The Georgia’s Rome Welcome Center and Gift Shop invites the public to the 2023 Georgia’s Rome Winter Art Market held December 1-2 at the Rome Civic Center. The market will be open from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

The annual holiday event offers one-of-a-kind gifts featuring over 60 local artisans and vendors. Shop a large variety of local art including woodworking, jewelry, apparel, pottery, handmade soaps, photography, and more. Food vendors will also be on-site offering delicious lunches, jellies and jams, coffee, baked goods, and more. 

 “We always strive to support the talented local artists in our hometown, Rome, Georgia,” said Charlene Mathis, Georgia’s Rome Welcome Center and Gift Shop Manager.Admission and parking are free. The Rome Civic Center is located on Jackson Hill across from Applebee’s at 402 Civic Center Drive. 

For questions, contact the Georgia’s Rome Welcome Center and Gift shop at 706-295-5576.

For less than ten seconds, Berndnaut Smilde’s floating sculptures transform galleries, halls, and warehouses into uncanny spaces where indoors meets out. Puffy clouds made of smoke and water hang inside tiled interiors or industrial workshops for a brief time when they’re photographed by the artist’s collaborators. The ephemeral works are part of Smilde’s Nimbus series, ongoing for more than a decade. “I’m still fascinated by capturing a cloud. I never get bored by the process of how the appearance forms into a physical cloud, taking up space, reflecting light, and a specific moment,” he shares.

In recent years, the sculptures have become denser and larger, more imposing elements that haunt quiet spaces from Dubai to Paris to Washington, D.C. Depending on their location, the pieces take on varied meanings to explore questions of time, boundaries, and perception. Smilde explains:

The cloud is a great metaphor and it changes its context, its interpretation, with each space. The old chapel at the Hotel Maria Kapel art space in the Dutch town of Hoorn, where I made my first cloud, for example, emphasized the divine connotations, but in other environments, it could appear as an element escaped from a landscape painting, a thought, a heavenly place, a concealing element, or simply an in-between state. This fleeting aspect of the work is something I’ve embraced in my other artworks, as well. I’ve also learned not to always need to have full control over it and to accept change. A cloud isn’t durable, it changes, grows, and breaks apart.

Smilde’s work is included in a group show on view through March 17, 2024, at Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst in Otterndorf, Germany, and he’s currently creating a piece for a hotel in Amsterdam, where he’s based. Find more of his short-lived weather works on Instagram. (via Aesthetica Magazine)

“Nimbus De.Groen” (2017). Photo by Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk

“Nimbus Katoenveem ” (2018).
Photo byCassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk

“Nimbus Electriciteitsfabriek” (2022)

“Nimbus Museum De Lakenhal” (2022). Photo by Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk

“Nimbus MdbK” (2021). Photo by Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk

“Nimbus Atlas” (2017), exhibition view
at De.Groen fine art collection

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Coming soon to the Victor R. Small House Gallery, the Art for All Holiday Market will be held by the Sampson Arts Council from Nov. 16 to Dec. 14.

To celebrate the arrival of this new gallery, the Council will be hosting an artist reception on Thursday, Nov. 16, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The reception will be open to the public to meet the artists, do some holiday shopping, and enjoy hors d’œuvres and music with the Clinton arts community at 709 College St. in Clinton.

The show will feature the participation of 13 local and regional artists and present an opportunity to purchase unique gifts while supporting local artists and the SAC.

Kara Donatelli, director of the Sampson Arts Council, shared, “Gift items include paintings, prints, ornaments, candles, knitting, crochet, pottery, birdhouses, handcrafted wooden bowls, jewelry, handcrafted wooden cutting boards, gift cards, and more!”

The 13-artist list is comprised of Katie Griffin, Skyler Cason, Marsha Rogers, Calvin Edgerton, Joan Mitchell, Karen Turbiville, Beth Hill, Derek Roscher, Denny Crawford, Emily Walter, Spencer Manning, Steve Harrell, and Carolyn Barnes.

“Support local artists this holiday season,” Donatelli said. With the wide range of items available and the long list of artists with different styles, the SAC feels that the Art for All Holiday Market will have something for everyone.

During its time in the Small House, the gallery will be open Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. as well as 3 to 5 p.m.

The Small House will be closed Nov. 23-24 for Thanksgiving, but open on Saturday, Nov. 25, from 10 a.m. through 2 p.m. The gallery will also be open Saturday, Dec. 9, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

To schedule an appointment to see the gallery, call 910-596-2533.

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