The Fayetteville Museum of Art will sponsor an exhibition focusing on Swedish artist Carl Millis, August 4 through September 16 at its facility at 839 Stamper Road. The prolific artist, who died in 1955, was very well-known in Europe and Japan, and also in the United States, where he lived and worked for 20 years. Millis was influenced by ancient Nordic art, classic Greek sculpture, as well as by the work of French artist Auguste Rodin. The Fayetteville Museum of Art was founded in 1971. Originally housed in downtown Fayetteville's historic Market House, the Museum moved in 1978 to its present facility that was the first building in the State of North Carolina designed and built as an Art Museum.
Admission is free to the public.
Museum hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Admission is free. The Sneads Ferry Shrimp Festival, which takes place August 11 and 12 at Community Building Field in Sneads Ferry is the longest-running festival in the Topsail area. The festival, which has been celebrating the heritage of the shrimping industry in the area for more than 25 years, will begin Saturday, Aug. 11, at 10 a.m., with the annual parade. The parade will start at the corner of Old Folkstone and Peru roads, and will wind through the community before ending at Fulchers Landing Road.