Recap: May 3rd Studio Visit
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- May 14
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Did you miss the May 3rd Studio Visit? Alix Hitchcock, Lea Lackey-Zachmann, and Terri Dowell-Dennis share with you Studio 434 in Winston-Salem. Check out the video that follows! If you would like to schedule a private studio tour, please reach out to Carrie Leigh Dickey, Owner and Visionary, at carrie@artfolios.shop.
THE ARTISTS:
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 University for 23 years. She has also taught art at Salem College, UNCSA, Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts, East Carolina University, Reynolda House Museum ofAmerican Art, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Hitchcock was the W-S Artist of the Year in 1998. She has exhibited widely in N.C. including Artworks Gallery, Hawthorne Gallery, Salem College Fine Arts Gallery, Diggs Gallery, Delta Fine Arts Gallery, the Sawtooth Center’s Davis Gallery, Milton Rhodes Gallery, Waterworks Gallery, Green Hill Center for NC Art, The Center for Creative Leadership, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Meredith College, Lee Hansley Gallery, Appalachian State Univ. Center Gallery, Somerhill Gallery, and Central Piedmont Community College. In addition, she has been in shows in Kentucky, Virginia, South Carolina, New York City, and Wyoming.
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 is retired from teaching—having taught art at High Point University for 29 years and Salem College for 12 years with additional positions at various colleges in North and South Carolina—yet has painted continuously for the last 40 years. She finds mental and emotional attributes mirrored in nature: these serve as compelling inspiration for making visual statements. Her paintings are prone to expand beyond the frame. Using Dura lar, she creates 3-D sculpture like paintings. (Dura lar is an archival medium—it won’t crack, yellow, burn, or tear—that allows acrylic and water-based paints to adhere.) This “coming off of the canvas” hints to vitality and life. Lea and her husband Tim live with their two dogs and their cat. They garden and continue to renovate their 104-year-old house.
Terri Dowell-Dennis uses techniques from sculpture, photography, printmaking, and quilting to create mixed-media works exploring identity, gender, and ancestry specific to Appalachian culture. She holds a BS in Art Education, Appalachian State University, Boone NC; an MFA from Clemson University, Clemson SC; and a MALS degree from Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC, with a focus on religious studies. Terri served as Curator of Education (and performance) for SECCA, Winston-Salem (1990-2008) and Associate Curator of Education for Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC until 2022. In these roles she worked closely with many artists and performers including Lesley Dill, Fred Wilson, Tim Rollins, Willie Birch, and Liz Lerman. Terri is two-time recipient of a North Carolina Artist Fellowship (2000, 2006). From 2003-07, her work traveled in five southeastern states with Thresholds: Expressions of Art and Spiritual Life, curated by Eleanor Heartney. Other exhibitions include Woman's Work at Bennett College, Greensboro, NC (2013); Reverences with Donna Polseno at the Taubman Museum of Art, curator David Brown (2009), and Thinking Through Making at SECCA, curator Wendy Earle (2021).
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