IAC's Wabi Sabi Warehouse

Cape Fear Corpsers! Night of the 3D Corpses

2011-10-02T09:13:00.000-07:00

Opening Reception
Friday, October 7
6:00pm-9:00pm
http://capefearcorpsers.org

Artists:
Benjamin Billingsly
Brandon Guthrie
Colleen Ringrose
Drew Craven
Gina Gambony
Lena Moschet
Nicolle X Nixolle
Rachel Kastner
Sam Guin
Shannon Bourne
Todd Carignan

2011-08-20T11:57:00.000-07:00

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***Closing Reception***
Friday, September 23
6pm-9pm
Wabi Sabi Warehouse

presents

a Multiplexitude of Work from Various Artists

namely...

MAPS (to Nevada?)

Opening Reception

**Friday, September 2**

6:00-9:00pm

This exhibit features a collection of work from both local and alien artists who have interpreted the notion of Mapmaking in their own way. This call for work was inspired by the Art and Thought of Robert Delford Brown ("Bob"), founder of The First National Church of the Exquisite Panic, Inc. Bob said, "Many religions teach how to get to Nirvana. They all give very complicated directions. The First National Church of the Exquisite Panic, Inc tells you how to get to Nevada. It sounds close and it's simple. You take a bus!"

Bob was a good friend of Wabi Sabi and a former resident of Wilmington before making his ephemeral departure in March, 2009 to the Nevada in the Exquisite dimension. Over the years, Bob made lots of Maps to Nevada and encouraged his followers to make whatever they wanted, too.

One piece of special note included in in this exhibit is a collaborative work by the children of SOLA, created under the direction of Isabel Heblich. During his stay in Wilmington, Bob visited SOLA and let the kids paint his car. (I suspect he also taught them one of the commandments of his Church, namely, Don't Eat Cars.) After his Final Departure, Isabel visited these same kids and they created their own aptly titled "Map to Nevada" in memoriam of Bob, his life, and his Generous art. We approach this exhibit with the same feeling.

Fritzi Huber will be on-hand at the Opening Reception assisting willing participants in navigating their internal landscapes. Just choose an organ to be ballpoint tattooed on your body. Directions to said location, whether by arrow or word, will accompany the image. Gina Gambony will use her Exquisite mystic powers to identify items inside your body you never knew about that can also be included in your body map tattoo.

We expect 20+ works of art from the following list of inspired folk, give or take a few, although as Bob would say, "Who? Knows!" The works are being collected directly prior to the Opening Reception and a final list of participants will be updated right here.

Web Connections

Bob's Church: www.funkup.com

SOLA: www.solaschools.com

Maps (to Nevada?) Artists Submitting:

Benjamin Billingsly

Elsie Ridings Boyce

Todd Carignan

Breta Cecile Carnes

Michelle Connolly

Alice Corl
Saralyn Twiggy Earp

Jude Eden

Gina Gambony

Taylor Goodell

Barbara Hause

Diane Hause

Isabel Heblich/SOLA

Mark Herbert

Niki Hildebrand

Fritzi Huber

Saben Kane

Donna Moore

Nicolle Nicolle

Blair Nidds

Greg Patch

Veronica Plankers

Dindy Reich

Colleen Ringrose

Tatyana Shelley

Billy Stewart

Erin Tetterton

2011-06-19T21:44:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR ART
The Exhibit: Maps (to Nevada)

WHAT: Wabi Sabi Warehouse is calling out with a loud voice for MAP ART.
Art made from Maps, Maps made from Art, Mapping, Journeying, Topography in this or other dimensions, from Here to There, Map Quest, Directions, Cartography, Street View, etc, etc, and so on.
Your interpretation is correct.

WHY: This exhibit is inspired by the map-making work of artist and founder of the 1st National Church of the Exquisite Panic, namely, Robert Delford Brown and his prolific creation of maps to Nevada. What he said:
"Many religions teach how to get to Nirvana. They all give very complicated directions. The First National Church of the Exquisite Panic, Inc tells you how to get to Nevada. It sounds close and it's simple. You take a bus!"
Maps for this exhibit can take this into account or not. We'd like to see what you say.

DIRECTIONS: Artists interested in submitting work for this exhibit should contact Gallery Manager Gina at ginagambony@gmail.com.
Provide 2 things:
1. Approximate thoughts about the media you will use for your piece.
2. Approximate thoughts about the size of the intended piece.

SCHEDULE:
-by- July 20: CONTACT Gallery Manager regarding interest
August 21, 22, 23: Art Delivery to Wabi Sabi Warehouse
Friday, August 26: Opening Reception
Friday, October 7: Closing Reception

This is exhibit is being judged, juried, and executioned by Gina Gambony and Fritzi Huber.
Inspirational Photo by Robert Delford Brown, www.funkup.com

Opening: How Things Grow

2011-05-24T07:59:00.000-07:00

Reception 4th Friday, June 24

with Jesse from "The Bear Romantic"!

6pm-9pm

"How Things Grow"
by Kate Sinclair & Meredith Connelly
Saturday, June 4
6pm-9pm
Installations, Sculptures, Paintings, Ceramic Works
Wabi Sabi Warehouse, 9th & Princess
On the Web: Kate Sinclair

I am getting really excited about this opening! Kate and Meredith have a vision for this coordinated display of work, so much of it is about LIGHT-light as energy (that cannot be created or destroyed), the primeval experience of light at birth, the way light affects color, Reflection, the organic progression of living things toward the light...simultaneously, this work is informed by the natural world, the cyclical/circular patterns of living/dying and the natural movement and patterns of light and shadow. WoW! This is not just a display of the works of two different artists with two different ideas set side by side, but a cooperative venture that has been created through the sharing of ideas. Kate's work is primarily painting (check out her website, link above), while Meredith brings glowing installations inspired by nature. And there's other stuff too, I just can't wait to see it all. Join us for the opening, let's see what they're up to.

The Glitter Days of Late Spring

2011-05-19T10:14:00.000-07:00

Addie Wuensch in the House

Even if you've seen our current exhibit, "Glitter Bath" by Addie Wuensch, the art has changed over the course of the month. For every piece sold, new pieces have been hung-including Jewels. We have this work in the wareHouse, along with the artist, for the next little bit.

Sunday, May 22: Noon-3pm warehouse Open for regular Wabitation Hours, hosted by Addie with her Pink Cookies. Tea and Ding.

Friday, May 27: 6pm-9pm warehouse Open for the Closing Reception of "Glitter Bath." All the hoopla you would expect, including~POEM RELEASE. If you have a poem you would like to Release to the human collective mind, bring it. If you can't make it to the event, we can still release your poem, just send it wabitation{}gmail.com. COLLABORATIVE GLUING. Big piece of paper wants you to glue something on it. We shall have bits to glue, but you are free to bring your own 2 to 2 1/2 dimensional object. SOUND COLLAGE. Bring an Instrument. This could be within your own throat. Be prepared to make a noise. And of course, my friends, MORE GLITTER BAPTISM, sainthood is attainable through Glitter wAblution.

AND WHAT'S NEXT? Stay tuned for information on our next Opening: How Things Grow by Meredith Connolly & Kate Sinclair. Saturday, June 4.

2011-03-23T05:26:00.000-07:00

Sale Extended! Happening TODAY April 3, Noon-3pm. Come on in for our new Sunday Open Hours, have a cup of Tea. Art Studio Open House & ART SALE! Todd Carignon Saturday, March 26 3:00pm-6:00pm & Sunday, March 27 NOON-6:00pm Wabi Sabi Warehouse 9th & Princess

Come by and get some everything-must-go priced art! I need the room, and you need art on your wall! I will also be at the studio on Saturday from 3:00-6:00, so feel free to stop by then as well!

"Glitter Bath" Saturday, April 9th

2011-03-20T06:49:00.000-07:00

An Opening Service of the 1st National Church of the Exquisite Panic, namely:

"Glitter Bath"

by Addie Wuensch
Saturday, April 9
8pm-11pm

Ms. Wuensch describes this collection of work as a catalyst for "introspective retrospection," an examination of our lives from the quiet simplicity of the childhood tub of water to the sophisticated glitterfication of adulthood. Glitter is not just a sparkly substance that catches our eye and gums up the vacuum, but is metaphored into the influence of language, fashion, media, and society at large, effectively coating our skin and eyeballs and burying the underlying reality of humanhood. It has been suggested that the mirrored, reflective quality of glitter may most pointedly represent a dulling of the capacity to absorb, possibly a reaction to post-modern architecture in the post-modern world. It has also been suggested that glitter is "the herpes of arts & crafts"; Ms. Wuensch decries this assessment and posits that glitter is an unfortunate but absolutely curable disease, more like gonorrhea.

This exhibit features over a dozen of Ms. Wuensch's mixed-media works, as well as a collection of adornments and readings from her recently published book of poems by the same name (Glitter Bath). Guests are also invited to join us in ritual glitterfication and cleansing, a public service in light of the Azalea Festival happenings just a few blocks away.

Wabi Sabi seeks...

2011-01-04T13:46:00.000-08:00

Wabi Sabi Warehouse seeks gallery and studio manager with endless energy, sustained intellectual fortitude and strong fingers. The "GSM" will work closely with Studio Overlord "Saint 43" to curate exhibitions for the 2011 calendar year. The GSM will also be responsible for basic studio upkeep and maintenance. This is a part-time position with a small base salary and an additional percentage of gallery sales. Prospective GSMs should have exhibition and event planning experience and be familiar with local artists. GSM candidates should have reliable transportation and be self-motivated and outgoing. The GSM will be expected to work at least 20 hours per month (five hours per week) and will be responsible for overseeing volunteers and feeding Nevi the chicken. Applications should include a resume, cover letter and an inappropriate collage. All applications should be sent to: Saint 43, PO Box 95, Wilmington, NC 28402.

Heather and Nicole deciding where to lunch.

2010-11-05T07:00:00.002-07:00

Abby and Dixon taking a break.

2010-11-05T07:00:00.001-07:00

Perry's new student only wants to play "Stairway"

2010-11-05T06:53:00.000-07:00

'WheelieBob' and 'Death Be Not Plastic' at Scrapel Hill

2010-10-19T10:58:00.000-07:00

Scrapel Hill is a juried public art exhibition at the University Mall in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The 22 included works are created from recycled materials, and will be on display through November 18th, 2010. Part of the exhibition programming includes workshops by this year’s juror, Santa Fe, NM artist Nancy Judd who transforms trash into elegant couture fashions and showcases the Recycle Runway Collection in airport exhibitions, museums, malls, class rooms and media outlets around the nation to inspire individuals to recycle, conserve resources, and prevent pollution. Her elegant designs have been commissioned by Coca-Cola, Target, and Toyota. www.townofchapelhill.org

IAC's own Dixon Stetler and Dan Brawley have 2 works that were accepted into the exhibition:

'WheelieBob' and 'Death Be Not Plastic'

2 Hours of Stilting Increases Your Sexual Prowess!

2010-07-12T12:19:00.000-07:00

Stilt Workshop!
Amaze your friends! Impress the mayor! Conquer the upper cabinet!

Jengo's Playhouse
815 Princess Street
Sunday, July 18
Noon-2
15 years and up
$10
Limited to 15 participants
Bring long pants you can move in and work boots or closed toe shoes that will support your arches. No tennis shoes, flip flops or high heels
With NANA PROJECTS
www.nanaprojects.com

Handmade Puppet Dreams at IAC!

2010-07-10T16:19:00.000-07:00

Wabi Sabi Warehouse will host ‘Handmade Puppet Dreams’, an exhibition of contemporary puppets curated by Heather Henson. As part of the 2010 Port City Puppet Festival, the Wabi Sabi Warehouse exhibition features a selection of cutting-edge puppets and sets featured in the Handmade Puppet Dreams film series. The film series will be screened across the street at Jengo’s Playhouse.

Showcasing a new generation of puppeteers, these short films run the gamut from marionettes to finger puppets to paper cutouts. Recent awards include “The Best Puppet Film” at The World Puppet Festival in Prague and a 2009 “UNIMA Citation of Excellence." The series has entertained audiences in the US as well as France, Czech Republic, India, United Kingdom, Puerto Rico and Israel.
Handmade Puppet Dreams is a compilation of contemporary artisans who carefully weave their craft of film-making and puppetry into their work, building their visions, and breathing life into their dreams.

Handmade Puppet Dreams film screenings:

Jengo’s Playhouse, 815 Princess Street

Friday, July 16^th 7pm & 8:30pm (Adult Themed!)

Saturday, July 17^th 11am, Noon, & 1pm (Super Duper Family Friendly!)

Handmade Puppet Dreams Exhibition opening reception (Heather Henson will be in the House!!!)

Wabi Sabi Warehouse, 19 North 9^th Street

Saturday, July 17^th, 11am-2pm

The puppet exhibition is free and open to the public through August 6.

Film screenings tickets $3

Free for Port City Puppet Festival registrants

http://www.portcitypuppet.org/

www.handmadepuppetdreams.com

BOBSALE!

2010-02-12T08:02:00.000-08:00

BOBSALE! A silent auction from the Estate of Robert Delford Brown

A sale for the future of all beings and an event full of questions like Who? Knows!

In the chasm of afterness left by the great leader Robert Delford Brown's journey into the future, the First National Church of the Equisite Panic is liquidating sacred objects of all kinds. This one day only, cash-is-still-cash event is a "hand holding hands" communion sponsored by Independent Art Company and held at the sacred portal of Wabi Sabi Warehouse. Journey through the holy chalice of Pharblongence with your check or cash or money order, because we do not accept American Express, Visa, Mastercard, Diner's Club, Medicaid, or IOUs.

A silent (hush, hush SHUT-UP!) auction containing artworks from the estate of Robert Delford Brown will be held on Saturday, February 20th, at Wabi Sabi Warehouse, 19 North 9th Street, from 11am-4pm. Auction items include Mirrored Mandalas, Ikonomobiles, Gluings, Maps to Nevada, Ephemera, and other artworks from the estate.

Absentee bids will be accepted via telephone at 910-599-0476 or via email: archibaldheptinstall@gmail.com

All absentee bids must be received by 2:37 pm on Saturday, February 20th, 2010.

All shipping, packing, storing, and geographic dislocations will be the responsibility of the buyer. All sales will be final, and artwork must be picked up at Wabi Sabi Warehouse on or before February 27th, 2010.

For more information about Robert Delford Brown, visit http://robertdelfordbrown.com/

For more information than you can handle, visit the internet now!

For hi-res photographs and further information about the works in the auction, contact Dan Brawley via telephone 910-599-0476 or on the interwebs at archibaldheptinstall@gmail.com

Artist Seeks Fabric

2010-02-01T09:34:00.000-08:00

Artist seek fabric: Any color, any type for LARGE weaving project. LIKE WOW! One yard lengths or bigger, please. Drop off at Wabi Sabi Warehouse, 19 North 9th Street or email dixonstetler@gmail.com to arrange to pick up. Thanks!

2010-01-19T07:15:00.000-08:00

Reborn Designs by Samantha Barnett

2010-01-14T04:40:00.000-08:00

Metal design is my passion.

I find it satisfying to take a flat piece of metal and form it into something people can wear and enjoy. Although often sculptural, my work functions primarily as body adornment and appeals to the public. I am inspired by nature, and in particular the textures and colors of marine life. I attempt to recreate the ruggedness and imperfections found in the natural world. Fabrication techniques, casting and electro-forming allow me to create tactile surfaces on three dimensional forms. By sifting, drawing and painting with enamel, color and detail are added to the forms. I hope the wearer enjoys my jewelry as much as I enjoy making it.

reborndesignsbysb.com

ARTIST SEEKS KEYS

2009-10-14T09:21:00.000-07:00

I am an artist beginning a public art project in downtown Wilmington. In order for this project to proceed, I am asking friends, family and the community to help support the key project by donating unused/ miscut keys. I need 56,000. That’s right: 56,000

‘Keys with a View’ is a temporary public art project to be installed on the fencing that surrounds the construction site of the new residential property, The View on Water Street, in downtown Wilmington. Artist facilitator Dixon Stetler will collect thousands of no-longer used keys and hang them onto the grid of the fence using paperclips.
‘Keys with a View’ is an opportunity for the community to engage in the production of public art. The public will be invited to hang their spare keys onto the fence, or to donate keys for the project. A tremendous sense of pride and kinship comes with accomplishing a project with others, even more so when it is in the public realm. This connection between the community and the art makes for a meaningful public art project.
The key is an object with many symbolic meanings. For a little girl with a diary, a key means privacy. A teenager with a driver’s license sees a key as the promise of freedom. To latch-key kids, children who let themselves in at home after-school, keys represent safety. For a first time homeowner, a key is a dream realized. Thousands of these talismans are safely tucked away in our drawers, until their purpose has been forgotten or relinquished. Keys as we know them are now becoming obsolete, transforming them into an appropriate material for art. Hotel rooms are accessed with plastic cards, and a car starts without ever taking the "key" out of your pocket. Alluding to the future of The View on Water Street as a residential property, keys can also be thought of as opening doors and unlocking new ideas about how we define public art: even a construction worksite can be transformed into an art space.
Dreams of Wilmington, an art education program, fosters self expression while providing a mentoring relationship between artists and at-risk youth. A print making class taught by artist Michael Van Hout is making large two color linoleum cut prints of keys. Numbered prints will be given to project sponsors. Renato Abbate’s ceramic students are making clay keys that they will hang on the fence, and Matt Bumgardner’s photography students are making ‘keyhole’ cameras. An African drumming class led by Sai Collins will collaborate by serenading key hangers as they work on the fence.
A group of high school students through Communities in Schools and Dreams of Wilmington are designated ‘Assistant Project Managers’. Duties include assisting in key donation collection, greeting the public and media at the installation site, explaining project, helping people hang keys, and stamping hands with the official ‘Keys with a View’ stamp on the hands who have participated. The kids will maintain a blog where they document the progress of the fence through photographs and document interactions with the public.
Kids Making It, an afterschool woodworking program in downtown Wilmington, is participating by producing lightweight acrylic keys in various colors and sizes, all inscribed with the Kids Making It logo. Cape Fear River Watch contributes by carving an old canoe paddle into a key. Visitors to the Children’s Museum of Wilmington can paint a key in the art room, and bring it to the fence for installation.

Drop off boxes are located:

Cameron Art Museum

Tidal Creek Co-op

UNCW Art Department

Folk's Cafe

Jengo's Playhouse

or they can be mailed to: 2067 Harrison Street, Wilmington, NC 28401

This venture will be made possible through cooperation, collaboration, and PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE. I appreciate your support of the arts in Wilmington. I look forward to seeing you there.

Sincerely, Dixon Stetler

Dixonstetler@gmail.com

Nature Wars by Abby Spangel Perry- a small group of paintings with a big story

2009-10-05T05:15:00.000-07:00

Nature Wars by Abby Spangel Perry is a small group of paintings with a big story. It is a cautionary tale that speaks to our current relationship with the environment. What unfolds through a series of children’s story book style images is a visual account of the abuses against nature experienced through the eyes of a few little bunnies and their choice to stand up to the rats that are at the bottom of the situation. These bunnies face many of the same issues we as a society experience every day. In the end, we all must “draw our own conclusions” and through an interactive piece viewers of Nature Wars are asked to do just that. What solution do you have to offer?
Nature Wars is a series of mixed media drawings/paintings, sound, and interactive art.

The show is the direct result of the luxury of studio space provided through a 2008-2009 NC Arts Council Regional Artist Grant.
Opening reception with the artist: Friday November 6, 7-9pm

Exhibition on view: November 5 through December 13th, 2009

2009-09-22T09:37:00.000-07:00

Death Be Not Plastic

Grand Procession of Peculiar Pets

2009-08-24T10:20:00.000-07:00

The Grand Procession of Peculiar Pets seeks jugglers, stilt-walkers, fire-eaters, acrobats, musicians, all other performance types, and anyone who wants to be in a parade. Freaky people need apply. We will Assemble at Peculiar Pet Making Parties to make Attire and Adornments that will Transform ourselves into Exotic Creatures! Peculiar Pet Making Parties are free and open to artists of all ages! You may use our art supplies, or bring some of your own.

Peculiar Pet Making Parties:
Sun 8/30 1pm-4pm Bailey Theater Park, 20 North Front St. (next to Kingoff's Jewelers)
Tues 9/1 6-9pm Bottega Bar and Gallery 208 North Front St.
Tues 9/8 6-9pm Bottega Bar and Gallery 208 North Front St.

The Grand Procession of Peculiar Pets as will be featured during the 8th Annual Art Walk in Downtown Wilmington, Saturday, Sep 12th at 1:00pm, starting at Front and Orange Streets.
Peculiar Pet Making Parties need art supplies! Paint-glue-fabric-fur-sparkles-feathers-string-cardstock-ribbon- all that stuff you’ve been saving for something. THE SOMETHING IS HERE! Please donate your unwanted materials to The Grand Procession of Peculiar Pets!
Please drop off materials at Wabi Sabi Warehouse, 19th north 9th Street, this Thursday or Friday or Monday, 10-5pm

For more information:
Chris Andrews artandantiquewalk@hotmail.com
Dixon Stetler dixonstetler@gmail.com

Art Studios available at IAC’s Wabi Sabi Warehouse

2009-07-31T06:08:00.000-07:00

Make art in the heart of Wilmington’s Soda Pop District! Like Wow!
Rent includes all utilities, wireless internet, a shared kitchen and
other lively artists nearby.
Get out of your garage! Live!
email Dan Brawley for more info
dan@cucalorus.org

Dixon’s After-School Garbage Art Guild for Kids

2009-07-30T09:18:00.000-07:00

The After-School Garbage Art Guild projects involve weaving, painting, performance art, public collaborations, mosaics, sculpture, and assorted other messy fun cool stuff using recycled materials. Garbage Guild kids will end the session with a REAL art exhibition and reception at Wabi Sabi Warehouse.

Classes will be held at Independent Art Company's Wabi Sabi Warehouse, 19 north 9th Street.

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays

(sign up for the same day each week)

3:45-5:00pm
September 22- December 17

$350 Tuition includes all art supplies and snacks
Class is limited to 5 students ages 8-13

email Dixonstetler@gmail.com for info

Basic Batik Workshop at Wabi Sabi Warehouse!

2009-05-27T10:45:00.000-07:00

Saturday, July 18, 2009
10:00am-4:00pm
$70 includes all supplies

Whether or not you consider yourself artistic, experimenting with batik will lead you to new discoveries about yourself and your creative process. With an understanding of the basic techniques of batik, you can explore a contemporary interpretation of this ancient medium. Layers of color will be created through successive steps of waxing and dyeing, using traditional tjanting tools, brushes and sponges. Prepare to play with the unpredictable, and work intensively on several pieces of batik. Students will complete either an apron or canvas tote.

Class size is limited to 12 adults For registration and information: dixonstetler@gmail.com

Many More Miles

2009-03-22T08:51:00.000-07:00

Bike Tire Tube Palapa

Dixon Stetler

Sunset Park Elementary School, Wilmington, NC

March 2009

2009-03-18T12:27:00.000-07:00

“My Downtown Wilmington”
@ Wabi Sabi Warehouse Photographs by Carlton Wilkinson Asst. Professor of Art / Gallery Director Dept. of Art and Art History, UNCW
Exhibition dates: March 27-May 1 Opening reception: Friday, March 27, 7-10pm

My Downtown Wilmington
Since my arriving in Wilmington in January 2007 I have had a real roller coaster ride of emotions concerning my living downtown. I soon learned that I joined a beautiful, historic area that has a true dark side. The dark side was a historic separation of race and class.

The housing boom was had just begun to cool off in 2007. I made its final assault in 2008 which put on hold the ‘gentrification’ process that the city encouraged as a renewal of a vital downtown.

There is mixed blessing about the revitalization process as many historic residents were faced with relocation as the area became more expensive to reside in. Property values and taxes have effectively, burdened the low-income residents. The downtown region was marketed as the new, hip neighborhood with the amenities of having central access to the riverfront businesses and landmarks. The poor, black residents were marginally included in this transformation. Additionally, drug and gang activity nag the peaceful existence of young professionals and affluent retirees who decided to nurture the charm of living downtown.

Over the past two years I have photographed some of the nuances that makes Downtown living a great asset, such as, the city festivals, restaurants and access to art performances. But I also photographed the social ills of neglect, poverty, drugs, gangs and crime. The latter is a culture that did not fit in the ‘New Downtown’ historic and revival neighborhood structure. Some might say that these social ills do not fit anywhere else.

I am sharing my experiences with both light and heavy heart. It is a place I now describe as my home – Downtown Wilmington. -Carlton Wilkinson

'Down the Line' Recent work by Erica Morgan at Wabi Sabi Warehouse

2009-02-08T14:23:00.000-08:00

Exhibition Dates: February 27-March 20, 2009

Opening Reception:

Friday, February 27th, 7-10pm

Erica Morgan's unconventional artwork revolves around her passion for environmental awareness and sustainability. She uses materials that are both fabricated/manufactured and organic/natural to address the relationship between the two opposites and how they affect each other. All of the fabricated materials she uses are either found, like a discarded sliding glass door frame, or materials previously existing, such as vintage fabrics. The organic material is never alive or still intact with nature when she discovers it and deems it useful and the origin of location for all her materials is absolutely relevant within each piece.

Upon recently moving back to her coastal hometown of Southport, she was faced with a place not recognizable to the little girl who used to go fishing with her dad at 6am on the rocks. The rapid growth of Southport has created development that condemned memories, allowed profit to swallow nostalgia, and ultimately forced the environment to succumb to the people. Of Course, change is inevitable, and Erica understands both sides of this issue within her art.

She believes that neither the organic nor fabricated could exist without the other; just as love would not be love without hate, and life could not be life without death. They simultaneously depend on one another in order to maintain their identities while battling each other for existence. She is not trying to declare the natural or manufactured victorious over the other; because she believes that they do not have to be at odds, and should not be at odds. Ultimately, Erica establishes a balance between the two, believing that in order for society to most efficiently survive, a balance between environment and development is absolutely necessary and urgent.

'Down the line' features unconventional works that address the relationship between Erica and her hometown, her hometown and its growth, and personal relationships that have been influenced due to her hometown.

Please join us on Friday, February 27th, from 7-10pm, for a reception with the artist, and also tour the artist's studio, housed in Wabi Sabi Warehouse.

Wooly Whoopie at Wabi Sabi Warehouse!

2008-12-05T09:32:00.000-08:00

Wabi Sabi Warehouse to host 2 Feltmaking Workshops taught by master felter Cynthia Mollenkopf January 30, February 1, 2009

Basics of Feltmaking
Saturday, Jan 31, 12:30 - 5:00pm
$70 includes all supplies

Feltmaking is an ancient art form used for both the creation of wearables as well as artistic self expression. Learn about the art of feltmaking and create your own beautiful 2 & 3 dimensional items from wool. We will discuss the history of feltmaking, what factors make a quality felt, choosing the right wool for the project, preparation, combining needle and wet felting, and post production embellishment. This is an in-depth, hands-on, exploration of feltmaking for those with little or no experience, providing the building blocks to take feltmaking in any direction you chose.

Pouch Purse Workshop
Sunday Feb 1, 1 pm - 4:30pm
$55 includes all supplies

Make a pouch purse in the morning and wear it in the evening. That is what you will learn to do in this no seam pouch feltmaking class. Personalize your pouch's shape, decorative elements, closure and strap. No seam techniques can be applied to your future creative projects. Wet felting experience helpful but not required.

email dixonstetler@gmail.com to register or for more information

The Great Hose Round Up

2008-12-05T07:41:00.001-08:00

I am in need of your help. More specifically: I am in need of your garden hoses.
Hoses can be red
hoses can be blue
any old condition
or length will do

Please keep an eye on the side of the road and your neighbor's trash. Report any sightings immediately. (if the garbage truck is en route, STALL)

Thank you for your help in this matter.
I need a bunch.
Sincerely, Dixon Stetler

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

2008-11-07T14:10:00.000-08:00

"A Passive Aggressive Response to Depression"
Paintings and Sculptures by David Bodhi Boylan
at Wabi Sabi Warehouse

Exhibition dates: December 5th-January 10th
Opening Reception: Friday, December 5th, 7-10pm
Dancing between painting, sculpture and performance art, David Bodhi Boylan 's "A Passive Aggressive Response to Depression" is a multifaceted exhibition coming to IAC's Wabi Sabi Warehouse.

David Bodhi Boylan's large paintings deal with the depressive nature of growing up in a small town in the United States. He works with images from memory, depicting the landscape of his childhood in upstate New York, as well as from his current small town home of Wilmington, NC. Boylan is also motivated by the second hand domestic goods he encounters through his work with Habitat for Humanity. "A Passive Aggressive Response to Depression" includes sculpture that resembles furniture and household items reconstructed with discarded materials such as garbage bags and photocopies. Unconventional materials and symbolic elements of design contribute to the breaking down of traditional boundaries between art and functional design. These works challenge us to redefine "furniture".

Please join us on Friday, December 5th, from 7-10pm, for a reception with the artist, and also tour the artist's studio, housed in Wabi Sabi Warehouse.

David Bodhi Boylan has been shown artwork in Boston, MA; Brooklyn, NY; Cleveland, OH; and Quebec City, Quebec. He has recently returned from a month long artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center. This is his first solo exhibition.

2008-09-19T16:48:00.000-07:00

Recycled Regurgitations

at Wabi Sabi Warehouse

An exhibition of art created by John Goras

Exhibition dates:October 3-November 21

Opening reception: Friday, October 3rd, 7-10pm

John Goras is as prolific as Picasso, but with an anti-aesthetic. Beauty is not the measure here, instead its about invention, surprise, shock, and revulsion. Any available surface is up for grabs. From sheet linoleum to vinyl wallpaper samples, from old album covers to discarded packaging, he has decorated each with collage, painting, drawing, and sculptural relief. Goras' creations gather and project images in a language both ephemeral and sentimental. His fascination with thrown away toys, photos, pornography, menus, magazines, and movie posters, provides him with an endless palette of junk he can draw from again and again to synthesize his art. John Goras creates works from the debris of our cast off culture, instead of more traditional and lasting materials such as marble, bronze, or oil on canvas.

Overwhelming and relentless, his outrageous postcards have insulted letter carriers for nearly ten years. Postal workers have gone so far as to put the offending Goras creation in an opaque postal envelope before delivering it to a mailbox. The subject matter is often a revolting yet humorous look past the grave, into the things we are far too squeamish to embrace. He breaks the mirror, steps on the crack, spills the salt, and walks under the ladder, all with the hope of improving his luck. Goras' artwork stands out like bloodstains on a wedding dress. Brightly colored, controversial, and smartly designed, he produces a style that is instantly recognizable and impossible to counterfeit.

Celestial Complex 43

2008-06-24T16:15:00.000-07:00

Bob Brown at the Cameron with the Endless Tower of Tires and the Glove Palapa. Photo by Christine Cox.

2008-06-16T08:14:00.000-07:00

Art+Words=Collage
A summer camp for 7th and 8th grade girls taught by metalsmith Melisaa Manley. Make different artist books, alter books with paint and collage, and write our own poetry, and basically make cool mixed-media stuff! Wear your art clothes and bring a bag lunch. Afternoon snack provided. Class size is limited to 7 cool artsy girls! July 7-July 11, 9am-4pm, $100

Meissa Manley earned her BA in studio arts with a concentration in painting and printmaking from UNCW. She received her MFA in metal design at East Carolina University and currently teaches metals at Cape Fear Community College. Her work has been published in Making Personal Shrines, Somerset Studio magazine as well as metalsmithing books. She teaches mixed media workshops for adults annually at "Artfest" in Port Townsend, WA. Join Melissa and her daughter Meredith, and let's make stuff with paper, paint and words!

For more information or to register call 910-538-1246
melissa@melissamanleystudios.com

Camp will be held at IAC's Wabi Sabi Warehouse
19 North 9th Street
one block off Market Street near the Cape Fear Museum.

2008-05-29T06:32:00.000-07:00

'Mobile | art in motion

Submit work now for this juried exhibition. IAC is looking for sculptures having balanced units suspended in midair with parts moving this way and that. Jurors Sarah Tector, Michael Van Hout, and Susan Kranyik will select the works for this group exhibition at Wabi Sabi Warehouse. Artists may submit 4 images via email to: wabisabiwarehouse@gmail.com. Entry fee of $15 is payable by check or money order payable to: Independent Art Company, 19 North 9th Street, Wilmington, NC 28401.

Submission deadline: June 16, 2008
Exhibition dates: June 26-August 1, 2008
Selected artists will be notified by June 20.

Dixon Stetler: Glove Palapa

2008-05-16T07:00:00.000-07:00

Hoorah! The Palapa is finished. It took longer that I thought it would, which wasn't really that long anyway. I'm still on the fence about a bench. A little distance will provide clarity on the issue.

Inspired by the thatched roof palapas in Belize, the glove palapa provides shade. Palapas are everywhere down there. They are all the same basic construction, yet each one is a little different. I am a big fan of repetition and variety. As a thatched roof, the gloves maintain part of their original purpose of nurturing and protection against the elements.

Art supplies are everywhere! You don't need a kit from A.C. Moore to create. Canvas and paint cost way too much anyway. Rather than buy more stuff, I like to reuse some of the abundant materials I find in a few select dumpsters, in undisclosed locations. (Too bad it's illegal to find useful things in your neighbors trash!) Gloves are such a personal item, with meaning built right in. We've all had a pair.

We've all experienced the loss of one, or that moment when your finger finally pokes through and the original function of the glove ceases. It takes many to make it work. I have learned a great deal about "People Helping People" from Bob Brown. By giving an ordinary disposable object, this collaborative project becomes accessable to all. People who don't usually make art can participate without intimidation.

The stories told by glove donors were a very important part of the process, where and when and how. Many of the gloves were worn to special events or gifts from a loved one. I have great friends who dodge oncoming traffic to rescue gloves from busy intersections. Hockey gloves used as a dog toy, bee keeping gloves from a film set, and "my daughter's first gardening gloves" all became part of the palapa. Folks visit the palapa and identify their glove. They point and say "Oh! There's mine!" I hope they feel a sense of ownership in the piece. The real heroes of this project are the fine garbage men of Wilmington. They donated hundreds of their worn out gloves to the cause. They are very excited to visit this fruit of their labor, at all places, the Cameron Art Museum.

-posted by Dixon Stetler

Birth Art Opening

2008-04-28T13:22:00.000-07:00

You've all been there, in one way or another. A grapefruit being pushed through a lemon-sized opening. Buy have you seen it represented in art? Wabi Sabi Warehouse and Cape Fear Area Doulas invite you to an opening reception for "BIRTH", a juried exhibition honoring the miracle and mystery of birth.

Thursday, May 22, 6-9pm
Wabi Sabi Warehouse, 19 North 9th Street

Created through both male and female perspectives, works on display celebrate mothers, fathers, pregnancy and birth. "Birth" acknowledges the raw, homest and spontaneous, much like birth itself. This art exhibition includes works by local professionals in the birthing community, including: "Placenta Print," a pair of cement "Squattin' Stones" and a bright yellow knit "Lemon Vulva." Also among the 20 selected-artists are sculptor Paul Hill, metalsmith Kee Wilde-Ramsing, painter Abby Perry, photographer Arrow Ross, and filmmaker Bo Webb.

Woven Tree of Shocking Wires: Durham EarthDay

2008-04-26T08:20:00.000-07:00

2008-04-26T05:50:00.000-07:00

The Endless Tower of Tires
by dan brawley and bob brown

and the

Mother of all Palapas
by dixon stetler

All week long Dixon and I have been working on the lawn at the Cameron Art Museum constructing the Endless Tower of Tires and the Mother of All Palapas. The installation was intended to coincide with Earth Day this past Tuesday. But the museum is also opening a holocaust show on Thurday, May 1, so Dixon kept saying that our work seem to fit more with the holocaust than Earth Day. Especially since no one seems to quite understand Earth Day - it's like a company is handing out green coozies to hold aluminum beer cans and that's how they exhibit their 'green-ness.' So just like everything else, it becomes just another marketing scam. We scare people about the degradation of the environment and then fill the stores with 'green' products that they must buy or else they'll be destroying the planet. EarthDay out, holocaust in.

So, with all the sad, lonely gloves found abandoned and trampled on the streets, and then with the endless stack of black tires, all their treads facing out like the undersides of peoples feet, we started to see the tower and the palapa in a much more somber way. I keep thinking of the tower of tires as a symbol of all our mile-driving. We all get in our cars as a matter of habit. We don't think about driving ever. Only in terms of how much does it cost to fill up and what kind of car do I drive. All those tires, miles and miles. I'm convinced that the mile-driving is the true American sickness. It's the thing that separates us quickly from our friends and family. And its the tires that make it all possible, but we don't ever see them. All the old tires get tucked away or recycled, out of sight, out of mind. In the end, the The Endless Tower of Tires is more American than the Washington Monument. Partly because it's black.

As my collaborator Bob Brown says, the tower is an homage to Brancusi's Endless Column. And also an homage to Allan Kaprow, who once covered a VW Bug with jelly and then had a bunch of people lick it off with their tongues. It was probably grape jelly or maybe strawberry jam. I'll have to say that part of the reason I built this tower is simply because Bob wanted to. If you haven't checked out his exhibit at the CAM, then go now. Bob Brown is a creative force and he has had a deep impact on my work.

On Friday, I put the final tire on top of the tower. The scaffolding will probably come down on Monday. I have to mention Beth Pancoe and Forest Heddon over at SDI Construction. They donated the scaffolding and generally gave me the kind of construction company lift that I needed to build this thing. We'll be announcing some kind of christening for the 'complex' - which has something to do with celestial turtles. The complex is also reported to be a beacon for time traveling elephants. The amphibious ones with metallic green skin full of sharps of red like snake's eyes. They may be from Babel. And their just looking for a nice place to live with a little pond that won't dry up.

Woven Tree for Durham EarthDay

2008-03-11T15:38:00.001-07:00

Wabi Sabi Warehouse resident artist Dan Brawley recently completed a micro-residency at Duke University to prepare for the upcoming Durham EarthDay Festival. On April 19, Brawley will be performing as the artist-in-residence for the festival in Durham's Central Park. The artist invites everyone to weave old wires and cables into a "Woven Tree" of recycled techno-garbage. Anyone can participate. Bring wires and be ready to weave and warp and weft.

What kind of wires? Just about anything! Old phone cords, vcr cables, television cables, old extension cords, romex, ethernet cable, internet wires, speaker cable and anything over 2 feet long that can be woven. Bring stuff with you to Durham Central Park and help make art. Everyone is an artist!

Collaboration Factory at Wabi Sabi Warehouse

2008-02-02T15:42:00.000-08:00

Calling all creative types
who wanna play with plastic!

What???: Collaboration Factory
Where: IAC's Wabi Sabi Warehouse, 19 North 9th Street
When: Thursday, February 7, 2008 + Saturday, February 9, from 1pm to 6pm each day

Everyone's invited, no experience required. Everyone is an artist. Drop by for a half hour or stay all day long. Please bring plastic bottles, plastic bags, plastic bottle caps, old tupperware and well, you get the idea. Let's reinvent and reuse. Painting, gluing and taping supplies will be provided. The finished works will be installed as part of the "Retirement Plan for Plastics" Exhibition at UNCW's Warwick Gallery.

•*•*This event has a pending request to be sanctioned by the First National Church of the Exquisite Panic. As the founder of the church screams out in his paintings, "People Helping People is the Future!"

Robert Delford Brown, artist and religion founder

2008-01-15T13:41:00.000-08:00

ROBERT DELFORD BROWN:
MEAT, MAPS AND MILITANT METAPHYSICS - Part Two, Too
March 27-May 11, 2008*

Opening reception on Friday, March 28 from 6-9pm is free and open to the public.

Coinciding with the opening of an exhibition of the artists work at the Cameron Art Museum, the Wabi Sabi Warehouse gallery presents an unedited, artist-curated selection from "Robert Delford Brown: Meat, Maps and Militant Metaphysics."

A recent Wilmingtonian, Robert Delford Brown is the founder of the First National Church of the Exquisite Panic and an exuberant collaborationist. Works on display will include his most recent creations - mirrored mandalas and large scale collages. For more information on the artist, we highly encourage you to visit his website www.funkup.com.

*There will be a one week gap in the middle of the exhibition with a ceremonial rehanging of the show to follow. Things like this just happen, the world is full of chaos.

2008-01-15T12:29:00.000-08:00

"Retirement Plan For Plastics!?!"

Artist seeks:
old plastic containers
plastic bags
and plastic bottle caps...

Wabi Sabi Warehouse resident artist Dan Brawley seeks old tupperware, plastic bags and plastic bottle caps for upcoming UNCW exhibit entitled "Retirement Plan for Plastics." All old, damaged, darkened and misused tupperware-type plastic containers should be cleaned and dropped off at the Independent Art Company's Wabi Sabi Warehouse located at 19 North 9th Street in downtown Wilmington. Bags full of plastic containers, plastic bags and bottle caps can be left at the door if nobody's around! Colorful and funky rule the day - bring us your old plastic instead of throwing it away! Stay tuned for an announcement about the "Collaboration Celebration Sensation" - an interactive, everyone's-invited day of artmaking in preparation for the exhibition. "Retirement Plan For Plastics" runs from February 14 to March 14 in the Ann Flack Boseman gallery on the campus of UNCW.

Missing Glove?

2008-01-15T04:18:00.000-08:00

Found Glove Project
by Dixon Stetler

I rescue gloves from traffic and mud puddles on the street.

You can't lose something in stages, one day you have it, the next day you don't. Sometimes a glove is lost on one day, but you don't know it until the time comes to use it again, and its not there. Like socks that get lost in the dryer, there is something universal about losing gloves.

Gloves originate in pairs, and occasionally I do find them that way, but usually it's just the one. That means that the other thing that is lost is the glove the owner ends up with. The one I didn't find on the street. Does that glove end up in the trash? Nobody wants to protect just one hand. What's the point? One should just go out and buy another pair. A discarded or misplaced glove immediately renders its partner reduntant.

Picking up found gloves is a silent gesture of optimism and thoughtfulness in a crazy, fast paced world. You see them perched upright on a fence, or safely placed on a wall, out of harms way.

I have a plan for these gloves, and I need your help. I need more gloves than you can imagine! Any type of glove is wanted and needed, in any old nasty condition, in pairs or single: work, wooly, surgical, rubber, fingerless, mittens...

I have 3 drop off sites for these gloves:

Old Books on Front Street, 22 North Front Street

Wabi Sabi Warehouse, 19 North 9th Street

Make Art, 6005 Oleander Drive

Or mail them: 2067 Harrison Street, Wilmington, NC 28401

Finished project will be constructed in a public space, to be enjoyed (or not!) by any and all. Please let me know if you want to be added as a drop-off site. Thanks! Dixon Stetler-dixonstetler@gmail.com.