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hen Seraphim Smith moved from Durham to Kinston last year, he met Stephen Hill his first night in town. A culinary internship as a cook with award-winning chef Vivian Howard had drawn Smith to this Eastern North Carolina town of around 20,000.
s A large scale mural on the old NAPA Building in downtown Kinston is one of many public art projects scattered around the town. Kinston is emerging as an unlikely arts hub in Eastern North Carolina. TRAVIS LONG
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Painter Seraphim Smith works in his Kinston home studio. Kinston is emerging as an unlikely arts hub, thanks to a benefactor who attracts artists to the Eastern North Carolina town by renting them houses at affordable prices. TRAVIS LONG
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But Smith was more interested in painting than cooking, and when Hill asked what he did, Smith told him he was an artist. “That got his attention and he asked me, ‘Have you heard about smART Kinston?,’ ” Smith recalled. “ ‘It’s cheap rent for artists. You should apply!’ So I did. And here I am.” So far, Hill has bought about 60 houses in Kinston and refurbished them, with brightly colored exteriors as a signature. About half of those houses have artist tenants — with artist broadly defined, encompassing culinary and grooming as well as visual and performing arts. Hill, 56, is a Kinston native who made his money in the family business of health care-related real estate and insurance. He’s also the entrepreneur behind Mother Earth Brewing, Mother Earth Motor Lodge and other rising Kinston establishments.
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SENSORY SENSITIVE SUNDAY
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NC MUSEUM OF ART TOUR
50 minute tours at 12:30 and 2:30 Sundays. With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the Museum buildings, central Plaza, and related works of art. No reservations are necessary.
KIDJUMP AT DEFYGRAVITY
Special jump time for the kiddos every Monday-Wednesday and Friday from 9am-10am is for children 6 and younger (and their parents). Any time between 9am-noon children (ages 6 & under) pay the regular price of $10/hour and one adult jumps free!
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North Carolina Museum of History Five E. Edenton St. | Raleigh This interactive multimedia exhibit will commemorate the centennial of US entry into World War I and focus on North Carolina’s role in the War to End All Wars on the western front in France and Belgium. Visitors will experience a re-created trench warfare environment to discover what life was like for Tar Heel soldiers.
ANDREA DONNELLY: WE’VE MET BEFORE
North Carolina Museum of Art | 2110 Blue Ridge Rd. | Raleigh Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. North Carolina–raised artist Andrea Donnelly explores the dynamic between the formulaic methods of handwoven cloth and the impulsiveness of ink in the creation of her larger-thanlife textiles, featuring images of the human body, blots, and delicate floral abstractions. Her art furnishes both mental and physical spaces by creating an intimate, tactile relationship between the viewer and cloth.
FINE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT EXHIBITION
Artspace | 201 E. Davie St. | Raleigh | Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Fine Contemporary Craft Exhibition is a biennial national juried exhibition. Artworks juried by Roger Manley, Director of the Gregg Museum of Art + Design. Awards will be announced at the December First Friday.
NOTHING TOO FANCY
CAM Raleigh | 409 W. Martin St. | Raleigh | Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A single object loan from Raleigh artist Zak Weinberg .
STEPHEN WHITE: SIMPLE ELEGANCE
Little Art Gallery and Craft Collection | 432 Daniels St. | Raleigh Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Exhibition of paintings.
AND THEN THE SUN SWALLOWED ME
CAM Raleigh | 409 W. Martin St. | Raleigh Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A black tape and video site installation demonstrating the power of a supernova and our inability to escape its lifecycle.
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SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION: TEDD ANDERSON
Artspace | 201 E. Davie St. | Raleigh | Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tedd Anderson’s mural features the iconic “dry space” characters for which the artist is known set in a landscape filled with swirling, topographic lines, jagged edges and meditative objects and shapes.
SOMEONE’S BRUSH STROKES KENIA BREA
Artspace | 201 E. Davie St. | Raleigh | Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Kenia Brea has exhibited at community galleries in the Dominican Republic where she was born, and is now living in Cary. She studied art in the Special Programs of the Altos de Chavon School of Design, National Fine Arts School of the Dominican Republic and artisan centers where she obtained knowledge about metalsmithing, stained glass, sewing, and other mediums. Her works are based on human behavior, flora and fauna.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT: AMERICAN PAINTING & SCULPTURE, 1960-1990
Duke University – Nasher Museum of Art 2001 Campus Dr. | Durham | Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 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.
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‘LAKE PLACID’
Durham’s Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern presents a completely improvised 90-minute play for nine nights.
Durham’s Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern present “Lake Placid,” starting Jan. 24. It will be a completely improvised 90-minute play every night of the nine-performance run. Improvisation is a popular form of live entertainment. In the Triangle, a handful of improv troupes have been performing it for decades. The fun comes from seeing what actors can make up using audience suggestions for situations and characters. Durham’s Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, now in its 13th season, is known for wildly creative, genre-exploding theater productions that challenge audiences and actors. But the company hasn’t ever experimented with improv — until now. Jaybird O’Berski, the company’s artistic director, spoke recently about how the idea came about, the way he’ll rehearse his actors and what he hopes will come out of the production. Read more from Roy C. Dicks at triangletoday.com
The Show: “Lake Placid” Where: The Fruit Company, 305 South Dillard St., Durham When: 8 p.m. Jan 24 through Feb. 3 Tickets: $13-$17 Info: 919-452-2304 or littlegreenpig.com
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