YUM!!!

Another amazing adventure from the fab folks that brought us PieLab and BikeLab:

Pecans! is a business started by PieLab* in Greensboro, AL in conjunction with the YouthBuild* program. It was made possible by the Design Ignites Change Grant given by Worldstudio and Adobe Youth Voices. Its goal is to teach local youth to create a profitable business using a plentiful local resource, pecans. Designers at PieLab have helped the students acquire the skills they need to formulate a business plan, develop their pecan products, brand and market their products, and successfully sell them to delighted customers in Hale County and around the country. (source)

Proceeds go to the YouthBuild Scholarship Fund.

*PieLab is a pie shop and community space that was started by a group of graphic designers in conjunction with HERO, Hale Empowerment Revitalization Organization.
*YouthBuild is a national program for high school drop outs that helps them earn their GED and learn job skills while serving their communities.

SCENE/ART: Where's Warhol (10/3 in NC)

Posting for one of my fave places (though yet to visit!):

In celebration of Elsewhere's recent receipt of programming support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, they're hosting the most fabulous event of 2009.

WHERE'S WARHOL? is a fundraiser building Greensboro through exceptional art.

Andy Warhol showed the world that going to the grocery store, the department store, and the laundromat can be an exceptional aesthetic experience. Andy is American Culture and American Culture is Andy--a love of things, a chaotic archive, colored camouflage, a silver factory, an attraction to the glare of the image-sheen. We are all going absolutely bananas over Andy's legacy living on here in Greensboro.

On SATURDAY October 3, in celebration of a tremendous gift from his foundation, they are converting Elsewhere into all things Warhol. The 15 hour extravaganza (8pm to 11am the next morning) will help exclaim a national art-landmark in downtown Greensboro. Join them for an evening of banana drinks and Campbells koozies, screen tests, photo booths, all night disco, a Velvet Underground cover band (undercover), Table 16 treats, and brunch the morning after with visiting art superstars.

Yes! Secure your spot at the extravaganza. Buy your ticket now, and play inside the magic! Tickets are limited (répondez, s'il vous plaît, s'il vous plaît). Your $ directly supports the artists that make Elsewhere possible day in and day out (and these artists need your help to make Elsewhere grow). Click Here! Click Here! See More! More is More. For more information about the party and to purchase tickets online, visit the Where's Warhol blog!

Can't make it to the celebration? Give the party magic as a gift and help transform downtown Greensboro through an exceptional contemporary art experiment.

Andy would have wanted it this way. (source)

SCOOP: Greensboro, NC by Stephanie Sherman

Elsewhere Artist Collaborative's Director of Concept and Design Stephanie Sherman gives Southernist "the scoop" on insider hotspots in Greensboro, NC:

ART: Elsewhere!! is an arts production site and experimental museum that brings innovative contemporary artists to Greensboro to participate in the transformation of a three-story former thrift store housing one woman's immense 58-year collection of surplus objects. (See more info below)

SLEEP: The Proximity Hotel is an awesome new green hotel. New World Moxie - Old World Hospitality -Vibrant Restaurant - Creative Events - Stylish Loft-Like Guestrooms - A Green & Eco Friendly Hotel. "Greensboro is an apt name for a town that will be home to one of the greenest hotels in the country." - New York Times, September 2007

EAT: 223 restaurant (223 south elm street) has incredible experimental southern food that appears totally wacky but is actually delicious. Very innovative combinations.

SHOP: A new store on McGee St. in downtown called "Love Your Friends Be Social"is a mix of skateboard, hip-hop, designer genre with some really great colorful kicks and nice sunglasses. Also, there's a great vintage store called Design Archives on Tate Street (a little ways from downtown).

More about Elsewhere: Elsewhere's international visiting artist program invites innovative cultural producers to create new, site specific works across media using the materials of Elsewhere's collection. Artists work with and within a living artwork, continually transforming Sylvia's collection and past artists' work into a building-wide collaborative installation. At Elsewhere neither object nor artwork is for sale, instead, a continually circulating environment of art and object provides imaginative experiences for audiences and artists alike. Elsewhere's fifth season, running March to November 2008, will include over 35 international creators and feature a complete schedule of openings, Artist Conversations, performances, workshops, new installations, happenings, and events.

2008 marks the bicentennial of Greensboro, NC.