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January 17, 2012

‘The Art of War’ comes to Dalton

Submitted by the Creative Arts Guild

The Creative Arts Guild and other area venues are hosting “The Art of War,” a traveling exhibition from the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pa., through June.

“The Art of War” is at the Guild during January and February, and will be at the Tunnel Hill Heritage Center in March and April, and at the Dalton Freight Depot in May and June.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The hosting is in partnership with the 150th Civil War Commemoration Committee, the Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia, the Dalton Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Bandy Heritage Center, the Northwest Georgia Regional Library, the Georgia Humanities Council and the National Humanities Council.

The exhibit is part of the many activities being provided by the 150th Civil War Commemoration Committee and the Creative Arts Guild in 2012.

The exhibit features the artwork of Civil War soldiers, including drawings on hard tack (a simple cracker), bone carvings on a variety of surfaces, letters and sketches.

The exhibit portrays the intensity, emotions and loneliness felt by many of the soldiers during the four-year period. Additionally, the Guild has invited local and regional artists to loan Civil War-related artwork to accompany the exhibit.

“The exhibit is a tremendous representation of the human need to put emotions to a number of surfaces, and is compelling in its simplistic messaging and skill. We are thrilled to have this exhibit, and equally excited to show it alongside local and regional artists who have been inspired by the Civil War history and its stories,” Bradley Wilson, Guild gallery director, said.

The opening reception for “The Art of War” will be on Friday, Feb. 3, at 5 p.m., followed by a concert featuring a Civil War brass quintet playing Civil War music at 7 p.m. in the Guild’s performance hall.

“The Art of War” also features literature, from biographies to historical data to historical fiction, displayed for visitors to peruse in the hopes they will visit area libraries to further their knowledge and understanding of the Civil War and the events surrounding it.

Additionally, the Creative Arts Guild will hold a field trip musical titled “Four Score and Seven Years Ago” for area school children at the Wink Theatre on Feb. 27. The musical is open to all area schools, home-schooled children and the public at large. Tickets are $5 and may be purchased from the Guild. The performance is 55 minutes long and intended for grades five through nine, and is a compelling story of two men on different sides of the war. One is an escaped slave from Georgia who travels to Gettysburg as a free man and befriends a young Confederate soldier.

The Guild will host a roundtable discussion of the Civil War led by Bandy Heritage Center Director John Fowler at a date to be determined during February.

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