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What is YInMn Blue?

Jul 5, 2016

Seven years ago, Professor Mas Subramanian of Oregon State University, along with his team, accidently discovered a new pigment of blue. YInMn Blue was discovered by Andrew E. Smith, one of the graduate students on the team, while he was researching the electrical...

Quotes from FriArts Discussion: June 24, 2016

Jun 24, 2016

"The result of this self-discovery in the studio is pain - the pain of separation, alienation, loneliness, and death. Edvard Munch...once said 'Art emerges from joy and pain,' and then he added, 'Mostly from pain.'...it reminds us of something we want to forget - our...

Quotes from this week’s Friday Arts Discussion

Jun 17, 2016

"The tradition of modern art, beginning with Gustave Courbet in the nineteenth century and extending into the present, establishes the artist's studio as a legitimate place for a human being to paint their way into their identity - through faith, disbelief, hopes, and...

Sourwood Writers Poet Profile: Sam Kendall

Jun 13, 2016

Sam Kendall will be the featured poet at this month's Sourwood Reading Series (Thursday night from 7-8 at The Newsstand on Main St.) so we thought we would take some time to let you get to know him before Thursday. "Sam Kendall is a poet who lives in North Carolina...

The Sourwood Reading Series

May 24, 2016

The Sourwood Reading Series A monthly series sponsored by The Sourwood Writers, Friday Arts Project's poetry group. This series will feature one poet to read followed by an open mic time. Any poets are welcome but time will be limited, but not tyrannical. WHEN:...