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Upcoming Education Events
New Ventures has two Denise Ryan seminars in its Women in Leadership series coming on April 24. Details are available on our Education Schedule.
Upcoming events at Olde Mill Gallery
Artist and historian Barbara Funderburk discusses art and colonial America on Thursday, May 1 at 7:00 p.m. Ms. Funderburk, dressed in authentic colonial dress of the ordinary woman, will use her oil paintings to tell wonderful stories that will bring to life this region’s cultural history.
Ms. Funderburk is a native of North Carolina who holds degrees form Wake Forest and East Carolina universities. A former photojournalist, she has worked in television as a writer and producer, in public relations, and has taught English and history in public schools. Later, she served as a registered nurse in home healthcare and in training and human resources in hospital settings. Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries and art shows and are included in several private and corporate collections. Ms. Funderburk lives in Monroe, North Carolina.
The farms and rolling countryside of North Carolina’s southern piedmont area is one of the subjects that Ms. Funderburk has brought to life in a series of magnificent oil paintings as well as a book entitled Count Their Lives in Womanyears, which includes pictures of her paintings, old recipes, stories and poetry. Her paintings are bold and subtle depictions of life as it was and her writings tell of ordinary people living remarkable lives.
Cosponsors for the upcoming events are: South Piedmont Community College, N.C. Arts Council, Anson County Arts Council, Union County Community Arts Council, Wingate University Department of Art, and Clearly Carolina Water and Coffee Company. The public is cordially invited.
New Ventures Business Development, Inc. is one of seven Business and Technology TeleCenters in North Carolina that were established under the e-NC Authority, as designated by the North Carolina General Assembly. The centers support economic development in rural counties by providing resources for new business start ups and improving existing businesses and by infusing technology into business operations. New Ventures was incorporated July 28, 2005, and is recognized as a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation by the Internal Revenue Service.
Its Artisan and Business Center, which opened in May 2007, supports arts and crafts businesses and professional and service industry businesses in the same space. Specifically, the center provides office and studio space with shared services, the Olde Mill Gallery and Studios for spurring sales and driving tourism traffic, a common and collaborative marketing plan to make the center and Anson County a heritage-tourism and entrepreneurial destination, and two e-commerce web sites, ebizanson.org and ebizunion.org, that allow the arts and crafts community and local merchants to reach markets outside their geographic boundaries. New Ventures assists virtual and real tenants with administrative services, training, and consultant services, and it monitors their progress and growth closely. The center is becoming an economic hub bringing tourism and discretionary income dollars into the area while the workforce transitions from dying agriculture and textiles industries to the new clusters driving the North Carolina economy – technology, pharmaceuticals, banking, food processing, and vehicle parts.
For more information, contact New Ventures at 704-272-5457 or online.
McNair Video
For those who missed former Motown records graphic artist Curtis McNair discussing Motown and More recently, a highlight video of his lecture now is available.
Location
The Anson County Center is located in the South Piedmont Community College Lockhart-Taylor Center at 514 North Washington Street, Wadesboro, N.C.
Contact the center at the the Lockhart-Taylor Center at 704.272.5457.
Anson Schedule
The Anson Center currently is open Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday 9-3, and by appointment. Contact the center at 704.272.5457.
Visit the ebizanson.org and ebizunion.org sites to shop for acclaimed art and quality merchandise from local sellers.
SPCC Small Business Center maintains a resource center at the Lockhart-Taylor Center. Contact Vince Holloman at 704.694.6505.
SCORE consultants are available by appointment. Contact the NVBDI Anson Center at 704.272.5457.
Union Schedule
Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
SPCC Small Business Center staff is available by appointment. Contact Vince Holloman at 704.289.8588.
SCORE consultants are available by appointment. Contact the Union County Chamber at 704.289.4567.
Sponsors
Union County Chamber of Commerce
South Piedmont Community College
Partners
South Piedmont Community College Small Business Center