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Information on NCMA programming, events, and opportunities geared towards college students and young professionals.

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Apply for Park Pictures!!!!

We want to see your “interior worlds” in our park!  Apply by this Saturday, June 16th for your work to be considered!!!!!

$500 honorarium for selected entries!

The North Carolina Museum of Art invites college students to submit original works for our Park Pictures billboard competition. The theme of this year’s competition is “interior worlds,” in reference to the exhibition Candida Höfer in Mexico, on view October 6, 2018–January 6, 2019. Höfer’s photographic work focuses on grand interior spaces, but a diverse and creative interpretation of the idea of interior space is encouraged. This could include real, imagined, physical, mental, or emotional space. All mediums are welcome. The deadline is June 16, 2018. 

Selected entries will be invited to be part of Museum programming and awarded a $500 honorarium. Procedure for Submission Students currently enrolled in college (undergraduate or graduate programs) may submit one image by June 16, 2018. There is no entry fee. Guidelines Artists should submit small image files for jury (under 2 MB). If selected, artists will need to send high-resolution files upon request. Selected artists should have high-resolution images prepared with dimensions of 300 DPI (minimum), 15 x 36 in., JPEG format. Selected submissions will be enlarged to fit the 5 x 12 ft. billboard. Email the following submission information to [email protected] by June 16th, 2018 (one submission per student): 

● Image of artwork, under 2 MB, which is around 1008 x 420 pixels. Be mindful that your image must be able to be enlarged to 5 x 12 ft., not just look good for jury entry.

 ● Artist statement/narrative concept, limited to 150 words, submitted as a Microsoft Word document(.docx).

 ● Name, contact info, and the college or university you are attending. Selected works will be enlarged to fit the 5 x 12 ft. frame. It is imperative that submitted works fit this ratio so that they can fit on the billboard. Images that do not fit this ratio or incomplete submissions will not be considered.

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Park Pictures 2018

The NC Museum of Art invites college students to submit original works for our Park Pictures billboard competition. This year, the theme of the competition is “Interior Worlds,” in reference to the exhibition Candida Höfer in Mexico, on view October 6, 2018 – January 6, 2019. Höfer’s photographic work focuses on grand interior spaces, but a diverse and creative interpretation of the idea of interior space is encouraged. This could include real, imagined, physical, mental, or emotional space. All mediums are welcome.

The deadline is June 16, 2018. Selected entries will be invited to be part of Museum programming and awarded a $500 honorarium.

Procedure for Submission

Students currently enrolled in college (undergraduate or graduate programs) may submit one image by May 30, 2018.  There is no entry fee.

Guidelines

Artists will submit small image files for jury (under 2 MB). If selected, artists will need to send high resolution files upon request. Selected artists should have high resolution images prepared with dimensions of 300 DPI (minimum), 15” x 36” in JPEG format.  Selected submissions will be enlarged to fit the 12’x5’ billboard.

http://ncartmuseum.org/programs_and_events/view/college

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20161118-College Night-Speak Easy-Poetry Performances

In case you missed the spoken word during College Night, or just want to see it again, check out a video of the perfomance here.

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TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT!

Come join use for College Night at 7pm-10pm. Free admission and FOOD with college ID. There will be collaborative art pieces, dance performances, live music, a costume contest, a fashion show, and lots of fun to be had. Come ready to party

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Free College Fridays

Come up to the museum on Fridays and get into the Rolling Sculpture: Art Deco Cars from the 1930′s and 40′s special exhibition for free with college ID.

The permanent collection is, as always, free to view so after seeing all the wonderful art in the West Building, walk on over the East building and look at the art deco cars on level B.

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Don’t miss the lecture with Victoria Pass on November 4th, illuminating the curious relationship between art deco-era fashion and car culture at 6pm.

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SAVE THE DATE!

Friday November 18th College Night at the museum. 7pm-10pm Free admission with student IDs and free food. Student performances, fashion, and lots of art to see from the Rolling Sculptures exhibition. Zoot suits and flapper dresses optional

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SAVE THE DATE!!

Friday November 18th College Night at the museum. 7pm-10pm Free admission with student IDs and free food. Student performances, fashion, and lots of art to see from the Rolling Sculptures exhibition. Zoot suits and flapper dresses optional

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Congratulations to Chris Yuda, Emily Jordan Smith, and Isys Hennigar, winners of the 2016 Park Pictures competition!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the competition- we had over 20 amazing submissions from all over the state! We hope to see you all November 6th for the NCMA Park Celebration as we celebrate the expansion of the park where the Park Pictures finalists’ work will be featured, as well as November 18th for our 5thAnnual College Night . 

Chris Yuda, ‘Apollo and Dionysus’

Emily Jordan Smith, ‘Metamorphosis’

Isys Hennigar, ‘All in an Instant’

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Vanessa Murray

UNC Chapel Hill

Yellow Place, 2016

I’m interested in the sensorial experiences we have to particular places in the natural world. I’m fascinated how certain spaces can fill or overwhelm the senses, creating a certain psychological space that we carry with us over time. I think about how this psychological space is transformed through memory and conjures questions of both the sublime and the void. This painting developed from thinking about these ideas and seeking out spaces that invoke awe, wonder and uncertainty in the world around me. The title Yellow Place is inspired by a couple of less well known works by Georgia O'Keefe that I spent a lot of time with at the Art Institute of Chicago as an undergraduate. The first is titled Black Place and another the White Place, both paintings are of the dessert landscape she was surrounded by and at the same time somehow deeply personal.

I was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1983. I grew up partly in South Florida. I received my BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005, where I lived and worked for a few years before returning to South Florida. I am currently in the MFA Studio Art Program at UNC Chapel Hill and reside in Carrboro.

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Valerie Register

Barton College

Swing, 2015

Growing up the majority of kids i knew, as well as,myself loved playing on the swings during recess. It was the first thing that everyone ran to and a staple of anyone’s childhood. As an adult, I still run to a swing every chance I get. This image represents how place affects identity because it shows how we turn back into children when “flying through the air” on a swing. It doesn’t matter where the swing is located, just as long as it lets us feel the wind on our face and brings back the feelings of being a kid again.

Valerie Register is a Junior at Barton College and is double majoring in Graphic Design and Business Administration. Her hometown is Randleman, North Carolina and she hopes to attend Graduate School in Savannah Georgia in the future. Art has always been a passion of hers and has found her true love in graphic design work.

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Shauna Caldwell Appalachian State University Fairy Tale, 2016

This photograph represents one of the deepest parts of my being. I have come to know my home and environment in a much more intimate way over the years, as I am bettering myself as an artist and person. This is a Place that I have grown in, creating the rooted sense of self that drives my work. This Place is who I am physically, socioeconomically, and culturally. Since college, I have made it an integral part of my art-making process to go back home to those roots and experience the magnificence that nurtured me with new, much more grateful lenses. This photograph is perfect for the NCMA Park because it creates a visual pathway between art, nature, and the vast sense of Place you wish to instill upon your visitors.

Shauna Caldwell is an artist from Boone, NC. Her roots in Appalachia and the grounding of tradition, as well as the desire to transform, drive her work to evoke thought and new understanding about our experiences. She is currently pursuing two Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degrees in Studio Art and Art Education at Appalachian State University.

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Lionell S. Thomas Dillard University Title of work: “All Me”, 2016

Artist Staement: The items that are be presented are closely registered things that could be accounted for as much deeper values. I’m a Capricorn, from New Orleans, La and love “love” and how it could be intense at moments. Me being from New Orleans, has definitely makes up most of my composition. It shows my strength and what I strive for on a daily bases. Me being from New Orleans speaks volumes to the masses, and my plan is to show that in every way. My favorite animal is a lion, because of the strength that these magnificent animals have. I’m a strong supporter of world peace and all that it in-tells. Lastly I’m a tech savvy type of guy .

Bio: Lionell is a 22-year-old New Orleans native visual artist. He says he likes to make his viewers wonder, and think about his pieces of artwork. Lionell states that he loves to paint, draw, and do many other things considering art. “When I paint, I like to use more of a realistic point of view, but also accommodate your imagination”. Lionell would like to attend a MFA program after graduation to pursue his dream as becoming a traveling studio artist. He plans to take his art around the world and expose many to his creativity, then someday Lionell plans to open his own learning arts center and much more.

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Lindsay Metivier

UNC Chapel Hill (Studio Art MFA)

Untitled (Ava’s Oranges), 08/16

Artist Statement -

Lindsay’s photographs exhibit a disquieting tension between harmony and chaos, fantasy and reality, darkness and light. Some of them are about love, loss, place, memory, the brutality of time’s passage, loneliness, decendterdness, – the list goes on.  Lindsay is interested in photography’s ability to give the world meaning. The manipulation inherent in the process brings to light questions about the nature of truth and what is real. She’s interested in how these truths are both elastic and seem to reflect basic, universal conditions of humanity. Through photography, she has found a space where she can explore a deeper understanding of both herself and of the world. This space of “inbetweenness” is destabilizing and slightly uncanny. Her images often are rooted in specificity, but evade fact.

Bio -

Lindsay Metivier (b.1985, Burlington, Vermont) is an artist and independent curator based in Boston, Massachusetts.  She holds an undergraduate degree from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is the proprietor of Aviary Gallery, an exhibition space and art book store with a digital photography lab. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art at UNC Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Her work has been shown most recently at Midway Gallery, Dorchester Art Project, Door 3 Gallery, Stonecrop Gallery and the Nave Gallery. Her work has been featured on Humble Arts Foundation and A New Nothing.

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Joy Meyer  UNC Chapel Hill, MFA Graduate Program in Studio Art  “Rooms Within Rooms Within Rooms”, 2015

What’s the connection between art, the phenomenology of place, and your sense of self? This can also extend to a larger cultural identity?

I see this work, Rooms Within Rooms Within Rooms" as a digital painting. The process for making this piece involved photographing layers of a painting as it is being painted. This particular painting was begun outdoors in my open air garage studio prior to graduate study, 2014. To me this image speaks to the memories we hold of the poetics spaces surrounding us and how these spaces refract and amplify in our recall of them.

I created this painting by taking the photographed paintings, layering in Photoshop, then the work is output on an Epson oversized printer. This work engages with a kind of ontological question about the nature of painting in a digital age. Much of my research and my recent studio work interrogates the history of Modern Western painting and raises questions surrounding my status as a woman in a historically male dominated lineage. My other recent art projects include a feminist response to Jackson Pollock’s Lavender Mist. I directly interact with his iconic “drip” by flogging the dripped paint onto canvas with toy floggers while dressed in a wedding gown.  The flogging in the video is sometimes humorously referred to as “whipping the drip.” This 45-endurance painting is captured and displayed on a single-channel video.

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Joy Meyer is an abstract artist living and working in North Carolina. As a contemporary artist Meyer interrogates the history of painting to explore ideas about love, sexuality, and gender.   As a feminist response to Jackson Pollock’s famous drip paintings the work is made by flogging paint onto the surface of two canvases. As I struggle with the action of painting, the materials begin to slowly cover my body and weigh down the wedding dress I am performing in. Other materials in the piece include milk, flour, eggs, calamine lotion, cotton balls, and lavender and noble blush house paint. She is currently a second year graduate student pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Previously, she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art and Art History, from the University of Virginia. Graduating with Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa in 2011.

Meyer has exhibited work at The Garage, The Bridge PAI, WTVF/Radio IQ Gallery, New City Arts, Art Works Gallery, The IX Building, and Ruffin Gallery.

Her work has appeared in The Virginia Literary Review, 3.7, Summmer, and in Mildred Pierce zine.

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Joel Hopler UNC Chapel Hill  Home/NotHome, 2016

Joel’s work is inspired by experiences related to the brokenness that occurs within verbal communication; which originates from him being Hard of Hearing. This experiences allows him to view the world from a place of “inbetweeness” since he is literally in between the Deaf and Hearing cultures. Being in between is what travel is all about but parks allow for a rare opportunity for inclusiveness and opportunities to share and grow. Visitors from all backgrounds can participate in a sort of social experiment where we watch how others interact with their children, find places of meditation, and create new friendships. Inspired by the hopefulness of what parks present, Joel has produced a piece that invokes a feeling of coming together while retaining individuality. The variety of shapes/forms in the work represents those individuals, while in the center there’s a sort of collaboration of gestural marks, encouraging the viewer to look throughout the collection as they would looking over a park and perhaps decide how to engage.

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Joel earned his MFA from UNC Charlotte in 2008 with a focus in painting. He is currently a Graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill.

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Jeanine Tatlock

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bars in Berlin, 2014

This photograph was taken during a summer I spent in Berlin studying graffiti.  I thought this piece of street art was especially potent in utilizing the bars over the window that were already part of the urban architecture.  Juxtaposed with the image of the young child, the bars speak to the idea that children often feel trapped or imprisoned when they are in situations where they lack agency.  That is just one take on a piece that could have many interpretations.  Another interesting juxtaposition, that probably happened by chance, is the sticker that says, “New Just City” with the bars that could also be interpreted as prison bars.  This is indicative of the “school to prison pipeline” that is characteristic of many inner cities.  Even graffiti is illegal in Berlin, which is surprising considering that the city is covered in it.

Jeanine Tatlock grew up in Indianapolis and moved to Florida at age 13.  She graduated from New College of Florida in Sarasota in 2015 with a BA in art.  Her thesis was titled, “Access: Graffiti Through a Privileged Lens.”  Before moving to Chapel Hill to begin her MFA at UNC, she worked at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts and Ringling College of Art and Design.  Her work has been exhibited nationally, in her “hometown” of Ruskin, Sarasota, Los Angeles, Oregon, and Tennessee. She also has a piece in the permanent collection of Miles McCollum (aka Lil Yachty).  Her current work focuses on institutional critique and the ways privilege is encoded into the architecture of institutions of higher education and fine art.