Join us for our July Mill Opening of Building Bridges: An Exhibition of Latin-American Artists in the Triangle Friday, July 1, from 6-9pm at the Eno Arts Mill featuring:
- Live music with Joe Troop and Larry Bellorín
- Open artist studios with the Eno Arts Mill Studio Artists
- Asadito NC Argentinian Food Truck
- Beer from Red Oak Brewery
- Kids’ activities with the Art Therapy Institute
About Larry & Joe: Larry hails from Monagas, Venezuela and is a legend of Llanera music. Joe is from North Carolina and is a GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass and oldtime musician. Larry was forced into exile and is an asylum seeker in North Carolina. Joe, after a decade in South America, got stranded back in his stomping grounds in the pandemic. Larry works construction to make ends meet. Joe’s acclaimed “latingrass” band Che Apalache was forced into hiatus, and he shifted into action working with asylum seeking migrants. Based in the Triangle of North Carolina, both men are versatile multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters on a mission to show that music has no borders. As a duo they perform a fusion of Venezuelan and Appalachian folk music on harp, banjo, cuatro, fiddle, guitar, maracas and whatever else they decide to throw in the van. The program they offer features a distinct blend of their musical inheritances and traditions as well as storytelling about the ways that music and social movements coalesce.
The Orange County Arts Commission (OCAC) is excited to present Building Bridges: An Exhibition of Latin-American Artists in the Triangle at the Eno Arts Mill Gallery located at 437 Dimmocks Mill Road, Suite 17, in Hillsborough. The show will open Friday, July 1 and be on view through the end of July. The exhibit will showcase the talent of Latin-American artists living in the Triangle and beyond.
Featured Triangle Artists:
Nana Abreu, Durham
Antonio Alanis, Durham
Fabrizio Bianchi, Durham
Cornelio Campos, Durham
Melissa Garcia Corona, Efland
The Dib Studio, Hillsborough
IKORMA, Hillsborough
Saba Jordan, Carrboro
Eduardo Lapetina, Chapel Hill
Cat de M, Durham
Luis MacKinney, Raleigh
Peter Marin, Raleigh
Sol Ramírez, Carrboro
Miriam Sagasti, Chapel Hill
José Guadalupe Saldaña
Marcela Slade, Carrboro
Natalia Torres del Valle, Hillsborough
Erik Valera, Chapel Hill
Jorge Zuluaga, Durham
In addition to artwork by the featured local artists, the exhibit will also include a special collection of Serigraphs, or silkscreen prints, by fifteen Venezuelan artists, as well as several pieces of indigenous Central and South American art donated to the exhibit by retired NC Museum of Art director Larry Wheeler. All proceeds from the sale of these works will support the Orange County Arts Alliance, a 501c(3) nonprofit organization created by the Orange County Arts Commission to further support and nurture the creative community of Orange County.
The exhibit will be on view at the Eno Arts Mill Gallery through the end of July. The public is invited to visit the exhibit Tuesday-Saturday, 12-5pm.