Kim Arrington sang publicly at 4 years old. By 7 years old, Kim was writing her own songs. In May 2008, Kim released her debut CD of soul music, “First Love Note of Kim Arrington”, which United Kingdom-based Soul Brother Records described as, “Very good, lyrically- strong, independent soul album featuring real instruments from North Carolina singer-songwriter Kim Arrington, who possesses a really strong, unique voice.“ She has sung for tens of thousands in the United States, Italy, Switzerland, England, France, Austria, and Germany. NPR’s Frank Stasio declares, “Kim Arrington proves her pipes are as soulful as her prose.” In 20l2, Kim will release her debut jazz CD, “Getting II Yes”.

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LabourLove “Great Gift Ideas” Wall: Lots to do and see this third Friday at Golden Belt, come meet the artists at Labourlove and check out the “Great gift ideas” wall in the gallery, all original art on this wall is on Sale for the Holidays!  All Events for Third Friday 6pm-9pm are Free and Open to the Public! 

Events at Golden Belt this Third Friday:

The Artists at Golden Belt will host a “Twelve by Twelve” event at their Golden Belt studios in downtown Durham. The event will be a fundraiser to benefit the Center for Child & Family Health. Tickets for the holiday benefit party on Thursday 12/15 are $25.00 each.

“Twelve by Twelve” is the first holiday fundraising event designed by the Artists at Golden Belt, a collaborative of more 30 artists working in downtown Durham. The show will offer for sale more than 200 unique pieces of fine art, each measuring no more than 12 inches by 12 inches, for $200 each. The fundraiser begins with a VIP reception on the evening of December 15 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, and continues through their regular Third Friday open house on December 16 from 6-9pm.

For More Information about this Event: Artists at Golden Belt

Welcome Liberty Arts!

LabourLove would also like to take this opportunity to welcome our new neighbors Liberty Arts! Liberty Arts is located beside the Scrap Exchange (who will be hosting their annual Holiday Party) in the Cordoba Arts Center Blg. It’s kinda just like old times…just a new location!

LabourLove Holiday Hours: Labourlove will be closed December 27th-January 2nd for Holiday travel to see friends and family, we hope you all have a wonderful holiday and safe travels! We will be open Dec.24th from 11am -3pm for all you last minute shoppers!  See you in the New Year!

LabourLove Gallery and The Art of Cool “After Hours” concert with Marcus Anderson presented by Bull City Mobile.

Tickets Available Now!

Date:  December 16, 2011 

Time:  9:30 pm – Midnight

Location: LabourLove Gallery, 807 E Main St, Building 2, Durham, NC 27701

The Art of Cool Project presents a monthly concert every third Friday featuring a variety of musicians ranging across idioms – from acoustic to electric, bebop to free jazz. On Friday, December 16, 9:30pm at LabourLove Gallery in downtown Durham, NC we will feature renown smooth jazz saxophonist Marcus Anderson.

About Marcus Anderson:
After his breakthrough in contemporary jazz circles as the 2009 winner of the Capital Jazz Fest Challenge, Marcus Anderson is embracing every opportunity to perform and inspire fans – and most importantly, as the title of his third and latest CD attests, fully living in the NOW. The multi-talented composer, saxophonist, flutist’s, and choreographer has had a powerful ongoing development of his career and his move toward the top tier of contemporary jazz has been unmatched. With the release of NOW, his third solo CD, and fourth release “Tender Loving Christmas”, Anderson’s goal is to capture the energy from his live shows and make this collection of music his most dynamic, joyful and creative recordings yet.

At Bull City Mobile we develop mobile applications that can: get you connected to you customers; offer you an opportunity to improve your business and online presence; and reach out to a larger market than you could ever reach with traditional advertising. We create mobile based solutions on multiple platforms that will meet your needs and exceed your goals. We bring big ideas to small buttons.

The Art of Cool Chair Campaign:
In the spirit of Christmas, gift giving, and supporting local charities, The Art of Cool Project (our jazz advocacy group) will be holding a Holiday “Chair” Campaign during the party. Every month the AOCP promotes local talent and one of the monthly costs incurred is chair rental. We’ve held a series of sold out concerts and have realized that these monthly concerts will continue to happen and grow. We’d like to buy chairs in lieu of renting them thus eliminating the rental costs each month. The AOCP’s chair campaign is much like sponsoring a brick. A sponsorship of $40 gets your name put on the back of a concert chair as well as premium/preferred seating to any show in the future with RSVP. If you are a small business and would like to sponsor a chair, you may put the name of your buisness along with your website on the back of the chair. Our goal is to get 20 chairs sponsored in order to buy 80 chairs.

Please feel free to sponsor a chair by going toTheArtofCoolProject.com!

In honor of  Mr. Guy Wilkins:

We would like to take a moment to honor a labourlove collective artist, that has been a part of our lives for the past two and half years and part of our memory forever, Mr. Guy Wilkins. Guy passed away early November.

John and I had the pleasure of meeting Guy Wilkins early  in our art gallery adventure. From the moment I met Guy I liked him, we bonded immediately and I knew that I needed to show his work in the gallery.  ”Perpetual eMotion” debuted Oct.15th, 2010 at LabourLove Gallery to a room full of  65+ paintings. Guy was old school, he was what we talked about in art school and aspired to be, he painted and painted and then painted some more, everyday no matter what the day was like.  He understood what it was to be a working artist, he lived it and most importantly he shared it. Guy always supported us and told us to keep going even when we weren’t so sure, he was our fun loving 84 year young cheerleader and we are thankful, very thankful to have worked with him.

Ira Guy Wilkins Jr.

Jan 7, 1927 – Nov 5, 2011

Guy Wilkins was born at Seaview on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and raised in Norfolk. He graduated from Maury High School in 1944, served in the Coast Guard for two years and attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville for three years. He married Margaret Wakefield Ruffin of Norfolk in 1947. Guy worked as a reporter and photographer for several newspapers in the South, for the Norfolk Port Authority, and then as Publicity Director at the Norfolk Museum, now the Chrysler Museum. Guy studied art during the 1960’s with Lindsay Ocheltree of Norfolk, and painting became his life’s work. He moved to the coastal fishing village of Wachapreague on the Eastern Shore in 1971 and lived there 40 years. Guy was devoted to his mother, Margaret Nottingham Wilkins, and cared for her at Wachapreague, along with his little dog Sally. Guy spent much time with daughter Sarah in Chapel Hill, NC and daughter Elizabeth in Yorktown, VA. Daughter Kate and son John, both of Melbourne, Australia, often visited.

Guy’s bold, vibrantly colored expressionist paintings achieved recognition throughout his career, with countless exhibitions in North Carolina and Virginia–and in New York City from 2004-2008. His works are found in private collections, galleries, and on the internet. In his art Guy was a storyteller and an explorer of imaginative realms. Those who knew him will miss his quick wit, his joie de vivre, and his special gift for connecting with people.

Guy succumbed to complications of CML Leukemia at Riverside Medical Center, Newport News, VA on Saturday, Nov 5. Family: daughters Sarah Gay Wilkins, Elizabeth Wakefield Wilkins, Katherine Taylor Wilkins, and son John Guy Wilkins; sons-in-law Marston Youngblood, Jacques van Montfrans, Brad Bowen; daughter-in-law Suzanne Wilkins; grandchildren Schuyler Guy van Montfrans, Clare van Montfrans, Mati John Wilkins, Max Bowen-Wilkins, Katherine Ellen Wilkins, Nicholas John Wilkins; great-grandsons Levi Wilkins and Coen Guy van Montfrans.

We are teaming up with Al and Cicely of Al Strong Music and The Art of Cool Project for an evening of holiday fun! We are throwing a holiday party/live jazz jam session at LabourLove Gallery. This event is FREE TO THE PUBLIC! We will provide the music and the space to cut loose. BYOB and favorite festive goodies. It’s a Potluck, y’all. We are celebrating the Christmas Holiday as well as Al’s birthday.

Information about the Chair Campaign:
In the spirit of Christmas, gift giving, and supporting local charities, The Art of Cool Project (our jazz advocacy group) will be holding a Holiday “Chair” Campaign during the party. Every month the AOCP promotes local talent and one of the monthly costs incurred is chair rental. We’ve held a series of sold out concerts and have realized that these monthly concerts will continue to happen and grow. We’d like to buy chairs in lieu of renting them thus eliminating the rental costs each month. The AOCP’s chair campaign is much like sponsoring a brick. A sponsorship of $40 gets your name put on the back of a concert chair as well as premium/preferred seating to any show in the future with RSVP. Our goal is to get 20 chairs sponsored in order to buy 80 chairs.

Please feel free to sponsor a chair by going toTheArtofCoolProject.com!

Upcoming Events:

Third Friday,”After Hours” concert with Marcus Anderson:  December 16th, 9pm-12am

$10 advance tix available online at http://labourlove.com/shop/marcus-anderson. Advance tix include a seat.
$15 at door
All tix include comp wine and light refreshments.
Join us for a Tender Loving Christmas Concert with this month’s musical guest, smooth sax player, Marcus Anderson.
Concert Host: Dasan Ahanu (or invited poet)
Live painting for silent auction by Artie Barksdale.

About Marcus Anderson:
After his breakthrough in contemporary jazz circles as the 2009 winner of the Capital Jazz Fest Challenge, Marcus Anderson is embracing every opportunity to perform and inspire fans – and most importantly, as the title of his third and latest CD attests, fully living in the NOW. The multi-talented composer, saxophonist, flutist’s, and choreographer has had a powerful ongoing development of his career and his move toward the top tier of contemporary jazz has been unmatched. With the release of NOW, his third solo CD, and fourth release “Tender Loving Christmas”, Anderson’s goal is to capture the energy from his live shows and make this collection of music his most dynamic, joyful and creative recordings yet.

Visit www.marcusanderson.net
Like The Marcus Anderson Fans & Friends Page on Facebook
Follow on Twitter @mandersonsax

The Art of Cool Project
Visit www.theartofcoolproject.com
Like The Art of Cool Project on Facebook
Follow on Twitter @theaocproject

LabourLove After Hours in December is Sponsored by:

At Bull City Mobile we develop mobile applications that can: get you connected to you customers; offer you an opportunity to improve your business and online presence; and reach out to a larger market than you could ever reach with traditional advertising. We create mobile based solutions on multiple platforms that will meet your needs and exceed your goals. We bring big ideas to small buttons.

Kristy Lynn:  www.kristylynn.net ; www.labourlove.com/artists

Lou Lipsitz: www.labourlove.com/artists

Joanna Gopen: www.labourlove.com/artists

LabourLove After Hours with Carlitta Durand from 9-12! For more information and tickets click here!

Durham Art Walk featuring live painting by Artie Barksdale and music by trumpetier Kadir Muhammad! 

The Holidays are quickly approaching and this year more than any other we encourage you to shop local! Durham Art Walk is a great oppurtunity to buy something for someone that represents all things local and handmade!  LabourLove has 30+ artists representing differnt styles, mediums and price ranges to accomodate your shopping needs. As a special feature for art walk we will have a “great gift ideas” wall in the gallery that will feature work that is $75 and under.

Performances will be held in the main parking lot, Saturday 3-4 and Sunday 4-5.

Durham Symphony traveling Violin’s

LabourLove will have on display three violin’s for the month of November to help awareness and funds for the Durham Symphony. Three outstanding local artists have donated their talents to create one of a kind of masterpieces. The violin’s will travel to the Durham Art Council for Art Walk Weekend. You will be able to purchase $5 raffle tickets at Labourlove.

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Carlitta Durand Concert Details

1)  Getting Into the Show - All you have to do is give your name to the person at the door.  We’ll mark you off on the list and let you in.  Simple right?

2)  Refreshments - We will have some light refreshments, water, and a few bottles of complementary wine for everyone to share.  You may bring any other beverages or food you wish for your personal consumption, or to share with the party.  We have a corkscrew and plastic cups for everyone.

3)  DIRECTIONS - LabourLove Gallery is located in Building 2 (the main building) at Golden Belt on 807 East Main St., Durham, NC 27701.  CLICK HERE for directions from Google Maps.

4)  Parking at Golden Belt - Below is a map of the Golden Belt Campus with available parking options.  LabourLove is located in Building 2 right next to the Lobby.  You may park in the Visitor, Main, or Overflow lots, or on Morning Glory Avenue.

We are so excited that you’ve chosen to spend your Third Friday with us at LabourLove.  We hope you have a wonderful night.

Best Regards,
The Art of Cool and LabourLove Gallery Team

Shana Tucker hosted by The Art of Cool Project, 9 pm – Midnight

GET TICKETS NOW! - Over half of the tickets are already gone.

Postcard designed by LabourLove Collective artist FRANCO.

Date:  October 21, 2011 

Time:  9 pm – Midnight

Location: LabourLove Gallery, 807 E Main St, Building 2, Durham, NC 27701

Transcending genre distinctions, SHANA TUCKER is a “ChamberSoul” cellist and singer/songwriter from New York who’s set on blazing a trail for herself down in North Carolina. Her music is a sultry pastiche of acoustic pop and soulful, jazz-influenced contemporary folk. “It’s different, yet comfortably familiar…I love 80′s music and I’m a sucker for jazz. Many of the grooves have a bossa-nova/latin heartbeat, translated through percussive vocal phrasing. I can’t deny the classical training; it inspires my cello sensibilities…but I like the thump of walking blues & old-timey bass lines. It’s like a delicious coffee blend: bold and robust, with subtle undertones of bittersweet…and something you can’t quite place, but it’s still good!” she says with a smile.

Shana’s debut solo project, slated for an early 2011 release, outlines a musical journey that indeed celebrates the major influences of everyday life: relationship, laughter, love…loss, rediscovery, and the never-ending journey towards heightened levels of peace, understanding and self-acceptance and satisfaction. “The most important thing I want to take away from this process is a musical truth,” she explains. “If I effectively do my job as Artist, (genre) cohesion will come from the ties that bind these experiences.”

Shana’s music indeed speaks for itself through well-crafted lyrics, subtle, lingering melodies, and compositions that boast a unique, satisfying blend of humor and gravity. Tell somebody about it…this girl’s music is something worth sharing, worth keeping, worth hearing more of.

LabourLove Collective Welcomes New Artists, 6 pm – 9 pm

Claudia Corletto

I was raised in Houston, Texas. I began writing in elementary school. After taking a screenwriting class in 2003, I realized my talent as a storyteller. While searching for an affordable (free) artist to do the cover art for my first book, frustration led me to be creative and design the cover myself. Since then my life has been one beautiful challenge after another and art has been my therapy.

Nan Nixon

As Monty Python famously put it, “And now for something completely different” probably best describes my decision to try painting after a long career representing universities in Washington, DC. Once discovered, the challenge, the surprise and the satisfaction of painting has kept me returning to the easel. Simply put, I paint because I love it.

Using acrylics, I work in a realistic style. Although I naturally tend to focus on detail, I have found that I prefer to paint in broader strokes both with the brush and the palette knife. I often paint seascapes and landscapes that reflect the extraordinary colors found in nature, which painting and its study have enhanced my ability to see. Cloud shapes, the movement of water and the subtle colors of snow continue to intrigue me and increasingly I am drawn to painting scenes with a misty/mysterious feeling that I feel take them beyond the actual images represented.

Since 2006, I have taken courses in drawing, Chinese brush painting, botanical watercolor and, more recently, acrylic painting.

Wyn Easton

I fell in love with painting around the end of my thirty-three year career with IBM. I now live the artist’s life.

Painting outside, en plein air, is where I draw my greatest inspiration. Plein air painting is one of the toughest ways to paint. Nature throws a lot of obstical and information my way. I don’t always come some with a keeper, but when I do, it makes me feel very satisfied.

I hope you enjoy my painterly style of painting.

Ellie Edwards-Smith

Paintings that embody emotional nuances and the human experience

Durham artist, Ellie Edwards-Smith, enjoyed a career in financial management in NY and NC. Currently, she continues to take classes and make art full time. She works in oils, acrylics, and watercolor which gives freedom to choose the best medium to convey the subject. Her style is representational with impressionistic overtones. She strives to engage the viewer and promote discussion. Ellie has won awards including a Vermont Studio Center residency/grant, and juried exhibits with the Durham Art Guild and the Fine Arts League of Cary. She has had several North Carolina solo and group exhibits including the Cape Fear Studios and Rocky Mount National Juried Exhibits, Cary Gallery of Artists, Duke University Medical Center, Durham Art Guild, Durham County Attorney’s office, Durham Mayor’s office, ERUUF Gallery, Raleigh Fine Arts Society, UNC Women’s Hospital, and Galleries in Westchester County, New York.

The Peru Project, 6 pm – 9 pm

The Peru Project aims to promote literacy, education, and the arts for the children and their families of rural Huaripampa, in the Andes Mountains of Peru. By building this community center, we hope to inspire others to dream,whether it be those in Huaripampa or those closer to home.

A silent art auction at Labourlove Gallery during the Durham Third Friday Art Walk will be held to raise funds for this worthy casue! Please come out and bid on great works to help us ‘raise the roof!’ There will be art from many generous Triangle artists, including many from Labourlove Gallery and both co-founders, Renata and Kyla McConnell. You can preview the works on The Peru Project’s Facebook Page!
This a free event for all ages!

Stephen Anderson Trio – Live at the Groove Street Jazz Festival
Here’s a little about Stephen.

STEPHEN ANDERSON, composer and pianist, has had works performed by the West Point Military Academy Band, West Point Jazz Knights, Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Montclair State Wind Symphony, Crested Butte Chamber Orchestra, UNC Symphony Orchestra, the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, the One O’ Clock Lab Band, Two O’clock Lab band, North Carolina Central University Percussion Ensemble, UNC-Charlotte Percussion Ensemble, UNC Wind Ensemble, Duo XXI, and a film score broadcast nationally on PBS.

Anderson has received two awards from the Barlow Endowment—most recently a commission to compose a piano concerto for Steven Harlos (pianist, Dallas Symphony) to be premiered by the UNC Symphony Orchestra (April 2010), and previously a commission for the West Point Military Academy Band (2005).  Other awards or recognitions include:  finalist in the West Point Jazz Knights Composers Forum competition (2011), Honorable Mention from the International Society of Basses composition contest (2002), Junior Faculty Development Award-UNC Committee on Faculty Research (2008), the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, the UNC Research Council, the “Village Pride, Hometown Hero Award” from 1360 WCHL Chapel Hill Radio (2008),Endeavors magazine feature (2008), and reviews in All about Jazz, Jazz Times, and the All Music Guide (2008), and the PAS Percussive Notes (February 2009).

As a pianist, Anderson is a recording artist for Summit Records, and the Stephen Anderson Trio has just released its second recording for Summit, “Nation Degeneration.”  The trio’s previous CD, Forget Not (2008) received 4½ stars (out of 5) from the All Music Guide, was nominated best jazz “Debut CD” (3^rd Annual Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll 2008), and has been widely performed on radio nationally and internationally.  Previously, Anderson was pianist with the Lynn Seaton Trio, appearing on two recordings for Nagel Heyer Records, Puttin’ On the Ritz (2005) and Ballads 2006.  Anderson performed with the North Texas One O’clock Lab Band (Lab 2001) and Two O’clock Lab Band (Translucent Two), was winner of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival piano competition (1997), and was the keyboardist for gold-recording (country) artist, Kevin Sharp (1996-1997).

Anderson holds a D.M.A from the University of North Texas (2005), served as Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano at Western Illinois University (2003-2005), and is currently Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Jazz Studies and Composition.  He studied composition with Cindy McTee, Joseph Klein, Tom Clark, Joseph Butch Rovan, Phil Winsor, and Paris Rutherford at UNT, and Stephen Jones, David Sargent, Michael Hicks, and Murray Boren at BYU.  He studied jazz piano with Dan Haerle and Stephan Karlson at UNT, Dan Waldis at BYU, Gary Freeman at Eastfield College, and Wilson Brown at Ricks College.

6 pm – 9 pm – LabourLove welcomes new artists Andrew Marder, Paula Siwek, and Scott Wilson; Here’s To Brewing Beer Sampling at LabourLove; New Show in Room 100; New Show at The Scrap Exchange

9 pm – Midnight – LabourLove After Hours with the Al Strong Quartet +1, Tickets $10

Al Strong Quartet +1

Don’t wait! Get your TICKETS today! Seating is very limited.

The Al Strong Quartet +1 will take over LabourLove Gallery for a three hour set of fine southern jazz. Gallery director, Kelly Dew, will create a live painting inspired by the evening to be auctioned during intermission.  Free wine and beer by Here’s To Brewing while it lasts. Light refreshments will be available, if you would like to bring your own bottle of wine or light snacks, please do so.

Al Strong is a Washington, D.C. native trumpeter, arranger, and composer. Since he first emerged on the scene in 1998 as a jazz studies major at NCCU, Strong has been an up and coming artist in jazz. He is an integral figure in the current local jazz scene having performed/recorded for local artists such as Mavis Swan Poole, Yahzarah, Peter Lamb and the Wolves (Voted 2011 Best Jazz Band in the Triangle), Clay Aiken, Big Daddy Kane, Orquesta Gardel, The Beast, and Zakiyah.

Strong got his first exposure to jazz while attending the esteemed Duke Ellington School for The Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. There he not only received mentoring by some of the best-known names in jazz such as Wynton Marsalis, Nicholas Payton, and Terrance Blanchard; but, he also gained performance experience at the world’s biggest Jazz Festivals such as North Sea and The Montreaux Jazz Festival.

Strong is an alumnus and current adjunct professor at the widely acclaimed North Carolina Central University (NCCU) Jazz Studies program. He considers his academic experience at NCCU under the direction of Dr. Ira Wiggins to be one of the most positive forces on his career today. Strong also has attained a Masters in Jazz Performance from Northern Illinois.

Strong has spent time on local jazz scenes in Chicago, D.C., and abroad; however, he still considers Durham to be one of the most culturally vibrant cities in the country, and as so made it his home. Strong’s vision is to stay true to whatever style or genre of music he is asked to present, while still honoring the integrity, and spirit of the elders/ancestors who sacrificed so much to see that good music would always have an audience.

Free Beer! Here’s To Brewing Returns to LabourLove

Jason Salemme returns after a prolonged break to share his amazing home brew with our guests for Third Friday.

The following brews will be available:

Labour of Summer’s Love Hefeweizen (6.5% ABV; 21 IBUs)

This Hefeweizen is brewed with pineapple and creates a nice tropical twist to the German ale.  Named in honor of LaborLove Gallery this is a perfect thirst quencher during the hot days and nights of summer..

ESB (5.0% ABV; 32 IBUs) 

This Extra Special Bitter showcases the mild sweetness of the hops with the bitterness of mild hops that provide some spice and citrus flavors to the beer. Exceptionally refreshing and another great session beer in the lineup.

Experimental (5.75% ABV; 14 IBUs) 

This ale is a hybrid of styles to highlight various wheat and malt flavor profiles.  It is brewed with just enough mild hops to balance the malt sweetness.  Come try it out and let me know what you think!

Welcome New Artists

LabourLove is continuing to grow and we have added more artists to the collective. But we have room for more! We don’t take the saying”build it and they will come” lightly, we are planning on building out more walls/shelves/clothing racks so that we can grow the collective.  If you are interested or might know someone that is, you can find all the information here: Join the Collective.

Meanwhile, come check out the new work and our new artists this Third Friday, August 19th from 6pm-9pm!  Here is a sneak peek from Andrew Marder, Paula Siwek, and Scott Wilson:

Andrew Marder

Paula Siwek

Scott Wilson

“Spot the Dot” and meet our artists

"Spot the Dot"

We have fine tuned the meet and greet concept to “Spot the Dot.”  If you see an artist’s work that intrigues you, and you would like to ask them questions about their process or get an idea of what they were thinking, simply look for a colored shape on the wall and then find the matching shape on the artist!

Our Artists in the News

We like to share when our artists make into the news, so starting next month we will be sending a monthly update to let you know what else our artists are up to. So, if you have a favorite, this is your chance to follow them, but for now we will just give you an idea of how this works with a couple of exciting news articles:

• Nancy Tuttle May had a wonderful article written by Blue Greenberg in the Herald Sun about her 35 year career.
• Beth Palmer will be featured in the august Member Spotlight issue of The Society for the Arts in Healthcare.

Other Exciting Events in the Golden Belt Neighborhood this Third Friday, August 19th from 6 pm – 9 pm

Show opening at Golden Belt/ Room 100 & Studios

Room 100 will feature a new show by artist Lee Delegard.  Be sure to check out all the artists in the studios as well!

New Show at the Scrap Exchange

Jason Osborne and Friends

August 19 – September 10

Opening Reception: Friday, August 19 from 6 to 9 pm

We hear that the Scrap Exchange will also have music for third friday!  Whew Hew, so come and enjoy the music, art and all the things that make Golden Belt the happening spot for third friday! It’s Free and open to all ages!

Tattoo for Japan Benefit Party/ Dogstar Tattoo

This Friday, Dogstar will be wrapping up their fund raising project to aid earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan. We’re ready to make our donation! Since April Dogstar has been offering a small kanji for only $20, all of which is being donated to the fund. Friday night will be the last evening to make your contribution.  Join us for an event filled evening including a traditional Japanese tea presentation at LabourLove Gallery, a Taiko performance (Japanese drums), and a Kendo demonstration provided by Triangle Kendo and Iaido. Throughout the evening you can still participate in the kanji project, partake in local food trucks, visit artist studios and sip on free beer and wine.

Traditional Tea Presentation in LabourLove

Please join us in the Labour of Love Gallery for a special presentation of the Japanese Tea Tradition, led by Nancy Hamilton of the Duke Gardens Tea Practice.  The Japanese Tea Tradition draws on the arts of ceramics, poetry, seaonal nuance, and hospitality to create a moment of aesthetic retreat that celebrates the present moment. Nancy Hamilton, Cultural Programming Coordinator at Duke Gardens, leads the Japanese Tea practice at the Duke Gardens teahouse, where a monthly program of tea gatherings is offered. Upcoming dates for the fall are as follows: 9/17, 10/14, 11/4. For more information, contact Nancy Hamilton.

Welcome! and Meet & Greet your favorite artist at LabourLove!

Labourlove is excited to welcome artist, Marianela Manana to the collective! Get a sneek peek of Marianela’s work and all the other artists at LabourLove through our Artists page. Third Friday’s are a great time to meet some of the artists but sometimes it is tricky identifiing the artist you are looking for, so we have come up with a plan to let you know if a particular artists is in the gallery on evening of third friday.  So come out and meet and greet your favorite artist this third friday and help welcome Marianela to the collective!

Artists at Golden Belt

Be sure to check out what is going on with the artists in Blg. 3 this third friday, including a group show with Beth Palmer at Eleatta Diver’s studio called, A Group Show: The Debut of the “Durham heARTists.” Also, we had the pleasure of enjoying a solo show by artist, Kelly Cross this past monday night at Crooks Corner in Chapel Hill entitled, The Lazarus Show.  The show will be up through July 31st during regular dinner hours and Sunday brunch.  This show will not disappoint, so go have a nice dinner and enjoy the show!

Painting by Kelly Cross

Room 100 and Bikram Yoga:

Tracy Spencer-Stonestreet’s show Reductions opens in Room 100, and Bikram Yoga Durham hosts their 4pm Good Karma donation class to benefit American Dance Festival’s student scholarship fund.

The Scrap Exchange Show

Put a Bird on It

July 15 – August 13

Opening Reception: Friday, July 15 from 6-9 pm

This exhibit will feature bird-inspired art from several local artists, including Karen Dillard, of Dillardville Birdhouses, and Simone Barbe, of Silver Palate Feeders.

The Scrap Exchange after ten years in the Liberty Warehouse has relocated to 923 Franklin Street, Durham, NC 27701which is the very large building behind Golden Belt, at the east end of downtown.  We are excited to have these fine folks sharing a parking lot with us and also being part of the third friday festivities! You can catch up with the details on their blog thescrapexchange.blogspot.com.

All of the events are Free and open to all ages! So come out and show some love for third friday!