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Come Meet the Artists Selected to Paint the Venus Flytraps!!
Come Meet the Artists Selected to Paint the Venus Flytraps!!
Hurricane Helene has devastated the heart of our artist community in North Carolina. The artists living and working in the mountain area have lost everything...their tools, supplies, artwork and means for making a living.
Here are links to some of the disaster relief programs for artists.
Your support is greatly appreciated.
Arts North Caro
Hurricane Helene has devastated the heart of our artist community in North Carolina. The artists living and working in the mountain area have lost everything...their tools, supplies, artwork and means for making a living.
Here are links to some of the disaster relief programs for artists.
Your support is greatly appreciated.
Arts North Carolina. https://artsnc.org/arts-emergency-resources/
North Carolina Arts Foundation https://www.ncartsfoundation.org/donate-nc-disaster-relief
The River Arts District. https://www.riverartsdistrict.com/donate/
ArtsAVL. https://artsavl.org
CERF+ Craft Emergency Relief Fundhttps://cerfplus.org
Come Meet the Artists Selected to Paint the Venus Flytraps!!
Come Meet the Artists Selected to Paint the Venus Flytraps!!
Come Meet the Artists Selected to Paint the Venus Flytraps!!
We are thrilled to announce the artists that have been selected to paint the 2025 Venus Flytrap Statues!!
Proximity is hosting Meet the Artists on October 10th from 5 to 8pm. The artists will be there to show their concepts for the statues.
These statues will be displayed from March to September, 2025 for the Carolina Beach Centennial Cele
We are thrilled to announce the artists that have been selected to paint the 2025 Venus Flytrap Statues!!
Proximity is hosting Meet the Artists on October 10th from 5 to 8pm. The artists will be there to show their concepts for the statues.
These statues will be displayed from March to September, 2025 for the Carolina Beach Centennial Celebrations.
Sponsors can have a statue installed at their business, be included in marketing/promotions that will drive people to their business and be part of the many exciting events planned for the Centennial!
There will be 11 Statues! Currently there are 8 Sponsorships left! So Come Meet the Artists and secure your Sponsorship!
For IAC Members Only
Rotating Exhibition at The Tropical
Rotating Exhibition at The Tropical
The Gallery at the Marriott is changing exhibitions for the Winter! This is a wonderful opportunity for you to display and sell your work in a beautiful setting with lots of traffic coming through!
You can change your artwork as you want, and you will receive 100% of the sales!! Unlike traditional galleries that take 50% or more of the sa
The Gallery at the Marriott is changing exhibitions for the Winter! This is a wonderful opportunity for you to display and sell your work in a beautiful setting with lots of traffic coming through!
You can change your artwork as you want, and you will receive 100% of the sales!! Unlike traditional galleries that take 50% or more of the sales!!
Click below to go to the online application. Or email acpopexhibition@gmail.com for more information.
Rotating Exhibition at The Tropical
Rotating Exhibition at The Tropical
Rotating Exhibition at The Tropical
Island Arts Council has launched another Rotating Exhibition! The Tropical is hosting this exhibition that includes 10 local fine artists.
Their paintings are exhibited throughout the restaurant and can be purchase there.
This is the time to get beautiful, one-of-a-kind artwork for gift giving or to add to your coastal home!
October Featured artist
Lauren Pallotta Stumberg
My mission is to honor and explore the human experience through creative offerings that fuse portraiture and symbology as an act of storytelling. My paintings and public art works are an investigation into how we navigate our personal journeys—using language, symbols and images—to arrive at a destination. Producing the arts incubator Think Greatly has enabled me to support public art development through community engagement and female-driven collaborations.
In the studio, my work honors the human experience through abstracted portraiture and symbolism, where patterns and forms coalesce to create a distinct vernacular. In general this symbolism is about community, connection and personal journeys, with elements such as ladders, staircases, porcupine quills, house shapes, circles, hexagons, repetitive brush strokes, stacked bowls and tally marks. The symbol I use most frequently in my work is an abstracted magpie. This bird is fascinating to me because it is cloaked with superstition. Magpies are described in various folklore and historic literature to be thieves, chatterboxes, gossips, and ominous creatures. In fact, a group of magpies is called a ‘mischief.’ Cultural lore also translates one’s destiny based on the number of magpies seen, and to salute the first magpie one sees as a sign of respect and wish for good fortune. It is this perception of the magpie that inspires my work – the bird is an omen of change, and change, good or bad, is invaluable. In this way, the presence of the magpie is a calling to enter a crucible of the spirit. It asks you to rethink social norms, to shift perspectives, to be open to personal transformation. This magpie symbolism is relevant in my studio work, but also in the context of public art because it calls for empathy, a central tenet of maintaining safe spaces.
In the public realm, I am driven by work that nurtures neighborhood appreciation and community-building, with an emphasis on celebrating diverse communities, the inclusivity of public spaces and cultivating the discovery of common ground that we share for the future. My work is known to be vibrant and dynamic, with the main objective to put a smile on someone's face and brighten their day. Much of my social practice is rooted in community and stakeholder ownership. As such I have partnered with schools, neighborhood organizations and Main Street boards to visualize and execute the public art projects within communities. As a muralist for private clients or project manager and collaborator for developers, I use this same methodology.
How can public art enrich your community and make it stronger? How can it give its viewers a sense of place, pride and belonging?
As an artist for hire, I believe in collaboration over competition. I aim to uplift women in the arts through projects I design and curate. I like to partner with artists whose work and business acumen I admire; I also strive to use my position to provide opportunities to those looking to build experience. I see my projects as an opportunity to bring good people together and use art as a means to drive economic development, community relationships, and stakeholder ownership.
website: thinkgreatly.com
Social media: @thinkgreatly (IG)
purchase work/ represented by:
dk Gallery, Marietta GA https://dkgallery.us/
New Elements Gallery, Wilmington, NC https://newelementsgallery.com/
Lauren Pallotta Stumberg
770-557-2057
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Thank you Lamar Advertising
Look up at the digital billboard as you cross the bridge to the Island and you will see this beautiful display. Lamar is providing this space to support our local artists and Rhonda Lee designs these amazing displays