The Charlotte Museum of History’s Women Making History series continues in April with a lecture featuring Mary Lou Quinlan, dubbed “the Oprah of Madison Avenue” by the Wall Street Journal, has spent her 30-year career in marketing and communications. She was named 1995 Advertising Woman of the Year by Advertising Women of New York, and is founder of the strategic marketing company Just Ask a Woman.

Bid on high-end purses below market value (ranging from $50-$3,000) at a silent auction benefiting Habitat Charlotte's Women Build 2008!

When: April 24, 6 to 9 pm

Tickets: $40 (includes wine and appetizers)

Details: 704.716.5630, aluke@habitatcharlotte.org or click here.

Join Donald Haack Diamonds, Fresh Boutique and Varji & Varji Salon and Spa on
Thursday, April 24 from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at Varji & Varji Salon and Spa (720 Governor Morrison Street, Suite E-170) in SouthPark for a Diva Party, showcasing the latest in women’s fashion, jewelry and beauty. Heavy hors d'oeuvres and wine will be served. 

In addition to receiving the latest trends in style, guests will go home with gift certificates and goods from Donald Haack Diamonds, Fresh and Varji & Varji.  

Taylor, Richards & Conger in collaboration with The Italian Trade Commission invite you to experience Italy in Motion, featuring exclusive trunk shows by Italian designers, Italian modes of transportation, Italian cuisine, fine Italian wines, and in-store registries, on Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26. 

For details, call 704.366.9092 or visit www.trcstyle.com.

Join skirt! photographer Deborah Triplett, along with fellow Charlotte photographers Diane Hughes, Raymond Grubb, JoAnn Sieburg Baker, Cordellia Williams, Mike Carrol, Christa Cammorato, Nancy Pierce, Mark Hamilton, and Kelly Culpepper, for a photography exhibit at Siskate Gallery on Arbor Day (April 25 from 6 – 11 pm), to celebrate a natural treasure that is dying out across the Southeast: the ancient eastern and Carolina hemlock trees.

Taylor, Richards & Conger in collaboration with The Italian Trade Commission invite you to experience Italy in Motion, featuring exclusive trunk shows by Italian designers, Italian modes of transportation, Italian cuisine, fine Italian wines, and in-store registries, on Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26. 

For details, call 704.366.9092 or visit www.trcstyle.com.

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

North Carolina Stage Company, Asheville’s professional theatre, presents Moonlight and Magnolias in the Duke Power Theater at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, April 30 – May 4, 2008.  Moonlight and Magnolias, by Ron Hutchinson, is the hilarious, almost-true story of the making of Gone With the Wind.  The play comes to Charlotte from a successful mounting in Asheville, where it sold out its entire 3-week run.   Moonlight and Magnolias stars Asheville-based actors Charlie Flynn-McIver, Scott Treadway, Lauren Fortuna and Willie Repoley. 

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

North Carolina Stage Company, Asheville’s professional theatre, presents Moonlight and Magnolias in the Duke Power Theater at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, April 30 – May 4, 2008.  Moonlight and Magnolias, by Ron Hutchinson, is the hilarious, almost-true story of the making of Gone With the Wind.  The play comes to Charlotte from a successful mounting in Asheville, where it sold out its entire 3-week run.   Moonlight and Magnolias stars Asheville-based actors Charlie Flynn-McIver, Scott Treadway, Lauren Fortuna and Willie Repoley. 

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

North Carolina Stage Company, Asheville’s professional theatre, presents Moonlight and Magnolias in the Duke Power Theater at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, April 30 – May 4, 2008.  Moonlight and Magnolias, by Ron Hutchinson, is the hilarious, almost-true story of the making of Gone With the Wind.  The play comes to Charlotte from a successful mounting in Asheville, where it sold out its entire 3-week run.   Moonlight and Magnolias stars Asheville-based actors Charlie Flynn-McIver, Scott Treadway, Lauren Fortuna and Willie Repoley. 

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

North Carolina Stage Company, Asheville’s professional theatre, presents Moonlight and Magnolias in the Duke Power Theater at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, April 30 – May 4, 2008.  Moonlight and Magnolias, by Ron Hutchinson, is the hilarious, almost-true story of the making of Gone With the Wind.  The play comes to Charlotte from a successful mounting in Asheville, where it sold out its entire 3-week run.   Moonlight and Magnolias stars Asheville-based actors Charlie Flynn-McIver, Scott Treadway, Lauren Fortuna and Willie Repoley. 

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

North Carolina Stage Company, Asheville’s professional theatre, presents Moonlight and Magnolias in the Duke Power Theater at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, April 30 – May 4, 2008.  Moonlight and Magnolias, by Ron Hutchinson, is the hilarious, almost-true story of the making of Gone With the Wind.  The play comes to Charlotte from a successful mounting in Asheville, where it sold out its entire 3-week run.   Moonlight and Magnolias stars Asheville-based actors Charlie Flynn-McIver, Scott Treadway, Lauren Fortuna and Willie Repoley. 

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Join skirt!, the media sponsor for this year’s Third Annual Bag Ladies Luncheon, for a champagne luncheon and auction of gorgeous new and gently-used designer handbags to benefit the Make-a-Wish Foundation’s Central and Western North Carolina Chapter.

When: May 30; silent auction begins at 10:30, luncheon begins at 12

Where: The Westin Charlotte, 601 S. College Street

Costs: $75 per ticket

Details: 704.339.0334, www.ncwish.org 

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Pimp my Gnome is invading NoDa. NoDaRioty is launching its first neighborhood art project: Pimp My Gnome. 25-30 local artists are being invited to pimp-out a clay garden gnome.

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

Charlotte Artist Anne Neilson began painting a series of oil paintings featuring angels several years ago, but after reading Ron Hall and Denver Moore’s “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman who Bound Them Together,” her work has a new inspiration. 

After reading the memoir of the pair she was moved to paint an angel for them, develop a relationship with the authors, and figure out how she could use her art to serve the homeless in her community. 

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

This May the Mint Museum of Art will originate a major traveling exhibition of more than 100 rare and unique works by British-born artist and writer Clare Leighton. This collection of Leighton’s work, assembled and donated to the Museum by Charlotte resident Gabby Pratt, is one of the largest in the country and includes more than 180 of the artist’s finely-detailed engravings, drawings and watercolors, spanning Leighton’s career from 1923 to 1965.

Local jewelry designer Diana Ferry of D Celestine Limited has teamed up with the Charlotte Avon Walk for Breast Cancer to plan an art & craft show.

Pink at the Plaza, an amazing outdoor event, will take place on Saturday, May 17th, from 10am – 3pm at the Providence Plaza on the corner of Providence Rd. and S. Sharon Amity. 

Kelly Koeppel will be the featured artist in May at the Morrison Arts Initiative. She will exhibiting work from her recent series of large format 8mm film prints.

This May the Mint Museum of Art will originate a major traveling exhibition of more than 100 rare and unique works by British-born artist and writer Clare Leighton. This collection of Leighton’s work, assembled and donated to the Museum by Charlotte resident Gabby Pratt, is one of the largest in the country and includes more than 180 of the artist’s finely-detailed engravings, drawings and watercolors, spanning Leighton’s career from 1923 to 1965.