In addition to the five annual Art Walks that occur on the First Friday of April, June, August, October and December, Woolworth Walk also has other art events regularly.
On the First Friday of every month, there is an Opening Reception for the Featured Artist in the F.W. Gallery. Woolworth Walk also has special extended hours for Bele Chere each year and occasionally hosts a private party.
Olga Dorenko's work is concerned with color and light, inspired by local, national and international landscapes. As a student at a classical art school in the former Soviet Union, she spent a considerable amount of time mixing and blending colors. It is her use of color that lends a contemporary interpretation to her otherwise realist landscapes. Olga has a deep appreciation for Asian art techniques and styles, and greatly admires the gentle light, vivid brushwork and painstaking detail of the Russian artist Ivan Shishkin. She is also continuously inspired by Nature's variable colors and the beauty found in both rural and urban landscapes. Olga has experienced many changes in her life. As a child, her family uprooted frequently and moved around the Soviet Union. Later, as a young mother, Olga emigrated to the United States. The beauty of nature is the constant in these changes. Flowers are beautiful on either side of the ocean, in any corner of the world. Life is ever-changing. Her paintings pursue the everlasting.
Come meet Olga and enjoy the opening reception on May 3rd, 2013 from 5-7p.m.
The month of June, Woolworth Walk's featured artist will be Ali Douglass.
Ali Douglass has been working as an illustrator for over fourteen years, illustrating magazines, newspapers, greeting cards, advertising, and books. A few of her illustration clients include Chronicle Books, Simon and Schuster, Scholastic, Seventeen, Martha Stewart, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, American Girl Books, and MasterCard. Ali lives in Asheville, North Carolina and also teaches drawing online at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco.
Come meet Ali and enjoy the opening reception on Friday June 7th, 2013 from 5-7 p.m.
