What: Call to NC Johnston County Artists
Who: Eye of the Eagle Art Gallery
When: Art Gallery Grand Opening - date TBA
Seeking Johnston County NC Artists
If you are a resident in Johnston County NC and have an interest in exhibiting your work in the Eye of the 
Eagle Art Gallery during the month of October, the gallery would love to hear from you. They are seeking diversity and broken boundaries in your chosen medium.
To be considered for exhibition the following requirements must be met:
- Send in 4 pictures (print or digital) with sizes of the artwork being submitted. Two will be chosen to exhibit, more if space allows. Mail to Eye of the Eagle Art, 131 East 1st Street, Clayton, NC 27520 or email donna@eyeoftheeagleart.com
- If you submit your pictures by email, please include your full name, address, phone number you can be reached at during day and evening hours
- If you wish to have your pictures returned, include a self-addressed, stamped envelope
- An Artists’ Statement and/or a resume
- Work must be appropriate for all ages
- Work must be original and made by the artist - no Prints or Giclee
- Work must be professionally framed and wired for hanging - no saw teeth, no exceptions
- Sculptures and pottery will be accepted - include the dimensions of your pieces
- Jewelry will be accepted (no kits)
Note: The Gallery has the right to reject art work that it feels is inappropriate and does not meet the standards deemed acceptable.
Emerging artists in Johnston County with a fresh perspective are encouraged to apply. Art will be on display in the gallery during the month of the grand opening.
If you wish to consign your art to the gallery you may do so at the end of the month. If you do not wish to consign your work to the gallery, it will need to be removed by November 1, 2008 or a $10 daily storage fee will be charged.
All Gallery Sales during the grand opening will incur a 25% commission fee. For more information contact Donna Light Pfledderer at 919-221-0452 or donna@eyeoftheeagleart.com
Written by RelocateClayton on September 17th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Summer Seasonal Living History Program & Artilery Demonstrations
Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site in Four Oaks
Interpreters dressed in period costumes demonstrate activities of the common North Carolina Confederate Soldier including small arms firing, close order drill, and the provisions issued to Civil War soldiers.
May 17,2008
Call (910) 594-0789 for more details.
10am - 4pm
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In its service to the residents of Johnston County, the Johnston County Arts Council is offering a lecture/workshop series this spring. The Council has four events scheduled so far, covering artistic disciplines from modern dance and art history, to poetry and popular music.
All lectures/workshops take place on a Thursday evening at 6:30pm at the Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield in Downtown Smithfield, NC and are free to the public.
Outside the Frame: The Astonishing Life of Whistler’s Mother, Thursday, March 6th at 6:30pm
This lecture/slide presentation focuses on Anna Whistler’s life in 19th Century America, Czarist Russia, and bohemian London, where she lived with her eccentric son, the brilliant and provocative artist James McNeill Whistler. The presenter, a relative of Anna, traces the history of the portrait from a nineteenth-century masterpiece to a twenty-first century American Icon and popular culture object of caricature. Behind Anna’s calm and serene countenance lies an amazing story- the story of a courageous woman born in Wilmington, NC, who raised two sons, lost three in infancy, sailed across the Atlantic at least five times, lived in luxury in the barbaric fairyland of Czarist Russia, survived the civil war and risked her life to run the Federal Blockade to be with James in London, where she managed his household and served as his representative and agent. Through extensive reading and research, Mr. McNeill has pieced together a portrait that contradicts the popular conception of Anna as a dour Puritan and stern matriarch. Instead, he shows her to be a devoutly religious but indulgent mother, an educated and cultivated woman whose life was full of adventure and paradox.
Poetry Workshop with North Carolina Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer, Thursday, April 17th at 6:00pm
In this two-hour poetry workshop, North Carolina Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer will share some of her own work with the participants and then lead the group in a discussion of personal history and utilizing poetry to find a literary voice. Poetry will be used to help participants find their own story, sing it forth, and move on into richer and more attentive lives. Participants will write, share their work, and talk about what it is calling out to them to heed, to preserve, and to celebrate. Space is limited to 25 participants and the fee is $10.00 per participant. To reserve your space, please call 919-553-1930.
Sincere Forms of Flattery: Blacks, Whites, and American Popular Music, Thursday, May 1st at 6:30pm
In this 45-minute lecture, Billy Stevens demonstrates how historic interactions between African-Americans and European-Americans shaped the evolution of American popular music. With its roots in slavery and the fusion of musical traditions brought from both Africa and Europe, American music is a natural outgrowth of the unique culture of the American South. From rap stars to rock ‘n’ rollers, gospel shouters to big band crooners, from Elvis Presley to Stephen Foster, a pattern of contact and conflict between white and black cultures fueled the creation of confluent musical forms recognized worldwide as distinctly American. Using musical instruments as well as rare recordings, Billy helps audiences understand the relationship between jazz and blues, ragtime and gospel, and how the first distinctly American musical genre, blackface minstrelsy, has influenced country musicians up to the present day. The result is a better understanding of how our music reflects America’s social fabric, affirming the contributions of performers both famous and forgotten while empowering minority communities often relegated to obscurity.
Johnston County Arts Council
231 East Second Street
Clayton, NC 27520
phone - 919-553-1930
fax - 919-553-2501
Written by RelocateClayton on February 29th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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The Clayton Center will host a traveling film festival on Thursday, February 7, 2008. The film fest spotlights twelve short films created by filmmakers who live and work in the Southeast.
The 1st Annual Short Circuit Traveling Film Festival, a project of the Southern Arts Federation, will present a dozen short films selected for their artistic merit by a panel of media arts professionals. After the screening at the Clayton Center, two filmmakers will be present to answer audience questions about their films and the film industry in general. The film selections range from fiction and animation to experimental and documentary by filmmakers from Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina and Tennessee.
The Johnston County Arts Council and The Clayton Center are collaborating to present the festival.
The festival will begin at 7:00pm and will last for 2.5 hours. General Admission is $2.50.
Featured in the 2007-2008 Short Circuit Traveling Film Festival is the documentary “The Cole Nobody Knows” about musician Nat King Cole’s younger and equally talented brother, who at age 75 is at last being recognized for his own musical talent. Director Clay Walker will be present at the screening in Clayton to introduce his film and answer questions. The Film Festival is a prelude to The Clayton Center’s February 9 concert featuring Freddy Cole. Admission to the film festival is free to individuals who purchase tickets to Saturday’s concert.
Heidi Stump, Executive Director of The Clayton Center says she is excited about hosting Clayton’s first film festival and hopes to build an audience for future film fests.
“Johnston County is an area rich in musical, theatrical, literary and visual arts, but film is one area that is only just beginning to reach the community. The Short Circuit Film Festival will be an excellent opportunity to introduce residents to a new and exciting art form,” states Jessica Meadows, Executive Director of the Johnston County Arts Council.
For a list of films and the festival schedule visit the Short Circuit Traveling Film Festival at www.southarts.org/shortfilms.
Written by RelocateClayton on January 20th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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This is your chance sweet potato fans. This could be your way to turn $5 in Wal-Mart sweet potatoes into real cash. $5,000 in prize money is up for grabs for the best soup, salad, side or sweet recipes. $500 will be awarded in each of three categories and $3,000 will go the overall winner.
The North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission, located in Smithfield, NC is sponsoring the Commission’s first-ever NATIONAL consumer sweet potatoe recipe contest. A total of $5,000 in prize money will be awarded - a $500 prize for the winner in each of the four categories (soup, salad, side, sweet) and a grand prize of $3,000 to the winner who will be chosen from among the four category winners. A contest Web site is up and just waiting for sweet potato lovers to submit their favorite sweet potato creations.
The place to submit your recipes is: http://www.getfreshwithsweetpotatoes.com/.
Who: North Carolina SweetPotato Commission with promotional sponsor Taste of the South magazine
What: The get Fresh with North Carolina Sweet Potatoes Recipe Contest
Where: Open to legal residents of the United States
When: Recipe submissions are being accepted through April 15, 2008. Final judging will take place in test kitchens of Taste of the South magazine. Winners will be announced May 2008.
Why: To discover the creative and innovative ways home cooks are using fresh sweet potatoes and to reward their efforts. And because sweet potatoes taste good!
How: Enter online at http://www.getfreshwithsweetpotatoes.com/ or mail entry(ies) to:
Get Fresh with North Carolina Sweet Potatoes Recipe Contest,
P.O. Box 575,
Selma, N.C. 27576.
Complete rules are posted on the Web site, or you can send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the contst address above with a request for a copy of the rules.
The staff of Relocate Clayton is also accepting submissions for professional sweet potato recipe tasting and pre-judging. There are no losers in the Relocate Clayton tasting contest. Everybody wins. We eat. You get told that your cooking is good. What better reward could there be? I mean, other than the chance at $3,500 in the national contest? Email us at relocateclayton@gmail.com for details and submission arrangements.
Written by RelocateClayton on January 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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The Johnston County Arts Council, NC is sponsoring 4 lectures that will include:
- Innovation Through Collaboration, Meeting Room of the Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield. Thursday, February, 28, 6:30pm.
- Outside the Frame: The Astonishing Life of Whistler’s Mother, Meeting Room of the Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield. Thursday, March 6th, 6:30pm.
- Poetry Workshop with North Carolina Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer, Meeting Room of the Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield. Thursday, April 17th, 6:00pm.
- Sincere Forms of Flattery: Blacks, Whites, and American Popular Music, Meeting Room of the Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield. Thursday, May 1st, 6:30pm.
Call the Johnston County Arts Council at (919) 553-1930 for more details. If you want a complete description of this and other events, visit the Johnston County Arts Council website. And while flattery isn’t my strong suit…come to think of it, neither are collaboration, poetry and Whistler’s Mother…I may have to attend?
Written by RelocateClayton on January 15th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Looking for some exercise that’s fun and a little different?
The Garner Senior Center is offering belly dancing lesson. This creative, non-competitive and incredibly intense workout engages your core muscles while encouraging strength and flexibility throughout your entire body. At least, that’s what I hear. I don’t belly dance. These sessions are available to people of “all sizes and health conditions.” Must be 18 years of age or older. The class will meet on Mondays from 6 - 7pm. The fee is $30 for Garner residents, $39 for non-residents.
Session I runs from January 28 - March 3.
Session II runs from March 17 - April 21.
Note: Relocate Clayton wants you to know that this information is not intended as a substitute for qualified medical advice. Get fit - but consult your doctor before starting any exercise program - yes, even belly dancing.
Written by RelocateClayton on January 14th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Now is the time to welcome the people of Selma, NC to America. Yes, the town known for antiques has made the jump into 2008 with the addition of a McDonald’s at the intersection of U.S. 70 and I-95. Ok, it’s not IN the intersection, but you get the idea. That would be one heck of a drive thru.
Anyway, to celebrate Selma’s modern-day dining facility, the new McDonald’s will be selling cheeseburgers for 49¢ on January 17th & 24th between 5:00 and 8:00pm.
Limit ten per customer. So eat ‘em slow, ya hear?
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The Clayton Historical Association is offering a special presentation that is open to the public on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 110:30am at the Hocutt-Ellington Memorial Library, in Clayton, NC.
Mr. Todd Johnson will be giving a presentation that focuses on “Rediscovering the Riches of Clayton, NC.” Johnson will also talk about the new web page being launched by the library.
Parts of the presentation will focus on the 1909 Handbook of Clayton and Vicinity, as well as the collections of Virginia Satterfield, Horne, Hocutt-Ellington, Cooper School and Charles Barden.
For members of the Clayton, NC Historical Association and those who wish to join, the Association will hold a general membership meeting immediately after the presentation.
No RSVP Needed.
Feel free to contact (919) 553-5334 or
claytonNChistory@gmail.com with questions
Hocutt-Ellington Library
100 S Church Street
Downtown Historical Clayton, NC
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Johnston County Community College has announced that it will host Seussical on
Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Tickets are $10
Suessical is what happens when Dr. Seuss’s timeless stories meet in an unforgettable musical adventure! Adapted from the Broadway version, JCC’s version of Seussical is perfect for young audiences and features twelve actors and enhanced production values.
The Cat in the Hat is the host and emcee of the production and takes you on his own personal journey through the Seuss classics. Dr. Seuss’s beloved classic characters become intertwined in an incredible on-stage adventure in which the power of imagination and the most miraculous “think” ever save the day!”
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Relocate Clayton is a relocation website that covers all of Johnston County, North Carolina. Towns in Johnston County that we cover include Clayton NC, Smithfield NC, Garner NC, Benson NC, Four Oaks NC and Selma NC. Clayton, NC in Johnston County is a great place to relocate to.
