Timely guest post here given a conversation I had this morning with Bill Hester. who recently closed his fine arts gallery at University Square.
From Paul Hrusovsky, retired art teacher:
Every day I pass by the old Crown Volvo/Honda building and think what a wonderful structure for something great in Chapel Hill. It is a good size building with ample parking and easy access from the highway.
Since there has been a lot of chatter about Carrboro and Chapel Hill losing its edge, I was thinking that maybe this space would be a great arts center.
There could easily be two galleries and another gallery and office for the Orange County Artist guild. The back could be transformed into 10 to 15 resonably priced artists studios. For many years we have talked about finding spaces for artists. There would be no theatre or classes at the beginning as not to compete with the Carrboro Arts Center.
This is just a dream but thought maybe others would be interested in pursuing this.
Paul Hrusovsky
