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hen William Paul Thomas found out that he was VAE Raleigh’s 2018 featured gala artist, he was surprised. “I’m learning more and more how many great artists are in this area,” he said. “Being selected for that felt like a great honor.” The honor means that one of Thomas’ works, a 4-by-5-foot painting called “Blonde and Bougie,” will be the finale of the gala’s fundraiser auction. “Will’s a fantastic artist,” said VAE’s Executive Director Brandon Cordrey. “‘Blonde and Bougie’ is a fantastic piece. A lot of Will’s work talks about identity. He thinks about faces and how they are portrayed and what that says about a person and the viewer.” Thomas moved to Chapel Hill in 2011 to earn his master of fine arts from UNC-Chapel Hill after studying at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He considers himself a product of both Chicago and southeast Wisconsin, the places he grew up, and those settings still influence his art, he said. For the Love of Art Art Auction + Gala! When: Feb. 10, 6 to 11 p.m. Where: Raleigh Marriott City Center 500 Fayetteville St., Raleigh
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where to live Tour Fiori Hill, Hillsborough’s first pocket neighborhood Sally Keeney for Triangle Today
Inge De Becker and her husband, Clay Steinman are building on a lot in Fiori Hills, a small-scale, community-based neighborhood in Hillsborough inspired by architect Ross Chapin’s 2011 book “Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World.” De Becker, a Belgian-Canadian who has been working as a physician in Minnesota for the past several years, says she has never read Chapin’s book and was drawn to investigate Fiori Hills by several points, including: the temperate Carolina Piedmont weather; the location between the mountains and the shore; Fiori Hills proximity to both co-ops and places to walk and hike in Hillsborough; and that a group of friends from her husband’s college days at Duke University still live in the area.
SABINE GRUFFAT: A KISS OF THE EARTH
North Carolina Museum of Art | 2110 Blue Ridge Rd. | Raleigh A Kiss of the Earth is an interactive computer-animated video and sound installation inspired by Sergei Diaghilev’s revolutionary 1913 Ballets Russes production of The Rite of Spring, scored by Igor Stravinsky. It is the story of a pagan tribe calling on its deities to restore the earth, a drama that ends with a sacrificial maiden’s dancing herself to death. This installation refers to a contemporary reconstruction of The Rite of Spring, with decor and costumes by Kenneth Archer (after Nicholas Roerich) and choreography by Millicent Hodson (after Vaslav Nijinsky).
RHYTHMIC VITALITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY BARBARA MORGAN
North Carolina Museum of Art | 2110 Blue Ridge Rd. | Raleigh This exhibition features photographs by Barbara Morgan (American, 1900–92) from the NCMA’s permanent collection. Although Morgan, one of the founders of the photography magazine Aperture, is best known for her studies of modern dance, she also created photomontages and light drawings.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT: AMERICAN PAINTING & SCULPTURE, 1960-1990
Duke University – Nasher Museum of Art 2001 Campus Dr. | Durham An exhibition inspired by some of pluralistic approaches that characterized American painting and sculpture between 1960 and 1990. Drawn primarily from the collection and featuring several significant recent acquisitions, Disorderly Conduct will include works by Al Held, Philip Guston, Audrey Flack, Nancy Graves and David Salle, among many others.
Her intuition also tells her it may be easier to make friends where everyone is coming from far flung places to a new neighborhood where they can meet new people and make new friends rather than buying into an established neighborhood where people already have their friends and daily routines in place. They are also hoping to live in a diverse neighborhood.
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Fiori Hill is designed to be a diverse and green pocket community. The homes, built by Peloquin Construction, come in a variety of layouts and sizes to fit young families, retirees or anyone wanting a lighter footprint on the land. Starting prices range from $239,900 for 1,208 square feet to $450,000 for 3,099 square feet.
CAM Raleigh | 409 W. Martin St. | Raleigh A black tape and video site installation demonstrating the power of a supernova and our inability to escape its lifecycle.
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North Carolina Museum of Art | 2110 Blue Ridge Rd. | Raleigh Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Night(Light) explores light as it interacts with darkness in photography. In its purest form, photography harnesses light. The images give shape to light, immortalizing and suspending it.
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LA VITA ITALIANA: ITALIAN POSTWAR PHOTOGRAPHY, 1950-1970
Duke University – Nasher Museum of Art 2001 Campus Dr. | Durham | Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. La Vita Italiana is a candid look at life in postwar Italy through the eyes of approximately 20 Italian photographers. Relatively unknown in this country, these photographs reveal some of the humor, hardships and other aspects of everyday life in Italy after World War II.
DREAMERS: A VISUAL ART CONVERSATION ABOUT DACA, DEPORTATION DEFENSE AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
Pleiades Arts | 109 E Chapel Hill St. | Durham Reception and artists’ salon January 19, 6 to 9 p.m. Artist Cornelio Campos often incorporates the Statue of Liberty into his paintings, many of which center on the immigrant experience. But in his painting, “DREAMers,” Lady Liberty takes a different angle. This time, she seems to be turning her back on students holding signs with slogans like #NODREAMNODEAL in the foreground of the painting.
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RALEIGH DESIGNER FINDS INSPIRATION Jennifer Bringle for Triangle Today Sometimes our best ideas appear at the weirdest times. For Raleigh designer Jenny Ross, her a-ha moment came in the wee hours of the night. At the time, she was running a monogramming business and received an acrylic monogram necklace for Christmas. She noticed her nieces receiving purses with similarly-sized brand emblems on their exterior. “So in January of 2012, I woke up my husband in the middle of the night and said, ‘Why can’t the purse logo be your monogram, or your brand?’” she says. That year, she founded Grateful Bags. The company makes handbags with a patented removable acrylic monogram system that allows the wearer to personalize the look and coordinate with a rainbow of hues.
“Because the Grateful concept is patented, there isn’t anything else like it,” Ross says. “Women love to customize their own initials with different fonts and colors. They personalize it and make it their own. And it’s ageless — our customers are truly high schoolers to grandmothers.” Though she doesn’t have a background in fashion, Ross designs all the bags herself. She looks to fashion trends, and gleans insight from a mentor in New York City, to inform her design process. As her company has grown, Ross has adopted a mission in line with the business name. Grateful partners with nonprofits such as Zoe, which assists orphans and vulnerable children in African countries, helping them overcome poverty and become selfreliant. For Ross, a sense of gratitude begets a desire to be a blessing in the lives of others.
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What We’re Up Against Directed by Heather J. Stickland Presented in the LEGGETT THEATRE
at William Peace University, 15 E Peace St Raleigh, NC 27604
Presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
Jan/12-28 SPONSORS
Raleigh Arts Commission • City of Raleigh • N&O • William Peace University
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