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We are thrilled to welcome our new executive director, Sarah
Powers, who will join us in early August. Following a nationwide search, the
City’s Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department selected Sarah based
on her inspirational leadership style and extensive experience growing and
supporting the arts community in Raleigh. A 2016 Raleigh Medal of Arts awardee, Sarah has more than 15
years of experience as an artist, arts administrator and arts volunteer.
Learn more
Welcome Sarah!
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Wednesday, July 13, 3-5pm
Mary Anne K. Jenkins
Early Drawings, Paintings and Prints
Award-winning artist Mary Anne K. Jenkins has been painting since
the early 1950s. Pullen Arts Center’s painting studio is named after her in
appreciation of her 48 years of teaching painting at Pullen! The City of
Raleigh has honored her by declaring April 30 Mary Anne K. Jenkins Day. During
July, Pullen’s gallery will highlight Jenkins’ early drawings, paintings and
prints featuring landscape, figurative and abstract imagery.
Pullen
Arts Center
105 Pullen Road, Raleigh | 919-996-6126
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Join us for an interactive workshop led by Donna Walker-Kuhne, an internationally recognized leader in
multi-cultural audience development. Gain the tools for achieving dynamic
community engagement by analyzing successful case studies and examining current
trends. Donna will explore marketing strategies for engaging diverse
communities, including discussions around target demographics, immigration and
more. Limited to 30 participants, the workshop fee is $25.
Tuesday, July 19 from 1-4pm
Learn more
Image: Donna Walker-Kuhne
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The NC Theatre Conference is coming to town for its annual
statewide conference, The Producing Gathering. With a mixture of local
presenters and major national speakers such as
Theatre Communications Group’s Teresa Eyring and Art
Equity’s Carmen Morgan, the event will focus on this
year’s theme of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA).
Monday & Tuesday, July 18 & 19
Learn more and register
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Come join in the fun! The City of Raleigh’s Parks,
Recreation and Cultural Resources Department has joined up with
Raleigh Arts Partner Arts Together to offer
children’s art activities at the upcoming Dorothea Dix Park community festival. Make-and-take crafts
include watercolor sun bonnets, ceramic leaves, acorn collectors and woodland
creature masks. Children can also take part in the What Do You See? mural, creating and adding images of what they’d
like to see at Dix Park in the future.
Saturday, July 23 from 10am-7pm
Dorothea Dix Park, Downtown Raleigh
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ART-ON-THE-MOVE, a collaboration between the Office of Raleigh Arts and GoRaleigh, is gearing up for its 5th iteration.
An artist call will go out this fall seeking 12 Wake County artists to design creative imagery for buses around
the city. Stay tuned for more information!
Image: 2015 ART-ON-THE-MOVE bus art by Autumn Cobeland
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EVENTS
Check out Katy's upcoming events
BLOG EXCERPT: Rediscovering the solitary joy of reading
When I was a little girl, I used to spend whole afternoons perched
in a tree in my overgrown backyard in Raleigh’s Cameron Park, reading books for
hours while eating fresh tomato sandwiches on toast. I can still feel the sharp
bite of toast in my mouth and the sting of tomato as I turned the pages, lost
in my own private world. God knows there was no shortage of books for me to
choose from, and little supervision over what I read. Read more
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Bonded Llama Studios
10 Year Anniversary Exhibition
Mixed media works by Sherry di Filippo, David
Eichenberger, Raymond Goodman, Ann Marie Kennedy, Sean Kernick, Cayce Lee, Luke
Miller Buchanan, Jennifer Partridge, Shelley Smith,
Tracy Spencer Stonestreet and Derek Toomes. On view through July 22. Learn more
Image: Derek Toomes, Una Cosecha, 2014, charcoal, acrylic and
oil on panel
Block
Gallery
Raleigh
Municipal Building | 222 W. Hargett St. | 919-996-3610
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UPCOMING CLASS FOR CHILDREN
Art4Fun
Studio – Sculpture and 3D
Ages 7-11. This class focuses on techniques and materials for making 3D
projects with clay, papier-mâché and silly putty. All materials are provided.
Students should bring a snack. (5 sessions)
#186679
Monday-Friday, 9:30am-12pm
August 8-12
$85 Raleigh residents/$100 nonresidents
COMING SOON: REGISTRATION FOR FALL CLASSES
Fall Leisure
Ledgers are now available. Registration begins
Tuesday, July 26.
SUMMER
CLASSES
Check out our full listing of
summer classes. Register online, by mail or stop by Pullen Arts Center.
PULLEN ARTS CENTER IMPROVEMENT PLAN
Stay up to date
PULLEN ARTS CENTER
105 Pullen Road, Raleigh | 919-996-6126
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GALLERY
Raleigh Room: Bonnie Brooks, paintings
Hall Gallery: Lauri Artsen, paintings
Display Cases: John Pelosi, wood; Ellen Weiss,
jewelry; Sheila Hall, paintings
Image:
Lauri Artsen, For Now
CLASSES
Preschool – Petite Picassos
Age: 3-4 yrs. Instructor: Michelle Davis Petelinz
Course Fee: $60
#186895 Jul 25-Aug 29 M 9:30AM-10:30AM
#186896 Jul 28-Aug 25 Th 10:45AM-11:45AM
Art –
Art-Rageous Prints
Age: 7-10 yrs. Instructor: Michelle Davis Petelinz
Course Fee: $70
#186906 Jul 25-Aug 29 M 1:00PM-3:00PM
Pottery
– Handbuilding: Continuing
Age: 16 yrs. and up. Instructor: Gaines Bailey
Course Fee: $95
#188972 Jul 20-Aug 31 W 9:30AM-11:45AM
Pottery
– Thrown and Altered Pots with Gaines Bailey
Age: 16 yrs. and up. Instructor: Gaines Bailey
Course Fee: $55
#190065 Jul 21-Aug 11 Th 9:30AM-11:45AM
WORKSHOPS
Fibers – Traditional Japanese Embroidery
Age: 18yrs. and up. Instructor: Pam Reading
Course Fee: $75
#189903 Jul 30-31 Sa-Su 9:30AM-4:30PM
COMING SOON: REGISTRATION FOR FALL CLASSES
Fall Leisure
Ledgers are now available. Registration begins
Tuesday, July 26.
SUMMER CLASSES
Check out our full listing of
summer classes. Register online, by mail or stop by Sertoma Arts Center.
SERTOMA ARTS CENTER
1400 W. Millbrook Road, Raleigh
919-996-2329
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