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Greg Shelnutt
Director of Visual Arts, Visual Arts (2000) Sculpture, NC School of the Arts
Ceramics B.F.A., East Carolina University; M.F.A., University of Georgia.
From 1988-2000, Mr. Shelnutt taught sculpture for the University of Mississippi. In 1991, he taught for the University of Georgia's Studies Abroad in Cortona, Italy, and in 1992, he was a visiting artist at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. His residencies include the Community Council for the Arts in Kinston, N.C.; the Association for Visual Artists in Chattanooga, Tenn.; and the New York Mills Arts Retreat in New York Mills, Minn. In 1994, he received a Visual Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission and an Emerging Artist Grant from the Jerome Foundation.
His work has been in more than 250 solo, invitational, juried and group exhibitions, both nationally and abroad. In 2005, he traveled to Auckland, New Zealand, to conduct a series of workshops and lectures in association with The Suitcase Show, an exhibition of 42 sculptures he curated that was exhibited at Artstation, Auckland City's community arts facility, and the Percy Thompson Gallery in Stratford.
Will Taylor
Visual Arts (2005) Drawing
B.F.A. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; M.F.A. Pratt Institute
Will Taylor’s drawings and films are included in the Drawing Center’s Viewing Program (NYC), Artists Space’s digital slide registry (NYC), and Pierogi 2000’s Video File (Brooklyn, NY). His collaborative works with Brooklyn artists Jack Warren and Caleb Scott have been included in a variety of exhibitions including the Trisha Brown Dance Company Benefit at Pace Wildenstein (NYC). With the support of the Combustive Motor Corporation (Brooklyn, NY), Taylor founded the “charred and lacquered” film series in 2001. The “charred and lacquered revival” continues as a multidisciplinary art collective interested in promoting innovative and challenging works of art through the adaptive reuse of alternative spaces.
His work has been presented as the subject of public symposia for such critics and curators as Donald Kuspit, Dan Cameron (New Museum of Contemporary Art), Laura Hoptman (Museum of Modern Art), and Eugenie Tsai (Whitney Museum of American Art). At the Fourth Annual Cultural Studies Conference, Taylor paneled a discussion entitled “A Critique of Everyday Articulations: Globalized Subjects and Aesthetics of Fragmented Spaces.”
Co-Moderator Chuck Egerton
Chuck Egerton teaches photography and design at Randolph Community College's (RCC) nationally recognized Photo Program. He believes the success of the image is not in tools or processes, but in the photographer's vision. A BFA in Drawing/Painting from Maryland Institute (MICA) and an AAS in Commercial Photography from RCC lead to employment by Nortel Networks as corporate photographer and extensive travel for their publications. Teaching for over 15 years, he is Program Head of Photography at RCC. Passionate about justice and cultural unity, Chuck was awarded four grants for "CommonVisions: Photographic Explorations of Unity in Diversity," a community project using photography to dismantle racism and create bridges between diverse people. A twenty-year member of ASMP/NC Chuck served on its "revival" steering committee and is now an enthusiastic board member.
Co-Moderator Margo Pinkerton
A former co-president of ASMP/New England, former ASMP national board member, and former president of the New Hampshire Art Association, Margo Pinkerton has been active in ASMP and the arts in various capacities since the early 80's when she started her photography business. A longtime volunteer in many organizations, Margo has also spoken widely to ASMP and other creative groups on copyright, business practices, and creativity, as well as shared her photographs as guest speaker. Her work has appeared in such journals as National Geographic Traveler, Vogue, Caribbean Travel & Life, GEO, numerous text and table-top books, and her images have been juried into a number of shows. She and her husband, Arnie Zann, work together doing advertising and corporate work worldwide. Margo is currently co-president of the North Carolina chapter of ASMP.
As a jump point for our discussion, we will start out with a DVD on creativity by Dewitt Jones, former National Geographic photographer, whose work has appeared in many ad campaigns.
Some of the questions we will address include:
- Where does inspiration come from?Where can I find fresh ideas and concepts?
- How can I avoid creative block and burn out?
- If I get creatively burned out, what can I do?
- What is style? And how can I develop my own unique style?
- Is it okay to borrow ideas and concepts for my work from other sources?
- How do the right and left brain contribute/inhibit creativity?
- How does the "less is more" principle help in the creative process.
- What are some good resources to help in the creative process? (we will have a handout on this)
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