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May Issue 2005
Summit One Gallery in Highlands, NC, Opens Season with Group Show
Summit One Gallery in Highlands,
NC, opens the 2005 Exhibition Season with the exhibit, The
High Lands. The exhibit will be on view from May 28 through
June 28, 2005.
Ron Williams
Twelve of Summit One's landscape artists are creating site specific paintings of the high lands in and around our area. From the proceeds of the sale of these paintings, ten percent will be donated to the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust. The Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust mission is: "To preserve and protect the lands we hold in trust, maintaining their natural state for the public. We also try to protect native plant and animal species, sustain air and water quality, and biological diversity", said Mike Cavender, the executive director of the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust. The issues and activities of the Land Trust involve conservation, environmental education, land acquisition, outreach, conferences and workshops, beautification and clean up.
Artists participating in the exhibition
include: Rosemary Siefel, Highlands; Diane McPhail, Highlands;
Jane Smithers, Cashiers; Edward Rice, Augusta, GA; Kathie Blozan,
Cashiers; Ron Williams, Knoxville, TN; John Mac Kah, Asheville,
NC; Deborah Squiers, Asheville, NC; Libby Mathews, Lakemont, GA;
Carole Stribling, Atlanta, GA; Elizabeth Ellison, Bryson City,
NC; and Tom Bluemlien, Fort Mitchell, KY. These artists represent
a very diverse group of genres; from altered photography to oil
on canvas and board to acrylic on canvas to watercolor to collage
to oil pastel.
When asked why Summit One Gallery wanted to sponsor this exhibition,
Mary Adair Leslie said, "As I see the natural beauty of the
lands that surround us and the beauty of the paintings that surround
me in the gallery, I wanted to bring the two together - together
to help create more awareness that we all need to help conserve
and protect the natural beauty of our area. All of the artists
that are participating in this exhibition feel the need to help
get the word out. They paint landscapes to preserve the vision
of what is and the Highlands Land Trust works to preserve what
is. Without conservation of the lands we, all, will be without
clean air and green spaces; the artists will be without a subject
matter."
For more info check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 828/526-2673 or at (www.summitonegallery.com).
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