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dedicating more studio space within the museum complex, Cameron Art Museum proudly announces the opening of THE MUSEUM SCHOOL. Following the success of the Clay Studio (now entering its fifth year of ceramic instruction under master artist Hiroshi Sueyoshi), THE MUSEUM SCHOOL will steadily expand course offerings to include beginning and master classes in drawing, painting, book arts, textiles, multimedia, photography and printmaking, all earning CEU credit through New Hanover County Schools. THE MUSEUM SCHOOL will provide not only new adult and youth art education but employment opportunity for area artists and instructors. Distinctions of THE MUSEUM SCHOOL programming include instructor-guided access to the museums exhibitions; instructor-guided access to select objects in the museums permanent collection not on view to the public, and access to the museums non-circulating art library numbering over 2000 publications and monographs. Additionally THE MUSEUM SCHOOL is offering team-taught instruction with at least 50% of the curriculum. Team instruction revolutionized art training when the innovative Bauhaus school opened in 1919. The Bauhaus style of teaching spread to institutions such as Harvard and Yale. In North Carolina, Black Mountain College also became a laboratory for artists working in different disciplines to find associations and relationships for collaboration within their respective art forms. In its teaching philosophy, THE MUSEUM SCHOOL encourages this same climate for research and collaboration among instructors, students and the community. Regionally, THE MUSEUM SCHOOL for southeastern North Carolina resumes what began in Wilmington over 70 years ago; it is a rebirth of a Museum School of Art which served this region from 1938-1941, and from 1962-2001. In Wilmington during 1938, grassroots activism and WPA funding led to the establishment of The Wilmington Museum of Art and The Wilmington Museum School of Art (1938-1941). In addition to changing temporary exhibitions, WMA offered an impressive curriculum of studio and art history courses under the direction of the late Henry MacMillan. Due to the escalation of WWII, The Wilmington Museum of Art and Museum School of Art were forced to close, both rising (again through grassroots effort) in what became St. Johns Museum of Art (1962-2001) and then Cameron Art Museum (2002-present). St. Johns Museum of Art followed the precedent set by the Wilmington Museum of Art and Museum School of Art by offering both changing exhibitions and art courses in studio and art history in service to educational needs of this region. St. Johns Museum also continued the tradition of employing artists and area educators in support of artists and community economy.

The course list, schedule detail and CEUs are listed below. Information on registering for the courses listed in this course book are on the last pages of this course book. If you would like additional information please call THE MUSEUM SCHOOL at the Cameron Art Museum at 910-395-5999.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE MUSEUM SCHOOL Cameron Art Museum ONLINE REGISTRATION AVAILABLE: http://cameronartmuseum.com/classregistration.php 1) You may register online or complete the following mail-in registration form. Be sure to include your payment information. Then, mail or drop off the registration form and payment information at the Cameron Art Museum | The Museum School 3201 South 17th Street, Wilmington, NC 28412. Keep a copy for your records. 2) If a class is rescheduled due to instructor illness or inclement weather there will be a notification on the Cameron Art Museum web site www.cameronartmuseum.com. The class will subsequently be rescheduled to another time. 3) Refunds/cancellations: Refunds are only available if written notification is provided to THE MUSEUM SCHOOL 5 workdays prior to the first scheduled class. A processing fee of $10 is charged on cancellations. 4) Supply lists available at: http://www.cameronartmuseum.com/adult.php next to the course description as a printable PDF.

If you have questions please contact Keith Butler, Museum School Coordinator at 910-395-5999 xt. 1008 or kbutler@cameronartmuseum.com.

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The Library at THE MUSEUM SCHOOL

The Cameron Art Museum's library is a study center encompassing a wide range of art historical subjects from Ancient Art to Post Modernism. This is a non-circulating collection that includes artist biographies, anthologies of museum collections from local, national, and international museums, and books on art theory, museum studies, and fine art. The library numbers over 2000 publications. Core collections include books on American, art from the Carolinas folk art, African American art, women artists, American photographers, architecture, the art of drawing, ceramics, and glass making.

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COURSE LISTINGS FOR THE MUSEUM SCHOOL 2011 Cameron Art Museum ONLINE REGISTRATION AVAILABLE: http://cameronartmuseum.com/classregistration.php CEU Credit Available for The Museum School Courses
2039-01 Portrait Demonstration and Discussion Sunday, September 25 (2:00pm 5:00 pm) Members $35/ Non-members $50 Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructor: Chappy Valente Working from life, participants will be able to watch Valente actually paint from a life model and discuss his thought process as he investigates and constructs form, responds to light, explores the nuances of contour and even delves into the psychological responses to his subject. This interactive painting demonstration and discussion encourages dialogue with the instructor and participants. There will be brief breaks for the model to rest and for participants and Valente to continue their discussion while enjoying refreshments from the museum caf. 2030-01 Basic Drawing for Teenagers Tuition: $75 Members/$100 Non-members Mondays: October 3, 10, 17, 24 (no class on Oct. 31.) November 7, 14 (3:30 pm 5:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructor: Georgia Mastroieni, Curator of Education Drawing is the basic building block of visual art. It is also a universal tool of communication. It is what we do naturally as children, with open eyes and open minds. It is also what we are a bit afraid to do as we get older and begin to judge and compare our work. In this course we will work on giving students the confidence and tools to begin to appreciate the practice of drawing and thereby explore their own ideas. Lessons will be guided by the principles of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and the Lincoln Center Institutes Capacities for Creative Learning. Our art projects will draw inspiration from our exhibitions, permanent collection and a variety of artists and movements. Recommended for middle school age.

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2041-01 Intro to Creative Writing Tuition: $120 Members/$150 Non-members Mondays: October 3, 10, 17, 24 (10:00 am 11:15 am) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructor: Heather Wilson This is the beginning. Almost anything can happen. This is where you find the creation of light, a fish wriggling onto land, the first word of Paradise Lost on an empty page Billy Collins This is a class for anyone who wants to write, designed for anyone who might have a journal of notes, a head full of ideas, stories you dare only tell yourself, a narrators voice you hear in the shower or as you drive your car. In this 4-week class, youll search for the source of your inspiration oftentimes in everyday life -- and begin to confront the empty page in a nurturing and uplifting environment.

2019-01 Drawing from the Middle of the Brain (Beginner and Intermediate level) Tuition: $180 Members/ $210 Non-members Tuesdays: October 4, 11, 18, 25. November 1 & 8 (10:00 am 12:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructors: Martha Burdette and Donna Moore Learn the basics of how to draw from observation! Drawing from the Middle of the Brain explores both analytical and intuitive approaches to drawing. Burdette and Moore offer the opportunity for students to work from still life, nature and the figure. To a certain extent, they will shape course content following the students areas of interest. Investigations include structural design elements of value, space, scale, line quality, composition, and visual texture. Students will learn time-honored drawing techniques, both additive and subtractive, by working with charcoal, graphite, eraser, conte, ink and ink wash. *Contact hours- 12 hours 2019-02 Drawing from the Middle of the Brain (Beginner and Intermediate level) Tuition: $180 Members/$210 Non-members Wednesdays: October 5, 12, 19, 26. November 2 & 9 (6:00 pm 8:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) 7|THE MUSEUM SCHOOL at Cameron Art Museum

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Instructors: Martha Burdette and Donna Moore Learn the basics of how to draw from observation! Drawing from the Middle of the Brain explores both analytical and intuitive approaches to drawing. Burdette and Moore offer the opportunity for students to work from still life, nature and the figure. To a certain extent, they will shape course content following the students areas of interest. Investigations include structural design elements of value, space, scale, line quality, composition, and visual texture. Students will learn time-honored drawing techniques, both additive and subtractive, by working with charcoal, graphite, eraser, conte, ink and ink wash. *Contact hours- 12 hours

2035-01 Painting Still Life in Oil Tuition: $150 Members/$180 Non-members Tuesdays: October 4, 11, 18, 25. November 1 & 8 (6:00 pm 9:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructor: Chappy Valente For those interested in a more classical approach to still life painting, this six session course will cover many of the same principles as PAINTING STILL LIFE IN WATERCOLOR but with the additional intrigue of oil paint as medium. The student will discover that finding form in any subject is primarily the result of values placed in right relationship to one another. As Chappy is known for saying, Things look like the way they do based on what theyre next to. If students are not sure what that means, they will by the end of the course! This class is an opportunity for beginners as well as intermediate painters to learn the essential guiding principles that go in to any good painting. Elements such as composition, line, value, texture and color theory will all be touched on. Students who have previously studied with Chappy are encouraged to enroll as this class will build upon the foundation of those prior classes. 2031-01 Multi Media Afterschool Art Tuition: $75 Members/ $100 Non-members Wednesdays: October 5, 12, 19, 26. November 2, 9 (3:30 pm 5:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance)

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Instructor: Georgia Mastroieni, Curator of Education In this afterschool art program, offered to children ages 6 to 10, students will have the chance to explore the museum through guided tours, scavenger hunts and special activities, and then express their creativity through hands on art projects in a variety of media (including drawing, painting, collage, printmaking and sculpture). Emphasis is placed on exposure to a wide array of materials and individual personal expression. On the final day of class, students will curate their own Student Art Reception with pieces theyve created throughout the course of class.

2036-01 Beginning Oil Painting Tuition: $180 Members/ $210 Non-members Thursdays: October 6, 13, 20, 27. November 3 & 10 (9:00 am 12:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside of museum entrance) Instructor: Margie Worthington This course is designed for those with little or no painting experience, or for those needing a review of the basics. Working from still life, students will be introduced to the technical aspects of working in oil while gaining insights into how color, shape, light, and dark can work together to create the illusion of three-dimensional on a two dimensional surface. Students will be encouraged to find their own unique artistic voices as they explore the language of form in oil. A materials list is provided.

2037-01 Basic Pine Needle Basketry Tuition: $120 Members/$150 Non-members Thursdays: October 6, 13, 20, 27 (1:00 pm 3:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructor: Melanie Walter In four 2-hour sessions, students will learn basic skills in making pine needle baskets. They will complete a pine needle and cork coaster, small bowl form with walnut center, and learn many fundamental skills needed to make many other baskets. Various threads (binders), stitches and embellishment materials will be discussed. Students will learn how to locate long leaf pine needles, prepare them for use, and will learn how to seal the finished basket. All supplies needed for this project will be provided. Students are asked to bring a towel to use as a work surface, as well as sharp scissors for cutting thread. Participants will need to be able to see well enough to thread a needle and distinguish individual stitches.

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2033-01 Hand Papermaking Workshop Tuition: $170 Members/$200 Non-members October 8 & 9 (Saturday 9:00 am 4:00 pm, Sunday 11:00 am 2:00 pm) Location: Pancoe Art Education Center Instructor: Fritzi Huber The workshop will focus on the making of paper by hand using a variety of fibers, including the use of recycled materials. Participants will be exposed to a variety of techniques practiced by various cultures throughout history. Western style papermaking, combined with Eastern drying techniques, will be addressed as well as casting dimensional paper. We will also cover coloration, *inclusions, different approaches to drying, sizing, waterleaf and uses of dried product. Best of all: how to do this on your own without investing in expensive equipment. All of the basic materials will be supplied, but participants are encouraged to bring any *inclusions that they may want to incorporate into their papers. The freshly formed sheets are very malleable, so textured surfaces are also encouraged. Bring leaves, embossed metals, lace, molds, confetti, grasses, potpourri, bits of other papers, etc. to acquire an embossed surface, or to have as part of a sheet. A flat, waterproof surface to carry work home on is strongly suggested. Most sheets will be in the range of 9"x12". Please wear shoes compatible with a wet surface. *Cast paper can have most anything "in" it. 2040-01 Beginning Songwriting Tuition: $120 Members/$150 Non-members Sundays: October 9, 16, 23, 30 (4:00pm 5:00 pm) Tuesdays: October 11, 18, 25. November 1 (4:00pm 5:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructor: Mike Blair Lets sit down and listen to music that captivates our hearts every time we listen to it and learn how we may be able to contribute with our own compositions. Mike Blair This class will primarily focus on songwriting through the mode of a singer/songwriter. Having the ability to play an instrument will be a plus, but is not necessary for the class. Over the four weeks, we will read and watch interviews of songwriters young and old, spend time in and out of class drafting from various prompts, and of course listen to tons of music! Some workshopping of one anothers work will come into play during the four weeks. Come with an open heart and be ready to listen to some great music. 10 | T H E M U S E U M S C H O O L a t C a m e r o n A r t M u s e u m

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2038-01 Basic Pine Needle Basketry Weekend workshop Tuition: $80 members/ $120 Non-members Saturday October 15 (1:00 pm 5:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructor: Melanie Walter In this 4 hour session, students will learn how to make a pine needle basket, focusing on how to start, coil, and shape the wall of the piece. One small project will be completed, and another will be started during this workshop. Students will then be able to finish the second piece at home on their own Students will learn how to locate long leaf pine needles, prepare them for use, and will learn how to seal the finished basket. All supplies needed for this project will be provided. Students are asked to bring a towel to use as a work surface, as well as sharp scissors for cutting thread. Participants will need to be able to see well enough to thread a needle and distinguish individual stitches 2032-01 "Hard Times" Quilt Tuition: $180 Members/ $210 Non-members November 5, 12, & December 3 (10:00 am - 3:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructor: Martha Burdette "Hard Times" quilts, also called "Rag Bag" quilts and "Depression' quilts were created out of necessity, but they had a beauty all their own that has been compared to color field painting in modern art. They are often a testament to irrepressible urge of people to create something beautiful in even the most difficult circumstances. These quilts were not about intricate patterns or matching colors. They were assembled from strips of fabric recycled from old clothing, linens, blankets, feed sacks or any other fabric at hand. Their purpose was to keep the family warm. The first consideration was to make optimum use of every scrap of material available, so strips varied in width from one inch to several feet. Participants in this workshop will create their own "Hard Times" Quilt of whatever size they choose from crib to king size. We will meet in three four-hour sessions and each session will require about the same amount of time doing homework. The homework will be the actual machine stitching (or hand stitching) of the strips or pieces. At the end of the three sessions, participants will have a quilt that is assembled and at least partially tie quilted. If there is interest in an additional "quilting bee" session to work together to finish tying the 11 | T H E M U S E U M S C H O O L a t C a m e r o n A r t M u s e u m

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quilts, that may be scheduled as well. This quilt should not be made of new fabric. If participants don't have enough old clothes and linens, they are encouraged to collect them from family, friends and thrift stores. This quilt can be used as a wonderful Holiday gift! *No experience as a quilter or sewer necessary to take this course. Contact Hours - 12 hours (CEU credit) Minimum class size - 8 participants

2028-01 Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas: Friends and Rivals Tuition: Member $60/Non-member $90 Mondays: November 7, 14, 21, 28 [7:00 pm 8:30 pm] Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructor: Hank Steffens This course is divided into three one and one half hour classroom talks and discussions, and a fourth laboratory session where printmaking techniques will be shown and discussed. Throughout the course, the emphasis will be on the connections of art to the social, technical and cultural contexts of these interesting times. The laboratory session will serve to show students how art is made. Mary Cassatt arrived in Paris to discover a dynamic urban environment. Electric lights, urban transportation, opera houses, theatres and night spots served almost immediately to transform her art. As an un-married young woman, she successfully made her way in the predominantly male, rapidly changing, artistic community of Paris. The women of the Parisian middle class were in full transformation, paying more attention to child care, entertaining one another at home, attending the opera and theatre, riding public transportation, shopping in the new department stores and reading the many daily newspapers. This was a new age, and Cassatt was a modern woman. Her most important artistic influence was her new friend Edgar Degas. He had been experiencing the urban changes and was already chafing at the control of the Salon over art and the dominance of tradition over innovation. His paintings inspired her and he introduced Cassatt to printmaking. His able student soon became excellent in her own right. The large exhibit of Japanese prints and illustrated books in 1890 served to inspire Cassatt to become one of the finest printmakers of the century. She evolved her art, continuing to paint, use pastel, and develop very innovative print making techniques. By the end of her career she stood as equal beside the very best artists of her generation. The Cameron Art Museum has a suite of 10 of her finest prints, as well as other works.

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2034-01 Painting Still Life in Watercolor Tuition: $150 Members/$180 Non-members Tuesdays: November 15, 22, 29. December 6, 13, 20 (6:00 pm 9:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructor: Chappy Valente In six sessions we will learn the unique techniques involved in creating still life composition in watercolor as well as developing an understanding of the other principles important in the construction of a painting, regardless of medium. Elements of painting such as composition, line, texture, color and value will be discussed in a manner that will be both helpful and informative to the beginner or intermediate student painter. An emphasis on letting watercolor do what it does naturally, with only moderate manipulation, will guide our learning experience. The result will be a fun and liberating discovery process ending in surprising results.

2029-01 Drawing and Painting from the Museums Permanent Collection Tuition: $180 Members/ $210 Non-members Tuesdays: November 15, 22, 29. December 6, 13, 20 (10:00 am 12:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) Instructors: Martha Burdette and Donna Moore In this class students will have the opportunity to draw and paint art objects from the Museums permanent collection. This is one of the most time-tested methods for museum schools, allowing students the opportunity for close study of important artworks from the permanent collection in the setting of the studio. Instructors, Donna Moore and Martha Burdette will offer demonstrations of a wide variety of materials and methods appropriate for all levels of students from beginning to advanced. *Contact hours- 12 hours

2029-02 Drawing and Painting from the Museums Permanent Collection Tuition: $180 Members/$210 Non-members Wednesdays: November 16, 23, 30. December 7, 14, 21 (6:00 pm 8:00 pm) Location: Studio 1 (located just inside museum entrance) 13 | T H E M U S E U M S C H O O L a t C a m e r o n A r t M u s e u m

Instructors: Martha Burdette and Donna Moore In this class students will have the opportunity to draw and paint art objects from the Museums permanent collection. This is one of the most time-tested methods for museum schools, allowing students the opportunity for close study of important artworks from the permanent collection in the setting of the studio. Instructors, Donna Moore and Martha Burdette will offer demonstrations of a wide variety of materials and methods appropriate for all levels of students from beginning to advanced. *Contact hours- 12 hours

This program is supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

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INSTRUCTOR ROSTER FOR THE MUSEUM SCHOOL 2011 Cameron Art Museum
Lisa Marie Albert
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." Maya Angelou Lisa Marie Albert is a photographer working globally to tell stories with a cause. In the vein of Lewis Hine's approach to using photography to promote social change, Lisa is motivated to support human rights and advancement in health access through her photography. As a photographer, She feels the best way to do this is through immersing herself in the community, building trust, and giving back. Lisa has a Master's in biomathematics, but influenced by her research in virus dynamics and her travels around the world she decided to obtain her Master's in Public Health at UNC. She also completed a certificate in documentary photography from Duke Center for Documentary Studies. In 2009 she held a one year fellowship through UNC and Family Health International (FHI) where she worked as a researcher and documentary photographer on a community based HIV prevention study in North Carolina. Recently she returned from Uganda where she lived for six months documenting global health issues and working on a child rights advocacy campaign.

Anne Brennan
Anne Brennan holds an MFA in Painting from East Carolina University and B.A. in Studio Art from Davidson College. She has taught studio foundation courses including Basic and Life Drawing at ECU and Cape Fear Community College. She has taught Museum Studies at UNCW and art history at Pitt Community College. She is currently Acting Director at Cameron Art Museum and is working with at-risk youth, the Kinston Police Department and the Kinston Community Council for the Arts on the completion of two public art murals for the City of Kinston, honoring the participants and Kinstons African American Music Heritage Trail with funding from the North Carolina Arts Council.

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John Beerman
John Beerman is a native of North Carolina and has recently returned to resettle after thirty-five years in the Hudson River valley. Beerman studied art at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, and at Rhode Island School of Design, where he earned his BFA. John Beerman's primary focus is the landscape, John Coffey, Deputy Director for Art and Curator of American and Modern Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art stated, "John is clearly observing nature and translating it into a sort of hyper reality. Rather than simple reportage, John's landscapes communicate his response to the sensations he feels when he paints a scene." John Beermans works are meticulously crafted landscape visions that capture the essence of time, place and space. Beermans subtleness is reminiscent of the luminist painters of the 19th century, yet thoroughly contemporary in spirit and point of view. In a New York Times article published August 24, 2008, Beerman was quoted as seeing himself in the tradition of the Luminist offshoots of the Hudson River School. "They had a lot of sky, and subdued brushwork, so that the hand of the particular artist wasnt so obvious," said Beerman. "They had a quietude," he added. "Not so much drama." Beerman's work is part of numerous public and private collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. Beerman's paintings are also among the collection of the North Carolina Governor's mansion and the New York Governors mansion. Beerman has also been the recipient of many awards and commissions. He recently completed an eighty-five foot mural for the new Milsein Family Heart Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

Martha Burdette
Martha Burdette earned a BFA in Art Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1988. Since that time she has taught art in public schools from kindergarten through high school and has taught adults and lifelong learners in museum, community settings and in her studio. Her preferred format and medium is large scale charcoal figures or landscapes.

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Ned Irvine
Ned Irvine received a BFA in Studio Art from UNCChapel Hill and a Masters in Graphic Design from the NCSU College of Design, where from 2000-2003 he served as visiting faculty. In 2003, he joined UNCW studio art faculty to found the graphic design program. Currently, Irvine teaches courses at UNCW in graphic design, typography and artists bookmaking. He is a practicing graphic designer, printmaker and book artist.

September Krueger

In 2010, September Krueger received an MFA in Textiles from East Carolina University and in 1994, a B.S. in Textile Design from Philadelphia University. With a range of instruction from studio foundation courses and textile survey to batik and quilt workshops, Krueger has taught at ECU, studio-assisted at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and conducted artist-teaching residencies in NC Public Schools. As former Studio Manager for Artworks Silkscreen Printers in Harrisburg, PA, her responsibilities included garment design, sample making, pattern making, sewing, dyeing and screenprinting.

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Donna Moore
Donna Moore joined Wilmingtons art community in 1977. As a Creative Arts major at UNCW, she studied and worked with Claude Howell. Moore has taught at Cape Fear Community College, St. Johns Museum of Art (now Cameron Art Museum) as well as facilitated after-school art classes in her Castle Creek Studios. Moore consistently works from observation of the human figure. Even though she has developed facility working in a variety of mediums such as wire, fiber and acrylic paint, Moore discovered drawing in charcoal, graphite and pastel best serves her intuitive expression.

Megan Piorko
In May 2011, Megan Piorko will earn a B.A. in both Studio Art and Art History from University of North Carolina Wilmington. While at UNCW, she was Art Editor and Editor in Chief of the Creative Magazine of UNCW, Atlantis. She has exhibited her work at UNCW and in area Wilmington galleries. Her passion is life drawing with mediums of charcoal and ink.

Chappy Valente
Chappy Valente relocated to Wilmington from San Francisco in 1990 to work as a scenic artist for the film industry. After several feature films and television shows Valente decided to work independently. He accepted a contract to paint a 2000 square foot mural at the Northeast branch of the New Hanover County Library. That opportunity led to several other mural projects in and around Wilmington and for the next ten years continued working on large format painting.

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Having trained at Art Students League of New York in portraiture, Valente decided to redirect his efforts more specifically to that discipline. But after several years took the opportunity to study abroad at the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy, an experience that provided a richer understanding of and appreciation for painting the landscape en plein air. He has since divided his studio time between those two efforts determining that There is little difference between finding form in portraiture and finding it in the landscape. It all comes down to shape making.

In 2010 Chappy and his business partner were awarded the contract to do the decorative restoration of the main theater at Thalian Hall, including a ceiling mural piece above the main stage. I feel particularly honored to have been given that opportunity. The last person to do the restoration work at Thalian was Claude Howell, so I feel Im in pretty good company.

Dennis Walsak
In 1980, Dennis Walsak began making books that open in four directions, unfold like origami constructions and, with their unusual combinations of words and images, resemble sculpture more than conventional codex. A pioneer in what is now known as book arts, his work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, is in the permanent collection of Cameron Art Museum and has sold in art bookstores in Washington, Los Angeles and New York. Since 1976, Walsak has owned and operated the graphic design/multimedia production studio, Modular Graphics and Media which recently expanded to include 621N4TH Gallery.

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Margie Worthington
In 1984, with a B. A. in Psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MFA in Ceramics from East Carolina University, Margie Worthington moved to Wilmington. She served as the first Curator of Education at St. Johns Museum of Art (now Cameron Art Museum) in Wilmington from 1985 to 1990. From 1990 to 2004 she was a member of the art faculty at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where she taught studio courses in design, painting, and mixed mediums. Currently, Worthington is a full time studio artist working primarily in collage. Her works are included in numerous private collections and the permanent collections of the Randall Library on the campus of UNCW and Cameron Art Museum.

Virginia Wright-Frierson
Virginia Wright-Frierson earned her BFA degree in painting from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and furthered her studies in Cortona, Italy, New York and Arizona. She and her husband, Dargan, settled in Wilmington, NC in 1977. Her record includes over thirty exhibitions in the southeastern US as well as Italy. Her work is included in museum, private and corporate collections. In addition, she has written and illustrated children's books and has received numerous public art commissions.

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