January 2012 – "Carolina Arts Unleashed"

North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC, Offers The Potter’s Palette – Something Different – Feb. 4, 2012

January 31, 2012December 4, 2014 by admin

Here’s an opportunity to purchase something unique and help the NC Pottery Center at the same time. Imagine owning a painting – yes, I said painting by Mark Hewitt, Cynthia Bringle, or Vernon Owens – great potters, but not known as painters – other than painting glazes on their pots. Now that would be a ... Read More

The Visual Art Community in Northern Michigan Doesn’t Slow Down for Winter

January 18, 2012December 4, 2014 by admin

I’ve been talking with a good friend who lives in Interlochen, MI, near Traverse City, MI, which is finally seeing seasonal Michigan weather – cold and snow. They have been having some unseasonably warm weather – highs in the 50′s – burr! Because we’ve been talking on a regular basis I bookmarked the local newspaper ... Read More

The Potter’s Palette………..A Different Spin on Creativity and Fundraiser for the NC Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC – Feb. 4, 2012

January 16, 2012December 4, 2014 by admin

Seagrove, NC……And someone said that making a tile is as close to a painting as a potter can get – how wrong they were! The NC Pottery Center presents “The Potter’s Palette”, featuring over 80 12” x 12” canvases done by prominent NC clay artists. Clay artists from around the state were invited to produce ... Read More

The Wells Gallery in Charleston, SC, Features Exhibit of Works by John Michiels

January 12, 2012December 4, 2014 by admin

Editor’s Note: Sorry, we have to correct the dates of this show. The Wells Gallery in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibit, Quiet Space, featuring over 15 photographs by John Michiels, on view from Jan. 3 – 31, 2012. A reception will be held on Jan. 26, from 5:30-7:30pm. Michiels’ creative spirit was evident from ... Read More

Taking a Look at Marketing Techniques in the Carolinas

January 12, 2012December 4, 2014 by admin

This year we’re going to take a look at how the visual art community in the Carolinas is marketing itself. We’ll start with this posting which expresses some of the problems I have to deal with on a daily basis in collecting info about the visual art community. After this we’ll go into many of ... Read More

Tracking the Numbers for the December 2011 Issue of Carolina Arts

January 3, 2012December 4, 2014 by admin

This will be my last report on the download numbers each month other than a mention in my commentary in the paper. It’s taken time to keep up with the stats and it’s a bit of a distraction from other things. The last year has been a roller coaster from the 8,929 downloads we got ... Read More

The January 2012 Issue of Carolina Arts is Now Ready to Download

January 1, 2012December 4, 2014 by admin

The January 2012 issue of Carolina Arts is up on our website at (www.carolinaarts.com) – all 61 pages of it. We had over 82,000 downloads of the December 2011 issue – a new record. We ask that you help us bring the news about the Carolina visual art community to others by spreading the link ... Read More