Community Council for the Arts
Kinston, NC
July
Our Galleries
For more information about the exhibits in our galleries at the Arts Center, contact us at (252) 527-2517. Admission is free and open to the public.
On-going — Fair Exchange Handmade Baskets & Artist Shelia Stroud — On display is an exhibit of small acrylic artwork by local artist Shelia Stroud.
July through August 3 — Arts Market — This collaborative exhibition consists of ever-changing 2D and 3D visual art and presents more than 50+ artists and artisans, the majority of whom are local or regional in their practice. Featured works include jewelry, pottery, glass, paintings, photography, textiles, baskets, and much, much more!
August 6 through August 15 — Summer Camp Art — Emerging young artists from our 2024 Summer Camps will have their creations on display for the public to view and enjoy.
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August 22 through October 26 — Local Artists — Exhibits will be on display throughout the First & Second Floor Galleries featuring John Groesser, Dodi Groesser, and Alicia Garver in Hampton Gallery, Myra Bowen in The Kenneth & Kristi Blizzard Gallery
Now Showing — Mike Sagaser: “Flight School Installation” — Mike is a mixed media, ceramic, mosaic, and digital artist. This loaned installation features molded and painted planes suspending in formation and as an artist’s simulation of aerial maneuvers.
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“This piece originated as a challenge to create 100 identical copies of the same object to form a stand-alone installation. Each jet is made from stoneware, hand pressed into a plaster cast,
bisque-fired, then glaze-fired with an irregular black surface and a single golden “eye.” The boundary between human made machine and living thing is blurred by the skin-like
texture of each jet’s glaze."
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“The jet-swarm dives in and out of the rafters like schooling fish effortlessly swimming over our heads immersed in the thin compressible fluid of the air, chasing an unseen goal and responding to unseen forces. From mechanism to body, we feel the flow of power and vulnerability and wonder at their destination and motivation.”
Through August 3 — Tiffany Hill from Goldsboro — Tiffany will have work on exhibit and for sale at Queen St. Deli. Sales are placed through the Arts Center by bringing the painting “exhibit tag” to the Center or calling (252) 527-2517 to speak with staff from the Arts Center. Transactions are not completed through the Queen St. Deli.