#moore square

Food Trucks at Moore Square

The City of Raleigh is spending $12 million to revamp Moore Square, one of two downtown green spaces. While the space needs an upfit to reflect the world-class status Raleigh is working towards, I believe there are smaller steps the city could take to attract crowds and increase revenue.

Restaurants, shops, and a children’s museum face the square on the west end. To the east are empty lots and…

September’s 1st Friday Gallery Walk

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Tir na nOg Pub in Moore Square . So here are the images of last night’s 1st Friday Gallery Walk. What made this 1st Friday Gallery Walk different is the move of Visual Arts Exchange to the Warehouse District of Raleigh, finally making this area the new art's center of Raleigh.

The Skate Deck Exhibition at the United Arts Council

Camille at Blake Street Studios

Georges Le Chevallier and Garrett Scales’ Boys and Girls Club Mural at Artspace Visual Arts Center

Mark Smith Exhibition at Atomic Salon

Jason Craighead Exhibition at Flanders Gallery

Jason Craighead at Flanders Gallery

Becca Bellamy and Denee’ Black Exhibition at 311 West Martin Street Galleries

Acclaimed sculptor Thomas Sayres enjoying a PBR at Visual Art Exchange

The shortest guest last night at at Visual Art Exchange

Ron Ridgeway’s long lost Buddha Wall at Visual Arts Exchange seen for the 1st time in about 20 years. To learn more about this work CLICK HERE to read Goodnight Raleigh's article.

David Rose Exhibition at Designbox Gallery

Slippin’ Southern’s handmade signs at Designbox Gallery

Rebecca Ward Exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum

Diego and Lola with “El Maestro” Lope Max Diaz.

There are not too many people whom I give the title of mentor, and legendary Puerto Rican artist Lope Max Diaz is one of the few who gets it. Any time I have an artistic, teaching, or personal problem I do call him and he finds a way to make sense out of everything. I met him about 10 years ago when I was a waiter at a Raleigh downtown restaurant where he was having lunch. Come to find out, he was my older brother’s teacher at Escuela Luchetti in San Juan, PR about 40 years ago. He remembered my brother as well as my parents, and I do hope it was because we were the only “Le Chevallier” on the island and not because of my brother’s propensity to get in trouble! .