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=Upcoming and Past Art Exhibits in the Community Church Sanctuary= Information about the current exhibit can also be viewed by clicking here. Pre-2011 exhibit information can be viewed here.

In the Sanctuary:

 * Artist's Name**: Joan Meade

**Exhibit Title**: Travels with Joan

**Exhibit Dates**: Mar 3 - Apr 28, 2013

**Reception:** TBA

**Description/bio**: As Joan has traveled to some of the more beautiful places in North America and Portugal, she has been inspired to capture each area's unique rocks, water and trees in her sculptural acrylic paintings. States and regions represented in this exhibition include Alaska; Alberta, Canada; Algarve, Portugal; California; Florida; Hawaii; Maine; New Brunswick, Canada; New Hampshire; North Carolina and Nova Scotia, Canada. Joan has found her voice with sculptural acrylics. This phrase describes her technique which uses modeling paste, gels and other acrylic media to develop the rich and varied textures of nature. These with the color add depth and vibrancy to her landscapes and seascapes. She draws inspiration from her travels and her imagination. Joan studied art and architecture at Cornell University in upstate New York, and art at Colorado College, and has continued studies and mounted exhibitions at various art centers around the US and here. She served as Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park in Maine in July 2011. Since 2003, Joan has exhibited widely across the Southeast, including the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC, and Bill Hester Fine Art, formerly of Chapel Hill and now on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, NM. Her works can be seen locally at SaxArt Gallery, in Saxapahaw, and at her own studio gallery. Joan's works are in many private and public collections across the continental US and in the UK. Contact info: joan@joanmeade.com [|www.joanmeade.com]

Solana Beach

**Past Exhibits:**


 * Artist Name**: Shannon Bueker


 * Exhibit Title**: Birds and Flowers


 * Exhibit Dates**: Sept. 9 - Oct. 28, 2012


 * Reception**: none


 * Short Description**:

I paint and draw animals and people, things on the move, and lately, the growing energy of plants. I am fascinated by gesture and am challenged to see how much shape and power I can express with the simplest of lines. I look for what is essential or “of the essence.” These paintings are acrylic on canvas. I also work in watercolor with ink and charcoal. Drawing is a big part of my process. I go back and forth between paint and line, drawing and color over and over.

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Visit my website at @http://www.NotNowKato.com

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In the Commons:
Jeff Newell, Daniel Vogel and possibly one other artist will show their work. They are active in the Brushes with Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness project under the auspices of UNC’s Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health within the Department of Psychiatry.


 * Artist Name**: Various Artists **Organization Name**: Zimbabwe Artists Project


 * Exhibit Title**: Making Human Connections Through Art: A Showcase of Zimbabwean Art


 * Exhibit Dates**: July 1 - Sept. 2, 2012


 * Reception**: none


 * Short Description**: Zimbabwe Artists Project (ZAP) celebrates the artistry and accomplishments of women from rural Weya in eastern Zimbabwe. Through education, sale of their art in the U.S., and special projects, ZAP helps women become economically self-sufficient. Women of Weya are subsistence farmers, mothers, and householders as well as artists. Most women live on their own, providing for families. Some are widowed, others are single heads of households, since throughout Zimbabwe men leave the rural areas to seek work in cities. Sales of their art helps women afford food, clothing, school fees, medicines, transport, seeds and fertilizer, among other things. We work with over 90 artists, including a few male artists who were trained by their talented mothers or other women in Weya.

ZAP’s complementary goal is to communicate with Americans about Zimbabwe's history and culture, as well as about the artists’ lives. In the United States, we help our communities to see common humanity across boundaries of culture and privilege. We encourage our friends and customers to recognize ways in which we can use our own privilege to enhance the dignity and self-respect of others, including the artists of Weya.

Zimbabwe Artists Project strives for a genuine partnership with the women of Weya. We believe that traditional donor-recipient relationships often foster self-satisfaction on one hand and dependency on the other. This can be damaging to both sides, deepening existing inequalities. Our approach is based on the belief that self-respect comes through people's own accomplishments. Our goal is to foster self-respect and self-reliance through collaborative projects.

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 * Artist Name**: Mesa Somer


 * Exhibit Title**: Scene and Unseen


 * Exhibit Dates**: May 6 - June 24, 2012


 * Reception**: TBA


 * Short Description**: Gum Dichromate photographs are made through a process of painting multiple layers of watercolor pigments, and exposing the negative on top of each layer. The final print has anywhere from 8-10 layers of watercolor pigments, each layer exposed and developed separately, creating an impressionistic, painterly look.


 * Artist Bio**: I have shown at the Hillsborough Gallery of Art, Art Explosure, Durham Centerfest, am an exhibiting member of the Carolina Designer Craftsmen Guild, and a merit award winner at the SunFest Festival in West Palm Beach, Florida.


 * Artist contact info:** ssomer@mindspring.com


 * Artist website:** []

ion for life. This leads him to apply paint to the canvas in unusual ways -- by pouring, splashing, dripping, and scratching. His paintings also require layers upon layers of paint to create a sensuous and turbulent surface texture that is as vital and as complicated as life itself. He uses color to allure an imaginative and subtle spatial elusiveness. His abstract expressions are the product of many days of working and reworking. The steps leading to his abstract paintings are the art of hiding and disclosing. It is the discovery of mysteries of the subconscious mind that are pa rt of his own personal legend. Personality counts. These abstractions hold the promise of dreams, visions, fears, intangibles, and will. It is a collaboration of mind and spirit. It is a form of magic that may speak both to you and for you with a private, secret, confidential language. They also require something from the viewer; it demands contemplation, study, feeling, and flights of fancy. Eduardo Lapetina is largely self-taught; he has constantly experimented in his studio and this has led him to develop a painting technique with unique characteristics. He has also attended painting classes with Professor Kimowan McLain at the University of North Carolina and with painter Jane Filer at the Carrboro Art Center. In recent years he has been part of more than 40 solo and group exhibitions, attended national and international artists colonies, and had a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. His paintings have received several awards and are in various corporate and private collections throughout the USA, Europe, Israel and Australia.
 * Artist Name**: Eduardo Lapetina
 * Exhibit Title**: Opening The Future
 * Exhibit Dates**: March 4 - April 29, 2012
 * Reception**: Sunday Mar 11, 1-3pm, in the Commons and Sanctuary
 * Short Description**: [[image:c3h/Opening_the_Future_(I)_12inX12in_small.jpg align="right" caption="Opening_the_Future_(I)_12inX12in_small.jpg"]]Eduardo's ambition with his paintings is to use symbolic shapes and colors to express his deepest emotions and pass
 * Artist Bio**:


 * Artist contact info:** lapetina@bellsouth.net (919) 960-3400
 * Artist website:** []

Musical production and then holiday decoration of the sanctuary: no exhibit.
 * Exhibit Dates**: October 30, 2011 - January 8, 2012

This exhibit includes a series of pieces reflecting a phase of my early work evolving toward awareness of our damaged ecosystem while exploring the exciting diversity of North Carolina regional landscapes; the mountains to the sea. Also part of this series, the plants in still lifes and the trees under varied conditions of sunlight, weather, and character! This exhibit also includes a collection of spirited croquis sketches from the memorable moment during the fall of 1950 when I exited the autobus from Orly to the Blvd. St. Germain and Notre Dame Cathedral. The emotional exuberance of an unbelievable dream-come-true of a 25 year old artist – hoping to live in Paris and study at the Academie Julian! The joyfulness of daily drawing and sketching excursions was overlaid with the awareness of throngs of other artists, young and old (Matisse and Picasso were there) and the tourists of the world celebrating with France the 2000th anniversary of the Cite, Luticia, now called Paris, as well as the end of World War II. During my sojourn I had works in several exhibitions, even selling a few. I have managed to hold onto only a couple of paintings from the Paris era, one of which, “My One Window”, a painting of my first domicile in Paris, is included in this exhibit. I have some difficulty in defining myself regionally, let alone as a “southern” artist per se. I confess a pervasive saturation of emotional recall throughout those years, that filter ideas and issues of esthetic consideration. I have the impression, too, through broad contact with fellow artists of national and international persuasion, that there is considerable concurrence. Needless to say, with such an amalgam of experience coupled with diverse formal exposure, I am uncomfortable with the “southern” label. My art seems to reach backward, forward, and primarily inward for meaning and expression, including immediate family and ancestral references, “primitive” cultures and issues affecting the human condition. In my own work I feel quite comfortable in the use of natural imagery, though my professional evolution has moved toward abstraction. Regarding post-modern ideologies and imagery, I have reacted with a sense of euphoric relief, and a breath of fresh air, to the whole of visual art.
 * Artist Name**: James McMillan
 * Exhibit Title**: James McMillan: Landscapes, Etc.
 * Exhibit Dates**: January 8 - February 26, 2012
 * Reception**: none
 * Short Description**:
 * Artist Bio**:
 * Artist contact info:** (336) 379-9376


 * Artist Name**: Fred Westbrook
 * Exhibit Title**: memory and meaning: a journey of faith
 * Exhibit Dates**: September 4 - October 30, 2011
 * Reception**: Sept. 11, 2011 - 1-3pm
 * Short Description**:
 * [[image:c3h/walkingonwater.jpg align="left" caption="walkingonwater.jpg"]] ||
 * Walking on Water ||

My goal in my art is to invite folks to be more united with their own memory and meaning, and how these are essential to getting in touch with what we value and why. Painting for me is all about reflecting and seeking to engage my deepest feelings around the sea of relationships I swim in - lover, dad, child, ex-lover, brother, child of God, childhood friend, the world around us, the vastness of the universe, nature, poetry, love -- each relationship usually just one at a time, but sometimes all at once. The sea of emotion run s the gamut from rampant despair to utter and complete joy. There is a criticality of connection that family and community creates in m e that explodes in the spontaneous time of self discovery and creative attention each painting represents. The process of painting for me is both meditative and cathartic, a kind of profession of faith. Because my paintings are a reflection of relationship and internal context, I fancy myself a story teller with paint, paper and emotion. But the story is often ephemeral. Ghostly images and impressions from the depths and chaos of memory pierce the present. Sometimes no matter how desperately I try to remove the veil, the reality behind the feelings only half emerges or not at all. Sometimes the internal stories we hold and believe so deeply turn out to be lies or at least half truths. We just want to believe. Painting is a way to believe, to probe the creative impulse. I want to engage the rhythm of the human spirit quite beyond myself but beating in me too. My art dances around questions like ‘what is truth?’ ‘what can we really know?’ and ‘what provides meaning and purpose in the life journey each of us is on?’ I offer my work as something like one throwing an intermittent light on a mysterious and finally unknowable path of self discovery, where the journey is marked along the way by the presence of fellow travelers. Its these too often fleeting connections with those on our way that are the key to this journey, not its end. Fred Nash Westbrook was born in Frankfurt Germany in 1954. His first oil paints at age 11 were his mother’s. His father, a military engineer, was a gifted drafttsman. At 12, he was fortunate to begin studying with Marjorie Schwartz, a well known Memphis water colorist and member of the American Watercolor Society. He studied with her, often weekly, until he was 18 and periodically until the age of 22. Fred has participated in several group shows and has had a couple of one person shows. He has had individual students and taught courses at various art and crafts facilities primarily in the Southeast. He has sold many paintings in the Memphis and Atlanta areas over the last forty years. Fred is also a Presbyterian minister serving Duke University Chapel and the Congregation at Duke Chapel, and is principal of C’Access Inc., a communications, education and media company in the Triangle of North Carolina. He and Marni live in Durham. He has two daughters, Treah and Sarah (both of Atlanta), and lots of critters.
 * Artist Bio**:
 * Artist contact info:** frednash@aol.com


 * Artist Name:** TW Johnson
 * [[image:c3h/umbrian.jpg align="right" caption="umbrian.jpg"]] ||
 * "Umbria" Oil on Canvas 18x24 ||

She was sketching something for me, when I asked her how she learned to draw so well she brought out an old dusty box. Inside were some paintings she had done as a younger woman. They were exquisite to me and I wondered why she didn’t have any more. She told me she had stopped painting because she was afraid she was not good enough and that she would never live up to her own expectations, so she didn’t try. She made me promise right there that I would not take the same path. She told me never to let life prevent me from expressing myself artistically. I am keeping my promise. Every day that I stand in front of the canvas is a blessing. The smell of the oil paints, the pallet that evolves, the brushes that I choose and the landscapes that come to life... are a celebration. Thank you for reading and I sincerely hope you will enjoy what you see.
 * Exhibit Title:** The Language of Landscapes
 * Exhibit Dates:** Jul 3 to Aug 28, 2011
 * Reception:** TBA
 * Short Description:** I have journeyed toward painting all of my life. I have watched sunsets and moon rises, lights and shadows moving across landscapes, and seasons changing scenery. In my heart I painted them all. I always knew they would they would wait for me and they have. But painting, for many years had been the second thing on my list, right after making a living, raising children, and taking care of family until I remembered something I learned from my mother years ago.
 * Artist Bio:** It took me a long time to get to my painting, even though it has been a life long dream of mine. For years I longed to set everything down and pick up the brushes. It was always in front of me, meant for the future, as the future moved farther away from where ever I seemed to be. I have lived in Orange County for 17 years and have made my living as a builder and a musician. A few years ago I built a house for Habitat for Humanity and 10 years ago I started the North Carolina Songwriter’s Co-op. I also produce CD’s for local musicians. I find inspiration in the natural beauty of North Carolina and my other travels as well. My frames are hand made from wood reclaimed from old barns, siding boards, and raised paneled doors, that were all destined for the landfill or the burn pile. Each one is a treasure to me and every frame I make is made for a specific painting. For me the art starts with the brush and ends with the frame. I am very grateful to pursue my dream and to show you my work.
 * Artist contact info:** twjohnson@nc.rr.com (919) 933-6559
 * Artist website:** []


 * Artist Name:** Martine House
 * [[image:c3h/family_entanglements_detail.jpg align="left" caption="family_entanglements_detail.jpg"]] ||
 * Family Entanglements (detail) ||


 * Exhibit Title:** Welcome to My World
 * Exhibit Dates:** May 8, 2011 to June 26, 2011
 * Reception:** none
 * Short Description:** This exhibit is somewhat a retrospective of my work as these pieces have been created during the past 15 years. They are very representative of the detailed designs I create as well as the techniques I use: mostly hand-work combining quilting, trapunto, embroidery, beading but also experimentation with new materials and a more contemporary approach.
 * Artist Bio:** French-born artist Martine House has worked with textiles her whole life. She started experimenting with quilting in 1983 and has been teaching since the late 80’s. She has developed a very personal style using techniques such as embroidery, quilting, beading and mixed media to achieve unique textures. A strong emotional or spiritual message is embedded in her often three-dimensional pieces.
 * Artist contact info:** housefiber@hotmail.com
 * Artist website:** [|www.housefiber.com/]


 * Artist Name:** Don Faires
 * [[image:c3h/yanayhe.jpg align="right" caption="yanayhe.jpg"]] ||
 * The Ya Nay He ||

More recently he has begun a series on jazz created with mixed media collages. Continuing the narrative construction format these new works are abstract narratives utilizing many of the techniques developed for his masks. His mask creations are often accompanied by a story that relates to the character of the mask. The masks speak to him during their creation and tell their own stories that he conveys in the mask and written form. The mask characters and their stories explore his unique insight into the art forms of mask making and story telling. More recently he has expanded into abstract narrative collage work utilizing many of the techniques developed for his masks. His work is now in collections in his native Southeast and the Southwest.
 * Exhibit Title:** Story Telling
 * Exhibit Dates:** March 6, 2011 to May 1, 2011
 * Reception:** None
 * Short Description:** Originally inspired by masks of the Hopi Indians, Don Faires has created a group of masks begun on gourd strata. He uses a variety of mark making and construction techniques including wood burning and inlay work. Often inlaying fine turquoise, he also uses found objects and various kinds of fiber. His mask creations are often accompanied by a story that relates to the character of the mask. The masks speak to him during their creation and tell their own stories that he conveys in the mask and written form. The mask characters and their stories explore his unique insight into the art forms of mask making and storytelling. Recent masks are based on current occupations that had their precursors in ancient times. For instance The Keeper of the Ancient Stories is the forerunner of today’s librarian. Some of the masks also have their environment or story created as mixed media collages.
 * Artist Bio:** Don Faires lives in Charlotte, NC and spent his working career in Engineering and Commercial Construction. Throughout his adult life he has taken up a new interest every several years. These new interests are creative and involve arts and crafts media. Since retirement, his interest has been Southwestern Native American Art. Visiting relatives in Arizona expanded his exposure to Native American masks and gourd art.
 * Artist contact info:** dfaires@bellsouth.net
 * Artist website:** [|www.donfaires.com]


 * Artist Name:** Linda Passman
 * [[image:c3h/MutedArches_.jpg align="left" caption="MutedArches_.jpg"]] ||
 * Muted Arches ||


 * Exhibit Title:** Interior/Exterior
 * Exhibit Dates:** January 9, 2011 to February 27, 2011
 * Reception:** TBA
 * Short Description:** Interiors and Exteriors are the subjects that summoned my eye and inspired these paintings. By observing the natural world of open spaces - trees, land, water and air to the man made world of buildings with their contained spaces, defined by doors, walls and windows, each is a stimulus to my personal vision. From the arc of a doorway in ancient building to the arc of light through deep woods to the arc of light through a sea wave, the flow of energy in space and structure engages me and forms the spirit of the painting. In exterior or interior locations I search for the essence of my subject to draw on the artist within. Inner vision and outer vision engages me in an exchange . . .. a constant flow.
 * Sample image:** Muted Arches
 * Artist Bio:** Linda Passman, a North Carolina artist is a painter and has taught painting, graphics, photography, jewelry, stitchery, quilting and ceramic sculpture. Originally from New York, she received a BA in Art History and Studio Art and MA in Printmaking and Teaching and has taught art in college and high school. Her work has been exhibited at Universities and private galleries in Westchester County, NY. Since moving to North Carolina she has been an exhibiting artist with Hawthorne Gallery in Associated Artists both in Winston-Salem, The ArtsCenter in Carrboro and the Durham Arts Guild and is a member of the Orange County Artists Guild, participating in their Open Studio Tour since 2000.She has had solo shows at The Horace Williams House, The North Carolina Arts Gallery in Chapel Hill and The Durham Arts Guild in Durham and has participated in art shows in the Triangle and in the Triad of North Carolina. Linda has been teaching at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro for the past eleven years where her courses have included Mixed Media Painting, Pastel Painting, Expressive Drawing and Focus On Color. Since 2006 Linda and Carol Henderson teach The Visual Journal, a creative journaling workshops in Chapel Hill, NC.
 * Artist contact info:** lindapassman212@gmail.com, (919) 942-1943
 * Artist website:** [|www.lindapassman.com]

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