Art After Hours happens every second Friday of the month, with live music, gallery events, free horse and carriage rides, and much more!
December’s Art After Hours will take place on the Friday, the 11th from 5:00 to 9:00 PM, and will feature the following artists and special events:
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The 14th Annual Wake Forest Area Artists’ Studio Tour will span two weekends this year. The “headquarters” and centralized location for the tour will be the Powers-Ludas House at 112 N. Avenue (behind the old ice cream shop). The Opening Reception and Preview Exhibit Party will be held at the Powers-Ludas House this Friday, September 4th. The Tour will actually take place the following two weekends, September 12-13, and September 19-20. All events are free and open to the public.
For more information (and there is quite a bit more!), check out their Web site at ArtistsStudioTour.com
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The Sunflower guest gallery will feature the unique landscape paintings of artist Micah Mullen. His style of work involves very complicated compositions created with hundreds of grids of varying colors resulting in vibrant, abstracted landscapes. Additionally, come out and see some great works of art by the six resident artists in the Sunflower.
Opening Reception
Aug. 14, 5 pm – 9 pm
Music by Mr. Felix
Micah Mullen Art
Thursday, Friday & Saturday Aug. 14 thru Sept. 5; 11 am – 5 pm
Sunflower Studio & Gallery, 214 E. Jones Ave., Wake Forest
(919) 570-0765
www.sunflowerstudiowf.com
Vendors, Sponsors, and Volunteers Needed!
The arts will come alive on October 10, 2009 in downtown Wake Forest for the 6th Annual Autumn Arts Festival. The Wake Forest Downtown Revitalization Corporation (DRC) and the Wake Forest Cultural Arts Association host the event annually to showcase the talents of Wake Forest and other regional artists. Applications for artists in this juried show are available at WakeForestDowntown.com and will be accepted until August 28. Sponsors are needed to support this community event, as are volunteers to assist in planning and execution. To learn about sponsorship or volunteer opportunities, contact Maggie O’Neill at WakeForestDowntown.com
The Cotton Company is organizing a fun contest with our downtown statue:
In an effort to encourage community involvement and to promote patronage to Historic Downtown businesses, The Cotton Company is organizing the “Downtown Fun with YUM YUM” Promotion. The promotion will ask that visitors submit pictures of themselves with “YUM YUM” – group shots of family & friends, funny and creative shots, or individual shots showing off goodies they’ve purchased downtown. Why would people be interested in submitting their picture? To win gift certificates to some of their favorite places of course!
To read more about the contest, check out their Web site
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On Sept. 26, the first Wake Forest IrishFest will be held at Festival Park in downtown Wake Forest. To help celebrate Wake Forest’s national and international reputation for fostering the arts, there will be two writing competitions – a short story contest and a poetry contest.
These competitions are in proud and loving memory of two young men who shared a passion for writing. They left behind a rich legacy of the written word. In their honor, the following events are now added to the inaugural Wake Forest Irish Festival: The Andrew Britton Short Story Competition & The Graham Johnson Poetry Competition.
The Rules
* No entry form is needed. Entry is by US Mail, or by e-mail if required.
* You can make as many different entries as you like, in either or both competitions. Cost is $15 per story; $10 per poem.
* There is no restriction on theme or style, and all are welcome.
* Entries should be submitted on standard 8.5×11 paper, double-spaced type, and with no name showing on script.
* Maximum 2,000 words for the short stories; maximum 50 lines for the poems.
What can you do on a random afternoon with some Bubble Yum, a guitar, and a field of abandoned antique cars? If you’re Wake Forest resident and photographer Kristel Acevedo ( @KristelAce ), you and your husband, Alex, make some really great photos and post them to your blog.
The almost-serendipitous photo shoot produced photos which have the feel of indie-rock album art, with the couple looking like a really cool guitar and vocal duet. Thanks to the neat filtering affects, a few look like they were shot 40 years ago on some old Kodachrome film. We’d post some here, but don’t want to trample on Kristel’s copyright. So, just follow the link and make your eyes happy.
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Wondering about the new bronze statue downtown? It’s called the Yum Yum Statue, and has been provided by the GJCAE and Storyteller’s Bookstore. For More information, check out the article about it on the GJCAE Web Site.
OK, so I know this story is about Raleigh, not Wake Forest. But it was posted by some friends on Facebook, and I just had to share it. Apparently, a graffiti artist / vandal, stole some construction barrels and made a really cool “sculpture” from it. For more information, click the “Read More” Link Below.
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