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Art League’s October Events
The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers will sponsor two free events during the month of October. The first is the annual Fall Colors Fine Art Show, to be held from 10:00 A.M. until 5:00 P.M. on the weekend of October 20 and 21 at the Highlands Civic Center. This always popular show features quality paintings in oil, watercolor, acrylic, and pastel. …
Reinterpreting Nature
Jill Wolfe, like all successful artists, is constantly reinventing herself. Since her last interview with The Laurel, she’s shifted from outdoor shows and a fairly realistic style to studio work, abstraction, and a boatload of color. She often employs an arbitrary palette of unexpected hues, flipping cool colors with warm, blue skies to orange. But what her former and current …
Art Supports Community
Robechhi’s words are echoed by Carolina Gallery’s Leslie Jeffery and Mary Lou Bilbro. Artists themselves, they were deeply sympathetic to peers who’d lost representation when the John Collette, Ann Jacobs, and Summit One Galleries closed. Why’d they close? The recession and a huge online art presence forced those galleries and many others across the nation to fold. That’s when the …
Lisa Pirkle, Folk Artist
Lisa Pirkle has known that she was an artist since she was five years old. She was always attracted to paints, paper, and art supplies. Throughout her life she has created art. She is grateful that she is able to make her living from the creative process within her and has for the past 20 years. Art is ever-evolving and …
What’s Happening at the PAC
The Live via Satellite Series begins the 2018-19 season on October 6 with the MET Opera production of “Aida” by Verdi. Soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met “Aida,” going toe-to-toe with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris. Tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko is Radamès, and Nicola Luisotti takes the podium for the Met’s monumental production. The Egyptians are at war with the …
The Argus String Quartet
The Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival concludes its 37th season with a Fall Mini-Residency by the Argus String Quartet on October 12-13 and is sponsored by Cullasaja Women’s Outreach. As the Graduate Quartet in Residence at the Juilliard School, the Argus String Quartet collaborates with the acclaimed Juilliard String Quartet. Members Clara Kim (violin), Dana Kelly (viola), Jason Issokson (violin), and …
2018 Foodie Film Fest
Fans of film and food, don your best bib and tucker and head for the Highlands Playhouse’s 2018 Foodie Film Festival. On October 26, 27, and 28, the Playhouse will feature a delectable line up of cinematic treats centered on the joys of wining and dining. This carefully curated line-up will offer films both savory and sweet, as well as …
Dangerous Collecting
“Mauritius” by Theresa Rebeck, an intriguing Broadway thriller about stamp collecting, is the next production of the Highlands Cashiers Players. Who would have thought that stamp collecting could be dangerous? Or that the value of certain rare stamps could soar into thousands and, yes, millions of dollars? “Mauritius” is a thriller about attempts to get hold of a valuable …
Versatile Faux & Decorative Painter
Jenny Mixon breaks through the limitations of ordinary wall paint to create faux finishes that fool the eye, delight the spirit, and wow-up a room. With 25 years of painting experience under her belt, she’s filled her toolbox with a wide variety of design techniques. She’s a decorative painter, a faux finisher, a phenomenal transformer of interiors, a reclaimed furnishings …
Sky Valley Fallfest
The Fifth Annual Sky Valley Fallfest is scheduled for Saturday, October 20, from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Visitors will be treated to hayrides throughout the day, taking them to the valley’s magnificent waterfall, a crystal-clear falls with a vertical drop of 100 feet that flows into the beautiful Estatoah Falls. If you’re a connoisseur of cars, you won’t want …
International Holiday Dinner
“Where would Highlands be without them?” That’s what area business owners in the hospitality, construction, and service industries ask daily. Them are the hundreds of seasonal, guest, and immigrant workers who do the heavy lifting, the housekeeping, and the cooking to keep us going. To welcome and to thank these seasonal, guest, and immigrant workers, the Episcopal Church of the …
Cashiers Quilters
The Cashiers Quilters will offer a detailed look at the craftsmanship and diversity of modern quilting with a display, a boutique, a silent auction, and a bake sale from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Saturday October 6, at Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library. Everyone is invited to attend. There is no charge for admission, but donations are welcome. On the Saturday …
