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September Issue 2008

Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, NC, Features Several Exhibitions

The Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, NC, will present several exhibitions on view from Sept. 19 through Nov. 8, 2008, including: Earth and Sky featuring works by Jonas Howard and Jeremiah Miller, in the Norvell Gallery; In Place: Memory and Movement, featuring works by Michael Simpson and Kathleen Burke, in the Woodson, Osborne, and Stanback Galleries; and Plein Air Carolina 2008, by the Plein Air Carolina group, in the Young People's Gallery.

Sharon Forthofer

The Waterworks Visual Arts Center 2008-09 exhibition season opens with a focus on landscape. As our communities have become ever more separated from the earth that sustains us, the subject of landscape has been a vital window connecting us to the world of nature. However, artists represent the landscape from a variety of perspectives. Seven artists from the Plein Air Carolina outdoor painting society are featured in Plein Air Carolina 2008. The power of the individual becomes obvious as each of these distinguished area artists presents an unobstructed, yet different kind of nature in their respective works.

Kathleen Burke

In Place: Memory and Movement features the paintings of artists Kathleen Burke and Michael Simpson. While Burke's work sees the landscape through a quiet, personal lens, Simpson represents the dynamic flow of water as he places the viewer in the middle of a rushing stream.

Jeremiah Miller

Jonas Howard and Jeremiah Miller are featured in a two-person exhibition, Earth and Sky. Howard's broad, clear views of beaches and bays are in sharp contrast to Miller's painterly eye in the midst of his multi-colored forest.

The Waterworks Visual Arts Center is accredited by the American Association of Museums. Its mission is to offer an innovative program of exhibitions, education, and outreach that inspires and educates its regional audiences in the exploration of the evolution and forefront of contemporary art. The Waterworks is funded by individual memberships, corporations and businesses, foundations, the City of Salisbury, Rowan County, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Rowan Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, a federal grant-making agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of learners by helping libraries and museums serve their communities, supports the Waterworks Visual Arts Center.

For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Center at 704/636-1882 or visit (www.waterworks.org).

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