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Share Love Event: Sunday, Feb. 12– 2-5 p.m.

January 31, 2012 by Pollinate Collaborations

Roots + Wings School of Art is truly a rich resource for our community.  On top of all they provide, they are raising money for a scholarship fund.  You guys are awesome!

The Share Love event will be held on Sunday, February 12th from 2-5pm at Pink Dog Creative in the River Arts District.  All proceeds from the Share Love event will help support the Roots + Wings School of Art general scholarship fund, the visiting artist fund, and the Asheville Community Design Lab program.  The Share Love event is just one example of Roots + Wings School of Art’s ongoing commitment to making the arts more visible and accessible to the greater Asheville community.

There will be a live dance performance, and a silent art auction of works from a number of talented local artists.  Additionally, all studio artists of Pink Dog Creative will have their doors open!  A number of hands-on art making opportunities for all ages will be scattered throughout the Pink Dog Buildings during the event:

  • Unique card-making and letter writing for upcoming Valentine’s Day – stamps provided
  • Scrap t-shirt art site – artists using sewing machines to help piece the works together
  • Collage and mixed media site
  • Watercolor and oil pastel site
  • Live, Interactive Painting site – anyone will be able to make their mark on a series of five canvases – all of which will be auctioned off at the end of the event.
  • Dance Performance!

There is a suggested donation of $10.  Can’t make it but want to donate?

Questions? 828.545.4827 or email info@rootsandwingsarts.com for more information

More about Roots + Wings School of Art

In just a few short years, Roots + Wings School of Art has had an enormous impact in the community through their unique and engaging visual art education programs in Asheville.  Their work with children, teens and adults, is helping to unlock the inner, creative voice, grow self-confidence, and provide teaching opportunities and visibility for local and regional artists.  The Visual Arts Preschool works with children age three to six, weaving creative problem solving and visual art methods into a preschool curriculum.  The Visual Arts After-school program offers a safe, yet creative, after-school option for Elementary school children.  The Monthly Art Sessions and Off-site After-school Art Sessions provide an extra-curricular visual art option. They have also established the Asheville Community Design Lab, an affiliate program for teens, which provides a bridge between visual art, design and architecture.

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Exhibit: Torqued & Twisted

January 25, 2012 by Pollinate Collaborations

The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design hosts Torqued & Twisted, an exhibition exploring the work of nine furniture makers and sculptors who use the technique of bending wood in innovative, unusual and eloquent ways.  Feb. 10 – June 29, 2012

Wood bending is typically accomplished through one of three approaches—steaming, laminating or greenwood bending. Steaming requires the application of heat and moisture to allow the wood fibers to bend and slide against each other. The bent part is clamped to a form and allowed to cool and dry into a new configuration. Laminating involves using layers of wood cut thin enough to become flexible. The flexible strips are clamped against a form with adhesive between each layer, until the adhesive cures, locking the laminations into the new configuration. Greenwood bending uses freshly cut smaller diameter saplings, often willow, which are inherently flexible due to the high moisture content in the freshly cut wood.

Bentwood came to symbolize the modern movement in furniture design, but it still offers a tempting territory for a range of aesthetic and formal explorations. The artists/designers in this exhibition push the limits of wood bending to create extraordinary functional and sculptural works of art that are conceptually challenging and expand our understanding and expectations of wood as a material.

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Smile for Greenways: Show ‘em you want ‘em

January 24, 2012 by Pollinate Collaborations

Stephanie Morgan from Asheville-based band stephanies id wants to “Turn off her cell phone” on a greenway

Imagine: bike from Asheville to Black Mountain, run from Woodfin to the River Arts District, okay?  Awesome.

You can make this happen.  I can make this happen.  Your business, your family, your friends can make this happen, simply by publicly saying that you want it.

Connect Buncombe is the greenway outreach arm of Buncombe County.  Right now, a county-wide greenway plan is being updated with public input.  This summer, the Buncombe County Commissioners will vote on whether or not to put the plan into action to Connect Buncombe with greenways.

In the meantime: we need to show our elected officials that we want it.  Here are a few ways to get involved:

SAY CHEESE: Take a Greenways, Please! photo and upload it to Facebook profile or just to Connect Buncombe.  (here’s an idea: Take one with your colleagues and use it to promote your business!)  This is the easiest way to show your support.

COLLECT FEEDBACK: Tell Connect Buncombe you’ll put out a feedback box at your business to gather public feedback

PARTNER: Build a mutually beneficial and custom partnership to show that your business or non-profit wants greenways!

Other ideas about making greenways happen?  Get in touch!

Benefits of Greenways

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Hot Chocolate 10K: Dad and Daughter Race

January 10, 2012 by Pollinate Collaborations

Sean Perry hopes to make the local community, in addition to the world, a better place…by running a race with his daughter.  As a father, he believes in education and, as a community-minded business owner (The Hands of Sean Perry Company), he believes in sponsoring events like the Isaac Dickson Hot Chocolate 10K.  You can still sign up by the way–they have a great 10K and a Kids Hill Climb.

Sean’s daughter Talula attends Isaac Dickson Elementary School. She is immersed in “content [that] is connected to the community and to larger issues in the community and the world.”  Sean leads by example, as a community-minded business owner, he is the lead sponsor of the event each year.  Through this sponsorship Sean hopes to not only support the school, but to invest financially in the upcoming young citizens of our community and the world.

“My wife and I chose Isaac Dixon Elementary School for our oldest daughter because of their strong commitment to service-learning projects, for teaching children the value of community and for showing them how to be citizens of the world” says Sean Perry.

An avid cyclist and mountain biker, Sean also believes in health with a healthy dose of competition.  On January 21st hundreds of people will come together to race in the annual fundraiser to benefit the nonprofit Isaac Dickson, The Hot Chocolate 10k and Kids Hill Climb. Sean and Talula will participate in the Kids Hill Climb, a kid-friendly event and enjoy a cup of hot chocolate

The race funds raised will be used to: enable all children to participate in field trips, help to pay for bus drivers for field trips, support cultural arts and artists-in-residence program, provide classroom support funds for teachers, support teacher appreciation events, provide food, clothing, school supplies, and other emergency support to families of the school, and improve school facilities, including special projects like the flower beds, school sign and the Seth Olson K-2 playground.

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LEAF: Call for Artists

January 10, 2012 by Pollinate Collaborations

LEAF: CALL FOR ARTISTS!

The Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF) is calling all handcraft artists to apply for our 2012 Festivals!

55 exhibitors/festival will be chosen by jury, open to all media.
Booth Fee: $360

 

 

Spring Festival Dates – May 10-13
Fall Festival Dates – Oct 18-21

LEAF is an award-winning non-profit Music and Arts Festival located in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina.
ATTENDANCE: 6,500/day.

APPLICATION DEADLINE for SPRING: January 30th
APPLICATION DEADLINE for FALL: June 15th

Visit them online for our Juried Fair Exhibitor Prospectus and to apply:
http://theleaf.org/index.php/thefestival/arts/handcrafts-a-folk-arts

Email for more info: Margaret@theLEAF.org

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Fertilization 2012: Saying “I do”

December 31, 2011 by Pollinate Collaborations

This year I’ll practice saying “I do.”  I’ve gotten pretty good at saying no, and I’m realizing that some of those “I don’ts” are based on fear when I get down to the bottom of them.  They are based on fear of failure.

In addition to actually saying “I do” in October 2012 to my sweet man (who knows how to push me when I’m saying “I don’t” even when I stubbornly push back), I’ll say “I do” to trusting myself this year.  I’ll say “I do” to opportunities.  I’ll say “I do” to being well.  I’ll say “I do” to myself.  I’ll say “I do” to my family.  I’ll say “I do” to my love.  I’ll say “I do” to love.  I’ll say “I do” to gratitude.

Happy 2012 friends!  Ooo-Shoo-Be-Do-Be!!!  :)

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“Bids for Kids” Benefit Auction: Free to Attend, Awesome Items

December 5, 2011 by Pollinate Collaborations

…and for a good cause.  I know, I know auction schmoction.  We have very generous businesses and individuals here who donate to many auctions for good causes each year. 

Bids for Kids is worth putting on the calendar: 5:30-7:30 on Dec. 14.  It’s free to attend and has a live and silent auction, as well as wine and appetizers.  This is the first annual Bids for Kids and supports five regional child-based nonprofits. 

WHAT: First annual Bids for Kids auction all proceeds going to 5 area child-based non-profits:

Mountain Area Child and Family Center, Helpmate, Caring For Children, Elida Homes, Inc., and Children First

WHEN: Wed. Dec 14 5:30-7:30, free to attend with Wine & Holiday Hors D’oeuvres

WHO and WHERE: Asheville Area Auctioneers is hosting this event at Brunk Auctions Gallery

AUCTION ITEMS: There are some really awesome and unique items from local businesses in the live and silent auction, such as:

Restaurant gift certificates, vacation get aways and events (Lake House Retreat, Britton Family Lodge, private concerts with local musicians), Chop Shop is offering butchering lessons, Town Mountain Garden Party, an afternoon of bee keeping with Laurey Masterton, a live Christmas tree, jewelry, original artwork…I mean honestly, the list is awesome.  I can’t wait to go and I’ve been to a lot of auctions!  And, I really believe in these non-profits!

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Asheville Glass Center Hosts Special Guest (local gift ideas too!)

December 2, 2011 by Pollinate Collaborations

Asheville Glass Center Hosts CNN for a Glassblowing Workshop

CNN Spent Time at Asheville Glass Center

Hot off a llama trekking expedition in Tennessee (they said the llamas were very sweet), CNN’s HLN network crew stopped in to Asheville Glass Center in the Asheville River Arts District to film a segment about glassblowing workshops and hands-on arts workshops in Asheville on Friday, December 2, 2011.

Alex Greenwood, glass artist and teaching artist at Asheville Glassworks, spent about 2 hours guiding HLN network reporter Joe Carter through the process of making a glass.  Logan MacSporran, glass artist and teaching artist at Asheville Glassworks, guided Carter through the process of flame working by making a glass icicle as well.  The segment will air on HLN in mid-January.  Here’s a sneak video peak!

In addition to a gallery retail space with locally made gifts for all budgets, Asheville Glass Center provides hands-on glassblowing workshops for visitors and locals are a specialty at Asheville Glass Studio and start at $50.  They offer gift certificates as well. Sign up for a workshop!

Stop in or call for information: (828) 505-7110 or Roberts Street Studios–140C Roberts Street, Asheville, NC 28801.

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Earth Fare Gives Back to Families in Need this Thanksgiving

November 21, 2011 by Pollinate Collaborations

 

Natural food retailer Earth Fare donated more than 70 free-range turkeys to families in need at Mountain Area Child and Family Center today for the holiday season.  MACFC provides high quality child care and education, serving children ages 0-5 and their families.  MACFC is a blended community, including families with diverse income levels, backgrounds and needs.  They are an Early Head Start provider for Buncombe County, annually serving about 150 families who live at or below the poverty line.

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The Billy Sea at Altamont Theatre

November 17, 2011 by Pollinate Collaborations

This weekend, self-described “global Americana” band The Billy Sea heads into The Altamont Theatre to play a show and record their new album.  The performance is on Friday, November 18th, the second night of recording, and will also be video taped as part of the studio experience.  With an all-star lineup of musicians, the Asheville band has come out of the starting gate strong, with summer performances at Bele Chere and LEAF this fall, this is a group not to miss.

About the Billy Sea: “Founded by slide guitar revolutionary Billy Cardine, the sound is firmly planted in American roots music, but also pulls influence from all corners of the world. Cardine, a classically trained pianist in his youth, eventually fell in love with the sound of the slide guitar and plays Dobro, Chaturangui, Weissenborn and Electric Steel guitars. River Guerguerian commands a wide range of musical styles on his unique blend of percussion instruments, combining elements and experience from all over the world, and resulting in a powerful rhythmic perspective that is both familiar and otherworldly. Bassist Jake Wolf adds his intricate and original mix of musical elements, as a powerful melodic voice and a driving rhythmic force on the 6 string bass.”

Show info:

November 18, 2011

8:00 pm

Altamont Theatre

18 Church Street, Asheville

Tickets

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