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Adopt an
Artist Program
Celebrates Five
Years of Success
One of the most popular programs
of the Arts Council of Carteret
County (ACCC)—Adopt an Artist—
celebrates its first five years with an
art exhibition open to the public
featuring the work of ACCC-member
artists participating in the program.
The art exhibition will be held at the
Beaufort Art Center on Turner Street
Adopt an Artist participants. Top: Autumn
Calling by Heather Sink. Above: Lowe’s Garden
Center by Ann Ross.
I
found I could say things
with color and shapes that
I couldn’t say any other way things I had no words for.
- Georgia O’Keeffe
arts events
november 2012
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dopt an Artist Art Exhibition A
Beaufort Art Center, Turner Street
30
3 rd Annual Downtown Christmas
Art Walk
december 2012
30
Saturday, November 3, and Sunday,
November 4. Show hours on Saturday
are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday,
12 noon to 4 p.m. All art exhibited
will be for sale.
During the span of the Adopt-anArtist program, nearly 30 ACCCmember artists were “adopted” by
some 40 local companies in their
places of business. For a two-month
period on a rotating basis throughout
the year, businesses select the artist
and his or her work for display.
The program’s innovativeness and
popularity drew the attention of the
North Carolina Arts Council, which
promoted it as a model for other Arts
Councils throughout the state.
ACCC Treasurer and Board
Member Sally Lumpkin, who is the
creator of and program administrator
for Adopt an Artist, notes that “over
the past five years this program has
brought a great deal of awareness of
the arts, artists, and the Arts Council
to this county. We are so appreciate
of ALL the participants, especially
the businesses, who are our free walls.
They are helping us to accomplish
two of our organization’s missions: to
promote and expand the arts.”
“ Bringing in the New Year on the
Crystal Coast,” Carteret County
Children’s Art Show
february 2013
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egistration Open for Art From
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The Heart
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Art From The Heart Show Opens
what’s inside
2012 events
Art From The Heart
ARTrageous
Summer Art Camp
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2012-2013
ACCC Board of Directors
President
Sandra Malone
Vice President
Pam Cooper
Secretary
Lee Lumpkin
Treasurer
Sally Lumpkin
Past President
Bob Malone
Board Members
Donal Barbee
Forrest Berry
Tim Bradford
Dot Crumley
Myrna B. Eure
Mark Golitz
Rich Farrell
Pam Holliday
Lela McClanahan
Heather Sink
Jim Storholt
Diane Warrender
Message from the President
I
t has been absolutely thrilling to be
President of the Arts Council at a time
when the arts community is growing
and becoming more vibrant each day. We
have devoted Board members who manage
to always step up to the plate for all of the
activities we are involved in. I would like to
extend a heartfelt thank you to our board,
our growing membership, our volunteers
and supporters, and the community at large
for their belief in and support of the arts in
our community. Carteret County is truly
becoming an arts destination on the Crystal
Coast, and it gives us all great pride in seeing
our artists recognized in so many ways.
This special edition of ArtsNews
describes the breadth and depth of programs
your Arts Council brought to the community
this year. A couple of the program highlights
include:
The Arts News is published for
members of the Arts Council of
Carteret County.
• The 22d Annual Art From The Heart,
one of the region’s largest art shows held in
February, had a very successful two-weeklong exhibition featuring 150 artists and
270 works of art. A companion Student Art
Show, featuring the work of K-12 students
in public and private schools, displayed over
1,000 pieces of art in both two and threedimensions.
Editor
Bob Malone
• The 3rd Annual ARTrageous Show,
held the third weekend in May, drew nearly
40 exhibitors, who were juried into the show.
Design
Jill Miller
• The Arts Council last spring brought
Photography Credits
Sally Lumpkin
Bob Malone
Sandi Malone
Doug Prouty
The Arts Council of Carteret County
PO Box 2294
Morehead City NC 28557
252.726.9156
artscouncilcarteret@gmail.com
www.artscouncilcarteret.org
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mission statement
The Arts Council of Carteret County
is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization.
Its mission is to encourage and support the
development, promotion, and expansion of the
arts in Carteret County.
theatrical performances to over 1,000 fourth
graders in the public school system.
• The Arts Council awarded its first-ever
scholarships to students pursuing arts-related
fields at the college level, in the amount of
$4,000.
• This summer’s Art Camp drew
record attendance this year, in part due to
new program offerings in music (guitar)
instruction and pottery. ACCC scholarship
funds were enhanced by support from three
local Rotary clubs.
• The Arts Council’s signature Adopt an
Artist program—which the North Carolina
Arts Council has promoted as a model to
other arts councils in the state—reached its
five-year anniversary in November.
To help the Arts Council grow its
program offerings, we encourage our artists
to become more involved and to suggest
more ways that we can support them. We
encourage the business community to support
us by sponsoring children to the Summer
Art Camp or by becoming a supporter of our
art exhibits or contributing to the ACCC’s
scholarship fund to support high school
seniors and Carteret Community College
students who want to pursue educations in
the arts. On behalf of the Arts Council, I
look forward to your participation in the
coming year.
Sandra Malone
President, ACCC
The mission of the North Carolina Arts Council is to
make North Carolina a better state through the arts.
The council nurtures and supports excellence in
the arts, and provides opportunities for every North
Carolinian to experience the arts. A division of the
Department of Cultural Resources (www.ncculture.
com), the Arts Council serves as a catalyst for the
development of arts organizations and facilities
throughout North Carolina with grant funding and
technical assistance.
Art From the Heart Proves an
Outstanding Success in 2012
Thanks to all who made the Arts Council of Carteret
County’s 22nd Annual Art From the Heart art show an
outstanding success--150 artists displaying 270 works of
art (two and three-dimensional work and photography);
record attendance from the general public; and another
overflow crowd at the Chamber’s Business After Hours
event, which previewed the opening of the show. Thanks
also to our registration volunteers and gallery sitters whose
meet-and-greet help made Art From The Heart deserving
of recognition as one of the region’s largest art shows.
The People’s Choice Award winner is based on the
total votes from the public during the course of Art From
The Heart. This year the award goes to Lena Ennis for her
“Still Life,” who is also an Award of Excellence winner.
The list of award winners, and information about the show
judge are shown on page 10.
The Chamber’s Business After Hours event drew
overflow crowds to the Art From The Heart galleries.
The 22nd Annual Art From the Heart show gallery is an
exhibition and sale of original artwork created by artists
from Carteret, Craven, Onslow and Pamlico counties, as
well as other ACCC member artists from North Carolina
and the Coastal Eastern Seaboard. Art From the Heart is a
non-juried show featuring the creative talents of artists at
all levels of expertise.
Two and three-dimensional artwork in all media
including oils, acrylics, charcoals, pastels, watercolors,
collage, photography, mixed media, pottery, woodturning,
fiber art, jewelry and sculpture are exhibited in this show.
The list of award winners in two and three dimensional art
as well as photography is shown on page 10.
Top: The Chamber’s Business After Hours event drew overflow crowds
to the Art From The Heart galleries. Above: Lena Ennis (l) accepts the
People’s Choice Award prize from Sandra Malone, Arts Council president.
Below: Art From The Heart galleries displayed a wide variety of art in a
variety of media.
Arts News • Fall 2012 • 3
Arts Council Awards Its First Scholarships
The Arts Council of Carteret County awarded its
first-ever scholarships in spring 2012 to three students
who were on track to pursue arts-related fields as their
major focus of study at the college level.
Sara Huckaby graduated with honors with an associate in fine arts degree from Carteret Community College.
She is attending the University of North Carolina at
Asheville in the competitive arts program. Sara received
a $2,000 scholarship from the Arts Council (and is shown
below with Sandra Malone, ACCC president).
The Arts Council also awarded a $1,000 scholarship each to Kelly Francis Erickson and Samuel Taylor
Hopkins (shown below with Sandra Malone, ACCC
president), both West Carteret High School graduating seniors. Ms. Erickson is pursuing a degree in theatre
education at UNC-Greensboro. Mr. Hopkins is pursuing a
degree in film studies (with a goal of becoming a producer) at UNC-Wilmington.
The Arts Council will announce an application process for future scholarship awards in the arts in early 2013.
ACCC, BluSail
Host Book Signing
For U.S. Launch
The Arts Council, in conjunction with
BluSail Gallery in Morehead City, NC, played
host in June to a book signing by the author/
illustrator for the U.S. launch of “Olivia Long
Life Sweet Dreams,” a children’s book that debuted to rave reviews in the United Kingdom in
March. The author/illustrator Tara Nolty Johnston was born and raised in New York, and relocated to Oxford, UK in 2001 where she teaches
preschool art and is an early childhood educator.
According to the publisher (English Rose
Publishing), “Olivia” celebrates “a child’s wonAuthor Tara Nolty Johnston entrances children as she reads from her new book.
drous imagination and a parent’s love through
an enchanting story of discovery: a little girl who lost a tooth learns about the legend of The Tooth Fairy; in her search
for knowledge, she finds that there is someone equally as magical much closer to home.” The book features 27 original
illustrations by the author. The book signing drew an attentive audience as the picture above indicates. Tara reports that
a second children’s book is in the works.
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Bunco Continues to Raise Funds
The Arts Council sponsored its 4th Annual Bunco
Tournament, which was held March 20 at Floyd’s Restaurant. Attendees wore their “cheeriest or most outrageous
Spring attire and hats” to compete in the “Best Dressed”
contest. The tournament has proven to be a very popular
event for the Arts Council, raising funds (this year over
$1,200) to support the organization’s scholarship program.
Quilting Innovation Award Given
Carol Stens is shown with her quilt, which received
from the Arts Council the Merit Award for Innovation in Quilting. The award was presented during the
Crystal Coast Quilt Guild’s show in May. Carol says
that “my fellow quilters and I always enjoy visiting
the ACCC’s Art From The Heart show, where we are
inspired by the collective creative talent on display.”
2012-2013 Grassroots Subgrantees
The Arts Council awarded its Grassroots Grants
for 2012-2013 to the following organizations:
American Music Festival ($3,000) for an outreach
program featuring instrument workshops for local
high school bands; Carolina Artists Studio ($1,700)
for pottery instruction; Carteret Community Theatre ($1,200) for support of multicultural, ethnic
programing featuring BrightStar Theatre productions presented to Carteret County public school
students during Black History month; Crystal Coast
Choral Society ($2,000) for support of two concerts;
and Down East Folk Arts Society ($800) for support
of outreach concerts.
Top (l-r) Crystal Coast Choral Society, Larry Hughes, president,
Richard White, treasurer; American Music Festival, John
Harris, treasurer, Linda Seale, president; Carolina Artists
Studio, Sea Jane McConlogue, artist member; Pam Cooper,
ACCC vice president and Grassroots Grants coordinator;
and the Carteret Community Theatre, Bob Malone, CCT board
member. Bottom: Down East Folk Arts Society, Kathy Tanner,
representative (r), with ACCC’s Pam Cooper.
Arts News • Fall 2012 • 5
ARTrageous
2012
Art Fair on the Streets in Downtown Morehead
City Draws New Records in Exhibitors, Audience
The Arts Council’s 3rd Annual ARTra-
over $3,000 in commissions. The pictures
geous Show, held May 19-20 in conjunction
below show some of the scope of artwork
with the Downtown Morehead City Revi-
in this year’s ARTrageous event. Congratu-
talization Association’s Family Boating and
lations for a very successful event go to
In-water Boat Show, drew a record number
Sandi Malone and Pam Holliday, program
of exhibitors as well as record crowds at-
administrators, and to Tim Bradford and
tending both events.
Jim Storholt, ACCC board members who
Nearly 40 exhibitors occupied portions
provided exhibit management assistance.
of 5th and 6th streets and Evans St., with
some vendors coming to the ACCC event
from South Carolina, the coast and mountains of Virginia, and virtually all regions of
North Carolina. All exhibitors were juried
into this year’s ARTrageous event.
New to this exhibit was a “Budding
Artists” booth, which featured the work of
Christian Swearingen, a Morehead City
high school senior; a caricature artist offering humorous sketches of passersby; and a
large canvas where visitors attending the art
show were encouraged to pick up a brush
and contribute to the beach scene mural.
Exhibitors reported brisk sales and
Sally Anger
Christian Swearingen
Caricature Artist B
Linda Larrymore
Bruce Stevenson
Chris Wagner
Budding Street Artists
Dale Davis
Michele Blank
Summer Art Camp Captivates Record Numbers
The Arts Council’s Summer Art
Camp—a local staple for youth ages
10-13 in early August—drew record
interest and attendance this year, in
part due to new program offerings in
music (guitar) instruction and pottery.
Nearly 30 youngsters spent a week engaged in creating artwork in painting/
drawing and digital photography/computer-generated art; another 14 were
in drama camp learning about masks
and make-up, doing improvisations,
and performing a short play (“Peddler
Polly and the Story Stealer”) as part
of their “Graduation Day.”
The new offering of music
(guitar) instruction afforded seven
youngsters (principally from the
Boys and Girls Club of Beaufort and
Coastal Carolina) the opportunity to
learn proper fingering techniques and
several songs, which they performed
on “Graduation Day.”
The other new ACCC Summer
Art Camp offering was a week in
pottery instruction at BluSail Gallery,
an Arts Council business member
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in Morehead City. There 16 youth
learned from Mark Golitz, gallery
co-owner, pottery wheel skills to create bowls, cups, and vases, and from
Catherine Thornton, noted sculptor
and guest artist, clay hand building
and how to make clay art. Texturing
and carving skills were taught as students made figures and tiles. The final
day was spent painting and glazing
as students finished their creations,
assisted by Lynn Golitz, gallery coowner, and Sandi Malone.
The overall success of this year’s
Summer Art Camp, held on the
Carteret Community College campus,
is attributed to the dedication of the
following instructors: Bob Malone,
drama; Lela McClanahan, drawing and Art Camp co-coordinator;
Erin Fitzpatrick, photography; Daris
O’Brien, music—and their assistants—Katie Dixon, drama; Brian
Kraus, painting; Doug Prouty and
Karen Baggott, photography; and
Julius McCabe, music. ACCC Board
Member Myrna Eure served as Art
Camp co-coordinator in charge of
registration and logistics.
Thanks go to Carteret Community College and to BluSail Gallery for
the use of their facilities; to Beaufort
Ole Towne Rotary, Morehead City
Noon Rotary, and Morehead City
Rotary for their scholarship support;
and to Boys and Girls Club for use of
the club’s guitars (donated by country
music star Bonnie Raitt) for the music
track.
The pictures on these two pages
display the array of fun and activities
of Summer Art Camp 2012.
Arts News • Fall 2012 • 9
2012 ART FROM THE
HEART WINNING ARTISTS
Awards of Excellence in Two and
Three Dimensional Work 2012
Georgia Mason
Verena Murvin
Mark Golitz Dick Wray Lorraine McElroy Sandra Malone Lynn Golitz Sally Anger Susan Henry Susan Pelletier Sue Scoggins Christina Berner Sue Lawrence “Alpha X Neutral”
“Richard’s Favorite”
“Blue Wave”
“Spaulted Peach
Hollow Form”
“Summertime”
“Dancing on the
Beach”
“Shed at Gillikin
Boatyard-Radio
Island”
“Helen”
“Dawson Creek Oak”
“One Martini Dream”
“Sails on Pamlico”
“LuLu”
“22 Caliber Bouquet”
Honorable Mention in
Art 2012
Lena Ennis Eleanor McArver Rick Hooper Eileen Williams Christina Berner “Still Life”
“Morning Time”
“The Heist”
“Porgies”
“Choices”
Awards of Excellence in
Photography 2012
Karen Mault
Beth Kohutek Andei Keough Chuck Beckley “All Hands on Deck”
“Trending Now”
“Ireland Spirits”
“Ferries Passing in
the Rain”
Honorable Mention in
Photography 2012
Lee Lumpkin Sophia McHarney David Vogt “Laurel Mill”
“Closed for the
Season”
“Shuttered WindowTalmont, France”
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Coming Events
November 30 • 3rd Annual Downtown Christmas Art Walk
in conjunction with the Downtown Morehead City Revitalization Association
Join Downtown Morehead City art galleries and studios from 4 p.m. to 8
p.m. as the Christmas season opens with activities, demonstrations, and
shopping, supported by the Arts Council. A large Christmas tree will
be adorned with ornaments, created and painted by local artists. The
ornaments will be available for sale, all proceeds of which will support
school-age children.
December 30 • Bringing in the New Year on the Crystal Coast
in conjunction with the Crystal Coast Countdown
The Arts Council, in conjunction with the Crystal Coast Countdown,
will sponsor an art competition featuring all Carteret County schoolage children K-5. Artwork created to interpret the theme “Bringing
in the New Year on the Crystal Coast” will be entered into a judged
competition, with prizes awarded based on creativity and imagination of
the theme. All artwork submitted in the competition will be displayed
throughout the community during the holiday season.
For more information about these events, contact Sandi Malone, Arts Council
of Carteret County, P.O. Box 2294, Morehead City, NC 28557, 252-7269156, artscouncilcarteret@gmail.com, www.artscouncilcarteret.org.
February / March 2013 • Art From The Heart
The Arts Council’s 23d Annual Art From The Heart will be held February 15 to March 2, 2013. The show will open with a public reception on
Friday, February 15, with the show gallery open free to the public seven
days a week through Saturday, March 2. The Chamber of Commerce
Business After Hours will be held on Thursday, February 21.
Art From The Heart is one of the region’s largest exhibitions of fine art
by artists from Carteret, Craven, Pamlico, and Onslow Counties. Entry
rules, applications, and fees will be posted on the Arts Council’s website
– www.artscouncilcaretet.org – by end-2012. Registration for artists will
be held February 8, 9, and 10, 2013.
The companion Student Art Show, featuring the artwork of students
K-12 in Carteret County public, private, and charter schools, will be
scheduled and announced by end-2012.
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Arts News • Fall 2012 • 11
The Arts Council of Carteret County
PO Box 2294
Morehead City NC 28557
ACCC Thanks You!
The Arts Council
of Carteret
County would
like to thank the
ACCC member
corporations
who have made significant
contributions during the past
year. It is through contributions
such as these that the Arts
Council is able to provide quality
programming for the arts.
For those who are interested
in becoming members of the
Arts Council, please see the
membership form inside.
Benefactor
Sponsor
Support
Chalk & Gibbs Insurance
& Real Estate
Emerald Isle Realty
Holly’s Art Escapes
Irene’s Art Studio
JM Davis Industries
Johnson Family Dentistry
Sound Bank
The Star Team
Williams Hardware