Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Art works sought for community college exhibit

The N.C. Community College System is seeking works of art created by current and former community college faculty and staff for the 2012 N.C. Community Colleges Art Exhibition.

All media suitable for use in a public office building are welcome, including, but not limited to paintings, drawings, graphic design, computer design and animation, photography, pottery, stained glass, weaving, woodcarving, metalwork and sculpture. The works of art will be displayed in public spaces on all six floors of the Caswell Building in Raleigh, home to the community college system office, and the spaces are well- suited to large-scale work.

Each college may select up to four piece of art for inclusion in the 2012 exhibit. To enter, artists must submit a signed exhibition art entry form and up to two digital photographs of each work. The deadline for entry submissions to be in Raleigh is Dec. 2.

For more information on submitting items for the show, contact Judy Jennette, BCCC Foundation and public information director, at 252-940-6326 or by email at judyj@beaufortccc.edu.


Still time to signup for Rembrandt & Rockettes trip!

There’s still time to register for the Nov. 12 and 13 trip offered by the Beaufort County Community College Foundation to the Triangle to see an exhibit of works by Rembrandt at the North Carolina Museum of Art and a performance by the famous Radio City Music Hall’s Rockettes at the Durham Performing Arts Center.

The trip will also include a four-hour shopping excursion to the Tanger Outlet Mall in Mebane as well as first class ac- commodations at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham.

The cost of the trip, open to all BCCC students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the college, is $361 per person, double oc- cupancy, and $435 per person, single occupancy. It is limited to 22 participants. The registration deadline is Friday, Oct. 28.

The price of the trip includes tours of two exhibits and lunch at the N.C. Museum of Art, a trip to Tanger Outlet Mall in Mebane, one night at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham, breakfast and dinner Sunday and tickets to the Christmas Spectacular at DPAC as well as transportation, tips and taxes.

The trip will leave the parking lot at BCCC by 7:30 a.m. Nov. 12 and arrive at the art museum about 10 a.m. Once there, the group will be met by a docent and tour the museum’s collection of 17th Century Dutch and Flemish paintings. Following the tour, the group will have lunch in the museum’s Iris Restaurant.

After lunch, the group will tour the museum’s “Rembrandt in America” exhibit, the largest collection of Rembrandt paint- ings ever presented in an American exhibition and the first major exhibition to explore in depth the history of collecting Rembrandt paintings in America. The NCMA is the only East Coast venue for this exceptional show that features works of art from across the United States.

After leaving the Museum of Art, participants will be driven to the Washington Duke Inn on the campus of Duke Uni- versity an AAA Four Diamond Award-winning luxury hotel. At this point, luggage will be unloaded and participants may choose from a number of different activities: shopping at the new Tanger Outlet Mall in Mebane, a visit to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, a stroll around the Duke University campus, or just relaxing in the room.

For those remaining on the bus, the new Tanger Outlet Mall in Mebane will be the next stop. The mall also features a food court where tour participants may dine-on-their-own. The bus will return the shoppers to the hotel by 9 p.m.

On Sunday morning participants can enjoy break- fast buffet until 10 a.m. in the hotel’s Vista Restaurant. After breakfast, the bus will provide a ride to Duke Chapel at 10:30 a.m. for those wishing to attend the 11 a.m. church service.

Between noon and 12:30 p.m., the bus will gather up all participants at the hotel and the chapel, and go to DPAC for a 1 p.m. performance of the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” featuring the world-famous Radio City Rockettes.

After the show, the bus will take participants for din- ner to Maggiano’s Little Italy Restaurant at Durham’s South Square Mall for a family style meal. Dinner at Maggiano’s, the winner of the 2011 Open Table – Din- ers’ Choice, will feature two appetizers, two salads, four main course dishes, and two desserts.

By 5 p.m. the bus will reload and return to Beaufort County around 7 p.m.

For more information, or to register, please contact Marcia Norwood at 252-940-6218 or Judy Jennette at 940-6326. Information is also available on the BCCC website at www.beaufortccc.edu.