Fine Arts Festival Association of Rockingham County
Presents the 64th Annual
Fine Arts Festival Exhibit and Awards Ceremony
Sunday April 27th – May 2nd
Rockingham Community College
Awards Ceremony in Amphitheater - 2:00pm
Exhibit showing in Whitcomb Student Center
Activity Room during RCC hours
| FAFA’s 2008 Board of Directors |
President:
Paul Smith
Treasurer:
Brad Spencer
Secretary:
Laverne Lancaster
Coordinator:
Sherry Blackburn
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Board Members:
Mary Alice Collins
Shirley Swann
Robin Bailey
Pat Harden
Jim Davies
Todd Drake
Paul Smith
Noah Carlton
Suzon Martin
Laverne Lancaster |
Open Meeting Announcement
FAFA will hold an open meeting on Sunday May 4th at 4:30pm in the RCC Cafeteria. This meeting will be preceded by a Board Meeting where new officers will be elected. This meeting is open to anyone interested in becoming a member of the oldest Arts Festival in NC. Anyone entered into this years Festival automatically becomes a voting member for one year. FAFA welcomes all to join whether you create art, enjoy art or are just interested in bettering your community.
We need your support in continuing this valuable tradition. Artists may pick up their work on May 4th from 5:30 – 6:30 following the open meeting.
FAFA sincerely thanks the judges for 2008.
They are as listed below:
Acrylic, Drawing/Printmaking/Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil and Watercolor: Bruce Shores |
Bruce Shores has an MFA from UNCG. He is an Adjunct Professor at Lees-McCrea. His work has been represented by galleries around the state and nationally.
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| Jewelry, Pottery/Functional, Pottery/Non-Functional, Raku, and Sculpture: Charlie Tefft |
Charlie grew up in Columbia, MD where he learned to create pots on the wheel at the age of thirteen. He graduated in 1997 with a BFA from Guilford College. After graduating, he moved to Atlanta, GA and began making pots full time. He has work published in two books, was accepted to various exhibitions, and received a Purchase Award from Skutt Kilns for his piece, Dancing Teapot. Charlie’s work has also been published in Ceramic Monthly. Currently, He is back in Greensboro, NC teaching at Guilford College, making pots, and exhibiting. *www.ctpottery.com* |
| Computer Generated Art, Photography – Color, Photography – Black & White: Rob Jolly |
Rob Jolly is a photographer and language Specialist at New Garden Friends School. Rob has photographed internationally. |
| Fiber Art: Lee Jennings |
Bio unavailable
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| Literature: Poetry/Prose: Ginger Hendricks |
Ginger Hendricks is the Director of the Center for Women Writers and Coordinator of Cultural Events at Salem College. She graduated with honors from Salem in 2000 with a degree in communication and creative writing. In 2003 she received her MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, The Patterson Literary Review, Skirt!, Winston-Salem Living and others. |
| Woodworking: Jay Speetjens |
Jay Speetjens has been woodworking professionally for over twenty years. He is the founder of J. Speetjens, Inc which started under the tagline /The Art of Furniture. /He completed athe Stringed Instrument Course at the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in Phoenix, Arizona. He has done work as varied as sailboat building, cabinetmaking and guitar making. *www.jspeetjens.com* |
| Music: Billy Summers |
Billy Summers, from Whitsett, NC earned his Doctorate of Musical Arts at UNCG. He has spent his musical career in church music and in education. His last education position was Professor at High Point University. He left that office to devote more time to his Minister of Music position. Billy brings years of experience as an organist, choir director, educator, and composer. |
May 10th – Songwriter’s Soiree presents: Bill Fly Band
May 24th : Musical Improv
June 6th Opening Reception: Betsy Bevans
June 14th Songwriter’s Soiree presents: Blaine Ziglar & the Phantom Vibrations
June 21st : Musical Improv
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