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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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2011-12 News and Events
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Professor |
Posted Nov 11, 2011
Professor Janette Hopper is retiring at the end of this semester after 10 years of service to the University. Janette served as Art Department chair for 6 years and greatly shaped the current make up of the department; it doubled in size under her direction. In 2010 she received an Adolph E. Dial Award for Scholarship/Creative Work. Her artistic production is inspired, in part, by the area's natural resources.
Please join her students, colleagues, and friends at a reception in her honor. Refreshments will be served.
Date: Nov. 16th
Time: noon - 2:00pm
Place: A.D. Gallery, Locklear Hall
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Lindsay |
Posted Nov 11, 2011
Lindsay Roberts has been elected to be the new Student Division Chair person of the North Carolina Art Education Association! She was inducted during the general session on Saturday, October 15th.
Lindsay ran against students from Meredith College and Eastern Carolina State. This is a great honor for her and the first time a student from UNCP held this position in at least ten years!
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Biederman |
Posted August 20, 2011
James Biederman, the Martha Beach Distinguished Artist at UNC Pembroke, won a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
The fellowship, established in 1925, funds research and artistic creation and gives its recipients wide latitude for how to spend the money. It is a highly competitive award, with more than 3,500 applications for about 220 slots.
An abstract painter who was educated at Yale and schooled in Brooklyn, Biederman joined the faculty as a visiting professor and artist in residence in 2007. Biederman’s award marks the first time a UNCP artist has won a Guggenheim.
“It’s a real thrill. I feel lucky,” he said. “It’s up there with the highest professional accomplishments of my career.” In addition to the prestige that accompanies a Guggenheim, Biederman added that there is also a personal satisfaction to winning the fellowship. “It’s a confirmation of your studio work,” he explained.
The Guggenheim fellowship is Biederman’s second notable award while at UNCP. In 2008, he won a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. The Guggenheim application required the submission of 18 works, letters of recommendation, an essay and a plan to create new work.
“I wrote the essay myself, and (UNCP photographer) Raul Rubiera helped put my art on the web. I think my essay was unusual; I’m no writer, and that may have helped. (Having) a studio in the Carolinas may have helped, too because regional diversity matters.”
The Guggenheim Fellowship provides its fellows with time to work and creative freedom, Biederman used his fellowship to travel this past summer. Traveling is critical to his work and his creative process, he explained.
He spent the 2010 summer in Wyoming with the Jentel Artist Residency Program. This summer, he will travel for a second time to Columbia and Ecuador. Travel is a tonic for creativity, he said.
“It seems to work,” he said. “I need something new periodically, and the air is good in the mountains.” Colombia’s isolation, Biederman adds, helps him disconnect. “You wipe away routines, and see yourself a new context, culturally.”
In an interview with UNCP’s Newswire, the artist considered “place” as it relates to his art. “I’m not quite sure I am a North Carolina artist,” he said. “It has an influence; I’m certainly in transition. Let’s say, I’m still looking.”
Transition and reinvention are familiar themes for Biederman, who began his career as a sculptor. He owned a gallery and held several posts in higher education. After arriving at UNCP, he shared his New York roots with “Shape Shifters: New York Painters,” an exhibition of 24 abstract painters displayed at the Art Department Gallery and again later in New York.
Last year Biederman had a one-man show, also in New York, that exhibited work from the first Columbian expedition. The show, aptly titled “Traveling Hat,” was reviewed favorably by the New York edition of the Wall Street Journal and several other publications.
With his residency at UNCP coming to an end in 2012, he may pop up anywhere. Wherever he is, there will surely be new art inspired by his travels.
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Walls wins prize for outdoor sculpture |
Posted August 20, 2011
Sculptor Adam Walls won the Martin and Doris Rosen Award in an outdoor sculpture exhibition at Appalachian State University. The exhibition featured eight works created by artists working in the eastern U.S. and selected for exhibit by juror Mel Chin. From the work on display, the juror chose
Adams to receive the Rosen Award.
There was a cash prize of $5,000 plus a weeklong residency with additional stipend, within ASU's Department of Art during the 2011-12 academic year.
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Walls wins prize for outdoor sculpture |
Posted August 20, 2011
Sculptor Adam Walls's Getaway Car exhibited inCary Visual Art's 2011 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. The peice won the best in show award which included a $5,000 award. There were 300 submissions.
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Hopper |
Posted August 20, 2011
Janette K. Hopper is interviewed on Episode 503 of Our State - the on air magazine. The interview was done when she was part of the NO BOUNDARIES. Inspired by the artist colony Sveti Joakim Osogovski in Kriva Palanka, Macedonia, NO BOUNDARIES INC. was founded in 1998 by Wilmington artists Pam Toll, Gayle Tustin and Dick Roberts. NO BOUNDARIES, a non-profit 501(c)3, sponsors an international artist colony for two weeks in November every two years in Wilmington and on Bald Head Island. Participating artists have come from many countries including Macedonia, Bulgaria, Canada, Holland, France, Scotland, Germany, Iraq, Switzerland, Turkey, Italy, Denmark, Austria, Serbia, Peru, Argentina, and Wilmington's Sister Cities in Barbados, China, and England. American artists participate on a rotating basis by invitation and application.
The cultural exchange is rich. The time together with a focus on making art is invaluable.
NO BOUNDARIES provides artists from around the world and the local community a forum for free expression and cross-cultural dialogue. We believe our projects contribute to the cultural health of the global community and its ability to imagine and realize a future filled with diverse voices that will be heard with empathy.
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Steeds & Hopper |
Posted August 20, 2011
Professor Emertius Ralph Steeds and Janette K. Hopper have an exhibit opening in Portland, Ore., in October."East Meets West" is a show sponsored by Print Arts Northwest featuring Hopper and Steeds that will run
from October 20 through November 12. The opening reception is October 20 in the PAN Gallery of the Washington County Museum in Portland.
According to the museum newsletter: "Janette Hopper's work is painterly, layered and explores experimental combinations of media and techniques. Her imagery is inspired by her experiences in nature. Hopper's prints instill a sense of deep meditation, integrating the artist's love of printing and painting."
"Ralph Steeds's work includes self-portraits, acrobats, animals, nudes and tornado swirls. Steeds develops layers of space and imagery through experimentation with materials resulting in a puzzle of imagery and mark making in the work that brings the viewer to
confront the idea that there really are no certain answers."
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Hopper |
Posted August 20, 2011
Janette K. Hopper had 10 linocut prints and associated reviews, exhibit catalogs and other materials in the collection of the Center for the
Study of Political Graphics.
The theme of the prints is "Freedom of Expression." In these prints, the
artist appropriates the works of other artists such as Picasso, Kolwitz,
Jacopo della Quercia and others to make a statement. They have been
described as stunning and provocative and an important contribution to the Center for the Study of Political Graphics archives.
Reproductions of the prints and comments on them are included in the exhibit catalog of the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Wash. The Center for the Study of Political Graphics collects, preserves, and exhibits posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change.
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Hopper |
In June, Janette Hopper was a visiting artist for a week-long intensive course at University of Education Ludwigsburgin in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
The course focused on visualizing distance and depth while drawing and
painting. The course was held outdoors in and around the campus.
Hopper has exhibited widely in one-person shows in Europe beginning
with her Fulbright year in Denmark and continuing in Copenhagen and Jylland, Denmark; Mannheim, Ludwigsburg and Bietigheim-Bissingen Germany; Bordeaux, France; Grabovo, Bulgaria and Prato, Italy. In Europe, she has works in the permanent collections of Ludwigsburg Paedigodishe Hoch Schule, Ludwigsburg and the City of Mannheim, Germany; the House of Humor and Satire, Grabovo, Bulgaria and the Marselisborg Gymnasium, Aarhus, Denmark.
UNCP and the PH-Ludwigsburg have a reciprocal international studies program in art where students of each institution can study for one semester overseas at the other institution for credit. Hopper represented UNCP at the PH-Ludwigsburg by visiting with administration and students to discuss art collaborations and student exchanges between the institutions.
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Arts
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Posted August 20, 2011
The school year found a new sculpture in front of the Public Schools of Robeson County Arts Resource Center/Planetarium building. This sculpture was created as a celebration of the achievement in the arts in Robeson County and is thusly titled “Celebrating the Arts”. This painted steel sculpture was created by local sculptor Adam Walls, in his fifth year teaching sculpture and three-dimensional design at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Together Superintendent Dr. Johnny Hunt, Dr. Linda Emanuel, Dr. Danny Stedman, and Sandi Carter had a vision for a sculpture celebrating the arts, which would replace an older existing one. Before construction began, the concept was born to create a colorful and whimsical expression of the dance, music, theatre and the visual arts programs so successful in our school district. Adam Walls and Sandi Carter collaborated on the design elements and then the artistry of Adam Walls began. After several months of forming, welding and painting the sculpture was installed July 20, 2011. Amid times when things can look bleak, our new sculpture is a colorful and uplifting reminder of the joy the Arts bring to our world.
Updated: Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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