Below is a press release we received about a local missing person who was last seen on Lincoln Street in Greensboro.
Contacts (Family Members):
> Nagatha Dixon-Tonkins 336 601 2617
> Shayne Suffern 336 228 9680
> Detective Mark Yancy 516-4664 (Burlington Police Dept.)
>
> “Reward offered for information on Missing Woman-Ruzie Suggs”
>
> The family of 90-year-old Ruzie Dixon Suggs is offering a two-
> thousand dollar reward for any pertinent information that leads to
> her safe return.
>
> Mrs. Suggs of Burlington was reported missing Monday after family
> members could not reach her Sunday and Monday. Her nephew and
> niece, Shayne and Rochelle Suffern went to her Burlington home and
> discovered she had not returned and both her car and nine-year–old
> brown poodle were also missing. Burlington police issued a silver
> alert Monday. Mrs. Suggs was last seen Saturday afternoon when she
> dropped off a friend on Lincoln Street in Greensboro.
>
> Police have also expanded their search of Mrs. Suggs to South
> Boston, Virginia and Clarksville, Virginia saying her cell phone
> records show calls were attempted from those areas. Mrs. Suggs is
> driving a 2005 white Cadillac Deville with personalized tags that
> say ‘Ruzie1’.
>
> “We are praying that this reward will encourage more people to get
> involved in the search for our aunt, and that someone will provide
> her with some assistance to get her safely home. We miss her and
> want her back with us as soon as possible,” says Shayne Suffern, her
> nephew.
Dalton talks jobs over lunch at Sweet Potatoes
An item in the Winston-Salem Journal today indicated that Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, the Democrat running for governor this year, would be at Sweet Potatoes on Trade Street “to talk about his newly announced jobs program.”In fact, Dalton, his wife, Lucille, and one or two campaign staffers were only having lunch. They had left one seat open at the table to individually receive any comers.
Considering the billing for the encounter, I took the circumstances as an open invitation to ask the lieutenant governor about his economic plan, which was released on Monday.
Between mouthfuls of food the amenable candidate limned the plan, mentioning that he wants to put long-term unemployed people back to work (specifics from the plan: provide businesses with a one-time $2,000 tax credit for each long-term unemployed person they hire), focus on revitalizing rural areas (specifics: numerous bills that Dalton has supported including funds for water and sewer development, grants to refurbish vacant building and money for youth job training), and focus on growth industries such as biotech (specifics: use tax revenue from biotech to create a seed fund for reinvestment through financing, training and research).
Dalton will be at BioTech Place in Winston-Salem next Thursday with Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, where he’ll likely talk more about this initiative.
Dalton also mentioned the military as part of his economic plan while acknowledging that pressures to balance the federal budget could result in cutbacks with negative consequences for North Carolina.
“I hope the federal government will measure twice, and cut once,” he said.
He added that the same budget pressures could work to the state’s advantage.
“The other side of it is that equipment is coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan,” he said. “Refurbishment currently takes place in Georgia and other states even though the equipment is kept at Fort Bragg and other bases here. If we do the reset in North Carolina we can save the federal government a lot of money.”
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voices: Growing up and saying sorry
editorial: Party line vs. Vegas line
flicks: Arbitrage and The Words contemplate conscience
visions: A masked artist lays out his agenda
chow: Jimmy the Greek is a sure thing
crash: Owling at the DNC
The old switcheroo
Seems that our printer in Fayetteville accidentally switched pages 17 and 40 with those of another AAN paper, Atlanta's Creative Loafing, cutting off a news story about Greensboro businessman Greg Harrison's sentencing and omitting entirely an art story. We apologize for any confusion. The art story has been posted here.
And you can read the Greg Harrison story in its entirety here.
Sorry 'bout that, folks.
And you can read the Greg Harrison story in its entirety here.
Sorry 'bout that, folks.
Found objects: YES! Weekly's arts calendar
Three new visual art exhibits open in Greensboro and Winston-Salem this week.
The Green Hill Center for NC Arts in Greensboro holds a members-only preview for its new Home Work: Domestic Narratives in Contemporary Art exhibit on Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibit, which features 28 North Carolina artists whose works depict domestic life, opens to the general public on Friday and runs through Nov. 3.
Also on Friday, a 50-year retrospective of the work of Winston-Salem artist Anne Kesler Shields opens at 7 p.m. at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts in Winston-Salem. The 80-year-old Shields has “steadily applied her considerable talent, rigorous visual-art training and incisive intellect toward developing a masterful body of work in two- and three-dimensional media,” as the center’s website tells it.
And on Saturday an exhibit of artist Catherine Murphy’s work opens in the Leah Louise B. Tannenbaum Gallery at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro. Murphy’s paintings utilize “simple and everyday subjects” in ways that “challenge our skills of perception at the same time that they suggest intriguing narratives,” according to the museum website.
On Wednesday: Associated Artists of Winston-Salem hosts an artist network meeting in the café and terrace area of the Milton Rhodes Arts Center on Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m.
For anyone who has not checked out the Modifications exhibit featuring the work of Curtis Mann or the paperless exhibit at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts, Sept. 16 is the final opportunity before the installations come down.
I had the opportunity to take a look at the Oh Snap! exhibit at the Center for Visual Artists in Greensboro, which opened on First Friday. Featuring hundreds of images captured on smart phones through an open call, the exhibit offers a banquet of sensory and experiential multiplicity. It’s well worth checking out.
Artists are invited to submit visual art pieces for a community art show later this month at the Interactive Resource Center in Greensboro. For more information, visit artstocktour.com or gsodaycenter.org. The Sawtooth School for Visual Art is accepting submissions from local artists for the Deck the Halls arts and crafts show. Early registration is available through Oct. 26 while regular registration is through Nov. 15. Information can be found at sawtooth.org.
And the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County is soliciting nominations for four annual awards: the Arts Council Award, the R. Philip Hanes Jr. Young Leader Award, the Arts Development Award and the Arts Knowledge Sharing Award. To learn the criteria for the awards, visit intothearts.rog. Nominations should be e-mailed to Mona Campbell at mcampbell@intothearts.org or mailed to the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County, Attn. Awards Committee, 206 N. Spruce St., Suite 3, Winston-Salem, NC 27101-2747.
The Green Hill Center for NC Arts in Greensboro holds a members-only preview for its new Home Work: Domestic Narratives in Contemporary Art exhibit on Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibit, which features 28 North Carolina artists whose works depict domestic life, opens to the general public on Friday and runs through Nov. 3.
Also on Friday, a 50-year retrospective of the work of Winston-Salem artist Anne Kesler Shields opens at 7 p.m. at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts in Winston-Salem. The 80-year-old Shields has “steadily applied her considerable talent, rigorous visual-art training and incisive intellect toward developing a masterful body of work in two- and three-dimensional media,” as the center’s website tells it.
And on Saturday an exhibit of artist Catherine Murphy’s work opens in the Leah Louise B. Tannenbaum Gallery at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro. Murphy’s paintings utilize “simple and everyday subjects” in ways that “challenge our skills of perception at the same time that they suggest intriguing narratives,” according to the museum website.
On Wednesday: Associated Artists of Winston-Salem hosts an artist network meeting in the café and terrace area of the Milton Rhodes Arts Center on Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m.
For anyone who has not checked out the Modifications exhibit featuring the work of Curtis Mann or the paperless exhibit at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts, Sept. 16 is the final opportunity before the installations come down.
I had the opportunity to take a look at the Oh Snap! exhibit at the Center for Visual Artists in Greensboro, which opened on First Friday. Featuring hundreds of images captured on smart phones through an open call, the exhibit offers a banquet of sensory and experiential multiplicity. It’s well worth checking out.
Artists are invited to submit visual art pieces for a community art show later this month at the Interactive Resource Center in Greensboro. For more information, visit artstocktour.com or gsodaycenter.org. The Sawtooth School for Visual Art is accepting submissions from local artists for the Deck the Halls arts and crafts show. Early registration is available through Oct. 26 while regular registration is through Nov. 15. Information can be found at sawtooth.org.
And the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County is soliciting nominations for four annual awards: the Arts Council Award, the R. Philip Hanes Jr. Young Leader Award, the Arts Development Award and the Arts Knowledge Sharing Award. To learn the criteria for the awards, visit intothearts.rog. Nominations should be e-mailed to Mona Campbell at mcampbell@intothearts.org or mailed to the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County, Attn. Awards Committee, 206 N. Spruce St., Suite 3, Winston-Salem, NC 27101-2747.
VISIONS: A masked artist lays out his agenda
The artist known as Delae C. Noctra schools First Friday patrons at Woodland Moth in Winston-Salem.It was hard to miss the burly man dressed in all black and wearing a ninja mask and cat eyes in front of Woodland Moth on Trade Street as he gestured enthusiastically towards a painting in the gallery window for the benefit of a receptive, well dressed couple in their middle years.
The First Friday festivities, with Trade and West 6th streets blocked off in all four directions from their intersection and the sound of a drum circle echoing off the storefronts, suggested the possibility that anything could happen on this night that is a ritual monthly celebration of the arts in Winston-Salem.
Despite the shroud of mystery surrounding the artist who goes by the nom de guerre Delae C. Noctra, he had many enthusiastic agents salted into the room to promote his work. When a couple entered the gallery and stopped to inspect a piece called “Late for Work,” a young woman and her father helpfully suggested spinning the painting on its axis to get the full effect. The agents also pointed out images embedded in the paintings, praised the work and solicited feedback.
“The artwork up until a year ago didn’t exist,” said Delae, a Winston-Salem resident who is approaching his 30th birthday. “I had a dream. It was 3 o’clock in the morning. I drew the image. When I painted it I could see the letters. I got started and I couldn’t stop. I ended up with 125 images.”
The artist, whose name in reverse spells “art concealed,” paused and gestured toward his mask.
“The reason why I conceal my identity is to take the focus off the artist,” he said. “I do street art, too, and I have to have this.”
All of Delae’s paintings on display at Woodland Moth this month use an approach the artist characterizes as “hydroliptic,” a word that is a hybrid of “hydro” and “elliptic.”
A mash-up of images, heavy lines and embedded letters, the paintings are designed to present a different visage each time you turn the frame. And, as the artist notes in an online manifesto, getting the full effect requires the viewer to manually rotate the painting – a practice generally frowned upon in galleries and museums. “Most fine art paintings are so realistic,” Delae writes, “I wanted to touch them and always got a hand slap for trying.”
The piece de resistance is an homage to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City. From one perspective it shows 10 people standing inside one of the towers watching an airliner plow into the building with the other tower in the distance. From another, it shows a father with his arms around his two children watching the attacks on television. Turned to a third side the clouds in the first perspective become human figures pointing up to the towers from the building.
The image is replete with numeric symbolism. For instance, there are 11 windows along the side of the airliner. And the fact that there are 10 people looking out the window suggests to the viewer that she is the 11th person.
To add living poetry, the 9-11 piece was scheduled to be installed in Grand Rapids, Mich. for the ArtPrize contest on Sept. 11., on the 11th anniversary of the attacks and the first Sept. 11 since 2001 that the date has fallen on a Tuesday.
Delae acknowledges in his manifesto that individual viewers are likely to see different images, but during his opening reception he was happy to explain his intentions.
“The final thing which brings a lot of emotion to me is the people in the tower, and the last thing they saw is this,” he said.
A collective “ah” came from the group assembled around him as they took stock of the plane approaching the window.
“I hope you remember that,” Delae said.
WANNA GO? Hydroliptic Alphabet, an exhibit of work by Delae C. Noctra, is on display at Woodland Moth, located at 619 N. Trade St. in Winston-Salem, through the month of September.
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