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The following artists, who are listed in our BROCHURE, will open their studios for our Final Weekend! Come on out and support your local arts! Masks are mandatory, social distancing and hand sanitizing is encouraged. There will be limits on the number of guests in the studio at one time. 1 Janet Resnik, 132 Collins […]
A central feature of the annual Chatham Artist Guild Studio Tour each year is the Chatham Student Exhibition. Visit the next generation of Chatham artists online this year at the CCS Winter Arts Festival. Visual and Performing Arts selections from all area Chatham schools is on display. Visit the site often to see updates and additions.
STEP 1: Visit our Tour Updates Page This year continues to be filled with twists and turns so why should the 2020 Chatham Studio Tour be any different? We are posting the latest updates from participating artists online. STEP 2: Head to Downtown Pittsboro Pick up a printed brochure at the NEW Pittsboro Gallery of Arts or […]
“I love wood,” says woodturner Greg Wandless. ”I love the feel, the warmth, the look, the way it warms up a home.” Visitors to the 2020 Chatham Studio the first two weekends in December will have the opportunity of experiencing Greg’s beautiful wooden bowls, art vessels, peppermills and custom writing instruments. Greg has been working […]
“I just love to make something useful and beautiful with my own two hands,” explains potter Amy Wandless. “It is even more thrilling when a pot that came from my eye and my hands appeals to the eyes and hands of someone who lives with it, uses it and loves it.” Amy will display her […]
Minnie Gallman has a photographic exhibit of Judaica objects now hanging at the UNC Hillel. The objects are depicted as kaleidoscopes and include a Hanukah menorah, Kaddish cup, and UNC mezuzah. They are displayed in the eating hall/general purpose room. Notecards of the images are available for sale at her website. Minnie C. Gallmanminnie-gallman.pixels.commcgallman@verizon.net
“Falling Ginkgoes,” another recent print (left), will be in the online 2020 Artists Who Teach Exhibition presented by the Ellington-White Contemporary Gallery in Fayetteville. And, ready for the new year—Vidabeth’s 2021 calendar tea towel (right) is available now. Vidabeth has been creating original calendars since 1970. Ordering information is on her web site. Vidabeth Bensenwww.houseoflifeprints.comVidabeth@embarqmail.com
Carolyn Rhinebarger’s paintings have been juried into the 6X6 Painting Exhibit coming to the Halle Cultural Arts Center later this month. Her 8 small works, original acrylic paintings on 6″x6″ gesso board, are among those of 25 artists. 6X6 is more than an exhibition; it is an invitation to honor, recognize, and take part in the habit of daily painting. The main […]
The September 2020 issue of Genetics in Medicine features the photograph “Water 171” by CAG member Michael Blotzer. The photograph was taken with a telephoto lens focusing on the natural abstract pattern created by the windblown water surface. “Water 171” is part of a series of water photographs available for viewing at michaelblotzer.com/water. “I love taking photos of […]
Transforming the space formerly known as “The Joyful Jewel” on Hillsboro Street into THE PITTSBORO GALLERY OF ARTS has been a handoff like no other. Jewel owner, Mariah Wheeler, had one wish upon her retirement—that continuity be maintained. After several fact-finding meetings, a consortium of local artists agreed to try and gather enough interest to form a new […]
This fall, the NC Botanical Garden celebrates its 32nd Annual Sculpture in the Garden exhibit in Chapel Hill. UNC’s conservation garden produces the event to highlight the work of North Carolina artists. The work of two members of the Chatham Artist Guild are featured in this year’s show. Forrest Greenslade, who has participated for the past 10 years, has two works in the […]
Chatham Guild artist for the last five years, self-professed “wood gal” Diane Swan has been working with wood for four decades. Diane has now gathered her work into a single place for all of us to enjoy. Check out her brand new website and feast your eyes on the miraculous way she manipulates wood into […]
Anna-Rhesa Versola joins the Chatham Studio Tour for the first time this year. Resilience and reinvention are key themes for Rhesa, both at home and in her work. “I was born in Manila, Philippines and was a toddler when my parents brought me and my brother to the United States,” she explains. “My dad was […]
“I am fascinated with facial expressions and the eyes of the people and animals that I paint,” explains Kathy flood. She will make her debut in the Chatham Studio Tour the first weekend in December, exhibiting her works in graphite, watercolor and acrylics in her Briar Chapel studio. Kathy became an artist in a non-traditional […]
Jane Eckenrode drew a picture of her father at the age of 6, at about the time her parents enrolled her in her first art class. As a child, she and her dad spent time together walking in the woods and fishing. She still has the cigar box of natural treasures she collected as a […]
Minnie Gallman took her first photograph, with a brownie box camera, at the age of 4. “It was a picture of my newborn sister,” she remembers.” I’ve been taking pictures ever since.” Folks who come to the 2020 Chatham Studio Tour will see the results of Minnie’s life-long passion in the nature-inspired photographs that she […]
Vince Pitelka — Vince Pitelka Pottery “I have always been fascinated with tools and machines and working with my hands,” says studio potter Vince Pitelka. “I had a little shop at our house as a kid,” he remembers. Pitelka had a formative experience with clay at the age of four. A friend of his parents […]
Jim Aiken has two paintings recently juried into exhibitions coming up later this summer and autumn. One is the Cape Fear Studios 2020 National 2D Exhibit at the Cape Fear Studios Main Gallery, 148 Maxwell Street in Fayetteville, NC, from August 28–September 22, 2020. The painting is an acrylic on canvas, 20″ x 28″, titled “Just Listen.” The […]
Watercolor paintings by Guild members Forrest Greenslade, Cathylee Mahin, and Lani Chaves were accepted into Yadkin Arts Council 2020 Juried Exhibition located in the Yadkin Cultural Arts Center at 226 East Main Street in Yadkinville, NC. “This exhibition is a celebration of some of the finest creativity in North Carolina.” The show runs thru Sept 1, 2020. Forrest Greensladehttps://organicforrestry.com/ Cathylee Mahinhttps://crittersandcolors.com Lani […]
This has been a time of experimentation for Louise Hobbs working with glass. It seems a happy thing at a time consumed by Corona. She’s been painting on float (window) glass with enamels. Glass is cut in different shapes, with hangers fired in. There is a whole tradition of this kind of painting, especially faces and hands. Contemporary glass […]
The Circle City Art Loop, originally planned for April, has been postponed once again. However, Vidabeth Bensen has been hard at work in her studio, creating several new original prints. She’ll be ready whenever the Art Loop becomes a reality. A selection of her prints are now available as totes, shower curtains, masks, and more at Fine Art […]
Lee Kazanas recently completed an upstairs gallery to display his pottery above his studio, along the CSX rail line In the village of Moncure. After relocating alongside the railroad tracks in Moncure nearly ten years ago, he renovated the basement of a deteriorating 1890s former station master’s house, to create his pottery studio. That completed […]
Member Carolyn Rhinebarger’s painting “Tears of the Sun” was selected for the August issue of Genetics in Medicine, the official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. The journal will use the image on the cover of their print publication, on their website and in electronic communications throughout the month of August. The monthly peer-reviewed medical publication is one […]
The Arts Council of Moore County and sponsors Bill & Shirley Frei and Sofie Franzen-Moyle announce “Art from the Heart of North Carolina” featuring works by the Chatham Artists Guild. The exhibit opens on September 4 and runs through September 25, 2020. Due to Covid-19 and the need for social distancing, we regret that the […]
