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Emerging Carolinas
September 27th - November 4th, 2010

THE EXHIBIT

HUB-BUB partnered with Converse College to organize the first Emerging Carolinas, a juried show that highlights the vast emerging talent of visual artists who are residents of or attend schools of higher education in North and South Carolina.  Submissions for Emerging Carolinas were limited to artists between the ages of 20 and 35 years old.  These are the same guidelines that apply to the HUB-BUB Artists-in-Residence Program, a ground-breaking program that is quickly becoming one of the top community-based residency programs in the nation. 

Applicants were allowed to submit up to 3 works of art to be considered for the show.  Because The Showroom Gallery is a versatile art space which hosts events that often spill out into the gallery space (like live music and yoga workshops), all work for the show had to be able to hang on the wall.  57 artists applied to Emerging Carolinas (18 from North Carolina, 39 from South Carolina).  All entries were collected online and viewed remotely by our juror, Bill Dunlap.  Dunlap selected 31 pieces from 24 of the 57 artists to be displayed in the gallery.         

Emerging Carolinas is an exciting opportunity for HUB-BUB and for the artists who were accepted.  This show was made possible thanks to the partnership with Converse College and funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

William Dunlap has distinguished himself as an artist, arts commentator and educator, during a career that has spanned more than three decades.

His paintings, sculpture and constructions are included in prestigious collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Lauren Rogers Museum, Mobil Corporation, Riggs Bank, IBM Corporation, Federal Express, The Equitable Collection, Rogers Ogden Collection, Arkansas Art Center, the United States State Department, and United States Embassies throughout the world. 

He has had solo exhibitions at the Corocoran Gallery of Art, National Academy of Science, Aspen Museum of Art, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Museum of Western Virginia, Albany Museum of Art, Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Mint Museum of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, to name but a few. Panorama of the American Landscape, his fourteen panel, 112 feet long cyclorama painting depicting a contemporary view of the Shenandoah Valley in summer and the Antietam battlefield in winter, was commissioned for the Rotunda Gallery at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1985, but since its debut has been shown in nearly a dozen American museums and art centers, its most recent venue being the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA. In addition, Reconstructed Recollections and In the Spirit of the Land are also exhibitions of Mr. Dunlap's work that continue major tours.

A Winding River: Contemporary Painting from Vietnam, an exhibition he co-curated, opened at the Meridian International Center in Washington, DC during the 1997-98 season and traveled to several American museums. He also co-curated a counterpoint to that project: Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century which opened at the Meridian International Center as well and is traveling throughout Southeast Asia. Currently, he is working on another exhibition to open at the Meridian International Center, that of contemporary Cuban painting.

Honored in his field, Mr. Dunlap has received awards and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Foundation for study and travel in Southeast Asia, Warhol Foundation, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art/RJR Nabisco Visual Artists Award, and the Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.
 
He is an inspired speaker and has lectured on art related subjects at colleges, universities, institutions and professional conferences. He serves as arts commentator on WETA-TV's cultural round table show, "Around Town."

William Dunlap has an M.F.A. from the University of Mississippi, and taught at Appalachian State University in North Carolina (1970-79) and Memphis State University (1979-80.) He currently maintains studios in McLean, Virginia; Mathiston, Mississippi and Coral Gables, Florida.

THE ARTISTS

Scott Neely

Scott Neely works in a range of media, including writing, painting, and printmaking. He has led literary and visual collaborative projects on issues of diversity, race, and religious pluralism, including as the Writer-in-Residence for Spartanburg Regional Foundation's Healing Arts program in 2006–07. He serves as Pastoral Executive at First Presbyterian Church here in Spartanburg. artistsguildofspartanburg.com/scott_neely.php


Carolyn Cetone

Carolyn is a 20-year-old South Carolina native, born and raised in Spartanburg, and currently attends Savannah College of Art and Design as a Junior in Fashion.


Susan Watson

Susan was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska, and started painting at age 14. At age 18, she moved to New York City to study art at Cooper Union and Columbia University. After also briefly living in Miami and Chapel Hill, she has now lived and worked in Seneca, SC, for the last four years.
susanhwatson.com


Beth Fadeley

Born in Columbia, SC, Beth Fadeley received her BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005 and her MA in Art History from the University of South Carolina in 2010.  She currently lives and works in Columbia.
bethfadeley.com



Jeffrey Young

"Born and raised in Spartanburg, SC, Jeffrey Young's 8 year body of work ""Left over Lint"" chronicles the upstate's mill villages. These images from ""Subjective Placement"" are a continuation and complex study of these areas. "
jeffreyyoungphoto.com



Amanda Micheletto-Blouin

Amanda currently lives in Greenville, NC, and attends East Carolina University as a Master of Fine Art candidate, focusing her study in the Textile Design program. She has lived in North Carolina for 6 years, first moving to Durham in 2004. She was the Regional Emerging Artist at Artspace in Raleigh, NC in 2005.
amandamicheletto.com

Katelyn Jacobs

Katelyn was born and raised in Mocksville, NC.


Lane Brown

Lane is currently a senior at University of South Carolina Upstate, pursuing a career in art and illustration. His work is often very imaginative, dwelling in the realm of fantasy and science fiction.
lanebrownart.com


Jean Gray Mohs

Jean Gray Mohs is an artist originally from North Carolina.  Her current work is very process-driven and is a reflection of experiences, relationships and boundaries in her life. After traveling for some time, she has nestled back into the sweet arms of North Carolina and is an active teacher, writer, illustrator and artist.
jeangraydrake.com


Jim Arendt (grand prize winner)

Jim Arendt works at SC State University managing the Fine Arts Department's contemporary exhibition space, FAB Gallery. Born during the waning years of the Carter administration and surviving both the Farm Crisis and Farm Aid, he struck off to remake the world in his own image, torpedoes be damned.
jimarendt.com


Julie Anne Greenberg

Julie Anne Greenberg  was born in New Jersey and received her BFA in sculpture at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. She received her MFA in printmaking from The Ohio State University, and currently lives, works and teaches a variety of art courses in and around Raleigh, NC. 

S. M. Bower

S. M. Bower is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. His passion, however, is pinhole photography.
flickr.com/photos/stevenbower 

Amanda Barbarito

Amanda Barbarito spent her childhood on a farm in western Tennessee and attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Barbarito moved to the South Carolina's upstate three years ago where she teaches art at Creating Artists for Tomorrow. 
amandabarbarito.com


Rachael Madeline

Rachael Madeline moved to Clemson, SC, for graduate school in 2005 and has made the upstate her home since. She earned her MFA in Printmaking in 2007, and currently she works from her studio and teaches art history and drawing courses at Tri-County Technical College.
flickr.com/photos/rachaelmadeline



Bridget Conn

Bridget Conn is a photographic, mixed media and installation artist from Asheville, NC. She has taught for a number of colleges, and currently is an instructor at the Phil Mechanic Studios Public Darkroom. Her latest installation will open in November at Pack Place in downtown Asheville.
countingbirds.net


Jesse English

Jesse is an adjunct art professor at North Carolina colleges.  This area reminds me of where I grew up, central Arkansas.  His work often focuses on natural beauty through sculpture and video.  This time, not so much.
jesseenglish.mosaicglobe.com



Carley Drew

Spending hours outside as a child covered in the signature red clay of South Carolina and exploring in the woods has always led to a fascination with natural forms and the tendency to collect objects from around her home in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.  This fascination with the world around her has led to the use natural materials, such as red clay, mixed in with traditional media in conjunction with the current focus of her work about the concept of natural history and the human element within it.
 

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