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CONTENTS October 2017

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“Moody Skies” paintings exhibition opens October 1 Showing the works of Virginia Pendergrass

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COVER STORY: “Moody Skies” paintings exhibition opens Oct. 1 Storytelling — Thoughts to image

First Annual Beaverdam Studio Tour Oct 28-29 The History of the Mummy

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Early in her painting career in Florida, color captured Pendergrass’ attention first. Influenced by Betty Edwards’ book, Color, emphasizing bright, intense colors in a painting, and by a workshop with Scott Christiansen, whose paintings feature warm, western landscapes, she set out to be an artist. These early colorful paintings were particularly suited to sunny Florida; some patrons described her work as “happy paintings.” “When I moved to Brevard, 15 years ago, I continued to use the same bright color palette and was guided by spots of bright color in choosing a composition,” recalls Pendergrass. “One rainy day, however, I huddled in a recessed doorway and painted one of my favorite works — a pasture and mountains partly obscured by a stormy sky. This moody, atmospheric painting suddenly opened my eyes to the unique beauty of NC (quite different from Florida or the West) of fog rolling in and

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: October 26, 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

out, luminous sunsets, storm clouds approaching, misty distant mountains, and vast banks of fat white clouds.” The transition to her new interest in moody, atmospheric landscapes was not easy. “Atmospheric paintings require close values of dark and light and colorful grays; “happy paintings” use strong con‘Moody Afternoon’ trasts of dark and light and bright color to capture the feel of sunny days,” explained Pendergrass. “I first tried various changes in paints by including one or more muted or unsaturated colors to mix the colorful grays of the atmospheric landscape. I then began to appreciate the need for careful control of values.” To control value, Pendergrass undertook monochrome underpaintings in burnt sienna as a base for the color painting. “I had instruction on how to do this early on but did not understand why anyone would. It seemed a lot of preparation to get to the ‘real’ painting. I finally realized that it is easier to get values right

those who attend for the 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.

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I must be in “Sci-Fi Loving Shutviscerally. I was recently on a trip to In Mode” lately, where I spend a my old alma mater, and friends and bit of time watching time-travel, I remembered old times so intensely futuristic, and alien-invasion flicks that we were practically time traveling, while drawing, resulting in random sensing the taste of food in a particular memories. For example, as I was restaurant, or how the sun felt on a working on a Halloween drawing spring day out on the quad. I was recently, I was for some reason particularly taken with colors and mentally transported to a small patterns of dorm walls and student coffee shop in Silver Lake, CA that I center floors. I’m the type that, when I used to frequent on winter mornings hear a song on the radio, immediately “Tumbling Through The Memories ” in late 1998. It was a time when I recall where I was when I last heard Illustration by Greg Vineyard © 2017 was up very early and would sit on it. It could have been on yesterday’s their covered porch, warmed by fresh commute, or at an awkward school coffee while journaling and doodling what was in front dance in 1977. of me across the street. Which was, if I recall, one-story These associations are a useful part of the creation stucco buildings converted into office and retail spaces. process, as they augment an experience to help it become I think the bit of glass, steel and concrete they used newer, while at the same time tethering us to who we are worked wonders; I remember thinking that someone else inside. I’m a guy who lived in Colorado and breathed that could have missed the potential. air under a bright orb at a mile high. I lived in the shadow WHY on earth that particular memory would spring of Pike’s Peak, drove Interstate 25, and lived in this or that forth while I’m drawing angry, flapping crows is city for a while. I’m someone who lived in Los Angeles somewhat mystifying to me, but this type of thing and drank a lot of coffee. And I’m an Asheville transplant, happens to me quite frequently. It could perhaps be like so many others. Everything that has happened in my simply an age thing. However, if THAT were the case, I’d world rolls-in underneath today’s experiences, fueling… be remembering when I was walking my pet Allosaurus something. If I could name it, it might become over-defined through tropical subzones. Carrying a cleanup bag the and fade away, so I leave it be. size of a Buick. It’s important for me to pay attention to senseBut I do have a theory: artists’ brains are wired memories when they occur, to notice patterns and differently. They access many, many things at once trends, and to keep the incident in mind for a bit and connect dots – even subconsciously – to create while continuing to work on whatever’s in front of me. substantially unique works, from visual to musical to Sometimes I understand the connection, but most times writing, acting, and more. My past and my present are I don’t. It is fun to be aware - I’m reminded that I’ve done connected in an evidentiary way. Perhaps I made the quite a bit of living along the way. How lucky is that? I same mark of the pen on a mixed-media piece this past hope your memories are bubbling forth, enhancing your week as I did 18 years ago in a notebook. Or maybe I am days and your output. in the same sort of mental space now as I was back then. But I trust it. I trust that it’s something that enhances Greg Vineyard is a marketingwhat I’m creating rather than detracting from it. To communications professional, artist and me, the experience is similar to hearing an old song writer living in Asheville, NC. Find his works at ZaPow Gallery on the South Slope, and and going back in one’s mind to an EXACT place and on gregvineyardillustration.com. time. Where it’s so real that all senses are recollected

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STUDIO TOUR Clockwise Robert Winkler creates sculpture based on a calculated progression of identical forms; Terri Sigler’s Hand-blown glass art: vases, tumblers, ornaments, pumpkins, and jewelry; Robert Milnes produces unique functional objects and sculptures in clay and other materials; and Gwen Bigham creates non-objective painting, personalized memory painting, found object sculpture, portraiture, and installation art.

First Annual Beaverdam Studio Tour Oct 28-29 Take a self-guided tour of artists’ studios in North Asheville to visit 24 artists living and working in beautiful Beaverdam Valley—ceramists, painters, jewelers, sculptors, glass and textile artists, and watercolorists. They invite visitors to chat with them and purchase handmade artwork. All studios are off Beaverdam Rd, reached from Merrimon Ave.

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Elizabeth Henderson - Visionary Painter and Sculptor By Staff Reports The art of Elizabeth Henderson is

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It combines her life experiences and her inner visions so completely that it is like no other art. Viewers are drawn into a complex world of symbols, rhythms, hidden surprises, layers of depth in a mix of reconfigured ancient world symbols and Henderson’s unique visual language. Once you see the art, it comes as no surprise to learn that Henderson has had a rich and diverse life. She has lived in South East Asia and European countries and has studied and absorbed different art and culture of the places where she has lived and traveled. Her work reflects this trip. A very introspective artist, the work also reflects her inner travels and visions as well. Both a painter and sculptor, she calls herself a “Visionary Artist with a “Surrealist cast.” She also 12 Vol. 21, No. 2 — RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — October 2017

calls herself Visionary because her paintings and drawings evolve from visions of a central structure such as an architectural, biological, or purely geometric shapes. Pictorial elements are adapted from icons, hieroglyphics, and other images found in Aztec, Mayan, and Egyptian art. She is interested in ancient architecture, textile, painting, and sculpture. She borrows and adapts heavily from Celtic, French, Moslem, and English medieval manuscript illumination. Henderson feels her art to be imbued with Surrealism because she channels her unconscious life, frequently working out her ongoing life pictorially. She says her paintings and drawings are like waking dreams. The icons she creates are symbols of her visions in her current spiritual life. Currently, she is working in mixed media consisting of watercolor and acrylic on paper, canvas, or ‘Art’ continued next pg.

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‘Art’ continued wood. Her usual method for paintings starts with a thin wet wash of two or three colors on the surface reminiscent of the work of the color field painters. When the painting is dry she sometimes superimposes an ink drawing which is then illuminated with color. However, when working on wood, she works directly on the surface without a line drawing. Henderson came to live here in Asheville in 2006 from D.C., originally to be near her

daughter and grandson who live near Tyron, NC. Washington D.C. is where she received most of her art education, including her BFA at the Corcoran School of Art in 1991. She immediately found and continues to work in studio classes. There she absorbs energy in collaboration with other artists. Her colleagues are always amazed by her endless and everevolving imagination and steady work ethic. She has fallen in love with Asheville, calling it Artist’s Heaven. She never dreamed she

would find such a wonderful life as she has here. She has a studio at Riverview Station and currently exhibits at the gallery at 310 Art in the River Arts District. She is one of the original exhibiting artists at the gallery. To See Elizabeth Henderson’s Visionary Paintings, come to 310 ART, 191 Lyman Street #310, Asheville, NC 28801. Hours are Monday - Saturday, 11- 5 pm and Sunday 12-4 pm.

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‘Elemental Force’ 24x18 pastel by Cathyann Burgess

‘Treading Rough Terrain’ 18x24 pastel by Cathyann Burgess

Grounded: Landscapes Real and Imagined Cathyann Burgess declares she “loves to paint.” Whether using soft pastels en plein air or oil and cold wax, she energetically addresses wood, canvas, and paper with similar enthusiasm. While this show is about her view of places imagined and visited, she has also garnered recognition for her still life and portraiture. Most recently, she has been awarded for her landscapes in pastel. “The ordinary, quiet moments of daily living are often filled with common observances that I find quite lovely,” says the artist. “I want the viewer to breathe a sigh of joy or lose themselves in the environments I create when viewing my work or living with it. This often violent world needs more of the beautiful, and

this is what I offer. I want to share with you the things that delight me.” For this show, the viewer will be immersed in the images she happily produces in her home studio in Hendersonville, NC. Burgess also teaches workshops in oil or pastel. She exhibits her work at Asheville Gallery of Art and Up Against the Wall Gallery, in Kingsport, TN. Her work hangs in private and corporate collections throughout the country. Burgess’ work, as well as the paintings of the other 30 gallery members, will be on display and for sale through October. For further information about this show, you can contact Asheville Gallery of Art at (828) 251-5796, visit the gallery website at www.

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ashevillegallery-of-art.com, or go to the gallery Facebook page.

Asheville Gallery of Art’s October show features the work of Cathyann Burgess, whose vibrant approach to subject matter mirrors nature’s fall exuberance. The show runs October 1-31 during gallery hours, 11-6pm. Monday — Saturday and 1-4pm Sunday. The gallery, located at 82 Patton Avenue in Asheville, across from Pritchard Park, will host a reception for the artist on Friday, October 6, from 5-8pm. Everyone is cordially invited to stop by.

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POSTER ART “DEATH SHALL COME ON SWIFT WINGS TO HIM THAT TOUCHETH THE PHARAOH” — ‘The Mummy’ (1932)

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later when in November 1922, Howard Carter opened the tomb of Tutankhamun. 1932 Universal Pictures, on the heels of the immensely successful Frankenstein with Karloff as the Like the Frankenstein iconic monster, released The Monster, the Mummy Mummy starring Boris Karloff. was created by a Karloff by now was recognized woman. worldwide as the face of the horror Mary Shelley wrote genre in cinema. 85 years and still Frankenstein in 1818 the artistry of Karloff and make-up to great success. Then genius Jack Pierce lives on in both Film poster with text: “Karloff the uncanny in in 1821, Jane Louden The Mummy” the Frankenstein Monster and the Webb penned The Mummy. Mummy, a story about The artistry of the performance, a vengeful mummy direction, and photography is coming back to life. what ensures the many inferior Non-other than productions offered over the Louisa May Alcott, decades. author of Little Women The film is about an ancient contributed to mummy Egyptian mummy named Imhotep lore when she wrote who is discovered by a team of Lost in a Pyramid: the archaeologists and inadvertently Artist John Mac Kah’s interpretation of Karloff’s Mummy’s curse. Mummy for Rapid River Magazine’s special brought back to life through a Halloween issue 2017 magic scroll. Disguised as a The romance with Egyptian art and modern Egyptian, the mummy culture was blossoming searches for his lost love, whom he believes and would be in full bloom a hundred years has been reincarnated into a modern girl.

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“It’s one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to perform and be judged in a competition. And that’s what cooking in a high profile restaurant is. It’s a competition. You’re up against every other three or fourstar restaurant in your city, and if you want to stay in business, you’d better deliver.” — Joe Bastianich

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Drinks&Dining Guide Sweeten your day with ‘Toast & Jam’ By itself, tofu is like wet foam By Staff Reports

Bread and butter, toast and jam, scones and clotted cream— baked goods have a long tradition of being paired with spreads to make their flavors and textures sing. As a baker with a passion for plants, Sarah Owens, author of the James Beard award–winning Sourdough, takes these simple pairings in fresh new directions. Spread some Strawberry & Meyer Lemon Preserves on a piece of Buckwheat Milk Bread for a special springtime treat. Top a slice of Pain de Mie with Watermelon Jelly for a bright taste of summer. Lather some Gingered Sweet Potato Butter on a piece of Spiced Carrot Levain for a warming fall breakfast. Make a batch of Dipping Chips to serve with Preserved Lemon and Fava Bean Hummus for an inspired snack. Wow, brunch guests with a spread of Sourdough Wholegrain Bagels, Lemony Herb Chèvre, and Beet-Cured Gravlax. The recipes here offer a thoroughly fresh sensibility for the comfort found in a simple slice of toast spread with jam.

Owens is an autodidactic baker and gardener with a thirst for travel and an insatiable hunger for creativity. She is the owner of BK17 Bakery, an artisan micro-bakery that began in Brooklyn. She is the author of

Sourdough: Recipes for Rustic Fermented Breads, Sweets, Savories and More, which won a James Beard Award. She teaches workshops on natural leavening, fermenting, and horticulture worldwide. She lives and teaches seaside on New York’s Rockaway Peninsula. Available at Malaprop’s Bookstore in downtown Asheville.

rubber, but you’d no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art. — Victoria Moran

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ART TALK

‘Guardian of the Memory’ by Tina Brunetti

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‘Key West Rooster’ by Tina Brunetti

Artist Brunetti captures the essence of wildlife with her unique colorful technique Intense love and respect for animals and nature compel Tina Brunetti’s vibrant, colorful creations depicted through the application of mixed media on textured surfaces.

Her goal is to communicate to the world the importance of ecological balance between humans and mother Earth through her artwork. Brunetti’s latest artistic exploration involves

the application of alcohol ink to all sizes of upcycled pieces of sheet metal. She wire brushes and grinds the metal to add texture and shine resulting in multi-patterned light refractions that has her patrons mesmerized and wondering how she creates these unique effects. The transparency of the ink lets the metal shine through, and the process of

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layering produces textures that make her favorite subjects, animals and their personalities, come to life. Brunetti also paints with acrylic media, creating texture with applications of sand and glue or weaving canvas strips into the canvas. She was a juried artist at Hot Works Asheville Fine Art ‘Brunetti’ cont on pg. 31

NOW “When your attention moves into the Now, there is alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is…. The moment you enter the Now with your attention, you realize that life is sacred. There

is a sacredness to everything you perceive when you are present. The more you live in the Now, the more you sense the simple yet profound joy of Being and the sacredness of all life.” – Eckhart Tolle

Most of the time, for most of us, our attention is so divided between what we are doing and what is going on in our heads that life just skims past us. As a result, our skill level with what we are doing and with an interpersonal relationship is quite limited, not to mention the capacity to see and experience the sacredness of life all around us. We are just present enough to have the minimally required effectiveness to get by; and the notion that any moment, indeed every moment, is pregnant with spiritual potential is simply not recognizable to us. For most of us, if we have any spiritual practice at all, it is engaged in situations with clear time boundaries quite separate from our ongoing everyday lives. We have rituals and places of worship, whether that is a church or a mountaintop. We may have a meditation practice, but few experience and engage their meditation like an athlete practices warmup before engaging in their sport, and one very valuable perspective on meditation is to approach it in this way. It is the warm-up for the game of life, limbering and sharpening the senses and the mind, calling forth clear present-moment awareness to engage our everyday experiences in a manner that opens us to deep and vital skill and connection with whatever we are doing. As an athlete prepares himself to enter the flow of their sport, with meditation we can prepare to enter the flow of life - sharp, present, and open for whatever may happen. But typically, we bring only partial attention to whatever we are engaged with, a significant part of the mind still elsewhere in events past or anticipated. We have forgotten that when we bring our full attention into the present moment, and I mean full attention, time stops. Of course, it does. Time is past and future, and it could be said that our psychological sense of self-depends on time, for our psychological sense of self is a story of personal history and anticipation we tell ourselves repetitively

ZEN PHILOSOPHY WITH BILL WALZ as we go about our lives. We run the routine of our lives - getting from our past to our future, the present moment being only what happens along the way. This is a superficial and unsatisfying way to live and certainly not spiritual. And then – perhaps we are in a magnificent natural setting – a mountaintop, the ocean at sunset, the Grand Canyon, a beautiful waterfall – and time stops and we become completely present. We may very well come away describing the experience as spiritual, and we tend to give the experience credit as being spiritual – “Oh, you have to go to this waterfall – It is such a spiritual experience.” What we fail to realize is that the power of the waterfall is not that it is any more inherently religious than any other manifestation of the miracle of life, but that because of its beauty and power it functions as a trigger that brings us fully into the moment with no commentary or story. We are completely present. It is the completely present that is the actual opening into the spiritual dimension. The grandeur of the waterfall then becomes the content of the religious experience as the sense of preoccupation with our own story and agenda falls away. The disappearance of our self-preoccupation is the opening into this moment of unity with the moment, and it is this experience of unity that is spiritual. The same can be experienced with the song of a bird, a flower, or any aspect of life if we avail ourselves of it completely and look deeply into it as the miracle that it is. We will become completely present, time will stop, and the spiritual dimension of oneness in the experience will open. On the other end of the desirability spectrum, we may be in a great natural catastrophe, caught in a war zone, or have just been told by our doctor that we have cancer. Time stops. There is only this moment, and we are gasping to find how to meet this moment and survive it. This may not be sublime, but it can be equally spiritual, and may well be life-altering, as the preciousness of life becomes evident as never before. Once again, we are completely present. No time or even orientation to keep up our story. The paradox of these life-threatening experiences is that people have been known to come away noting that they never felt more alive. I’ve always found it interesting that apocalyptic Christian theology holds that the “Kingdom of Heaven” will be realized at the end of time - and a parade of false prophets throughout history have set dates on the

calendar when this ending will occur. Far more likely, I believe, the teaching is to be taken psychologically – that just as Jesus is to have said, “the Kingdom of Heaven is spread across the land but people do not have the eyes to see it,” the ending of time is in the ending of psychological time, when we come fully into the present moment and our mind releases holding onto past and future – when we are here completely present in the Now. This is the way to have the eyes to see – not just on the mountaintop, but in our back yard and with the next person we encounter. We can bring our attention fully into the Now, into the present, through our senses. Tune awareness into this moment experienced in vision, in hearing, in feeling - first with noticeable sensations, but keep going deeper. See not only the visible objects around you, see subtle and smaller detail and see the space out of which the objects arise. Hear not only the sounds around you, listen to subtle and more subtle sounds until you have the sense of hearing the silence beneath the sounds out of which all sounds arise and then return. Feel not only the surface sensations of your body, feel the subtlest of sensations – your breathing, and even the inner sensations of life animating your body, and then, even the energy of life all around you that passes through you, what the Chinese call chi. Feel the energy of the Earth beneath you and the sky above and how energy travels through you linking these two dimensions. Open your senses, including the sense of intuition that feels the invisible energy of the universe permeating everything. The mind will stop - and your sense of separate self may or may not completely disappear, but you will find that it coexists with a sense of self that is connected with the experience of the moment and ultimately, the infinite. The Now will open its secrets, and you will know why Eckhart Tolle named his book The Power of Now.

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 Taking a vacation? Better think about traveling diseases By Max Hammonds, MD

Travel to foreign, exotic places can be an exciting adventure for the over

1 billion tourists who travel

internationally away from their

‘The Bride’ by Tony Corbitt Jr — Selph Road Studios

‘Creature From The Black Lagoon’ by Tony Corbitt Jr — Selph Road Studios

usual place of residence.

Along with planning the itinerary of such a trip, the appropriate wardrobe, and the sites of interest along the way, every traveler knows to be aware of the disrupting and potentially dangerous diseases common to such exotic places. The list of rules for avoiding traveler’s diarrhea, typhoid, hepatitis B, and cholera include: wash your hands frequently, drink only bottled water, avoid locally made ice, eat only well cooked, hygienically prepared foods. Also, avoid malaria, dengue, and yellow fever by using insect repellent, wearing long sleeves and long pants, and using mosquito nets at night. Most travelers know these diseases can not only disrupt an excellent trip but can have longterm consequences, even death.

While these infectious diseases make up only 2.5-4% of the illnesses one can encounter on a trip, they do seem to concentrate in some of the most interesting places to visit – Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the tropics of Central and South America, and sub-Sahara Africa. Fortunately, vaccines exist for all most all of these diseases (not traveler’s diarrhea or malaria) and the need for these inoculations is limited to specific occupations and countries. However – most tourists are unaware that the common childhood diseases for which most Americans have been

‘The Wolf-man’ by Tony Corbitt Jr — Selph Road Studios

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vaccinated as infants and toddlers are a significant danger for overseas travelers. Rubella (3day or German measles), rubella (red or hard measles), mumps, chickenpox, pertussis (whooping cough), diphtheria, and polio are still quite common in many overseas areas – and not just in developing countries. All of these diseases are highly contagious and transmitted primarily by respiratory droplets (coughing and sneezing.) And all of these diseases have 10-30% complication rates (mostly in infants, older adults, and immunocompromised people): pneumonia, meningitis, encephalitis, paralysis, hepatitis, deafness, and death – and major fetal malformations when passed to pregnant women. Some of these diseases no longer exist in the Americas because of high vaccination rates (greater than 90-95%). As a result, the chance of meeting someone with one of these diseases is very remote. However, in subSahara Africa, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent (including Afghanistan and Pakistan), and the East Indies the vaccination rates can be 30-70% which is not high enough to create “herd” immunity and suppress these diseases. Interestingly, many European countries also have lower vaccination rates (60-80%) because of unfounded fears of ‘Travel’ continued on pg. 31

PERFORMING ARTS THIS OCTOBER The American Chamber Players The Asheville Chamber Music Series (ACMS) will present the American Chamber Players in concert on Friday, October 27, 8 pm. The show welcomes back one of the Nation’s favorite chamber ensembles and will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville at 1 Edwin Place. “They have established standards of chamber music performance equal to any in the world,” in the words of the Washington Post. And The New York Times said, “They appealed to the heart and the head, offering a warm, seductively luxurious sound and an impressive precision and unity of purpose.” Among today’s most exciting and innovative chamber music ensembles, The American Chamber Players’ fascinating and delightful programs with varied instrumental combinations have been as enthusiastically praised as its

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extraordinary, dynamic performances. “The Asheville Chamber Music Series is delighted to present the American Chamber Players as part of our 2017-’18 season,” says Nathan Shirley, The American Chamber Players ACMS administrative assistant. “The program they have prepared is sure to appeal to a wide range of musical tastes -- from Mozart and Weber to the surprisingly accessible and melodic music of early 20th century composers Pierre Sancan and Frank Bridge. With music for flute, piano, violin, viola, and cello, this will be a very colorful program indeed.” The Friday, October 27 program will include: Frank Bridge: Phantasie Piano Quartet in F-sharp minor

Weber: Trio in G minor, Op. 63, (flute, cello, piano) Pierre Sancan: Sonatine for flute and piano Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478 For well over half a century the ACMS has taken its place as a valued cultural resource in Asheville, bringing world-renowned chamber artists to the city. As one of the nation’s oldest continuous performing chamber music organizations, it has been recognized for its outstanding programs and its unique education component through a collaboration with the strings program of the Asheville Buncombe Schools and other cultural partners in the community, including the Asheville Young Musicians Club. Tickets are $38 general admission. Youth under 25 are free. Tickets / information, please visit the ACMS website: www. AshevilleChamberMusic.org or call (828) 575-7427 or email support@AshevilleChamberMusic.org IF YOU GO

The Folk Spirit — classical piano trios influenced by folk music

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AmiciMusic will showcase the vital importance of

go-inspired “Four Seasons” from Argentina.

indigenous folk and dance music in three exciting

There will be three performances: Friday, October 13, 7:30 pm at a private home in Hendersonville; Saturday, October 14, 7:30 pm at the White Horse Black Mountain, and Sunday, October 15, 3 pm at a private home in Biltmore Lake. To purchase seats and to get more information,

piano trios from around the world.

The works include Antonin Dvorak’s spirited “Dumky” trio filled with tunes from his native Bohemia, Paul Schoenfield’s virtuosic “Cafe Music” with the ragtime, spiritual, and Dixie sounds of America, and Astor Piazzolla’s tan-

(Left) Violinist Emmanuel Borowsky, Cellist Frances Borowsky and pianist/Artistic Director Daniel Weiser

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THE POET'S VOICE

By Carol Bjorlie — “The Poet behind the cello”

October — Garrison Keillor for President!!! I lived in St. Paul, MN for 14 years.

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Companion. It wasn’t funny then

It is a cold and snowy night. The main

every Saturday - The Prairie Home because I lived there.

street is deserted. / The only things

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moving are swirls of snow. / As I lift the

In his preface to Good Poems for

is a privacy I love in this snowy night.

I think it is hilarious.

Hard Times, Keillor writes, “Poetry is a necessity as simple as the need to

be touched and similarly a need that

is hard to enunciate. The meaning of poetry is to give courage. It is meant

to poke you, get you to buck up, pay attention, rise, and shine, look alive,

get a grip, pull up your socks, wake up and die right! (The exclamation point is mine.) It can help you say words. Moaning helps. So does prayer. Walking helps. Poems help.”

Garrison then writes, “Comedy is

mailbox door, I feel its cold iron. / There Driving around, I will waste more time. The following poem was read at my father’s funeral, Aug. 4th, 1961. He died mowing the grass on my 16th birthday.

look back, the future never happens. / How good to rise in sunlight, / in the prodigal

smell of biscuits - / eggs and sausage on the grill. / The whole sky is yours to write on, blown open / to a blank page. Cone on, / shake a leg! You’ll

never know / who’s down there, frying those eggs, / if you don’t get up and see.

A last poem by Emily. I admire her spirit.

Crossing the Bar by Afred, Lord Tennyson

To Fight aloud is very Brave by Emily Dickinson

Sunset and evening star / And one

To fight loud, is very brave - / But

clear call for me. / And may there be no

gallenter, I know / Who charge within

moaning of the bar / When I put out to

the bosom / The Cavalry of Woe -

sea.

Who win, and nations do not see -

a predatory sport. Poetry is church.

But such a tide as moving seems

is free speech.”

Who fall - and none observe - / Whose dying eyes, no Country / Regards with

What animates poetry is faith. Poetry

asleep, / Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the

patriot love -

About this book of Poetry for Hard

boundless sleep / Turns again home.

We trust, in plumed procession / For

Times, he says, “If I knew you better

and if you were in a hard place, I might send you one or two of these along

with a note, the way people used to do.

“The reason for putting these poems

together was to do you some good.

Twilight and evening bell, / And after that the dark: / And may there be no sadness of farewll, / When I embark,

such, the Angels go - / Rank after

Rank with even feet - / And Uniforms of Snow.

For thou’ from out our bourne of Time and Place / The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face, /

Emily, Rita, Robert and Robert and

When I have crost the bar.

Alfred are brave people. Garrison

book.”

Dawn Revisited by Rita Dove

book.

My Cup by Robert Friend

Imagine you wake up / with a second

I hope you take courage from this

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We listened to Garrison Keillor’s show

They tell me I am going to die. Why don’t I see to care? My cup is full. Let it spill.

chance. The blue jay / hawks his pretty wares / and the oak still stands, spreading / glorious shade. If you don’t

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Keillor is brave to include them in his Now, WHY isn’t he running for

President? Boy, he can spin a yarn. He loves books and reading. I’d vote for him!

How ‘bout you?

BOOKS ‘My Absolute Darling’ the most loved novel of 2017 “The word ‘masterpiece’ has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but

My Absolute Darling absolutely is one.” --Stephen King A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteenyearold girl’s heart-stopping fight for her soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her one is small and treacherous: Turtle

has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a highschool boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very

By Staff Reports survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. With Turtle’s escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, the reader watches, heart in throat, as this teenage girl struggles to become her hero--and in the process, becomes ours as well. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. Narrator: Alex McKenna Imprint: Penguin Audio 16 Hours • penguinrandomhouseaudio.com IF YOU GO

Celebrating our trees through poetry, music and photography Oct 11

By Staff Reports world. The book is organized into know there will be a book signing six chapters: Bark, Leaves, event on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 6 pm. Shapes, Roots, Crowning Glories Author Ruthie Rosauer will and Whole Trees. It is part show photographs and read contemplative, part whimsical, but poems from her book, These always a celebration of the tree in Trees. Cellist, poet and Rapid its natural setting. River Magazine’s Poetry Editor, To keep you company on your Carol Pearce Bjorlie, will play ‘Theses Trees’ book cover Ruthie Rosaur and Carol virtual walk through these trees are Pearce Bjorlie with cello. selections on the cello and read 25 companion poems penned by 20 her poems that appear in the book. poets. These Trees is a collection of 140 photographs Tree lovers will be interested to

detailing trees as you may never have seen them: whole trees, groups of trees, close-ups of bark, leaves, roots, and unusual shapes formed within the bark, or from twisted trunks or branches. There are also photos also of nuts, flowers, and fruits form the “Crowning Glories” section. Rosauer’s passion for trees has been translated into this veritable ‘valentine’ to the arboreal

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Black Mountain celebrates 50 years of art abundance By Staff Reports

The Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League is

headdresses by Marcia Dockey excited to present a Smith. Laleah special exhibition at Adams also delights THE MONTE VISTA with a whimsical HOTEL in concert with presentation of their 50th Anniversary circus performers. celebration. Ceramics, jewelry, photography, and This exhibit runs sculpture are also through the end of on display. Also, October. Each of our David Collins is one current members will An old filled-in pool out front of the hotel now has a life-sized of many artists who be presenting their best Marlin jumping out of the water. make this a standout piece, with 2-D and 3-D exhibit. He recently art mediums represented. This dynamic array completed an anamorphic painting for the of work will be accompanied by a selection of league’s big celebration. An old filled-in pool paintings from our founding members. out front of the hotel now has a life-sized Marlin Among the many not-to-be-missed pieces, jumping out of the water. And inside David has is a lyrical series of portraits with unforgettable

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FESTIVAL ColorFest! enters 9th year in Dillsboro Oct 7

By Staff Reports

The ninth annual ColorFest, Dillsboro’s Fine Arts & Crafts Fair, is just around the corner! On October 7, 104pm in the town of Dillsboro, NC,

completely different art forms. Bowers specializes in acrylic contemporary poured art, natural landscapes, and abstract fantasy. She also enjoys blending her love of artwork into Doreyl Ammons Cain at work jewelry making. Spend the day Cain’s nature art in a walk-about is also a celebration of life. Using mountain town filled with color and vivid colors, she explores shapes, history. It’s the perfect place to design, and expression. Bob showcase authentic works of the Robinette from Waynesville will also hand, and the ideal location for you be demonstrating his love of acrylic. to enjoy a day of fun, entertainment “Art consumes your free time,” he and shopping. says. “It ignites your imagination Featured in this year’s ColorFest and challenges your mind (and are some of the best fine artists preconceived ideas) about color, and fine crafters in Western North shape, and form.” Carolina; plus many festival foods Entertainment, mixed with the and great entertainment. Artisans aroma of exceptional food, will will be displaying authentic enliven the festive environment of Cherokee art, pottery, jewelry, the day. The entertainment stage photography, loom beading, will be centrally located at the foot handmade soaps, many kinds of of Church Street. Most musicians needlework, Christmas ornaments, need to perform/compose through pine cone wreaths, candles, rustic their strong love of music, and this furniture, chair caning, baskets and certainly shows with the excellent much more. Most of the artisans array of local performers lined up will be demonstrating their work for daylong entertainment. and striving for the prizes awarded Besides the festival food offered, for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place (plus excellent food can be found spread honorable mentions), sponsored throughout Dillsboro. by the Champion Credit Union in Canton, NC. The festival has many great visual artists this year who will be demonstrating their expertise. Sheila Bowers and Doreyl Ammons Cain hale from Tuckasegee and share their love of nature in 30 Vol. 21, No. 2 — RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — October 2017

October 7, 10-4pm —a destination for handmade Christmas gifts for the whole family. For more information, call Connie Hogan at (828) 586-3511, or go to www.visitdillsboro.org.

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‘River’ continued from pg. 6 staircase and oak woodwork, with ample room for paintings by this year’s 23 artists spread over two stories. The current owner, Zealandia Holding Company, has graciously offered the use of the house for the event. This year’s exhibiting artists are Paul Blankinship, Cecil Bothwell, Caleb Clark, Rachel Clearfield, Tony Corbitt, Jr. Theresa Darling, John Dempsey, Christine Enochs, Matthew Good, Mark Henry, Dana Irwin, Susan Kokora, Bryan Koontz, Anselme Long, Alisa Lumbreras, John Mac Kah, Cathy Mandeville, Brennen McElhaney, Carol Parks, Jason Rafferty, Deborah Squier, Alison Webb, Colleen Webster. Fourth annual Of Time and the River – a benefit art show to benefit RiverLink Tickets for the event are on sale at www. riverlink.org Friday, October 27, 6-9pm Zealandia Castle on Beaucatcher Mountain, Asheville Contact John Mac Kah, show curator: (828) 225-5000 jmackah@gmail.com IF YOU GO

‘AmiciMusic’ continued from pg. 25 please visit www.amicimusic.org and click on the Asheville link. The featured musicians for this program are the brother/sister team of violinist Emmanuel Borowsky and cellist Frances Borowsky along with pianist/Artistic Director Daniel Weiser. The Borowsky siblings are part of a family of musicians based in Baltimore known as The American Virtuosi (www.theamericanvirtuosi.com) who have been performing internationally since they were young children, including tours in China, Cuba, and Latvia. They aim to reveal the power of music to bring different nations and peoples together in a spirit of unity while also expressing the unique, vibrant and diverse cultural colors from each country. They often team up with

composers in the countries they visit to present new works that utilize the folk spirit. AmiciMusic also strives to have a relaxed and informal atmosphere at concerts to highlight the spirit of community and camaraderie. For more on AmiciMusic, visit www. amicimusic.org. To get on e-mail list of concerts, e-mail daniel@amicimusic.org IF YOU GO

‘Travel’ continued from pg. 24 vaccines. As a result, these diseases regularly break out in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, the Middle East, and former Soviet Union countries. For those who have personally experienced one these diseases, immunity is life-long. But for those who acquired their resistance by vaccination, the immunity is shorter-lived, about 3-20 years. Before going on your next exotic trip, check with your health maintenance provider as to what adult vaccinations you might need to update – to protect your dream vacation from unpleasant surprises. One more thing: All of these diseases are spread primarily by respiratory droplets (coughing or sneezing). ‘Brunetti’ continued from pg. 22 Show May 2017. Recently she participated in the prestigious Art Fair at Queeny Park in St. Louis where they featured her elephant painting in their advertisements. Even though Brunetti was born in St. Louis, she knew that she would one day move to the Appalachian/Smoky Mountains. When she visited the Smokies for the first time, over 30-years ago, she knew her heart belonged to this region. The area’s beauty and wilderness inspire her love for nature and wildlife. There are several opportunities shortly to see Brunetti’s beautiful artwork: The Toe River Arts Juried Show recently accepted Brunetti. Her art will be exhibited October 7 - November

4 at the Spruce Pine Gallery at 2690 Oak Ave. Spruce Pine, NC (located 50 miles northeast of Asheville) for The Toe River Arts Juried Show. You can also find her work at “A Crafty Christmas Show” presented by ArtShowGirls in Hickory NC, December 8-9 at the Hickory Metro Convention Center, 1960 13th Ave. Dr. Tina Brunetti’s contact information: The reception is Friday, October 13, 6-8 pm (731) 697-6787 Brunetti.tina945@gmail.com www.BrunettiConfettiArt.com IF YOU GO

Happy Halloween

‘The Bride 2’ by Tony Corbitt Jr — Selph Road Studios

‘The Mummy’ by Tony Corbitt Jr — Selph Road Studios

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LOCAL STORE INFO

A feast for the senses is Raven & Crone in North Asheville As soon as you enter Asheville Raven & Crone, you encounter a feast for the senses.

Candles, teas, books, and art are available throughout this cozy haven in North Asheville. This woman-owned, Pagan run store offers “Old Age,” metaphysical and magical supplies. Owner Lisa Anderson and her female staff will provide suggestions and guidance for all your magical and non-magical needs. Have a friend who describes themselves as a witch, heathen or pagan? This is the place to shop. A solitary

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practitioner who is not sure of the next step in their journey? You will be welcomed and guided. Also, the store offers classes and workshops, as well as daily readers (tarot, runes, scrying, Raven and Crone carries a wide variety of herbs, incense, jewelry, as well as candles. astrology, and psychics are among the options). the store often, be sure to get a “Frequent Flier” Anderson also fosters card. Ten purchases will enable you to receive community with gatherings 20% off your next purchase. Merry Meet. They monthly such as the Welcoming look forward to seeing you soon. Circle and Circle Round. Raven and Crone carries a wide variety 555 Merrimon Ave, Asheville • (828) 424-7868 IF U O Y of herbs, incense, jewelry, and journals to facebook.com/ashevilleravenandcrone/ GO entice you. If you find yourself returning to

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ARTIST TALK

KATE THAYER: Celebrating Fall Colors

By Kate Thayer

My work reveals a world that most have never seen, or in ways, they have never seen – a world that is brought to life by my coloration and composition, and by my artistic imagination.

grasp what I am after in my work. Nature itself is my muse – its ways revealed and hidden, its ever-changing light I prefer small frame landscapes – the and dark, its saturated ordinary but enchanting scenes we and muted colorings, are usually too hurried to see. To paint its self-sufficiency, its nature is to collaborate with nature’s capacity to delight and sorcery. I aim to capture the scenes to provoke at the same that seduce my ‘Irresistible’ 29x23 Oil time, and its transcendence of our own lives. The great artists of human history have been the creators of our ways of looking at the world. Cezanne said, “Art lies in what our eyes think.” And Picasso said, “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” It is what cannot ultimately be explained about the natural world that inspires me most as an artist. My paintings have been juried and awarded in International, National, and Regional shows and are in personal art ex‘Water - Colors’ 24x20 Oil hibitions. Two oil paintings appear in Vol. X (2015) of the International Contemporary senses. Each Artists. has a soul-enPastel and riching story Oil Paintings to tell. I intend can be seen to call forth in at the Ashemy paintings ville Gallery Of the colors and Art, Gallery At the shapes and Flat Rock and the stories that Seven Sisters captured my Gallery in Black own heart and Mountain. to make of them an offering to the viewer. I would wish the same delicious stimulation for all of those who

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‘Cover’ continued from pg. 8 without color, which she committed IF saves time in correctto a career in New paintings by Virginia PendYOU GO ing later on,” says art, she studied ergrass, a series called “Moody Pendergrass. with nationally Skies,” will be on display at In addition to an known painters Trackside Studios, 375 Depot St. in opportunity to check Scott ChrisAsheville’s River Arts District October composition before tensen, CW 1-31. The public is cordially invited to painting in color, she Mundy, Greg a reception Sunday, October 8, 4:30 found that the underKreutz and 6:30pm. painting cues proper Kenn Backcolor mixes - she haus. Formal For more information on Pendergrass holds a loaded brush art education and her art, visit her website at www. ‘Moody Evening’ virginiapendergrass.com or email her at of the color mix next to included coursa value in the underes at Old Lyme pendergrass.v@gmail.com. For further painting to match it. Art Academy in information about the “Moody Skies” “At this point, it is CT, as well as Crealde Art School exhibit, telephone (828) 577-0264. ‘Moody Mountain’ and a pleasure to do the underpaintings, and I Seminole The Average Portable Oxygen For The Way Funeral Costs find them beautiful in CommuYou Want to Live More Than $8,300 themselves,” Pendergrass enthuses. “The unnity College, both The ALL-NEW Is that really a burden you want to leave derpaintings alone have an atmospheric look- I in Orlando, FL. Her to your family? sometimes hesitate to go on with color.” paintings have been Pendergrass has had a lifelong love of color selected for many rePlanning for final expenses can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. and design but took up painting as a second gional and national art career. As a child, her art education consisted competitions, where of many hours perusing the book World-Fashe has received some JUST 2.8 LBS. mous Paintings edited by Rockwell Kent. When awards for excellence. If you’re between the ages of 50 and 85, start planning now.

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