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Ashe County’s September Gallery Crawl to Feature New Exhibits, Coincide with On the Same Page Festival

by Emma Speckman

Sept. 9, 2014. The Ashe County Arts Council invites art lovers to wander the streets of downtown West Jefferson Friday, Sept. 12 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for this month’s Gallery Crawl. Sixteen galleries will be open after hours to showcase the latest artwork of talented local and regional artists.

The Gallery Crawl is a free event and is sponsored by the Ashe County Arts Council in cooperation with the West Jefferson Business Association, the West Jefferson Tourism Development Authority and is funded, in part, through a Grassroots Arts Program Grant of the North Carolina Arts Council.

This month’s Crawl is connected with the county’s seventh annual On the Same Page Literary Festival, taking place Sept. 16-20.

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Ashe”s County”s September Gallery Crawl will preview the county”s seventh annual literary festival.

“There will be folks on the street reading poems for the crawl,” Rebecca Williams, program director for the Ashe County Arts Council, said. “It”sВ sort of a performance piece.”

Street readers include: Fran Cook, Maureen Dintino. Henry Doss and Scot Pope, Naomi Faw, Mickeal Goss, Annehart Herrick, Sandy and Dal Lassen, Suzanne Moore, Diana Renfro, Ramona Renfro and Gilly Macknee.

“These are all writers from Ashe county and Friends of the Library,” Williams said.

The Crawl will also coincide with the opening reception of Ashe County Arts Council’s newest exhibit, More Than Words.

“Visual artists have paired up with writers for this exhibit, which opens Friday” Williams said.

In this exhibit, visual artists create works and writers respond to them with a poem or short narrative.

The results are original works that, in turn, inspire other works of art. Each tries to relate to the other to the other by describing the essence of the other’s original art, Williams said.

This exhibit will be on display in the Arts Center through Oct. 4.

In addition to The Ashe County Arts Council gallery, 15 other galleries in downtown West Jefferson will participate in the Crawl.

“Each individual gallery always does something special for the gallery crawl,” Williams said.

Galleries will feature new exhibits, new artists and new works. For more information about the Crawl, the Literary Festival or Ashe County Arts, visit www.ashecountyarts.org or call 336-846-ARTS.

The following galleries will participate in Friday’s Crawl.

Acorn Gallery
103 Long St.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-246-3388

www.acorngallery.com

Ashe County Arts Center
303 School Ave.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-846-ARTS

www.ashecountyarts.org

Ashe Custom Framing & Gallery
105 S Jefferson Ave.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-846-2218

www.ashecustomframing.com

Backstreet Beads
111 A N.В Jefferson Ave.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-877-7686

www.backstreetbeads.com

Bohemia Gallery
106 N. Jefferson Ave.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-846-1498

www.bohemianc.com

Broomfields Gallery
414 E. 2nd St.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-846-4141

www.broomfieldsgallery.com

CatchLight Gallery
118 N Jefferson Ave.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-846-1551

www.CatchLightGallery.net

Everything Has a Story
16 North Jefferson Ave.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-846-6220

www.everythinghasastoryshop.com

Florence Thomas Art School
10 S Jefferson Ave.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-846-3827

www.florenceartschool.org

French’s Art Gallery
119 N Jefferson Avenue
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-877-2929

Original’s Only Gallery
3-B N.Jefferson Ave.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-846-1636

http://www.joanbell.com/

Quilt Square Girls
5 E 2nd St.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336- 385-0197

http://ilovebarnquilts.com/

Ripples Gallery
101 North Jefferson Ave.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-246-2607

www.claytonproctor.com

RT Morgan Art Gallery
120 N. Jefferson Ave.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-246-3328

www.rtmorganartgallery.com

Stephen Shoemaker Studio
111В N.В Jefferson Ave.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-877-7642

www.stephenshoemaker.com

The Artists’ Theatre
8 East Main St.
West Jefferson, NC 28694
336-846-3355

http://www.theartiststheatre.com/

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