

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S’approvisioner de pain avant le tempête,” (buying bread before the storm). The elegant French lady is rushing home ahead of the looming storm behind her, dropping some fruit in her haste,” Cotterill says.

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The painting is shown on this month’s cover of Rapid River Magazine. Twenty-five local artists will show their interpretation of the newest theme, STORM. “I used to live just south of Paris, in a small town called Gif-

Sir-Yvette; whenever I need to reminisce I paint small scenes of my time in France.”

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A collection of work similar to these can be found at Patricia Cotterill’s working studio, Riverside Studios, 174 Haywood St, River Arts District, Asheville; also in Mountain Nest Gallery, 133 Cherry St, Black Mountain, and in Woolworth Walk, 25 Haywood St, downtown Asheville. Vol. 21, No.8 — RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — April 2018 13

Asheville’s Longest Established Fine Art Gallery with 31 Regional Artists

Asheville Gallery of Art 's April Artist

“Memory Maker” by Johnnie Stanfield

“Vintage Guitar Blast from past” by Johnnie Stanfield

Johnnie Stanfield “Memory Makers” for April at Asheville Gallery of Art

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Stanfield returned to the art scene after a severe injury to will showcase work that depicts her right hand. “The first year a collection of items that bring was extremely tough. I was back memories of an event, an unable to move any of my occasion, or a period in our lives. fingers, and I had no feeling “Anything vintage interests me, in my hand. It took me almost including typewriters, musical five years to get back to my instruments, radios, a collection of past potential with about 93% old cars, and antique fishing lures. usage of my right hand,” she I love the detail and the personsaid. ality of these items and the way The artist has won varithey have aged gracefully over the ous awards for her paintings years,” she said. The exhibit will “Silver Sands Saddle” by Johnnie Stanfield and drawings over the years, include several pencil renderings including recently taking secof her favorite items including old ond place in the Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts Western and English riding boots and an old League’s 2016 juried show for her equestrian Western saddle. Her large painting, “The Memowatercolor portrait, “Troubadour.” Her work can ry Makers,” depicts vehicles from the 1940s and be seen at The Asheville Gallery of Art. ’50s. Stanfield’s work, as well as the paintings of the Johnnie Stanfield says her show

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other 30 gallery members, will be on display and for sale through April. Johnnie Stanfield Asheville Gallery of Art’s April show features the work of Johnnie Stanfield whose landscapes and still lifes capture both the vibrancy and heritage of living in the North Carolina mountains. The show runs April 1-30 during gallery hours, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday. The gallery, located at 82 Patton Avenue in Asheville, across from Pritchard Park, will host a reception for the artist on Friday, April 6, from 5-8 p.m. Everyone is cordially invited to stop by. For further information about this show, you can contact Asheville Gallery of Art at (828) 2515796, visit the gallery website at www.ashevillegallery-of-art.com, or go to the gallery Facebook page.

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(L-r) Artist Karen Kennedy’s bird’s nest using felted eggs. Next images are of two di erent Nesting Balls. She uses moss, ribbons and pieces of colorful strings to attract birds.

Wild birds use ‘Nesting Balls’ to help build beautiful homes You might say Karen Kennedy’s latest work is for the birds. It’s that and so much more. Kennedy, an Asheville Fiber Artist, is presenting her Nesting Balls collection at Grovewood Gallery in Asheville. This new work is designed to hang outdoors on tree branches as “found” material for birds to use in their spring nest-building. Kennedy, a 2001 graduate of Haywood Community College Professional Crafts program, began her career as a weaver, but with downsizing her lifestyle and living quarters, Karen found that needle-felting provided better room for creativity.

Starting with felted pumpkins and snowmen, Kennedy branched out into felting bird’s nests and now, Nesting Balls. Artful and colorful, Nesting Balls are created with grapevine balls filled with yarn, fabric scraps, paper, ribbons mosses and other textured debris. Designed with a hanging perch, Nesting Balls give something back to nature as the birds pick and choose pieces for their nests. In fact, it ‘s believed that birds have an innate aesthetic sense, leading them to build and camouflage decoratively. “I’ve seen pictures of real nests that have strands of ribbon or string woven right in through

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the nests,” says Kennedy. “I thought, there’s something here in all of this, an idea that’s also.....for the birds.” Kennedy’s needle felted bird’s nests, and her new Nesting Balls are available at the Grovewood Gallery at the historic Grovewood Villiage adjacent to The Omni Grove Park Inn. The gallery is nationally known and dedicated to fine American-made art and craft. IF YOU GO

Grovewood Gallery 111 Grovewood Rd, Asheville, NC 28804 (828) 253-7651 www.grovewood.com

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The Asheville Symphony and Conductor Jayce Ogren Explore Musical Expressions of Nationalism April 14 By Staff Reports The program features John Adams, Manuel de Falla, and Jean Sibelius “The three vibrant and dramatic pieces on this program are tremendously contrasting on the surface,” says conductor Jayce Ogren of the program he will perform with the Asheville Symphony on April 14. “The sound worlds of John Adams, Manuel de Falla, and Jean Sibelius are rooted in different countries, time periods, and artistic influences, yet they share a great deal of DNA. All three of these works deal with nationalism, and each composer used relentless rhythmic drive and vigor to communicate that theme.”

The works Ogren is referencing are John Adams’ The Chairman Dances, Manuel de Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain featuring guest pianist Joyce Yang, and Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2. The concert takes place at 8 p.m. in downtown Asheville’s Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. Ogren is the fifth of six Jayce Ogren finalists for the Asheville Symphony’s music director position to conduct an audition concert. He is the artistic director of Philadelphia’s Orchestra 2001 and has been

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invited to conduct orchestras and operas around the U.S. and abroad. The audience will be asked to give feedback via a survey after the concert. The remaining finalist will hold a concert in May. The concert opens with John Adams’ 1985 work The Chairman Dances “Foxtrot for Orchestra.” This piece is an outtake from the Grammy-winning opera Nixon in China for which Adams collaborated with stage director Peter Sellars. According to Adams, it began as a began as a “Foxtrot” for Chairman Mao and his bride, Chiang Ch’ing, who was a firebrand, revolutionary, architect of China’s

Downtown Asheville — Dining • Shopping • Galleries • Music calamitous Cultural Revolution, and a former Shanghai movie actress. In the surreal final scene of the opera, she interrupts the tired formalities of a state banquet, disrupts the slow-moving protocol and invites the Chairman, who is present only as a large forty-foot portrait on the wall, to “come down, old man, and dance.” Next, guest pianist Joyce Yang joins the orchestra for Manuel de Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain, a loving, impressionist portrait of his country’s beauty and fire. With “poetic and sensitive pianism” (Washington Post) and a “wondrous sense of color” (San Francisco Classical Voice), pianist Joyce Yang captivates audiences with her virtuosity, lyricism, and interpretive sensitivity. As a Van Cliburn International Piano Competition silver medalist and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, Yang showcases her colorful musical personality in solo recitals and collaborations with the world’s top orchestras and chamber musicians. Rounding out the program is Jean Sibelius’ bold Symphony No. 2. Composed in 1902, the second symphony’s inherent optimism reflect the nationalistic spirit of the time, and this feeling was compounded by the fact that it came quickly on the heels of the composers patriotic Finlandia. The opening movement hints at Finland’s stark landscape and is followed by a second movement that conveys desolation and

foreboding. All is resolved in the triumphant and grand final movement, which to its earliest audiences symbolized nationalistic triumph. Single tickets for all concerts are $24-$69, depending on seating section (reduced youth pricing is available). Single tickets and season ticket packages can be purchased online at ashevillesymphony.org, by phone at (828) 254-7046, or in person at the U.S. Cellular Center box office at 87 Haywood Street. The Asheville Symphony Orchestra performs and promotes symphonic music for the benefit, enjoyment, and education of the people of Western North Carolina. The ASO presents concerts in the 2,300-seat Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville’s U.S. Cellular Center. Related organizations include the Asheville Symphony Guild, Asheville Symphony Chorus, Asheville Symphonettes, and education initiatives such as the Asheville Symphony Youth Orchestra, Music in the Schools, Spotlight on Young Musicians, Symphony Talks, and pre-concert lectures. IF YOU GO

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Drinks&Dining Guide Local restaurants help with the search to cure AIDS April 26 with WNCAP

By Staff Reports

The 16th annual Dining Out For Life ®) (DOFL) benefit will take place on Thursday, April 26 in Asheville and the surrounding communities of WNC. On that day, over 100 locally owned restaurants will generously donate 20% of their sales to support the mission of WNCAP, the Western North Carolina AIDS Project. There will be an intense marketing campaign, utilizing social media, print ads, and radio and television promotions, to encourage everyone in the community to dine out for a good cause. “Dining Out For Life makes HIV/AIDS advocacy extremely accessible to the public,” says WNCAP Executive Director Brodderick Roary. “Not only does this event raise a lot of money for HIV prevention and treatment, but it also raises a lot of awareness, too.” The funds raised during Dining Out For Life directly support WNCAP’s mission of preventing new cases of HIV in Western North Carolina and providing compassionate care to

those in our region already living with HIV/ AIDS. Dining Out For Life takes place in 55 cities across the US and Canada and has raised over $35 million for AIDS Service Organizations, like WNCAP. The Asheville DOFL event is exceptionally successful, ranking fifth in the nation in dollars raised. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, restaurants, and diners, last year WNCAP raised over $160,000 for HIV prevention and care in the WNC community. It was also voted Best Fundraising Event in the Mountain Xpress “WNC Best Of” for the past four years. WNCAP assembles a team of over 250 enthusiastic volunteers to help support Dining Out For Life. “We work hard to recruit

dependable community volunteers to serve as ‘Ambassadors’ during each meal shift at all of our Participating Restaurants,” explains WNCAP Community Resource Coordinator Chris Winebrenner. “The Ambassador’s role is to invite their family, friends, and colleagues to come out to eat at their assigned restaurant. Volunteer Ambassadors will greet diners, thank them for supporting the event and offer up extra donation envelopes which will enter diners into a raffle for one of three great grand prizes. Simply by donating a few hours at their favorite participating restaurant, Ambassadors can make a crucial difference in the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS in our community.”

If you would like more information about becoming an Ambassador, please email Chris at wncapvolunteer@wncap.org or visit wncap.org/DOFL-2018. Mark your calendars for Thursday, April 26 and make your reservations today for Dining Out For Life. Just dine out for breakfast, lunch, or dinner (or all three!), and you just may save a life. To find out more about the event and to see the list of 2018 Participating Restaurants, visit wncap. org/DOFL-2018. The Western North Carolina AIDS Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing new cases of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C and promoting self-sufficiency in people living with viral illnesses. WNCAP provides HIV-related client support, prevention, education and advocacy activities guided by the belief that all people are entitled to equal access to health care and disease prevention. IF YOU GO

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FINE ART

(L-r) Group class, mosaic works by Linda Pannullo

Linda Pannullo hosts internationally renowned mosaic instructors Local mosaic artist Linda Pannullo is just a hands-on person. She has been a massage

therapist for years and was drawn to mosaics for their tactility.

A week-long workshop at Arrowmount Craft School 10 years ago started her creative journey which has now come full circle — for the past three years Pannullo taught several classes at the John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. “There is freedom with mosaics that encourage the creative spark in students,” she says. Five years ago, Pannullo began bringing the best mosaic instructors in the world to Asheville.

This year offers classes for the beginner and advanced mosaic practitioner: British master Martin Cheek and his Pet Portrait workshop, Atlanta artist Debra Mager and her popular Mosaic Bouquet class, well known Austin artist Dianne Sonnenberg and her Glass on Glass Recycled Windows and Floridian Gila Rayberg and her three-day immersion into Picassiette Portraits. Pannullo likes the versatility of mosaics; from classical styles to the more whimsical Picassiette, ( smashed plate), 2D and 3D, indoor and outdoor applications. Functional art is a favorite, and her “Artplates” ( decorated

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switchplates) are carried by K2, Fine Home Furnishings in downtown Asheville. She will be teaching a Beginner’s Mosaic Mirror weekend at the Folk School April 7-8 and a weeklong Mosaic Boot Camp August 19-25, where, yes, you will be mosaicing rubber boots to turn into planters and more. The variety is endless. Linda Pannullo Email Linda Pannullo at linda@lindapannullomosaics for her newsletter. For more info on classes and mosaic art lindapannullomosaics.com or call (828) 337-6749 for more info.

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EXPANSIVE SILENCE “Who we are is the space of the moment arising in awareness.” – Eckhart Tolle

The pioneering psychologist Carl Jung coined the terms extroversion and introversion to indicate directions of consciousness-energy, with extroversion being mental energy moving out from the interior of a person’s experience into the external world and introversion the bringing of that which is perceived as external into the field of mind for consideration. With this understanding, we typically connect the idea of a person being extroverted with being expansive in a rather loud and assertive manner. Conversely, we consider being introverted as rather quiet and unobtrusive, a person absorbed in their inner world of thoughts and emotions. To the degree that extroversion and introversion have to do with qualities of personality, another way of talking about ego-states, these are appropriate understandings. In extroversion, we are projecting our personality, our ego, out into the world; while in introversion, we are bringing the circumstances of the external world into our internal world to examine them and give them our interpretation. There is an “in here” and an “out there.” Two places, one me, the other not me. As such, this constitutes a dualistic perspective. Because we are an ego-oriented culture, we are accustomed to these uses of the terms extroverted and introverted, but importantly, there can also be non-egoic instances of extroversion and introversion to which we give very little consideration. Buddhism is a culture that is very interested in the nonegoic state of consciousness that is awareness and in exploring ever-deepening levels of experience and insight into the human condition and the true nature of existence through engaged awareness. As an example of this consciousness energy directed in an introverted manner, we have meditation, among its purposes being the focusing on and stabilizing of our internal world of mind. As many experience mind as dominated by incessant thought and emotion, this internal world of mind seems restless, perhaps even exhausting, and so we need some practice that trains us in holding a stable internal focus and in learning about and gaining insight into this restless searching mind, perhaps opening the way to calming and relaxing it. This requires the introversion of awareness, the silent looking in at the activity of mind which can, as a reassuring mother to an over-excited child, calm and soothe the excitation and hyperactivity, in a sense, like a mother enfolding it within its embrace. With meditation, we are also increasingly aware of awareness, and bring into the foreground of experience that which has been operating silently in the background, opening the insight that as there is this dimension of mind that is awareness capable of examining the turbulent dimension of mind that is ego, then who we are at our most fundamental level must be awareness, stable and free of the turbulence. In bringing awareness to awareness we discover mind at its source; calm, silent, intelligent and undisturbed by mental activity. This is a significant discovery and liberation. Having explored the introversion of awareness in meditation, it is then essential to examine the

ZEN PHILOSOPHY WITH BILL WALZ importance of awareness extroverted in what Buddhism refers to as mindfulness. This is the bringing of the silent dimension of awareness deliberately into the world experienced as outside a person. Here, extroversion is paradoxically simultaneously expansive and receptive, meaning that it is simultaneously reaching out and taking in, and rather than being boisterous, this expansiveness is marked by profound quiet, even silence. We typically enter this state of consciousness reflexively when the external world is either extraordinarily beautiful or extraordinarily threatening and “out there” becomes so compelling that we forget about “me-in-here.” These are times when all of our consciousness energy leaves “in here” and with hushed awe or wariness, extends out into the environment, perhaps realizing that we ARE the environment, every bit as much as the trees, the clouds, the sky, and the Earth. This is a non-dualistic state of consciousness where there is only this moment in awareness. So, we are left with the quandary: are we the activity and contents of our mind, all of which has some origin in biological/psychological/social/cultural conditioning and creates the sense of a separate “me,” or are we the field of consciousness within which all that is experienced occurs? Buddhist teaching and the teachings of various mystical traditions cross-culturally aim at awakening us into the realization that who we are is the consciousness energy of awareness in which the moment arises. With this awakening, there occurs a profound shift from the dualistic paradigm of “in here” and “out there” into non-dualistic “just this.” What is experienced as “out there” is realized as occurring in the field of consciousness, along with this body and this mental activity commenting on the “out there.” There is only this moment IN awareness. Inside and outside become meaningless, for we find we are IN that which previously was experienced as outside. This is the boundaries of egoic self-dissolve. This is the heart of spiritual awakening, and it initiates a process of transformation leading to a profound state of mental health and well-being where we are increasingly less buffeted about by the changing conditions of life and the mind’s incessant commentary about the conditions of life, but rather realize we are fundamentally that which does not change and has never changed, within which everything is always changing. If you can understand that the awareness that witnesses the reading of these words is the same awareness that witnessed your first breath and will witness your last breath and every moment between, this may be a significant “aha!” moment for you. This expansive experience of self-occurs in the silent dynamic stillness of the field of consciousnessenergy that is individuated awareness. The experience of “I” leaves the confines of the locus in this body and mind to extend into the subject of attention in a non-dualistic connection. “I” becomes the interaction. While to see this stated may be quite new, the experience is not. We, in fact, do this quite frequently; yet do not notice its effect. As I sit typing these words at my computer, “I” exist in a connection of mind, hands, and computer. When we garden,

stroke our pets, speak with a loved one, hike silently in the woods with our senses sharp and attentive, or when we drive our car on a scenic road, if we do so with any degree of mindfulness, which is saying, in an authentic way, with love, we have extended our sense of self into the field of interaction. We may notice that there is an accompanying sense of good feeling and well-being with these activities; and so we may seek them out with some regularity, citing them as important to us. We give these activities special status, as we might a religious experience, yet Zen teaches us it is, in fact, everyday mind – when we awaken to the truth of being aware. Mindfulness practice is to recognize that these activities are not the source of our good feeling and well-being, but somewhat simply the stimuli for the action of extending awareness, of forgetting ourselves in the act of becoming one with any activity. This is the essential truth of who we are, and this realization is immensely liberating and also is the birth of genuine compassion, for as all we experience is connected in this field of consciousness-energy, “I” exist within this interconnected field – and so, in a sense, when we are in each other’s presence as we co-arise in this field of awareness, “I” has to contain “you.” And - as awareness is not limited to the range of the physical senses and can intuit Universal Life, this is compassion that can extend to all of Life in all its forms. Realizing this, our practice can then be to deliberately extend awareness into the here-andnow at subtler and subtler levels into the seemingly mundane contents and activities of our lives while also extending it limitlessly into a broad sense of our cosmic origin and presence, the entire spectrum now taking on an understanding of the Sacred. We can begin living deliberately as the expansive silence of awareness within which we walk and talk and interact, living as feeling, thought, sight and sound, without an, “I” at the center. This expansive silence is realized as the self beyond form and identity and opens our lives to a rich realization of our origin in infinity walking and experiencing the finite. A deep and abiding peace results, allowing perspective on the “what is” that becomes a source of compassion and wisdom always available when we remember we are “the space of the moment arising in awareness.” And when you see some spiritual writing that says we are “That,” you will know what is meant.

Bill Walz has taught meditation and mindfulness in university and public forums and is a private-practice meditation teacher and guide for individuals in mindfulness, personal growth and consciousness. Information on classes, talks, personal growth and healing instruction, or phone consultations at (828)258-3241, e-mail at healing@billwalz. com Learn more, see past columns, video and audio programs at www.billwalz.com

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HEALTH

How to stay young and live longer The question remains: How can you put more years in your life and put more life in your years?

Stated in another way: How can you live longer and enjoy it more? Much recent research has determined that anti-aging will not happen because of any one miracle drug, but because of a confluence of multiple lifestyle choices all contributing to the final goal of a longer, healthier life. A review of recent aging/antiaging studies and an overview of people from the Blue Zones (five areas from around the world where people consistently and healthfully live into their 90’s and 100’s) suggest at least five contributing factors that are common to those who live longer. The first factor is genetics. People who have lived in the same general area for generations – and are living longer and healthier – tend to share specific genetic markers for longevity. Many of the Amish of

Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana share a gene that gives them longer telomeres (the end cap of a gene that shortens as it ages) and longer life. The males on the island of Sardinia share a long-life gene and membership in the highest concentration of centenarians in the world. Although not everyone carries these kinds of inherited advantages, genetics is only one factor and probably not the primary factor in a long, healthy life. The second factor: Moderate exercise, adjusted to age and ability, comes close to being the dominant factor in longevity. Staying in motion is cited in multiple studies and three of the five Blue Zones (Sardinia; Nicoya, Costa Rica; and Loma Linda, California) as one of the most effective methods for staying healthy into later years. The intensity and the duration of the exercise are less important than the fact that elders need to keep moving. The third factor found to be

effective and closely rivaling exercise as most important in almost every study, and all five Blue Zones (the ones above plus Okinawa, Japan, and Ikaria, Greece) is strong social connectedness, a close, supportive community, and a sense of belonging. In some groups the social bond is a religious one; in some studies, a shared sense of moral rectitude; in one Blue Zone (Okinawa), a cultural tradition of tight-knit, supportive social circles. In whatever form, social connectedness carries people into their 80’s and 90’s, even when other factors are not conducive to longevity. The fourth factor for longevity is adherence to a Mediterraneanlike diet and maintaining a healthy weight. The components of such food selections vary with the area of the world, but the basic guidelines are always the same: primarily a plant-based, nutrientdense diet, loaded with fruits and

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veggies, whole grains, potatoes and polyunsaturated oils, usually olive oil. The specific food items are not so crucial as moderation in calorie content. And these long-lived elders almost never skip breakfast, in all the studies and all the Blue Zones. The fifth factor is mental gymnastics. People who live longer are always curious and forever ready to learn something new, continually challenging themselves to grow mentally. As a result, they are flexibly able to adapt to life’s changing situations. More flexible, less stress, better health – mental and physical. As one health educator said, “Learn to square up your life. Don’t gradually deteriorate in health over decades until you die an invalid. Determine to live as healthy as you can for as long as you can.” Relax and have fun doing it. And let death – when it comes – catch you in the prime of your old age.

FINE ART

“Blue Ridge Parkway, Fog over Woolyback Overlook” — photo by Teri Leigh Teed

Artist Teri Leigh Teed featured

By Staff Reports

Teri Leigh Teed is a featured artist for The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS’ Third Anniversary Celebration running online at www. healing-power-of-art.org. Teed’s fine art photograph, “Blue Ridge Parkway, Fog over Woolyback Overlook,” is part of the international exhibit. Based in New York, NY, a leading art capital of the world, The Healing Power of ART & ARTISTS is a growing global community of artists, writers and activists who share the belief that ART has the power to heal, inspire, provoke, challenge and offer hope, and serve as a positive catalyst for healing individuals, society and the environment. HPAA was launched by New York art critic Renée Phillips as an initiative of Manhattan Arts International www.manhattanarts.com. It has become one of the most popular positive art related websites on the Internet. As internationally recognized arts writer Edward Rubin

states about The Healing Power of ART website, “It’s filled with awe-inspiring essays. Hope, optimism and beautiful thoughts are just what is needed to remind us that there is still goodness in the world and that all is not lost.” HPAA features stories that focus on art, artists and art programs that serve humanity and share the vision to improve the world through artistic endeavors. Teed has contributed several articles including one on the internationally renowned topiary artist Pearl Fryar. Each artist selected for the HPAA Exhibition is also asked to include a brief statement on their healing art. Teed states “When we open our hearts and create art with the intention to share love, we gift ourselves and the world with the power to heal.” Teed is a multi-dimensional, award-winning artist based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of WNC near Sylva. Along with her visual ‘Teed’ continued on pg. 29 Vol. 21, No.8 — RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — April 2018 23

THE POET'S VOICE

By Carol Bjorlie — “The Poet behind the cello”

This is National Poetry Month! I am not going to quote Mary Oliver, Garrison Keillor, or William Stafford. I have a “new” poet for you: Tracy K. Smith. Tracy was born in MA. She is at the forefront of contemporary African poetry, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2012, and teaches at Princeton. In 2014 she won the Academy of American Poets Fellowship.

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The Good Life BY TRACY K. SMITH When some people talk about money They speak as if it were a mysterious lover Who went out to buy milk and never Came back, and it makes me nostalgic For the years I lived on coffee and bread, Hungry all the time, walking to work on payday Like a woman journeying for water From a village without a well, then living One or two nights like everyone else On roast chicken and red wine. In her memoir, Ordinary Light, the poet Tracy K. Smith describes reading a poem by Emily Dickinson in her fifth-grade class and feeling a flash of recognition as if she were privy to magic. “I couldn’t help but memorize a poem whose meter had worked upon me quickly, and in a way, I didn’t quite yet understand,” she writes. “Its rhyme scheme

cemented, for me, a new sense of inevitability.” A new poem: Duende BY TRACY K. SMITH 1. The earth is dry and they live wanting. Each with a small reservoir Of furious music heavy in the throat. They drag it out and with nails in their feet Coax the night into being. Brief believing. A skirt shimmering with sequins and lies. And in this night that is not night, Each word is a wish, each phrase A shape their bodies ache to fill— I’m going to braid my hair Braid many colors into my hair I’ll put a long braid in my hair And write your name there They defy gravity to feel tugged back. The clatter, the mad slap of landing. 2. And not just them. Not just The ramshackle family, the tíos, Primitos, not just the bailaor Whose heels have notched And hammered time So the hours flow in place Like a tin river, marking Only what once was. Not just the voices of scraping Against the river, nor the hands

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Nudging them farther, fingers Like blind birds, palms empty, Echoing. Not just the women With sober faces and flowers In their hair, the ones who dance As though they’re burying Memory—one last time— Beneath them. And I hate to do it here. To set myself heavily beside them. Not now that they’ve proven The body a myth, a parable For what not even language Moves quickly enough to name. If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments. If I lean into the desire it starts from— If I lean unbuttoned into the blow Of loss after loss, love tossed Into the ecstatic void— It carries me with it farther, To chords that stretch and bend Like light through colored glass. But it races on, toward shadows Where the world I know And the world I fear Threaten to meet. 3. There is always a road, The sea, dark hair, dolor. Always a question Bigger than itself— They say you’re leaving Monday Why can’t you leave on Tuesday?

BOOKS

They Cage the Animals at Night

The True Story of an Abandoned Child’s Struggle for Emotional Survival Jennings Michael Burch worked as a New York City policeman, a chauffeur, a theater manager, a magazine pressman, and a short-order cook. He held a BA in forensic psychology from John Jay College. Between 1949 and 1954, Burch had stayed in 32 foster homes, and stayed with at least three sets of foster parents for extended amount of time. He passed away in 2013 at the age of 71.

The heartbreaking, iconic true story of an abandoned little boy’s horrific journey through the American foster care system. One misty evening, Jennings Michael Burch’s mother, too sick to care for him, left her eight-year-old son at an orphanage with the words, “I’ll be right back.” She wasn’t. . . . Shuttled through a bleak series of foster homes, orphanages, and institutions, Jennings never remained in any of them long enough to make a friend. Instead, he clung to a tattered stuffed animal named “Doggie,” his sole source of comfort in a frightening world. Here, in his own words, Jennings Michael Burch reveals the abuse and neglect he experienced during his lost childhood. But while his experiences are both shocking and devastating, his story is ultimately one of hope — the triumphant tale of a forgotten child who somehow found the courage to reach out for love and found it waiting for him.

They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child’s Struggle for Emotional Survival Jennings Michael Burch Narrator: Jim Meskimen Imprint: Penguin Audio Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs Release Date: April 17, 2018 9 Hours and 13 Minutes

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‘Loves Me, Loves Me Not’ explores the meanings of flowers in our world By Staff Reports Welcome to the mysterious and sometimes scandalous world of the language of flowers.

Since the days of Queen Victoria (and earlier the harems of the Middle East) flowers have allowed lovers and friends to express themselves without saying a word. In Loves Me, Loves Me Not, author and illustrator Peter Loewer explores the fascinating history of floral messages. In this

book you’ll find intriguing plant lore, unexpected historical connections, or simply an opportunity to connect with a beloved in a unique way. Confess unrequited love with a daffodil. Show happiness with primroses. Wish someone luck with a four-leaf clover. Make your declaration of love not with a rose, but with a tulip! With intriguing stories and stunning full-color illustrations, Loves Me,

Loves Me Not, introduces you to flowers that have been conveying message for centuries. As Loewer says: “The language of flowers is a delightful idea. In the world of cell phones and mass communications, sending a simple bouquet that tells a tale of love and affection seems to be a great idea whose time has come again.”

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VICTORIA PRICE presents THE WAY OF BEING LOST: A Road Trip to My Truest Self 04/03 - 6pm PETER LOEWER presents LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT: The Hidden Language of Flowers 04/04 - 6pm

JOHN KESSEL presents PRIDE AND PROMETHEUS 04/05 - 6pm FRANCES MAYES presents WOMEN IN SUNLIGHT 04/09 - 6pm JENNIFER PHARR DAVIS presents THE PURSUIT OF ENDURANCE launch party 04/10 - 6pm ADAIR presents SUFFER THE CHILDREN an Allison Parker Mystery 04/12 - 6pm CATHERINE REID presents THE LANDSCAPES OF ANNE OF GREEN GABLES 04/29 - 3pm

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Book Signing Peter Loewer signs and reads from Loves Me, Loves Me Not at Malaprop’s on April 4, 6pm. 55 Haywood St. Downtown Asheville (828) 254-6734

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Seducing emotion through landscapes — The Artwork of Kate Thayer By Staff Reports

(L-r) “Boulder Waters” “This Way “ by Kate Thayer

“As a painter, my aim has always been that of attempting to kindle in the viewer the same kind of emotional exhilaration that I experience when I am seduced by a scene that asks to be brought to life in pastel or oils. It is my passion to bring my interpretation of the beauty and mysteries of nature to those

who encounter my paintings.” Kate Thayer Asheville Gallery Of Art, 82 Patton Downtown Asheville Seven Sisters Gallery in Black Mountain Gallery At Flat Rock, Flat Rock

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MORE ART

‘Brennan’ continued from pg. 2 musculature. “When you place your hands on a horse’s upper legs, withers and hindquarters, it’s like steel. Even the flabby ones,” Michael laughs good-naturedly. But, of course, the specimens you find at quarter horse shows, dressage and jumping events and saddlebred competitions like the one taking place in Fletcher May 16-19 are finely-tuned athletes who train for hours upon hours virtually every single day. To gain an even better understanding of his subjects, Brennan rolled up his sleeves and got down and dirty, brushing their coats, cleaning their stalls and loading them into the horse trailers that convey them to the shows at which they compete. “While I unquestionably want to convey their movement and strength through my paintings, I also feel it’s important to keep the compositions minimalist,” says Brennan, who likens his approach to Sumi-e, the ancient Japanese art of brush painting in which much is expressed through a combination of empty space and spare, monochromatic strokes. “You know,” says Michael, suddenly waxing philosophic, “our country was built on the backs of horses. We owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude. It’s a shame that today they’re relegated to events like horse shows that few people ever see. Not experiencing these animals, never

getting the opportunity to know them is, in a profound sense, a real loss. And this is what I hope to share through my equestrian collages.” Brennan began creating his works of art at an early age. His passion for modern art led him to explore the use of collage underlying various painted subjects including wildlife, aviation, architectural illustration, and advertising composition, among others. Michael’s process begins with plywood panel construction. Then he collages vintage text and technical drawings for aesthetic value. Michael Brennan “I’m drawn to yellowed papers and old brown books, engineering manuals, maps and other vintage documents. I make cut-outs, which I sort into piles. I grab random pieces from these piles based on color field and what seems to fit. Then I layer painted images over the collages using a combination of acrylics, charcoal, oils, pastels, and resin.” It is up to Michael’s collectors and viewers

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to decide how to relate the collaged documents to the overarching painted images. But because the mind wants to create order out of chaos, those relaMichael Brennan tionships can change periodically, if not daily, giving Brennan’s work the lure, appeal and connectivity of pure form abstractions. You can derive an entirely new meaning or construction with each subsequent viewing. Michael was awarded “Best in Show” at the Old Fourth Ward Arts Festival in Atlanta in 2016. The same year he was a featured artist in the Louisville Festival of the Arts and received an Award of Distinction at the Gulf Breeze Art Festival. His art has also been featured in past issues of Churchill Downs Magazine. In addition to the Asheville Fine Art Show, Brennan has also been chosen as the featured artist in 2018 for the Ocala Arts Festival and Big Four Bridge Arts Festival.

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LOCAL STORE

Age-old metaphysical store, Raven & Crone, connects with community

By Staff Reports

customers have shown for this project, not only in supplies but donations as well.” Workshops also add to the community building, manager Lisa Wagoner adds. “We cover so many topics with our events and workshops,” she states, “so if a person is exploring their spirituality or wants to learn about different paths, they can do so in a safe and respectful environment.” So next time you are in the North Asheville area, visit Asheville Raven & Crone, not only for their handmade candles, teas, and incense, but also to join their loving and supportive community.

Asheville Raven & Crone is a supporter of community and community building.

Through their store events, and as a drop-off point for the Mother Grove Goddess Temple Food Pantry and Period Project, the store is fulfilling their purpose not only as an age-old metaphysical store but also as an active member of the community. Owner Lisa Anderson feels it is part of the store’s mission. “We work closely with Mother Grove Goddess Temple and are happy to be a drop-off point for

their food pantry. The Period Project has provided much needed feminine supplies for women, and we are in awe of the consistent support our

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Raven & Crone 555 Merrimon Ave, Ste 100, Asheville (828) 424-7868 www.ashevilleravenandcrone.com

‘Teed’ continued from pg. 23

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which represents her love for the artwork, Teed, a native of Columbia, SC is also a songwriter of folk music western North Carolina mountains she calls home. To join the commuand the author of “Seasons of the nity of Love, Peace, and Goodwill South, the Original Homegrown and and share #HealingSpiritArt with the Musical Storytelling Show,” which world, please visit: raises awareness for regenerative www.terileighteed.com agriculture. “Healing Spirit Art©” has been Teri Leigh Teed the name of Teed’s artwork since IF YOU Teri Leigh Teed is a featured artist 2005. She blends fine art nature GO (photography, literature, and muand landscape photography, sic) in the NC Artist Council and her stories, poetry, and songs with photography is featured in numerous positive, inspirational and healing publications including the Editor’s thoughts and energies. Her logo Picks BlueRidgeParkwayDaily.com features a mountain laurel branch, ‘Art’ continued from pg. 11 exhibition for spring during the 310 gets the effect of surround sound as ART “Emergence” exhibition are they live their lives around her. She the works by observes them Bridget Benton, behaving a little T.A.Monette, as humans do, Dona Barnett squabbling yet and Monaghan’s sticking together, collection of small fighting over food, sometimes “No Problem” by T A Monette, Encaustic bird paintings. See the patiently spring exhibition sharing, foolishly “Emergence” and the mini pop up pursuing shiny objects in the face of exhibition “For the Birds” at 310 danger. Images of eggs in her work ART. This celebration of spring will represent potential, or the new life be on exhibit April, and May, with we desire. “We are part of a grand some new bird, inspired pieces complex plan but can sometimes be flying into the gallery throughout turned inward, egg-shaped, like a the summer. Special receptions root ball, not using our potential as held every Second Saturday of the images of the One, True and Living month. God.” Monaghan decided to put 310 Art IF up a small exhibition of works YOU The gallery hours: MondayGO at 310 ART featuring birds, Saturday, 11-5pm, and Sunday eggs, and nests by artists who 12-4pm. 191 Lyman Street, Studio loved and used these symbols in 310, Asheville, NC. • 310art.com their work. Included in the pop-up Vol. 21, No.8 — RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — April 2018 29

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FESTIVAL Sylva’s 21st Greening up the Mountains Festival April 28 The 21st Annual Greening Up the Mountains Spring Festival, fills the streets of Sylva, the backdrop of the Oscar-nominated film “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” with thousands of visitors Saturday, April 28, 10-4 p.m. Greening Up the Mountains features more than 200 vendors including artisans, crafters, local schools, businesses, and non-profit organizations. This year’s festival will feature more than ten food vendors

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offering a variety of tasty options. The festival’s kick-off is at 8am with a 5k Run and Walk at Mark Watson Park, with an awards ceremony at 10am. Participants may sign up in advance at www. greeningupthemountains.com. The Chattahoochee Annual Cubmobile Race, hosted by Boy Scouts of America, will have registration beginning at 9am with the race starting at 10 a.m. This event is open to all registered Cubscouts.

FESTIVAL Music will begin on the Main Street Stage at 9:30am with the Mountain Youth Talent Contest. Participants may contact Heather Gordon at heather_gordan@ ncsu.org to register in advance. Music will continue with twelve bands playing on two stages throughout the day. Visitors will experience a range of musical genres. In addition to an inflatable slide and the “Balloon Goon,” Southwestern Child Development will be hosting a rock painting booth in the Kid’s Zone. Kids can also enjoy face-painting, fun games, arts and crafts and much more. Eric’s Fish Market, in partnership with Lulu’s on Main, will be hosting a Crawfish Boil and the area’s local breweries and wineries will be featured

in the festival’s beverage arts area on Mill Street. Sylva’s local farmer’s market will offer a variety locally produced goods. Visitors can explore Sylva’s selection of antique and resale shops, as well as many vendors featuring recycled and up-cycled materials. The Greening Up the Mountains Spring Festival is a celebration of Spring through both traditional and contemporary forms of art, music, food, and beverage which honors our community and the local artisans of the Appalachian Mountains. Please visit www.greeningupthemountains for more information or contact Kendra Hamm, Event Coordinator, at greeningupthemountains@ gmail.com.

On Stage at HART in Waynesville KARAOKE Saturdays at HART As a part of HART’s Winter Studio Season, the theater has opened up its Bistro, Harmons’ Den, for Karaoke performance on Saturday nights. The theater began offering Karaoke in January, and it has proven so popular that HART has decided to continue to provide Karaoke on Saturdays starting at 8 pm throughout the year. It is also open mic night. On nights when there is a theater perfor-

mance in the Fangmeyer Theater, Karaoke begins after the show is over. You don’t have to sing to enjoy being a part of the fun, and the theater atmosphere inspires a variety of musical styles, from pop to jazz to country to Broadway. IF YOU GO

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