The North Carolina Arts Council has awarded a grant to Gates County High School to contract with an artist to create a permanent public artwork or art enhancement in the school facility or on campus as part of our SPARC (School/Public Art Collaboration Projects).

Attached is a call for artists (Request for Qualifications) for this project. Please share with any artists in your region. Artists working in all media including digital media will be considered.

Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the RFQ or the project.

Thank you,

Leigh Ann Wilder
Regional Coordinator for Eastern North Carolina
North Carolina Arts Council
(919) 807-6528
leighann.wilder@ncmail.net


To learn more about the N.C. Arts Council’s Public Art and Community Design program visit:
http://www.ncarts.org/freeform_scrn_template.cfm?ffscrn_id=34&menu_sel=4&sub_sel=57

Piedmont Craftsmen wishes to welcome Robin Searight to the Board of Trustees. Robin was recently appointed to fill a vacancy through December. Robin is Senior Vice President, Client Advisor with Deutsche Bank Alex Brown in Winston-Salem.

Wake Forest University presented a glass art piece to Claes Hamman, Minister for Trade Economic Affairs with the Swedish Embassy as a recognition gift in May. The art glass vessel was created by Thor and Jennifer Bueno of Penland, NC. The gift will be housed at the Embassy in Washington, DC.

Piedmont Craftsmen is please to announce new collaborations with two non-profit organizations in Winston-Salem.

In March, an exhibit was installed at the Winston-Salem Symphony's new offices. The exhibit is located in the reception, board room and office areas. This is an on-going workplace exhibit that will be rotated quarterly. The twenty-seven pieces of artwork in the show represents all the medias, many have a musically theme.

The second new off-site exhibit is located in the Ronald McDonald Family Room at Forsyth Hospital, which is part of Novant. This exhibit will be in place by the end of May. The Ronald McDonald Family Room is located in the new wing of the Hospital within the neo-natal unit. The Family Room is a place for families of sick children to rest, have something to eat or to spend time with their other children. This exhibit will run year round with periodical changes in themes.