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The Luxury of Ceramics Wednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 4:12AMBeing an artist can often be seen as a stress-free job. However, those in the industry or wishing to make a living from it may think otherwise.
Rebuilding with Art: AMACO and Post-Katrina New Orleans Wednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 1:01AM As New Orleans continues its rebirth, AMACO contributes in its share of rebuilding by engaging in a pilot program that ties together arts educational and community action.
The Guide Wednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 12:40AMA listing of upcoming arts, entertainment and cultural events in the area.
Receptions at galleries showcase local artists Wednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 12:06AMSeveral art shows and sales are planned this weekend in addition to opening receptions for artists at local galleries.
Heritage protection efforts get council support Tuesday, December 2, 2008 @ 8:52PMClick to enlarge The underfloor area of Clark House was connected with the kilns at Limeburners via an underground tunnel. Click to enlarge Remains of underground kilns from former brick works.
Explorations in scale Tuesday, December 2, 2008 @ 7:22PM2008-11-27
Creative gifts lend personal touch to holiday season Tuesday, December 2, 2008 @ 3:16AMEvery family has them - the impossible-to-buy-for members of the clan who can turn the holiday season into a stressful treasure hunt. In the end, the frantic search for the perfect gift more often than not culminates in maddening capitulation and, consequently, a heap of unimaginative junk the recipient will never use.
Opening hospital a personal endeavor for veterinarians Monday, December 1, 2008 @ 8:51AMAfter years as a pottery studio, the large gray barn outside Littlestown is once again hosting animals - but these animals are making use of a $9,000 surgical monitor as well as enjoying an enclosed exercise area with its own bright yellow fire hydrant.
Main Street Holidays: Delaware Sunday, November 30, 2008 @ 5:16AMDelaware The Bare Bowl 6 N. Sandusky St. A bright, cheery interior greets visitors bustling in from the cold at the Bare Bowl, a make-your-own pottery place.
Competing pottery fests draw crowds Friday, November 28, 2008 @ 3:35AMOrganizers of competing pottery festivals in Seagrove say attendance was strong at the weekend festivals despite discord among the respected artisans in a region rich with clay.
Pottery Festival Feud In Seagrove Thursday, November 27, 2008 @ 5:49AM Can two festivals on the same wekend survive?
Something for everyone from artistic quintet Thursday, November 27, 2008 @ 2:36AMA FESTIVE exhibition including five local artists, exhibiting together for the first time, opens on November 28 at Corsock Glass for a special preview from 4pm to 9pm.
Mark your calendar Tuesday, November 25, 2008 @ 5:38AMAn original play based on "Peter Pan" will be performed at the Cameron Village Library in Raleigh next week.
Church skeletons are 300 years old Tuesday, November 25, 2008 @ 2:44AMBONES unearthed in Durham city centre earlier this year were probably about 300 years old, an archeological report into the finds has said.
Inner artist wins out over party pooper Tuesday, November 25, 2008 @ 2:11AMMy eldest daughter recently turned 11, a big deal. She was struggling to come up with an idea for a family day out.
Whistling with character Tuesday, November 25, 2008 @ 12:37AMJohn Barry trims off the bottom of the hollow clay ocarina bodies he turned on the pottery wheel. (Submitted photo)
BC BREAKING NEWS: Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 6:43PMPotter Alice McLean is one of the artists featured in the Studio Tour. Down a long and winding driveway off Gillespie Road in Sooke sits the home of Alice McLean.
Creative gifts lend the holidays a personal touch Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 4:24AMEvery family has them - the impossible-to-buy-for members of the clan who can turn the holiday season into a stressful treasure hunt. In the end, the frantic search for the perfect gift more often than not culminates in maddening capitulation and, consequently, a heap of unimaginative junk the recipient will never use.
Uganda: Namugongo Holds Art Exhibition Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 1:28AMPractical learning is one of the major ways of helping a child to understand quickly, both in class and outside.
Life after the island Sunday, November 23, 2008 @ 11:14PMThree decades ago, Dr. Don Gerace founded a research institute in the Bahamas. Now, he and his wife must learn to live their lives away from the thing they created.
Backyard Naturalist Sunday, November 23, 2008 @ 11:14PM Plants of the Cucurbitaceae family may be the oldest domesticated by humans. About 735 species exist, consisting of edibles such as cucumbers, melons and pumpkins, and hard-shelled gourds which, once hollowed and dried, have a rich diversity of uses.Traced to Africa and Asia, the originators of clay or stone pottery may have taken inspiration from the many shapes and ancient original uses of ...
Julie Lluch’s ‘Yuta’: A retrospective Sunday, November 23, 2008 @ 3:23PMMANILA, Philippines - Odette Alcantara’s terra-cotta bust burst into more than a hundred pieces when lightning struck and gutted to the ground the Heritage Art Center in Cubao in 1990.
Historic bungalow needs a caretaker Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 1:47AMThis house needs someone to live in it and rehabilitate it. The resident must also agree to spend an estimated $150,000 on the interior.
ChathamArts Gallery -December Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 3:27PMThe ChathamArts Gallery exhibits the work of over 90 Chatham County artists…
Cooking with chemistry Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 3:02AMKomali Nunna is thankful for many things, including the Fuyu persimmons that ripen to gooey, earthy sweetness every fall in her Camarillo backyard.
Professional craft show next weekend Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 1:41AMMore than 100 professional artisans will sell their wares at the annual Carolina Designer Craftsmen Fine Craft and Design Show at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh next weekend.
Malta and international press digest Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 12:15AMThe Times says the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses has suspended industrial action as talks start with Social Policy Ministry John Dalli. It also reports that there is a dispute within the CMTU over an MUT proposal for the formation of a trades union council.
Museum listings Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 11:28PMBROOKGREEN GARDENS, U.S. 17, between Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island presents the 10th anniversary of "Nights of a Thousand Candles" Dec. 5-6, 12-13 and 18-20 from 3-10 p.m. each evening. Tickets are $15 for ages 13 and older, $6 for children ages 6-12 and free for children 5 and younger. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 235-6000 or 800-849-1931, or www.brookgreen.org . THE COUNTRY FARM ...
After-school pottery fires up Art Club Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 3:29AMWhile most of their classmates boarded the buses for home, members of the Tuttle Middle School Art Club fired up for more of what thrills them.
After-school pottery fires up Art Club Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 3:25AMWhile most of their classmates boarded the buses for home, members of the Tuttle Middle School Art Club fired up for more of what thrills them.
Neighbors: Students make bowls for benefit Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 12:13AM Beginning Pottery students at Bartram Trail High School recently contributed almost 200 one-of-a-kind ceramic bowls in preparation for the 24th Annual Empty Bowls Luncheon benefiting the Second Harvest Food Bank of North Florida. Children from schools across the First Coast, along with senior citizen groups, local professional artists and other community and professional organizations, ...
Neighbors: Students make bowls for benefit Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 12:11AM Beginning Pottery students at Bartram Trail High School recently contributed almost 200 one-of-a-kind ceramic bowls in preparation for the 24th Annual Empty Bowls Luncheon benefiting the Second Harvest Food Bank of North Florida. Children from schools across the First Coast, along with senior citizen groups, local professional artists and other community and professional organizations, ...
Renter could dwell in Calif. dream Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 9:39PM Every town has its mystery house. For generations of people in Shelby, it was the Spanish bungalow that stood out among the traditional Southern homes on West Warren Street. Instead of camellias and boxwoods, the yard was filled with yucca and cactus. Out front, a sign read: “El Nido” – Spanish for “the nest.” A California dream brought it to Shelby in 1921. A young doctor from Western ...
Renter could dwell in Calif. dream Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 9:35PM Every town has its mystery house. For generations of people in Shelby, it was the Spanish bungalow that stood out among the traditional Southern homes on West Warren Street. Instead of camellias and boxwoods, the yard was filled with yucca and cactus. Out front, a sign read: “El Nido” – Spanish for “the nest.” A California dream brought it to Shelby in 1921. A young doctor from Western ...
Frederick pottery school hosts first holiday sale Sunday, November 16, 2008 @ 8:53AMIn a room usually filled with students seated at wheels, forming rough hunks of clay through stages into works of utility and art, only the fruits of their labor remained -- on display.
The Maya world, in miniature Sunday, November 16, 2008 @ 4:16AMTiny funerary figures fascinate in their depictions of everyday life in the ancient Yucatán world. They were unearthed at Jaina, a Maya island of the dead. My obsession with clay Jaina figures started about a year ago at the Museo de la Cultura Maya in Chetumal, Mexico. That is where I set my eyes on the tiny statues of a Maya woman wearing an elaborate blouse and ear spools and a young ...
Visual arts calendars Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 11:26PMTo best facilitate publication, send items at least two weeks in advance to Paul Clark via e-mail to pclark@CITIZEN-TIMES.com. Please include the opening and closing dates of exhibits and a number that may be published to call for information. For more information, call 232-5854.
PORTFOLIO: Barbara C.L. Perez Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 11:25PMHow do you describe your work?
Firing up artists Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 10:25AMIf Stephen Sneed’s nickname isn’t The Mad Scientist, it soon will be.
Exeter/Hampton area craft fairs Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 5:08AM THE EDGEWOOD CENTRE HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 at 928 South St., Portsmouth. Lunch will be available in the Merry Morsel Cafand#233; for $5. There is no fee for the fair. 436-0099.
Exeter/Hampton/Rockingham area community calendar Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 5:03AM THE BLENDED FAMILY STEP-DANCE, for women and men who are working to create a blended family, will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. for three Thursdays beginning Nov. 6, 13, 20 at the Women Supporting Women Center, 111 Water St., Exeter. The cost is $42 for...
Holiday guide Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 1:49AMEvents.
Bricks tell tales of yesteryear Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 4:44PMThere are clues to life in colonial NSW that are etched in clay and time.
Daily Messenger Bulletin Board Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 11:16AM Event happenings in and around the Yates County areas this week.
Carolina Pottery Festival Held At Fairgrounds Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 10:39AMThe 8th annual Carolina Pottery Festival showcased the artwork of many talented artists from several surrounding counties. The Cleveland County Fairgrounds was once again the host for the hundreds in attendance.
Putty in his hands: Artist teaches pottery to children Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 7:51AMClay artist Peter Lippincott visited Union Elementary School first-graders Wednesday to teach the fundamentals of building clay pots. “We’ll be making two kids of pots,” said Lippincott, who has spent the last two weeks teaching at several Texarkana, Ark., School District campuses.
All fired up Wednesday, November 12, 2008 @ 12:31AMCourtesy of the artist , Juan Quezada achieved fame in the late-1970s after an American anthropologist discovered his high-quality pottery, which was based on ancient shards found near his Mexican village of Mata Ortiz.
Artisans festival in Hartford Sunday, November 9, 2008 @ 5:37AMHARTFORD - November is all about the big stuffed bird on the fourth Thursday of the month. But let us not forget that the next day marks the kickoff of the holiday shopping season.
Second First Night celebration to be bigger event this year Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 11:53PMOrganizers hope the second First Night will be second to none.
Three bears, four tales Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 5:58AMTuckers Tales Puppet Theatre comes to Appel Farm Arts and Music Center Saturday for its Family Matinee Series opener. The 2 p.m.