Exhibits at the Arts Center
Hampton Gallery
19th Annual Lenoir County Artist League Members Exhibition
Locals Only
November 17, 2011-January 12, 2012 Gallery Reception: Thursday, November 17, 5:30-7:30
During this reception, the Arts Center will also host the Kinston/Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce’s Business After Hours. Entertainment will be provided by the Youth Jazz Ensemble of the Arts Council.
This juried exhibition is open only to active members of the Lenoir County Artist League. Each participant is allowed to enter four original works, upon which time the juror, Wilmington based artist, Chappy Valente, will judge the work. The Lenoir County Artist League is an umbrella organization of the Community Council for the Arts.
Permanent Collection Gallery
Chappy Valente
Wilmington, North Carolina
Juror for our Locals Only Exhibition
Chappy Valente has extensive knowledge of portraiture–having trained at the Art Students League of New York; large scale scenic murals–evidenced in a commission at the New Hanover County Library, his work as a scenic artist for the film industry in the 1990s, and the restoration of a ceiling mural at Thalian Hall; and painting en plein air–Chappy studied abroad at the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy, a “defining moment” in his understanding of and appreciation for painting the landscape en plein air.
Don't miss Mr. Valente's Workshop "Still Life in Oil Painting"...
Minges Gallery
Kinston/Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce’s Heritage Exhibit
The Chamber is currently seeking items for inclusion into this Exhibit. These items will be on loan to the Chamber for the exhibit. The items will be carefully handled and displayed by the staff of the Community Council for the Arts. The exhibit will be photographed to be included in the Chamber’s Heritage Time Capsule which will be dedicated during a special Heritage Time Capsule Ceremony in 2012 and buried in Centennial Corner. The exhibit will offer a glimpse of what life was like in Kinston over the past 100 years. Examples of donated objects include: photographs, awards, newspapers and clippings, advertising articles/pieces, recordings from citizens, proclamations from the city and county government, state legislature and the governor, as well as other artifacts. The items, complete with the name of the person or organization donating them, will be included in the November display and displayed again at the Chamber’s Annual Banquet in January 2012.
Music Studio Gallery
North Carolina’s African American Music Trail
Portraits by Cedric N. Chatterley and Titus Brooks Heagins
Historic Photographs from Private Collections
A historic music center of eastern North Carolina, Kinston has fostered a deep and diverse African American cultural heritage of musical tradition-bearers and innovators.
The Arts Center presents photographs of the vibrant musical culture of Edgecombe, Greene, Lenoir, Nash, Pitt, Wayne and Wilson counties in this evocative historical and contemporary exhibition.
Guild Room Gallery
Henry Pearson and Friends
This exhibition is included in the Permanent Collection of the Kinston Community Council for the Arts. Henry Pearson (1914-2006) was born in Kinston, NC. From humble beginnings, Pearson became a pioneer of Op Art in the 1960s. Inspired by his work drawing topographical maps of Japan in World War II as a member of the Army Air Corps, Pearson used similar techniques to make linear abstractions in ink or oil on canvas as well as three-dimensional objects. Pearson studied under Will Barnet at the Arts Students League in New York City in 1953. The collection of work on display includes Henry Pearson’s own work, as well as, his personal collection, graciously donated to the Arts Center by his surviving family.
In addition to the work in the Guild Room Gallery, two of Pearson’s paintings are prominently displayed above the staircase in our entry way.
The Arts Center has the artist statement and contact information of each exhibiting artist currently showing in our galleries. It is not our policy to give out the artist’s current address and telephone number without first asking permission. We are happy to contact the artist on your behalf with a request. We also make an effort to post each artist’s statement either at the front desk or in our galleries. For your benefit we also provide “In Our Galleries” with information regarding each show.
