The workshops are another way to extend the old-time experience for those attending the Mount Airy Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddlers Convention. It brings master musicians directly to attendees of all ages who want to learn from area masters.
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The free workshops will take place on Wednesday, May 31 through Friday, June 2 at Veterans Memorial Park. Many old time and music fans see next week’s Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddlers Convention as a highlight of their year, with thousands of musicians and fans flocking to the city for the two-day event.īut quite a few folks find the bluegrass and old-time workshops filling up the days before the convention just as much fun, and this year’s slate of workshops has something for just about every music or dance interest. The annual art show is a free community event, and the public is encouraged to attend.įree workshops set for bluegrass, old time fans Contact the Continuing Education Division at 33 for class information. Her fall classes will begin after Labor Day. Because her classes are so successful and popular, Beroth teaches three classes a week in fall and spring. Linda Beroth has taught oil painting classes for Surry Community College through continuing education since 1991. Students’ paintings are hung throughout the beautifully renovated space. The Pilot Center, located in the old Amos-Smith mill, creates the ambience of a cosmopolitan gallery with its original maple floors and whitewashed brick walls. With the opening of the Surry Community College Pilot Center in 2010, the show moved in 2011 to the new center. Surry Community College has offered art classes in Pilot Mountain since the 1980s and continues to provide opportunities for beginners to seasoned artists.įor many years, the Charles Stone Library was the location for this event. at The Pilot Center, 612 East Main St., Pilot Mountain. “I did stuff like that and also worked on some documentaries here and there.DOBSON - Surry Community College art students and instructor Linda Beroth will hold their Annual Art Show featuring original oil paintings on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. “I directed commercials for the PGA Tour, Dish Network and Air Force,” Scheer said. Scheer grew up in Steamboat Springs, and graduated from Steamboat Springs High School in 2002, before pursuing a 20-year career in commercial photography, and documentary film production that took him away from the Yampa Valley to places like Los Angles, Austin, San Francisco and Denver. Get the top stories in your inbox every morning. “The chemicals react differently, and a lot of the developing is done by feeling as there are not set times in the darkroom.” “Every tintype is unique in many ways,” Scheer explains. The entire process has to be done very quickly in a period of roughly 15 to 20 minutes, and creates a one-of-a-kind image. Scheer uses the camera and lens as part of a process where he coats a tin plate with Collodion and is then dipped in silver nitrate, the tin is then placed in the camera and exposed to light before being rushed to his nearby darkroom to be developed. He then scans tintype and sells a limited number of prints of each image. He used a process from the 1800s, and a camera dating back to 1907 to create a tintype plate using the wet plate process.
Photographer Ryan Scheer made this image “Cowgirl” by building a diorama that included vintage western toys. He’s kind of protecting and maintaining a very historic process, artistically, and he’s figured out a way to help maintain the legacy of the historic photographic process.” “Ryan is using an analog camera and lens from the 1800s and it is such a rare thing. He is really challenging what a Western aesthetic can feel like, by curating and developing these compositions in his studio,” said Dustin Posiak-Trider, who owns the Standard Art Gallery. “In the two years that we’ve been out there we have worked on bringing in unique artists like Ryan. Scheer’s images are currently featured locally at The Standard Art Galley, 907 Lincoln Ave.
The camera can control the perspective that adds to his images’ depth, and while shallow depth of field is challenging, that’s what gives Scheer’s images a unique, throwback feel all its own. that is armed with a vintage Dallmeyer lens that was crafted in 1886. The centerpiece of the studio, however, is a 1907 analog Century Studio Camera made by the Eastman Kodak Co. “I hope my frames will tell the story, and I hope when somebody looks at it, they can develop their own story, and interpret it in their own way.” “I just want to tell stories, and that’s the main thing,” Scheer said.
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