Rebecca Bailey • Dean G. Johns • Richard L. Beatty • Jenny Betton • James Boyles • Holly Fischer • Linda FitzSimons • Dana Ezzell Gay • Blue Greenberg • Warner Hyde • Cameron Johnson • Shannon Johnstone • Janet Link • Beth A. Mulvaney • Lisa Pearce • Eva Roberts • Ann Roth • 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.
Dean G. JohnsAssistant Professor, Department Head, Art and Art Education
BS, Art Education, Florida State University
M.Ed., Visual Arts Education, University of Central Florida
MFA, Jewelry and Sculpture, Winthrop University
Website: www.deanjohns.com
Dean Johns has been active in the North Carolina Art Education Association and has served as its secondary director and president. He currently fulfills the role of Executive Director of the Association.
He has also been active in the National Art Education Association serving as the National Secondary Director, 1987–89 and the Southeastern Vice President, 1992–1994. In 2006 he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association. Currently, he serves in the position of Supervision and Administration representative for the Southeastern region of the United States.
He has conducted workshops for artists and teachers throughout the United States on a wide variety of topics including: literacy and arts education; design development; drawing; understanding the creative process; tapestry and loom weaving; jewelry making; and most recently the creation of sculptural form using cardboard as the medium. He regularly exhibits his own jewelry and sculpture throughout the region.
According to Johns, “Creative problem solving skills can be thought of as having three components; inspiration, imagination, and intellectualization. Inspiration is the force that begins the act of creation; imagination is the energy that fuels the work in progress; and intellectualization is the process that propels the work through the various stages of the work process to completion. My own work derives from a conscious manipulation of the formal qualities of art and design, learning by accident, maintaining control, and seeking refinement for the entire creative process. A good piece of work usually evolves from a balance and control of artistic spontaneity and the technical aspects of creating.”
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.
Jenny Betton
Adjunct Professor, Art
At Meredith since 2008
Website: www.jenbetton.com
MFA Syracuse University
BFA University of Central Florida
Advanced coursework: Illustration Academy
Jenny Betton began her art career at age 6, when she illustrated a sack of presents for her coloring book picture of Santa, and experienced persecution in the arts for drawing outside the lines. Since then she has combined her love of stories and her love of drawing in pursuing illustration. She taught illustration and drawing at Syracuse University, and won the Shaffer Award for excellence in leadership and artistic ability. She has exhibited in various galleries and venues across the nation and currently teaches in the art department at Meredith.
James C. Boyles
Assistant Professor, Art History
At Meredith since 2003
Ph.D. in art history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. in art history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James Boyles teaches ancient, medieval and modern art history (eighteenth-century to the present) as well as courses in such diverse fields as photography, architecture and American Indian art. The primary focus of his research is nineteenth-century American art and he has published and given papers on a number of American artists, including George Catlin, George Caleb Bingham and John Rogers.
In 2008, his essay on the training and teaching of American painter George de Forest Brush was published in the catalog for the National Gallery of Art exhibition, George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings. He is currently investigating how contemporary artists, such as Roxanne Swentzell, Diego Romero and Jasper Johns, express through their painting and sculpture their concerns about the role of art in modern society.
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 for 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.
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 and Artspace in Raleigh.
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.
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.
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, Professor of Art
Director of Honors Program
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
Associate Professor, Graphic Design
At Meredith since 2008
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 professional 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 as well as awards annuals published by professional design organizations including American Institute of Graphic Arts, American Center for Design, Type Directors Club, and Society of Publication Designers among others. Numerous graphic design books including Visual Impact / Communicating Through Graphic Design, Breaking the Rules in Publication Design, Innovative Low Budget Design, and Thinking Creatively: New Ways to Unlock Your Visual Imagination feature her work. Ms. Roberts has taught graphic design at the Boston Museum School, Southeastern Massachusetts University and East Carolina University School of Art & Design where she was a tenured full professor and served as area coordinator for a number of years. Professor Roberts left Greenville in 2008 to join the Art Department at Meredith.
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 is gallery director and teaches color theory at Meredith College. She has held curatorial and administrative positions in universities, non-profit arts organizations and commercial galleries since 1976. Ann is also a weaver. Her hand dyed and woven ikat wall textiles have been exhibited at the NC State Craft Center, American Craft Council Southeastern Regional Exhibition and in Meredith College art faculty shows. Durham Art Guild Juried Exhibition after Meredith College faculty shows. Her work is represented by Tyndall Galleries in Chapel Hill, NC. Ann received her MFA in textile design from the University of Kansas and her BFA from the University of Michigan.
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
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, digital imaging, video
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 renowned 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’s photographs have been exhibited at such places as the San Francisco Art Institute, North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York City, Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery in Winston-Salem, Artspace Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art in Jacksonville, Florida, and Gregg Museum of Art and Design at North Carolina State University. Her work was recently published in Popular Photography Digital Imaging Guide. Juried competition awards in 2004 include First Place, Fine Art Photography in the Merry Moor Winnett Triennial at Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art in Greensboro (Juror: Elizabeth Matheson) and Second Place in State of the Art at Associated Artists Gallery in Winston-Salem (Juror: Lawrence Wheeler). Terry is represented by Points of View Photography Gallery in Raleigh and her work is included in prominent private collections in San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Greensboro. She has received numerous grants and awards in recognition of her work including a generous grant from the Peter and Madeleine Martin Foundation for the Creative Arts, two United Arts Council of Raleigh Regional Artist Project Grants, and many grants from Meredith College in support of her teaching and professional development.
Through photography, Terry seeks to connect the physical world with the timeless nature of the spirit. Personal myths and truths are often reflected in her work. Her current images are a strange journey into loss, ritual, dream and memory.
