New works
by Nikki Wisniowski and Wendy Kowalski
now at Caffe Phoenix.

Please join us for an opening reception on Wednesday, July 15, at 7pm.  Caffe Phoenix is located at 9 S. Front St. in downtown Wilmington.

FREEZEPOP COMES TO WILMINGTON

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FREEZEPOP, of Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and DDR fame,

will be in concert
Saturday, May 9

during Wilmington’s first

The New Deal Fashion Show & Handmade Market

** Only $10 to get in for ALL AGES **

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* Freezepop will be signing autographs after the show! *

http://www.justafewfriends.org/

2009 Art Makes a Difference: The Seventh Annual MOMart Show May 1, 2, and 3 at Durham’s Golden Belt to benefit Genesis Home

Art Makes a Difference: The Seventh Annual MOMart Show, hosted by Just a Few Friends, a Durham, North Carolina, community nonprofit organization, will be held May 1, 2, and 3, 2009. Just a Few Friends exists to raise money for local charitable organizations through the support of local and regional artists.

This year’s chosen charity is Genesis Home. One hundred percent of the net proceeds will go to this organization.

The three-day event begins with a Friday evening preview party, 7 to 10 p.m. The cost is $25 at the door ($15 for students; 12 and under, free).

Saturday’s all-day open house runs from 9 am to 4 pm and features art and crafts such as container gardens, birdhouses, plants, and garden art in addition to jewelry, paintings, photography, sculpture, stained glass, textiles, and pottery.

We’ve added one more day to the event this year, so if you can’t make it Friday or Saturday, come on out on Sunday, from 12-4 pm and support this great cause and more than 100 local and regional artists! The sale will be held at Golden Belt (Building 2, Floor 3), a historic 155,000 square foot urban arts campus in the heart of downtown Durham, NC

Click on the website for directions.

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Casper Jasper, Ruby, Suzy the Sunbeam

on the cover of

Coloring Stories for Conscious Children

http://stores.lulu.com/consciousstories

Just 15 bucks…..

Here is a fantastic little coloring book

that is just right for ages 3 – 103.

Environmentally and Socially Conscious stories penned by Joel Finsel. Joel is a swell guy. Very sweet and talented.  He has a cool book on cocktails out too.

Stories include:

Suzy the Sunbeam, Wendy Kowalski illustrator

Casper Jasper, Michael Webster, illustrator

Ruby’s Slippers, Michal Wisiowski, illustrator

Buy it because it took two pollack artists.

Buy it because you love artists and want them to thrive and create and bring joy.

Buy it because you like independent stuff.

Buy it because you like to color.

Buy three because your niece and the boy next door and sometimes your grandma like to color.

Click the  LuLu link at top now…. before you forget….

77 pages ready for crayon, watercolor, color pencil, finger paint ….

Let us know what you think of this paperback edition! Stay tuned for future book publishing adventures!

This is my first, clumsy, little blog.

I hope you all enjoy the skymaids above. They are part of a series of five paintings that will ascend a stairwell in a beautiful home in Durham. The three figures are blowing good energy to the other floating, flying, twirling, trapeze and bike-riding figures to follow.

With fall and winter behind me,  the other panels will come now. Perhaps I, like these paintings am feeling a rebirth these days. Peace is working its way back in and I’m beginning to embrace the impermanences in my world.

I’ll bring what I have finished to exhibit at the Durham Art Walk April 18 and 19, 2009. My location this spring is at Trinity Lofts which is conveniently the final  shuttle stop on Foster Street. Perhaps like the Little Red Caboose I will be bringing up the rear or if you live in Old North Durham… then I could be your first stop.