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Alix Hitchcock
Alix Hitchcock

Alix Hitchcock received her MA in painting from NYU, and her BFA in printmaking and painting from UNC-G. She was an Instructor in Drawing at Wake Forest…

Founding Artist

Barbara Lister-Sink
Barbara Lister-Sink

Barbara Lister-Sink (B.A., Smith College; Prix d’Excellence, Utrecht Conservatory; Ed. D., Columbia University) is passionate about both music and art. An internationally...

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David M. Kessler
David M. Kessler

David M. Kessler is a nationally recognized contemporary abstract painter, workshop painting instructor, author and...

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Elliot Strunk
Elliot Strunk

Elliot Strunk is a North Carolina transplant from Cleveland, Ohio, with a BFA in Graphic Design from Ohio University. An award-winning designer, he has...

Emerging Artist

Isabelle Berquin
Isabelle Berquin

Isabelle Berquin is an artist by passion, a scientist by training, and a translator by trade. Her work in biomedical research has profoundly influenced her art technique. She likes to...

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Joan Rutledge
Joan Rutledge

Originally from Connecticut, Joan Rutledge earned her BFA from Hartford Art School, then studied Graphic Design at the Art Institute of Boston. Before retiring, she...

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Kimberly Varnadoe
Kimberly Varnadoe

Kimberly Varnadoe received her BFA in Painting from the University of South Alabama and her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Memphis. She was Professor of Art ...

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Marsha Thrift Marion
Marsha Thrift Marion

Marsha Thrift Marion has always loved to draw and paint. Being honored with a green ribbon for a colored chalk drawing in the fourth grade piqued her interest in pursuing art...

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Pat Spainhour
Pat Spainhour

Pat Spainhour is a contemporary artist and art educator. She taught studio art and art history in the WSFC Schools and UNC School…

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Robyn Churn
Robyn Churn

Robyn Churn is an artist living and working in the Winston-Salem area. She moved to the Triad in 2011 with her husband and twin children for what was…

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Tim Bowman
Tim Bowman

Tim Bowman documents the landscape in Winston- Salem, his adopted hometown. He uses antique photographic processes and refashioned equipment to record his actual environment...

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Virginia Shepley
Virginia Shepley

Drawing from the practice of psychic automatism, Virginia Shepley's abstract forms and representational motifs reconcile the dualities of life. An abstract painter using line drawing and…

Emerging Artist

Yosimar Alvarez Gutierrez
Yosimar Alvarez Gutierrez

Yosimar Alvarez Gutierrez is a creative that works within many platforms—a few being traditional/digital art, graphic design, and wearable art. Whether it be a vibrant canvas piece or…

Emerging Artist

Amy A. Bronson
Amy A. Bronson

Amy A. Bronson is a self-taught abstract artist living in Winston-Salem. Since 2006, she has used a process of building layers of texture and color followed by partial...

Owner and Visionary

Carrie Leigh Dickey
Carrie Leigh Dickey

Carrie Leigh Dickey, Owner and Visionary of Artfolios, is an artist, designer, and marketer. She has a BA in studio art...

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Dean Roland Johnson
Dean Roland Johnson

Dean Roland Johnson has been painting with passion since childhood. While his professional journey has taken many paths, the common…

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Emily Clare
Emily Clare

Emily Clare is an artist living and working in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who’s imagination is sparked by natures beauty and mystique...

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James Gemma
James Gemma

James Gemma’s abstract art is a visual and conceptual exploration of the artistic relationships that can be created among and between colors and shapes. He may use...

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Kelsey Merreck Wagner
Kelsey Merreck Wagner

Kelsey Merreck Wagner (b. 1990) is a fiber artist, educator, curator, and anthropologist. She defines herself as an eco-artivist (art + activism). She completed...

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Laurie Basham
Laurie Basham

After receiving her Degree in Art Education from the University of Maryland in 1985, Laurie Basham spent 35 years as a public-school art educator in Maryland encouraging others…

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Melrose Buchanan
Melrose Buchanan

Melrose Tapscott Buchanan is an artist and an educator. She has taught drawing and painting classes and workshops at Reynolda House Museum of American Art...

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Patricia Dixon
Patricia Dixon

Since she was young Patricia Dixon knew that she would spend her life doing Art and making Music. Her parents fostered...

Artist Emeritus

Sara Bridgman
Sara Bridgman

Sara Bridgman lived in and through art for her 69 years on Earth. Her paintings are inhabited by lively spirits and layered in colorful mystery. Recurring characters in...

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Trena McNabb
Trena McNabb

Trena McNabb is a storyteller whose paintings piece together smaller scenes to create one cohesive narrative. She uses many layers of overlapping images to create…

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Will Willner
Will Willner

Will Willner’s passion is learning as much as he can about the medium of photography as possible, and consequently he has…

Artist Emeritus

Yvonne Peters Forbath
Yvonne Peters Forbath

Yvonne Peters Forbath, born in Vienna, Austria, began her love of art creating beautiful watercolor drawings as a young person. After meeting her husband at the end of WWII in Linz, Austria, she…

Artist Emeritus

Anne Kesler Shields
Anne Kesler Shields

A trailblazer for women artists in the South, Anne Kesler Shields maintained an active art career from her early twenties until her death and came to be regarded as...

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Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press
Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press

At Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press, we make many books. We make them as etchings and woodcuts, linoleum cuts and engravings. We hand-set type and...

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Diana Greene
Diana Greene

Diana Greene is a multimedia artist based in North Carolina, USA. Her photographs and films straddle the world of fine art and documentary. She believes...

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Frank Campion
Frank Campion

Frank Campion grew up in New York City. The Whitney, Guggenheim, The Met and MOMA were his playgrounds. He started painting at a young age and followed it through with a major in Fine Arts...

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Jessica Singerman
Jessica Singerman

Born in Bangor, Maine in 1980, Jessica Singerman lived alternatively in France and the United States during her early life. Singerman earned her BA...

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Kevin G. Owen
Kevin G. Owen

Professional architect, lifelong musician, and artist from as far back as he can remember, Kevin G Owen has always been creating...

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Lea Lackey-Zachmann
Lea Lackey-Zachmann

Lea Lackey-Zachmann achieved a BA in Art Education from Winthrop University and a MFA with Graduate Teacher’s Certification from the University of NC at Greensboro. She...

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Naomi Greenberg
Naomi Greenberg

Naomi Greenberg is a native of Kibbutz Cabri, Israel. She is the daughter of late Israeli artist Sara Samson and Stanley Greenberg of Chapel Hill, NC. From a young age...

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Paul Travis Phillips
Paul Travis Phillips

Paul Travis Phillips is a Winston-Salem conceptually based artist and educator. Phillips’ work is about philosophy and the limits of language, both written and spoken. Phillips co-opts and...

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Terri Dowell-Dennis
Terri Dowell-Dennis

Terri Dowell-Dennis uses techniques from sculpture, photography, printmaking, and quilting to create mixed-media works exploring identity, gender, and ancestry specific to...

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True Whiting
True Whiting

True Whiting creates from the place where the world of dreams and mythology intersects with the enchantment of nature and the lived human experience. Her...

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William Schumann
William Schumann

William Schumann was born and has lived in North Carolina for most of his life, but is also shaped by experiences living in the American Southeast and...

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