If you are an artist (of any kind) local to the Concord area, join us each 2nd Saturday for Caffeinate with Creatives to network with your creative community!

Artists from the public are welcomed to our Main Gallery to join us and some of our tenant artists for coffee and creative conversations. This is an opportunity for the many different artists in our area to get to know each other and build a community.

Join us every second Saturday of the month, ALL artists of all talents are welcome (Musicians and Writers, Performers and Painters! Ceramicists and Scultors and Jewelry makers!)

Date: Every 2nd Saturday of the month

Time: 10am - 11am

Location: 223 Crowell Drive NW, Concord, NC 28025 in the Main Gallery

If you have any questions, contact our ClearWater Coordinator at (704) 920-6600

If you are an artist (of any kind) local to the Concord area, join us each 2nd Saturday for Caffeinate with Creatives to network with your creative community!

Artists from the public are welcomed to our Main Gallery to join us and some of our tenant artists for coffee and creative conversations. This is an opportunity for the many different artists in our area to get to know each other and build a community.

Featuring Mattie Ruth’s Coffee House! Mattie Ruth’s is a Concord, NC Original - with specialty coffee drinks available for purchase. Mattie will soon be opening MattieRuths Coffee House over on McGill Road just across from Gibson Mill and Gibson Mill Market.

Join us every second Saturday of the month, ALL artists of all talents are welcome (Musicians and Writers, Performers and Painters! Ceramicists and Scultors and Jewelry makers!)

Date: Every 2nd Saturday of the month

Time: 10am - 11am

Location: 223 Crowell Drive NW, Concord, NC 28025 in the Main Gallery

If you have any questions, contact our ClearWater Coordinator at (704) 920-6600

If you are an artist (of any kind) local to the Concord area, join us each 2nd Saturday for Caffeinate with Creatives to network with your creative community!

Artists from the public are welcomed to our Main Gallery to join us and some of our tenant artists for coffee and creative conversations. This is an opportunity for the many different artists in our area to get to know each other and build a community.

This month (October), we won’t see Mattie Ruth’s Coffee House but will welcome her Espresso Bar back in November! Mattie Ruth’s is a Concord, NC Original - with specialty coffee drinks available for purchase. Mattie will soon be opening MattieRuths Coffee House over on McGill Road just across from Gibson Mill and Gibson Mill Market.

We WILL have coffee, brewed in our Parks Dept’s New Brewing Carafes!

Join us every second Saturday of the month, ALL artists of all talents are welcome (Musicians and Writers, Performers and Painters! Ceramicists and Scultors and Jewelry makers!)

Date: Every 2nd Saturday of the month

Time: 10am - 11am

Location: 223 Crowell Drive NW, Concord, NC 28025 in the Main Gallery

If you have any questions, contact our ClearWater Coordinator at (704) 920-6600

If you are an artist (of any kind) local to the Concord area, join us each 2nd Saturday for Caffeinate with Creatives to network with your creative community!

Artists from the public are welcomed to our Main Gallery to join us and some of our tenant artists for coffee and creative conversations. This is an opportunity for the many different artists in our area to get to know each other and build a community.

This month (September), we won’t see Mattie Ruth’s Coffee House but stay tuned for her Espresso Bar at a different month! Mattie Ruth’s is a Concord, NC Original - with specialty coffee drinks available for purchase. Mattie will soon be opening MattieRuths Coffee House over on McGill Road just across from Gibson Mill and Gibson Mill Market.

We WILL have coffee, brewed in our Parks Dept’s New Brewing Carafes!

Join us every second Saturday of the month, ALL artists of all talents are welcome (Musicians and Writers, Performers and Painters! Ceramicists and Scultors and Jewelry makers!)

Date: Every 2nd Saturday of the month

Time: 10am - 11am

Location: 223 Crowell Drive NW, Concord, NC 28025 in the Main Gallery

If you have any questions, contact our ClearWater Coordinator at (704) 920-6600

Artist Talks - Saturday, August 12, 2023 by Six Members of Charlotte Art Collective - Part of the First Look! Guest Exhibition

FREE and open to the public! (Free Parking)

Several Artist Talks are scheduled, August 5 and August 12, as part of the Guest Artist Exhibition, ‘First Look’ — a show of new works by the Member Artists of Charlotte Art Collective. See other listings for other times and dates!

Artist Talks will be presented in the Main Gallery at ClearWater Arts in Concord. Use the Main Entrance, off Crowell Drive NW (223 Crowell Dr NW)

Saturday, August 12, 2023:

Kelly Carlson-Reddig - architectural jewelry - 11:00 a.m.:

Kelly Carlson-Reddig is an architect who teaches at UNCC who also makes jewelry.  Kelly’s jewelry is inspired by architecture and is made with architecturally inspired materials like steel, aluminum, copper and concrete.

Kathy Collins - oil paintings- 11:30 a.m.:

Kathy Collins loves to paint both in her studio as well as outside “en plein air”.  She enjoys taking a few art supplies outside to capture the beauty in front of her whether it be a clump of summer blooms in a garden or a view across a lake in the North Carolina mountains.  

Valerie Hawkins - pottery - 12:00 Noon:

Valerie Hawkins is a long-time potter who uses fresh botanicals to imprint her pottery work.  She has also recently taken up silver smithing and makes work that is inspired by the mid-century modernist movement.  She recycles scrap silver and sometimes incorporates salvaged sterling parts into her work.

Julie Phillips - fiber arts - 12:30p.m.:

Julie Phillips is a fiber artist working primarily in felted wool.  She winds and felts multicolored wool strands into gorgeous wall pieces and sculptural 3d felted creatures.  She also does fabric painting employing the natural colorants in plants and leaves.

Janet Borchardt - glass casting - 1:00p.m.:

Janet works with glass casting, by packing glass powders & frits into molds she makes from leaves she picks and shapes sculpted out of clay.

Rae Stark - pottery - 1:30 p.m.:

Rae Stark is a studio potter working in porcelain clay.  She decorates her work with sgraffito, sprigs, incised lines and texture.  She employs motif’s from the natural word like birds, flowers and insects among others.

Please be prepared to find the Main Entrance and to use any of our parking lots across Crowell Drive NW from our campus; other classes and events may be going on in the Greenway Gallery or other spaces at ClearWater. A site map /Campus Area Plan can be found on our Website ‘Our Space’ page by clicking the black button at top of that page.

If you are an artist (of any kind) local to the Concord area, join us each 2nd Saturday for Caffeinate with Creatives to network with your creative community!

Artists from the public are welcomed to our Main Gallery to join us and some of our tenant artists for coffee and creative conversations. This is an opportunity for the many different artists in our area to get to know each other and build a community.

Featuring Mattie Ruth’s Coffee House! Mattie Ruth’s is a Concord, NC Original - with specialty coffee drinks available for purchase. Mattie will soon be opening MattieRuths Coffee House over on McGill Road just across from Gibson Mill and Gibson Mill Market.

Join us every second Saturday of the month, ALL artists of all talents are welcome (Musicians and Writers, Performers and Painters! Ceramicists and Scultors and Jewelry makers!)

Date: Every 2nd Saturday of the month

Time: 10am - 11am

Location: 223 Crowell Drive NW, Concord, NC 28025 in the Main Gallery

If you have any questions, contact our ClearWater Coordinator at (704) 920-6600

Artist Talks - Saturday, August 5, 2023 by four Members of Charlotte Art Collective - Part of the First Look! Guest Exhibition

FREE and open to the public! (Free Parking)

Several Artist Talks are scheduled, August 5 and August 12, as part of the Guest Artist Exhibition, ‘First Look’ — a show of new works by the Member Artists of Charlotte Art Collective. See other listings for other times and dates!

Artist Talks will be presented in the Main Gallery at ClearWater Arts in Concord. Use the Main Entrance, off Crowell Drive NW (223 Crowell Dr NW)

Saturday, August 5, 2023:

Robert Beam - stained & fused glass - 12:00 Noon:

Robert Beam is a glass artist working with stained and fused glass.  He takes inspiration from nature and architecture and is in collections up and down the east coast.

Michael Marx - PMC Jewelry - 12:30p.m.:

Michael Marx is a nationally known metal clay artist  and instructor.  He makes beautifully crafted metal clay jewelry with an edgy and whimsical point of view. 

Janie Jones - glass & alcohol ink - 1:00p.m.:

Janie Jones is a long-time master glass bead maker and instructor.  She makes gorgeous glass beads for jewelry and whimsical objects she employs in plant stakes and Christmas ornaments, among other things.

Hilde Deprez - wood & macrame - 1:30 p.m.:

Hilde Deprez is a master illustrator.  You will see in the gallery her painted wood, illustrations and cards.  She has also taken up macramé and is making gorgeous textural wall hangings.

Please be prepared to find the Main Entrance and to use any of our parking lots across Crowell Drive NW from our campus; other classes and events may be going on in the Greenway Gallery or other spaces at ClearWater. A site map /Campus Area Plan can be found on our Website ‘Our Space’ page by clicking the black button at top of that page.

If you are an artist (of any kind) local to the Concord area, join us this Saturday, July 8, 2023 for the first Caffeinate with Creatives event!

Artists from the public are welcomed to our Main Gallery to join us and some of our tenant artists for coffee and creative conversations. This is an opportunity for the many different artists in our area to get to know each other and build a community.

Featuring Mattie Ruth’s Coffee House! Mattie Ruth’s is a Concord, NC Original - with specialty coffee drinks available for purchase. Mattie will soon be opening MattieRuths Coffee House over on McGill Road just across from Gibson Mill and Gibson Mill Market.

Join us every second Saturday of the month, ALL artists of all talents are welcome (Musicians and Writers, Performers and Painters! Ceramicists and Scultors and Jewelry makers!)

Date: Saturday, July 8, 2023

Time: 10am - 11am

Location: 223 Crowell Drive NW, Concord, NC 28025 in the Main Gallery

If you have any questions, contact our ClearWater Coordinator at (704) 920-6600