BMCA’s Annual February Local College Art Show to Feature UNC-A Faculty

In February of each year the Black Mountain Center for the Arts hosts a show in its Upper Gallery to feature art from one of the local nearby colleges and universities. For 2010 the show will be made of works from a dozen artists on the faculty at UNC-Asheville. The show will open with a reception for the public to meet the artists on Sunday, February 7 from 3-4 pm, and will continue through Saturday, March 13, which is also the date of BMCA’s annual Auction for the Arts. The Black Mountain Center for the Arts is located in the original City Hall at 225 W. State Street. For more information call 828/669-0930.

Twelve UNC Asheville Art Department Faculty will be participating:
Luke Allsbrook, Tamie Beldue, Virginia Derryberry, Robert Dunning, Maury Gortemiller, Karen Ives, Mark Koven, Scott Lowrey, Brent Skidmore, Robert Tynes, Matt West and Megan Wolfe.

Allsbrook, an Adjunct Associate Professor teaching Life Drawing and Painting, has degrees in Painting from The Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art and Indiana University at Bloomington.

Beldue is Assistant Professor of Art 
and teaches 2-D Design, Drawing, and Lithography. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and the Columbus College of Art & Design in Drawing & Printmaking.

Derryberry, current Chair of the Art Department, teaches Life Drawing, Drawing and P, Painting. She previously taught at Savannah College of Art and Design, and Shorter College, both in Georgia. She has degrees from Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

Dunning, Professor of Art, teaches all levels of Printmaking, as well as Collage and Assemblage. He is a graduate of East Carolina University and Indiana University.

Gortemiller, Lecturer in Photography and Art and Ideas, holds degrees from the University of Georgia, the University of Mississippi, and Baylor University.

Ives, Adjunct Associate Professor in 2-D and 3-D Design, studied Sculpture, Woodworking, and Printmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at UNC-Asheville.

Lowrey is Adjunct Associate Professor and teaches Painting and Drawing. A graduate of UNC-A, he continued his education a University of Indiana-Bloomington.

Koven, Assistant Professor of Art, specializes in Sculpture and 3-D Design. He is a graduate of the University of Miami (FL), and Florida International University.

Skidmore, Director of Craft Campus, teaches 3-D Design. He is a graduate of Indiana University-Bloomington, and Murray State University.

Tynes, Professor of Art, is also Director of the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery. Tynes has also taught at the University of Hawaii, Humboldt State University in California, and East Carolina University. His degrees are from Rhodes College and East Carolina University.

West is an Adjunct Lecturer teaching 3-D Design. After completing a degree at UNC-A, he went on to Clemson University for further education.

Wolfe is Associate Professor of Art, who teaches all levels of Ceramics, as well as 3-D Design. Her degrees are from the University of Miami, the Kansas City Art Institute, the University of South Carolina, and the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

Information on each artist’s work may be seen at their Faculty listing at http://www.unca.edu/art/.

The Black Mountain Center for the Arts is honored to present this show. Although individual faculty members and occasionally a small group hold gallery exhibitions across the US and overseas, a combined Faculty exhibition of this caliber of artistic ability is a rare treat.