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May Issue 2007
Chasen Galleries in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Lin Barnhardt
Chasen Galleries in Charlotte, NC, will present the exhibit, ARTchitecture, featuring the three-dimensional clay reproductions of North Carolina artist Lin Barnhardt. Famous homes and buildings from several NC cities, Charlotte, and Charleston, SC, will be on exhibit from May 4 - 31, 2007.
Barnhardt graduated from Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, in 1974, with a BS degree in art education. Undergraduate concentrations were in painting and printmaking. He later attended graduate school at Appalachian obtaining an MA degree.
Barnhardt has taught art at the secondary level in the public schools of NC including ten years at Apex Senior High, Apex, and two years at A. L. Brown High, Kannapolis. He served as a faculty member at Mt. Pleasant Middle School, Mt. Pleasant, NC, from 1988 to 2006.
In May of 1997, Barnhardt began his current approach of incorporating his interests in architecture, sculpture and painting into one art form. These labor-intensive creations require eight to ten weeks to complete. Moose Drug Store, a local icon in downtown Mt. Pleasant, became the subject for his first clay reconstruction.
Barnhardt received a regional Project Grant from the Arts Council in 1998. The project centered on churches of Charleston with the series titled - Bird Sanctuaries.
Bernhardt's work later met the approval of the Piedmont Craftsmen selection committee. He juried into the organization in 1999. With the recommendation of Piedmont Craftsmen, the NC Arts Council selected Barnhardt in 2001 to design/create an ornament for the White House.
Barnhardt retired from teaching in 2006 and shortly thereafter was hired as Visual Arts Director for the Cabarrus Arts Council where he manages the Arts Council Galleries - Historic Cabarrus Courthouse in downtown Concord, NC.
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