Tag: Chapel Hill artists
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“Open Sky Art” Exhibit at Caribou Coffee
June 11, 2009 (CHAPEL HILL, NC) – Joseph Rowand, director and curator at Somerhill Gallery in Durham, was stunned to learn that the artists who participated in Kimberly Alvis’ “Open Sky Art” event on Sunday, June 7, began and completed their paintings in just a few hours that day. Rowand arrived at Caribou Coffee on…
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Chapel Hill Artist Hosts “En Plein Air” Session In Her Gardens
April 24, 2009 (CHAPEL HILL, NC) – Artist Kimberly Alvis loves her gardens, which spread out among the trees and pond around her home just outside downtown Chapel Hill. Well tended, they provide her with constant sources for still life paintings, landscapes, and people in landscape paintings – especially when she can capture one of…
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Chapel Hill Artist Turns Travel Into Art
February 22, 2009 (CHAPEL HILL, NC) – Artist Kimberly Alvis recently completed “Fajardo, Puerto Rico,” a 20hx24w oil on canvas painting inspired by a moment on a recent journey she made to Puerto Rico. “I was eating dinner at a little restaurant on the water and I was staring at this scene the whole time,”…
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Artist’s Garden Inspires Paintings, Sales
December 15, 2008 (RALEIGH, NC) – The relationship between artists and their gardens — and how they inspire each other — is well documented in books, galleries and museums. Monet, for one, created countless paintings that were inspired by his legendary gardens at Giverny. In the countryside near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at least one…
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Chapel Hill Artist Offers “The Gold Ribbon” To Charitable Fundraiser
December, 2008 (CHAPEL HILL, NC) — To show her support for The Arc of Orange County’s mission, Chapel Hill artist Kimberly Alvis recently donated a unique Christmas tree “ornament” to the Festival of Trees, The Arc’s December fundraising event held at University Mall in Chapel Hill. Alvis’ ornament is actually an original 5”x7” oil painting…
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Chapel Hill Artist Participates in “Plein Air” Paint-Out
November 20, 2008 (CHAPEL HILL, NC) – On a recent weekend this month, Chapel Hill artist Kimberly Alvis joined a group of painters who took their paints, palettes, canvases and easels to Elodie goat farm in Bahama, NC, to participate in an en plein air (French for “in the open air”) painting session coordinated by…
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Chapel Hill Artist Kimberly Alvis Sells “Children On A Beach”
September 12, 2008 (CHAPEL HILL, NC) – Chapel Hill artist Kimberly Alvis recently sold an oil painting entitled “Children on a Beach” to Mrs. Kristen Morrissey, also of Chapel Hill, who intends to give the piece to her mother as a birthday gift. In the 18 x 24 oil-on-panel painting, four small children are lined…
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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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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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Artist Kimberly Alvis Donates Painting to Triangle Day School Fundraiser
August 12, 2008 (CHAPEL HILL, NC) — Kimberly A. Alvis, an award-winning fine artist based in Chapel Hill, recently donated a 35” by 40” oil on linen painting to help raise funds for Triangle Day School in Durham. Founded in 1991, Triangle Day School (www.triangledayschool.org) is an independent, co-ed, non-sectarian, non-profit school with a current…
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