In conjunction with the DADA 1st Friday Gallery Hop, step into a space where creativity and connection intertwine. Large-scale and smaller original works by True will be available for viewing and for sale, as well as a collection of high-quality prints and cards. Colin will be playing his eclectic and creative music, blending world music styles and influences. Join us for the art, for the music, for the community, and the fun. Light refreshments will be served, and beverages will be available for sale.

True Whiting, Emerging Artist, creates medicine paintings for personal liberation and care for the earth. She playfully creates from the place where the mysterious world of dreams and mythology intersects with the enchantment of nature and the lived human experience. Her paintings integrate and are catalyzed by the diverse healing practices she has gathered across the decades as a psychologist, shamanic practitioner, and yoga teacher. Rich in symbolism, her art is a call to be a keeper of one’s own flame as a source of freedom and healing. True makes a donation for each original painting she sells in support of environmental protection, social justice, and world hunger. In addition to her career as an artist, True is the founder of True Whiting Studio for Art and Wellbeing in Winston-Salem, NC where she works as a healing practitioner and creativity mentor.

Colin Allured is an inspired musician and composer whose unique sound blends musical traditions that cross cultures and centuries. Born and raised in the Southern United States, Colin heard the call of music as a child and he has followed this call around the globe. Since learning the guitar at the age of nine, Colin has immersed himself in the worlds of European classical music, American music styles including Zydeco, music of the Appalachian Mountains, rock and roll, gospel, and blues. He has intensively studied world traditions including Hindustani classical music, Middle Eastern drumming and West African string music. Colin has worked with a number of prominent musicians and performers, both in the studio and on stage, and has gained a reputation as a rare and distinguished artist.