ABSOLUTELY FREE Vol. 24, No. 3 March 2020 You Can’t Buy It The NC Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, will present Front Burner: Highlights in Contemporary North Carolina Painting, curated by Ashlynn Browning, on view in the Museum’s East Building, Level B, Joyce W. Pope Gallery, from March 7 through July 26, 2020. Work shown by Lien Truong © 2017 is I, “Buffalo”, and is acrylic, silk, fabric paint, antique gold-leaf obi thread, black salt and smoke on linen, 96 x 72 inches. I “Buffalo” was purchased by the North Carolina Museum of Art with funds from the William R. Roberson Jr. and Frances M. Roberson Endowed Fund for North Carolina Art. Photography is by Peter Paul Geoffrion. See article on Page 34. ARTICLE INDEX Advertising Directory This index has active links, just click on the Page number and it will take you to that page. Listed in order in which they appear in the paper. 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Page 64 - NC Commercial Galleries - Seagrove Area - Siler City The deadline for the April 2020 issue is 58 Broad Street Charleston, SC 29401 | 843.722.3660 843.819.6111 Mobile Page 65 - NC Commercial Galleries - Siler City - Wilmington March 24, 2020. Page 66 - NC Commercial Galleries - Wilmington - Winston-Salem Area To advertise call 843/693-1306 or e-mail at ([email protected]). www.ellarichardson.com Page 2 - Carolina Arts, March 2020 Table of Contents Table of Contents Carolina Arts, March 2020 - Page 3 Editorial by Tom Starland, Editor and Publisher Don’t forget about our website: Ella Walton Richardson| Fine Art carolinaarts.com in Charleston, SC, Features COMMENTARY Works by Donald Weber Coming From A Small Town in SC Ella Walton Richardson| Fine Art in Charleston, SC, will present Donald We- I have noticed over the years that in SC, ber: Italian Sojourn, on view from Mar. sometimes it pays to come from a small 6 - 31, 2020. A reception will be held on town or stay in a small town. Artists living Mar. 6, from 5-8pm. A painting demon- in small towns can be a big fish in a small stration will be offered on Mar. 7, from pond. Small towns usually have an old bank 2-5pm. or school building that can be converted Donald Weber recently rediscovered into an arts center. And, sometimes being “a collection of photographs from a trip to associated with a small town can get you a historical highway marker telling people Italy, about 20 years ago,” he said, and he driving by that a famous artist once lived was inspired to ‘revisit’ them as paint- in this town. Such is the case for Dr. Leo ing subjects.