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Changes under way at Tabula Rasa, Cameron Art Museum Amanda Greene December 22. 2005 Star-News tabula rasa REINVENTs He fought digital photography. And digital photography won. Matt Dols, director of Tabula Rasa, the area’s only nonprofit darkroom, is closing the photography part of his artistic entrepreneurial efforts at the end of January. The costs of maintaining the darkroom didn’t equal the major interest in digital photography, Dols said. But that doesn’t mean the end of Tabula Rasa. It’s just a rebirth of T.R. as a nonprofit umbrella organization for the PEDestrian Art Project (installing sculptures downtown) and CreativeWilmington.com. Dols said he still wants to teach private digital or film photography lessons, and intends to devote more time to his own artwork. And if you want some darkroom materials, he’s selling it all in January. Details: 619-9296, e-mail him at director@tabularasa-nc.org or visit www.tabularasa-nc.org NEW cameron HOURS As part of its renaiss-ance, The Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum will have new hours in January. The museum will be closed both Mondays and Tuesdays and open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Starting Jan. 13, the museum’s Friday hours will be 11 a.m.-9 p.m., to allow more working people to visit the museum. Details: 395-5999. MONEY, MONEY, MONEY Cape Fear Museum and the Greater Wilmington Arts and Cultural Alliance are giving out the green to area arts groups from this year’s N.C. Arts Council Grassroots Arts grants. Plus, Rep. Danny McComas co-sponsored a bill that led to a 53 percent increase in this year’s grants budget, which means New Hanover County got $51,210 for 16 local arts groups. The winners are: African American Heritage Foundation, $2,200 Airlie Gardens, $2,000 Big Dawg Productions, $1,500 Black Arts Alliance, $3,000 Cameron Art Museum, $1,500 Cape Fear Jazz Appreciation Society, $2,000 Chamber Music Society, $3,000 DREAMS of Wilmington, $3,700 Stageworks Youth Theater Company, $3,000 Tabula Rasa, (PEDestrian ART) $2,000 University of North Carolina Wilmington Presents, $1,500 WHQR Public Radio, $1,500 Willis Richardson Players, $3,000 Wilmington Ballet Co., $3,000 Wilmington Children’s Museum, $2,000 Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, $2,500 Regional Artists Grant, $3,568 GWACA $10,242 (for establishing a community arts Web site, cultural arts networking events and administrative costs). |
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