Olde Town Coffee
Join us this Friday for music and art @ Olde Town Coffee. We have three artists for the evening, including music and visuals. The artists are Sena Woodall, presenting poetry and photography, Caroline Yoder, presenting artwork, and we are glad to have Vaden Cox back after having his previously scheduled show snowed out. The artist’s bios are below. Please come out and join us!
Olde Town Coffee
609 E. Market St, Suite 114
Friday, March 12
8pm
Free Light Refreshments (warm drinks)
Caroline Yoder-Art Work
In 2008 I graduated from Bluffton University with a degree/license in Art Education. In the two years since school, my artwork has changed and evolved into something much more personal and experimental. The pieces on display today are all pieces created during my participation in an intentional community/ life-sharing group here in Charlottesville called CVP. CVP has many facets but the two that are perhaps most relevant to this body of work are the exploration, activity, and conversation about and within the arts as well as the conversations that have invited me to think about what my spiritual personality is. In these pieces you should be able to see evidence of both visual exploration and personal exploration. Visually you will notice experimentation with water color and ink and adaptations to an otherwise concrete set of subjects. This demonstrates my curiosity about how concrete subjects can interact with abstract elements without becoming fully abstracted. I appreciate the ways in which a concrete subject can be elaborated on, so to speak, and transformed into something more impossible and “otherly.” As for evidence of my spiritual explorations, you may notice a variety of visual representations for spiritual elements. I believe that Christ is a very real and living person, but the visuals that come to my head when I reach out to feel His presence are so very different from that classic bearded man I grew up seeing in Sunday School books: a silky haired man with a white robe and sandals. In my artwork, you won’t see a picture of Jesus. Do, however look for an image that speaks to what relationship with Christ might feel like: where He might be found, met, and experienced. I have always loved speaking in analogies and I invite you to participate with the pieces here and find your own analogy within the image.
Sena Woodall- Photography, Poetry
My writings are the description of life and the experiences that come with it. Poetry has become a vehicle that allows me to express the ups and downs of life. When it comes to photography, I like to present clear pictures of life but also a different view of the common. I have been taking pictures and writing poetry for over the last 10 years.
Vaden Cox-Music-Mountain Soul
“After much deliberation, Vaden has decided that if his art absolutely must fit into a category or genre of music, then he would like for it to be known as ‘mountain soul’. This not just because his songs incorporate various bluegrass and country inflections that are accompanied by gospel oriented messages and bluesy progressions, but also because much of his personal formation and journey has originated in mountain top prayers and epiphanies, where lyrics and melodies began to percolate into and emanate out of his heart.
In a large part, the content of Vaden’s songs is deeply personal reflection. His act is the presentation of a musical autobiography that also weaves in dedications to loved ones, satire, and lament.
Primarily a lead guitarist, and secondly a songwriter/vocalist, Vaden has honed his solo act incorporating the use of harmonicas to accent and color the various folk and blues numbers he has written. Hopefully you will be warmed by his offerings.”
