Eastern
North Carolina's
Premier
Hand-Craft Education Center
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NOW ACCEPTING
APPLICATIONS FOR THE
CRAFT METALS BUSINESS
INCUBATOR
Session
1: January 10 - March 11, 2011
(Applications due October 15th, 2010)
Session 2: March 21 - May 20, 2011
(Applications due November 15th, 2010)
Click here for an application
Click here for a scholarship application.
NEWS!
Creating Jobs through
the Arts in Tyrrell County
Pocosin
Arts Folk School has been awarded a
$75,000 Economic Innovation grant from the NC Rural Economic
Development Center
to create a craft metals business incubator. The
Pocosin Arts program will emphasize
“up-cycling” -- taking locally
available used materials and transforming them into original,
beautiful,
functional objects such as finely-crafted art jewelry that combines
discarded
tin or aluminum with fine metals. Other
up-cycled metal objects will include toys, trays, containers, musical
instruments, ornaments, candelabras and utensils.
“This
program is designed to bridge the gap between the
world of art/craft creation and production and the world of business. The skilled artists and artisans need
business skills and capital. The banks
and venture capitalists need innovative ideas and new products. Pocosin Arts is confident this program
expansion will have a positive impact on the economy of downtown
Columbia, ” says
Pocosin Arts’ Executive Director, Feather Phillips.
The
incubator site will contract with top level
professionals to teach craft skill development and business skill
development.
The first of two nine-week pilot programs will begin in January 2010. Each program will accept six full time
students. Pocosin Arts has posted the
Project Coordinator job position and application on the web-site www.pocosinarts.org. The Coordinator will begin work September 1,
2010.
Pocosin
Arts has operated its teaching studio and gallery on
Main Street in Columbia, Tyrrell County since 1995.
In the past fifteen years Pocosin Arts has welcomed
thousands of
visitors to the gallery, hosted classes and workshops in its teaching
studio,
provided arts enrichment programming in the Tyrrell County Schools, and
built a
life long learning adult education retreat program which has attracted
participants from fourteen states.
The
Rural Center’s Economic Innovation Grants Program
supports innovative local and regional economic development projects
that spur
business activity, create jobs and further public and private
investment in
rural North Carolina. Priority funding
areas for 2009-2010 were rural manufacturing innovation, growth of the
green
economy, community-based economic innovation and pathways out of
poverty. The program was created as part
of the
General Assembly’s Economic Infrastructure Fund.
GALLERY SCHEDULE:
BOOK ARTS
March
19th through May 22nd, 2010
POTS, POTHOLDERS, PUPPETS AND MORE...
May
28th through August 28th, 2010
Reception: Friday, August 20th, 5-7pm
LANDSCAPES AND
WATER BIRDS
October
8th through November 20th, 2010
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ATTENTION
EASTERN NC ARTISTS!
Pocosin Arts is a drop-off site for
Regional Artist Project Grant
Applications
Click here for grant guidelines and an application
(Deadline: Friday, September 17, 2010)
Click here additional grant information
2010
SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM
Summer Art Camp
Instructor: Holly Humphlett
Monday - Thursday, 9:00am-12:00pm
Week 1: July 19-22 ART
SUPERSTARS
Week 2: July 26-29
EARTH ART
Week 3: August 2-5 SCULPTURE
Week 4: August 9-12 LOCAL ARTISTS
Ages 7-13
Tuition: $40/week
Parade
Puppets
Instructor: KT Childress
July 23-August 13
Fridays, 9:00am-12:00pm
Ages 7 and up (Parent are welcome!
Parent guided activities will also be available
for younger children). Students will make
large puppets to participate in the
Scuppernong River Festival Parade.
Tuition: $40 (4
Fridays)
King Pocosin, the first Pocosin Arts giant parade
puppet,
joins the Tyrrell Elementary School Teachers to wave
goodbye to the students for the summer!
Artist-In-Residence Program
Fall 2009 - Marlene True
Recent
Resident Artist, Marlene True, at her jeweler's bench
in the studio
apartment. For more information about being an
Artist-In-Residence at
Pocosin Arts,
send an email to: info@pocosinarts.org
or call us at 252-796-2787
Click Here
to Apply for the
Winter
2011 Residency/Internship Program
Application Deadline: October 30, 2010.
Steamed
Blue to Red Hot Lively
Hard Crab Dinner and Art Auction
IS ON PAUSE FOR 2010!
Pocosin Arts will be hosting smaller
fundraising events.
Supporting Artists! We are still accepting art donations.
Click here
for an Art Donation form.
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