Over the Edge about… Painting a Dream!

It can be lonely as a dreamer and sometimes things can be more lonely when it’s time to “paint your dream.” How about painting your dream in front of 1200 people, live, on stage while other artists are dancing, singing and playing instruments moving all around you and the blank canvas you stand in front of center stage? WHAT? Blank Canvas? On Stage? Painting Live? Are you crazy? Most artists would say, live, mmm, I don’t think so!

To find your voice as an artist and make a living at the same time can be challenging if not near impossible. Meet one over the edge artist that I ADORE and want to see all her dreams come true.

Kay Hutchinson, Founder of Mural Matters (www.KayPaints.com ) and one of the bravest artists I know and love today.

 Things were getting down to the wire for me, I had a vision (a dream) of an artist painting live on stage during a two hour show that I produce for the not for profit organization Night of Dreams, founded in 2002 (www.nightofdreams.org). I had a dream to make other’s dreams come true and artists were at the forefront of this dream. Over 100 artists were lined to perform in the 2 hour Night of Dreams show for two nights in a row in November of 2004. It is only four weeks before the show would go on at Fletcher Auditorium in the Progress Energy Center for Performing arts but I had yet to secure an artist brave enough to paint live before an audience.

The show itself is a choreographed and uniquely produced show of the top talent in the region. The show is creatively produced to inspire the audience to think differently and see the world through a different set of glasses when they walk out.