Pocosin Arts to host Paint The Town community mural creation at Scuppernong River Festival Oct. 13
Published 12:31 pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018
By Michelle Clower
Programs Director
Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft
Once again Pocosin Arts will participate in this year’s Riverfest, inviting festival-goers to help create a 35-foot-long collaborative, community mural in downtown Columbia.
This year’s theme, “Paint the Town”, will appear on the south wall of Pocosin Arts Riverside Lodge. Together with visiting artists Stuart Kestenbaum and Susan Webster of Deer Isle, Maine, Pocosin Arts resident artists, and staff, individual participants will begin with a blank paper T-shirt pattern adhered to the mural wall.
Using paint, pencils, markers, glitter, and other exciting materials, individuals will create self-portraits, adding arms legs, clothing, hair, jewelry — whatever makes them unique.
The goal at the end of the day is to have a colorful, energetic, 35-foot community portrait of the diverse, creative citizens of our community.
Susan Webster is a visual artist and printmaker who lives in Deer Isle. She works primarily with an innovative printmaking technique — the gelatin plate process —developed by painter/printmaker Francis Merritt, with whom she studied and taught. Critic Philip Isaacson has written that her prints “have the formal complexity and, often, the chromatic depth of oriental rugs. There is invention, verve, gorgeous color and continuous freshness.”
Stuart Kestenbaum is an honorary fellow of the American Craft Council and recently received the Distinguished Educator’s Award from the James Renwick Alliance. He was the director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine, for 27 years, where he established innovative programs combining craft and writing and craft and new technologies. He’s currently serving as Maine’s poet laureate.
Come meet these visiting artists and help Pocosin Arts celebrate life on the Scuppernong on October 13 for Columbia’s Scuppernong River Festival. This event is open to the public.
Please contact 252-796-2787 or email info@pocosinarts.org for more information.