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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 approximately 20,000. 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.”
▲ 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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“Here” is a well-kept and comfortably quaint twobedroom house on Atlantic Avenue, on the edge of Kinston’s Mitchelltown historic district. It serves as both studio and living quarters. Smith pays just $375 per month — significantly less than the market’s going rate — to rent the bright red 1,050-square-foot house, thanks to the smART Kinston City Project Foundation, an artistrelocation program that Hill heads up. 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.
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where to live Welcome to Montclair, a Chapel Hill community across NC-54 from Meadowmont ANDREA DONNELLY: WE’VE MET BEFORE
If you are looking for a lovely community with a Chapel Hill mailing address and Durham County taxes, visit Montclair just a mile off NC-54 East across from Meadowmont.
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.
Montclair, which opened in fall 2015, has easy access to all the Triangle has to offer with the community’s main street — Mill Chapel Road — opening onto both Barbee Chapel and Farrington Mill roads. The model home at 202 Mill Chapel Road is gives visitors ideas about how their furnishings would fit in a house built by David Weekley Homes, the builder and developer of this community. When built out, the community, which wraps around the historic Barbee’s Chapel Baptist Church, will have 72 homes spread over 32 gently rolling acres. All homes have two-car garages and range in size from approximately 2,200 to 3,800 square feet with starting prices in the $415,000s. Two popular plans are The Teague III and the Mumford. The Teague III floorplan has 11-foot ceilings in the family room and columns providing visual separation from the dining room. The plan offers 2,736 to 2,769 square feet and can have 4 or 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths. It starts at $459,500. The 1.5-story Mumford plan has 2,192 to 2,284 square feet and can have two or four bedrooms and 2.5 or 3.5 baths. With its eat-in kitchen island just two steps up to its covered front porch, this plan appeals to active adults and young families — especially with a starting price of $415,900.
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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.
SCOTT HAZARD + STEPHANIE STRANGE CHARACTER SPACE NO DAMSEL
CAM Raleigh | 409 W. Martin St. | Raleigh | Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. L.A.-based artist Dorian Lynde re-contextualizes familiar Disney characters Pocahontas, Belle, Ariel and the like in “No Damsel” at CAM Raleigh, on view through TODAY. In addition to the animated images at CAM, pop-up illustrations of revamped Disney characters can be found on walls, facades and back alleys in and around downtown Raleigh. Follow along at #nodamsel.
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.
Artspace | 201 E. Davie St. | Raleigh | Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Jan. 27 Using text as pattern, Stephanie Strange and Scott Hazard demonstrate the inherent beauty and elegance of characters. While letters are foundational to their distinct bodies of work, the use of paper and design are perhaps more apparent. Hazard builds layered sculptures in which torn paper embellished with text forms undulating landscapes. Strange, uses a typewriter to create intricate but organic forms that wriggle and move on the page.
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.
NIGHT(LIGHT)
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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on stage
‘ON YOUR FEET’
“On Your Feet” tells the story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine. As a music student at the University of Miami during the early 1980s, it was easy for Clay Ostwald to get caught up in the infectious energy of the area’s vibrant Latin music scene. Ostwald, a self-described “middleclass white kid from Colorado,” may not have fit the look or background of the music he played, but that didn’t stop him and a group of classmates from forming a Latin music band. Their reputation on the Miami music scene caught the attention of resident superstars Gloria and Emilio Estefan, who in 1986 tapped
Ostwald’s group to perform as the rhythm section of their band, the Miami Sound Machine. The musical, based on a book about the Estefans written by Alexander Dinelaris, kicked off on Broadway in 2014 and hit the tour circuit in late 2017. It tells the story of Gloria’s rise from a child in Cuba — fleeing the Cuban Revolution to Miami — to becoming one of pop music’s most enduring figures, alongside husband and collaborator, Emilio.
The Show: “On Your Feet: The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan” Where: Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St., Durham When: Sunday, Jan. 7, 1 & 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $25-$163.50; dpacnc.com
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DON ‘DC’ CURRY Don “DC” Curry and John Witherspoon are the unsung heroes of “Friday” movies. The Ice Cube vehicles are a series of comedy films, which date back to 1995. “Me and John have had a ball in those films,” Curry says while calling from his Los Angeles home. “Ice Cube, who is the greatest guy in the world, has to deal with us old guys. We’ve proven that the old guys have it. You can’t argue with that.” The old guys might have some more work to do with the “Friday” series. According to Witherspoon, the crew will reunite for the fourth installment, “Last Friday.” “That’s the word,” Curry says. “I hope this is all concrete because they need to do it before John and I die. We have to get moving. We all don’t live forever. Plus, John and I have so much energy and we’ll drop what we’re doing to get back to working on a film series that we’re passionate about. I’ve done other things but there’s nothing like the ‘Friday’ series.” The charismatic Curry will detail what it’s like living in Hollywood as well as other personal anecdotes when he performs tonight. Read more about Curry from Ed Condran at triangletoday.com.
When: Jan. 7, tonight Where: Goodnights Comedy Club, 861 W. Morgan St., Raleigh Tickets: $22 and $30 More info: 919-828-5233, goodnightscomedy.com
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