MAY, 2023
Michelle Spaulding
Weave Your Dreams with the Crafty Diva
OPENING FRIDAY, JUNE 2
FIRST FRIDAYS AT THE MILL | 6-9PM
Live music with Triangle Afrobeat Orchestra
Open artist studios with the Eno Arts Mill Studio Artists
Food from local food trucks Soulful Peartree and slushies from Hummingbird Hempary
Beer from Red Oak, Ponysaurus Brewing, wine, and NA beer selections
Kids activities with Art Therapy Institute
Be sure to bring a chair and your refillable water bottle!
The exhibit will be on view at the Eno Arts Mill Gallery through Saturday, July 1. The public is invited to visit the exhibit Tuesday-Saturday, 12-5pm, and evenings when open for classes.
About Michelle Spaulding
Michelle Spaulding is a contemporary textile folk artist, teacher, author, storyteller and creativity coach. Her intent is to inspire you to create through color, texture, and art materials using easy techniques in a group setting. She crafts for comfort and joy. Creating fiber art and sharing with others has helped her heal through her own health challenges. Her passion is inspiring others to tap into their own innate creative processes.
Her teaching style is ‘Freestyle and Fun’. Her workshops are about creativity, community, comfort and joy through this whimsical process.
Crafting is medicine for me. It’s my spiritual practice. I’m able to express my inner wise self through my art and crafts. It helps me heal physically, spirituality and emotionally. Making and creating allows me to tap into the Divine creativity of our Universal force.
This show represents a culmination of my healing journey since leaving my island home in the outer banks in January 2020 and relocating to Hillsborough. During the global pandemic and lockdown I used crafting and art journaling as a form of self care through the isolation period. I was inspired to create textile art for the home, body and soul during this timeframe. Some of my inspiration came from the community garden and graffiti that I saw outside of my apartment window. During 2021 I was able to get outdoors and embark on a wellness journey exercising and enjoying nature in the Riverwalk Greenway. I was inspired to tell my story of my healing journey through these story quilts that I am debuting in this gallery show.
About Triangle Afrobeat Orchestra
TAO – Triangle Afrobeat Orchestra, led by bassist/composer Vattel Cherry, is an effort to wake up consciousness, bring people together, interpret, explain, denounce, keep record, and provoke changes through music. TAO takes its inspiration from Afrobeat creators Fela Kuti, drummer Tony Allen as well as pianist/singer Nina Simone and fiction writer/poet Henry Dumas.
