RED ROOSTER GALLERY
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CLOSED JULY 4th-11th GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
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Welcome to the Red Rooster Gallery website. We hope you will take a minute to browse the sight for information. We provide a variety of gifts and services in our new location at the Factory!! The Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce recently performed the ceremonial ribbon cutting and it was great! Thank you Chamber members for a special party. Our desire is to provide beautiful art, art lessons, gifts, furniture, and home accents. Please contact us @ 919.556.3200 with questions. For directions and more information on the new location, please visit the Factory website: www.eatshopplay.com |
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For those art lovers who want a sure thing. Come and see the collection of limited edition Dr. Seuss Lithographs. They come with a certificate of authenticity. You can purchase framed or unframed. |
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Insight Red Rooster Gallery has made a change. We need more room for Art Lessons! Please keep a look-out for more information as we update our gallery. We'll have a new look, new products and a new energy as we take our place in The Factory of Wake Forest! We will offer many art-related services; Paintings, drawings, portraits, murals, sculptures.......as many as you can think up. If we can't do it, we know someone who can! |
Stacy Lewis is an exciting addition to the gallery. She has a wonderful sense of color and composition. A little sense of humor that is good for the soul. |
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Red Rooster strutting its stuff Art abounds all around at The Red Rooster Gallery By Paul Erland When Boni Clifton-Arendt was a girl of 11 or 12, she was awakened to the idea that she could make a life, and a living, in art. "I won a contest in sixth grade, for designing the North Carolina wildlife emblem," she says. "I won a $25 savings bond and I got my name in the paper. It made me feel important." Today, her emblem is a red rooster, a domesticated bird that could stand for a calling, and also for a wake-up call to all those out there with an artist within them. "Looking back on my early drawings, I realize that drawing is not just natural talent but it can be learned," says Clifton-Arendt, whose forte is pencil drawing. "If you learn properly, you can draw anything. You must have the desire, though." Clifton-Arendt offers art lessons at her Red Rooster Gallery in the Factory of Wake Forest, to students of all ages and abilities, in drawing, beginner painting and mixed media. She has a lot of repeat students, constantly rotating in and out. Clifton-Arendt's style is Impressionist, and her specialty is portraits. Her work is on display in her 2 year old gallery, along with that of other artists she admires. Clifton-Arendt will hold Art Openings, showcasing her own work (framed mixed-medium pieces) and that of acrylic, and oil pastel paintings, nature and animal photographs, prints of floral oil paintings, and, as the pieces de resistance, a series of authentic, limited-edition lithographs by Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel), pulled from his original drawings. Growing up in eastern Carolina, Clifton-Arendt was immersed in art from the time she was knee high to a Who, and her mom ("She took every artistic class that came along") and stepdad (a Britisher who loved art and travel) may have crooned to her, "Oh, the places you'll go!" She went off to college at East Carolina, earning 4 years of Art Education, graduating with a BFA in painting and drawing, and then to England for a year, where she studied, with other artists, something called interdisciplinary design. She gained certification as a graphic designer back in Carolina and forthwith jumped into clinical research. "I did that for nine years," she says. "It gave me discipline and tools for running a company.” While she was working she continued to do artwork and sold them from a booth she rented at The Cotton Company in Wake Forest. When she was offered, eventually, an executive-level position in clinical research, she had to make a decision, one that everyone must make at one point or another, namely: What do I want to do? And in the process she pondered another question, one asked by her co-workers and common to artists: Why am I here? "It was more convenient for me to open a business close to home than to keep driving the three hours every day to and from work," she says, in addressing the first question. In addressing the second, well, the implicit answer is: I am here to pass along my gift and my passion. She opened her "cozy little space" in the spring of 2007, choosing the name Red Rooster Gallery after sifting through a hundred other possibilities. “I thought the name would fit this area," she says. "Plus, when I was in England I went to a gallery called The Jelly-Legged Chicken - I loved that down-to-earth style of a name. |
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