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October Issue 2005
Morris Street Gallery has Opened in Blowing Rock, NC
Yearwood
The Morris Street Gallery in downtown Blowing Rock, NC, is celebrating its debut fall season with two activities on Oct. 8 that will offer the public a unique opportunity to observe four accomplished artists paint "in plein air". The 1st annual Autumn Paint Out will be held that day from 11am - 4pm in the enchanting gardens of the "Inn at Ragged Gardens", located at 203 Sunset Drive in downtown Blowing Rock. The inn is registered with "Distinguished Inns of North America". Sally Nooney, Dorothy Shoemaker, Cama Tadlock, and Jan Yearwood will be expressing their varied interpretations of the delightful early 1900's bed and breakfast that offers a delightful garden hideaway in the heart of the village. That same day and one street over the Morris Street Gallery will host a Wet Paint Exhibition with the four artists. Works by the four artists will be on view through Oct. 31, 2005.
Morris Street Gallery opened this past June and has already become one of the finest galleries in Blowing Rock and the "high country". The gallery offers a warm and inviting place to view original art by local and regional award winning artists. Nooney, Shoemaker, Tadlock, and Yearwood are all featured artists at Morris Street Gallery and their varied works are displayed ongoing weekly from Wed. through Sun.
Along with the Autumn Paint Out artists,
the gallery features original works by Steve Andrews from Tallahassee,
FL, a plein air painter who, when not painting, is a trial lawyer,
tennis player, and father of 2 sets of twins! Karen Knight is
an expressive painter who exhibits in New York, Wisconsin, and
south to Florida. Judy Eisinger, a watercolorist and graphic designer,
was born in Budapest, Hungary, and escaped from that communist
country in 1956 to the United States, where she studied fine art
at The Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cooper School of Art and
Kent State with graduate degrees.
Ada Offerdahl, from Charlotte, NC, studied at Cornell College,
the Chicago Art Institute, and the Traphagan School of Fashion
Design in New York. On display currently is a landscape from her
trip to Bonnieux, France.
Also represented at the gallery are Sean Rivinus, a photographer from Charlotte, NC, who spent 18 months in Copenhagen, Denmark along with 26 other countries and 5 continents. There is also pottery by Linda Dalton, from West End, NC, and ceramic and glass tiles by Adrianne Hetherington.
The Morris Street Gallery is located just off Main Street in the "Shoppes of Watership Down" right on Morris Street in downtown Blowing Rock.
For more information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 828/295-8575, or at (www.MorrisStreetGallery.com).
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