Culture Crawl

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Culture Crawl

Yep, it's the Dog Days of Summer. And this month's Culture Crawl kick's off with "doggie art" at The Scrap Exchange. Plus we'll have a special showing of "The Uprising of '34," a look at the South's textile strike - thanks to the folks from Traction; a tour of Liberty Arts; some very sexy works at West Village; and lots, lots more...

Details on Friday night are below!

Culture Crawl is a Downtown Durham monthly art, theatrical, and social event - promoted and organized by volunteers. Artists of various types of mediums will showcase their works at downtown galleries, theatrical spaces, restaurants and nightclubs. All events are open to the public.

The Scrap Exchange Gallery: (photo credit: Baraka Bucky: Jones - a dog artist who shreds plush stuffed animals from the thrift store, leaving behind their lyrical and haunting unstuffed heads.) The Scrap Exchange Presents A Dog Day Art Show at The Scrap Exchange. The Dog Days of Summer: a fun exhibit of work by and about our canine friends. The show will feature art by dogs, collections and creations, memories, photos and mixed media work. Doggie reception in conjunction with Durham's third Friday Culture Crawl 6:00-9:00 pm, August 18th. Show runs through September 10th. www.scrapexchange.org 548 Foster Street, Durham. 688-6960.

Traction Event/In the Park Next Door to Joe & Jo s: Traction Proudly Presents: The Uprising of '34", 8p.m., in the park next door to Joe and Joe's Pub. On September 4th, 1934, over 7,000 workers in Durham went on strike, completely shutting down the city's seven textile plants for weeks. At Erwin Mills in West Durham 1700 stayed out of work, while at the Golden Belt in the East End, hundreds walked the picket lines to turn away workers and supplies. They were joined by hundreds of thousands of other striking workers from Maine to Alabama, in one of the largest mass strikes in United States history.

Join Traction as we mark the 72nd anniversary of this largely forgotten event with the showing of "The Uprising of '34," which documents the textile strike across the South and especially in North Carolina. We'll be joined by local historians, special guests and organizers from the current North Carolina labor movement.

LIBERTY ARTS: (photo of Major courtesy of Liberty Arts) Will be open for a Casting Facility & Studio Tour and selling tickets for their upcoming Sculpture Raffle to help support Liberty Arts and its programs. Tickets are $1 each, and there is no limit to how many may be purchased. Michael Waller, co-creator of MAJOR (see photo), the life-size bronze bull that will eventually be placed in the CCB Plaza, is donating the sculpture for this raffle. Winner to be announced at CenterFest Arts Festival, Sunday, September 17th. Liberty Arts is located in the George Watts Hill Pavilion for the Arts at Durham Central Park, 538 Foster St. Tickets may also be purchased after Culture Crawl by calling Jennifer Collins at 919-682-2673. www.libertyartscasting.org.

Joe & Jo's Downtown Restaurant and Pub: Presents Expressionist painter Jason Kutchma. Jason fuses scrap latex paint and wood to create pieces with vibrant color and unexpected texture. Jason has documented the world around him in the form of pencil sketches, paintings and music since his early days growing up in the steel-town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He currently performs with the band Red Collar and lives in Durham, North Carolina where he juggles carpentry work, painting, filmmaking and creating music. "Color and feeling are the most important aspect to my art. I am curious about the reaction that my pieces bring about from the viewer. When calm and calamity collide-that's a promising piece." -Jay Kutchma. Jason can be contacted at kutchma@hotmail.com. Learn more about his band, Red
Collar at http://www.myspace.com/redcollarmusic.
Joe & Jo s is located at 427 W. Main St. 688-3322. www.myspace.com/joeandjos

West Village Apartments: Presents: Keeping it Real: Paintings by J Golden. Artist Statement: As a collection, I paint images of fetish, fashion, and beauty a world of perfect faces and hip style. The works are sexually suggestive, but not trashy or pornographic. I feel the works, when viewed in person, can speak for themselves. I am working on a visual overload of beautiful faces and bodies. It is, in a sense attractive propaganda. For more information about the artist reception, please contact Cecily Ferguson at cecily@westvillageapts.com (Next to Tosca Restaurant) 604 W. Morgan St., Suite B9.

Through This Lens Gallery: Opening August 18th: "The Adventures of Charlie and the Incredible Truth Machine: Photographs by Charlie Cawley -Exploring the Absurdity of the Mundane". Through This Lens, 303 E. Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC 27701, 919.687.0250. Open Tu-Fri 10:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sat 10:30 am - 2:30 pm and by appointment. Contact: Roylee Duvall, Through This Lens: 687-0250 or info@throughthislens.com

Durham Art Guild: Presents the Annual Members Exhibition - One of the biggest events of the season! This exhibition features works of all media made by DAG members. Gallery Hours: 9-9, Monday-Saturday/ 1-6 Sunday, Free and Open to the Public. The Art Guild is located inside the Durham Arts Council at 120 Morris Street, 546-0074. Contact is Lisa Morton, Gallery Director - www.durhamartguild.org.

THE TRANSOM GALLERY: Split and Structured: Entropy and Salvation in Contemporary Non-Representational Abstract Art - For the last forty years non-representational abstract art has been accused of many things. It has been prized as a blueprint for utopian ideals, sanctified as a window to the sacred and pedestaled as the apex of art history. It has been dismissed as being meaningless, accused of self-indulgence and criticized as elitist. Running through August 25th the Transom Gallery in Durham will explore the issue of abstraction by offering audiences a chance to see it as it is currently being used by a variety of regional artists and performers. Split and Structured celebrates how the world s oldest art form is not only still artistically vital, but a part of our daily lives as well. The Transom Gallery is located at 305 Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC.