• They’re doing it again! Despite all the unnecessary red tape they waded through last year, Arlene and Robert Winkler are organizing another river-park sculpture exhibit. Let’s hope they’re rewarded with more cooperation from the city this time around.
• Time again for the Doors of Asheville fundraiser. Neighborhood Housing is such a worthy cause, but it seems a little strange to have to apply to give away your work. Wouldn’t it make more sense for these folks just to pick out the artists they want, ask them to participate, and forget it? Nonprofits need to keep in mind that artists are, by and large, generous, and will do what they can to support a cause they believe in. That said, every time someone buys an artist’s work at a charity event (usually well below market value), the artist loses a potential buyer, and if he or she has a gallery, the gallery also loses. Applying takes time and money.
• Best-dressed award at a recent wedding of two of Asheville’s most promising young artists goes to John Payne for his painted gray jacket.
• Painter and sometime gallery director Gary Byrd is off to San Diego for an exhibit of his work at the Garage Gallery. He will return to Asheville with works by West Coast artists including some by his friend, former Ashevillean Larry Caveny, for a June show at Semi-Public Gallery on Hillside Street.
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