"Bath" and "Greenville"

Bath                                         digital                              ©Greg Patch

Greenville                             digital                              ©Greg Patch

HONEY Exhibition opening is Thursday, March 15th from 6:oo-9:oo p.m. at the Greenville Museum of Art

Exhibition

HONEY is a dynamic, juried exhibition embodying and celebrating the role of the honeybee. In light of the international Colony Collapse Disorder crisis and global concerns over war, economic collapse and a worldwide food shortage, the fate of the honeybee mirrors the fate of humanity.  Philosopher Rudolf Steiner noted the bees as an indicator species in developing his ideas on biodynamic farming and caring for the earth. This call for entries seeks artwork related to these issues and honoring the majestic apis mellifera.

Artists whose work has been juried into the exhibition are: Heather Beck, Barbara Blaisdell, Aleta Braun, Ben Bridgers, Katy Cassell, Megan Clark, Kelly Jean Conroy, Laurie Corral, Desiree DeMars, Gina Dill, Christine Dougherty, Mary Early, Bob Ebendorf, Kristen Egan, Jane Wells Harrison, Sarah K. Hooper, Melissa Hronkin, June Jasen, Rachel Kauff, Joyce Watkins King, Timothy Lazure, Jenny Lynn McNutt, Jeff Millikan, Greg Patch, Betsy Peters, Christine Reising, Suzanne Sawyer, Pat Spainhour, Elizabeth Staiger, Melvin S. Stanforth, Rebecca Stirner, Isaac Talley, Lauren Thiele, and Robin Wise.

The exhibition dates are March 10 – April 8, 2012.
Exhibition opening is Thursday, March 15th from 6:00-9:oo p.m. at the Greenville Museum of Art

Our juror, Catherine Coulter Lloyd is the current Visual Arts Specialist at the Maria V. Howard Arts Center in Rocky Mount, NC. She has worked in arts administration for over ten years in a variety of capacities including curator, education director, collections manager, registrar, and preparator. Lloyd has served on the board of the North Carolina Museum Council as Government Affairs Chair and Directory Chair. She obtained a BFA from Western Carolina University and an MFA from East Carolina University with focuses in the area of ceramics, fiber, and photography.

For full details, please download and read the prospectus [PDF format].

art tripped up to Greenville, NC 2/2/12

North Carolina's 10th largest city, pop. 84,554 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville,_North_Carolina


Yesterday was treated to a spontaneous/perfecto timing/full blast pre First Fri. nite Greenville Artwalk with Destry Sparks of Greenville, NC. Think southern, coastal country boy, gentle, hospitality with humor, grace and centered fine artist focus, he's the man. www.destrysparks.com/ Many thanks Destry!!, and to all the warm art folk he introduced me to!


We met up at the public library, hung a right, just next door, on Evans Street, (Greenville's main artsy street; arts, Dale's Indian restaurant and Americana restaurants, coffee/reading/rest spots, gifts and etc.)... 


...is the Greenville Museum of Art www.gmoa.org/ GMA houses a really sweet,,several rooms collection. There, are artstudiohold name artists and some I'd not met yet; Charles Burchfield, Minnie DesChamps, Claude Howell, Clarence Morgan, some Kenneth Nolan, a large Louise Nevelson, 19th c. Japanese woodcuts and a few Hudson River painters, Hobson Pittman, Donald Sexauer, Francis Speight, et y et... Upstairs was a large, well installed, group show of young people's art from the local Oakwood School.

Bayou Houseboat by William Henry Stevens, Pastel, 1945 (from the GMA collection)

Then to The Art Room Gallery & Studio with Nelle Lee Hayes; a collaborative IPad adventure between two artists in England and France;




Across the street; Pitt County Arts Council Emerge Gallery, http://www.emergegallery.com/
Two simultaneous juried shows, March 2 - 31.
               and                 

spinning a few blocks over to East Carolina University's Gray Gallery
https://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/graygallery/exhibitions.cfm;

Exhibitions

March 1-31: ECU 2012 Undergraduate Exhibition
East Carolina University features the largest studio art program in North Carolina, which is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Curriculum areas represented in the show are: art foundations, ceramics, drawing, graphic design, illustration, interactive media, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture textile design, video, film and wood design. Area curriculum coordinators in the School of Art and Design select the outstanding works submitted from over 600 undergraduate students.

The awards ceremony will be Thursday, March 1 at 5:00 PM in Speight Auditorium of the Jenkins Fine Arts building on the ECU campus.

Students in Art History will have work in the Burroughs Wellcome Gallery adjacent to the Gray Gallery from March 4 through March 24. More details are on the Gray Gallery main page.

and over town to City Art Gallery http://www.cityartgreenville.com/feature.htm

with other artists represented and a group of young and old spread
on the floor playing art making with plastic doodads...

a special stop at Destry's home studio to chat over his latest piece;

no justice in this photo sketch to the potent, subtle, simple complexities
of another fine art piece of Destry Sparks...

a quick drive over to little Inkstone Gallery with a focus on quality ceramic work... 

and finally to the Pitt County Community College' Juried Exhibition where many of Coastal North Carolina's Fine Artists are represented.

for more on artsy Greenville http://greenvillenc.localguides.com/ypcyellowpg/art_galleries.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=yellowpages&gclid=CJ-t-sfzyq4CFQKf7QoddjqnDA

...Dang.

"HONEY" at Greenville Art Museum

Am honored, grateful, and just a tad excited to have been selected by juror Catherine Coulter-Lloyd, Curator of the Maria V. Howard Arts Center to have "Webh Ground 1" be included in this group show running from March 15 - April 8 at the Greenville Art Museum in 

Greenville, NC. HONEY is Co-Hosted by East Carolina University and the Greenville Art Museum.

Webh Ground 1         Beeswax/Natural Pigments         16" x 24"

from the call for entry prospectus; "HONEY, "a dynamic, juried exhibition embodying and celebrating the role of the honeybee. In light of the international Colony Collapse Disorder crisis and global concerns over war, economic collapse and a worldwide food shortage, the fate of the honeybee mirrors the fate of humanity. Philosopher Rudolf Steiner noted the bees as an indicator species in developing his ideas on biodynamic farming and caring for the earth. This call for entries seeks artwork related to these issues and honoring the majestic apis mellifera."

For a clearer, more concise format of this 9 works series please vist my website 

gregpatchart:

http://bit.ly/xGcBw9

2 pt video I made on my creative process with this series of 9 works;

youtube video #1. http://bit.ly/eTEBet

youtube video #2. http://bit.ly/ylF23U

to access blog entries made, search "WebhGround Series" to your right. 

enThanks Honeybee.

"Local Produce" Invitational Show at ArtExposure

"Local Produce" 2nd Friday Opening July 8th 6:00 - 8:00PM

Invitational Show featuring "Local Produce" as the theme. ArtExposure 22527 Highway 17 Hampstead, NC (just south of Lowes and Highway 210 E) www.artexposure50.com

Showing at Chapel Hill Public Arts Office in 2012

Have never scheduled a show more than a year in advance. There's a certain sense of relief in knowing some of my art commitment for the next year. Is there a corresponding energy to this and having just signed a one year lease on my new abode/studio space?!

Dear Greg,

Congratulations! You and thirty-one other artists have been selected to participate in the 2011 - 2013 Juried Exhibitions Series. The Public Arts Office would like to invite you to exhibit at Chapel Hill Town Hall from Tuesday, May 1, 2012 to Friday, June 29, 2012 with the following artist(s):

Jane Levy janeleiferlevy@gmail.com / 967-5736 Gracelee Lawrence lawrencegl@guilford.edu

To install your show, please deliver 10 - 20 artworks to the exhibition venue at 10 a.m. on the first day of the time frame provided above. Please make sure that each piece is labeled and ready to display or hang (if applicable - our hanging system requires at least 5" of wire on the back). A contracted installer will hang the show, so you do not need to assist with the actual hanging. All artworks are subject to final acceptance upon delivery and may be withdrawn at the discretion of the Public Arts Office. Artwork will be insured under the Town of Chapel Hill's insurance policy for the duration of the exhibit; the Town assumes no liability beyond this. Delivery, packaging, and return of

the artworks are solely the responsibility of the artists and/or their representatives. Prior to the installation, please email the following to swright@townofchapelhill.org:

1) 2) 3)

A one-paragraph artist's statement A one-paragraph artist's biography in third person A list of the titles, media, dimensions and prices for the pieces to be exhibited. If a piece is not for sale then please provide its value for insurance purposes. A 15% commission is required for any work sold to help defray the cost of the exhibition series

The Public Arts Office will publicize the exhibition to the media, to its list of arts patrons, and on the following webpage: http://www.townofchapelhill.org/index.aspx?page=255.

At the exhibition's close on Friday, June 29, 2012 please pick up your artwork at 10 a.m. unless other arrangements have been made.

If you have questions, scheduling conflicts, or would like to tour the space please call me (number below). I will contact you one month prior to your show to begin making specific arrangements. If your contact information changes during the interim, please let me know. Finally, please email or call me to confirm your participation in this exhibition at your earliest convenience. Again congratulations, and I look forward to working with you!

Sincerely,

Steve Wright Public Art Coordinator Public Arts Office Town of Chapel Hill (919) 968-2749 swright@townofchapelhill.org www.chapelhillarts.org

54th National Multi-Media Juried Art Show (Rocky Mount)

54th National Multi-Media Juried Art Show at the Maria V. Howard Art Center in Rocky Mount , NC : open to all 2D, 3D, and multimedia except installation. $3,300 in prizes. Submit up to 4 works for $25 entry fee. Juror: David Edgar (www.plastiquarium.com )
Entry deadline: March 25, 2011. For more information call 252-972-1163 or email Catherine.coulter@rockymountnc.gov. Downloadable prospectus: www.imperialcentre.org/arts and click on “Artist Opportunities”

Plastiquarium

Witness

Recycled plastics artist David Edgar uses detergent 
bottles and other recycled plastics to produce his 
current sculptural works known as "The 
Plastiquarium®." He refers to his former work in 
fabricated steel and found objects as the "Witness" 
series. - from his website 
http://www.plastiquarium.com/