Art is medicine for the soul. Paint, brushes, crayons, paper can’t cure cancer, but they do help people transcend suffering and worry. That’s why the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and FRANK Gallery collaborate to provide art supplies to patients and their caregivers in the N.C. Cancer Hospital.
These outdoor sessions will investigate some tools for drawing in the landscape: Small quick sketches, or gesture drawing; Using a grid for framing and scaling drawings; Exploring the gray scale; A longer look for a more developed drawing.
An evening guaranteed to cool you down during summer’s heat with drinks, food, Latin music, and tango dancers. All of this in an atmosphere of diverse art, with some of your best friends (who you can invite too!) and welcoming artists from FRANK’s award winning Gallery.
TRIANGULAR is a photo scavenger hunt in Downtown Chapel Hill for anyone and everyone! Come ready to traverse the downtown, track down clues, and snap photos based on a series of clues from FRANK gallery.
This book was produced collaboratively by nine young adults from the Karen Youth Art Group with the help of volunteers working through FRANK Gallery. This bi-lingual book can be shared and enjoyed by families from all cultures.
After the cut, artist and arts advocate Barbara Tyroler joins me to discuss her upcoming event Public Art and Advocacy
Let’s explore sustainable fashions: fashions that uses only recycled materials to construct outfits, and thus promote recycling throughout the community on both a local and global scale.
Last night here at the FRANK we hosted ArtsNow, a social network promoting the arts here in the Triangle and sponsored by PNC.
An evening with Patrich Dougherty will include the screening of the film “Bending Sticks”. The documentary highlights the work of environmental artist Patrick Dougherty’s extraordinary and monumental scale works built with live saplings.
Franklin Street Arts Collective (DBA) FRANK Gallery is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization, promoting the arts since 2010
Sunday – Noon to 4 pm
Monday – Closed
Tuesday-Wednesday – 11 am to 5 pm
Thursday-Saturday – 11 am to 7 pm
