Artfuel.inc
1701 Wrightsville Ave #910 343 5233 Mon-Sat, 12-9pm; Sunday, 1-6pm www.artfuelinc.com www.myspace.com/artfuel_inc Artfuel.inc is located at the corner of Wrightsville Ave and 17th st. Housed in an old gas station, we offer resident artists working in studios alongside a gallery space used to exhibit other artists work. We hope to connect artists with each other and offer many styles of work to fuel the public’s interest. Currently, Artfuel, Inc. showcases Volume 21, featuring Eli Thompson, Todd Carignan, Jake Shelton, Kelly Neville and El Ralphy.
Crescent Moon
FastFrame Gallery features more than twenty local artists, whose artwork includes a wide variety of media such as oils, watercolors, ceramics, sculpture, and jewelry. Summer Art at Fast Frame features photogrpaher Conrad Pope, creator of media pastiche originals M. Matteson Smith, realist perfectionist painter Terry Rosenfelder, multicultural painter Harry Davis, watercolor painter Deborah Cavenaugh, creator of Slobot’s Robots, sculptures and paintings Mike Slobot, jewelry designer Sara Westermark, and Majolica and textural pottery and Raku by Caroline Aweeky and Carla Edstrom.
Hampstead Art Gallery
332 Nutt St, The Cotton Exchange (910) 762-4207 Mon.-Sat., 10am-5:30pm; Sun., 12-4pm www.crescentmoonnc.com Come see why we were awarded a Top Retailer for 2009 by NICHE magazine. We support the North American craft community. We specialize in hand-crafted glass and metal art with over 70 artists on display at any one time. It’s a sight to behold in a 465 square foot space. Brilliance, sparkle and whimsy. Find a fan pull or splurge on a wall platter, buy a gift or treat yourself. We gift wrap for free and offer free gift delivery in Wilmington. Create your own art registry and start collecting what you want today. We are here to help. Crescent Moon is located in the Cotton Exchange where parking is free, while shopping or dining. Follow us on Twitter as CrescentMoonNC or become a fan on our Facebook page!
14712 Hwy. 17 N. • (910) 270-5180 Mon.-Sat. 11am-5pm, or by appt. Hampstead, NC “Beautiful; lots of variety.” “Love the place.” “Beautiful art work.” “Very nice.” “Art rocks your socks, and you know that.” These are just what a few customers had to say about Hampstead Art Gallery. Come and tell us what you think. Affordable prices on prints and originals. Local artists with various styles and taste are just excited about having the opportunity to share their work with all art lovers. Our artists offer different sizes from what we have on display and low rates on commissioned work. Christmas is very close, and a family portrait would be a great gift. Owner Charles Turner invites all artists and art lovers to just hang out in our new Artist Lounge any time. Look for our upcoming Expos and Open House. Hampstead Art Gallery is located in Hampstead on the corner of Factory Road next to CVS Pharmacy.
FastFrame Gallery
Montage Art & Design
1319 Military Cutoff Rd. Landfall Center (910) 256-1105 Mon.-Fri.., 10am-6pm • Sat., 10am-4pm www.fastframeofwilmington.com FastFrame Local Artists Gallery, one of the few exclusively Local Artists Galleries in Wilmington, is located at Landfall Center within minutes of Wrightsville Beach and Mayfaire.
310 N. Front Street, Suite 3 • (910) 7638011 T-F, 12-6pm; Sat, 12-4pm www.montageartanddesign.com www.montagefineartpublishing.com Montage Art & Design features fine original art and exquisite prints from over 50 talented artists. You can also find unique art wear, pottery and metalwork created by artisans from
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around the region. Montage is highlighted during each and every Fourth Friday Gallery Night in 2009! Derick Crenshaw is our featured artist. In addition, Montage Fine Art Publishing has established an online presence as a highquality printing company, and provides our artists with unique licensing and publishing opportunities to a variety of U.S. & international commercial clients. All photographic, proofing, printing and shipping services are provided by Mark & Ian Akin of Wilmington NC. Montage also provides design & consulting services to discerning businesses and individuals, no matter the size, scope or style of the project.
New Elements Gallery
216 N. Front St. • (919) 343-8997 Tues-Sat: 11am-5:30pm or by appointment www.newelementsgallery.com Transitions features the works of Robert Irwin and Margie Worthington and remains on display through September 19th. A resident of Beaufort, NC, Irwin is noted for his straightforward yet powerful imagery of the coast. He has revisited some of his earlier paintings and used these “reinterpretations” as a basis for his new series. Irwin has introduced a freshness and vitality in these newer works which seems only enhanced by the passage of time. Wilmington artist Margie Worthington creates intimate and very personal vignettes with her mixed media pieces using imagery of architectural details, photographs and painting. “I work in collage and seek to create visual poetry which references the role of memory, a sense of family, the power of place and the passage of time. Throughout my work, it is the process of trying to establish visual relationships among unrelated elements which I find so intriguing.” In her larger scale works, Worthington creates actual three-dimensional space with boxes and compartments which become part of the composition in her “collage constructions.” Among NC’s premier art destinations for 24 years, New Elements Gallery features both regional and nationally acclaimed artists. Collectors will enjoy a variety of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, jewelry and wood, with changing exhibitions each month. The gallery also offers custom framing and art consultation services.
works by Bob Bryden, Michelle Connolly, Karen Paden Crouch, Virginia Wright-Frierson and Pam Toll. The gallery offers a large selection of works on paper in numerous media. In addition there are many different gift ideas, such as hand-gilded table-top frames and oneof-a-kind keepsake boxes. The gallery offers something for everybody.
Sunset River Marketplace
10283 Beach Dr., SW (NC 179). (910) 575-5999 • Mon.-Sat. 10am-5pm (Winter hours: closed Monday) www.sunsetrivermarketplace.com myspace.comsunsetrivermarketplace This eclectic, spacious gallery, located in the historic fishing village of Calabash, N.C., features fine arts and crafts by some of North and South Carolina’s most creative, successful artists. Almost every genre is represented here—oil, pastel and watercolor, clay and glass art, fiber art, turned wood, metal works, artisan-crafted jewelry and more. Classes, workshops, pottery studio, custom framing, Creative Exchange lecture series and Coffee With the Author series are also offered on-site.
Wilmington Art Association Gallery
616B Castle St. • (910) 343-4370 www.wilmington-art.org Don’t miss the workshop with Miriam Pinkerton in October! Miriam is a nationally known collage artist and watercolorist, who will teach a collage workshop October 2nd. In this class, you will learn to dye your own papers, make coffee papers, use newspapers to make intriguing designer papers, how to preserve these papers, several transfer methods, what glues to use, how to use and dye Japanese rice papers, etc. and basic design. Tuition for the class is $50 per student. Call the gallery for information and to register. Terry Rosenfelder is our Featured Artist from through Sept 24. The theme of his show is “Coastal Towns and Harbors.” Terry has been winning awards at state-wide shows right and left for the past several years and has been a lifelong art educator and painter. His work is photorealist, amazing and thoughtfully composed. Each painting creates a compelling story. Our Special Event is Ben Billingsley’s show “Urban and Rural Landscapes” Ben pares down the landscape to reveal and explore our relationship to the world around us. He limits details and prefers to emphasize the essential elements of shape and color which leave the viewer with pattersonbehn art gallery the energy and color impact of having been 511 1/2 Castle Street physically in the landscape. Ben is a painter (910) 251-8886 • Tues.-Sat. 11am-5pm and art educator and teaches at Cape Fear (Winter hours: closed Monday) Community College. www.pattersonbehn.com Look for the 2009 Calendar of the Wilmpattersonbehn picture framing & design has added an art gallery to their space, featuring ington Art Association coming out in Sepseveral local artists. Currently on display are tember! encore | september 2-8, 2009 | www.encorepub.com 15