Even before all the turkey is gone, WinterArts is back in action, getting people in the arts-centric holiday-buying mood.
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Jamie Bigham
Greg Belz, executive director of the ArtWorks Foundation and founder of WinterArts, kicks off the annual event with an opening reception the Friday after Thanksgiving. “We do it at 5,” Belz says. “After everybody looking for plastic bargains from China has gone back home and vacated the streets, we open up.”
Hannah Cole
This year’s WinterArts is at 7509 Poplar Avenue, in the old Brooks Brothers location in The Shops of Saddle Creek in Germantown, Tennessee.
About 400 attended the reception for WinterArts, which is celebrating its 16th year, Belz says.
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Teresa Wilson, and Tom Wilson
It includes “everything one can think of in glass, metal, wood, clay, and fiber as well as a few other surprises,” he says. “We focus on 3D work in those disciplines.”
In short, WinterArts brings together “material and imagination” to create incredible gifts that “you won’t see anywhere else.”
WinterArts is open seven days a week through Christmas Eve.