Two downtown Commerce businesses will bring 12 local artists into the downtown Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m. for a Meet the Artist event.
They will “have a wide variety of mediums,” noted Denise McKay, executive director of the Commerce Downtown Development Authority.
Seven artists are scheduled to be at H.R. McGoo on South Broad Street and five more in Our Town Antiques on South Elm Street. In addition, the Cold Sassy Quilters Guild will have quilts on display at Sanders Furniture Store on South Elm.
Art enthusiasts visiting Our Town Antiques can meet painters John “Cornbread” Anderson of the Hall-Forsyth County area; Marie Elem, Banks County; Kevin Burchett, Commerce; and John Sperry, Maysville; along with potters Clint Alderman, Habersham County; and Brian Wilson, Hall County.
“We have (their work) here for sale,” said Claudine Smith, owner of Our Town. “We just kind of represent them.”
“Cornbread,” Smith added “is a rising star in the folk art world and his works can be found in galleries in the Southeast and beyond.”
Across the street at H.R. McGoo, patrons can meet Lucinda Bless, Commerce, a painter; Merilee Burton, Nicholson, a charcoal artist; Mary Moses, who owns H.R. McGoo, a charcoal artist who lives in Commerce; Carmen Nunnally, Commerce, a charcoal artist; and three young students of Moses, all charcoal artists — Casey Dyer, 8, Hannah Moses, 9, and Sage Dyer, 9, all of Commerce.
“It’s a great opportunity to meet some local artists,” McKay encouraged.
There will be refreshments .
