NASCAR Inspired will engage and surprise with its variety and complexity of art forms at the Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory, NC, showing viewers that there is more depth, fore-thought and spirit behind this sport than just Sunday Racin’! This exhibition, organized and curated in-house features over 100 artists from across the country, including England. Not often is racing and art combined in such a way to provide viewers with a connection between the two. Through film, paintings, sculpture, folk art and a variety of media, the artists in this show define a new way of interpreting this genre and will challenge the viewer to look at NASCAR in a completely different way. The exhibit runs from April 29 – September 17, 2006.
and….Through a collaboration between Hickory Museum of Art and the Piedmont Council of the Boy Scouts of America, an ART CAR exhibition and competition will be installed in the Coe Gallery as part of the NASCAR Inspired exhibition. With a focus on creativity and imagination, Cub Scouts will begin with a small pine box generally used for Pinewood Derby Racing, to create ART CARS with categories such as: most colorful, strangest shape, funniest, most NASCAR Inspired and many more! The installation will run from May 16 to August 1st, 2006. The awards ceremony will be May 20, at 2 PM concluding our NASCAR Inspired Art Fest. All ART CAR winners will receive awards graciously donated by Dale Jarrett, Inc. More info at hickorymuseumofart.org.(4-26-2006)
