Silent Art Auction for SWOOP

Strong Women Organizing Outrageous Projects

Strong Women Organizing Outrageous Project’s (SWOOP) mission is to provide community service through short-term labor, meeting otherwise insurmountable community needs. SWOOP began in 1996 and has completed over 125 large scale projects, contributing more than 30,000 volunteer hours valued at over $570,00. SWOOP has donated volunteer hours to The Healing Place, CASA, Triangle AIDs Interfaith Network, PLM Families Together, Summit House, Wake Interfaith Hospitality Network, Human Kindness Foundation, Susan G. Komen race for the Cure, Raleigh Men’s and Women’s Homeless Shelters, Durham Interfaith Hospitality Network, Family Violence and Rape Crisis Centers, Alliance for the mentally ill, Heads Up Therapeutic Riding Program, Carrboro Community Health Center, Durham Affordable Housing Coalition, Epiphany House and St. Philip’s House. .For more information http://www.swoop4u.org/

The Spotted Dog is offering 50% off a second entrée for anyone who comes to the Silent Auction Artwalk and gets a coupon

The following artists have donated pieces in support of SWOOP’s Silent Art Auction hosted by the Beehive

Pringle Teeter pteetor@mindspring.com

Local glassblower Pringle Teetor graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio with a BA in Studio Art in 1979. Three years ago she started Four Winds Studios with three partners, and now blows glass full time. Her work is available at The Hillsborough Gallery of Art as well as Turning Point Gallery in University Ma

Lori White http://ldwhiteart.com/

Lori started oil painting as a child, taking lessons from Isabel Hepler for several years. Lori balances her passion for art with her passion for environmental work. Having painted exclusively in oils in the past, she now uses both soft and oil pastels in her work, savoring the vibrant colors and immediacy of those media. Lori shows in two galleries in Raleigh, Local Color in Glenwood South and Visual Art Exchange in City Market. I also show regularly with the Durham Art Guild and the Pastel Society of North Carolina.

Steve Emory http://www.sjemery.com/aboutme.html

Whether it's the proportions of a face in a restaurant, the lines of a car passing on the highway, the spacing of trees along a fencerow, the shapes of clouds, the beauty for Steve it is primarily in the composition. And that's what he’s doing in his artwork. It's a long game he’s playing with outlines and colors and their relationships.

Mary Ruth Dana http://www.accidentalpainter.com/

Mary Ruth is a watercolor artist whose work is featured at the Local Color Gallery in Raleigh

Kiki Farish http://kikifarish.com/splash.htm

Kiki Farish graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in painting from East Carolina University in May 2006. Farish teaches drawing, design and color at the Art Institute of Raleigh Durham, in Durham, NC.

Amateur Artists donating Pieces

Margaret Griffith - Pottery

Pat Phelps – Fused Glass and Mosaics

Kathy Donley – Wood

Risa Foster – Cement and Hypertufa

Robert Voegele – Wood

Brian Rybarcyzk – BioArt