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Barbara Schreiber Burns It All Down
Barbara Schreiber describes her paintings as a juxtaposition between “pretty pictures and ugly subjects.” It’s a contrast that is highlighted in her latest series, Domestic Disturbances, opens at UNC Charlotte’s Storrs Gallery on March 15 and runs through April 18. There will be a reception at the gallery on March…
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‘Beyond the Mountain’ Exhibit Brings Origami to the Next Level
For three months, artist Jessica Singerman set aside an hour or more nearly every day to hand-fold paper cranes. The end result of that meticulous exercise is “Paper Mountain,” a 13-foot-high, 30-foot-long installation that comprises more than 1,000 of these intricate figures. It’s part of a new body of work…
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Stephen Wilson Enlists Children’s Home Society for New Exhibit
Mixed-media artist Stephen Wilson’s upcoming show isn’t just a reflection of his own creative vision, it’s also a window into the unique perspective of a group of 13- to 17-year-old foster children from Children’s Home Society of North Carolina. Together with Wilson, the teenagers produced 30 additional pieces that…
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Davidson Community Players Put Faith in Doubt with New Play
It’s not uncommon for personal tragedy to shake one’s belief in a higher power, and even the most religiously devout individuals can experience a crisis of faith. That’s the premise behind Judy Simpson Cook’s Benedictions, in which suburban Presbyterian church minister Jesse Bradshaw Warren loses her two teenage sons in…
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Lark & Key Hops to Dilworth, Holds Bunny-Themed Exhibit
Last fall, Lark & Key art gallery owners Sandy Snead and Duy Huynh were ready to take their gallery and boutique in a different direction. The husband-and-wife duo have since found that direction through a partnership with artist and friend Charlotte Foust. On Feb. 1, Lark & Key will move…
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‘Grey Gardens’ Depicts Privilege in Peril
In the 1930s and ’40s, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith Bouvier Beale — the aunt and cousin of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, respectively — were in the upper echelon of New York’s social scene. Both mother and daughter had dreams of achieving fame; Ewing Bouvier Beale (“Big Edie”)…
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Charlotte Ballet Takes Modern Look at Shakespeare Through Innovative Works
When Charlotte Ballet brings the works of William Shakespeare to the stage for its Innovative Works series, it won’t look like a traditional adaptation or story ballet. Instead, the production’s creative team — choreographers Stephanie Martinez and Peter Chu and UNC Charlotte professors Dr. Andrew Hartley and Dr. Lynne Conner…
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Artist Turns Physical Trauma into Spiritual Beauty with ‘X-ray Visions’
As a certified medical illustrator, Jennifer McCormick has encountered countless diagnostic images of patients’ injuries — many of them critical and unexpected. Through her Winston-Salem-based practice Art for Law & Medicine, McCormick has for nearly two decades taken those images and provided attorneys and their clients with medical illustrations to…
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