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Gallery One will hold exhibit opening during ‘Art After Dark’
Downtown galleries will stay open late again this Friday for their monthly first-Friday celebration of local art.
Once each month, downtown galleries unveil new exhibits and offer refreshments and demonstrations to encourage area residents to enjoy an evening downtown. September’s event will be from 6:30 until 9 p.m. on Sept. 5. As part of the night’s festivities, Gallery One, the downtown art venue sponsored by the Jackson County Visual Arts Association, will hold an opening reception for two exhibits. The first is by gallery members and is titled “Portraits and Figures”; the second, curated by Doreyl Cain, is titled “Sisters, Brothers and Cousins” and features the Ammons and Owens families.
The Jackson County Visual Arts Association will host an opening reception for two exhibits Friday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. in Gallery One. The exhibits featured are “Portraits and Figures” by gallery members and “Sisters, Brothers and Cousins,” an art exhibit of the Ammons and Owens families curated by Doreyl Ammons Cain. For more information, call Ray Menze at 293-3407.
Other participants in this Friday’s event include:
– It’s by Nature, which displays regional and local art, including work by Cullowhee watercolor painters Craig Forrest and Susan Lingg, Sylva photographers Larry Tucker and Nick Breedlove and Balsam potter Laurey-Faye Long.
– Modern Artifacts, which features glass objects by Tom Hanks.
– Killer Creek Co., which features authentic southern furniture.
– Penumbra Gallery and Studio, featuring Matthew Turlington’s original photographs and musical guests Stephen Wohlrab and Chad Hallyburton.
Wohlrab is professor of jazz guitar studies at Western Carolina University where he directs a jazz guitar program, and teaches classes in commercial music and music technology. He has more than 30 years experience as a professional guitarist and has performed with such artists as Sister Sledge, The Temptations, and Carol Channing.
Hallyburton is well known locally, and he and Wohlrab will play classic and modern jazz and blues along with some original material.
– Bubacz’s Underground Cafˇ will have one-of-a-kind grafitti art by Krystal Sherrett.
– Papou’s Wineshop, Bar and Art Gallery will feature abstract expressionistic style paintings by local artist Audrey Ellington.
– Spring Street Cafe will display the artwork of Michael Palmic with musical guest Tiffany Lamb playing the flute.
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