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Regional and local talent is being showcased at the 28th Annual Frank Stick Memorial Art Show, sponsored by the Dare County Arts Council and hosted by Glenn Eure's Ghost Fleet Gallery. This year's show broke several records. There were a record number of 134 entries with over 300 people attending the opening reception on January 21st. In addition, over 20 current and past students, faculty and staff of the College of the Albemarle took part in this year's show. Awards were given to artists representing all styles of work.
Best in Show Award
Sponsored by The Barefoot Gourmet was given to:
Hanna Jubran "Geo Centric" - bronze sculpture
Excellence Awards
Sponsored by Ghost Fleet Gallery, Greenleaf Gallery, Quible & Associates and Scrooge & Marley were given to:
1. Michael Campbell "Wabi Sabi Tea Pot" - clay
2. Mary Edwards "Chicamacomico" - watercolor
3. Gregg Kemp "Salt Marshes #2" - pinhole photograph
4. Evelyn Tillett "Ruff Surf" - sterling silver
Honorable Mention Awards
Sponsored by Islander Flags of Kitty Hawk, Davco Electric, Windswept Properties and Vogedes Insurance Agency were given to:
1. John De La Vega "At St. John's Island, Charleston" - oil
2. Lisa Mc Laughlin "Snow Leopard" - watercolor
3. Inger Seitz "Hand dyed & Hand spun Shawl" - fiber
The People's Choice Award
Sponsored by Carolina State Mortgage Corporation was awarded to:
Laurie Gray "Graceful Passages" - drawing
The Dare County Arts Council wishes to extend special thanks to all the artists who submitted their work as well as the sponsors, donors and volunteers who have made this year's show such a huge success!
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The Dare County Arts Council presents the Frank Stick Memorial Art Show January 22 through February 17, 2006 at Glenn Eure's Ghost Fleet Gallery in Nags Head. The opening reception is Saturday, January 21 from 7-9 p.m. and is open to the public. Light refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served. This year marks the show's twenty-eighth anniversary and is sponsored by Glenn Eure's Ghost Fleet Gallery, Carolina State Mortgage Corporation, The Barefoot Gourmet, Greenleaf Gallery, Quible and Associates, Scrooge and Marley, Davco Electric, Islander Flags of Kitty Hawk, Vogedes Insurance Agency and Windswept Properties. Gallery hours during the show will be Monday through Saturday 11-5 and Sunday 2-4.
The annual Frank Stick Memorial Art Show exhibits a large collection of works by local artists. Watercolor and oil paintings, drawings, printmaking, works in clay, glass, textiles, and other media will all be displayed. The show's name honors the renowned local artist and environmental crusader, Frank Stick, whose illustrations and paintings became famous during the first part of the twentieth century. Stick gained recognition as an illustrator for magazines such as Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and Outdoor America. He is most known for painting hundreds of hunting and fishing scenes to illustrate outdoor and adventure stories. In addition to his contribution to the art world, Stick was a man of vision. After visiting the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the 1920s on a surf-fishing trip, he became enamored with the region and its potential as a tourist destination. It was largely through Stick's efforts, that the Cape Hatteras National Seashore was established as America's first national seashore.
This year judges are Wyndham Dennison and Jeffrey York. Wyndham Dennison is a Seagrove potter, impressionist painter and landscape photographer. His gallery and studio, Wyndham Pottery, is in the heart of the world famous Seagrove pottery district. Wyndham's first love is Impressionist painting, which has been a driving force in his paintings and pottery. His interest in landscape art photography began in 1975 in the outback of Nevada and continues to the present. He has shown his varied works across the U.S. for over 30 years. Wyndham's pottery career began in Austin, Texas in the mid-1980s. His mentor, Harding Black, renowned art potter in San Antonio, inspired an understanding of the artistic nature of a clay vessel and helped Wyndham incorporate his unique impressionistic painting style into expression in clay. His signature pottery pieces today still reflect that training. Wyndham was born and raised in Pawley's Island and Charleston, South Carolina and attended Baptist College. His wife, Melanie, a native of Seagrove, is also a potter and runs Brooke Haven Pottery. Wyndham and Melanie have distinct styles of expression but they share an 80 cu. ft. downdraft gas kiln and use the same blend of local and Texas clays. They both specialize in a high temperature reduction atmosphere, using iron and ash glazes, that allows a broad pallet of dynamic, bright copper reds and blues. Wyndham moved to Seagrove from Texas and opened his gallery in 1996. He continues to foster a strong relationship with the Mesa Art Center in Arizona.
Jeffrey York is Director of Public Art & Community Design for the N.C. Arts Council, a position he has held since 2000. He serves as curator for the state's 80-piece public art collection, and assists communities with public art and facility design planning. He shares his knowledge of public art processes and administration through his involvement on numerous commissions, committees, charette teams, and selection panels, and is currently involved as an advisor to the Art-in-Transit Programs of the Charlotte Area Transit System (2003-2006), the Triangle Transit Authority (2005-2006), the Chapel Hill and City of Raleigh Arts Commissions. York published Creating Place: North Carolina's Public Art Program in 2002 to document the Artworks for State Buildings Program that commissioned some 80 public artworks from 1982-1995. He has also collaborated with the University of North Carolina's Center for Craft, Creativity and Design to develop an educational exhibition, publication and CD-ROM resource promoting more creative design solutions for transportation projects. York has earned a master degree in Art History from The Ohio State University and a master of Library Science and Information Studies from Syracuse University. From 1995-1999 he served as Executive Director of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Prior to that, Jeffrey spent 14 years in the art museum field as an art museum educator, curator and administrator.
For more information, call the Dare County Arts Council at (252) 473-5558 or visit www.darearts.org.
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Best in Show Award for the 27th Annual Frank Stick Memorial Art Show was awarded to Scott Stockdale for his polychromed ceramic piece titled "Things That Do Not Heal". Sponsored by the Dare County Arts Council, the show runs through February 18 at Glenn Eure's Ghost Fleet Gallery. (photo by Karen Fitzgerald) |
For the first time ever, there was a tie for the People's Choice Award selected by public ballot at the recent 27th Annual Frank Stick Memorial Art Show sponsored by the Dare County Arts Council. The award was given to two local artists, John De La Vega for his oil "Melissa" and Ralph Johnson for his woodcarving "Red-Tail Hawk". (photos by Karen Fitzgerald) |
