The 2nd floor of Outsiders is a wonderful place called happymess. Created and run by Holly Phelan, happymess is a venue where children and adults learn how to enhance their lives and community through art.
Book Harvest is a Triangle nonprofit that collects used books for children and young adults and places them into the hands and homes of children who need them. Bring your gently used books to Outsiders, and the donated books will be given to children through more than twenty local organizations, including Durham’s own Welcome Baby, Walltown Neighborhood Clinic, and SEEDS.
Friday, January 27 5:30-8:00PM
Live Music (Blue Tailed Skinks), Book Harvest and Food Trucks (Pie Pushers and KoKyu BBQ)!
The magic of the Outsider Gallery in the big house on Iredell just across from Arete is worth the trip there. Imagine going to an art opening that is comfortable where you meet to chit chat with your neighbors.
Milk taught himself to paint in his twenties when he was painting houses and his own house was filled with left over paint and cast off wood. He sold his first paintings on the street in Manhattan and then returned to Virginia, in 2001. His paintings are autobiographical, or as he says, ‘Perhaps they are wishes. ...