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ART NOTES

Posted on September 2, 2010September 22, 2010 by Staff

MURAL CONTEST

WCOM – Carrboro’s Low-power Wonder – is in its new home in the old Don Christian Oil Company building. To help gussy up their new digs, the folks at FM 103.5 are seeking proposals for a mural.

The mural will be painted on the concrete block wall facing the parking lot and WCOM will supply volunteers to help paint and $100 in supplies. Submissions will be accepted in digital form until the last day in September. A volunteer judging committee will select the winner, subject to approval by the station’s board of directors and approval by the Carrboro appearance commission. Installation should be in November.

Entries or questions can be sent to Tofu Dave at wcom@davidbellin.com

OPENINGS

Art walking

Several openings are coming with this month’s 2ndFriday Artwalk on, well, Friday, Sept. 10.

Among the highlights are the North Carolina Clay Invitational at FRANK Gallery, which features the works of more than 30 artists from around the state, including Nick Joerling, Leah Leitsen, Cynthia Bringle, Suze Lindsay, Mary Ann Prack and many others, as well as Chatham County’s own Mark Hewitt. Also: “Local Motives,” new paintings by Shannon Bueker of Not Now, Kato! Fine Art Studio in Pittsboro.

Hewitt Kiln opening
The works coming out of the 79th firing of Mark Hewitt’s salt kiln have a local twist. According to Hewitt, a new glaze variation using Chapel Hill grit fired to a soft, shiny gray has yielded a perfect salt glaze.

The local grit, along with new vases inspired by classical Greek styles, is available this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

For directions, go to hewittpottery.com

Art glass and snapshots at the Ackland
The new Ackland exhibit “Flowers from Earth and Sand: Art Glass and Ceramics, 1880-1950” opens Sept. 12 and runs through Dec. 12.

The collection features a look at the bold innovations in decorative art that happened between the 1880s and the 1930s, including the glazes and ornament designs of artists like the Frenchman Clement Massier and the craftsmen of the Hungarian Zsolnay Factory. Nearly a hundred examples of luxury vases and other vessels with accompanying prints, posters and illustrated books show how the style expressed in these luxury objects also infused popular culture.

Later this month, the Ackland opens “Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids,” an exhibit featuring 250 Polaroids and 70 silver gelatin black-and-white prints taken by Warhol between 1970 and 1987, many of them on public view for the first time.

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