ArtSPEAKS AT THE CARTER BUILDING

Retired N.C. State Art Professor Lope Max Díaz was the inaugural ARTspeaks presenter on Sunday, April 17, 2011, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Carter Building. The event was held outdoor on a bright, sunny Sunday afternoon at the Carter Building parking lot.
Lope shared with the participants a penetrating insight to his creative world and process. He also offered constructive critique sessions to some of the individual artists who were present at the event.

Lope Max Díaz is an artist and retired faculty of NC State University where he taught Design Fundamentals and Painting in the College of Design. He exhibits his paintings with regularity throughout the southeast region of the country, as well as in Puerto Rico. Before joining the faculty of the College of Design in 1988, he was an Assistant Professor of Design in the School of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico, and prior to that an Instructor in the Fine Arts Department of the College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico. He has also taught art at Interamerican University of Puerto Rico.
He received the College of Design Outstanding Teacher Award in 2000, and the nomination for Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of the College of Design in 2002.
Lope Max Díaz has served as juror in numerous art exhibitions in North Carolina and in Puerto Rico. He has also served on art/design panels for the Raleigh Arts Commission, the North Carolina Arts Council, the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation in Baltimore, MD, and the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
For his contributions as an artist, educator, and service to the community, he was awarded the 2003 Raleigh Medal of Arts and the 2003 Centennial Medal from the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

ARTspeaks is a quarterly forum designed to engage artists and arts patrons in meaningful dialogue. Next Artspeaks will be held in August 2011.

DRAW A-THON

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Representing some of the finest media in the world of art.
ORIGINAL PAINTINGS, MIXED MEDIA & PHOTOGRAPHY
We are located in the Cater Building on Glenwood Avenue
in the historic Glenwood South community of Raleigh, NC
Please join us for the First Friday ARTwalks
on the first Friday of every month 6 - 9:30 pm.
Gallery Hours: Wed. - Sat. 1 - 7 pm.

CARTER BUILDING ART CENTER

The Carter Building Art Center instructors will be offering art clinics this summer for children grades K-8. We will have a special workshop for high school students late summer on preparing a portfolio for college applications. Camps will be broken up into grades K-2, 3-5 in the morning session and grades 6-8 in the afternoon. Sessions will cover traditional media, photography, oil pastels, print making, mask making, murals, sculpture from recyclables, chalk art and more. Every Wednesday we will have a field trip to museums, the farmer's market and other local sites.
Instructors are Lee Ball, Tunde Afolayan, and Susan Jones.

ART & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT_Tunde Afolayan

ART in EDUCATION_ Carter Building Art Center




Tunde Afolayan, accomplished artist and educator, makes a significant impact on the lives of people through his paintings, workshops, and residencies. Since completing his graduate studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Afolayan has exhibited paintings in Nigeria, Europe, and the U.S. His thematic compositions in vibrant colors allow figurative images to adopt expressive, abstract, and representational qualities. His skills and expertise in diverse media such as printmaking, photography, mosaic, painting, and clay are remarkable proofs of his competency.
His program, with a diverse range of students, has been used extensively in a successful national YouthARTS Development Project to demonstrate how the powers of art contribute to improving behaviors and attitudes in young people.

Programs include “Community Mural” residencies for arts councils, museums, libraries, recreation centers, senior centers, public and transitional housing facilities. Also available are “Multicultural Mural” and “Identity Mask” workshops to strengthen team spirit, cultural appreciation, and respect for others in a corporate environment.In-School Educational Programs Educational programs include residencies and workshops that provide students with a unique avenue for experiencing art through visual stimulation, demonstration, and experimentation.

PAINTING FROM LIFE_Rick Bennett

Painting from life gives you many wonderful elements that you would never envision sitting in your studio. There are unexpected elements of light, color and composition that can inspire successful paintings. Painting from life also uses different art skills so don‘t be discouraged the first times you try it.
Painting outdoors can also be a challenge. There is so much in front of you and it can be difficult to decide what to paint. Even if you have chosen your subject and it is in the distance look up close and find something interesting as a secondary element. Once the close up element is beginning to take shape you have a strong element to work from as you proceed with the rest of the painting. Establish some dark values early to help gauge the other values in the painting.
Use a viewfinder or two L shapes pieces of matte board. I use an old matte that is cut at two opposite corners. This will help you choose whether the painting format is vertical or horizontal and which elements to include.
Don’t be afraid to rearrange the scene in front of you. Replace a tree with a more interesting one from out of your chosen area. Change the size of an element or the color of a bloom. Remember that you are creating a painting and not copying nature. Look at your painting as it progresses and decide what it needs to make it a better painting. Then look at the vista in front of you and find what fits that need.
As the day progresses and the sun moves so does your light. You have to decide whether you are going to remember the early light and paint that or paint in anticipation of where the light is going to be as you complete your day of painting. I start early in the morning and draw in my subject. Since I work in watercolor any elements of perspective and proportion have to be worked out in the drawing because they are difficult or impossible to fix later. So I choose to draw in anticipation of where the light will be and paint the light at its most interesting point.

RICK BENNETT_WAITING FOR WORMS

Art is inspired by different things for every artist. When I paint from something I find exciting it translates to a more interesting painting.
Caring for our city chickens is one of my favorite activities. When they see the shovel or a garden trowel they come running because they know what happens when the earth is turned. They don't share and they each want all of the worms. It makes me laugh to see them chase the hen who has the worm.
Rick Bennett
UpStart Studio
Carter Building, Studio 25
Rbennett16@nc.rr.com