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Carolina Creations March 2012 News and Upcoming Events |
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Help us make room!
We have a small section of sale items.These are pieces that the artist is no long making, a discontinued glaze, or out of season hand crafted items.
We really need to make room for new work that is arriving daily so we've marked it at 50% off, some pieces a little more than that!
Our loss is your gain so hurry while there is still a nice selection because by the 1st of April the sale shelves will be gone!
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If not the next time you're in just say "I receive your email newsletter and I want to earn rewards for my purchases!"
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About Us
317 Pollock St Downtown New Bern, NC 28560
252-633-4369
[email protected]
Open 7 Days a Week
You can order online by clicking here.
Winter Hours Mon - Sat 10-6 Sun 11-3
Open late for ArtWalk
March 9, 2012
We ship!
Always free giftwrapping.
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Spring is just around the corner and we never really had any winter! We are excited about our upcoming ArtWalk, you won't want to miss it.
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ArtWalk Friday, March 9, 5-8pm
Featured Artist Dan Nelson Painting the Town - New Bern Our featured artist for March and April, is Dan Nelson of Raleigh. He'll be at ArtWalk on Friday, March the 9th, so you'll have a chance to meet him.
Dan could be seen painting on the streets of New Bern during February and created much excitement!
Every town has a number of artists in it. Some of those artists practice painting "en plein aire" (French: in the open air), most of those artists produce paintings roughly the size of a high school school notebook. A few of them will paint larger. But when you find one who sets up a 100-pound easel, hoists a patio umbrella, plugs a sound system and lights into his marine battery, paints 4-by-6-foot paintings, and visits with passersby until long after sundown . . . well, then you've probably found Dan Nelson.
Dan loves chatting with onlookers, students, and artist wanna-be's while he works. "I do my best painting when I am mildly distracted" Dan quips, "I like the energy that I get from interacting with people, and the locals are the ones who can really tell you about their town."
Dan received his BFA from Calvin College but says his real education came from his tenure as a full time, free lance illustrator, from 1984 through 1998 completing over 4000 illustrations during that period.
Since then he has leaned more toward fine art but still does illustrations, portraits, and cartoons and works in mediums as varied as oils, watercolors, air brushing, charcoal, ink, and acrylics.
For this show at Carolina Creations Dan has painted Middle Street, Tryon Palace, New Street, Hancock, the Jones House, to name a few. See more by clicking here.
His show runs through April 30, 2012.
Several of us were lucky enough to attend a workshop taught by Dan in February, if you're interested in attending the next one he does for us shoot us an email and we'll let you know when the next one is.
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New work coming in every day!
Once in a while we find something we cannot resist, even though it is not hand crafted. This time it was "the Little Black Dress". Everyone should have a LBD in their closet - even one for their jewelry!
The Little Black dress by Umbra is a stylish way to store earrings, necklaces and bracelets. The two sided organizer hangs on a rod or hook to maximize space and swivels so you can see your jewelry collection easily, with clear pockets on one side and hanging loops on the other. Made from black cotton canvas with 39 clear vinyl pockets and 24 hook & loop closures.
We are expanding our art to wear area! More hand bags - like these yummy leather hand bags by Henri Lou. Beautiful colors, with a pocket inside and out.
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Bridal Registry Did you know that Carolina Creations has a Bridal Registry? We will go through the gallery with you and help you choose pieces you would like to receive for your new home.
We also create a page on our website so out of town friends and family can see what you like and shop online.
Our special couples-
Elizabeth Robinson and Dustin Throckmorton April 28 2012
Rachel Wilson and Josh Sawyer
May 26, 2012
Brittany Corbin and Blake Clemmons June 9 2012
To see their online registries click here!
Email us or stop in and we'll help you put together a gift registry!
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Carolina Creations Calendar
March 1 - April 30 - Dan Nelson Paints the Town! New paintings of New Bern by Raleigh artist Dan Nelson.
March 9 - Friday - 5-8 pm - ArtWalk featured artist Dan Nelson - meet the artist - refreshments.
April 13 - Friday - 5-7 pm. Home Tour Open House open to the public.
April 20 - Friday - 5-8 pm Open until 9 for the Hollywood ArtWalk!
May 11 - Friday - 5-8 pm - ArtWalk featuring Garden Art Show!
July 13 - Friday - 5-8 pm - ArtWalk featuring new paintings by Sally Sutton
September 14 - 5-8 pm - ArtWalk
October 5-14, 2012 - Celebrate American Craft Week!
November 9 - 5-8 pm - ArtWalk featuring our Holiday Show with work from gallery artists
Downtown News
Please visit
for the complete schedule! And if you are on Facebook "Like" Downtown New Bern where we post upcoming events and news regularly.
Sunday Hours We've been open 7 days a week for about 15 years and yet we still hear "we didn't know you were open on Sundays!" For the winter our Sunday hours are 11-3 pm. Well we are not the only ones that are open. There are - 12 other restaurants and 12 other shops are too, there are also 8 shops that are open Friday nights. |
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A Message from Jan & Michael We've been zooming all over looking for new work to bring to New Bern and we think we've done a great job of finding new artists or new work from artists you're already familiar with. The next few months will bring in many exciting things.
We'd like to thank you for all your support through the years!
We try to keep our newsletters short and sweet but do like to go more in depth about our artists, what we're doing, and often our favorite events going on Downtown on our Blog.
Click here to take a look!
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March Drawing!
Win a Chris Moses raku whistle by emailing us by clicking here - put in the message line - raku We always love your notes too!
Congratulations to Phyllis O'Daniel for winning a set of Blessings Coastersby Jan Francoeur. |
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