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<title><![CDATA[Artists Guild celebrates 50 years with renewed focus]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[As part of its golden anniversary, the Artists Guild of Statesville is sprucing up its gallery at the Signal Hill Mall and recommitting itself to the promotion of local artists.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pastel artist featured at Court Street Gallery through October]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Iredell Museums will present the pastels and collages of Betty Powell, of Wilkesboro, at the Court Street Gallery, 134 Court St., Statesville, from Sept. 18 through Oct. 30.  ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:02:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Exhibit of sculptures, quilts opens Wednesday]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The Mooresville Artists Guild will host an exhibit of sculptures and quilts from Wednesday through Sept. 30 at the Depot Visual Arts Center in downtown Mooresville.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:13:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Screech to appear at Lake Norman Comedy Zone tonight]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Dustin Diamond's currently on tour doing stand-up comedy and he'll be visiting Lake Norman Comedy Zone at Galway Hooker Irish Pub on Aug. 20.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:09:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Statesville church hosts local author Jan McCanless]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A Statesville church will feature author Jan McCanless at a "Meet the Author" event later this month.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:58:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Abstract art meets faith in show opening Friday]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Ben Wesemann is both an abstract artist and a focused Christian. In exhibit that opens this week in Statesville, the St. Louis native attempts to reconcile these two parts of himself. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 May 2009 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Arts Council offers grants for art organizations]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The Iredell Arts Council announced today that Grassroots Arts Program Subgrants are now available for qualified arts organizations for the fiscal year 2009-10. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 May 2009 13:50:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Robert Crum takes 'best in show' at Mooresville ArtFest]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The Mooresville Artist Guild is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 Spring Artfest. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 May 2009 12:07:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Iredell Museums issues call for artists]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Iredell Museums is accepting applications from North Carolina artists who wish to participate in Art on the Street which will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 9, on West Broad Street, Downtown Statesville.  The deadline for applications is April 24, 2009.  Applications are available by emailing tgolas@iredellmuseums.org or by visiting www.iredellmuseums.org.
 
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:04:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Public art celebration coming to Davidson Village Green]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The Davidson Village Green will be buzzing with artistic creativity this weekend when Downtown Davidson Inc. partners fourteen local businesses with artist coaches to create functional works of art.

On April 4, starting at 10 a.m., park benches will be transformed into masterpieces by their sponsors with the help of Creative Art Exchange artists. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:10:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Little Shop of Horrors' comes to Statesville High]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Statesville High School and Visual and Performing Arts Center students will soon get to show off the fruits of their labor.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[April is for Arts coming to LKN]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[April is for Arts, a celebration of art and culture in North Mecklenburg, will feature numerous events throughout the month of April in Davidson, Cornelius and Huntersville. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Floral designer to speak at Art in Bloom]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The featured speaker of Art in Bloom 2009 will be floral designer Cydney Davis-English of The English Garden, Raleigh.  ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:36:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Statue stolen in Italy surfaces in Charlotte]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A 350-year-old statue disappeared from a Naples church in an elaborate heist of artifacts nearly two decades ago.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:26:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Art league seeks entries for exhibition]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The Lake Norman Art League invites artists of all media to enter work in its 2009 Spring Exhibition, judged by J. Michael Simpson, Artist and Instructor  at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.  ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:16:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Local artist's work on display]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Shirley Rico, local watercolor artist, is being honored by an exhibit of her work at Soiree Restaurant on March 26 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:40:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Charlotte's Mint Museum to open major exhibition from New Orleans]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte will open Saturday the traveling exhibition "Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art." The show is composed of about 90 pieces selected from the museum's European and American collections. On display will be works from the late-17th through mid-20th centuries by artists including Paul Cezanne, Joan Miro, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Picasso, Jackson Pollock and John Singer Sargent. Of particular note are paintings, drawings, pastels and sculpture by Edgar Degas, who often visited New Orleans to see family, and a 10-foot-tall painting of Marie Antoinette by Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun, one of the few acclaimed women artists of the 18th century.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lake Norman Art League seeks exhibit entries]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The Lake Norman Art League invites artists of all media to enter work in its 2009 Spring Exhibition, judged by J. Michael Simpson, artist and instructor/lecturer at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:50:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Family Read set for Saturday]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The Iredell County Partnership for Young Children, located at 132 E. Broad St. in Statesville, will hold a Family Read kick-off event on Saturday, Feb. 7, from 10 a.m. to noon.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:09:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gritty crime tale will take readers somewhere special]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[<i>EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE. By John McFetridge. Hartcourt. 300 pages. $25.</i>]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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