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Mushpa + Mensa .

Visual Arts: Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Textiles

Mushpa + Mensa is a duo of artists made up of Cara Reynolds and Maria-Emilia Borja. We draw inspired good for the soul art, draft and hand print all of it using the most Eco inks out there, and we print on 100% organic cotton, fair trade certified, and most ridiculously soft tees. We also print on upcycled fabric and create decorative pillows, plus other fiber creations like little ornaments, cat nip toys etc… We use appliques on our organic cotton tees to create one of a kind pieces which we call ART-Tees, and the felt we use is made from 100% recycled plastic bottles! We also have one of a kind art pieces in mini canvases, paper, cardboard and wood.

Antonio Alanis

Graphic Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Crafts, Film, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Murals, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Visual Arts Instructor

Artist Statement Antonio Alanís is a Mexican-American artist raised in Durham, North Carolina. His non-profit management and teaching background interest enable him to use the visual arts to build bridges between diverse cultures. He uses his Mexican-American background, education formation, and passion for the visual arts to create cultural awareness about Latin American people in the South. The intersection between Latin-American art and activism motivates him to use the arts as a conduit to strengthening his Hispanic/Latinx community in North Carolina. He seeks to strengthen the connection between people of all backgrounds; Antonio uses the visual arts to explore themes such as “Belonging,” “Growing up Latino,” “Home,” and “Identity” in a multicultural South. As an acrylic and oil painter, he enjoys portraying uplifting Latinx characters that celebrate the cultural richness, beauty, and humanity of Latinx people through painting and graphic designs. A visual storyteller, he enjoys using the arts to springboard conversations centered around cultural similarities rather than differences between groups of people. Artist Bio Antonio Alanís is an artist and educator living in Durham, North Carolina. His immigrant background, personal history, and education inspired him to explore themes such as social justice, identity, and immigration in North Carolina. He believes that the visual arts are an integral part of promoting cultural awareness about Hispanic/Latinx people in the United States.

Mary Ann Anderson

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Printmaking, Works on paper

In the Triangle, Mary Ann Anderson has exhibited at Artspace, Duke University, Durham Arts Council, Durham Art Guild, Golden Belt, the Ackland Museum Store, The Carrboro Arts Center and Visual Art Exchange. Her art studies have included classes at Ox-Bow, a program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and classes at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. She exhibited extensively at community galleries in Illinois for 20 years, before moving to Chapel Hill in 2008

Ariyah April

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Painting, Photography

I explore social and environmental issues as a visual artist. My paintings are either acrylic or encaustic (hot beeswax mixed with pigment) and can be commissioned by contacting me at ariyah.april.art@gmail.com. I’m also an experienced portrait and event photographer. In 2015-2016, my work was been exhibited in San Francisco, New York, and across North Carolina. I learned to paint and photograph not at school, but under the wings of established painters and photographers. In 2015, I shot for the Environmental Defense Fund’s Earth Street social movement project on Tumblr and Instagram, sharing inspiring stories of the environmentalist next door. Committed to environmentalism, I am a 2014 National Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. I earned an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise and Consulting at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School in 2009, and a bachelor’s degree in English and Women’s Studies at Duke University in 2001.

Jeffrey Arlyn

Visual Arts: Painting, Works on paper

Jeffrey Arlyn is an artist making paintings that engage themes of identity, place, and relationship. Arlyn first studied painting at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and earned her BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Her artistic practice serves as a meditation on personal experiences, and through her paintings she brings clarity to the feelings that lie beneath appearances. Her work has been described as subtle, nostalgic, ethereal, and soulful. Arlyn works in watercolor and oil paint. She has taught watercolor painting and figure drawing classes classes at the Durham Arts Council and the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts.

Pam Baggett

Literary Arts; Teaching Artist

Artistic Resume Book Publication: Wild Horses, a runner-up for the 2017 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest, published by Main Street Rag in May 2018 Journal Publications: Tar River Poetry, Vol. 57, No. 2, Spring 2018: “Learned At Last Night’s Lecture On Dementia” Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 and 2, 2017: “What Passes Through This World Cries” Cold Mountain Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2017: “Twenty-First Century Pastoral” and “When I Look at Radiance” San Pedro River Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2017: “To a Friend, with Gratitude” Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Vol. 60, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2017: “Days Like These” and “First Birthday Alone” The Greensboro Review, No. 100, Fall 2016: “Summer Vacation” Atlanta Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2016: “Break on Through—Ray Manzarek Speaks” Tar River Poetry, Vol. 55, No. 2, Spring 2016: “Even Now” and “Truckload of Jesuses” Kentucky Review, on-line, January 2015: “Are They Boulders,” “At Stouchsburg Cemetery,” “Country Man,” “Driving My Aunt Back from the Nursing Home Where We Visited Her Sister,” “Photograph: Burlap #2,” and “Visiting Her Sister at the Nursing Home” San Pedro River Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2015: “What to Do with a Father” The Sow’s Ear, Vol. 22, No. 4, Winter 2013: “Hunger” Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2012: “Rehrersburg, Pennsylvania, 1857” Atlanta Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2012: “A Love Poem for My Muse” and “Joy” Anthology Publications: Kakalak 2017 (Main Street Rag, 2017): “For Her” and “Questions I Should Have Asked At My Thirty-fifth High School Reunion” The Book of Donuts (Terrapin Books, 2017): “What Shaped You” Kakalak 2016 (Main Street Rag, 2016): “Snow and the Memory of Snow” Kentucky Review 2015 (Future Cycle Press, 2015): “Are They Boulders,” “At Stouchsburg Cemetery,” “Country Man,” “Driving My Aunt Back from the Nursing Home Where We Visited Her Sister,” “Photograph: Burlap #2,” and “Visiting Her Sister at the Nursing Home” Kakalak 2015 (Main Street Rag, 2015): “Dear Aunt Sue” Creatures of Habitat (Main Street Rag, 2015): “So Much” The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume VII: North Carolina (Texas Review Press, 2014): “Hunger” and “Joy” Kakalak 2014 (Main Street Rag, 2014): “Pompeii Fairy Tale” Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimers (Barefoot Muse Press, 2013): “Hunger” Journals and anthologies in which poems are forthcoming: Spillway: “Seventh Grade” Quill’s Edge Press, for the anthology 50/50: Poems & Translations by Women over 50: “How Fathers Leave” and “Remorse” Poetry in Plain Sight: A program which displays poster-sized poems in downtown Winston-Salem business windows September 2016: “At the Sugar Shack, Carolina Beach, 1969” Grants and Awards: 2018: Recipient of the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series student poet mentorship from the North Carolina Poetry Society 2017-18: Recipient of an Artist Project Grant from the Orange County Arts Commission 2016-17: Recipient of an Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council 2015: “What to Do with a Father” nominated for the Pushcart Prize by San Pedro River Review Readings and Lectures: April 2018: Reading with Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Beth Copeland and fellow Gilbert-Chappell student poets Terri Greco and Camryn Massey at the Chapel Hill Library March 2018: Reading with Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Beth Copeland and fellow Gilbert-Chappell student poet Terri Greco at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough July 2017: Featured poet at the Visions International Reading Series at Aversboro Coffee in Garner NC February 2017: Featured poet at the Memory Cafe held at the Passmore Center in Hillsborough for adults with memory issues and their caregivers October 2016: Peace of Mind: a Poetry Lecture at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough April 2016: Featured poet at Carrboro’s Poetry on Your Plate October 2014: Featured poet at Carrboro’s West End Poetry Festival Events Funded by a 2017-18 OCAC Artist Project Grant: Poetry Readings February 2018: Black History, Black Futures, featuring Howard Craft, Fred Joiner, Crystal Simone Smith, and Gideon Young October 2017: Poets on Family, featuring J.S. Absher, Terri Kirby Erickson, Jan Harrington, and Tsitsi Jaji Writing Workshops March 2018: Journeys, Real and Metaphorical, Orange County Passmore and Seymour Senior Centers February 2018: Skin!, Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough October 2017: Writing About Family, Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough Lecture March 2018: Poetry as a Friend on Life’s Journey, Orange County Passmore and Seymour Senior Centers Volunteer Work in the Arts: Co-organizer and co-host since January 2014 of the Second Thursday Poetry Reading at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill Organizer and host of the following poetry readings held at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough and other venues, featuring distinguished local and regional poets: October 2017: Reception and reading at Flyleaf Books to honor the life’s work of esteemed North Carolina poet Betty Adcock and to celebrate the release of Rough Fugue February 2017: Poetry of Witness, featuring William Blackley, L. Teresa Church, Maura High, and Earl Huband October 2016: An Evening of Accessible Poetry, featuring Joseph Millar, Florence Nash, Mark Smith-Soto, and Priscilla Webster-Williams March 2016: Poetry and Personal Identity, featuring Al Maginnes, Maria Rouphial, Andrea Selch, and Crystal Simone Smith February 2016: Poetry and Race, featuring Jaki Shelton Green, Joseph Mills, NC Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson, and L. Lamar Wilson April 2015: An Evening of Local Poetry, featuring Aaron Belz, Jaki Shelton Green, Celisa Steele, and Crystal Simone Smith June 2016, Chapel Hill Library: Organizer and host of Remembrance: an Evening of African-American Poetry, to honor the Charleston, South Carolina parishioners murdered during a Bible study meeting on June 17, 2015. Featured poets: L. Teresa Church, Jaki Shelton Green, Sheila Smith McKoy, and Gideon Young Organizer and instructor for the following writing workshops held at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough: April 2018: Writing from the Rope Bridge January 2018: Love and Romance May 2017: Wrestling the Four-Tongued Beast: Revision and Imagery February 2017: Writing Poems of Witness October 2016: Revising Toward Clarity, Energy, and Elegance April 2016: Poetry and Personal Identity February 2016: Writing About Race July 2015: Heroes, Heroines, and Heartthrobs April 2015: Getting Honest and Yet More Honest 2014-15: Co-writer and co-facilitator of two writing support groups for women survivors of domestic violence, funded by a grant from the Orange County Arts Commission and held at the Compass Center for Women and Families in Chapel Hill. A journal of survivors’ work, The War Against the Mirror: Reflections on Domestic Violence, was produced with funds from the grant

Anna Barker

Performing Arts: Dance

Anna is a choreographer and performer based in Durham, NC. Her company, real.live.people, recently premiered her third evening-length work, “Again, but this time with feeling”, following “Feature Presentation” in 2016 and “it’s not me it’s you” in 2014. Anna hails from Durham, North Carolina by way of South Africa by way of London. After spending 10 years dancing in Philadelphia and New York City, Anna relocated back to her hometown to pursue a secondary Pilates certification, and founded her dance theater company real.live.people with collaborator Leah Wilks. After creating her solo ‘“what about this” and other false starts’ during the 2017 Tobacco Road season, Anna brought 10 new artists into collaboration for ”Again, but this time with feeling”. Anna has presented work as part of the American Dance Festival, Duke Performances, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival (2009, 2015), APAP NYC, The North Carolina Dance Festival, Tobacco Road Dance Productions, WAXworks at Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn), and at Elsewhere Collaborative, The Haw River Ballroom, The Rubenstein at Duke, The Carrack Modern Art Gallery, the Durham Arts Council, the Carrboro ArtsCenter, The Living Arts Collective, Dance New Amsterdam (Manhattan), and the New York Film School (Manhattan). Anna teaches Pilates locally at Bull City Pilates and Massage, and at Ninth Street Dance.

Peter Barnett

Media; Multi Arts; Teaching Artist; Visual Arts: New Media/Technology, Photography, Visual Arts Instructor

Peter Francis Barnett is a Durham-based artist who has shown work both throughout the US and internationally. He uses heavily stylized studio photography as well as experimental photographic methods to create surreal images that study the supernatural, artificial and macabre.

Brian Behm

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Mixed Media, Painting

I am captivated by the abstraction of sacred art and landscape. Much of my work explores the horizon as a metaphor—the meeting place of the Divine and the human. Painting provides a cathartic way to reflect on personal and spiritual topics. Utilizing active and expressive marks, richly layered compositions, and deep emotive space, the work invites viewers to contemplation. As artistic director of Level Ground Film Festival in 2014, I curated artists from around the country to participate in a project for generous conversation and space-making at the intersection of faith communities and the LGBTQ+ community. My works have been published in Welter (a literary journal) and The Beat (an art magazine), and I won Best in Show for a digital collage icon of Christ I created for a show called De-Colonizing the Christ in Harrisburg, PA in 2021. I also won an award for Second Place Best in Show at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. I hold a B.A. in art and also work as a graphic designer.

Freddie Bell

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Murals, Painting

Bio: Freddie is living in Hillsborough, NC and is glad to call North Carolina home once again. Freddie was born in Charlotte, NC. Their passion for creating has followed them to Los Angeles and back and across careers in the arts and social work. Freddie finds inspiration in community and how we understand ourselves. Freddie received his BA in Art at Warren Wilson College in 2012. They have participated in group shows in Los Angeles and throughout North Carolina. Freddie is currently a Regional Emerging Artist Resident at Artspace in Raleigh, NC. Gender and identity have been common subjects and inspirations for Freddie’s work since undergraduate school, influenced by his lived experience. Freddie loves using color, shape, and varied repetition to reflect on identity. Statement: My identity as a queer and transgender person informs how I see and move through the world and is a fundamental influence in all my work. I am interested in exploring the binaries and systems we have created for ourselves as individuals and communities. Currently my focus is on grief and the physical body. I became interested in fascia, the thin tissue running throughout our bodies, and I have discovered many parallels to the process of grief. Working primarily with acrylic, I use the relationship of pattern, form, and color to express both tension and release.

Nicole Berland

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Crafts, Mixed Media

I’m a media scholar, teacher, and collage artist living in Carrboro, NC. Through a combination of analog and digital collage, my pieces attempt to tell the stories that words cannot, making sense out of senselessness and senselessness out of sense. I’m currently at work on a project entitled “Brain Space,” which seeks to visualize neuroatypical cognition. I sell prints and merchandise and have exhibited my work locally and internationally. I also especially enjoy collaborating with musicians on album art.

Mark Bickett

Visual Arts: Functional and/or Decorative

It wasn’t that many years ago that I had never heard or seen a Native American style flute. My wife and I were at an art show and about to leave when she remembered that we had a $20 gift certificate. Determined to use it, we explored the booths a bit more and my wife purchased a small B flute without any idea what was in store for us. After a few weeks my wife, a professional musician and voice teacher, was hooked. She realized that her voice training was a perfect fit for playing these magical instruments. Since that first encounter at the art show her flute world exploded into performances, teaching and a collection of flutes in many keys, shapes and sizes. The logical progression was to move into flute making to help feed my wife’s and also my developing flute needs. I was lucky enough to find an apprenticeship with a highly skilled and generous local flute maker and began refining the skills needed to produce my own flutes. I expanded and retooled my woodworking shop to include the standard and specialized tools needed for the task. The rest is history. I was introduced to a new world of music and art, made some incredible lasting friendships and had the opportunity to get back to my love of woodworking. I strive to design flutes that require minimum breath expenditure to produce the warmth and fluid sound associated with these simple amazing instruments. With the exterior of the instrument as my canvas, I work tirelessly to incorporate the visual beauty worthy of this mellow instrument.

David Scott Binanay

Performing Arts: Music; Teaching Artist; Recording Artist

DAVID SCOTT VIOLINIST/ PRODUCER/ ARTIST David Scott is a trained classical violinist with over 30 years of experience. With much time spent studying under Brian Reagin, current Concert Master of the North Carolina Symphony, David can deftly maneuver any genre, style, or melody on the violin. He graduated from Villanova University with a degree in Humanities. Whilst living in Philadelphia, he developed a deep appreciation and skill for music production and improvisation. After having the opportunity to play at Carnegie Hall, an overwhelming feeling of disenchantment about the prosaic path of symphonics overcame David. Coupled with persistent health scares, he was compelled to make a change. David yearned to push beyond the rigid boundaries and expectations of classical violin in order to fully realize his potential as a multi-faceted creative. Recently, David has collaborated with notable Grammy Award-winning artists including a number of associated acts that have produced and arranged for Frank Sinatra, Dr. Dre, John Williams,and Aaliyah, among several others. Although his bourgeoning music career is nearing the precipice of national acclaim, David unfailingly makes time in his schedule to play locally at the retirement homes and hospitals that he frequented just a few years ago to make ends meet.

Amanda Blanchard

Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Visual Arts: Crafts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

I work in several areas. I started out in fiber arts, which I did primarily for fourteen years, until I went to school for my Associates degree in fine arts in 2016. Now, my main focus is portrait illustration, both realistic and ridiculous. My fiber arts played so heavily in my studies as a means to a solution that I’ve branched out from just hats and dolls to full sculptures. In 2019, my charcoal drawing of a statue at Duke Gardens won Best in Show at the Spring Arts Show at Duke Gardens. I’ve gone on to modeling for other artists and teaching art. I consistently create parody illustrations at a local record store, which now has ink portraits and a few fiber art pieces.

Annie Blazejack

Visual Arts: Painting

We, Geddes Levenson and Annie Blazejack, are in a long term committed collaboration. We are painters, but we’ll follow ideas into other media like immersive installation, performance, and video. Our collaborative process is about expanding what we can imagine. We’ve been working together for about ten years, learning about each other’s painting techniques and idea-building processes over time. We make work through conversation, building towards ideas better than either of us could imagine alone. We challenge our expectations and defaults, looking at problems from two different perspectives at once. We examine the interdependence between human-made and wilderness spaces. As the climate warms and forests try to adapt, what stewardship responsibilities should we have, and how will we adapt in kind? Science fiction stories, especially those about human encounters with alien landscapes, help us imagine our changing relationship to the ecosystem with creativity and nuance. Can artwork encourage viewers to encounter new and unfamiliar environments with empathy, to enjoy the unfamiliar and grotesque, to find parts of themselves in dramatically alien Others?

Bonnie Brooks

Teaching Artist; Visual Arts: Ceramics, Painting, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor

Bonnie Brooks was introduced to the arts and their importance at a very young age, by her mother. Every weekend she would take her to the New York Art Institute and other museums nearby. At the age of eight she was chosen out of students from many schools to attend Buffalo State University in New York. Bonnie was not only in the visual arts, but also danced, acted and plays the flute and oboe. Bonnie did her undergraduate work at Western Michigan University, studying watercolors and drawing with Harold Hefner, of Spain. She also received her BA in textile design and art education. The artist completed her Masters at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan where she studied watercolors, art therapy and pottery. Pottery is one of the things that brought her to North Carolina to write a thesis on North Carolina pottery. Bonnie has been teaching art for over thirty years and her paintings have been in many juried art exhibits around the country. The artist studies of art are not exclusive to school, but she has traveled around the world to such places as Spain, England, France, Austria, Germany, Hungary and Czech. She was Vice President of the Visual Art Exchange, a member of the North Carolina Art Educators Association, the Michigan Watercolor Society, helps do fund raising for the United Arts and has received the Raleigh Metal of Arts. Bonnie majored in watercolors as an undergraduate and now paints mostly in oils. “My work use to be thin layers of transparent paint giving a quality of depth. It now has a different quality of depth using the rich luster of oils in a thick impressionistic style of painting. I still layer my work painting all the tree branches even if they are not seen covered by leaves. This gives a quality of deepness through perspective and accuracy of the leaves hanging on the branches. My subject matter is still landscapes but in a broader view. I travel to Europe and other parts of the country to inspire a large range of landscapes.” “I am a realist artist because I believe in painting what I can see. What God has created.”

Jeannette Brossart

Teaching Artist; Visual Arts: Crafts, Functional and/or Decorative, Mixed Media, Murals; mosaics, architectural, sculptural, commission, murals

I have lived and worked and created in Durham since 2005. I have created small to large scale mosaics for personal, garden, sculptural, and architectural use. I have designed and facilitated mosaic works with students in over 150 schools and community groups. I have notable public work in Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, Garner, and Salisbury. My personal work reflects themes of nature, recycling/reuse, and textural mosaic application.

Tomeko Brown

Literary Arts

Tomeko Brown, an author, educator, and mother of two, has captivated readers with her debut juvenile fiction, An Instrument for Florenda. With a passion for writing and music that began in her childhood, Tomeko honed her skills by playing the clarinet in a small community school, setting the stage for her future artistic endeavors. Throughout her career, Tomeko has dedicated herself to inspiring and educating children of all ages. From working in K-5 classrooms to teaching middle school, her commitment to excellence in education shines through in all of her endeavors. Tomeko’s education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Education and a Master of Education in Instructional Design. Her education has equipped her with the skills necessary to create engaging and effective learning experiences for students of all backgrounds. Tomeko’s passion for literature, education, and creativity is evident in all aspects of her life. As a celebrated author, educator, and mother, she continues to inspire and uplift those around her.

Mark Bump

Visual Arts: Sculpture

Political and social issues are important inspirations for each of my sculptures. I aim to construct an image that is compelling on the aesthetic, conceptual, and tactile levels, allowing the viewer’s experience to be determined by the level of interaction they have with the piece. By layering the information throughout the work, I hope to guide the viewer towards a particular conclusion or experience. By participating in the work, the audience examines all facets of the concept, promoting better understanding of the art’s purpose. Methods of my recent sculptural body utilize the concepts I call the engaged system and the disengaged system. Engaged systems us functional kinetic aspects to elucidate interpretation of the work’s theme. Disengaged systems use purposely dismantled or physically broken kinetic elements to create a sense of anxiety in the viewer, highlighting the viewer’s assumption that basic societal organization should function.

Lauren Butare Smith

Visual Arts: Painting, Works on paper

I find myself drawn to divergent styles in painting. I explore detail and realism with watercolor and graphite, but I also enjoy the freedom associated with abstract paintings. I was originally trained as a veterinarian, but found myself unable to work in that field after a severe and protracted illness. Although my struggles have been difficult, I am thankful to have had such a strong attraction to art in addition to science. I have rededicated myself to my art, and am enjoying the freedom of expression associated with being a painter. Because of my history, I enjoy painting animals above all. I paint animal portraits by commission and try to capture the true essence of every animal with my portraits.

Blair Cadden

Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Theatre; Teaching Artist

Blair Cadden (she/her) is a theatre artist and educator with a passion for creating supportive spaces that foster collaboration, community, empathy, and ritual. Blair is an Durham-based director, deviser, dramaturg, and teaching artist. She is originally from Charleston, SC, where she was the co-founding Artistic Director of 5th Wall Productions, a scrappy theatre company with a focus on new work. Some favorite directing credits include Red Bike, Time Stands Still, Polaroid Stories, and Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Boston University); Spring Awakening and Crazy B*tch (5th Wall Productions); and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Flowertown Underground). She holds an MFA in Directing from Boston University. Blair is currently in residence at Duke University, where she is teaching and developing fury, a devised piece about women’s rage, to be performed Feb 10-12, 2023.

Jessica Campbell

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Illustration, Works on paper; Ui/Ux Desgign

JESS IS A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST SINCE SHE WAS OLD ENOUGH TO PICK UP A CRAYOLA GLITTER CRAYON. NO MATTER IF THE MEDIUM WAS ILLUSTRATION, GRAPHIC DESIGN OR TRADITIONAL ART EXPRESSIVE COLOR AND EXPLORATION IS PRESENT. The process of learning, creating, and sharing art is her biggest passion. This was most clear to her while studying hospitality and tourism but skipping classes to go to art museums and filling out her watercolor sketchbooks in coffee shops. With Inspirations like Jade Purple Brown, Kel Lauren, and Shanti Sparrow and winning a design contest awarding me 1 year free of adobe from Relative Opacity. A few years later she is a proud self-taught freelance designer. Now is currently leading her way into a professional art career with the goal to inspire others to follow their creative dreams.

Greg Carter

Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Teaching Artist; Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, New Media/Technology, Painting, Sculpture, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

Resume for Greg Carter Cell: 919-771-6720 E-mail: glcarte2@ncsu.edu TEACHING EXPERIENCE NC State University, College of Design, School of Art and Design, Associate Professor of Practice, 2013-present. Classes taught: Intermediate Illustration Studio – ADN 480. Studio format offered intensive study in one general design issue (book illustration), 2-D-Design – ADN111, 3-D Design – ADN112. Meredith College, Art Department, Adjunct Instructor, 2016 – present. Classes taught: 2D Design ART110, 3D Design, ART111. Visiting Artist, fall 2016. Classes taught: Introduction to Technical Theatre with Jenni Becker – stagecraft. School of Communication Arts, Raleigh, NC, Associate Professor, 2002 to 2013. Teaching full time and part time in the digital media program. Develop curriculum for each class. Courses taught: Creative Thinking, Personal Branding and Marketing, Corporate Identity Development, Conceptual Design, Digital Photography, Graphic Design 1 and 2, Advertising and Marketing, Flash Character Development, Dreamweaver Site Development, Print Portfolio Development, Web Portfolio Development. Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC, Instructor 2000 to 2002. Teach part time evening classes. Courses taught: Digital photography, Digital Image Manipulation. Curated show and produced catalog for, “New Day Dawning – Digital Image Makers.” Florida State University, Tallahassee FL, Adjunct Instructor 1987 to 1989. Courses taught: Foundation, Drawing 1, Drawing 2. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TIZBI – Intelligent Software Solutions, Raleigh NC – User Experience Designer – 2012 – present. Developing interfaces and technologies for small to mid size companies focusing on the needs and limitations of end users of the product. Technologies include Mobile Apps, Web Apps, B2B web interfaces, SaaS solutions, and Interactive Voice Response Systems. TIZBI is a joint collaboration between US and European developers, with mediation handled by task-based project management portal (TizbiTrax®). BestThinking.com, Raleigh NC – Design Director – 2008 to 2012. Team developed the Internet’s most comprehensive site to create for authors on virtually any topic. The vision of open access to the world’s best thinking was born from a belief that the impact of knowledge, whether from acclaimed academics or weekend hobbyists, is directly proportional to the ability for knowledge to be shared, celebrated and improved. We believe that existing approaches, from academic journals to Internet publishing sites, fail to deliver the full impact of a thinker’s ideas. TOT Marketing, Morrisville NC – Lead Designer – 2004 to 2008. Lead design team in projects that include: multimedia web/kiosk/CD presentations with print collatoral, television commercials, web commercials, flash animations, email marketing, web sites, print packages. Materials developed include B2C, and B2B marketing and sales tools, media advertising, and media training. Image Associates, Raleigh, NC – Art Director – 1995 to 2004. Supervise all visual aspects for development of multi-media projects for mid-sized to large RTP corporate and private companies. Image Associates (IA) filled the role of “total solution” provider, where projects were developed in several parallel media simultaneously. Work aspects included: 1. Educational interactive multimedia cd-rom projects (dealing with pediatric health issues) 2. Web site projects (web site design, banners, flash animations, QTVR, site architecture, information flow), 3. print-based projects (from simple brochures and tear sheets, to monthly magazines and multi-folder rollouts with posters and cd-roms), and 4. Development of collateral materials (trade show booth design, corporate identity) and writing grant proposals. As IA was a small shop, I often had the dual role of art director and lead designer/illustrator. South Peak Interactive, Cary, NC – Animator – 10/1998-4/1999. “Imagynasium” was an interactive cd-rom game for children, property was purchased from Sundance Institute and fleshed out by SouthPeak. Responsibilities included cell animating characters (lip synching to soundtrack) in Director – creating new and revising existing. Software used included: MacroMind Director, SoundEdit 16. “Scoobie Doo screensaver” part of the cd-rom game of the same name. Eyebeam, Morrisville, NC – Production – 1993-1996, – Production Manager 1996-1997. Digital color pre-press service bureau. Partnerships with ad agencies, Research Triangle Park companies and designers in preparation of publications for print (i.e. hi res scanning and retouching, illustration, output to film and proofing). Supervisory responsibilities for production staff (work distribution, hiring decisions, all slide making responsibilities (including dark room management). Extensive client and printer contact. PRINT MEDIA Clients: Reebok, Sports Illustrated, Chicago Review Press, Bloomberg Magazine, Computer Reseller, Maclean Hunter Healthcare Magazine, AXCESS, Science Fiction Eye, Science Fiction Age, Realms of Fantasy, JUICE, Chic, TV Times, DB2 Magazine, CGA Magazine, National Post, The American Lawyer, Family Practice, Hospitality Today, Smart Reseller Profile/Portfolio: MacCreation #10(France) ’92; AXCESS Vols. #2, #3 ’94; Art Alternatives #6 ’94; Electronic Design Vol.13 (Australia) ’96. Gallery: PLAZM #7 ’94; Science Fiction Eye #13 ’93; Medford Electronic Art Calendar ’94, ’95, (Greece); Computer Artist #9, #14, #19, ’93-’97; Aldus Magazine (Annual Design Competition), Best of Category: GE Filters (Vol.6 #2 ’94); Verbum Desktop Color Book, ’95; Rockport Computer Graphics III, ’95; The Official KPT Tips and Secrets Book, ’96; Electronic Publishing Vol. 21 #12 ’97; Tattoo Savage (plus 2’x3′ folded poster) #14 Jan. ’98. Articles Written: “The Culture of 3d” Desktop Publishers Sept Vol.9 #6 ’97; “In My Studio”, Digital Imaging, Sept ’98 MULTIMEDIA Clients: Discovery Channel, SouthPeak Interactive, S4C, Mindjourney, Sony Ericsson, DHL, Samsung, Total Sports Digital Profile/Portfolio: New Media News (distributed nationally by Mind Extension Broadcasting) ’94; BLENDER (cd-rom magazine) Vol.1.3 ’95 (review in USA Today 7/6/95). Kai Power Tools 3.0 (a full portfolio on the CD in the digital masters folder within the supporting materials folder). Discovery Channel Online; Categorically Cool Site of the Day: Home Page 3/96 Magelleon 3 star site for home page; Prototype development of human interface for MetaCreations and Swim Studios. Digital Gallery: Wirehead ’94 (CD-ROM art gallery); Maxibition/New York MUG Digital Exposition-Best of Show ’94, Best of Category-Editorial ’96; SIGGRAPH – Digital Salon ’93;HOT-WIRED http://www.wired.com (Featured Artist) January ’95; NEC Celebration of Digital Art at MacWorld, January ’96; TRADITIONAL GALLERY EXHIBITIONS 2017 Solo Show “Table Totems” at Adam Cave Fine Arts Raleigh, NC National Juried Group Show “Shimmer: The Art of Light” exhibited in ART Light and Design, Carrboro, NC – Sarah Wolfe curator 2016 Solo Show “Visual Improvisations: Sculpture by Greg Carter” Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA Michelle Shulte curator Solo Show “Enchanted Arcana of Greg Carter” Meredith College, Raleigh, NC Lisa Pearce curator National Juried Group Show “Shimmer: The Art of Light” Carrboro, NC Sarah Wolfe curator Special Guest Exhibition “North American Body Painting Championships” by Living Art America Greesnboro NC – curators Scott Frey/Madeline Greco 2015 Solo Show “Enchanted Forest” at Adam Cave Fine Arts, included one night collaborations with Scott Frey/Madeline Greco, Crystal Bright, and Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh, NC Solo Show “Windows on Chapel Hill” Chapel Hill, NC Group Show “Kidsplosure” with Paper Hand Puppet Intervention, Raleigh NC Group Show “Frames” part of CI-6, sponsored by Cultural Initiative, at The Chop Shop, Charlotte NC Solo Show “First Night Raleigh” with local television and print interviews, http://www.wral.com/entertainment/out_and_about/video/14286354/ PNC Building Lobby, Raleigh, NC 2014 Group Show “Woodland Animals” Slow Boil Art Collective, Blake Street Studios, Raleigh NC Group Show “Battle Chasers” Stags Head Beer Garden sponsored by Oak City Hustle, Raleigh NC Two Person Show with Paul Friedrich, “High Plains Drifters” The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh NC Solo Show Blake Street Studios, Raleigh NC reviewed in Au Courant Magazine: “This Journalist’s Dilemma” http://www.aucourantmagazine.com/gregcarter.asp 2013 Solo Show UpFront Gallery at Artspace, Raleigh Solo Show Frank Creech Art Gallery, Frank Creech Art Gallery, Smithfiled NC 2012 Group Show Cow Parade NC, “Grace’s Cow” sponsored by News and Observer, displayed at Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh sold at auction to UNC Children’s Hospital Solo Show Redhat Corporate Center, Raleigh Solo Show Remedy Diner, Raleigh Three Person Show, Carrak Gallery, curated by Marc Russo, Durham 2011 Holiday Window Display, Soho Clothing, Cameron Village, Raleigh “United for Robert” – art show and silent auction, organized by Sean Kernick Solo Show Atomic Salon, Raleigh 2010 Group Show Atomic Salon Raleigh Group Show DigitAll Arts Raleigh, organized by Marx Myth and Stacy Swisher-Smith 2004 “Raleigh Red Wolf Ramble,” Raleigh Cultural Resource Commission, “Beowulf” sponsored by Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, Best Overall Wolf 2000 “New Day Dawning,” Durham Arts Council, curator and exhibitor, dealing with the first generation of digital image making, catalog. 1996 “One Person Show,” Duke University Gallery (digital output and on-line multimedia), “Two Person Show,” 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL (digital output/in conjunction with visiting artist at Florida State University), 8/’96. 1988 “Two Man Show,” Lee Scarfone Gallery, University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida, Dorothy Cowden, Director 1987 “Tallahassee Artist’s League Annual Juried Exhibition,” University Gallery, Bruce Dempsey, Juror “Annual Juried Exhibition,” Orlando Museum, Orlando, Florida, Jane Wilson, Juror “My Life as a Mammal (Parts of the Search),” four person invitational, LeMoyne Art Foundation, Tallahassee, Florida, George Cummings, Guest Curator (Catalogue) 1986 “Southern Fried Presents,” group invitational, Valencia Community College, Judith Page, Curator “Annual Juried Show,” Boca Museum, Boca Raton, Florida, Bonnie Clearwater, Juror “Greg Carter and George Blakely,” two person show, Contemporary Arts Center, Tampa Florida, Alecia Montes, Director “International Art Competition,” New York, NY, Holly Solomon et al, Jurors, Certificate of Excellence “Annual Juried Exhibition,” Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando Florida, Ned Rifkin, Juror “Small Works,” Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida, Claudia Gould, Juror “Auburn Works on Paper,” Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, Keith Acehnol and Marilyn Symmes, Jurors (Catalogue) “Paper in Particular,” Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri, Ryo Watanabe, Juror 1985 “Tampa Triennial,” Tampa Museum, Tampa, Florida Paterson Simms, Juror (Catalogue) “Annual Juried Exhibition,” Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, Florida, Patterson Simms, Juror “Tropicana All-Florida Exhibition,” Polk County Museum, Lakeland, Florida, Ted Potter, Juror “Alternative Biennale,” NEXUS Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, Alan Sondheim, Curator “Southeast Works on Paper,” Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Bellair, Florida, Richard Flood, Juror, Best of Show (Catalogue) “Day of the Dead,” Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, Jack Mims, Juror PERFORMANCE / VIDEO / FILM 2016 “My Tarot is a Circuit: People as Storytelling Engines” CHAT Festival, UNC, Chapel Hill NC, Malina Chavez curator. Shimmer: The Art of Light, video installation Carrboro, NC Sarah Wolfe curator. 2012 Temple of Dreams, video for installation at the Carrack Gallery in Durham NC, animation by Mark Russo and students, images by Greg Carter, http://vimeo.com/46044441 1986 Critical Art Films, two 16mm films approximately 10 minutes each, with Steve Kurtz and Steve Barnes 1985 “Conversation with a Naked Angel,” 16mm film with Craig West and Steve Baker, approximately 15 minutes “Captain Bob’s Summer Fashions (From Soldiers of Fashion Magazine),” performance at 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, approximately 26 minutes “More Advice for the Lovelorn (Greg’s Big Wheel of Science),” performance at 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, approximately 20 minutes PUBLICATIONS 2015 In Medias Res, with the students of ADN-480 Illustration Studio of NC State University ISBN 978-1-329-81472-1, lulu.com. 2014 End of an Era, with the students of ADN-480 Illustration Studio of NC State University ISBN 9781493738069, lulu.com. 2013 Creation Stories, with the students of ADN-480 Illustration Studio of NC State University ISBN 9781493738069, Createspace.com. 2012 Dragon Moon: A Series of Dragon Tails, with Maureen Schlukbier (author), Black Kettle Press ISBN 978-1482047820. 2010 14 Cages, with Sean Urquhart ISBN 978-0-557-49126-1, Lulu Press ID# 11594300 2007 Cyberpig! Volume 1: The Extropian Years, Lulu Press ID# 11587702 eBook ID# 945410 The Unwanted Guest, Lulu Press ID# 11572160 1987 “Critical Art,” with Steve Kurtz, funded in part by a Grant from the State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs 1985 “The Evil City” (self-published 20-page booklet) “Great Party Lines for Educated Gentlemen” (self-published 20-page booklet) “Greg Wishes to Apologize For Not Having Written Sooner” AFFILIATIONS 2015 – present Adam Cave Fine Arts, exclusive gallery representation Raleigh, NC 2012 – present ArtSpace, Affiliate member, Raleigh, NC 1998 – present College Art Association, member 2001 – 2003 3 In A Box, Artist Representatives, Toronto Canada 1985 – 1990 Hodgill/Gillman Gallery exclusive gallery representation, Tampa, FL HONORS Best Overall Wolf, Raleigh Red Wolf Ramble, 2004 Florida Artist’s Fellowship, State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs, 1986 Certificate of Excellence, “International Art Competition,” New York, NY 1986 Best of Show, Southeast Works on Paper, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, All-University Fellowship, Florida State University, 1985-1986 Magna Cum Laude Graduation, University of Minnesota, 1981 Honors Thesis Grant, University of Minnesota, 1981 EDUCATION M.F.A. Florida State University, Studio Art B.A. University of Minnesota, Psychology (Magna Cum Laude Gradution) B.A. University of Minnesota, Studio Art

Candy Carver

Teaching Artist; Visual Arts: Painting, Visual Arts Instructor

Candy Carver is a North Carolina native that spent her formative years in Elkhart, IN, where she developed her abstract creativity. Working primarily with acrylic and various surfaces from canvas to vinyl, she creates vibrant, contemporary pieces that touch the soul and excite viewers. Her work can be found throughout the southeastern states and continues to gain recognition. Carver contributes much of her inspiration to her own love for excitement, color and beauty found in the human form.

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