LAAFF continues to grow into a signature event for our town, representing the grassroots creative community and showing off what a fantastic group of creators we are! Give yourselves a squeeze! To participate in 2009 contact us today. Don't forget, we'll put YOUR weird, wonderful artsy idea on the street too! Just send us a proposal!
Founded in 2007, Moving Women is a dance performance ensemble that honors and invites the diverse perspectives offered by cross-genre collaboration. Core members challenge themselves by working with other dancers, visual artists, musicians, poets, actors, and performance artists to create original works.
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Enjoy Music in the Park with the Pritchard Park Cultural Arts Program
Pritchard Park, the intersection of Patton Ave and College Street
Series ran through September 2008
FREE and kid friendly!
www.arts2people.org/pritchardpark.html
www.myspace.com/pritchardparkarts
The Pritchard Park Cultural Arts Program welcomes your ideas and proposal submissions, donations, and volunteer inquiries. Suggestions and feedback are welcome. We are currently looking for donations to keep this program in 2009. There are still sponsorship opportunities available to support this creative and innovative project. Anyone interested should contact PPCAP director, Kitty Love, at kitty@arts2people.org
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Asheville Mural Project (AMP)
The Asheville Mural Project, a project of Arts2People, exists to beautify and diversify Asheville's urban landscape, providing artists and local community members with the opportunity to design and implement their own public art. We believe that murals enhance quality of life and create artful metropolitan experience through the transformation of conventional architecture. Our murals are both the testimony and celebration of a lively local arts culture.
In July 2007 Jen opened up her home to friends, neighbors, and strangers destined to become friends. The goal was to bring as many community members into her just sufficing home-studio and document their presence in the Asheville community through a portrait that exhibited each individual in an honest and provoking manner. Each participant was asked to bring an item with them, not necessarily tangible, that somehow encapsulated a portion of their personality or status in Asheville or the surrounding community.
Jen photographed 111 participants and was about to close her studio doors to start on the post-production processing, when her home was burglarized and the studio destroyed. The vandals escaped with her camera and the hard-drive that held all of the photos. All she was left with were 27 photos she had transferred onto another hard-drive for editing purposes. Almost resigned to give up on the project completely, she remembered what was the core of mission's purpose:
- to bring the community closer together
- to show ourselves as we wish to be seen
- to create and strengthen the bonds of friends and neighbors
- and to inspire everyone to celebrate their individuality within the Asheville community.
Jen's passion revived, she set forth to start over.
In a display of the true character Jen was attempting to document, the community came together and saved the Faces of Asheville Photo-Documentary Project. To read more about the amazing journey of the project see the Faces of Asheville Website.
This photo is from a Latin Dance Class the REACH offered in the spring of 2008.
Responsive Education Accessing Creativity for Healing (REACH)
Mission: to bring the healing power of arts to those in need. The REACH Program recognizes that arts education is an essential element to a healthy community.
REACH OUT provides an opportunity for those in crisis to access the amazing restorative powers of the creative experience. Through classes and workshops taught by area arts professionals and educators, REACH provides a venue for area social service organizations to expand programming for those they serve, utilizing the therapeutic possibilities of the arts.
REACH BEYOND provides professional support programming and resources to benefit the careers of local working artists.
REACH IN gives anyone the opportunity to explore creativity and get in touch with the artist within.
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Heroes
Executive Director: Kitty Love
Board of Directors:
President: Michael Delia
Vice President: Erin Scholze
Secretary: Emily Balcken
Treasurer: Amy Kemp
Jim Julien
Torva Logan
Steve Schain
Arts 2 People is...
a non-profit social service organization devoted to promoting the role of the arts as an integral part of our culture by serving the entire community through arts outreach, bringing the arts to those in need of the healing power of art, supporting the careers of artists, and through community cultural development.
Our Major projects include the Lexington Ave Arts and Fun Festival (LAAFF), the Asheville Mural Project (AMP) and The REACH educational programming. For more information, please visit our website at www.Arts2People.org
Mission
1. We believe everyone should have access to the transformational power of creative expression. We offer classes to the general public on a sliding scale, and provide arts-in-education opportunities to underprivileged populations.
2. We see a need for local career artists, musicians and craftspeople to learn more about marketing themselves and networking with others in their field. We offer a variety of showcasing, networking, and mentoring opportunities for these professionals to increase their ability to be financially self-sufficient.
3. Lastly, we are committed to strengthening the reputation Asheville has as a haven for the arts. We want to make the arts so firmly established here that the future growth of Asheville will not weaken our identity as an artistic community.
Who I'd like to meet: If any of our endeavors have caught your attention and you want to get involved somehow but you're not quite sure how to connect, VOLUNTEER! It's never too soon to let us know you're interested and we can definitely use your help… Let us know exactly how you wish to participate and THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!
Areas available in which to volunteer . . .
LAAFF: Refer to the LAAFF page on our website www.arts2people.org for a list of fun activities or bring your own artsy idea to the festival. All areas need volunteers during planning and on the day of the festival. Contact us for more info.
Asheville Mural Project: Make community contacts, create new projects, design, paint, and plan! Contact Molly for more info.
Teaching Opportunities: We are seeking teachers for three areas.
1) Teach art to the general public.
2) Teach artists career skills.
3) Work with disadvantaged populations using art as a healing tool.
For more info go to the REACH page for application information and class proposal forms. Email REACH@arts2people.org for more information.
Arts2People general: Lots of help is needed with data entry and other secretarial jobs! Help us grow our contact lists and provide ever improving services.
For the second year in a row, WNC magazine is putting out the
call to Western North Carolina’s emerging visual artists. It’s a
crowded field around here for talented people and sometimes it can be
difficult to get your work seen by the public. That’s why we’re looking
for painters, sculptors, ceramicists, photographers, mixed media
artist, fabric artists, and any other type of local visual artist who’s
looking for their opportunity to reach a wider audience.
We’re accepting submissions for On the Verge, a juried competition,
from now until Friday, January 15, 2010. Submit your entry at www.wncmagazine.com/otv. The selected visual artists
will not only be featured in WNC magazine’s Arts Issue in June,
but will also have their work exhibited in a month-long show at Flood
Gallery & Fine Arts Center in the heart of Asheville’s River Arts
District.
Saturday Night, July 25th...as Bele Chere winds down for the evening, The Boiler Room and Grove House light up the night and continue the party! Drinking, dancing, DJ's, live music and drag queens--all under one roof...all at the Grove House...all night long Saturday night!
Come check us out as we play at The Boiler Room along with our friends Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun and Kavish (from Atlanta and Winston-Salem respectively). Check them out @ myspace.com/todaythemoontomorrowthesun and myspace.com/kavish13 . Come prepared to party and to dance your ass off--and bring all your friends! See ya there!
Hi Arts 2 People! Thanks for the friendship. We have a show coming up in Raleigh, NC May 30th. Check the event link below for details. Hope to see you there! Click Here To View Event <>>> <>>>
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