Come and Hang out with locals and enjoy Art Live Music, Poetry, Horse and Carriage rides and whatever you can add Positive to the mix. Every Third Friday of The month hosted by the Town of Smithfield.
River City Arts
Orchard House booksellers and coffee.
INFLOW STUDIO
Howell Theater is open. $2.50 movies.
Tuesday, August 11th
8:00am until 1:00pm and 5:00pm until 7:00pm
Wednesday, August 12th
8:00am until 1:00pm and 5:00pm until 7:00pm
Please have your classes that you wish to take ready for advising!
Fall Semester 2009
On-Campus Advising and Registration
August 11 & 12
Faculty Planning Days
August 13 & 14
Last Day for 100% Refund
August 14
Classes Begin
August 17
Last Day for Adding Courses
August 18
Last Day to Drop for 75% Refund
August 26
Labor Day Holiday
September 7
Fall Break for Students
October 5 – 9
Faculty Development Days
October 5 & 6
Last Day to Drop Without Grade Penalty
November 16
Thanksgiving Holidays
November 26 & 27
Advising for Spring – New & Returning Students
November 2 – 30
Spring Registration – Telephone & Web
November 16 – 30
Last Day to Pay for Registration
December 2
Last Day of Classes & Exams
December 14
Grades Due
December 15 by 10 am
Hi Mr. Byrd,
Could you pass this information along to anyone that might be interested in participating in our celebrataion on Saturday, June 27, and Sunday, June 28? This year for the first time we are having an art show on Sunday & we want to encourage as many artist to attend as possible. Potters, jewelry makers, painter, etc. The theme is agriculture.
Just in case you know of anyone with an antique tractor or car I also sent an invitation for that as well.
Elaine Richardson
Manager/Visitor Services Coordinator
Tobacco Farm Life Museum
919-284-3431
groups@tobaccofarmlifemuseum.org
Tobacco Farm Life Museum
2009 Anniversary Celebration and Art Show
Sunday Under the Pines, June 28th, 2pm to 4pm
Plans are now underway for our 26th Anniversary Celebration -Sunday under the pines antique and custom vehicle display, Gospel Music and
ART SHOW.
You are invited to participate in the Art Show. The museum would like to show your art at this event and share it with our community.
News releases will be sent out across the state and to all NC Welcome Centers. We would like to include any information you submit about yourself and your art work. We need your written information and photos—no later than Friday, June 12th.
This GREAT COMMUNITY EVENT is always popular—So Please join us! This is our 26th Anniversary, so help us make this event a huge success!!
If you have any questions, please contact Elaine at the Museum:
919-284-3431.
Fill out the form below and return to us no later than Friday, June 12th or call to make a space reservation, fax us at 919-284-9788 or email us at groups@tobaccofarmlifemuseum.org
(June 17th: I just spoke with a representative and the June 12th deadline is not in stone. You may not make press release however they will be taking art up until the event. Gregory)
Thank you for your great support—we look forward to hearing from you!
Name: ___________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________
Street City State Zip
Phone: ________________________ Fax: __________________
Email: _______________________________________________
Art (s) Descriptions:
Have you participated before? Yes __ No _
Return to: Tobacco Farm Life Museum, P.O. Box 88, Kenly, NC 27542 by June 12, 2008
Please include information for news release.
FIRST FRIDAY
JUNE 5th 5-9:30PM
Featuring Art from:
Kelly Crocker
Thurmond Goins
Mallory Myers
Heather Coats
Jessica Harrison
Rebekah Todd
Mason Taylor
Julie Hartz
Natalie Tart
Kathy Bobeck
Parrish Lee
Justin Midgette
Performances By:
Pseudo Stereo
Lauren Delgadillo
& Rebekah Todd
Ben warming up
SOLD ARTWORK! Jessica Harrison
Opie realizing it was a great show!
Howell Woods is located at 6601 Devil’s Racetrack Road in the Bentonville community of southeastern Johnston County. The environmental learning center is in close proximity to interstates 95 and 40 in central North Carolina and is less than 45 miles from Raleigh, 20 miles from Goldsboro, and 15 miles from Smithfield and Newton Grove.
If you need help finding us, try the map or use the driving directions.
The T’s are here too! $10.00
Katherine Bobeck, First Year Student Interview
“I need money I should get a scholarship.” A few students in our department have been fortunate enough earn a scholarship for their studies. By talking to one of them, I learned more about them by a simple quiz. I found they also have a sense of humor. Here are the results from the first interview with Kathy Bobeck.
What made you choose Graphic Design/Fine Arts as a major, at Johnston Community College?
After 22 years of marriage & four kids later a house fire and the corporate cutbacks, I decided it was finally time to do what I have always wanted to do so here I am 44 and a freshman.
To have a life drawing class. I have never had the good fortune to have someone pose for me, other than in a picture.
What do you prefer? Mark one
__x____Pencil
__x____Brush
__x____Pen
__x____Digital
__x____All of the above
__x____Whatever will allow me to make something out of nothing.
__x____Pastel
All of the above, I mainly use sharpie and pastels the most. Right now have to relearn everything after a twenty year break from drawing.
The Thurmond Goins Question of the Day!
“My pen runs out of ink. We are in the most important speaker forum of our life. The person of my dreams is sitting next to me with a small pouch full of ink pens … would you advise me to…
A. Rip all my clothes off and run naked out of the lecture hall.
B. Lean over-real smooth, and obnoxiously yell “GOT NO INK BABE, CAN I GET SOME FROM YOU.”
C. Remembering how important your college career is with the quick thought of preparation you spent before class and little hesitation; grab the spare out of your bag.
D. Tell the speaker this is the art department slow down so I can visualize the letters forming words out of your mouth.
Kathy’s Answer: C
Interviewed by Thurmond Goins, JCC Graphic Design Student
The fundraising campaign to renovate and name the art gallery on the campus of Johnston Community College in honor of the late artist Frank Creech is under way.
The Johnston Community College Foundation, the Johnston County Arts Council and the College’s art department are collaborating to raise $100,000 to remodel the 1,500-square-foot gallery and a 775-square-foot reception area. The gallery will be named after Creech, a Smithfield artist and sculptor and longtime instructor and chair of the art department at JCC.
Creech’s family said the art gallery project is a wonderful way to share his legacy. “Our family is honored to be a part of this project,” says Franklin Creech, Creech’s son. “The art gallery renovation is a fitting tribute to Dad. I know he would be very proud. This community meant so much to him and his artwork expressed how much he valued family and community.”
The groups are accepting private gift contributions to the Frank Creech Art Gallery and Visual Arts Fund at five different levels ranging from $500 to $10,000 and above. The first two major contributors to the project are Martha and Craig Casey of Princeton of Casey’s Floral and Catering Service at $5,000 and the Down to Earth Garden of Club of Smithfield, which has pledged $3,000 to be given over a three-year period.
In addition, the College Foundation has named Creech its Distinguished Citizen for 2008 and will honor his creative spirit and community contributions at a special event on Friday, March 7. The cost to attend the reception is $75 per person or $150 per couple. Revenues generated from the event will be directed to the fund to remodel the gallery.
Specifically, the money would pay for a museum-quality lighting system, a climate and humidity control system, an exhibit display and hanging system, a security system, and a reception area to celebrate art events and gallery openings.
John Byrd, head of the fine arts and graphic design programs at JCC, says the renovated gallery will serve as community-based gathering place for the arts. The gallery makeover will allow the College to showcase student art exhibits as well as a variety of work of major artists across the country.
“Our goal is to bring a higher level of visual art culture to the community,” Byrd says. “We want this to be our calling card. When people talk about the art department at JCC we want them to think about our gallery.”
Byrd says the department also hopes to employ JCC art students in a gallery apprenticeship program here at JCC as well as involve them in gallery-related activities such as judging, framing, hanging and publicizing art shows. And he also envisions a gift shop where local art can be sold.
“I think our programs are going to grow toward the fine art, fine craft areas that’s another reason the gallery is important,” Byrd says. “People need to be able to showcase their work here and we need people to see what we’re doing at the College.”
The College is home to Creech’s, “The Rescue,” a bronze statue which he created to show his appreciation for the support he received when his art studio burned in 1999. Creech was also commissioned for many public artwork projects which now grace the campuses of many universities including, Duke, Yale, and Penn State and the halls and walls of several museums across the United States.
In addition to his career as an artist, Creech was also an active leader in his church, First Baptist in Smithfield, and many community organizations such as the Johnston County Arts Council, the Smithfield Kiwanis Club, the Smithfield High School Alumni Association, and the Ava Gardner Museum. He was awarded the North Carolina Order of the Long Leaf Pine in 2005 for his outstanding civic service.
Donations for the art gallery renovation can be directed to the Frank Creech Art Gallery & Visual Arts Fund established with the College Foundation at P.O. Box 2350, Smithfield, NC 27577. For more information about the project or the Distinguished Citizen event, call Judy Miller at 919.209.2115.
Johnston Community College Fine Art and Graphic Design Dept., Smithfield, NC
This years Chili Bowl event was once again a great day. We want to thank everyone for their continued support!
