Enjoying Greensboro's arts
Filed by Dawn DeCwikiel-Kane
Amid all the downtown holiday fanfare this past weekend, the Greensboro Cultural Center alone showed the local arts scene's high level of activity.
On Saturday night, hundreds of arts supporters filled the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art for Collector's Choice, the fund-raising opener for its annual Winter Show. More than 100 artists displayed paintings, sculpture, ceramics, photography, jewelry, wood and fiber work.
Across the hallway, the Guilford Native American Art Gallery and Center for Visual Artists opened their doors, too.
The CVA hosted its holiday invitational show of members' works. And Tanya Beckerdite will take home something special: She won the drawing for the CVA's Instant Art Collection of more than 20 original works.
On the lower level, the Eastern Music Festival hosted a standing-room-only concert by Eric and Jeff Silver, with special guest Victor Wooten of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Proceeds went to EMF's Silver/Mayer Scholarship Fund.
Then on Sunday afternoon, the African American Atelier auctioned works from several local artists. Proceeds will benefit the 21st annual African American Arts Festival (Jan. 13-March 31) and the Atelier Around the World Youth Program.
If you didn't get to the cultural center this weekend, there's still plenty of opportunity to see the art shows in the 200 N. Davie St. center.
Although galleries are closed on Mondays, they're open the rest of the week. And the Winter Show at Green Hill and the CVA's Holiday Invitational will be up through the holidays.