A celebratION OF all OF the wonderful LOCAL bookstores we have in our community ON Independent Bookstore Day !

VISIT ANY OR ALL PARTICIPATING BOOKSTORES ON APRIL 27TH FOR AMAZING DEALS & A CHANCE TO ENTER A RAFFLE FOR PRIZES FROM EACH LOCATION

PARTICIPATING LOCATIONS & THEIR BOOK CRAWL DEALS:

GOLDEN FIG BOOKS 200 N Greensboro St Suite A-17, Carrboro, NC 27510 // 10AM - 7PM

EPILOGUE BOOKS CHOCOLATE BREWS 109 E Franklin St #100, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 // 9AM - 9PM

PEEL GALLERY & PHOTO LAB 708 W Rosemary St, Carrboro, NC 27510 // 11PM - 6PM

FLYLEAF BOOKS 752 M.L.K. Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 // 10AM - 8PM

*PLEASE NOTE THAT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS HAVE DIFFERENT HOURS*

RAFFLE PRIZES!

TO ENTER THE RAFFLE: YOU MUST PICK UP A PUNCH CARD (AVAILABLE AT ANY LOCATION) & FILL OUT YOUR NAME & E-MAIL ON THE CARD. YOU RECEIVE A PUNCH CARD & PUNCH WITH ANY PURCHASE! ONLY ONE PUNCH WILL BE GIVEN FOR EACH LOCATION (NOT BY EACH PURCHASE). EACH PUNCH WILL COUNT AS AN ENTRY. THE MORE LOCATIONS YOU GO TO THE MORE ENTRIES YOU GET!

GOLDEN FIG BOOKS TBD

EPILOGUE BOOKS CHOCOLATE BREWS $50 GIFT CARD

PEEL GALLERY & PHOTO LAB $50 GIFT CARD

FLYLEAF BOOKS $30 GIFT CARD

SHOUT OUT TO THE NC ARTIST BOOKMARK SERIES: WHAT ARE YOU READING, NC?

You can find them in local spots across the NC Triangle including Epilogue, Flyleaf, Peel. They are free and all over Chapel Hill & Carrboro

The bookmark series celebrates the NC artists featured, promotes local businesses and lifts up NC arts, literacy, and health!  Check it out & see all participating locations!

Sashiko, meaning Little Pokes, Little Stabs or Small Piercing, is a form of functional embroidery that can both decorate and strengthen textiles. This style originated in Japan, and is an evolution of the 18 century sewing style invented by farmers and the working class, called Boro, which has gained popularity in recent years in the West. We will talk about the difference of cultural appropriation and appreciation, drawing our inspiration from this heritage technique and meditative task. This workshop is taught by Japanese American artist, River Takada, who grew up splitting time between Carrboro and Tokyo.

Max Capacity: 15 people

All ages and levels welcome. No sewing experience is necessary.

Materials: Students are encouraged to bring something to sew on and embellish. Templates, Rulers and drawing utensils (fabric chalk pencils) will be provided for the group to share with a supply kit available - 1 Sewing needle, Japanese Thread, Hand dyed swatch of Indigo Cotton for samples.

Cost: $50 per person

Date: SUNDAY, April 21st // 12-2 pm // at Peel Gallery

JOIN US FOR AN INFORMAL Q & A WITH THE PARTICIPATING ARTISTS OF OUR MARCH EXHIBITION MATERIAL ENCOUNTERS

IN THIS WORKSHOP, STUDENTS WILL MAKE THEIR OWN JOURNAL USING THE COPTIC STITCH BINDING TECHNIQUE. THIS

TYPE OF BINDING FEATURES AN EXPOSED SPINE, CUSTOM COVERS, AND A BEAUTIFUL CHAIN STITCH. THE BOOK WILL

ALSO LAY COMPLETELY FLAT WHEN OPEN! PERFECT FOR ALL OF YOUR SKETCHING AND JOURNALING NEEDS. STUDENTS

WILL GO HOME WITH THEIR OWN CUSTOM 5.5” BY 8.5” JOURNAL/SKETCHBOOK. SUITED FOR BEGINNERS.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4TH, 6-9 PM

MATERIALS INCLUDED

FEE: $70 TUITION

MAX CAPACITY: 12 STUDENTS (AGES 12+)

INSTRUCTOR: NORA BOYLE

NORA BOYLE IS A BOOKBINDER, POET, AND WITCH WHO RUNS A SMALL LITERARY PRESS, LADY BOOK WITCH PRESS.

INTERESTED IN WHAT IT MEANS TO CRAFT A MATERIAL POEM, NORA’S WORK EXPLORES THE INTERSECTIONS OF

WITCHCRAFT, POETRY, AND BOOKMAKING. DRAWING ON HER FEMINIST AND NATURE-BASED VALUES, NORA CREATES

DARK AND WHIMSICAL BOOKS THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY SOOTHE AND UNSETTLE READERS. A PASSIONATE ADVOCATE OF

INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING, NORA INSPIRES OTHERS TO CREATE THEIR OWN PUBLICATIONS AND TO WORK

COLLABORATIVELY WITH OTHER ARTISTS. YOU CAN SEE MORE OF NORA’S WORK AT: WWW.LADYBOOKWITCHPRESS.COM

AND ON INSTAGRAM @LADYBOOKWITCH.

In this workshop, Jameela will take an intuitive yet step-by-step approach that facilitates the creation of texture-rich poems. Discussion and sharing are encouraged and no experience writing poetry is necessary. 

Bring a journal and your favorite pen. (Or find a new one at the shop!) For ages 15+.

Sunday, March 17, 11 am - 12:30 pm ET

MAX CAPACITY: 15 PEOPLE

Cost: Sliding Scale ($15-$25)

Jameela F. Dallis is a multidisciplinary writer, curator, art collector, and scholar based in Durham, NC. She juried Scaffold (Artspace, Raleigh, April 2023) and has served on regional curatorial committees. Her publications include poems, interviews, arts journalism, and literary scholarship in Triangle Poetry Journal, The Fight and the Fiddle, Honey Literary, Indy Week, and elsewhere. She’s taught university courses and facilitated workshops for more than a decade. Jameela holds a Ph.D. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill. Learn more about her work at jameeladallis.com. Find her on Instagram @yemaja328.  

Instructor: Lindsay Metivier

Max Capacity: 15

Time: 3 hours, March 12, 6-8pm VIRTUAL

Cost: $150

OPENING RECEPTION

FRIDAY // MARCH 8 // 6-9 PM

Using a Polaroid Lab, attendees will have the opportunity to transform any digital image on their mobile device into physical Polaroids and to use those to make emulsion lifts (aka Polaroid Transfers). Your instructor Lindsay Metivier will provide guidance and tips regarding what types of images and editing techniques lead to the most successful emulsion lifts. Each attendee will leave the workshop with 3-5 of their own unique works.

This non-darkroom workshop focuses on the emulsion transfer technique using Polaroid i-Type Film. A Polaroid transfer image is when the emulsion layer is removed from a sheet of instant film. The thin piece of emulsion is then, in a few steps, transferred onto a different surface. In this class we will be transferring the emulsion onto watercolor paper. The class fee includes up to 3 Polaroids per person. Paper and brushes will be provided for workshop use. The workshop does not require any prior knowledge of image transfer techniques.

Extra Materials will be available for purchase after the workshop.

FEB 18 // SUNDAY // 5-7 PM

Max Capacity - 8

Price - $125

Materials Provided - Polaroid Lab, iType Polaroid Film, a squeegee or brayer, scissors, timer, two clean trays for water, acid-free watercolor, rag, or other heavyweight paper

Materials Required - Mobile device (iPhone preferred), Polaroid App (free in the app store), a selection of images you’re considering for this process. Images (Polaroids or other prints) you’ve made of your own work in the past, we’ll spend time at the beginning of our session sharing work!

OPENING RECEPTION

FOR ARTIST WANG YIMING

FRIDAY

FEBRUARY 16

6-9 PM

an ongoing project exploring the legacy, burden, and retrospective inspirations of recent decades of contemporary China and their implications for the existence of the artist.  A duality manifests itself as the living conditions of the people gradually improve since the late 1970s whereas a line of forgotten/hidden/erased events and history quietly evolve. Through distant tales, Wikipedia, and indirect underground literature, to know about a comprehensive history of the past (largely through these censored materials) has become itself a defiant behavior to this day in the artist's home country. Departing from a personal collection of archival vernacular photographs purchased in China, the artist incorporated found literature, newspaper articles, and news footage stills to clash with the lives these characters chose to remember through the taking of vernacular photographs: their collective history, recent past, present, and future. 

IN THIS WORKSHOP YOU’LL DISCOVER HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR CELL PHONE CAMERA EMPHASIZING CONTENT, COMPOSITION, TECHNIQUE, WORKFLOW, AND POST-PROCESSING. WE’LL USE MULTIPLE IMAGE EDITING APPS TO EDIT AND RETOUCH IMAGES. YOU’LL ALSO LEARN TO NAVIGATE SYNCING, SAVING AND SHARING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS WITH EASE!

EACH PARTICIPANT WILL WALK THROUGH EVERY STEP FROM SHOOTING, POST PRODUCTION, AND PRINTING! EVERYONE WILL TAKE AWAY A PRINT OF THEIR VERY OWN PHONE PHOTO!

INSTRUCTOR: LINDSAY METIVIER

MAX CAPACITY: 8

ALL LEVELS

FEBRUARY 13, TUESDAY // 12-2 PM

MATERIALS NEEDED: CARVING TOOL SET & SOFT CUT LINO BLOCK/S (AROUND 4” X 6”)

SUPPLY KIT AVAILABLE FOR AN ADDITIONAL FEE

MAX CAPACITY: 15

DATE + TIME: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH, 1-4PM (3 HRS)

INSTRUCTOR: JILLIAN LEA

JILLIAN IS A COMPULSIVELY CREATIVE ARTIST AND ARTS EDUCATOR LIVING IN A GARDEN COTTAGE IN DURHAM, NC. SHE WORKS IN MULTIPLE MEDIA, PRIMARILY PRINTMAKING AND FIBER ARTS. SHE PULLS INSPIRATION FROM FOLK ART, HEIRLOOMS, ANCESTRY, MAGIC, NATURE AND WHIMSY. JILLIAN IS THE LOWER SCHOOL ART INSTRUCTOR AT CAMELOT ACADEMY AND A REGULAR INSTRUCTOR AT THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL. SHE BELIEVES THAT CREATIVITY IS A SACRED BIRTHRIGHT AND HELPING FOLKS DISCOVER AND NURTURE THEIR OWN CREATIVITY BRINGS HER GREAT JOY. WWW.JILLIANLEAMAKERY.COM // @JILLIANLEAMAKERY

VANISHING/VISIBLE

OPENING RECEPTION

FEB 9, FRIDAY

6-9 PM

Narratives of climate change often place the issue as an apocalyptic threat to life on Earth, but the tragedy of the climate crisis is also an opportunity to practice anew radically different ways of living – in better relation with the environment and one another – in the here and now. Vanishing/Visible is a visual arts and poetry collaboration of examination, reflection, and response to the global climate crisis and its ecological impacts. It encourages us to move beyond the existential into the embodied, beyond apathy into empowerment. Its visual and poetic provocations aim to ground abstractions about a dying planet within an awareness of both the natural wonders being lost, and the ways that this loss shows up in our federal, state, and municipal politics around land, labor, food, transportation, and housing.

This exhibition features paintings of vanishing icescapes within the Polar regions by artist Nerys Levy who has worked in both the Arctic and Antarctic. These icescape paintings will be joined by the work of ten youth poets from Orange County who, together with the poet laureate of Carrboro, Liza Wolff-Francis, and with Cortland Gilliam, the poet laureate of Chapel Hill, will respond in poetry to Nerys’s artwork and to the greater significance of climate change for our lasting ecologies. In addition to having their poetic responses exhibited alongside the paintings, the youth poets will return to PEEL to share their work at the February 9, Second Friday reception to lead the community, through poetry and art, recommitting to a more equitible, loving, and livable world.

BASKET WEAVING WORKSHOP

SUNDAY 2.4.2023 // 12 PM - 4 PM

Small Round Reed Basket: In this 4-hour workshop, learn the basics of basket weaving by creating your own functional basket from reed. Angela will share techniques for creating a small round basket with options for your own creative twist. Expect to leave with a basket and instructions to help you make more at home!

Instructor: Angela Eastman

Max Capacity: 12

All Ages/Levels

Materials & Tools Included

Price: $85

JOIN US FOR THE CLOSING RECEPTION!

WITH AN INFORMAL Q&A WITH THE ARTIST, SAM BEAM

CHECK OUT ALL OF HIS WORKS FROM THE “SNAKE DANCE” SERIES HERE

LIMITED EDITION SHOW POSTERS AVAILABLE

IN THIS WORKSHOP YOU’LL DISCOVER HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR CELL PHONE CAMERA EMPHASIZING CONTENT, COMPOSITION, TECHNIQUE, WORKFLOW, AND POST-PROCESSING. WE’LL USE MULTIPLE IMAGE EDITING APPS TO EDIT AND RETOUCH IMAGES. YOU’LL ALSO LEARN TO NAVIGATE SYNCING, SAVING AND SHARING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS WITH EASE!

EACH PARTICIPANT WILL WALK THROUGH EVERY STEP FROM SHOOTING, POST PRODUCTION, AND PRINTING! EVERYONE WILL TAKE AWAY A PRINT OF THEIR VERY OWN PHONE PHOTO!

INSTRUCTOR: LINDSAY METIVIER

MAX CAPACITY: 8

ALL LEVELS

JANUARY 14, SUNDAY, 10 AM - 12 PM

OPENING RECEPTION

FRIDAY JAN 12

6-9 PM

Enjoy local holiday shopping at this year's Artspace Holiday Market featuring Artspace artists + artists from our community. Perfect time to find special gifts for loved ones or shop for that last minute gift!

OPENING RECEPTION

DEC 8, 2023

FRIDAY

6-9 PM

80+ PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Allison Tierney ° Ann Thaden ° Ash Lorusso ° Audrey Dezern ° Be Boggs ° Becca Ibarra ° Ben Alper ° Ben Felton ° Billy Morehouse ° Bithersea ° Bjorn Bates° Bob Goldstein ° Bri Gribben ° C. Bales, Star Reporter ° Cait Schmitt ° Chamomile Fleagle ° Chieko Murasugi ° Christiaan Lopez-Miro ° Christy Vacca Wright ° Cindy Morefield ° Cindy Waszak Geary ° Claire Kiester ° Clover Ferrell ° Crystal Silva ° Cyd Gottlieb ° Don Stevens ° Elizabeth Pyle ° Ella Mannion ° Emily Eve Weinstein ° Emma Stevens ° Esmé Kerr ° Eva Mannion ° Gretchen Klein ° Grey Von Cannon ° Jaime Johnsen ° Jenn Adams° Jenna Futrell ° Jennifer Cantwell ° Jess Lewis ° Jimmy Fountain ° John Shaw ° Joseph Gu ° Jphono1 ° Julia Nagle ° Julie Rikkers ° Lanna Read ° Layla Wood ° Lindsay Metivier ° Lynda Curry ° Madison Speyer ° Marcela Slade ° Markus Hill ° Marsha Hoffman ° Martin Molloy ° Marty Rogers ° Matthew Tauch ° McKayla Walker ° Meredith Haggerty ° Michael McCue ° Mimi Stockton ° Myles Brown ° Nicole Driscoll ° Paget Fink ° Paul Deblinger ° Paula Siwek ° Peter Marin ° Polina Varlamova ° Rachel Hill ° Rendon Foy ° Rob Votta ° Ron Liberti ° Ruta Schuller ° Saba Jordan ° Samasu Evans ° Samir Knego ° Sarah Joelle Holstein ° Shawn West Hoffman ° Sophia Dominici ° Sterling Bowen ° Suzanne Bates ° Taro Takizawa ° Tonya Solley Thornton ° Vincent Whitehurst ° Wayne Marcelli ° Will Rigby ° Yi-Ting Chiu

& MORE!

MUSIC BY DJ KRUM & DJ ALEXA CHUNG

LIVE SCREEN PRINTING FROM SUPER G PRINT LAB

Renzo Ortega, CURATOR OF THE OFF-GRID EXHIBITION will discuss the current state of painting

“There are no isms for contemporary painting, much less a technique to follow. I think the

current moment is perfect for painting because its centuries of history, conventions, and

technical innovations generate the ideal canvas for artists to develop pictorial works that

represent our current time and, at the same time, be part of the fascinating history of painting;

which is part of the social and cultural developments of nations and their people.

The Off-Grid exhibition, curated by local painter Renzo Ortega for Peel Gallery, brings

together five artists who live and work in the Triangle, North Carolina area. Whose work

presents a different approach and application of painting, from figuration to non-figuration,

from paint on canvas to site-specific installation. This exhibition represents a diverse range of

pictorial expression, empowering the medium and making the painting practice relevant and

necessary.

These exhibited artworks are a cultural contribution to the region; they demonstrate that

painting is not just making an image with paint but also transmitting personal statements. The

different and unique artistic voices represented in this exhibition, sharing the same space,

also demonstrate that coexistence between diverse people is possible, and that is something

we all want and advocate in the region.”

The participating artists are:

Samuel Bordley

GR Amaya-Baron

Katie B BoneHead Art

James Keul

Skully Gustafson

Join us at Zinc House in Durham for a Night Market Company + Roshambo Market Collab you won’t to miss. This market will feature the best local handmade artists from the Triangle, food trucks, games on the lawn, music from Rocket Music Booking, a visit from Santa, winter themed activities, our holiday photo booth, and fun for the whole family! Friendly dogs are welcome on leash outside only.

6225 Wake Forest Hwy, Durham, North Carolina 27703, United States