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Blue Spiral 1 would like to share news of an exciting event honoring Will Henry Stevens.
The Bascom in Highlands, NC, is re-assembling a covered bridge originally built in the early 1800’s. Originally called the Bagley Covered Bridge, the bridge will be renamed the Will Henry Stevens Bridge in honor of the artist and his work at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts.
To celebrate the re-assembly of the bridge, reported to be the second oldest covered bridge in the nation, The Bascom will re-create a traditional Bridge Pull. This is an old-fashioned system by which a team of oxen is hitched to ropes and pulleys to pull the multi-ton bridge onto its permanent moorings.
The acquisition of the bridge is a generous gift from Dorothy and Jimmy Coleman and Diane and Tom Winingder.
The Bridge Pull will be held Saturday, May 24th, 2008 at The Bascom’s new site, on Oak Street in Highlands, NC. Shuttled parking is available. For more specific information, visit www.thebascom.org or call (828) 526-4949
Blue Spiral 1 announces our upcoming Will Henry Stevens exhibition; July 3rd through August 30th, 2008. Featuring over twenty watercolors never before exhibited. A special preview by appointment begins June 15th, 2008. Call Pam or Nona for more information: 800-291-2513
Lee Sipe's work was recently in the S. C. State Museum 20th anniversary juried art exhibition.
The piece was also purchased by the museum for it's permanent collection.
On Exhibition August 2, 2008 - March 8, 2009 Micah Sherrill will be featured at the Fuller Craft Museum with his
pop culture and family portraits series titled
A Language of Faces - Portraits and Icons.
Micah's new exhibition here at Blue Spiral 1 will be
July 3 - August 30
Suzanne Sryk received a 2007 George Sugarman Foundation grant. Her work was also be featured on the December's cover and a portfolio of Ecotone: Reimagining Place, and on the cover of the anthology The Movable Nest:
A Mother/Daughter Companion edited by NC poet laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer.
Will Henry Stevens had a profound love of nature that permeated his work throughout his life. In thinking about a way to honor the memory of Stevens beyond his paintings John Cram knew it had to involve nature.
Blue Spiral 1 has created a Will Henry Stevens Revolving Loan Fund to benefit the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy and the Conservation Trust for North Carolina. Both non-profit organizations are dedicated to the protection of the Appalachian landscape and its magnificent nature resources for present and future generations. A percentage of his sales is donated to this fund.
Julyan Davis is now in the permanent collection at the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC with their recent acquisition of "Behind King Street". Congratulations Julyan.
Garden and Gun Magazine: 21st Century Southern America features a Julyan Davis article "Refined Oils" by Randall Curb with photographs by Peter Frank Edwards.
Click for the article in it's entirety.
TUTORIALS AND DEMON
STRATIONS
SPRING AND SUMMER TUTORIALS 2008
PAINTING THE LANDSCAPE
Exhibits in Atlanta and Asheville will have me painting in town and on the Blue Ridge Parkway beginning next month. In response to a general interest in my teaching, I am organizing painting demonstrations in the field for a limited number of students. For rates and further information please contact the studio by phone at: (706) 982 1418 or by email at: julyan@julyandavis.com.
JULYAN DAVIS
Ward Nichols has graciously given Blue Spiral 1 permission to reproduce his painting, Puzzling, to benefit the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Three hundred fifty giclée prints of this unusual landscape painting have been signed and numbered by Ward.
The prints can be acquired for $300 (price includes sales tax) from Blue Spiral 1, New Morning Gallery or the office of Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Your check should be made out to Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy or SAHC.
“Cummins One” by Dana Brown has been accepted to the American Watercolor Society National Exhibition in New York.
This is her second time to show work with the American Watercolor Society (www.AmericanWatercolorSociety.org)
Barbara Fisher art work has been selected for the book cover of "On Freedom Street" from Eastern Washington University Press
http://www.ewu.edu/ewupress/fiction/freedomstreet.htm
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On Freedom Street chronicles the story of a Turkish boy, Mehmet, and his twin journeys, one from the snowy mountain village of his birth to the warm Mediterranean city of Adana, the other from the comforting presence of his mother into the world of other women. Mehmet has grown up as one of ten children, raised in humble surroundings by a mother whose husband vanished years ago. Innocent, observant, and profoundly non judgmental, Mehmet is never one to question his circumstances. Life is something that unfolds, and he accepts its cruelties and sorrows as well as its strange magic and surprise. Written with a delicate, quiet compassion and a stunning depth of honesty, On Freedom Street is a book about honor, love and loyalty. But equally it is a book about women--women as mysterious and wise creature who, in very quiet, unobtrusive ways, keep the world steady and alive. |
