Ginny Moreland donating stained glass

Ginny Moreland donating stained glass
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Bathroom photography series

Bathroom photography series
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Fantastic Donations at Art Drop Off

We received over 40 donations during the drop off event tonight. Already there are some amazing items that will be featured during the month long auction including fabricated painted metal sun, hand made marbled paper, wood and bead jewelry, a ceramic fish, beautiful fabric purses, and Catawba Valley pottery.

We want to give a huge thank you to all the artists that came out to donate and look forward to more art to come.

Call for Donation for 2009 Event

We are looking for art donations for our 2009 event. Taste Full Beans will be hosting an ART DROP-OFF January 15 from 5-6:30 PM so artists can drop off their items. If you have a question about the process please contact Edgar Hernandez at Taste Full Beans at 828/325-0108.

2009 Aroma of Art Kick Off Event

The AOA Kick Off Event of 2009 will be held on Friday January 30, 2009 from 5 to 7pm.


The Sponsor Pre-Event will run from 4 to 5pm.

2009 Call for Art Submissions

Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse will kick-off their 8th annual benefit art auction Aroma of Art Friday,January 30, 2009. Proceeds from Aroma of Art will benefit AIDS Leadership Foothills area Alliance (ALFA), Humane Society of Catawba County, and Women’s Resource Center. Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse is seeking donations of art from artists of all levels. Art may be dropped off Thursday January 15 at Taste Full Beans from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

The collection of art, including oil paintings; photography; pottery; sculpture; food; and jewelry from local artists, will be display at the Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse throughout the month of February.

For more information on Aroma of Art please call Taste Full Beans staff at 325-0108.

Poetry Inspired from Theft

Local poet Scott Owens and other area poets will be reading original poems they wrote in response to AOA artwork at the auction finale Friday, February 29, 2008. Scott wrote this poem in response to the theft from the fundraiser.


Art Stolen from Benefit Show

Hickory, NC, February 21, 2008

So few appreciate, fewer buy

it comes as great surprise

when three paintings by a local artist

grow legs and walk away,

stranding AIDS patients,

abused women, abandoned pets.

Later, the artist looking at the blankness

on the wall imagines her lines

hanging in hostile halls, pictures

this deviant desperado of art,

can’t help but smile at the familiar,

love that risks freedom for possession.

Scott Owens