Find the missing piece of your day at our drop-in puzzle program featuring a lively swap meet. Bring your favorite puzzles, trade with fellow enthusiasts, and enjoy a casual day of collaborative problem-solving and camaraderie. It’s the perfect opportunity to discover new challenges, share your passion for puzzles, and connect with like-minded individuals in a fun and relaxed family friendly setting. Know Before You Go This is a drop-in program. All swap-meet puzzles should be in good condition with ALL pieces contained in their box. Puzzles will be exchanged for free, but in order to take a puzzle home, please bring a puzzle to share! This program is suitable for all ages. Inclusion Services Downtown Cary Park strives to provide a positive experience for all guests. Our goal is to accommodate you and meet your individual needs. Please fill out the event accessibility form here and a staff member will be in contact with you.

The vision for “Tarot Garden” is to evoke a private, mysterious, wild and unkept “garden” started by witches in the American south. Combining the paintings of Trish Klenow from her “Midnight Garden” series and the photographs of Slater Mapp from his “Tarot” series, this gallery space as garden will share the traits of exploration found in Renaissance gardens, and the traits of solace and reflection found in a Cloister garden as well as Klenow’s own wild garden in Apex, NC. The viewer will experience the wonder of local flora and fauna in the darkest of North Carolina forests through Klenow's paintings and participate in the wonders of personal systems of belief and spirituality like Tarot, tea reading, Laramonde and the Oracle through the various mediums of Mr. Mapp. Photographic illustrations of unseen forces will hang like vines from the walls of the space and move with the wind. Archetypal images like the Empress, the Fool and the Devil will guide the viewers to reflect on their personal journeys. Assemblages, and sculptures will serve as tokens and reminders of the Past. Water will be ever present in installations and in the other works, creating a sense of care and comfort. Viewers will emerge from the “ritual darkness”, cleansed and ready to face an ever changing and frightening world. This duo show promotes a path to self-reflection.

Movement and mood are at the core of Lyudmila’s artistic style. She merges both abstract and traditional painting in a loose painterly way to create energetic and impactful artwork. Her themes mainly involve figures and portraits of people captured in their private moments of contemplation, everyday scenes, playing music or dancing. Her painting philosophy is to interpret reality and not copy it. She paints quickly with large gestural strokes free of preconceived logical steps, infusing passion and excitement. A fleeting moment is captured and transformed by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles. The brush strokes are moving, pushing, emerging and overwhelming, but never still and quiet.

Wheel-thrown stoneware show located in the display cases at the Cary Arts Center.