WAC Gallery Information for October 2007

An exciting month of exhibits with a focus on the environment are in the galleries of the Watauga Arts Council in downtown Boone’s historic Jones House Community Center.

In the downstairs Mazie Jones Gallery, “Soap Box Prints: For a Cleaner Environment”, an exhibition and sale to benefit the American Print Alliance will be on display all month. The open portfolio exhibit  of prints, paperworks and artists books are by artists who are 2006 subscribers to Contemporary Impressions or members of allied print alliance councils.

This exhibit is one of three in the community that coincide with The Print Dialogue Day, a one-day symposium organized each year by the American Print Alliance. This event is being hosted this year by the Appalachian State University art department.

In the upstairs Open Door Gallery, Photographer and ASU student Heidi Hatcher focuses her aim at water in all its forms, whether it is acting as a serene and refreshing sustainer of life, an ominous veil over dangers within, or a powerful and ferocious entity of itself.

“Dihydrogen Monoxide” is a collection of images that strives to capture a glimpse at the universal nature and importance of water as seen from various perspectives: creatures that depend on it for life; humans that use it to their own ends; and the landscape that relies on it.

“Raised on the Roanoke River in Eastern North Carolina as the daughter of a Game Warden, I grew up among nature, the living water and the very forest as my home,” Hatcher said. “I’ve been infused with a respect for the environment that nourishes us, and as I’ve grown, I’ve sought to express that respect and adoration through my artistic endeavors.”
 
 Both exhibits are on display from Tuesday, October 2nd until Friday, November 9th  from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays. The  Arts Council galleries are also open Thursdays from 7:30 to 11 p.m. during the acoustic jams at the Jones House .

The gallery reception to welcome these exhibits is Friday, October 5 from 5:30-8p.m. and is held in conjunction with downtown Boone’s First Friday Art Crawl.
Local author Judith Geary will also be on hand  to sign her recently published book,  GERORIX:The Eagle and The Bull,  a Celtic adventure in ancient Rome.   

The galleries are sponsored in part by Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff and Grassroots Funds of the North Carolina Arts Council. The WAC’s offices and galleries are located in the Jones Jones House Community & Cultural Center, owned by the town of Boone.