The Charlotte and Phillip Hanes Art Gallery at WFU has a new exhibition and the local arts community is all abuzz about Of Paper which will remain on display through October 7. The gallery engages and challenges viewers through a series of 6-8 exhibits of mostly contemporary art each year.

Paul Bright was appointed Director of the gallery in May, 2012. He's an accomplished artist himself who has worked for years in museums, galleries, and as a freelance designer. After assistant directing the Hanes Gallery for eight years, Paul has given plenty of thought to maximizing the wonderful viewing space in the Scales Fine Arts Center, and the Of Paper exhibition is a strong step in that direction. Artist and Winston-Salem State University professor Leo Morrissey’s data mining exhibit is made up of incised and excavated books, watercolors, mail art and other paper-related works. And Italian artist Delio Gennai’s laboratory of signs exhibit transforms architectural and decorative elements from the architecture in his native Pisa into dimensional paper structures.

Paul and Leo discuss the art (from curatorial, artistic, and directorial perspectives) with TAUC host David Ford.

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Triad Arts Up Close as broadcast at 1 p.m.

Big Shoes is the story of a little boy named Gordy. His big brother Alexander is all that and a bag of chips. He runs an explorer’s club that Gordy desperately wants to join, but Gordy needs a daring expedition of his own under his belt before he’ll be allowed in the club. He decides to climb a local mountain all by himself and he takes his big brother’s shoes along with him on his magical adventure of self-discovery.

Open Dream Ensemble presents this new original musical September 1, at 2:00pm in Thrust Theatre on the University of North Carolina School of the Arts campus. The performance is free and open to the public. Open Dream Ensemble is a project of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts and an outreach program of UNCSA. Big Shoes playwright and actor Michaela Morton, director Beth Bostic, actors Haydee Thompson, William vonReichbauer, and Open Dream General Manager Rebecca Nussbaum stopped by to dream with TAUC host David Ford.

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The Charlotte and Phillip Hanes Art Gallery at WFU has a new exhibition and the local arts community is all abuzz about Of Paper which will remain on display through October 7. The gallery engages and challenges viewers through a series of 6-8 exhibits of mostly contemporary art each year.

Paul Bright was appointed Director of the gallery in May, 2012. He's an accomplished artist himself who has worked for years in museums, galleries, and as a freelance designer. After assistant directing the Hanes Gallery for eight years, Paul has given plenty of thought to maximizing the wonderful viewing space in the Scales Fine Arts Center, and the Of Paper exhibition is a strong step in that direction. Artist and Winston-Salem State University professor Leo Morrissey’s data mining exhibit is made up of incised and excavated books, watercolors, mail art and other paper-related works. And Italian artist Delio Gennai’s laboratory of signs exhibit transforms architectural and decorative elements from the architecture in his native Pisa into dimensional paper structures.

Paul and Leo discuss the art (from curatorial, artistic, and directorial perspectives) with TAUC host David Ford.

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Pianist and Wake Forest University professor Peter Kairoff takes a look at the use of dynamics in Classical music.

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Eight Latino artists, stunning abstracts, digital prints on canvas, gorgeous landscapes and seascapes and more are all on display at Delta Arts Center in Winston-Salem. This remarkable exhibit Puzzle, Master Artists, Friends has been extended through mid-September at Delta. Artists Reinaldo Vargas wants to "fill the emptiness of another’s heart". Ale Fuentes wants to "transmit the abstract spirit within” and Delta Arts Center’s Rodney Holman wants to explain this remarkable, collaborative exhibition: Puzzle, Master Artists, Friends.

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How does dancing in a mountain meadow by a sparkling river to world-class blues sound? The 10th Annual New River Blues Festival 2012 is making that blues-lover's fantasy a reality this Sunday, September 2, at the River House Inn, in beautiful Grassy Creek, NC, on the shores of the New River.