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Lake Johnson, Raleigh
Location: Southwest Raleigh
Event Dates: 9/7/2010 - 9/7/2010

Tuesday, 9am - Noon

Location Coordinator: Patricia Savage
                                 email: p_savage@bellsouth.net  website: www.psavageartist.com

Prairie Ridge, Raleigh
Location: Raleigh
Event Dates: 9/10/2010 - 9/10/2010

Friday, 9am-Noon

See previous events for location information and address.

Location Coordinator: Lynda Chambers
                                 email: lyndachambers@yahoo.com  website: www.lyndachambers.com


NC Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill
Event Dates: 9/14/2010 - 9/14/2010
Reception: 9/14/2010 • 9am - 12pm

Tuesday, 9am-Noon

The North Carolina Botanical Garden (ncbg.unc.edu) encompasses several acres of display gardens, an education center (with restrooms), a number of natural areas, and extensive trails through a woods with hillsides and a stream. The display gardens include a large paved patio inset with beds of carnivorous plants like pitcher and flytraps, plus many "garden rooms" and beds of interesting and unusual plants, shrubs, and trees, sculptures, and furthest from the entrance, a small log cabin in a fern glen. Be sure to bring your camera! 


Gaining admission for us to paint here required submitting a proposal and assuring the "powers that be" that we will use utmost courtesy in the garden spaces. We are allowed to set up and paint only where we will not block and trails and walkways, and of course only in open spaces (not the planting beds). 

No food is available. If interested, we could go to lunch at Southern Season's restaurant, the Weathervane. It is about 5 minutes from the botanical garden. Let me know if you would like to do this and I will make a reservation for us.

The garden is located just off Highway 54 in Chapel Hill. It has ample parking, but you will have to walk a short distance from the parking lot to enter the fenced garden area or to access the trails in the woods. 

Go to www.ncbg.unc.edu for pictures and directions

Location Coordinator: Kristen Stamper
                                   email: ksdesign@bellsouth.net, website: www.KristenStamper.com
 

Lake Crabtree, Morrisville
Event Dates: 9/17/2010 - 9/17/2010

Friday, 9am - Noon

More info distributed on yahoo group mail.

Location Coordinator: Wendy Musser
                                    email: cmusser@nc.rr.com    website: www.WendyMusser.com

SparkCon Street Painting Festival
Event Dates: 9/18/2010 - 9/18/2010

Saturday 9am - 6pm

On September 18th the VAE Plein Air Group will be painting at the SparkCon Street Painting Festival on Fayetteville Street.  Choose the time that you would like to paint.  The will be a large crowd most of the day to view your work. There will be vendors for food and drink as well as 140 squares of art being chalked by artist on the street!  This is a great opportunity to get your work in front of the public.  Bring your photobook of current paintings to show interested people.  Join the excitement of art in the act of being created.

Contact Rick Bennett if you'd like more information about painting on location during the festival - rbennett16@nc.rr.com



Haywood Hall, Downtown Raleigh
Event Dates: 9/21/2010 - 9/21/2010

Tuesday, 9am - Noon


Location Coordinator: Mary Reed  email: ReedMary44@yahoo.com
   

CIty Market / Moore Square, Downtown Raleigh
Event Dates: 9/24/2010 - 9/24/2010

Friday, 9am - Noon

Location Coordinator: Judy Crane
                                   email: judykcrane@yahoo.com  website: www.JudyCrane.com

Private Property, Members Only, Cary
Event Dates: 9/28/2010 - 9/28/2010

Tuesday 9am - Noon

Location Coordinator: Lynda Chambers
                                 email: lyndachambersart@yahoo.com   website: www.LyndaChambers.com


Hemlock Bluff Nature Preserve, Cary
Event Dates: 10/8/2010 - 10/8/2010
Reception: 10/8/2010 • 9am - 12pm

Friday, 9am - Noon

Hemlock Bluff Nature Preserve
Located off Kildaire Farm Road approximately 1 mile south of Tryon Road.

Lots of parking; Restrooms available at Stevens Nature Center at the park entry
There are many lunch places nearby at intersection of Tryon and Kildaire Farm Rd.
 
Hemlock Bluffs is a state nature preserve that is managed by the Town of Cary. The bluffs, with its population of Eastern hemlock, divide the preserve into upland areas with pines, mixed pine-hardwood and oak-hickory woodlands, and the flood plain along Swift Creek. There are many platforms for overlooking interesting pine forest, mixed pine-hardwood, upland oak-hickory, and Swift Creek floodplain habitats. There is a sunny open courtyard near the nature center, shaded trails, and shallow creek water to challenge the plein air painter. Be on the look out for a variety of birds as well. Stay on trails, but do not block trails or bridges with easels.

Location Coordinator: Sarah Sheffield
email:
naberssj@aol.com

Willow Oak Farm Riding School, Sanford
Location: 3231 Mays Chapel Road, Sanford
Event Dates: 10/15/2010 - 10/15/2010
Reception: 10/15/2010 • 9am - Noon

Friday, 9am - Noon

Willow Oak Farm Riding School is located in scenic Chatham County, in the midst of rolling fields and beautiful sunsets. Check out their website at www.willowoakfarmridingschool.com.

Location Coordinator: Lilly Langer (lillylanger@bellsouth.net)
Visit Lilly's website at www.LillyLanger.com

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