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April Issue 2007
Wilmington Art Association Offers Juried Exhibit for NC Azalea Festival in Wilmington, NC
Each spring, during the NC Azalea Festival, the Wilmington Art Association holds its annual Spring Art Show and Sale, on view from Apr. 12 - 15, 2007. This year marks our 25th anniversary, and promises to be a gala event. The exhibit draws 2D and 3D artists from North Carolina and beyond each year. Open to both professionals and amateurs, it has grown over time, and with that, it reflects the accomplishments of a broad range of very talented artists in our part of the country. The annual show always draws large crowds of art lovers and collectors. This year's exhibit will offer much in the way of ceramics, sculpture, and both framed and unframed original pieces in all media. This year, the exhibit will be in a new location, Perry Hall of St. James Church, at 313 Dock Street in Wilmington.
Every year the show takes on a unique flavor that reflects the aesthetic of the artist who is invited to be juror and judge. The juror and judge for our 2007 Spring Show is Dianne Rodwell, an acclaimed North Carolina native. She will award more than $3000 in prizes to artists for outstanding work.
Rodwell has made painting a way of life, working in many media to capture 'the spirit of nature' in everything she does. Her work reflects her explorations in watercolor, acrylics, pastel, oil, and encaustic. By the late 70s her work had been internationally recognized and now many pieces reside in private, corporate, and government collections. Her most recent bodies of work are her Chambered Dreams Papered Lantern Series in which she collages rice paper paintings on to clear glass vessels, and a collection of sculptures and paintings rendered in pigmented encaustic. Rodwell is a founding member of Artspace in Raleigh, NC, where she maintains a studio.
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Gallery listings or call Carol Hovey at 910/799-3782.
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