Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:05:54 -0400
From: Forrest Greenslade
Subject: sunday Best
Studio Tour Preview Show and Sunday Best Gala
The Chatham Artists Guild and the General Store Café will offer a preview of artworks featured in the 16th Annual Chatham Studio Tour from September 1st to 30th. A sampling of artworks by regionally and internationally known painters, sculptors, photographers, potters, and glass fabric and jewelry makers will be on display at the recently expanded and redesigned café.
Guild President Forrest Greenslade affirms, “Art-lovers and fun-lovers are in for a special treat. Folks will get an advanced look at the amazing variety of works that our artists will display in their own studios during 16th Annual The Tour in December.” “The General Store Café in Pittsboro is a warm and welcoming place where people enjoy good food, art, and music,” he adds.
“Folks are invited to spruce up a bit, and attend our *Sunday Best Gala* on Sunday, September 7th from 5 to 8PM, notes Vance Remick,” proprietor of the General Store Café. We will be offering special buffet dinner in
honor of the Chatham Guild artists.” A sophisticated mood will be set by the music of Joey Howell, Travis Cohn, and Susanne and Bruce Saunders,” adds Maggie Zwilling, the Guild’s Executive Director. “Dress up in your Sunday best and meet our Guild’s artists.” she stresses.
Reserved Tickets for the Sunday Best Gala will be $20. You can reserve your ticket by emailing Maggie Zwilling at artstour-at-blast.com. Reserved tickets will be picked up at General Store Café during the Gala. Without a reservation, tickets will be $22.
Four new artists will join The Tour this year, and will be featured at the Preview Show and Gala. Roger Dinger, with his Reinbarnation, reclaims wood from old barns and creates original art from it: Tables, benches, cabinets, mirror and picture frames, planters, birdhouses, and other accessories. Lou Horton, a local artist born and raised in Chatham County, shows her work at her dad’s shop where she learned to weld as a teenager. She twists steel with hot and cold techniques. Her finished sculptures are painted in a glorious range of colors. Chrissy Jahnes of Terra Spirit Designs creates unique art jewelry, focusing on metals and enamels. Her personal palette transforms ground glass into beautiful enamel pendants and earrings. Metals, stones and pearls become luminous one-of-a-kind wearable art. Bruce Sanders’ work shows his love of symmetry and color. His pieces begin with pencil or pen and evolve through a process of digital renderings. He creates sacred circles, mandalas and symmetrical art.
The General Store Café (http://www.thegeneralstorecafe.com) is at the center of Chatham cultural activities, displaying its art, and featuring its musicians. It is open 6 days a week for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and serves Sunday brunch. With articles in the Bon Appétit and Southern Living Magazine as well as numerous newspapers throughout the Triangle area, the café has become a favorite community gathering place as well as a destination for a lot of new folks.
The Chatham Artists Guild (http://www.chathamartistsguild.org) is a non-profit organization of regionally and nationally recognized visual artists. Each year, Guild members open their studios to the public through the Chatham Open Studio Tour. Visitors travel throughout lovely rural Chatham County to meet artists in their own work spaces, and share their ideas on art and the creative process. The 16th Annual Open Studio will be held the first two weekends of December 2008.
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Forrest C. Greenslade. PhD, DTM
Artist, Writer, Speaker
919-545-9743
sculptor-at-forrestgreenslade.com
http://www.forrestgreenslade.com
http://chathamartists.blogspot.com/
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