Feature Articles

September Issue 2002

New Exhibitions Highlight the Fall at Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, NC

The Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, NC, is pleased to announce the new exhibitions and related educational materials and programming for the fall. North Carolina Clay: Past and Present will be showing in the West Wing Gallery and the Commons Gallery will feature the exhibit, Jane Wells Harrison: Elements of Construction. Both exhibitions will be on view from Sept. 12 - Oct.27, 2002.

In the Francis Speight and Sarah Blakeslee Galleries the museum will continue the permanent exhibition of works by Francis Speight and Sarah Blakeslee. And, in the museum's South Gallery, on Sept. 12,the exhibition, "American Landscapes from Our Collection" will be ongoing after Sept. 12, 2002.

North Carolina Clay: Past and Present was organized by The North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC, and celebrates the state's renowned historic and contemporary potters. Here is a special opportunity to appreciate the rich history, heritage and ongoing tradition of pottery making across North Carolina.

A special attraction of this group of work is the interesting combination of the older, more vernacular clay pieces with the wide-ranging, contemporary ceramic work. Often new work draws strength from the traditions of the past. North Carolina can be proud of its strong, unbroken tradition of producing high quality pottery. The state's unique position as a ceramic center shines through in this exhibition.

The exhibition consists of approximately sixty works of clay in a diverse range of styles. Three recognized curators have combined their expertise to jury the exhibition. Charlotte Brown and Andrew Glasgow have served as curators of the contemporary pottery and Terry Zug curated the selection of historical pottery. The exhibition opened in May of 2001 at the NC Pottery Center and since that time has traveled to various museums and other venues across the state and will end its statewide tour at the end of this year.

Jane Wells Harrison: Elements of Construction in the Commons Gallery features works by Kinston, NC, artist, and MFA candidate, Jane Wells Harrison. Harrison will combine the more recent media of collage and assemblage with the ancient medium of encaustic for this exhibition of her work. Harrison is a student in the School of Art at East Carolina University and is candidate for her Master of Fine Art degree; this exhibition is one of the requirements to earning that degree. (Encaustic is the technique of painting with hot wax colors that are heated after they are applied to a support until they become fused and fixed to the support.) A free brochure accompanies the exhibition.

The permanent exhibition of of landscapes, portraits and still lifes by Francis Speight and Sarah Blakeslee, two of Greenville's, and North Carolina's, most important artists who called Greenville home for so many years, has received rave reviews from our visitors. A free full color brochure accompanies this permanent exhibition and 146 page illustrated biography of the artists is available for $34.95.

The Museum's acquisitions plan focuses on collecting works by North Carolina artists as well as works by American landscape artists. American Landscapes from Our Collection is a long-term exhibition, opening Sept. 12 in the South Gallery, that explores American landscape painting from the 1870's to the present. Included are works by Nena Allen, Charles Bashum, Charles Burchfield, Jasper Cropsey, Arthur Dove, Daniel Garber, David Johnson and David Kapp. A free brochure accompanies the exhibition.

In the museum's Look & Learn Gallery is a display of two and three-dimensional art from the Museum's Education Collection. Young visitors are invited to browse through the gallery and engage in the project sheets found in the Activity Corner.

This Student's Gallery contains changing exhibitions throughout the year of work produced by students. During the fall and spring semesters it contains "Senior Shows", which are exhibitions by graduating seniors in the School of Art at East Carolina University. At other times it contains exhibitions of works that the students (children and adults) produce in the Museum's art classes.

For more information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call the museum at 252/758-1946.

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