No fee. Let Lisa know, and she will add you to the list.
Email, info@GreaterGoodGallery.com

Friday, October 13, 2017 from 5-8pm, at 228 Craven Street:
GO BOHO!

The success of Boho is demonstrating! Make something! Show the Process!
Demonstrate with paint, poetry, music, making crafts!

Friday’s ArtCRAWL in bohemian fashion is an event for artists, crafters & performers to paint, create & perform.  We have poets, painters, sculptors or musicians who gather with each other and meet new people while demonstrating their craft or skill. The event is bohemian because creative people are demonstrating their craft or skill which will inspire others to become creative.

Guests will see you in-person at the event and in photos on facebook.

Ideas on demonstrating:
• An easel, brushes, and canvas to paint 
• Your tools to make jewelry
• Sandpaper to smooth sculpture 
• A community art project where the public can interact
• Your ukulele or guitar to perform
• Jugglers should bring props
• Clay to make coil pottery


Please do not ask Lisa for anything.
There is no fee to setup, instead we ask:
•  Please share all press-releases and photos
•  Bring volunteers (friend or family) to help with your setup/cleanup event
•  Bring our promotional materials to share, make a sign with your name on it. Hand out business cards with your contact info, website, email, etc. 
•  BRING A SMALL table to setup for your supplies/tools/ware
•  If you are making a mess, please use a drop-cloth or table cloth
•  BRING A chair for you to sit upon
•  SHOW A couple of finished pieces for display (it’s a 3-hour event, no need to bring your whole studio)
•  Take photos (send digital jpgs to info@greatergoodgallery.com)
•  Only bring what you can carry, as you will be walking with your items.

SETTING UP Isaac Taylor Garden & around the perimeter of Greater Good Gallery:
• Please pull up to the gate and unload quickly to the sidewalk. 
• Ask your volunteer to watch over your belongings while you find a parking spot - Through the traffic light on Front Street, then turn right into public parking lot (only one block away).
• Set-up for artists begins at 4pm.  
• Please pack up and leave by 8pm.


PLEASE HELP US:
Bohemian Artists, please like our Facebook page, 
https://www.facebook.com/BohemianNewBern/

Greater Good Gallery, please like our Facebook page, 
https://www.facebook.com/greatergoodgallery/

Click facebook friend to Lisa Bisbee,
so that she can tag your photos on facebook.

Email, info@GreaterGoodGallery.com

Click the following link to see the article published in the Sun Journal newspaper about the art history book.
--> ​http://www.newbernsj.com/news/20170201/greater-good-gallery-working-on-book-about-enc-artists

Below is a press-release for immediate distribution. 
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We are reaching out to creative members within your community (eastern NC) including musicians, sculptors, writers, painters, crafters and more.

In 2007, I was inspired by a publication found on the Regional Technology Strategies website. Titled, “Arts, Culture and Design in Rural North Carolina”.To read the full report, visit http://rtsinc.org/publications/pdf/Rural_Arts.pdf

In response, I created several promotional avenues where specific artists gained recognition and additional revenue streams in New Bern, NC. Seeing the success in New Bern, I am willing to expand the opportunities to all creative people in Eastern North Carolina.  
Our publication “A Brief History of Artists in Eastern North Carolina” will contribute to your community as we take another step in building the creative economy. Please help to get the word out.

Kind regards,
Lisa Bisbee-Lentz
Artist Representive
Greater Good Gallery
228 Craven Street
New Bern, NC 28560
252-649-1712
http://www.greatergoodgallery.com
http://www.lisabisbee.com
info@greatergoodgallery.com

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All creatives, including musicians, sculptors, writers, painters, crafters and more are invited to be included in the upcoming book titled “A Brief History of Artists in Eastern North Carolina”.

The author of the art history book, Ben Alden Watford, is a native of rural eastern North Carolina from Hertford County. Watford has authored seven books and has made pottery for sixty years. Under the auspices of Greater Good Gallery in New Bern, NC, Watford is working with artists, Jon Derby and Lisa Bisbee Lentz to coordinate the contents of the art history book.

Watford explains, "Civilizations are judged, not by their wars, not by their politics or their leaders, but by the art that they produce. It is your privilege to inform the larger community and future generations of what you attempted to accomplish as an artist, who you are as a person, and show all concerned samples of the art that you have produced. As designed, the books will explain who you are as an artist."

Included with a page reservation, a book workshop will be held on Wed., Feb., 8, 2017 from 4-6pm at Greater Good Gallery, 228 Craven Street, New Bern, NC. During the book workshop, creative people will be on hand to help you with your page.  A writer will help you with your biography profile. A designer will help you layout your page. A photographer will take your portrait and photoshoot your creative work (up to 3 pieces). 

There is no fee to be included in the group photoshoot of all creative people to be held at 5:45pm on Wed., Feb., 8, 2017.  The group photo is one in a sequential series which will be published in the art history book.

The deadline to reserve a page in “A Brief History of Artists in Eastern North Carolina” is Tuesday, February 14th, 2017.

Inquire by email to info@GreaterGoodGallery.com or call (252) 649-1712. 

Visit http://www.greatergoodgallery.com/history-of-art-book.html  for more information online.
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Greater Good Gallery will bring in the new year with live music, a book launch and artistic demonstrations during ART crawl through Greater Good Gallery on Fri., Jan. 13th from 5-8pm.

Enjoy a live performance by local musician, Magfirah Dahlan. Growing up in Jakarta, Indonesia, Magfirah Dahlan has traveled and lived in sixteen countries on four continents. She moved to New Bern, North Carolina in 2013 to be a Philosophy professor at Craven Community College after completing her PhD at Virginia Tech. Having successfully written and published academic work, she began her singer-songwriting career in 2016 by writing forty songs in the span of nine months. As an emerging artist in the pop folk genre, she has been described as a ‘lyrical genius’ who combines philosophical insights and poetic beauty, with a voice that is unassuming yet haunting. Magfirah has performed in New Bern, Goldsboro, and Washington, DC.

Ben Alden Watford will be signing books to launch his newest title, “James Stanley Jones vs The Klan.” The book begins during the late twenties and thirties. The story deals with two teenagers in a small village in Western North Carolina during the Jim Crow era. It is during the period when social contact between races is nonexistent, especially in rural America. Two individuals of different races find themselves drawn to each other. When one of them is murdered, the other is suspected. The mystery of the death and the resulting trial, fueled by hatred of the Klan, reaches the climax.
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Carol Jones and Lisa Bisbee Lentz will be demonstrating oil painting techniques. 
Call to artists: if you want to setup during ARTcrawls at Greater Good Gallery, please email info@GreaterGoodGallery.com or call 252-649-1712.  
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GET ON THE POSTER! Send an email to Lisa by end of day Thursday, Aug. 25 to info@greatergoodgallery.com

​Call to ARTISTS! SETUP in Isaac Taylor Garden at 228 Craven Streeet in #NewBern during Artcrawl on Sept., 9, 2016 from 5-8pm. Demonstrate your talents! Send an email to Lisa at info@GreaterGoodGallery.com

A local ENC band, The Spread, will be playing featuring Chris Jones on Piano/Vocals, Kathryn Morgan Vocals,   Chris Taylor on Guitar,  Will Phetterplace on  Drums, Phil Wilson on Bass and Elton Daniels on Percussion. They won Battle of the Bands spot to play in Beaufort Music Festival in 2013. 

Chris Wagner, local artist, says, "The first ARTcrawl of summer is just over a week away! " It's Friday, July 8th, 2016 which should be a big time since BERNAROO MUSIC FEST will be performing all around New Bern. 

​CALL TO ARTISTS: Community Artist Will, our local non-profit organization, invites performers, visual artists, book-signing authors and creative folk to demonstrate  their skills. If you are a creative person, setting up for ARTcrawl, please let Chris Wagner know where you will be in New Bern and what you will be doing. He will be sure to get you included in CAW's press release.

TO DO: Email Chris with your info to communityartistwill@gmail.com with the header "Press Release".
DEADLINE: He needs your email by Sunday night, July 3rd, so he can send in the release on Monday.

ARTISTS SETUP DURING ARTcrawl: Starting at 2 pm on Friday's ARTcrawl Sept. 9th, 2016, setup an easel on the pathway to the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center to demonstrate your talent. "Meet and Greet" the MS Bike Riders as more than two thousand participants register for the historic bicycle festival throughout the day until 6pm.

ARTISTS GET ON THE POSTER: One painting will be chosen to be printed on the poster promoting Greater Good Gallery's "MS Bicycle ARTcrawl Exhbit."   DEADLINE FOR CONSIDERATION is July 18th. Please email a high-resolution jpg to info@greatergoodgallery.com         

ARTISTS SUBMIT YOUR BICYCLE PAINTING: If you would like to paint a bicycle for sale at Greater Good Gallery, please drop off your paintings by Thurs., Sept. 8th to 228 Craven Street, New Bern.
                                                                                                                                    
LOCAL BUSINESS PARTICIPATION: If you would like to honor the MS Bike Riders with a special promotion, please contact Linda Staunch or Melissa Riggle at 252 -637-9400. DEADLINE FOR CONSIDERATION is July 18th.

More about the MS Bike Ride on September 10-11, 2016, visit  www.visitnewbern.com/calendar/event-details?3107

You are invited to the Launch Party to celebrate the new book, "My Little Plastic Bag" by author Sam Love, illustrated by Samrae Duke. The author and illustrator will be on location at Greater Good Gallery to sign books. Refreshments will be served.

DATE: Thursday, July 14th
TIME: 5:30 to 7pm
LOCATION: Greater Good Gallery, 228 Craven Street, New Bern, NC 

The Greater Good Gallery will host a book launch party and book signing for My Little Plastic Bag on Thursday July 14 at 5:30 pm. The book with text by local poet Sam Love and illustrator Samrae Duke tells the story of what happens to a plastic bag when a little girl throws it out the window.  Through brightly colored illustrations a child can follow the plastic through the ecosystem into the ocean where small bits are eaten by fish. Finally the chemicals in the plastic come back to Amy’s family in the fish her family eats.
 
The story is based on a poem by Sam Love that appeared in his poetry book, Converging Waters and in Duke University’s Eno magazine. “I get really angry when I see the plastic pieces that the mowers cut up on the side of the road and I wanted to create an educational book for young children that helps them understand there is no ‘away’,” according to Love.
 
“This book can be valuable to teach young people about the problems plastic trash creates in our aquatic environment,” says Travis Graves, Lower Neuse Riverkeeper.

For more information, email Sam Love at sam@samlove.net