Rebecca Bailey • Linda FitzSimons • Maureen Banker • Richard L. Beatty • Melinda Fine • Holly Fischer • Dana Ezzell Gay • Blue Greenberg • Sharon L. Hill • Warner Hyde • Cameron Johnson • Shannon Johnstone • Mara Lewis • Janet Link • Beth A. Mulvaney • Lisa Pearce • Eva Roberts • Ann Roth • Wendy Savage • Sydney Scherr • Georgia Springer • Margie Stewart • Jane Terry
Rebecca
Bailey
Dean School of the Arts and Professor, Art Department
At Meredith since 1984
BA Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
MA Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
PhD Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Areas of interest and expertise: art education, inter-disciplinary studies,
painting
Dr. Rebecca Bailey received her PhD from Michigan State University in Interdisciplinary Studies that included the areas of art, theatre, and textiles and clothing. Before joining the Meredith faculty in 1984, she taught in the public schools in Texas, at Michigan State University and at Peace College in Raleigh. She was appointed Dean of the School of the Arts, Fall 2003, after serving as Chair of the Department of Art for 10 years. Bailey currently serves as the Southeastern Region National Vice-President for the National Art Education Association and is a Past President of the North Carolina Art Education Association. Bailey is a painter who likes to combine informal portraits with outdoor settings that have personal meaning.
Linda
FitzSimons
Department Head, Professor of Art
At Meredith since 1988
AA Peace College
BA Meredith College
MFA UNC-Greensboro
Further study, Virginia Commonwealth University, UNC-Chapel Hill, American
University
Areas of interest and expertise: drawing, design, painting, illustration
Linda FitzSimons began her art career as an illustrator and graphic designer, creating artwork for newspaper and magazine publications. Before joining the Meredith College faculty, she taught art at Peace College, where she was head of the art department for four years. She maintained a studio at Artspace in downtown Raleigh for seven years while developing her current oil pastel style. She currently works primarily in oil pastels, creating large-scale drawings of landscapes often in combination with other media. On every trip she is always looking for composition possibilities. Her latest passion is the southwest after spending the last three summers traveling in New Mexico and Arizona. She exhibits at Tyndall Galleries in Chapel Hill, the Little Art Gallery and Artspace in Raleigh.
Maureen
BankerAssociate Professor of Art
At Meredith since 1988
BA Meredith College
MA Graduate School of Fine Arts, Villa Schifanoia, Florence, Italy
Landscape as color has been the means by which Maureen Banker attempts to record infinite time and space. The passage of daily and seasonal time changes light, and therefore changes the colors perceived. These changes are encapsulated in her color etchings. Banker choose etching for its reproductive potential, not only for printing traditional editions, but for its exponentially unlimited potential in printing multiple plate combinations. For example, she completed a series of twenty-seven editions based on the potentially six hundred thousand images possible from combining and recombining nine plates and printing colors one on top of the other. She realized an even greater potential for variety existed in 1996 when she received a grant from the Raleigh Arts Commission. This grant provided funds and time to develop fifty hand-cut plates that have resulted in new images and series to this day. Banker's content is the perception of time and the quest to represent illusory infinity. Her method of working with multiplates in color etching marries this medium of etching with her content.
Richard L. Beatty
Adjunct Faculty, Art
At Meredith since 1991
BS East Carolina College
MEd UNC-Greensboro
Further study at Ringling School of Art, Wake Forest University, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Sawtooth Center, and textiles with Glen Kaufman
Areas of interest and expertise: drawing, printmaking, painting, textiles, clay, education
Richard L. Beatty began his teaching career teaching special education high school students in the Winston-Salem Public School System; moved on to Burlington City Schools where he was Art Coordinator; and finally settled in Raleigh to teach elementary art—retiring recently from the public schools after teaching 36 years. He has taught a variety of courses at Meredith College since 1991. Beatty has taught numerous classes in a variety of locations for children, adults and teachers.
Beatty was an exhibiting member of Piedmont Craftsmen, Inc. for a number of years where he exhibited textiles. He has exhibited paintings throughout Florida and North Carolina in various galleries and shows, including the Norton Gallery in Palm Beach, Jacksonville Museum of Art, and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Beatty believes that art is a way of life and touches all that we do—from how one lives and eats to aesthetic choices we make. He finds art to be a circle of knowledge which includes all areas of life—touching every area of learning with strong connections. His passions now run more to collecting rather than creating and he finds the history of art and fine crafts to be as stimulating as creating it.
Melinda
Fine
Assistant Professor of Art
At Meredith since 1999
Website:www.outtanowhere.com
BA UNC-Greensboro
MFA UNC-Greensboro where she studied with Fred Chappell
Further study at UNC-Chapel Hill and the NCSU School of Design
Areas of interest and expertise: semiotics, painting and design
Melinda
Fine was born in Boston and raised in North Carolina. She attended UNC-Greensboro
earning a BA in English and psychology, and an MFA in creative writing where
she studied with Fred Chappell and Robert Watson. She later studied printmaking
with Beth Grabowski at UNC-Chapel Hill and completed graduate work in graphic
design at the NCSU School of Design. Fine came to Meredith College as an
adjunct in 1999 and joined the faculty full time in 2001.
Fine works closely with the local music industry, most notably with Osceola
Studios and more recently the newly launched Gaff Records. She also publishes
a cartoon strip "Looking for Work" in the local bi-weekly publication
Lather, soon to be a webzine. In addition to design work, she also creates
works of oil pastel on paper, examples of which are seen here.
Holly
Fischer
Adjunct Faculty, Art
At Meredith since 2008
Website: www.hollyfischer.com
BA Meredith College
MFA University of Texas at Austin
Areas of interest and expertise: sculpture, ceramics, installation, life
drawing, 2D design, 3D design, interdisciplinary studies, women’s
studies
Holly
Fischer was born in Missoula, Montana, the first child of creative and resourceful
parents cultivating their personal forms of artistic expression as part
of the back-to-the-land movement of the 70s. Growing up with a skilled woodworker
as a father and a professionally successful fiber artist as a mother provided
Holly with the tools to foster her own creativity at a very young age.
Art for Holly is a second language; it has been her means processing and conveying her internal struggle to balance being an intellectually strong and an emotionally vulnerable woman learning to be comfortable in her own skin. Her work explores duality and the spaces in-between perception and reality. She intends for her work to challenge the traditional roles of the observer and the observed with the hope that viewers will contemplate the fears and desires evoked through the act of looking.
Holly Fischer
exhibits her work regionally and nationally and has received numerous awards
and accolades, including commissioned sculptures for the campuses of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Meredith College. Holly
has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She welcomes the opportunity to return to
Meredith College to teach the subjects for which she is so passionate and
cultivate in others a love for art making and the empowerment of expressing
a visual voice.
Dana
Ezzell GayAssistant Professor of Graphic Design
At Meredith since 2007
Website: www.danagay.com
MFA Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design
BFA Graphic Design, East Carolina University
Areas of interest and expertise: typography, graphic design, visual poetry, altered books, interactive media
Dana
Ezzell Gay has over 13 years of experience as a professional graphic designer
with specific areas of interest in typography, visual poetry, critical reading
and writing, motion graphics, and print design. Her professional practice
centers around web and print projects for various clients, while her creative
research focuses on discovering the potential that words have to communicate
on a deeper level than merely speaking, reading, or writing them. She engages
them as living matter and uses them as typographic landscapes to stimulate
imagination.
Before joining the Meredith faculty, Gay worked as a graphic
design professor at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. Her forte and
passion is type design, and she takes pride in both the creative process
and the creative potential held within a printed design or interactive work.
Her design work has been recognized in several publications, such as Print
Magazine’s Regional Design Annual, the Applied Arts Awards Annual,
American Corporate Identity, the Big Book of Logos 4, portfolios.com, and
the CASE Circle of Excellence Awards Program for Communication Programs.
Gay received a Collegiate Teaching Certificate from the Harriet W. Sheridan
Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University, and she has a Master
of Fine Arts in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Blue
Greenberg
Art History, Professor Emeritus
At Meredith since 1976
AB Duke University
MA University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Summer study, University of Stranieri, Perugia, Italy
Summer study, Reynolda House, Winston-Salem, NC
Areas of interest and expertise: history of Western Art, specializing in
20th century painting; women artists and the history of women’s art,
coordinating group travel
The world of art is a second career for Blue Greenberg. After her last child went off to college, she decided to study art history. During her graduate studies, she began teaching part-time at Meredith College and writing an art critical column for the Durham HeraldSun. When she completed her graduate work, she became a full-time instructor in art history at Meredith. She continued writing art criticism regularly for the HeraldSun and special stories for a number of national art journals. She also began taking students, faculty, and others on trips locally, nationally, and internationally to see major art museums and art monuments. Currently, she is an Emeritus Professor, teaching the Senior Seminar class, and is also the travel coordinator for Meredith’s Alumnae Travel Program.
Sharon
L. HillAssistant Professor, Art and Art Education
Gallery Outreach Director
At Meredith since 2001
BAE Ohio State University
MA Arizona State University
Advanced coursework Old Dominion University, George Washington University, Arizona State University
Areas of interest and expertise: art education, educational supervision, drawing, painting, international travel
Sharon
Hill began her career as an art teacher in Virginia. She was later promoted
to the position of Elementary Art Consultant for 38 elementary schools in
Norfolk, Virginia. After pursuing her graduate degrees at Arizona State
University, she worked as the Director of Arts Education for the Peoria
Unified School District in Peoria, Arizona for two years. In 1987, she returned
to Virginia to take the position of Senior Coordinator of Art Education
for Norfolk Public Schools. In 1996, she was named Art Administrator of
the Year from the Virginia Art Education Association. She has exhibited
her paintings and drawings in Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina, and traveled
to over 20 foreign countries. In addition, she has served as a curriculum
and program development consultant to museums, publishers, and arts organizations.
Sharon currently teaches art and art education at Meredith, as well as serving
as the Director of Gallery Outreach for the Meredith galleries.
Warner
Hyde
Assistant Professor in Ceramics
At Meredith since 2007
BA Brevard College,
MFA Clemson University
Website: www.hydearts.com
In
between his undergraduate and graduate degrees, Warner Hyde was resident
artist at Odyssey Center for Ceramic Arts, Highwater Clays in Asheville
and worked with local potters in the area. During and after graduate
school he was a faculty member at Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville,
SC. Then Hyde was on the faculty at Brevard College in Ceramics and
Art History while his wife, Raiford, worked on her K–12 art certificate.
Hyde continues to lead many firings in South Carolina's only anagama
wood-fire kiln. Summers he anagama fires in Herbster, Wisconsin with
reknowned artist Mike Weber. Hyde has exhibited nationally at NCECA
and at juried national and regional venues and has works in many private
collections.
Hyde loves teaching all aspects of working with clay and all firing processes. He finds personal satisfaction and excitement with student interaction while helping students find their voice in the creative arts.
Cameron
Johnson
Assistant Professor of Art
At Meredith since 2007
BA and MFA in Painting and Drawing, East Carolina University, Greenville
As an artist,
Johnson is constantly in a state of evaluating what means the most to
him. Whether it is family, money, religion, or friends, he tries to
prioritize the people and things according to the value he feels they
have. His work aims to examine the systems used to establish value within
art and our own lives. Most of his paintings have areas of emphasis,
which are highly detailed and also areas that are subdued, or distorted.
These emphasized areas reflect what is important in the composition
as well as the values he feels are important. Painting and drawing has
helped him to develop and express his ideas and values. He believes
an artist can not only fascinate people with their use of color and
line but also inspire and motivate people to think and see life differently.
Art, like literature, can have great influence and Johnson wants his
work to reinforce a need for connection through positive relationships.
Born
and raised in Charlotte, Johnson attended East Carolina University,
where he received his Bachelors and Masters of Fine Arts in Painting
and Drawing. During his time at East Carolina, he taught drawing and
design classes. Johnson has received several awards and recognitions,
including, “Best in Show” and “First Place Painting”
at the Illumina Art Exhibition in Greenville. Recently he completed
a mural, along with two other artists, for Princeville’s Heritage
Park, which commemorates the history of Princeville. He also has work
on display in downtown Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greenville.
Shannon
Johnstone
Assistant Professor of Art
At Meredith since 2001
Website:
www.shannonjohnstone.com
Course work
University of Wisconsin-Madison
BFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
MFA Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Areas of interest and expertise: photography, digital imaging and graphic
design
Born
in Milwaukee, WI, Mary Shannon Johnstone holds an MFA in photography
from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and a BFA from The School
of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). As an undergraduate student,
in a nationwide photography competition, the famed J. Walter Thompson
selected Ms. Johnstone to test Eastman Kodak Company’s new Advanced
Photo System Products. Her work from this competition was presented
in American Photo, Peterson’s PhotoGraphics, Popular Photography,
and Outdoor Photograph. After graduation Johnstone became an artist
for ArtLink where her work was exhibited and sold at Sotheby’s
in both Tel Aviv and Chicago.
Johnstone has had solo exhibitions in Chicago, Rochester, and Raleigh,
and won several awards in group exhibitions across the country, including
three Best in Competition awards in the North Carolina Annual Photographer's
Exhibition (from 2002-2005), and an Honorable Mention in the 2004-2005
Houston Center for Photography Fellowships. Most recently Algonquin
Books has selected one of her photographs as the cover image for a novel
by Michael Parker.
Mara
LewisAdjunct Faculty, Art
At Meredith since 1998
BSN University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Post Baccalaureate Degree, Meredith College
Areas of interest and expertise: illustration and drawing
Janet
LinkAdjunct Faculty, Art
At Meredith since 2005
Website: web.mac.com/janetlink
BA Meredith College, Raleigh
MFA Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Areas of interest and expertise: drawing, painting, 2D design
Janet
Link is a still life painter whose work is overtly concerned with composition.
Within the picture the objects function primarily as shapes of varying
color, texture and value. She often includes strong horizontal and vertical
elements as a kind of armature on which to hang the composition. The
objects that are the subjects of her pictures are not chosen arbitrarily—she
is attracted to some because of their form and some because of their
symbolic potential or personal significance. Link has a collection of
objects in her studio that is kept in a constantly changing tableau
which functions like a kind of dialogue between her, the objects and
pictures of the objects—in this way her subjects have as much
impact on her as she does upon them. Although design is an important
concern for Link she also strives to create a convincing illusion of
form and space as described by light. She works in this manner to provide
herself with an evolving challenge. On the subject of realism she does
not feel that she can improve upon the words of Mark Doty in Still Life
with Oysters and Lemons: “That there can never be too much of
reality; that the attempt to draw nearer to it—which will fail—will
not fail entirely, as it will give us not the fact of lemons and oysters
but this, which is its own fact, its own brave assay toward what is.”
The content of Link’s pictures is often meant to imply meaning—but
it is not meant to project a particular meaning. She prefers to leave
the extraction of a message up to the viewer.
Link has lived most of her life in Raleigh. She has a BA in studio art from Meredith College. In the late 80s and early 90s she studied with Ben Long. She earned an MFA at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, where she studied with Michael Crespo. She has worked as a professional artist since 1989. Link is currently a member of the adjunct faculty at Meredith College. She lives and works in Raleigh with her husband and the Soup Doggy Dogs.
Beth
A. Mulvaney
Art Historian, Associate Professor of Art
At Meredith since 1995
PhD Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dissertation:
“Duccio’s Maestà Narrative Cycles: A Study of Meaning”
under the direction of Dr. Mary Pardo.
MA Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Thesis: “Giotto’s Arena Chapel Crucifixion: Iconography
and Form.”
BA Art History, State University of New York at Buffalo.
New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota.
Areas of interest and expertise:
• Teaches all periods of art history, ranging from antiquity to
contemporary, as well as art history theory and methods.
• Specialist in Italian late Medieval and early Renaissance art.
• Current scholarly work focused on: Santa Maria dei Miracoli
in Venice and its miracle-working image, Trecento art and drama, Duccio,
Giotto, cycles of St Francis, particularly those at San Francesco, Assisi.
Although
a specialist in Italian late Medieval and early Renaissance art, Mulvaney
is fond of nearly all periods of art, including modern and contemporary.
In fact, her first paying job in the art field was as a researcher for
the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY. One of Professor Mulvaney’s
greatest joys is introducing students to the world of research and writing
about art. In her time at Meredith she has supervised student research
that has been published, as well as presented at various regional, national
and international conferences. During the summer of 2003 Mulvaney and
Katherine Weaver, a senior Honors student majoring in art with concentrations
in art history and graphic design, were awarded a summer research grant
for their project, “Art and the Viewer as Beholder,” which
resulted in a spectacular virtual reconstruction of Duccio’s 1311
Maestà, that Katherine has published on the Art Department web
site: http://www.meredith.edu/art/research/default.htm.
Lisa
Pearce
Assistant Professor of Art
At Meredith since 1996
BA Meredith College
MFA University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Lisa
F. Pearce was born in 1967 in Nuremberg, West Germany. Her life as an
“army brat” exposed her to people of many backgrounds and
cultures, which created an understanding and connection to people from
all walks of life. The continuous, inevitable moves shaped her understanding
of time and the fragility of connections. Her imagination was her constant.
Pearce’s
background in the arts was family based. Her grandmother was a self-taught
artist and musician and both her parents encouraged her creativity at
an early age. She recalls as young as the age of four building sculptural
forms of earth and rock in the barren Texas landscape and making mixed
media collages from found objects and dinnertime scraps of bone and
paper. Rather than seeing these objects as a mere pastime they were
treated with regard and encouragement.
The
desire to teach and share this sense of appreciation for one’s
own creative mark stemmed from the nurturing she received of her own
creative spirit. Pearce has been teaching art in North Carolina for
the past 12 years. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at
Meredith College where she teaches sculpture.
Eva
Roberts
Adjunct Faculty, Graphic Design
BED (5-year professional degree in Environmental Design) NC State University
MPD/VD (Master of Product Design / Visual Design emphasis) NC State
University
Further study, School of Visual Arts in New York city
Areas of interest and expertise: graphic design, typography, design
for non-profits, information design, book arts
Eva
Roberts is a graphic designer with over two decades of experience working
in New England, New York state and North Carolina. Her graphic design
work has been recognized with numerous awards and reproduced in journals
such as Print, How and Applied Arts. In addition her work has appeared
in awards annuals published by organizations such as AIGA, American
Center for Design, Type Directors Club and Society of Publication Designers
as well as others. Her design work has been included in numerous graphic
design books including Visual Impact / Communicating Through Graphic
Design, Innovative Low Budget Design and Thinking Creatively: New Ways
to Unlock Your Visual Imagination as well as others.
Ms. Roberts has taught graphic design at the Boston Museum School, Southeastern Massachusetts University and ECU School of Art & Design where she became a tenured full professor. She left full-time teaching at ECU in 2005 and works as a Creative Director with Eye Integrated Communications.
Ann
Roth
Gallery Director, Adjunct Faculty, Art
At Meredith since 2001
BFA University of Michigan
MFA University of Kansas
Further study at Arrowmont School of Crafts, Haystack School of Crafts
Areas of interest and expertise: color theory, weaving
Ann
Roth has worked with arts organizations in many capacities since 1976.
She was associate director of the University Artists and Craftsmen Guild
in Ann Arbor, Michigan; director of the Vermont State Craft Center in
Middlebury; director of Viewpoints Craft Shop and Gallery in Wiscasset,
Maine and curator at the NC State Gallery of Art & Design in Raleigh
prior to running the gallery and teaching color theory at Meredith College.
Roth’s love of color and pattern, is incorporated in the rugs
she weaves in the ikat technique. This method entails tie-dying the
warp and weft so that the patterns created are part of the woven elements.
She is inspired by the landscape and by historic textiles from Turkey,
Japan and Central Asia. Roth exhibits at the Blue Heron Gallery in Deer
Isle, Maine.
Wendy
Savage
Adjunct Faculty, Art
At Meredith since 2001
Website: www.wendysavagestudio.com
MFA The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
BA Florida State University
Internship Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Areas of interest
and expertise: fine art photography, medical photography, digital imaging,
graphic design and mixed media.
Since
1984, Savage has been employed as a medical photographer and digital
designer at NC State College of Veterinary Medicine. She has mentored
photography students from Randolph Technical Institute, Rochester Institute
of Technology and NC State. She teaches digital imaging workshops and
book design for the Meredith College Art Department. In addition, Savage
owns and operates a photography and design studio working predominantly
in fine art and commercial photography, digital illustrations, mixed
media, graphic design and digital imaging instruction.
Savage is a 2005/06 recipient of an artist project grant through The
United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County. Her work has been published
in Double Exposure on-line magazine, Photoshop User Magazine
and Digital Imaging Magazine. Her work is part of the permanent
collection at The Gallery of Art and Design at NC State University.
Her digital imagery has won awards from the Artspace Artists Association,
New Works show 2003, The Adobe Digital Imaging Competition 2003, the
Fayetteville Museum of Art 2002 and 2004, The Adobe Digital Imaging
Competition 2001, and The National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Photoshop World 2000. She is a member of the Professional Photographers
of America, The National Association of Photoshop Professionals, Photoworkshop.com,
Artspace Artists Association, and the Durham Art Guild.
Sydney
Scherr
Adjunct Faculty, Art
At Meredith since 1991
Website: www.sydneyscherr.com
BFA Kent State Unversity, Kent Ohio
MFA Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
Areas of interest and expertise: goldsmithing, enameling, sculpture, cartooning
Sydney Scherr is an award winning designer, goldsmith, sculptor and educator.
Scherr has taught at Parsons School of Design, and Meredith College and
she was Department Head of Metals and Jewelry at Savannah College of Art
and Design. Being an educator has been a rewarding element to her experience
as an artist. Concurrent with her academic activity, she has always maintained
a professional studio for the creation of custom and unique jewelry.
Scherr
has worked professionally for more then 30 years. She has exhibited her
jewelry, and, more recently, sculptural work throughout the United States,
and internationally, in galleries and museums. Scherr often works in a series
as this enables her to develop specific concepts to a mature and effective
resolution. Scherr thinks it is important, especially for students to recognize,
the evolving nature of concept development.
Scherr almost exclusively works from a narrative foundation. This is true
with her personal work as well as custom work. The expressive basis for
the work enables Scherr to explore areas beyond the boundaries of craftsmanship,
and this she finds challenging and exhilarating.
Georgia
Springer
Adjunct Faculty, Art
At Meredith since 1991
BA Duke University
MPD NCSU School of Design
Areas of interest and expertise: color theory, textiles (surface design
on fabric)
Raised in Washington, DC, Georgia M. Springer was immersed early in art
history and international culture, interests furthered by the study of world
religions at Duke University and extensive travels in Europe, Russia and
Latin America.
A
photographer and accomplished seamstress, she became interested in the newly
developing field of art quilts producing commissioned wall quilts for corporate
and private clients. In 1990, she received her Masters in Product Design
with a concentration in textiles from NCSU School of Design. Since 1991,
she has taught at the Meredith College Art Department, specializing in color
theory and surface design on fabric. Her current large, intricately designed
wall quilts focus on her longtime interest in color and light, as well as
artistic manifestations of spiritual concepts.
A
member of Artspace and the Surface Design Association, Springer has exhibited
regionally and nationally, winning awards in many shows. Her work is held
in the collections of Sperry Corporation, Kaiser Permanente, Wachovia Bank,
Duke University Medical Center, SAS Institute, the Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship of Raleigh (collaborative work), and varied private collectors.
She has done teaching, lectures, guest reviews and jurying at the NC Museum
of Art, NC Museum of History, NCSU College of Design, International Textile
and Apparel Association, Wake County Public Schools, and the Fine Arts League
of Cary.
Margie
StewartAdjunct Faculty, Art
At Meredith since 1998
BS Western Carolina University
MEd University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
MPD NCSU School of Design
MFA University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Areas of interest and expertise: drawing, painting, 2-D design
Margie
Stewart works primarily in oils on gestural still lifes. She is interested
in the dialogue between the ideas of empty/full, interior/exterior, tearing
down/building up, still life/landscape, shape/line. She also explores purely
formal issues involved in transcribing volumes in space onto a two-dimensional
surface and the resulting positive/negative shapes, implied and real lines,
inferred and real patterns, color and light. She is affiliated with Lee Hansley
Gallery in Raleigh and Christa Faut Gallery in Cornelius, NC.
Jane
Terry
Associate Professor of Art
At Meredith since 1993
Website: www.janeterry.com
BFA University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
MFA Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Areas of interest and expertise: photography, drawing
Jane
Terry has enjoyed opportunities for professional and personal development
both inside and outside her home state of North Carolina. She first studied
photography at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1980 and was later represented
by Lawson Galleries in San Francisco while she lived in the Bay Area. As
an assistant to photographer Denis Brihat, Terry taught photography at Lacoste
School of Art in Lacoste, France in 1989. Shortly thereafter, she taught
photography at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, where she was awarded
a Graduate School Fellowship and a Teaching Assistantship. Terry was selected
for an artist residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado,
in 1992. On her way to Colorado, she stopped briefly in enchanting Taos,
New Mexico, and she has returned to this area for summer visits ever since.
Terry
has exhibited regionally and nationally and is represented in prominent
private collections in San Francisco and Minneapolis. She has received numerous
awards and grants, including a grant from the Peter and Madeleine Martin
Foundation for the Creative Arts.
Through
photography, Terry seeks to connect the physical world with the timeless
nature of the spirit. She is currently creating a series of photographs
examining the physical and emotional remnants associated with profound loss
within the family.
