JEWELRY MAKING Wine & Design by Caitlyn Cartwright and Maia Lippo

SILK SCARF Wine & Design with Caitlyn Cartwright

Pocosin Arts Folk School is pleased to present evenings of fun and creativity with our new Wine & Design classes. Let your inner artist shine as a professional artist guides you in making your very own handmade work of art. We provide you with step-by-step instructions from professional artists as you create a wearable masterpiece. You and your friends get to enjoy a fun night out. At the end of the evening, you go home with your own personal work of art and wonderful memories!

On March 16th Wine & Design will feature metalsmiths Maura Cartwright and Maia Leppo hosting a jewelry-making workshop from 6-8 p.m. Workshop participants will make earrings, necklaces and bracelets using a combination of dapped circles, bottle caps, coins and tin. You’ll get demonstrations in sawing, beading, riveting, drilling and dappping and go home with your own spectacular. Cartwright and Leppo are full-time metalsmiths, who, after receiving their college degrees, have furthered their studies at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, penland School of Crafts and Pocosin Arts Folk School. They currently reside in Columbia where they share a studio and co-own Columbia Art Space. Pocosin Arts Folk School is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit arts organization promoting education in the arts. It is located at 201 Main St. in Columbia.

On March 23, Wine & Design will feature Pocosin Art’s resident artist Caitlin Cartwright hosting a silk painting workshop from 6pm – 8pm. This workshop will lead you in creating your very own hand-painted silk scarf. Cartwright is an accomplished artist and brings a wealth of knowledge and creativity to Pocosin Arts. She holds her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, has worked teaching art in Madagascar and Namibia, Africa, and has also worked with inner city youth development in the United States. She joined Pocosin Arts in October 2011.

Pocosin Arts provides all necessary materials. All you need to bring is your favorite bottle of wine or other beverage of choice! The cost is only $35 per class. All classes are at Pocosin Arts Folk School in its second floor studios. Preregistration is necessary, so sign up today! If you want to stay in Columbia after the workshop, the Brickhouse Inn Bed & Breakfast is offering a special rate for Wine & Design participants. Call them at (252) 766-3333 for more information.

Contact Pocosin Arts at (252) 796-2787 for more details and to register for one or both workshop, or see our website at www.pocosinarts.org.

Dare County Arts Council presents “Barbershop Punk” with director/producer/writer Georgia Sugimura Archer as part of the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers at Cape Hatteras Secondary School, Buxton, NC on Saturday, February, 18.

Following a screening of her feature film, “Barbershop Punk,” Archer and the audience will engage in a discussion about the film and her work as a film-maker. Tickets are available for $12 from www.brownpapertickets.com or DCAC’s interim Gallery at MP 4.75 in Kitty Hawk. (Courtesy www.obxCommonGood.org)

PORTSMOUTH ISLAND CHURCH INTERIOR: Ray Matthews – “Portsmouth Island Church” – Best in Show winner

Artist/Members of Dare County Arts Council and residents of Dare County were invited to submit their artwork to the 34th annual Frank Stick Memorial Art Show which is on exhibit at Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery through Feb. 24. The gallery is  located at 210 E. Driftwood Street in Nags Head. This year’s opening reception was a success with more than 200 people in attendance and 110 artists participating in the show. 

^{More than $1,500 in cash prizes were awarded this year, including “Best in Show”, “Excellence”, and “Honorable Mention”. A “People’s Choice” award winner was also selected by public ballot during the opening reception.}

Congratulations to the winners:
Best in Show: Ray Matthews – “Portsmouth Island Church”- Photography
Excellence Award #1: Jim Bumpass- “Hollow Form – Pyrography” Wood
Excellence Award #2: Tom Dean- “Eye of the Sea”- Acrylic
Excellence Award #3: Eva Morris- “Avalon Shadows”, Photography
Excellence Award #4: Brad Price-”Down in the Wash, Tucson”-Oil
Honorable Mention #1: Katherine Wassink- “River Sky”- Fiber
Honorable Mention #2: Haley Sullivan – “Reliquary Tea Pot”- fine & sterling silver, 18Kgold, recycled gemstone, Brazilian cherry, hemp cord

Honorable Mention #3: – Steven Fowler-”Sleeping Beauties”- Photography

People’s Choice Award: Peggy Saporito – “Crystal Bowl”-Watercolor

Dare County Arts Council extends a heartfelt thank you to Glenn and Pat Eure, owners of the Ghost Fleet Gallery, who graciously provide the venue for this outstanding show. Thanks also to the generous sponsors for supporting this year’s show: Ace Hardware, Burgess, Lowman & Lay, PA, Greenleaf Gallery, Hutchins, Allen & Company, Kitty Dough, Martier Real Estate Group, Resort Realty, Saga Construction, and TWs Bait & Tackle.

The 2012 judges were Drusiano Scerbo and Caitlin Cartwright

MOLASSES CREEK will entertain at an OBX Sounds event Thursday, Feb. 16, 7-9 p.m., at Kelly’s Restaurant and Tavern. OBX Sounds is a collaboration between Dare County Arts Council and 99.1 The Sound, and this will be the sixth in a series of showcases featuring all original, all local music.

Twenty-three miles off the coast of North Carolina, lies the remote island of Ocracoke. Only accessible by ferry, Ocracoke Island is an enchanting step out of modern times into a land of captivating natural beauty, rich maritime history, ghostly shipwrecks, heroic lifesavers, crafty pirates, and a community of 900 independently-minded residents. Since 1993 Molasses Creek has drawn its inspiration from this rich environment.

Phenomenal songwriters and interpreters of song, Molasses Creek concerts run the gamut of traditional to contemporary acoustic, sweet ballads with ensnaring vocal harmonies, hot instrumentals, quirky vaudevillian pieces, and captivating stage banter stitching it all together.

Molasses Creek’s 12 recordings have received airplay around the world along with a nomination for European Country Music Association band of year. They tour throughout the United States and have a track on the most recent Back Porch Music Sampler.

Molasses Creek’s roster includes Gary Mitchell (guitar/vocals), Fiddler Dave Tweedie (fiddle/vocals), Lou Castro (dobro/bass/vocals), Marcy Brenner (mandolin/banjolin/bass/vocals), and Gerald Hampton (mandolin/upright bass).

Natalie Woods will also entertain. She was born in Virginia but has moved around most of her life, living in South Carolina, Colorado, Arkansas, Ohio, North Carolina and Indiana. Currently residing in North Carolina, when she is not playing music out at local venues, she runs a small insurance agency. She is the mother of a 5-year-old son, Vance. Her music is mix of blues, country, rock and folk. When she was younger, she developed of love of songwriters, listening to Carole King and James Taylor. She appreciates all types of music, but loves country for the honesty and simplicity.

GEORGIA SUGIMURA ARCHER, director, producer of her feature film, Barbershop Punk, will appear at a program sponsored by the Dare County Arts Council Saturday, Feb. 18, at Cape Hatteras Secondary School as part of the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers. Following a screening of the film,  Archer and the audience will engage in a discussion about the film and her work as a filmmaker. Tickets are available for $12.00 from www.brownpapertickets.com or DCAC’s interim Gallery at MP 4.75 in Kitty Hawk, between Spa Vogue and Trio Wine Bar.

In a privatized American Internet, is big business “Big Brother” or does the free markets protect and serve the needs of the average citizen with its invisible hand? With the simple act of swapping files, barbershop quartet baritone Robb Topolski finds himself at ground zero of a landmark case whose outcome will affect the rights of every American citizen. Following one man’s personal quest to defend what he believes to be his inalienable rights; Barbershop Punk examines the critical issues surrounding the future of the American Internet and what it truly means to be “punk.” The film features discussions with Henry Rollins, Janeane Garofalo, U.S. Congressmen Chip Pickering, Clinton White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry, Michelle Combs of the Christian Coalition, lobbyist Jack Burkman and FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein.

The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Special support for Southern Circuit was provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

South Arts, a nonprofit regional arts organization, was founded in 1975 to build on the South’s unique heritage and enhance the public value of the arts. South Arts’ work responds to the arts environment and cultural trends with a regional perspective. South Arts offers an annual portfolio of activities designed to address the role of the arts in impacting the issues important to our region, and to link the South with the nation and the world through the arts. For more information, visit www.southarts.org

Dare County Arts Council thanks its sponsors for the Southern Circuit Film Tour – South Arts – National Endowment for the Arts, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Outer Banks Community Foundation, Jim and Jarie Ebert, Baldwin Video, David Neal Construction, Roanoke Island Festival Park, North Beach Sun, Village Realty, The Outer Banks Forum for the Lively Arts and the N.C. Arts Council.

Trips to Norfolk, Va. to see matinee shows at the Harrison Opera House are planned for Feb. 5 (Orphee) and Sunday, March 18 (The Mikado).

The van will leave the center at 11:30 a.m. to attend the 2:30 p.m. show. The group will eat dinner on the way back.

Call the center at 475-9270 to register. Space is filling up fast.

Ticket prices vary and are the responsibility of each participant. Call the Virginia Opera box office at 866-673-7282 for prices and seating information.f

Acrylic painting classes are being held at The Dare County Center Tuesdays, Jan. 24 and 31 and Feb. 7 and 14.

Cost is $20 per class to drop in. The classes will be taught by Hudson Williams. All supplies will be included. The fee is due at class time. You may sign up in the front office of the center. For information, call the center at 475-9270.

SCERBO DRUSIANO is one of the judges for the 34th annual Frank Stick Memorial Art Show

FINAL CALL to Artists for submission to 34th Annual Frank Stick Memorial Art Show. This Call for Entry is open to all artists who are residents of Dare County or who are members of the Dare County Arts Council and are 18 years of age or older. Artists can join the Dare County Arts Council at the time of delivery. A non-refundable fee of $20 per artist ($35 for non-arts council members) is due upon delivery of work. All artwork must be received at Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on January 24th or 25 th. The gallery is located at 210 E. Driftwood Street in Nags Head. For information visit www.darearts.org or call 473-5558.

For a complete prospectus, please stop by Dare County Arts Council’s interim gallery space at MP 41/2 on the bypass between Trio Wine Bar and Diamonds and Dunes. A prospectus is also available on line at www.darearts.org.

This year more than $1,500 in cash awards will be offered, including “Best in Show”, “Excellence”, and “Honorable Mention”. A “People’s Choice” award winner will be selected by public ballot during the opening reception. All other cash award winners will be selected by the judges based solely on merit without regard to media. The 2012 judges are Drusiano Scerbo and Caitlin Cartwright.

Drusiano earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting with minors in both drawing and art history and a MFA from Old Dominion University. In addition to working as a professional artist, he is currently a professor of art at Elizabeth City State University, where he supports the quests of other aspiring artists. His body of work comprises representations of the human figure placed within targeted settings and panoramic landscapes that fill both physical and psychological space. His artistic content has evolved over time from that of social realism to that of implied existential realism, while endeavoring to evoke emotions and images inspired by his childhood memories of Italy.

Cartwright is the artist in residency at Pocosin Arts. After graduating with a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Cartwright moved to Madagascar and worked in an orphanage with young women to produce arts and develop sustainable businesses. While there she also taught art, English and spear-headed a mural project. After returning to the States,Cartwright continued to paint and began working with inner city youth development. In 2008 she joined the U.S. Peace Corps and traveled to Namibia, Africa and co-founded Nambula Girls Club, an organization focused on girls’ empowerment, education and health. After returning from Namibia, she refocused on her painting and joined Pocosin Arts in October 2011.”

The opening reception and awards ceremony for the 34th Annual Frank Stick Memorial Art Show will be January 28, from 6-8 p.m. at Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery. The exhibition dates are Sunday, Jan. 29h through Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. Gallery hours are 10 – 5 , Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m.p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

CAITLIN CARTWRIGHT, an accomplished artist who brings a wealth of knowledge and creativity to her work, will lead the first Wine & Design at Pocosin Arts in Columbia. After graduating with a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Caitlin moved to Madagascar and worked in an orphanage with young women to produce arts and develop sustainable businesses. She also taught art, English, and spear-headed a mural project while there. After returning to the United States, Caitlin continued to paint and began working with inner city youth development. In 2008 she joined the U.S. Peace Corps and traveled to Namibia, Africa, where she co-founded Nambula Girls Club, an organization focused on girls’ empowerment, education and health. After returning from Namibia, Caitlin refocused on her painting and joined Pocosin Arts in October 2011.

Bring your friends and join Caitlin at Pocosin Arts Folk School for this fun and creative evening. Pocosin Arts will provide all necessary materials, including the silk scarves, dyes and brushes. All you need to bring is your favorite bottle of wine or other beverage of choice! The cost is only $35, which covers the evening, instruction and supplies. The first Wine & Design will take place on January 27, 7-9 p.m. Another Wine & Design will take place on March 2. All classes are at Pocosin Arts Folk School located at 201 Main St. in Columbia, second floor studios. Preregistration is necessary. Visit www.pocosinarts.org or call Pocosin Arts at 252-796-2787 for more details and to register for one or both workshops.

MATT McGUIRE performs.

99.1 The Sound and Dare County Arts Council have partnered to produce the very first compilation CD of local musicians creating original music. Monthly showcases have been taking place since September featuring the selected musicians and will continue through April. There were over 60 submissions to the project making the selections for the inaugural CD a difficult one for the panel of judges. In May the first edition of Outer Banks Sounds will be released to the public. DCAC and 99.1 The Sound is looking for original artwork to accompany the CD. The submission deadline is 3/31/2012. All artwork must be created/submitted in one of the 5 following programs: Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Quark Express or Corel Draw and emailed toinfo@darearts.org.

The winning artist will receive recognition on 1000 CD’s, posters and all other marketing materials associated with the project and 20 copies of the CD.