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quite presumptuous one — is I think pretty much anything that I’ve saved all this stuff for I do is geared toward my the biographers. But really, my creative process. Every journey, archives are for excavation, every photo snapped, every as every old idea is a stepping sit-down for tea with any form stone to a new one. And it of pen and paper…. While never fails to surprise me to “Makers Make” all the time, rediscover that I’ve been on the interstitial moments are some of the same conceptual dedicated to that life, too. themes my entire life. Things Preparation, maintenance and like “searching”, or “playtime”. incubation. And life requires a Sorting the stacks reveals lot of maintenance, doesn’t it? much. Errands. Paying bills. Prepping Drawing all the time results food. Washing up. Sleeping a “Kitty Dreaming Series: Ocean”, mixed-media in a natural evolution, not bit (dreams are useful, too!). illustration ©2017 Greg Vineyard just of technical abilities and And then back to that main expansion (or tightening) of purpose. style, but also of how one ideates. I can springboard I have often joked in this column about being older from one creative thought more easily than I used than dirt, and riding dinosaurs to school (Uphill! Both to, even as my brain supposedly is shrinking to the ways! In the snow!), but I’m not actually THAT old. I size of a walnut. When one is working out an idea, will admit to having an AARP card, though - which means I did cross a threshold where the reality of time eventually the thing that needs to happen, happens. The drawing comes together, reflecting all the past hit me. That’s when I knew I was technically running attempts that led up to it, and getting in line to inspire out of time. Not to be dramatic, but when I turned future thought. The only thing that I’m certain of is that 40, I knew in that second that I was officially evernothing happens if pen isn’t to paper, if nose isn’t to closer to 60 than to 20. It’s an incredibly sobering grindstone, if art isn’t held as a primary focus. moment if one is paying attention. So, with sands Sometimes the daily drawing process looms large, flowing through a looming Dorothy-like hourglass, I but at other times it’s small and personal, off to the took the phrase “draw every day” way more seriously. side. Importantly, it’s an ever-present multi-tasking. It Often with a bit of a goofy bent, perhaps, but very doesn’t always have to be big, or even fancy. In many consistent. ways I’m content with the same items I started with When creating artwork, not every result reflects several decades ago: a pen and a yellow pad. As long the original vision I had in my head. And it could be as I have some basic tools, I can continue to doodlethat the 20th attempt is deemed worthy. I have to out my future. Wishing you an ever-present creative be willing to draw as many as it takes. I have to try a rediscovery that lasts a lifetime. couple different color variations. I have to see if digital enhancement makes a drawing more readable in a tiny square on your phone. This process is simply part of… Greg Vineyard is a marketingcommunications professional, artist and well, the process. One certainly ends up with a lot of writer living in Asheville, NC. Find his works material. My sketch files go back to my childhood and at ZaPow Gallery on the South Slope, and are burgeoning. One of my other running jokes — a on gregvineyardillustration.com.
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Seven Sisters Gallery houses new John Wayne Jackson exhibit this May By Staff Reports
Seven Sisters Gallery is mounting an exciting, new exhibit this month featuring sculptural leaves made by
Black Mountain artist, John Wayne Jackson. Jackson takes imprints of real leaves and duplicates them using his own proprietary composite, then painting them with dyes. The result is a luminously beautiful replica of nature, a “contemporary fossil,” cast in stone. Jackson has won many awards of excellence for his craft across the country. Seven Sisters Gallery
is dedicating an entire room to Jackson’s leaves. They will be covering all four walls, floor to ceiling, ranging from small enough to fit in one’s hand to nearly five feet across. Andrea McNair, owner of Seven Sisters, says, “I am so honored to represent John Wayne Jackson’s beautiful art, and to have so much of it in one space is really a feast for the eyes. The attention to detail in his work is really breathtaking.” For Jackson, this is the biggest ‘Jackson’ continued pg. 29
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Nature as teacher – Pastels by Anne Allen By Staff Reports
It was in a field of flowers where Anne Allen was first introduced to color. There were no color swatches to carry, just a white wicker basket for gathering the occasional cut flower. Allen’s mother walked her in fields and gardens to identify colors. Allen’s favorites were plump purple and yellow iris. She was three. Her early memory grows more vivid as she became both gardener and painter in WNC. She plants the flowers she loves to paint. Tulips, the roses from 13 rose bushes, Japanese iris, peonies, clematis, hydrangeas, pink dogwood, black and blue salvia, blue morning glories, coral and sunlit begonias. “I make room for an easel when the flowers bloom and sun dances on the color-filled bed,” Allen says. Years earlier, her love of the arts was nourished when she was 10 Vol. 20, No. 9 — RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — May 2017
recruited to be on the opening team of a new performing arts center in Naples, Fl. Hired while the center was under construction, the opening tapped her creativity in arts management. A performance hall, two art galleries, gated sculpture gardens, a regional symphony orchestra and arts education program changed the cultural landscape of the once small resort community. Bronze entry doors, Chihuly glass and the sounds of a resident orchestra rehearsing keeps the preforming arts alive in her memory today. “My professional career in Florida left few spaces to study art. Later, I perused arts education as an adult. I joined the Southwest Florida Pastel Society and began my early study of pastel with Cherri ‘Art’ continued pg. 12
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Shop, Eat, Explore. . . Everyday, All Year Round ‘Art’ continued from pg. 10
Anne Allen “Joy!” 7x5 Pastel Dunnigan. I also learned that painting en plein aire could be both fresh and arresting. “When I learned about an intensive pastel workshop in New Mexico I found my way to the ranch where Georgia O’Keeffe made her home in the high desert. ‘Ghost Ranch’ was another powerful attraction for me. The skies, clouds and cliffs challenged me to tell their stories.
Over the years, I enrolled in three workshops at the ranch.” When she reached WNC, Allen learned about professional studio classes in Asheville, at 310 ART in the Rivers Art District. “I signed up for an all-day session and began to grow Anne Allen ‘Deep Peace To You’ 8.5 x 8.5 Pastel in new directions. It was for me!” The studio class continues this semester as part of series of adult education classes at 310ART in the River Arts District. The next advanced session with Fleta Monaghan is Friday, May 26. “My growth continues as a member of the board of directors of the Appalachian Pastel Society, an arts organization of 93 members serving artists from NC., Tennessee, SC.,
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Georgia, Virginia, and other states.” In addition to serving as a board member, Allen was show chairman of a non-juried art show at Grace Gallery in Mills River in 2016. She continues in her role as the APS chairperson of “Big Little Paintings,” May 4 June 17, at Blackbird Frame & Art. She earned recognition from The Art League of Bonita Springs, FL and The Art League of Henderson County. Her work has been exhibited in Tryon and Hendersonville, as well as Bonita Springs and Naples in Florida. “Being a member of the arts community teaches you how to stretch. When you stretch, you continue to grow and your history, like your palette, dances with you.” IF YOU GO
Anne Allen is an exhibiting artist at 310 ART. See her work and the work of over 20 local artists in the River Arts District at Riverview Station North, ground floor, 191 Lyman St, Asheville. www.310art.com Hours are Mon-Sat, 11-5pm and Sun 12-4pm
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which we all need. We are so lucky here in the mountains to have so many wonderful artist/mentor/teachers in every area of the arts. Just at Riverview Station alone, in the River Arts District, one can find instruction and groups learning in pottery and clay sculpture, jewelry making, painting and drawing, I can personally say as a teacher and fiber design and more. Throughout our region one can find artist myself, plunging into creativity is the opportunities like no other community. Not only do we live most soothing and healing practice one can in a lush paradise of mountains and waterfalls, we live in a imagine. And it can start off as simply as Lorelle Bacon helps a student during one of her community rich in a long tradition in the arts. classes on art at 310 Art picking up a pencil and doodling a picture of From the centuries of native Americans and mountain a flower. Of course, the fellowship of finding a crafters who to this day carry on unique skills and group of like-minded friends has the added benefit of instant community, ‘Teaching’ continued pg. 29 12 Vol. 20, No. 9 — RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — May 2017
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Fine Art Classes with Lorelle Bacon. First two Tuesdays 9:30 - 11:30am. Two classes $35 for members and $45 for non-members. Classes need not be consecutive. For beginners through advanced students. Students choose the medium and subject. A non-threatening atmosphere lets students work at their own pace. Call Lorelle at (828)595-6007. BEGINNER THROUGH ADVANCED CLAY CLASSSES with Mathilda Tanner. Weds from 1-3pm. $115 for 4 classes for members; $125 for non-members. Includes all materials, clay, glazes, firing and more. Hand building and throwing on a wheel are taught.
WORKSHOPS COMING SOON! Precious Metal Clay all day workshop! Basketry Fused Glass Mountain Scene! Creating Dichroic Glass! Dimensional Paper Art! Painting Faces 101 All Classes held at Arrowhead Gallery and Studios, Arrowhead Gallery and Studios 78C Catawba Ave. Old Fort. For more information go to www. arrowheadart.org (NOTE: If you’d like to teach a workshop in 2017 Contact Education Chairperson Lorelle Bacon (828) 595-6007 or email lorelleartist@hotmail.com.)
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Alcohol Ink - May 6 Liquid Acrylics - May 19, 20 Encaustic Pendants - June 2 Wax, Paper, Thread - June 3, 4 Impressionistic Portraits June 7, 8 Gelatin Printing - June 15 Faux Painting - June 17 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.
ART OPENING IN THE RAD
The Opening Reception for Metamorphosis: Following Abstraction into Form will take place Saturday, May 20, 4-7pm as part of the Rivers Arts District STUDIO STROLL. Grand ReOpening @ STAND Gallery, Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St, Asheville. Free to public. Runs from May 20-June 20th. Vol. 20, No. 9 — RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — MAY 2017 13
PERFORMING ARTS
AmiciMusic presents “Virtuoso Violin” & “Night in Vienna” AmiciMusic presents VIRTUOSO VIOLIN plus encore performance of NIGHT in VIENNA and another Memorial Day PICNIC for PEACE
and visual artist. For more info on Ms. Watson, visit www.roseminnawatson.com/music/. THERE WILL BE THREE PERFORMANCES:
AmiciMusic, Asheville’s award-winning Friday, May 5 at 7:30pm — All Souls Cathedral in Biltmore Village. $20 for chamber music organization, general and $15 for Church will perform several different members. Tickets available at programs in May showcasing the door. their exciting concerts in Saturday, May 6 at 7:30pm very intimate venues, relaxed — House Concert in atmospheres, and nonHendersonville at 1998 Randy traditional spaces. Drive. Panoramic views, great First up is VIRTUOSO acoustics, and a 9 foot concert grand. $35pp includes food VIOLIN with Roseminna and drink. Seating is limited and Watson, violin and Daniel reservations required. Weiser, piano. The program Sunday, May 7 at 5:30pm will feature the ethereal Violin — Isis Restaurant and Music Dr. Daniel Weiser at Grist Mill Sonata by Gabriel Faure as Hall in West Asheville. $20 well as works by Beethoven, for concert alone. Great dinner Kreisler, and Gershwin. available as well. Buy concert tickets online at Ms. Watson will be coming from Austin, TX www.isisasheville.com. To reserve dining, call Isis at (828) 575-2737. Seating is limited and where she was first violinist of the Aiana String reservations are strongly recommended. Quartet in residence at UT Austin until 2013. Ms. Watson grew up in Hanover, NH, where she AmiciMusic will also present an encore performed with Dr. Weiser, AmiciMusic’s Artistic performance of their Night in Vienna program Director, when she was only 12 years old. The with Amanda Horton, soprano, and Jonathan former prodigy has since attended Yale, San Ross, baritone at the White Horse Black Francisco Conservatory, and Stony Brook Mountain on Sunday, May 7 at 2pm. Tickets University and is both an acclaimed violinist
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are available at www.whitehorseblackmountain. com or by calling (828) 669-0816. This show includes fun scenes from three operas by Mozart as well as operettas by Lehar and Strauss. Finally, AmiciMusic will present the third annual “Picnic for Peace” on Memorial Day, Monday, May 29 at 3pm at the home of Steve and Robin Loew at 71 Crabapple Lane in North Asheville. Steve Loew always puts out an incredible spread of food and drink and does double duty performing clarinet with the Asheville Clarinet Quartet as well. Also performing will be his childhood friends, the DeMasi Brothers. Joe and John DeMasi are a fabulous folk music duo who have performed with such artists as Harry Chapin and Christine Lavin and have appeared on Good Morning America and NPR radio. For more about Joe and John DeMasi, visit www. thedemasibrothers.org/bio.html. Seating for the “Picnic for Peace” will be very limited and reservations are required. To buy your seats online, use any major credit card at www.amicimusic.org or call Dr. Weiser at (802) 369-0856 to use a credit card over the phone.
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Michael W. Brennan, Mixed Media, Tallahassee, FL landscapes she encounters while bicycling the Louisville Loop - frequenting local parks and luxuriating in the wildflower gardens she cultivates at her home in the tradition of Claude Monet. Diane Dean, Painting, Henderson, NC Her portraiture is also informed by her The Asheville Fine Art Show opens May 20 & 21 quarter-decade career as a mental health with 115 juried fine art and fine craft artists at therapist. Milligan’s work has been juried the U.S. Cellular Center – many artists whom into fine art shows in both the south and will be selling their personal and originally Midwest, and her work can be found in the handmade artwork in Asheville for their very private collections of a growing number of first time. art enthusiasts. As the daughter of an artist, she feels proud and honored to carry on her Among them is Anne Marie Milligan, family’s artistic legacy. A resident of Louisville, whose painting “Fiddler”, has been chosen Kentucky, Milligan is also by organizer Hot Works as the musically inclined. “featured art” for the show and When she is not painting, she the cover of this month’s issue performs as a professional solo of Rapid River Magazine Arts & singer. Hot Works’ Asheville Culture WNC. Fine Art Show is a high-quality Until a couple of years ago, boutique show; it provides Milligan was a full-time therapist art enthusiasts and collectors in the mental health field. with access to purchase Then she semi-retired and accomplished artists’ works dedicated herself to producing a in a wide variety of media and prodigious body of Impressionist motifs that you just won’t find paintings. She studies the anywhere else. In choosing interplay of light and form as participants, Hot Works focuses found in nature. During the Wood chest: Andy Costine, Wood, winter, Florida’s Atlantic coastline Tryon, NC on originality, technique/ execution (craftsmanship) and provides her with ample motifs. booth presentation. Hot Works has a national In the spring, summer and fall, she discovers and standing reputation, with all shows being a wide range of subjects in the Kentucky
Eddie Myers, ‘Digital,’ Lake Mary, FL voted top-100 in the US including Boca Raton, FL; Estero, FL and Orchard Lake Fine Art Show in West Bloomfield, MI. While at the show, be sure to visit the Youth Art Competition, which is a dedicated 10’x20’ space within the show. As part of our commitment to bring art education in the community, the program encourages students in grades K-8 or ages 5-13 to create and enter his/her original and personally made art, and exposes him/her to the entrepreneurship of doing art shows for a living. See Art, Love Art, Buy Art – See You There! The Asheville Fine Art Show takes place May 20 & 21 in the US Cellular Center (formerly Civic Center) in downtown Asheville. Event hours are 10-5pm on both Saturday and Sunday. $8 adult one-day admission, $10, twoday pass; 13 & under are free, helps to pay for the cost of producing the art show, and supports Institute for the Arts & Education, the associated 501(c)3 non-profit arm which focuses on visual arts, diversity, community enrichment and fostering art education among youth.
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The artist describes her show as combining three paths she likes to take in her work. “(The first path) is my studio work where I am exploring how to define light in the landscape. Another path is creating my small designs by adding curvilinear lines to unfinished watercolors. The third is as a plein air painter,” Sandra Moore says. Well-known for her landscapes, Moore adds, “These paintings are my response to fleeting moments of light—I reflect on a moment that reveals an energy I feel as light is leaving the sky.” Her mastery of watercolor technique is the hallmark of her work. “Watercolor is also a medium of constant change. I paint in layers, using the inherent
transparency to depict the transitions between light and dark, sky and land, clouds and air.” As she continues to grow in her process, the artist states: “Painting, to me, is more and more about how I feel about the subject. It is less hand-eye coordination and more hand-spirit coordination.” Through the years Moore has won awards for her work and participated in juried shows. She teaches watercolor and drawing in the NC Community College system and holds workshops in the WNC area. Her work can be seen at Asheville Gallery of Art and Trackside Studios in the River Arts District. Moore’s work, as well as the work of the other 30 gallery members, will be on display and for sale through the month of May. For further information about this show, you
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can contact Asheville Gallery of Art at (828) 251-5796, visit the gallery website at www. ashevillegallery-of-art.com, or go to the gallery Facebook page.
Asheville Gallery of Art May 2017 Show ‘Light & Line’ Asheville Gallery of Art’s May show, “Light + Line,” features new work by Asheville watercolor artist Sandra Brugh Moore. The show runs May 1-31 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 downtown Asheville across from Pritchard Park, will host a reception for the artist on Friday, May 5, from 5-8 p.m. Everyone is cordially invited to stop by. IF YOU GO
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his or her own personal moment of epiphany.” Visit Cheryl in her studio, NorthLight Studios, 357 Depot Street. Be sure to catch her demos at the Studio Stroll, May 20-21. Keefer will be featured at the Asheville Gallery of Art, 82 Patton Avenue in June and July, 2017, with opening dates Friday June 2nd, and Friday, July 7th. For more information visit www.CherylKeefer.com IF YOU GO
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D r i n k s & D i n i n g G u i d e
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Drinks&Dining Guide New book on homebrew recipes by women is a must read for all brewers By Anita Riley This book is first and foremost a homebrew recipe book, and I hope that you will use these recipes to create beers that you and your friends and family can enjoy. However, my true hope is much more than that. I hope you l find a deep connection to a rich tradition of homebrewing that dates back to the dawn of civilization. I hope you connect with those around you over a pint of your creations. But above all, I hope you find this book to be an invitation to brew. Whether you are trying out a potential hobby for the first time, or you are thinking about joining the rapidly growing beer industry, I want you to know that your invitation is waiting. Each of the recipes in this book have been contributions by women working in the beer industry. While the recipes themselves tell the story of how diverse beers can be, I wanted to tell the stories of the
women who submitted them. The women featured in this book are not often celebrated for their work. Most would describe themselves as shy or modest. They aren’t seeking a spotlight, and because of this, they can be invisible if you aren’t really looking. By sharing our stories, this book also becomes our smoke signal. We are here. At first glance, the beer industry appears as a boy’s club. It’s true there are a lot of men in this field, but it’s been my experience the men of the brewing community are some of the best men in the world. None of the women in this book would be here without the support of their male colleagues, coworkers, employers,
classmates, and instructors. We also glean support from our male family members and friends. Lastly, I hope you make eye contact with your inner brewster and smile at her. Come on in. Brewing Ambition is available online and at www.lulu.com or at Asheville Brewers Supply 712-B Merrimon Ave. Asheville (828) 358-3536
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D o w n t o w n Wa y n e s v i l l e Theres Always Something New!
7th Annual Appalachian Lifestyle Festival
By Staff Reports
Mountain heritage comes alive in downtown Waynesville for the seventh annual Appalachian Lifestyle, Saturday, June 10 on Historic Main St.
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In the interest of protecting and preserving Appalachian traditions, the event will be a celebration of traditional mountain craft, food, and entertainment. Main Street will be filled with numerous art and craft vendors demonstrating and selling handmade Appalachian art and crafts such as forged metal, leather work, weaving, pottery, wood craft, jewelry, rustic furniture, baskets, up-cycled clothing, herbal soaps, and more. Educational components of the day include molasses tastings, Chattahoochee Valley history,
camping/hiking info, Elk Bugle Corps information, and local history displays. There will be a full day of entertainment with mountain music and clogging. The Vintage Country Musicians, The Ross Brothers & Terry Woody, The Radio Hill Gang, and other popular musicians plan to join us for the day. The J Creek Cloggers will perform several times. You will be encouraged to partner with them while Joe Sam Queen leads an authentic square dance. Food vendors will sell delicious traditional mountain fare. Your mouth will water for BBQ,
kettle corn, boiled peanuts, fried pies, fresh squeezed lemonade, and ice cream. Festivities take place rain or shine, 10 – 5pm. Appalachian Lifestyle is sponsored by the Downtown Waynesville Association and is funded in part by the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority, www.visitncsmokies.com. www.downtownwaynesville.com or call (828)456-3517. No animals. IF YOU GO
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THE “RIGHT” CHOICE “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra (for those who don’t know, not an Indian guru) I’m a movie buff and sometimes there are moments in films that just capture the essence of some major archetypal issue of life, expressing and encapsulating, sometimes wordlessly, the essence of a human conflict, truth or wisdom. I find such a moment in the opening scene of the film Yojimbo, by master Japanese director Akira Kurasawa. In the scene, a 19th century ronin, or masterless samurai, acted by the magnificent Toshiro Mifune, dressed not in classical samurai finery and armor, but dusty and worn simple clothing befitting his now anchorless and impoverished status of unemployment, is walking down a path that forks. He stops. He looks at this choice confronting him. Which path to take? Then after a pause of consideration he casually picks up a stick and tosses it in the air. The stick lands pointing towards one of the paths. He nods his head, then rolls his shoulders, and proceeds decisively down that path. A choice has been made. The path leads to a world of trouble (or there would be no movie), but he never, not for a moment, demonstrates any ambivalence about the path he now walks. Moment to moment, he simply steps into whatever the moment presents and does what is necessary to be in honor and courage with what presents itself. The beauty of the scene to me is in the willingness to allow that, despite our delusion of personal choice, basically fate (and a samurai would say Karma) is the actual determiner of our path, and then it is our willingness to give that path every ounce of our life energy that gives our life meaning. To a samurai, this is the code of Bushido, and it seems to me an excellent guide to a life deeply and well-lived; a willingness to say “Yes!” to life, not “Maybe – only if it seems comfortable and safe.” I believe US Americans suffer from a malady of too many choices, or to be more specific, we suffer from a delusion, for some, an obsession, that there are “right” choices for us to make on this vast buffet of choices that is American life. Believe me, I know there are better and worse choices for us to make, and that some people repeatedly make just awful choices, but that’s not the point I want to explore. I want to point out that a very big problem for many is often in the second-guessing and hesitation we bring to the choices we make. We fail to bring commitment, honor and courage to our choices. We fail to say “Yes!” to life. We are plagued by ambivalence and self-indulgence concerning whether a choice brings maximum benefit to us. Our problem isn’t in making wrong choices; it is in bringing inadequate commitment to the choices we make. The great Vietnamese Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh, is known for the koan, “This moment is a perfect moment, this moment is my refuge.” He is not placing conditions on the moment. He is not saying this moment if it is exactly as I wish it
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to be is my refuge; he is saying THIS MOMENT – exactly as it is. How can this be? What if this moment is dealing with a difficult person being unreasonable and ugly? What if this moment contains conflict and disappointment? What if it contains physical or emotional pain? What if this moment upends all the plans I have for my life? What if this moment is just boring? We are here entering into the secret of Zen. We are entering into the secret of Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now, of Ram Dass’s Be Here Now, of mysticism, of Stoicism, of wisdom traditions of every culture. 12th Century Zen Master, Rinzai famously queried, “This moment, what is lacking?” Again, no qualifications. Is this some philosophical/ spiritual trick? Well, if “trick” means skill, yes, and it is a skill for which we are all completely and naturally equipped. It is a trick we have all pulled off successfully many times. Every time we have struggled with some difficult aspect of life, we continue to struggle and struggle until there comes a realization of the uselessness of this struggle with whatever the “it” is. There comes a moment where we choose to just get on with life, to do whatever is needed by the circumstance of the moment and incorporate whatever the “it” is into our normal experience. In that moment we have done the trick. Our problem is we don’t pay attention to the power of this trick. Unlike the Zen masters who are paying very close attention to every nuance of life in its unfolding, realizing life IS moments unfolding, we don’t notice this power, that all there is in this life is THIS MOMENT, and the skill, the “trick” of life is to live fully each moment, but we keep forgetting how good this trick is. We keep slipping back into living in the delusion of a “me-intime” where we have a story of me, a fairy tale of the way we want life to be where any interruption in this story is reason for great upset, consternation, suffering. We have all had difficult challenges, setbacks in the “story of me.” These were times of suffering in our lives, and we have all come to the moment where we let go of the story of our affliction and moved on. In that moment, we pulled off the trick of letting go of our resistance to what is, allowing it to be our “perfect moment, our refuge.” Zen encourages us to pay attention to these moments and gain skill with this trick so we gradually may go from taking two years to recover from some injury or setback in our story, to two months, to two weeks, to two days, to two hours, to two minutes, to two seconds where we realize, “This moment, what is lacking?” We discover the power of Now, of Being Here, Now - of taking the fork in the road. It could be said that developing proficiency at this trick is what “practice” in Buddhism is all about. Often, in retrospect, we can look at times in our lives filled with suffering and see them as times that brought our greatest personal growth, or took us in an unexpected direction that gave new and deeper
meaning to our lives. Many have been baffled by a person who describes some seemingly terrible calamity as a gift in their lives. We fail to realize that every person has the power to do this trick, and everyone has done this trick. It is the remembering and applying this trick that is the challenge when we are so accustomed to staying stuck in being the victim of adversity. In fact, a useful way to understand neurosis is to see how people find specialness through attachment to their suffering and just stay stuck at the fork in their road, pacing in circles of anxiety or anger or despondency. If they would just make the choice to take the fork, any fork that allows them to get on with their life, and give it every ounce of positive intention and gratitude they have, they would be cured of their neurosis. The false specialness they invested in their neurosis would fall away into the true specialness, the wonder that is life, every moment — as a matter of fact, this moment. There are not right choices for us to agonize over. There is only taking the forks in the road that life puts in front of us and giving our full life energy to whatever is on the road. Then it will be a right choice. And remember, there will always be more forks — and we are always free to take them.
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
Healthy breakfast ideas to start your day right By Julia Anderson in a pan. Cook tomatoes until soft. Add eggs and stir while cooking.Spread pesto sauce on bread. Top with scrambled eggs.
The term “breakfast” comes from two words: “break” and “fast.” It literally means breaking the fast that occurred during long hours of sleep at night. Most nutrition experts are in consensus that this is the most important meal of the day. And it’s because it benefits the body in more ways than one. Not only does it provide nutrients that supply energy necessary for the day, it also helps sharpen one’s focus, uplift one’s mood, and prevents starvation. It aids in weight loss by boosting the metabolism. When you’re asleep, the body’s ability to burn fats and calories slows down. Eating breakfast can jump start the body’s metabolism. It’s a common mistake for dieters to skip breakfast. They think they’re losing weight doing this but the exact opposite is true. To help you start your day right, here are some simple, easy to prepare, and delicious breakfast ideas that you’d want to prepare for yourself and your family. BREAKFAST # 1 – AVOCADO, BOILED EGG & WHOLE WHEAT MUFFIN Avocados are an excellent source of healthy fats, vitamins and antioxidants. Eggs, meanwhile, supply the body with protein and B vitamins. And the whole
wheat muffin makes sure that you get enough fiber for the day. Servings: 2 Preparation and Cooking Time: 5 minutes. Ingredients: 2 whole wheat English muffins, toasted, 1 tablespoon whole grain mustard, 1 avocado - sliced, 1 tablespoon fresh dill, 2 soft boiled eggs. Instructions: Spread mustard and dill on the bread slices. Top with avocado and serve with soft boiled eggs. BREAKFAST # 2 – SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH TOMATOES AND PESTO Make this nutritional powerhouse with lycopene and vitamin C rich tomatoes. Pesto is also highly nutritious and at the same time, it adds a unique flavor to the scrambled eggs. Servings: 2. Preparation and Cooking Time: 10 minutes. Ingredients: 4 eggs, 1 tablespoon water, Salt and pepper to taste, 3 teaspoons olive oil, 1/4 cup pesto, 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes — cut in half, 4 slices whole wheat bread, toasted. Instructions: Beat eggs with water. Season with salt and pepper. Heat oil
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ART EVENT Artists Step up Live for Education at QuickDraw
Start your engines: QuickDraw’s Live Art Event on Saturday, May 20 offers you a birds’-eye view
county schools foundation. Over 16 years, generous QuickDraw artists and attendees funded $82,700 in art supplies for teachers as artists take up brush and palette to create and $43,000 in college art while you watch. scholarships. QuickDraw This rare chance to see scholars speak at the event artists create fine art presents to describe how QuickDraw an eye-popping art experience helped their college goals. as guests watch art develop The evening’s sequence from the ‘ground surface’ up. provides a fun, lively event Guests partner with artists and showcases the expert to support art teaching in fine artists of WNC. schools. Add in great food, QuickDraw’s unparalleled a sidesplitting auction, live Painter Cheryl Keefer creates an atmospheric immersion experience lets rainscape at QuickDraw, as guests stroll music, an enthusiastic crowd guests stroll and witness and watch the process. Art originals created for a great cause, and you’ve on the spot are auctioned to buy art teaching art creation, hear artists got the liveliest do-gooder describe the ordeal on supplies in schools. party of spring. At QuickDraw, —Photo Jon Serenius the auction block, chat two dozen brave artists step with artists and make into the limelight to create new friends. The dinner buffet brings friends while attendees stroll and marvel. Half of the together, introduces new residents to the artists challenge the 60-minute art clock, art community, and lets artists meet new starting with a sketch on canvas and finishing collectors. one hour later, framing it for the art auction that Teachers show off student art that you follows. funded, and musicians add to the fest, amidst In addition, artists working in processthe spectacular vistas at Laurel Ridge Country intensive media bring a finished original Club. Guests and artists help art teaching artwork, and can chat with guests while they in multiple ways: there’s the electric quickcreate a work-in-progress. Each QuickDraw draw hour and signature live auction, the artist offers a finished original for the evening’s ‘Little Gems’ gallery of small works, and silent auction, donating half or more of the sale price auction with artists’ fine art and craft. for art teacher classroom supplies. Featured at auction this year is a South Artists push the envelope to work in the African safari vacation for two (six days and six public eye for a great cause. QuickDraw is nights, with three meals daily, with two guided run by art enthusiasts and teaching fans, and all proceeds are channeled through the ‘QuickDraw’ continued on pg. 31
By Sandra Hayes
Art in an Hour?
How the heck can folks create fine art in 60 minutes? Same as getting to Carnegie Hall: practice, practice, practice. In the case of pleinaire artists, it takes a lot of painting on location, dealing with outdoor temperature, humidity, bugs, baking asphalt, wind blowing over your canvas, drying paint, unexpected interruptions, a myriad of opportunities to deal with change, to focus, and to create really, really fast. Realist painter Kelly Lanning Phipps describes QuickDraw as “plein air in controlled conditions,” so it is very possible to create breathtaking works under the gaze of onlookers. Watercolor painter Ann Vasilik treats the event as an exercise in distilling her portrayal into a clean, “very fresh work.” It takes a lot of ability and training to create fine art in a ‘New York minute.’ Over winter, artists pondered what to paint and how to lay it fresh on the canvas, practicing their strokes with a kitchen timer. Their focused QuickDraw goal: a fresh original work, with a provenance that can’t be beat.
QuickDraw Event Lineup 4:30pm — Guests arrive, social, auction registration, Buy Little Gems, bid on silent auction art 5pm — QuickDraw’s signature stopwatch hour 6pm — Social with Auction preview 6:30pm — Live Auction Students and artists speak on the block 7:30pm — “Meet-the-Artists” Buffet
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THE POET'S VOICE
By Carol Bjorlie — “The Poet behind the cello”
Word Power
I pick up poets at the library. I should say I pick up poetry BOOKS at the library. I feel like I’ve brought friends home with me. I believe in the power of words. I hope the words I’ve chosen to share make a difference in our world. By Jane Hirshfield “Da Capo” (a musical term that means return to the beginning) Take the used-up heart like a pebbleand throw it far out. Soon there is nothing left. Soon the last ripple exhausts itself
For the first time this year, I felt reborn again, I knew love’s presence near. Love distant, love detached And strangely without weight, Was with me in the night When everyone had gone And the garland of pure light
and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things
I love this quirky poem by James Baldwin
who do not tax their lives with forethought
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of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted.
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by what he found. This poem, The Peace of Wild Things, by Wendell Berry is one I’m memorizing. I want it with me always. I believe in memorizing poems. I’ve heard the MN poet, Robert Bly recite a library of poems. Most impressive!
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And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
I hope these words will carry me through the next three years. (You know what I mean.) I AM in despair. I DO fear what my life and my children’s lives may be. Poems help. Words help. I am brave. You are, too. Carry on! ( I want to say “Raise Hell,” but my editor will probably leave it out.)
‘Pure Heart: A Spirited Tale of Grace, Grit, and Whiskey’ Author signs May 14 at Malaprop’s Troylyn Ball and her husband, Charlie, engineer and real estate developer, had spent their entire lives in
Texas.
But after a near fatal trip to the emergency room with their nonverbal, wheelchairbound son Marshall, they admitted the dust and the heat were too dangerous. To save their boys, the Balls cashed out, sold their beloved farm, and moved to Asheville. Nearing 50, Troy thought her chance at adventure had passed. But in this booming little Appalachian Mountain city of hippies, farmers, artisans, and retirees, she unexpectedly discovered a support network and something she’d never had in 25 years of providing round-the-clock
care for her special needs boys: the freedom to pursue her own dreams. She struck up a friendship with a legendary 80-year-old raconteur from the mountains, met his friends, and soon found herself in a rickety country shack with an ingeniously inventive retired farmer trying to create the best recipe ever for traditional mountain moonshine. But when the real estate bubble burst and the collapse of her husband Charlie’s new venture in Asheville left them deeply in debt, Troy realized her 10-year business plan for Troy & Sons Platinum Whiskey wasn’t enough. If she was going to save her family (and she was definitely going to save her
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family) she needed to become the most successful woman in the legal whiskey business. And she needed to do it fast, before the bank took her house, her business, and everything she’d worked so hard to achieve. Full of eccentric characters and charming locations, from a “haunted” cabin in the mountains to the last farm in the world to grow heritage Crooked Creek corn, Pure Heart is a charming story of a woman who set out to find a purpose in the most unexpected of places, and ended up finding happiness, contentment, and a community of love and respect. IF YOU GO
Author signing at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe May 14, 3pm (828) 254-6734.
Award-winning ‘My Kicks’ author signs at Malaprop’s May 13
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Award-winning children’s book illustrator and WNC native, Katie Kath, will be holding the official launch party for her newest picture book My Kicks: A Sneaker Story!, written by Susan Verde, at Malaprop’s Bookstore on Saturday May 13, at 11am. The event is familyfriendly and will feature a reading from the book, a character-drawing demo, and more. My Kicks centers around the
colorful, urban life of a little boy who cannot bear to let go of his worn, treasured sneakers. A tale told in upbeat prose about the value of memories both old and new, this book is a perfect summer read for kids of all ages. Katie Kath holds an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and has illustrated over 10 books since 2013. Her books have received distinguished recognition
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IN THEIR WORDS
Bonnie Cooper Photography & The Interbeing Project The Interface of Woman & Nature
By Bonnie Cooper
We tend to see ourselves in the world as self and other.
I seek to collapse this duality and create images that are metaphors for meaning and connection. It was out of the Bonnie Cooper desire to express this encounter that The Interbeing Project, the Interface of Woman and Nature was born. This collection of photographic images merges the naked beauty of a woman’s body with some aspect of nature’s beauty. The images portray each woman’s personal atonement to nature-
a waterfall, a mountain, a slot canyon, or being in a grove of trees. A state of oneness is expressed, were borders and boundaries have collapsed. I have been a photographer since 2000. In addition to The Interbeing Project, I have a portfolio of nature and landscape photography as well as images that reflect the Appalachian barn tradition. IF YOU GO
I regularly exhibit my work in WNC. Fine art prints are available on my website. bonniecooperphotography.com
Cathyann Burgess captures imagery with brilliant color
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Left - ‘Long Division,’ pastel, 16x20. Middle - ‘Rarified,’ 8x8, oil. Right - ‘Elemental Force,’ 24x18 pastel. All by Cathyann Burgess “My first aesthetic experience was at The Cloisters, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Then as a teen, Picasso’s Guernica blew me away.” Accomplished award winning artist, Manhattan born Cathyann Burgess sold her first artwork when 13. Early validation of her interest and talent
in visual art propelled her educational pursuit. She holds an MSEd Art, instructing others while raising her sons. Her artwork, Rarified graces a banner in downtown Hendersonville’s Artscape. After an itinerant lifetime with her husband’s employment, Burgess
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‘Teaching’ continued from pg. 12 traditions, to an American Impressionist painter’s colony in the early 20th century, the arts are a major force and occupation in our region. Black Mountain College in the early part of the 20th Century was wellspring of contemporary American art, where many now famous artists both learned and taught. WNC was and remains a place that draws out our best and nurtures our spirits through the arts. We asked some of the instructors and some of the participants in classes to tell us why they love studying and teaching art. What things would draw a person to make with their hands and hearts and how does it improve our lives? Noted oil painter Cindy Walton teaches an amazing class in oil and cold wax techniques. She says, “Art education allows us to explore with freedom who we are. In other places in society we may need to be more reserved and cautious. With art there is experimentation, problem solving, exploration and just plain fun that happen nowhere else. My favorite part is I can be messy and it is accepted.” Oil painters know all about messy, so we wear old clothes and aprons, put on gloves, and throw our cares out the door. Everyone is so different and we can appreciate differences and relish in our share interests. We are all equals, all on a path toward a positive goal. And, I will say, while I am messy like Cindy, some are very neat and tidy! It
really does not matter when you are creating, as one participant in a painting class put it, “Yay for art, and thank you for making a safe and vibrant place in which to grow and have fun.” Finding a safe place to be yourself and explore your inner visions is so essential to happiness. Lorelle Bacon, an amazing portrait painter and renowned teacher just got this note from a former student. The timing was perfect to include in this short article, as the art life is often serendipitous. “Dear Lorelle, my name is Mabel. You touched my life through the PPAS Children’s Summer Art Program in 1997. You seeded an amazing love of art into my young impressionable mind. I went on to love art in school and college. Now I have two children and a good solid job as an accountant. I recently found a certificate from the classes I took so many years ago and it made me smile to remember those lovely classes I enjoyed as a child in the summer time. I want to thank you for all the time and loving kindness you pour into both older adults and young children. I will be forever grateful.”
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array of his work ever staged. “The opportunity Andrea has given me was at first, a bit overwhelming. But my assistant and I worked night and day to get the pieces finished. I am truly grateful to Andrea for taking on a single artist’s exhibit of this scale.” Jackson got his start after a friend recommended he watch a Martha Stewart segment she had taped.
“That changed everything,” Jackson says. “I finished my consulting contracts and dove into the deep end, never looking back.” Jackson and his wife/partner, Paige, now sell their work at galleries across the country and at 25 juried fine art festivals. Jackson’s work seems to get bigger and bigger over time. “I am constantly searching for the next giant. We were near Portland
Oregon this summer where we discovered a plant that produces
seven to nine foot leaves. We made a seven footer with the help of a dozen other artists I recruited from the area. It’s a real monster.” That leaf is now at Jackson’s studio, Imagine That! Creations, awaiting completion. Work from Jackson’s exhibit can be viewed and purchased at Seven Sisters Gallery through July 30. Mon-Sat 10-6pm; Sun 12-5pm. 117 Cherry St Black Mountain, NC 28711 (828) 669-5107 IF YOU GO
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IN THEIR WORDS
Patricia Cotterill talks about her new work Painting every day helps me to improve, grow technically and satisfy my ambition to generate work which
I am proud to share with the public.
Some of the results of this creative process will be on show from May - July at the Monte Vista Hotel in down town Black mountain NC. The opening reception will be on May 5 from 5-7pm. My larger oil paintings of a favorite subject, farm animals, will be on display as
well as smaller ones throughout this beautiful historic Hotel. Other talented local artists will be represented also. (See page 34) Come see more of my work during the The River Arts District Studio Stroll on May 20 at my “Riverside Studio” location at 174 W. Haywood St. It would be great to see previous viewers and purchasers of my work, as well as new art
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lovers at this special event. A total of seven talented artists display their work at Riverside Studios. You can now find my paintings in the historic “Grovewood Village,” next to the Grove Park Inn. My work is featured at the “Woolworth Walk” in down town Asheville, in the new gallery “Artisans on Main” in Weaverville, as will as the “Mountain Nest Gallery” in Black Mountain.
Andy Cooper talks about wood, steel and his love of creating
By Andy Cooper
I will be the first one to admit that I am a wood snob. That is to say that every piece of walnut, maple, oak, cherry and the list goes on, is scrutinized for its inherently spectacular grain pattern, for its subtle color variations. Each piece has a beautiful story from the tree’s life of growing and surviving Left - antiqued white oak with vintage Vernor’s ginger ale crate doors, big gears lamp with irredecesent glass shade. Middle - Asheville Andy Cooper changing weather NC antique manhole cover rim with grate. Right - Ambrosia maple live edge slab bench with I-beam, drill bits and nuts and bolts. and forest environment. I build pieces to be glass) has always made sense to me when craftsmanship to last centuries. used and proudly displayed, detailing a rich hand making durable furniture and items for the The union of steel and wood (and sometimes history of the materials used and a level of 30 Vol. 20, No. 9 — RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — May 2017
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‘QuickDraw’ continued from pg. 25 game view/photo safari tours each day in openair Land Rovers. Bidders choose from four different lodgings on the 4500-acre property). Bidders help art education and get Oil painter Sarah Sneeden some travel from it, of Cedar Mountain paints too. Plan ahead to DuPont Forest during bring friends and new QuickDraw’s live-art event. arrivals, and show off Colored pencil artist Teresa WNC talent at its best. Pennington draws in the Wear comfortable shoes background. for strolling indoors — Photo by John Highsmith and outside on the pavilion, and bring your checkbook to help art teaching.
Tickets are $60 and include QuickDraw admission, auction registration and dinner. Tickets are sold in advance only, it is always a sellout and it’s loads of fun. The evening’s schedule and rogue’s gallery of gutsy artists and ticket outlet information is at WNCQuickDraw.com. For more information, call (828) 734-5747. IF YOU GO
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‘Burgess’ continued from pg. 28 has been “at home and studio” in Hendersonville since 2015. “I love it here in WNC. Inspiration surrounds me in this rural environment. I never lack subject matter. I am not just a studio painter. I enjoy and teach plein air painting.” Also, networking with the many other accomplished artists in town has eased transition to her new home. A veteran of public, private and museum education, Cathyann serves voluntarily as Appalachian Pastel Society Program Chair, which extends a 30+ year career teaching about art. Burgess has maintained online presence since 2006 with her blog Cathyann’s Studio and at cathyannburgessfineart.com Awarded with juried acceptance for three consecutive years into On Common Ground: From Mountains to Sea, a state pastel competition has been gratifying. “Soft pastels and oils mixed with cold wax medium are my tools of late. I feel that I’ve come home with them. I love color. The landscape here entices me, but really it matters more that I paint rather than what I paint. The magic of orchestrating that blank space is a gift I treasure and work at daily. In the process I find peace as well as exhilaration.”
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Burgess exhibits at Asheville Gallery of Art on 82 Patton Ave. Downtown Asheville, Art on 4th Ave in Hendersonville, and Up Against the Wall Gallery, Kingsport,Tennessee. Contact the artist at (804) 833-7903
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“Less is More” art show at SVFAL thru July 9
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The Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League is pleased to announce it’s members’ show at the Red House Gallery in Black Mountain, May 12 through July 9. The show, entitled “Less is More,” is an exploration of the possibilities inherent in using a limited paint palette. Traditionally, art students have been taught to paint using a limited or
restricted palette of several colors. This helps them to focus on value, form, composition and temperature. It also develops good color mixing skills. A limited palette, when used by experienced artists, can result in beautiful, harmonious, unified paintings. The SVAL artists represented in this show have chosen their own limited palettes of no ‘Less is More’ continued next pg.
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Gretchen Chadwick and Nancy Clausen, co-curators of this show, invite you to the opening reception Friday May 12 from 5-7pm. Come meet the artists and enjoy refreshments at the Red House Gallery. 310 West State St., Black Mountain. Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat. 11-5pm, and Sun. 1-4pm. www.svfalarts.org
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On taking art back up years later after retiring Hi, My name it Barbara Roberts (known as Bobbie) I have been painting and sketching for many years. I completely dropped my art when I took on a full time job. I was raising my children and there wasn’t time for my art. Time passed. I eventually retired. My family was grown and I was at a total loss as to what I should do next. My husband agreed I needed ‘Bringing the Wanderer Home’ After Jean something to fill my time, Paul Selinger. so he suggested I pick up 18” x 14” Oil by my art again. I was not sure Bobbie Roberts about this since it has been
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meeting and greeting new people who come to the area and are excited about our gallery. We have a lot of talented artists who exhibit in our shows. Our next gallery opening and reception will be May 12-July 9. Also, we have an open house at the Monte Vista Hotel May 2-July 25. My artwork will be in this show along with other artists from our art league. The Monte Vista is located beside the Red House Gallery in Black Mountain. Hope you all will come and join us. Monte Vista Hotel, 308 State Street, Black Mountain, (828) 669-8870 Red House Gallery, 310 State Street, Black Mountain – (828) 669-0351 IF YOU GO
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