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Department of Art
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6216
Fax: 910.521.6639
Email: art@uncp.edu

Location: Locklear Hall
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janette hopper

Background

Growing up and pursuing her education in the Northwest, Ms. Hopper received her MFA in painting from the University of Oregon and a MA in Art Education from Boise State University. Previously teaching in the Northwest and in Michigan, Janette Hopper currently is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. From 2002-2008 she led the Art Department as Chair during a period when extensive renovations were made on Locklear Hall and the Art Department faculty and student numbers more than doubled.

Teaching Statement

Her areas of concentration are Drawing and Painting. Courses taught include: Introduction to Drawing, Figure Drawing, Intermediate and Advanced Drawing, Painting, Watercolor, Undergraduate Studio Problems, Graduate Painting and Independent Study at the graduate level.

She helps students gradually build their skills from basic techniques to the more complex processes and concepts in painting and drawing. Students learn to both respond perceptually to what they see and conceptually developing their own artistic voice. Her strong background allows her to include mixed media, encaustic, sumi ink, and cross disciplinary approaches in student’s course work. Ms. Hopper encourages students to take part in research and in international and exhibition opportunities. She mentors her graduate students to develop strong and personal bodies of art to exhibit as their capstone experience.

Collections/Exhibits

Her work has been shown extensively in major museums, at colleges and universities and in private galleries in solo, group and juried shows. Solo museum exhibits in the U.S. include the Bellamy House Mansion, Wilmington, North Carolina, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, the Maryhill Museum of Art, Maryhill Washington and the Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA. Among those who have purchased her work for collections are the Washington and Oregon State Arts Commissions, Gonzaga University, the City of Mannheim in Germany and the Marselisborg Gymnaseum in Denmark. Starting with her Fulbright in Denmark, she started to have European one-person exhibits beginning in Copenhagen with a grant from Danish Fulbright. As a member of Paleur International she exhibited in Denmark. Independently in Europe she has had more than 10 exhibits. Her landscape paintings were included in a Fulbright juried retrospective in Washington, DC and with New York artists in the Lincoln Center. On Sabbatical Leave, she painted and exhibited the Neckar River Series in Germany. She presented her work at Monash University in Prato, Tuscany, Italy and a one person exhibit in Ludwigsburg, Germany. In 2008 receiving an extended leave to paint, she was the Artist in Residence for the National Park Service in the North Cascades and joined “No Boundaries” an International Artist Colony at Bald Head Island. The Somerhill Gallery in Durham, North Carolina and Art Works in Spokane, Washington handle her work.

Artist Statement

Her creative impulses center on the environment and primal memories using the subject of landscape and figures. She works in watercolor, encaustic, oils, sumi ink, charcoal, graphite, linoleum cuts, monoprints and mixed media and sometimes as a performance artist.

In North Carolina, Ms. Hopper has found an instant heartfelt affinity with the sky, water, and luxuriant growth of our beautiful state. Inspired by our landscape from ocean dunes to cotton fields to waterways to mountains- it‘s the space, light and color that moves her to create works both representational and abstract.

Using composition, gesture and movement, mark-making and fluid brush she establishes a personal expression in a variety of media. Through art, she explores the incongruity in nature and within us, crossing disciplinary boundaries to collaborate with scientists, humanitarians and musicians.

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