Join us for the second annual Illuminate Art Walk! We’ve partnered up with our friends at the Downtown Raleigh Alliance again for this year’s festival of installation, light, and video art! These works will only be on view during the month of December so be sure to bundle up and head out to check out some really incredible work from across the country.
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CALL FOR ART : BLACK FOLKTALES + STORYTELLING
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In support of VAE’s inaugural Collaborative Curatorial Fellowship, we are seeking mixed media submissions to be included in an exhibition focused on African American folktales and family storytelling. Ranging from the well known story of Anansi the Spider, to the more personal tale from an uncle, we aim to highlight what are often oral histories in a visual format.
We are seeking submissions by artists using any medium; including but not limited too: photography, painting, drawing, fibers, etc.
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CALL FOR ART : SELF-PORTRAITURE
VAE Raleigh is looking for submissions to be included in an exhibition of self-portraiture to be on view at Dock 1053 from mid December 2021 - April 2022. (Exact dates to be determined).
We are seeking self-portrait submissions by artists using any medium; including but not limited to: photography, painting, drawing, fibers, etc. Unfortunately we cannot accommodate video pieces at this venue.
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KITSCH, CAMP
As a part of the Click! 2021 Photography Festival, VAE presents: KITSCH, CAMP [and all of the other words now one actually knows the definitions for].
KITSCH, CAMP is a group exhibition that evinces world building through camp performance, kitsch styling, and the photographic process. Each artist brings their own self-rendered photographic portals to our reality, allowing viewers to gaze into fantastical worlds of the artists’ own creation that defy the corporeal expectations of the “real.”
In her seminal essay, Notes on Camp, Susan Sontag describes camp as, “...a sensibility that revels in artifice, stylization, theatricalization, irony, playfulness, and exaggeration rather than content...” Using Sontag’s analysis of camp, the exhibition encourages viewers to think beyond the frame, literally and metaphorically, to see the unseen in their lives and toy with the veiled to create dynamic space where irreverent play is centered as a means of self-exploratory departure from the mundane and banal procedures of the everyday.
LOCATION
120 S Wilmington St
Raleigh NC 27602
DATES
October - November 28, 2021
ARTISTS
Benjy Russell - Tennessee
Murrie Rosenfeld - New York
Yi Hsuan Lai - New York
Benjy Russell
Murrie Rosenfeld
Yi Hsuan Lai
NC SCULPTURE
Group Exhibition of North Carolina Sculpture
AUGUST 13 - DECEMBER 12, 2021
DOCK 1053
1053 E. WHITAKER MILL RD. RALEIGH NC, 27604
ARTISTS
Conner Calhoun, Greensboro
Conner Calhoun is currently a MFA Candidate at UNCG in Studio Art. They received their BFA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of Visual Arts (NY) in 2015. They are a queer artist and curator based in North Carolina. Their most recent curatorial project is SLUG (Chapel Hill, NC), a project space by and for queer people of the South. They worked as a Projects Coordinator at LUMP gallery (Raleigh NC) from 2017-2020. Their studio practice uses the tools of paintings, drawing and sculpture in order to create images and visual narratives that explore the fantastical qualities of queer space, existence and resistance. In 2016 they were the artist in residence at Leipzig International Artist Residency (DEU). In 2019 They were the artist in residence at Obracadobra (Oax, MX). Their most recent solo exhibition was Whispers From Wizard Mountain, LUMP gallery (Raleigh NC) in 2018. Their work was recently featured in CAVE HOMO, a celebration to queer spirit distilled into print form. They are dedicated to the creative forces of the queer south and beyond.
kiki nicole, Charlotte
kiki nicole is a poet and artist who works to archive Very Black Feelings. They are the co-founder of the new media/film archival project and screening series, the first and the last, specializing in uplifting work by Black trans/queer artists often overlooked in art spaces. They are currently a poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine and the recipient of a publishingfellowship with Graywolf Press. kiki is 1⁄5 of the NCbased art collective, SaltWater Sojourn—a guest project with Toshi Reagon. They live in Charlotte, NC.
Mia Kaplan, Penland
Mia Kaplan is an artist who works primarily in jewelry and metalsmithing. She received a BA in Studio Art at Earlham College in 2018. Mia worked as an intern Liberty Arts Sculpture Studio & Foundry in Durham, NC in 2016. She was also an intern at Brooklyn Metal Works through the New York Arts Program in 2017. Mia currently is in the Core Fellowship at the Penland School of Craft and works and lives in Penland, NC as a part of the Core program. She has most recently shown work through Secret Identity Projects with their show Amend and in A Curious Year at the Penland Gallery in NC.
Sarah Howes Whitney, Raleigh
Sarah Howes Whitney was raised in New York, went to school at Ohio State University for Fine Arts, moved to the West Coast where she lived in San Diego, San Francisco and Los Angeles, before moving to Raleigh NC, where she is currently an Artist, Museum educator and High School Art Teacher.
Lakeshia Ried @ Shaw University
Lakeshia Reid at Shaw University Library
August - December 2021
LOCATION
Shaw University James E Cheek Learning Resources Center
118 E South St, Raleigh, NC 27601
Saturday 12–5PM
Sunday 12–8PM
HOURS
Monday - Thursday 8AM–10PM
Friday 8AM–5PM
ABOUT LAKESHIA T. REID
Lakeshia T. Reid is a self-taught artist who lives and works in North Carolina. She received a B.S. in Graphic Design in 2011 and worked as a Graphic and Web Designer until she began painting portraits in 2017. Her background as a designer helps her create works that nod to the fantastical while offering interpretations of #BlackGirlMagic – a phrase/movement that celebrates positive messages and images of black women. She is currently a full-time artist and owner of 311 Gallery in Raleigh, NC.
We Wondered If We Could Reach Its End , Jane Cheek, 2021
Growing up in the South as a bisexual woman, I didn’t always accept my orientation with pride. Once I did, I found creating rainbows was a way to embrace myself and celebrate the queer community. I hope that being surrounded by this Pride Flag inspired installation feels as joyful for you as it does for me.
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COSO 2021 BIENNIAL CALL FOR ART
VAE is looking for submissions of 2D, 3D, video, and installation art for the COSO* 2021 Biennial. COSO’s goal is to explore what artists and makers in the regional South are currently thinking, discussing, and making work about. VAE firmly believes that art and exhibitions have the power to create social change, and COSO is an extension of our core values, vision, and mission to produce, fund, and exhibit socially-engaged art through community collaboration. The words “contemporary” or “south” do not refer to any particular aesthetic or subject matter.
*Contemporary South
To be considered, artists must be currently working in one of the following 11 states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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Midtown Banner Art Contest
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The MRA and Capital Bank are sponsoring the First Annual Midtown Banner Art Contest. The MRA currently places banners in 26 locations of Midtown along St. Albans Road, Wake Forest Road and Six Forks Road. Our current design is a simple graphic with the words Midtown Raleigh diagonally across a multi-colored background. Upon the completion of the Banner Art Contest, the winning design will be printed on banners and hung in place of the current banners. The contest winner will be awarded a cash prize of $1000. (This same type of banner art contest was done about 10 years ago along Blount Street by the Downtown Raleigh Alliance.) Online information can be found here.
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Lauren Collins, Mary Ann Anderson, Jessica Dupuis at Dock 1053
October 2, 2020 - February 26, 2021
Location: DOCK 1053
1053 E Whitaker Mill Road
Raleigh, NC 27604
Lauren Collins
Artist Statement
a vision
a meditation
an urge
a gut feeling
I now believe that these are direct communications through worlds — veils are broken in order for this conversation of speaking and listening and channeling.
Sometimes in the form of words, sometimes shapes, sometimes just a texture or feeling.
Created from light + love — dissolving fears and uplifting dreams.
Sometimes it is only a whisper, so faint that everything else must completely disappear from sight and sound in order for it to live with me in solitude for a moment.
And only just for that moment.
And then it is gone.
Other times it is so loud and blinding that it is all i know to be real — like i have to know; i have to feel it and communicate it to the world, or else it will fill me from the inside out, all the way, expanding from my bones to the thin veil of my skin.
They live in the shadows and begin to shuffle into the light in order to speak their language to the world;
and i am only their translator.
Mary Ann Anderson
Artist Statement
My paintings are informed by philosophy and art, especially:
- Chinese and Japanese art – transcending time and space
- Kandinsky’s conceptual premise that painting can help us to a greater consciousness
- American abstract expressionist art and conceptual art
These mixed media pieces are made using graphite, acrylic varnish and acrylic paint on synthetic paper (Yupo).
Artist Biography
Mary Ann Anderson has presented solo exhibitions at Visual Art Exchange and Artspace in Raleigh, at Duke University, the Durham Art Guild and GoldenBelt in Durham; at the Ackland Museum Store and Chapel Hill Library in Chapel Hill; and The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC. Her art studies have included classes at Ox-Bow, a program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Penland School of Craft in North Carolina.
Jessica Dupuis
Artist Statement
Invisible and visible boxes surround us every day, from standards of society and institutions to houses, studios, and offices. Within these structures, individual perceptions and senses vary, just as our memories and attachment to objects differ from one person to another. For me, the physical form of sculpture functions as a journal; architectural spaces that are open for the viewer to explore.
My work evolves from a process in which I use a combination of clay slip and discarded materials such as newspaper, cardboard, and furniture and transform them into art objects.
Artist Biography
Jessica Dupuis was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She received her MFA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her BFA with a concentration in ceramics and print media from Alfred University. Dupuis exhibits her work regionally and nationally. She has been a resident artist at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Women's Studio Workshop as well as a recipient of the International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award and an Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council. She is an Assistant Professor of Art in Ceramics at the University of North Carolina-Pembroke and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.