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May Issue 2002

Caldwell Arts Council in Lenior, NC, Features Group Exhibit for May

Multi-media art by four artists from North Carolina and Virginia will be featured at the Caldwell Arts Council's May exhibit. The exhibit entitled, Different Dimensions, will run from May 3-31, 2002.

Works of the following artists will be on display: Robert F. Porter of Queens College, Charlotte, NC; Geoffrey M. Rowland of Christainburg, VA; Robin Martindale of ASU, Boone, NC; and Lynda Lea Bonkemeyer of CCC&TI, Lenoir.

Robert F. Porter has been a professor at Queens College in Charlotte since 1983. He is the chairman of the college's Division of Fine Arts. He graduated in 1958 from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Art degree in psychology. He received his Ph.D. in art history in 1974 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His specialties include art criticism and modern art.

Lynda Lea Bonkemeyer has been a faculty member in the art department of the Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute since Jan. 2000. Classes she teaches at the college include drawing, painting and art appreciation. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in studio art and art History from Queens College in 1993. She spent some time studying studio art at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in two-dimensional media from Radford University in Radford, VA, in 1998.

Robin Martindale's work consists of wooden sculpture. She has been a professor in the art department at Appalachian State University since 1999. She attended the Atlanta College of Art and received a Bachelor of Art degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. She received a Master of Fine Art degree from Carolina in 1985.

Geoffrey M. Rowland's work has been displayed in art galleries throughout Virginia. Three of his art pieces are part of the Radford University's permanent collection. He received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in studio art in 1994 from Radford University and a master of Fine Art degree in studio art from the university in 1998.

For more information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Caldwell Arts Council at 828/754-2486 or on the web at (www.conninc.com/caldart/).

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