July Issue 2000
Pat Keiger Presents A Kaleidoscope of Images in SCAC Gallery
The Stokes County Arts Council in Danbury, NC, is pleased to present A Kaleidoscope of Images featuring a body of work by Stokes County artist Pat Keiger, a nature, travel and fine art photographer on view through July 31. The exhibit includes scenics, close-ups and images made with multiple photographs.
Keiger has lived in Stokes County near King all of her life except for six years spent in Greensboro while completing her undergraduate work at Guilford College and her masters degree at UNC-G. She is retired from the Stokes County School System where she taught kindergarten at King Elementary School.
Before becoming seriously interested in Photography in the late 1980's, Keiger painted as an artistic outlet. She then discovered that the medium of photography allowed her to capture nature's beauty and to use the elements of art at the same time. Since then, she has read extensively and has taken seminars and workshops with some of the world's best nature photographers. She enjoys showing her work through exhibitions, programs and competitions. She is past president of the Piedmont Photography Club and the Southeastern Council of Camera Clubs and past vice president of the North Carolina Nature Artists Association. She also does photographic work for the Piedmont Land Conservancy based in Greensboro, NC.
Keiger's work has been used by Blue Ridge Country magazine and has been purchased by private and corporate collectors. She has also won numerous acceptances and awards for her photography in competitions in Asheville, Chapel Hill, Danbury, Elkin, Gastonia, Greensboro, Lexington, Linville, North Wilkesboro, Raleigh, Salisbury, Wilson and Winston-Salem in NC and in Abingdon, VA, Atlanta, GA; Charleston and Greenwood, SC and Kingsport, TN. She has participated in group exhibits in Boone, Danbury, North Wilkesboro, Roaring Gap and Winston-Salem, NC, and has held one-woman shows in Danbury, Greensboro, King, Lexington, Pilot Mountain and Sparta, NC. She has also judged competitions in Chapel Hill, Statesville, Wilson and Winston-Salem, NC.
Keiger was honored to be selected to have several photographs shown in the opening exhibit of the Museum Shop's Nature Gallery in the new Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh in April. She will also be a part of a two-woman exhibit at the Nature Gallery in April and May of 2001. She also has work currently on exhibit at the Meadowbrook Alternative School in King and The March Cafe and Coffee in Lexington. In June she was honored to teach a photography class with free-lance photographer Cub Kahn of Oregon at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching in Cullowhee.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call the council at 336/593-8159.
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