http://www.beaufortcountynow.com Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:53:19 EDT http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/473/26/lone-leaf-gallery-celebrates-one-year-anniversary-hangs-exhibit.html http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/473/26/lone-leaf-gallery-celebrates-one-year-anniversary-hangs-exhibit.html Now an official downtown-Washington success, Lone Leaf Gallery & Custom Framing, celebrated its one-year anniversary yesterday evening with hors d’oeuvres, drinks and a new art exhibit, ‘Interruptions’ by Ben Isburg. From 5 to 8 p.m., dozens of loyal patrons and supporters stopped by the gallery to congratulate the Loughlins and see the show.

After a shaky, but well intentioned, version of 'Happy Birthday', Neil and Meredith Loughlin, owners of Lone Leaf Gallery & Custom... Read More]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:30:44 EDT http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/388/26/lone-leaf-gallery-exhibit-visually-imitates-birdcalls.html http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/388/26/lone-leaf-gallery-exhibit-visually-imitates-birdcalls.html Lone Leaf Gallery & Custom Framing in downtown Washington is currently featuring an extraordinarily unique art exhibition, ‘Cleat', by artist Lisa Beth Robinson, which will be on display at the gallery through July 24.

The exhibit is comprised of nine original pieces by Robinson, an East Carolina University art professor with far-reaching artistic influence. Each piece in the exhibit represents the range of emotions experienced when a person digs in their 'cleats' to stop and evaluat... Read More]]> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:32:56 EDT http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/338/26/downtown-washington-caters-to-art-lovers.html http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/338/26/downtown-washington-caters-to-art-lovers.html Eastern North Carolina residents took advantage of the slow pace and warm breeze of a southern night to stroll down Main Street in downtown Washington, stopping along the way at the seven different art galleries and neighboring merchants participating in the spring Art Walk, organized by the Beaufort County Arts Council and Washington Harbor District Alliance. Washington's first Art Walk, the winter Art Walk, was held in November of last year, and was a huge success.

After laying down almost $... Read More]]> Fri, 7 May 2010 15:42:21 EDT http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/99/26/art-walk-2009.html http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/99/26/art-walk-2009.html Washington, North Carolina, just 22 miles east of East Carolina University's School of Art and Design, now has the distinction of hosting a major showing of multiple works of art, by multiple artists, and in just a 3 hours period hundreds folks were entertained, fed and in some instances, plied with wine. Downtown Washington on the Water (DWOW) planned the event, and the owners of these shops pulled it off. The event was a huge success.

The people wandering the streets, looking for the next... Read More]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:59:24 EST http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/74/26/museums-in-review-part-iii.html http://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/74/26/museums-in-review-part-iii.html The Franklin G. Burroughs and Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum Features an Assemblage of Work: Soul’s Journey: The Creative Process

On this occasion when I visited my good friend and publisher at his condo in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, I took the opportunity to visit the Burroughs and Chapin Art Museum on Ocean Boulevard. Once again this little museum, on the northern edge of the old Springmaid Hotel property, with its back facing the blue of the Atlantic Ocean, exhibited another notable... Read More]]> Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:10:52 EST