We Love this Place – November 2012

The Asheville Bow-Wowhaus

AIA Asheville, along with Fine Arts Theatre, Asheville Art Museum, Aloft Downtown Asheville, and Brother Wolf Animal Rescue, is sponsoring a design/build competition of doghouses to be auctioned on Saturday, November 10. This event will also include a screening of Michael Miner’s movie Romanza, the California Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, at the Fine Arts Theatre (36 Biltmore Avenue), followed by a reception, gala and auction at the Asheville Art Museum (2 S. Pack Square).

The doghouses will be on display November 3-10 at Aloft Downtown Asheville prior to the Gala event. In addition, a replica of a Frank Lloyd Wright doghouse will be on display the weekend of the event.

Tickets include heavy hors d’oeuvres, beer, wine. A dawg gone good time for just $45 per person. Tickets may be purchased for the movie only for $10 per person. For more information visit www.aiaasheville.org, phone (828) 253-3227 or visit www.ashevilleart.org

Natural Abstract – Work by William Ambrose Mills IV

William Ambrose Mills IV, a second grader at the New Classical Academy, loves math. Other favorites include the book Captain Underpants, Mozart, the Saturn moon Titan, and work by Jackson Pollock and Roy Lichtenstein.

Mills presents three types of work in his exhibition. The first are small sculptures made out of wood scraps. He first created these at “Wood Day” at the Folk Art Center at the kids’ craft table. Mills exhibits a second type of sculpture made with popsicle sticks and other wood shapes from craft stores.

Finally, Mills exhibits his “paintings,” which are hung on the wall, but are wood bases with drips (like Pollock). The drips are either colored glue from glue guns or dirt applied to dripped wood glue. Mills, who is seven years old, is currently working on an art on paper project, as well as “mysterious” sculptures of planets.

Opening reception Saturday, November 3 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. On display through November 27, 2012 in the Chamber of Art at Phil Mechanic Studios in the River Arts District. Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 109 Roberts Street in Asheville. For more information visit www.floodgallery.org.