Rapid River Magazine May 2008
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RAPID RIVER ARTS ART TALK A Birthday Celebration for Asheville he First Birthday Celebration for 15. Anyone visiting the Gallery from May Jonas Gerard Fine Art will kick 19 through June 15 can enter to win a off with a gathering of Asheville’s painting to be gifted to a lucky entrant on notables on May 19 at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, June 15 at 4 p.m. T As a token of appreciation for As a birthday gift to the community, a wonderful first year in Asheville’s River Jonas will be painting live in his studio on Arts District, Jonas Gerard will present Saturday, June 14 and Sunday, June 15 at two paintings to the City. Mayor Terry 2 p.m. All events are free and open to the Bellamy will accept a Gerard original for public with plenty of birthday cake, drinks the Mayor’s Office and Asheville Cham- and music. ber of Commerce President and CEO, Rick Lutovsky, will attend to accept the If you go large abstract painting that now hangs in the lobby of Asheville’s new Chamber Jonas Gerard Fine Art Gallery, 240 Cling- Office. man Ave., in Asheville. The Gallery continues its birth- Call (828) 350-7711, email jonas@jona- day celebration through the River Arts sgerard.com, or get full details at www. District Studio Stroll on June 13, 14 and jonasgerard.com. Singer/Songwriter Vanessa Boyd Hosts Art Show BY JAMES CASSARA hile her first love will always be art appropriation, exploring gender politics music singer/songwriter and per- through artistic expression. former Vanessa Boyd has never “In a milieu where women and the been one to limit her creative feminine are secondary to a dominant W outbursts to any one art form. male culture much of what I am express- Boyd will be showing her latest ing is in reaction to that domination, rep- works, a series of line drawings and mixed resenting my struggle against it.” Boyd’s media efforts collectively entitled Scream. approach is one of what she called “de- The series focuses on “an exploration of eliting” of art, finding a space where in all sexuality, sensuality and growth, meant to people can be creators and do what we do take the onlooker through several levels of naturally.” For further glimpses of Boyd’s examination of the way in which individu- efforts visit her on line gallery at www. als internalize the messages from outside vanessaboyd.com/Art_Portfolios.html influences, and the ways in which every- one lives with the weight of those digested If you go ideas.” The self trained artist’s visual efforts Scream: Recent works by Vanessa Boyd. have been described as “primitive yet May 2 opening from 5-8 pm, Courtyard sophisticated.” Boyd remains intensely in- Gallery, 9 Walnut Street, in Asheville. terested in the issues of reactionary art and (828) 273-3332, ashevillecourtyard.com ‘A Great Life’ Works by Stuart Bryan in the Front Window Gallery at Woolworth Walk Woolworth Walk has chosen the painter Stuart Bryan to be the featured artist for the month of May. Stuart, who is a self taught artist will be displaying paintings depicting surrealism, embel- lished landscapes, and even some cartoonish figures. Stuart Bryan seems to have been born with a paintbrush in his hand, and through the years he has become his very own ‘worst critic’. This has pushed him to continue to perfect his techniques, Advertise with Rapid River Magazine at times painting the same image over and over again to see it in a different way. Woolworth Walk will be holding an opening reception on May 11 from 2-4 p.m. (828) 646-0071 The show will be on display from May 9 to June 10. Woolworth Walk, 25 Hay- Free web links • Free ad design • Easy monthly billing wood St., (828) 254-9234, www.woolworthwalk.com May 2008 — RAPID RIVER ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — Vol. 11, No. 9 WE’VE GOT YOUR Love Song! It Might as Well Be Spring, Autumn Leaves, Stormy Weather, Too Darn Hot, Time After Time, Defying Gravity from Wicked, e Beatles ~ If I Fell & medley from Rent —1996 Tony Award winner for the Best Musical gps!!uif!hbsefo ! e Asheville Choral Society tqpotpsfe!cz;! Lenora om, Music Director Uif!Dmjggt!bu!Xbmovu!Dpwf! Uif!Hspwf!Qbsl!Joo!Sftpsu!'!Tqb! Uif!Xjof!Hvz Powerful voices. Remarkable music. pvuepps!fyijcjujpo Kvof!8.9-!3119 Btifwjmmf-!OD!}!939/364/8762 xxx/hspwfxppe/dpn SEASONS OF LOVE Love, Time and the Seasons Terrifi c show band ~ Great choral arrangements Phenomenal soloists AND a bit of dancing Saturday, May 17 at 8 pm Sunday, May 18 at 4 pm Diana Wortham eatre, One Pack Place, Downtown Asheville Order your tickets now! $20/adults, $15/students Special Group Rates (828) 299-9063 www.ashevillechoralsociety.org ~ is group is good — better than good. You’ll never forget one of their concerts. Attending one is like witnessing Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel. ~ Rapid River Arts and Culture Magazine Message from the Publisher Rapid River ® Dear Readers, ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE Probably the most difficult and certainly most fun aspect of my job is designing the cover each Volume Eleven, Number Nine month. I usually plan a cover a month or two in advance Established in 1997 and over a period of a couple weeks sketch it out on paper with pencil. I jot down a bunch of notes and Distributed at over 390 locations when I feel I have a pretty good grasp of my subject throughout eight counties in WNC and South Carolina matter I head to the computer to begin my creation. This month I knew LEAF was going to be the feature cover story but I couldn’t figure out a way to express it with a single image. One night I awoke at Publisher/Editor: Dennis Ray MAY 2008 two in the morning because the dog barked or be- Managing Editor: Beth Gossett www.rapidrivermagazine.com cause a car horn honked or whatever. I don’t remem- Art Director: Dennis Ray ber and it really doesn’t matter. The point is, I was Print Production: Simone Bouyer awake and I couldn’t fall back to sleep. Marketing: Dennis Ray I started to think about LEAF, about how people Staff Photographer: Dennis Ray Inside from all over the country come here. I started imagin- ing a long line of cars bouncing on a dirt road, carry- Accounting: Sharon Cole ing old suitcases packed high on their roofs and music Distribution: Dennis Ray 5 Cover Dennis Ray blaring. Everyone is having the best time. In my mind The LEAF Festival May 9-11 and son Harrison I could see a VW bus pulling up the rear with a dog CONTRIBUTING WRITers Graham Ray. riding on the piled high suitcases while his owner Kim Adams, George Alexsovich, 6 Art shakes a guitar out the window. Why is she holding H. Byron Ballard, Sierra Bicking, a guitar out the window? I don’t know, except that’s what makes it a great story, Cornbread: American Folk Art . 6 Maud Boleman, Gari Carter, something to care about, to remember. Fiber Weekend May 10-11. 7 It made me think of a Norman Rockwell painting showing a family happily James Cassara, Roxane Clement, L.I.N.T at Black Mountain . 7 heading in a new station wagon for what appears to be a fun family vacation. They Jake Coleman, Adrienne Crowther, Jim Southerland . 9 all are excited. Dad is smoking his pipe, grinning at his wife as she reads a road Amy Downs, John Ellis, Genie Maples . 13 map, the kids are laughing and playing in the back seat, and the dog has his head Beth Gossett, Ruth Gray, Art After Dark . 1 out the rear window. Phil Hawkins, Nancy Hayes, That’s when it came to me. Why not do a Norman Rockwell type of cover, Lindsay Hearn, Pam J. Hecht, 14 Columns except use Photoshop because I can’t paint, and show a couple of people and Sarah Jennings, RoseLynn Katz, Peter Loewer . 15 their dog heading to LEAF? I figured I could throw in a signpost that mentions Chip Kaufmann, Michelle Keenan, James Cassara . 16 the LEAF festival is held twice a year, so if you don’t make it to the festival on Erin Krauss, Cynthia Lee, Roxanne Clement . 7 Mother’s Day weekend, plan to attend this fall. Valerie Leeper, Peter Loewer, That, my friends, is the story of this month’s cover. Mackensy Lunsford . 30 Mackensy Lunsford, Sandra Miller, Have a great month — we’ll see you in June. April Nance, Margaret Osondu, Music Michael Parker, Jonathan Rich, 17 Dennis Ray, Publisher Rapid River Magazine Konstantin Soukhovetski . 17 Terence Stomp, Ashley Van Matre, Asheville Choral Society . 18 Rita Vermillion, Kay Waldrop, Boosinger & Goforth . 18 Bill Walz, Simcha Weinstein, Elly Wells, Caitlin Wood, Joe Zinich 19 Books Peter Loewer H. Byron Ballard . 19 Printmaker Graphos=Studio INFO Rapid River Art Magazine is a free monthly publication. 23 Movie Reviews Address correspondence to: [email protected] Wine or write to: 28 Rapid River Art Magazine, 85 N. Main St.., 29 Beer Canton, NC 28716. 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