Author: Blueplate PR
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Charleston Architect To Serve On Tennessee Design Awards Jury
September 10, 2008 (CHARLESTON, SC) – Whitney Powers, AIA, principal and president of Studio A Architecture in Charleston, will serve as a juror for the 2008 AIA East Tennessee Design Awards program, to be held in Charleston on October 11. Powers, an award-winning architect and LEED-certified practitioner, has received national recognition for her work in…
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Architect Frank Harmon Hired For Virginia Oyster Hatchery Study & Design
September 7, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC) — Frank Harmon, FAIA, principal of the award-winning firm Frank Harmon Architect PA in Raleigh, NC, has been hired to conduct the feasibility study and to create the conceptual design for the Northern Neck Oyster Hatchery Project (NNOHP) in Virginia. For the study — the project’s Phase One – Harmon…
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NCCU Art Museum Receives Major Gift
September 3, 2008 (DURHAM, NC) — Mary Jo and Dick Bell of Atlantic Beach, NC, recently donated 14 significant works of art by the late A.B. Jackson to the North Carolina Central University Art Museum in Durham, NC. The Jackson collection, part of the Bells’ personal art collection, is valued at $194,000, according to a…
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Purple Armchair Announces Co-Sponsors for 2008 CHAIRity Gala & Auction for Habitat/Wake County
August 28, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC) – As the October 11 date draws nearer for Purple Armchair’s 2008 CHAIRity Gala & Fundraiser to benefit Habitat for Humanity of Wake County, co-sponsors have lined up to show their support by donating their services. The Raleigh Downtowner, the city’s monthly magazine covering the downtown area, and its online…
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Raleigh Salon Owners Go On “Collision” Course
August 25, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC) – After Joelle and Jack Ray, the owners of the award-winning Samuel Cole Salon and Salon Moxie in North Raleigh, spent time this month at the Redken headquarters in New York City and the Goldwell HQ in Baltimore, Maryland, they knew exactly where the trendiest of hair styling and coloring…
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Supermodel’s Support Prompts Compelling Story
August 21, 2008 (NEW BERN, NC) — The fact that supermodel/actress Shakara Ledard was coming to the RHA Howell River Bend Center in New Bern, NC, enticed a local reporter to attend a small groundbreaking ceremony for the center’s therapeutic greenhouse. But when the New Bern Sun Journal’s Matt Tessnear got there, the story of…
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Successful Salon Owner Keeps Career, Family in Balance “24/7”
August 21, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC) – Joelle Ray, the driving force behind the award-winning Samuel Cole Salon and Salon Moxie in North Raleigh, is featured this month in the Raleigh version of Skirt! Magazine. Ray, the mother of two sons (Sam, 15, and Cole, 12) and a master stylist herself, co-owns the salons with her…
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Chapel Hill Artist Kimberly Alvis Donates Oil Painting to “Works of Heart”
August 21, 2008 (CHAPEL HILL, NC) – Award-winning fine artist Kimberly Alvis of Chapel Hill, NC, has donated one of her oil paintings to Works of Heart, the Triangle area’s premiere charity art auction to benefit The Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina (AAS-C), which will be held Saturday, October 11, in downtown Raleigh. Alvis’ painting, entitled…
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Charleston Architect Named “Green Goddess”
August 20, 2008 (CHARLESTON, SC) – Whitney Powers, AIA, president and principal of Studio A Architecture in Charleston, SC, is featured this month in Skirt! Magazine as a “green goddess.” “Whitney Powers…has pushed the green edge of sustainable design for over a decade, creating award-winning buildings in and around Charleston that treat lightly on the…
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Drawing Is The Foundation: Artist Kimberly Alvis Completes Portrait Commission
August 16, 2008 (CHAPEL HILL, NC) — When fine artist Kimberly A. Alvis of Chapell Hill, NC, recently completed a portrait commission for Ann Engles, also of Chapel Hill, she discussed the challenge it presented and the process she goes through to paint a family portrait. “Ann hired me to do a family portrait from…
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