Landscape by Debra Carpenter. Image courtesy of TRAC
Press release from Toe River Arts Council:
Each June and December the Toe River Arts Council offers a bit of insight into the new folks on their bi-annual tour. This year we have two new participants and are excited to welcome them to the free 2016 Holiday Studio Tour that will be held in Mitchell and Yancey counties, December 2-4 from 10 to 5pm each day.
Debra Carpenter is a visual artist, a painter of echoing landscapes, animated animals, and abstracted people. Vibrant images that evoke smiles and thought, that draw you into her world of imagination stirred with a bit of reality. Debra has been working with the Toe River Arts Council in the Spruce Pine Gallery for about a year. She watched as the June Tour unfolded then decided to join in—for the December tour. And the second annual Toe River Arts Juried Show. She won third place!
And We Are Not Saved, a new book by Deborah Louis. Image courtesy of TRAC
Deborah Louis is our second new participant and equally anticipated. Deborah works in the literary arts—an author who can make her studio anywhere she has pencil and paper or a plug for her laptop. A PhD. Scholar, Deborah explored the civil rights movement between 1959 and 1965 in her book, “And We Are Not Saved: A History of the Movement as People” and will be signing and talking about her research and writing during the three-day event. Deborah is the first participant in the Tour representing the literary arts.
Please place Debra’s studio #19 in Spruce Pine and Deborah’s location at the Mountain Heritage Center #22 on your itinerary and make them must stops for this year’s tour.
The Toe River Holiday Studio Tour is Friday-Sunday, December 2-4, from 10am to 5pm daily. Join the TRAC staff, volunteer participants and many of the other tour artists for a grand reception on Friday, December 2, from 5:30 to 7:30pm at the Spruce Pine Gallery located at 269 Oak Avenue. Come toast 2016, the arts, and this unforgettable, breathtaking region.
An exhibit will be displaying work from the over 90 tour participants at the Spruce Pine Gallery from November 19 through the end of the year. Guides containing maps and locations of participating artists are now available at both TRAC galleries, participant studios, local businesses, and online at the website, www.toeriverarts.org.
For more information about the Arts Council, please call 828-682-7215. For information about the tour exhibition, please call 828-765-0520. TRAC is a not for profit organization dedicated to connecting the arts and the people to improve the life in the Toe River Valley. It is supported, in part, by people who believe the arts are vital to a thriving community.
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Able studied political science and history at Warren Wilson College. He enjoys travel, dance, games, theater, blacksmithing and the great outdoors. Follow me @AbleLAllen
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