Sexy Trippy Holiday Market - Two Days, Two Cities

Back for our third year, the Sexy Trippy Holiday Art Market burns bright with booths by new friends, artists and olde-time favorites. For the first time ever we will be hosting two events. One will be in Chapel Hill on our rooftop (Sat 12/3) and the other will be held the following day at Lump in Raleigh (Sun 12/4). This year’s offerings represent a variety of limited edition and handmade products and artwork. Stuff your own stockings with fun stuff like realistic ceramic cigarettes, poetry books, goth-inspired jewelry, flint-knapped knives, painted clothing, cryptic t-shirts, and beautifully printed risographs and screenprints. We’ll have live music and hope to see a lot of friends.
Confirmed vendors for one or both days:
Poplars Pocket
Soft Landing
Rivtak
Amanda Barr
The Concern Newsstand
Jerstin Crosby
Edward Max Fendley
Tom Sowders
Tilly Castelli
Nina Oteria
Tiger Potion
Drawing Room
Trepet Books/ Goodtimes Press
Larissa Lynn Wood
Olivia Gone & Skully Gustafson
Kasey Artcrafts
No Masters
Dress Kit Vintage

Live Music on Saturday: Joseph Spearman
DJ on Sunday: Cambria Storms

LUMP25 Fundraiser

www.indiegogo.com/projects/lump-25th-anniversary-fundraiser

The Lump experiment began in 1996 when artist, Bill Thelen, and engineer, Med Byrd transformed a lackluster cinderblock building that was formerly an upholstery shop, then a cobbler’s workshop, then a night club called, The Blue Lady Lounge, into a vibrant exhibition space that also offered affordable studios for artists. Over the past twenty-five years, Lump has served the region’s creative community by providing space and resources for innovative, thought-provoking art exhibitions and events, while acting as a pipeline between North Carolina and the greater world of contemporary art.

Lump continues to bring rigor and professionalism to the hard-driving experimentation and self-determination that defined its inception. Now, as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, LUMP relies almost entirely on your financial help in order to continue to serve artists and realize their ideas in the uncompromising spirit with which the space was created.

In celebration of Lump’s first 25 years, we’ve set a fundraising goal of $25,000 in order to cover all of the bases. Your much needed donation will be spread between exhibition programming, rent, and general maintenance of Lump’s two-gallery space. In return for your generous support, you’ll be able to claim a small piece of Lump in the form of various incentives, depending on your donation level. We have Lump T-shirts designed by Bill Thelen, exclusive limited-edition risograph prints by 5 artists created specifically for our 25 for 25 campaign. We also have risographs posters from past Lump shows, designed by Jerstin Crosby, plus copies of Blount Force Magazine, Lump’s annual art, and lit zine. And in lieu of a traditional art auction, we have original works of art created by a wide range of artists, working at every level, available at a variety of donation amounts. Throughout the fundraiser we will be adding items on a regular basis, so keep checking in. The goodies will keep coming.

Space Case: Making a Case for Artist-Run Spaces at LABspace

Space Case: Making a case for artist-run spaces
Opening Reception: Sunday February 16th, 3-5
On view February 16 - March 29, 2020
Saturdays and Sundays 1-5pm & by appt
LABspace
2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY

Please join us for this journey through artist-run spaces of Chapel Hill and Raleigh NC, Chattanooga and Nashville TN... with a detour through Charlottesville VA!

We’ve (Curators: Julie Torres & Ellen Letcher) culled this show from our visits with artists who have founded and/or run uniquely situated and inventively programmed labors of love, exhibiting the work of fellow artists in attics, basements, sheds, faculty offices, former meat packing plants... and traditional white boxes, too.

Also on view are works from Drawing and Painting majors at the University of TN, Chattanooga who we met through Christina Renfer Vogel’s curatorial project Office Space, in which Vogel installs exhibitions in her faculty office and hallways. This initiative has inspired her students to devise their own artist-run projects and plans, so we’ve jumped at the chance to fan those flames.

LABspace was founded by artist Susan Jennings in 2014, and we took the reins in 2018. We met SJ in 2015 at DIY anti-fair ARTIST-RUN at Satellite Art Show in Miami (curated by Tiger Strikes Asteroid). Without TSA’s ARTIST-RUN project, we would not have met SJ or her wonderful space, which is now our curatorial home. We are so indebted to our own local community of artists who show, promote, and support fellow artists. Please come celebrate this necessary and enduring tradition!

Space Case at LABspace

UNIVERSITY OF TN, CHATTANOOGA:
Christina Renfer Vogel
Amanda Nolan Booker
Larkin Cook
Claudia Hoffer
Caitlin Kelley
Shannon McAllister
Hilary McWilliams
Dionna Moore
Victoria Sauer
Olivia Tawzer
Summer Tomes

VERSA, CHATTANOOGA:
Mirel Crumb
Dana Ortega
Chloë Shupe
Stephanie Loggans
Dylan Pew
Kirby Miles

STOVE WORKS, CHATTANOOGA:
Mike Calway-Fagen

LOG, CHAPEL HILL:
Maria Britton
April Childers

MY ROOM, CHAPEL HILL//LUMP, RALEIGH:
Amanda Barr
John Bowman

DRAWING ROOM/LUMP, RALEIGH:
Bill Thelen

ACID RAIN, CHAPEL HILL:
Jerstin Crosby

THE CONCERN NEWSSTAND, RALEIGH & CHAPEL HILL:
Orvokki Crosby

BASEMENT, CHAPEL HILL:
Laura Little
Mike Keaveney
Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo
Chieko Murasugi
John DeKemper II

ONEONEONE, CHAPEL HILL/GUTTER BOX, RALEIGH:
Louis Watts

LUMP/THE CONCERN NEWSSTAND VOLUNTEER:
Critter

UNREQUITED LEISURE, NASHVILLE:
Chalet Comellas-Baker
Clinton Sleeper

ELECTRIC SHED, NASHVILLE:
David Onri Anderson

DADU, NASHVILLE:
Jodi Hays

DAVID LUSK GALLERY, NASHVILLE:
Ameila Briggs

MITTEN, HARRISONBURG VA/FORMER TEAM LUMP, RALEIGH/CURRENTLY CHARLOTTESVILLE VA:
Allyson Mellberg Taylor
Jeremy Taylor

Lump Sum

LUMP SUM BENEFIT
Friday, April 5, 6-9pm
LUMP, 505 S. Blount St. Raleigh, NC 27601
Free, no ticket required
100% of proceeds go to LUMP

Lump’s first fundraising benefit, titled LUMP SUM, will occur Friday, April 5, from 6-9. The benefit includes a silent auction of over 72 original artworks, performances by Crowmeat Bob, Dan Melchior, and Jasmyn Milan, a memory capturing installation by Mollie Earls. Moon By Moon Apothecary (Chanelle A. Bergeron) will be providing herbal tonics and elixirs. The first issue of the Blount Force Magazine will be released as well! All this while DJ Gallimaufry helps guide us through the evening’s events.