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If Jazz Was a Color, What Color Would it Be?
By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney©97

 

 

Blue as in 'mo better?
Cobalt, azure teal,
Sapphired, indigoed midnight sky?

If jazz was a color..it'll fire up red hot!
Cinnamon salsa, mustard tinged lavender lace.
Improvising multiple patterned hues & blues..

RHYTHMS!!

Effortless blacks & whites!
Shading elegant brocades in smoky velvet
Coltraned…

Billie, Sarah, Duke.
Fly a way Bird!
Groove on Wash- ing- ton!
(No Kenny G here)!

Miles awake,
Miles high!
Miles wide

Colors erupting like a Cannonball!
If jazz was a color, the color would be what the eyes see...
Blue! As in mo betta…
Yeah
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If jazz was a color, what color would it be?
By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney©97


Blue as in 'mo better?
Cobalt, azure teal,
Sapphired, indigoed midnight sky?

If jazz was a color..it'll fire up red hot!
Cinnamon salsa, mustard tinged lavender lace.
Improvising multiple patterned hues & blues..

RHYTHMS!!

Effortless blacks & whites!
Shading elegant brocades in smoky velvet
Coltraned…
Billie, Sarah, Duke.
Fly a way Bird!
Groove on Wash- ing- ton!
(No Kenny G here)!

Miles awake,
Miles high!
Miles wide

Colors erupting like a Cannonball!
If jazz was a color, the color would be what the eyes see...
Blue! As in mo betta…
Yeah
All rights reservedJHM ©97

Here is one of our Young Creatives who call herself Journey.  Her "Talking Drum" which are recycled oil drums that will be used in the new Bienville-Basin Development as trash receptacles shows the youthful vibrancy of her eye.

The gallery is also showcasing a couple of her other paintings in the "Da Fleet! Where the Young Creatives Are" at Rhythm & Hues @1501 through October 31st.

Reception tentatively scheduled for Oct 3rd.

 The Artist: Journey

 

 

 

Andrew's piece simply does that..make you smile.  Native to Venezuela now currently living in Baton Rouge, La his charming and whimsica painting kinda reminds you of a cross between Dr. Suess & Sponge Bob Squarepants!

Ten Years Ago...

Katrina Exhibit Opens At Moses Cone

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Greensboro -- "Recovering My Soul: Reinventing My Life past Katrina" will hang at The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital from Aug. 28- Sept. 30. "Recovering My Soul…" features the works of Bennett College Artist in Residence Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney as well as Vita Jones, Sterline Ritchie Lacey, Marcia Walls, Kichea Burt and Karen Bethea and featured pieces from a traveling exhibit on Katrina.

"One thing I have discovered as this story unfolds is the overwhelming number of people who have something to say," Mooney says. "Not only citizens of the Gulf Coast living elsewhere, but friends, family and others who stood by in horror and worry for their loved ones who where valiantly trying to survive those tragic days."

This exhibit features about a dozen pieces of art, including photography. It is the latest exhibit in the Community Art program, which displays the works of a different artist from the community each month. The works are displayed along the main hall off of patient admitting on the east side of the hospital.

"Art and healthcare are a natural marriage," Shawn Houck, Corporate Events Specialist says. "Healthcare can heal the body and art can heal the spirit."

There will be an observation at Bennett College Wednesday night, August 29 at 6:30. It's called "Katrina: A Time of Prayer, Hope & Victory."
WFMY News 2http://www.digtriad.com/news/local_state/article.aspx?storyid=88700&catid=57

"We Survived Katrina" featuring Ransom McCormick in the Changed Waters exhibition opening Aug 1

I discovered today that not only we will be observing the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina that for some of us, early Sept will also mark the 50th anniversary of Hurricane Betsy both of which I barely escaped by having moved away 2 weeks prior to Betsy and not returning just two weeks before Katrina and the levees breaking.  Go figure.





"We survived Katrina"~ Ransom McCormick (right side)








"We survived Katrina"~ Ransom McCormick (left side)

She Build a Castle: Michele Lambert~Thrown Rocks...Building Castles exhibition : Opening Aug1

Up! Up & Away! Lydia's 1st Purle Moon to close July 6th,2015

The Lydia's 1st Purple Moon exhibition will close as of July 6th.  Opening August 1 is "Changed Waters: Thrown Rocks, Building Castles".

I absolutely enjoyed working with the artists in both Phase One and Phase Two of Lydia's 1st Purple Moon.  It is always a challenge not unfamiliar to most artists to get their work out there to be viewed.  The purpose in Rhythm & Hues @ 1501 has been from a standpoint of caring. To give both new, emerging and yes even established, seasoned working artists an opportunity a window a moment to express themselves.

I was not expecting when I proposed to HRI Properties back in Nov 2014 to set up some art for a few weeks while waiting their new tenants Dunkin' Donuts to come in to open up that 8 months later we would still be here!  Many thanks you are issue routinely to both companies as we happily accomodate.  It has been a win-win for all parties.

We operate with zero operational money outside of my ability and skill to find a way out of no way!  No I do not get paid for this, I am purely volunteering.  There have been moments when I had planned to close down because as with anything there will always be detractors; ones who play armchair quarterbacks or resent the fact you put it all out there.

My intentions were for my fellow senior neighbors to have something lovely to look at as they came off the elevators and for the pedastrian traffic as well as the tourist riding our streetcars when they see this historic building and its seasoned tenants they have a sight to behold!

I plan to do as such with the upcoming "Changed Waters:Thrown Rocks, Building Castles" opening August 1-Sept 7th.

It is nice to step back for a moment to see where You were ..and going to.

Man on the String

By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney©03

"I am the man on the string"…

And he sings a celebration that swept the world.

Flowing with a haunting refrain…

(Will you continue to sing?)

Long after the man on the string…

Stopped long enough…

Only to begin still another celebration unto me.

This man on a string continues to sing.

Oh so doing his thing in the belly of the Neutral Ground.

A sound that vibrated around the world.

And he brings no steel to the space on Daneel (Street)

He is just bringing another celebration song to thee.

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Jenn Brigham, artist

His Sound

By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney ©03

His sound was like John Denver with cayenne pepper…

Thrown in for good measure.

And his sound wrapped around my left ear.

Engaging his heart’s life to my soul.

His sound is like John Denver with cayenne thrown in for good measure.

(Fly away….Fly away…. Flay a-waaaay!)

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Diane "Mimi" Baquet, artist

National Poetry Month_A Blast from the Past!

Spooning the Moon

By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney ©04

Did you spoon the moon in June?

But only in the afternoon?

I was smitten, sitting under a lyrical tune…

Whose delighted fragrance ended far too soon.

This is why I long to see you spoon the moon in June.

When you spoon the moon in June…

Did you piddle paddle in a canoe…

Upwardly on the blue lagoon?

And with your fingertips you drew the world in air kissed bubbles in June?

As you spoon the moon.

Oh say can you see at noon?

What you did to dispel the gloom?

Your love for me that your lips croon…

And this is what I love to see you soon…

To spoon the moon in June.

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There will Be (no More) Shadows to Stand in...Standing in the Shadows open March 6,2015

 

Well we are coming around the closing our our workshops at Ashe Cultural Art Center.  Shadows no More last day will be January 27th,2015.  I'll then have the fun and the honor to document the quilts and prepare to mount the show on March 2nd.

 

The opening reception is on Friday March 6th.  We wil have included at the reception the spoken word artist Dale Duvernay, the sooth jazz stylings of Nomad Theory among others for the reception.

 

Part of Standing in the Shadows (no more) was the foundation for not only these women but others to examine in a creative way a desire not to be swallowed up by shadows, either ones of their own makings but also dynamics others try to force them into.  Quilting, a millineum old tradition dating back to ancient Africa & China is being used as that jump off point. For many, this was a safe, soothing yet forceful way to articulate sometime what could barely be thought of let along being spoken of.

 

Shadows don't always have to be somethng formidable... sometime it is a quiet yearning, a secret desire to do things a bit differently, to try or embrace smething new or see yourself in a different light. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hot Diggity Dog! Seasoned en Vieux extended!

Nomad Theory, New Orleans
 

Wonderful news!The exhibition will be extended to January 27th, all thanks to the Dunkin Donuts franchise owners! 

Secondly, we will have the smooth jazz sounds of Nomad Theory performing to round out the event.  The date will be announced shortly.

Seasoned en Vieux exhibtion Winding Down in 10 Days

As we entered the last 10 days of Galerie 1501's Seasoned en Vieux, I am reflecting on how much sucess we, the artists have had with this show.

 

This last 10 days gallery  hours and days will be Tuesday-Saturday January 6-10th and Monday January 12, Tuesday January 13 from 11-4p.  Or by appointment.

 

The pop up gallery will reappear somewhere in the next few months.

 

I have another exhibtion, Standing in the Shadows (no more), opening at Ashe Cultural Art Center March 3rd in Center City with the opening reception March 6th an then on Sunday March is the 2nd of the "Seasoning" series