Painters are given the Challenge of live painting in a spectator-sport setting, nudging them with a short time limit and an audience, to shift how they work; The General Public is given the thrill of watching blank canvases brought to life before their eyes, by some of the most talented portrait-painters in the region!  Every year a different group of five invited master-portraitists are the ‘Featured Painters,’ with a larger group of area artists who sign up, via 1st-come 1st served email request, to paint from the 2nd row.  All will work from one live, professional model. Rounding out the event will be a hired emcee (TBA) to keep the energy up and the timing clear as well as augment the performance aspect.
 
Refreshments to include fluffy, glazed Sun Drop Pound Cakes (freshly baked by The
Sweet Life bakery in Concord), homemade chips and salsa (courtesy of 2 Gals Kitchen in Concord) and Sun Drop soda. Art studios throughout the building are open with our leasing artists present, and the Southern Piedmont Woodturners Association, a tenant and member of ClearWater Artist Studios, holds woodturning demonstrations in heir studio throughout the 3-hour event.
 
Admission is FREE and this is a family-friendly event.  Free parking in several parking lots around the campus.  We regularly get around 200 for this event, so come early!
 
LOCATION: In the Gibson Village neighborhood just 1/2 mile from Downtown Concord, ClearWater Artist Studios, a former water treatment and Electrical Operations buildings, now artist studios/gallery still in development; 223 Crowell Drive NW, 28025. CW Parking lots are across Crowell Drive from main entrance and on the corner of Crowell/ Kerr st., as well as in back of the Operations Building.  Overflow parking in the open green lot along Cedar St. at Kerr.
 
For more information contact: Sarah Gay, Manager of ClearWater Artist Studios for the City of Concord; 704-784-9535 or 980-428-1586 (mobile); clearwatermgr@gmail.com.