“Buying art can be expensive at times. In trying to up my charm quotient and keep my wallet under control, I’ve taken to buying delightful pieces of ephemera,” says Art Around Town columnist Lisa Jewel. Read more today in The Guide, CLICK HERE>

Also in The Guide today:

• Our Davidson Weekend Calendar, with listings of weekend events in and around Davidson.
• A note about the upcoming Lunar New Year celebration and fireworks at Davidson College.
• Latest movie listings for Our Town Cinemas.
• A clickable day-by-day calendar of coming events, as far out as we know ‘em.

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Lisa Jewel visits La Parisienne, and eyes the paintings of Elie Bou Zeidan. In The Guide, CLICK HERE>

Lisa Jewel’s weekly Art Around Town column visits the The Gantt Center for African American Arts + Cultutre, where you’ll find everything from mixed-media to photography. She says it was the work of Kevin Cole that caught her eye. Read more in The Guide, CLICK HERE>

De Saint Phalle is a woman who grappled with her own life choices and society’s roles for her. Much of her work deals with the beauty and conflicts of being a woman, a mother and an independent life force. Her works include, painting, sculpture, film and literature. In 1991 she completed “The Firebird” (l’Oiseau de Feu Sur l’Arch) which can be seen at The Bechtler in Charlotte. To read more CLICK HERE>.

Lisa Jewel reports on a recent visit to the artsy mountain city, and the paintings of Suzy Schultz she found at 16 Patton. In The Guide, CLICK HERE>

Former NASCAR driver Shawna Robinson had morphed her career from racing to home design. Lisa Jewel writes about it in her weekly column, Art Around Town. Click here.

Lisa Jewel’s weekly column introduces us to this local stained glass artist. In the Guide, CLICK HERE>

Art Around Town columnist Lisa Jewel visits this week with David Wilgus of Woodland Street, whose home and art are worth a look. She checks out the wood and iron fence in front of his home, the “glass menagerie” out back, and the obelisk he built for the Whitton-Diamond family on Greenway. In The Guide, CLICK HERE>