“A true artist is not the one who is inspired, but one who inspires other.”-Salvador Dali.

  • Charlotte artists spin billboards into fashion, moving from the highway to the runway

    BY LIZ ROTHAUS BERTRAND ARTS CORRESPONDENT

    SHOWCASING FILIPINO CULTURE

    Another upcycled fashion show designer, Edelweiss Vogel, is using her artwork as a way to pay homage to her heritage. Vogel grew up in Manila, the capital of The Philippines, and moved to Charlotte at age 18 to pursue a BFA in Studio Arts at UNC Charlotte. She’s now an illustrator and educator.

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  • ArtPop winner seeks to inspire her students at The Brawley School

    BY KARISSA MILLER
    Iredel Free News

    Edelweiss Vogel incorporates her heritage and culture into her art and aims to inspire students at The Brawley School, an International Baccalaureate World School, to do the same.

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  • Designers Make High Fashion Eco-Friendly From Charlotte to the Paris Runway

    BY SUSAN PALMES-DENNIS
    Asia Carolina

    Rather than make dresses using the finest and most expensive materials, two Filipino American designers are setting a laudable trend in the demanding, discriminating world of global fashion by recycling materials and converting them into eye-catching, eco-friendly clothing.

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  • New year, new class: Charlotte’s ArtPop names its 2022 billboard artists

    BY LAURIE LARSH

    Charlotte Observer
    UPDATED DECEMBER 03, 2021 2:56 PM

    Each year ArtPop Street Gallery selects 20 talented local artists to feature their art on billboards around the Charlotte region for residents to enjoy. At a Dec. 2 ceremony, the nonprofit revealed its class of 2022, chosen from a record number of applicants across a 13-county region.

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  • Brawley School students celebrate International Peace Day with pinwheels

    BY Taylor Jedrzejek
    Sep 28, 2021 Updated Sep 29, 2021

    The occasional sound of a car horn broke through the standard noise of Brawley School Road, but for one morning, it wasn’t to signify displeasure with another driver, it was to support the kids planting pinwheels in the ground as a celebration of the International Day of Peace.

    “I have to say that I’m very proud of my students,” Edelweiss Vogel, visual arts teacher at The Brawley School, said. “They got very involved and took it very personally, especially when they saw it outside.”

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  • FASHION FEATURE | FASHION ART BY EDELWEISS DE GUZMAN

    By KaeOtic / August 1, 2019

    PHOTOGRAPHED BY SHEILA CARROLL, STUDIO 51

    I’ve always been fascinated with history. I find inspiration in many things, from contemporary and stylistic comic book art to the techniques of the past; like the Expressionist, Rococo Period, Baroque, Avant-Garde and Art Deco.

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