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February Issue
2011
Craven Arts Council in New Bern, NC,
Offers Works by Bill Lease and Area Potters
The Craven Arts Council in New Bern, NC, is
presenting, A Shared Promise and Responsibility, an exhibit
of photographs by Bill Lease and bowls by Eastern North Carolina
potters, on view through Feb. 26, 2011, at the Bank of the Arts.
Bill Lease is a third-generation artist working in digital photography.
"Through my photography, I strive to examine the seemingly
ordinary. My desire is to offer a perspective that creates a focus
for quiet reflection or the nucleus for exploration and discovery.
Photographic images are: an opportunity to capture a moment in
time; a vignette by which we may examine the world in which we
are privileged to live; an invitation to take a very personal
and singular journey to places in our imagination; an invitation
to experience, not merely view; at once, the image and the concept
a story."
And tell a story, he does! As a prelude to our Empty Bowls fundraiser
on Feb. 10, 2011, Lease was asked to help call attention to hunger
and poverty in Craven County by photographing the people who avail
themselves of Religious Community Services's soup kitchen and
shelter. What he found was both moving and uplifting.
In addition to Lease's photography, the exhibit will feature "big
bowls" by local potters Joanne Ashton, Becky Badger, Joyce
Basye, Jim Bisbee, Milton Bland, Carolyn Curran, Rich Daniels,
Scott Haines, Misty Lupton, Carol McCracken, Linda Murdock, Elizabeth
Priddy, Carolyn Sleeper, Bonnie Tinsley, Debbie Wait, Ben Watford,
Michaelé Rose Watson, Debbie Wheeler, Brent Wheelright
and Candace Young. Participating potters will also donate smaller
bowls for the Empty Bowls event.
Empty Bowls is a joint outreach of Religious Community Services
and the Craven Arts Council. It is a project designed to fight
hunger, personalized by artists and art organizations on a community
level. Local restaurants and churches will make, serve and donate
soup and bread to serve at the event; and individuals and local
artists will donate pottery bowls. Attendees get to have some
soup and bread and choose a one-of-a-kind pottery bowl to take
home.
This year's Empty Bowls fundraiser will be held at Temple Baptist
Church, 1500 Kingdom Way, New Bern, on Thur., Feb. 10, from 11am
until 2pm. Tickets are $20 and are available at the Bank of the
Arts and Fuller's Music in New Bern.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call the Council at 252/638-2577 or visit (www.cravenarts.org).
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