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Eggs for Breakfast
Which came first, the breakfast or the egg?
by Marimar McNaughton
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALLISON POTTER
When the Cape Fear Literacy Council cooked
up the Breakfast at Tiffany’s theme
for its annual March 2 gala, little did
it know that the Wrightsville Beach
Magazine team was hatching a plan to feature artist-designed
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eggs the same month.
What to do with the eggs after they were created was
the genius of magazine publisher and editor Pat Bradford
who suggested asking the artists to give them to the CFLC to
benefit its annual fundraiser to support adult literacy.
Working in three dimensions, we challenged sculptors
in wood, metal, clay, paper and mixed media to create one-of-a-
kind eggs.
Cape Fear woodcarver Bill Donaldson was the first
to complete the challenge. Entitled “Sea Shell Egg Shell,”
Donaldson’s exquisite solid wood egg is hand-carved from
walnut. Donaldson’s egg shared the limelight during the
CFLC’s gala kickoff party on January 17 at the Calico Room
with the works of Dumay Gorham III, Michelle Connolly,
jeweled and hand-painted Russian eggs contributed by
Perry’s Emporium, and the collection of porcelain eggs from
Sybil West.
Bring your pocketbooks next month to the Breakfast at
Tiffany’s benefit. Bid high during the live auction Saturday,
March 2, at the Air Wilmington Hangar and do your bit to stamp out
illiteracy. RSVP info@cfliteracy.org or call 910-251-0911.
Above, hand-thrown porcelain eggs carved and painted by Sybil West will be auctioned off at the Cape Fear Literacy Council’s Breakfast at
Tiffany’s March 2 fundraiser gala.