Georgia
Art Education Association GAEA
http://www.gaea.armstrong.edu/
Fourth Annual GAEA
GOVERNOR'S EXHIBIT 2000
at the CAPITOL
GALLERIES
Atlanta, Georgia
January 10 to
February 11, 2000 &
January 10 to
March 10, 2000
Office of the Governor (Rooms 111, 115, 245) The Honorable
Roy Barnes
and
Office of the Lieutenant Governor (Room 240) The Honorable Mark Taylor
January 10 to March 10, 2000
Office
of the Secretary of State (Room 110, 214) The Honorable Cathy Cox
January 10 to February 11, 2000
Juried by the Capitol Gallery
Committee and curated by the Georgia Council for the Arts
Entry form for next years Governor's Exhibit.
LIST OF 30 ARTISTS, BIOGRAPHIES, AND 42 WORKS
Participating Artists: Jane Baars,
Scott Bennett, Drew Brown, Mariah Buchanan, Virginia Carnes, Tom L. Cato, Diane
S. Croom, Katherine Crossan, Louis Delsarte, Donna McCavitt Finklea, Dr. Carole
Henry, Jane Hollingsworth, Terrylynne Marshall, Dr. Paula L. McNeil, Patricia
A. Moore, Eleanor Neal, Dr. W. Robert Nix, Dr. Andra Nyman, James Michael Padgett,
Paula Peatross, Lee A. Ransaw, Shelby Recesso, Domini Re-Darling, Jeanette
Smith, Dr. Helen Fleming Stone, Jeanette Wachtman, Jan Ward, Vanessa Wardi,
Deborah Dunavant West, Barbara Lord Willis
Jane Baars
Jane Baars was born in Paris, Tennessee and has lived in both Tennessee and
Missouri. She moved to Georgia in 1996 and has been employed for three
years in elementary art and this year in high school art. She
focuses in college on printmaking and currently teaches an overview class of
art and art history. She has shown her work in Georgia and Tennessee.
Jane Baars
Douglas
Governor's Office Room 111
1. My Tree, etching 15 x 22 (framed) $200
Scott Bennett
Scott Bennett, a thrid generation painter, studied at Young Harris College and
recieved his BFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute in New York.
Bennett recieved an MEd in Art Education from West Georgia College in 1993, and
presently teaches art and serves as chairman of Fine Arts at Lovejoy High
School in Clayton County, where he was Teacher of the Year in 1995.
Scott Bennett
Fairburn
Lieutenant Governor Room 240
2. Hickories, Pastel 20x26 $450.
Lieutenant Governor Room 240
3. Bike Path, Pastel 18x19" $325.
Drew Brown
Drew Brown is currently in Ireland with her husband who is working on a Coca
Cola project.
Drew Brown
Atlanta
(or Ireland 1999-2000)
Secretary of State Room 214
4. Easky Village, Co Sligo, Ireland oil 5 x 7" $400
Mariah Buchanan
Mariah Buchanan has been an art teacher at Mundy's Middle School since 1993.
She has shown her work throughout metro Atlanta. Buchanan believes art should
promote a diversity of experiences, as well, as give the viewer the opportunity
to enrich his or her own internal senses. She further explains, "My work
tends to include an inner-personal response, which depicts mainly working class
people and explores the environmental aspects of daily life."
MARIAH BUCHANAN
RIVERDALE
Secretary of State Room 110
5. Break Time #2, Color Pencil 18" x 24" $400
Virginia Carnes
Virginia Carnes is originally from New Jersey and came to Georgia following an
undergraduate degree in Art Education at Jersey City State College. After
completing an MA at the University of Georgia, she taught elementary art with
the Atlanta Public Schools. Since 1996, she has been employed by the
Westminister Schools and she currently holds the position of Director of Art
Education. She has served as a member of the board, chaired the Capitol Arts
Exhibit and has been selected as State, Regional and National Secondary Art
Teacher by the Georgia Art Education Association and National Art Education
Association. Virginia has promoted the College Board's Advanced Placement
Program in Studio Art and Art History serving as a consultant, reader of exam
policies, and Chair of the Development Committee. In 1995, selection as a
Klingenstein Fellow led to an additional MA at Columbia University. She has
been awarded NEH Fellowships, a Marie Walsh Sharp Fellowship and been an artist
in residence at The Virginia Center for The Creative Arts. Her work has been
exhibited widely with work published. Her most recent exhibit was held at the
Dobbs University Center Gallery, Emory University. She is represented by Art
Canyon, an on-line exhibition site www.artcanyon.com.
Virginia Carnes
Atlanta
Secretary of State Room 110
6. Dawn-Hiwassee River, Acrylic/Gold Leaf 40x40" $800.
Secretary of State Room 110
7. Dusk Hiwassee River, Acrylic/Gold Leaf 40x40" $800.
Tom L. Cato
Tom L. Cato completed his BFA degree in painting and drawing in 1973, and his M.Ed.
in Administration and Supervision in 1978 at Valdosta State College; he
completed an Ed.D degree at the University of Georgia in art education. Cato
was an assistant professor at Georgia Southern University from 1990-93, and
currently heads up the art education program at Armstrong Atlantic State
University in Savannah. A practicing artist and educator since 1973, Cato has
exhibited and lectured widely in Georgia and the Southeast. Among his
specialties, Cato is a muralist and is adept at using technology to teach art.
TOM L. CATO
SAVANNAH
Secretary of State Room 214
8. Family, Computer Manipulated Image 14 X 18" $150
Diane S. Croom
Diane S. Croom, a native of Savannah, is a professional artist and
teacher. For over twenty years, she taught art in the public
school. She has a master's degree in taught art in the public
schools. She has master's degree in art from the Georgia Southern
University and studied art in Europe. Diane's subject matter ideas are
derived from her imagination, family, friends, community, travels, and her
spiritual faith. She explores various styles and art mediums. Painting is
what she especially enjoys creating.
Diane S. Croom
Savannah
Governor's Office Room 115
12. Lazerette Creek, Acrylic 34 1/2"x28 1/2" framed $500
Katherine Crossan
Katherine Crossan was born in Augusta, Georgia. Her family moved to Athens and
she took extensive studio art classes at the University of Georgia as a child.
She received my BSed in Art Education from UGA in 1989. In 1991 she moved to
the Huntsville, Alabama area with her family where she taught children's art
classes with the Huntsville Art League. Since relocating to the Augusta area in
1994, she has taught children's art classes in a community setting with the
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art. Currently, she is the visual arts instructor
at Riverside Elementary School (Columbia County Schools) in Evans.
Katherine Crossan
Evans
Governor's Office Room 111
9. North Georgia Forest, Watercolor 33x40 $275.
Governor's Offices Rooms 111 and 115
(Inner hallway connecting Rooms 111 and 115 - above hallway)
10. Giant Sunflower, Acrylic 20x24 $300
Lieutenant Governor Room 240
11. Autumn, Acrylic and Gesso on Paper 22x26"
Louis DeLsarte
Louis Delsarte is a professor at Morris Brown College, Adjunct Professor at
Spelman College and Guest Lecturer at Montclair State University, Rhode Island
School of Design and various colleges and institutions. He explains about his
work that "I am constantly searching for meaning in my life as I create.
This revelation, or act of discovery through experimentation has been a
lifelong process. My work is really spiritual in the sense that I am always
thinking of this life, and what it really means."
Louis DeLsarte
Atlanta
Governor's Office 115
13. Terrain, oil 12 x 16" $1800
Donna McCavitt Finklea
completed her BFA degree in Surface
Design, cum laude, in 1982 at the University of Georgia, and her M.A. in
Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1989. She has also
studied enameling, glass blowing, weaving, and ancient Japanese dye techniques
in the U.S. and Japan. Between 1982 and 1989, she created one-of a-kind fabrics
for interiors and clothing sold throughout the U.S. and Canada. Presently she
is teaching at Lovejoy High School in Clayton County and at the Clayton State
College Continuing Education Program. She continues to exhibit her wall
sculptures and canvas tapestries pus work on commissions to create hand painted
fabric yardages.
DONNA MCCAVITT
FINKLEA
MCDONOUGH
Lieutenant Governor Room 240
14. Remember When... , Etching/Watercolor 15x12" $150.
Dr. Carole Henry
Dr. Carole Henry was born in Savannah and graduated with a BSEd in Art
Education from Georgia Southern College in 1968. She taught art in public
middle schools for approximately 15 years while earning an MAEd in Art
Education and an EdD in Art Education from The University of Georgia. Henry
joined the Art Education faculty at UGA in 1988 and is currently Chair of Art
Education. She lives on a farm in rural Madison County with her husband Hue, an
attorney, and son Jason, a senior in high school. Dr. Henry said,
"Photography is something I do when I see something so interesting or
beautiful that I want to "keep" it. I enjoy isolating an image
through the camera's viewfinder, and I hope my photographs replicate that
experience for others."
Dr. Carol Henry
Danielsville
Secretary of State 214
15. Winter, St. Simon's Island, color photo 14 x 12" $150
Jane Hollingsworth
is an art teacher at Gainesville Middle
School in Gainesville Middle School.. She received a bachelor's, a master's,
and a specialist's degree in art education at the University of Georgia. She is
a member of the National Education Association, the Georgia Art Education
Association, Phi Delta Kappa, the Gainesville Arts Council, the High Museum,
the Georgia Museum of Art, and serves on the Policies and Resolutions Committee
of the Georgia Association of Educators. This year, Jane received a $2500
Jordan Fundamentals Grant from the National Foundation for the improvement of
education for a lesson plan she composed on migration. Jane has exhibited her
paintings in a number of juried shows, and won first place in the Gainesville
College Watercolor Exhibition in 1994.
Jane Hollingsworth
Gainesville
Lieutenant Governor Room 240
16. Outer Banks, watercolor 12 x 18" $150
Lieutenant Governor Room 240
17. Perennials, watercolor 12 x 18" $150
Lieutenant Governor 240
18. Fall, watercolor 15 x 22" $150
Terrylynne Marshall
Terrylynne Marshall attended Young Harris Junior College; The University of
Georgia: BS 1973; East Carolina University: MAE 1977; and The University of
Georgia: EDS 1996. Terrylynne has been recognized with awards for watercolor,
photography, sculpture, and computer art. She enjoys presenting at local and
national levels on two of her favorite subjects: Human Anatomical Artwork and
Computer/Web Art. Marshall has taught art at the elementary, high school,
college levels; and currently works at Truett-McConnell Junior College in
Watkinsville, and as an independent contractor and computer/web artist.
TERRYLYNNE MARSHALL,
CO-CHAIR
HIAWASSEE
Secretary of State 214
19. Grandpa's Calves at Lower Hightower, Hiawassee, computer manipulated
photographs 12 x 18" $500
Dr. Paula L. McNeil
Dr. Paula L. McNeil was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and spent her
formative years in the public schools of Florence, Alabama, Chattanooga,
Tennessee, and Mesa, Arizona. She received a Bachelor of Arts in art history
from Arizona State University in Tempe (1970); a master of Arts in art
education/art history from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque (1972)
where she studied the history of photography with photo-historian, Beaumont
Newhall; and a Ph.D. in art education from the University of Missouri-Columbia
(1995) where she studied with D. Larry A. Kantner. Paula has taught elementary
art on the Navajo Reservation in Ganado, Arizona. In 1996, she began teaching
art education and art appreciation courses at Valdosta State University.
DR. PAULA L. MCNEIL
VALDOSTA
Secretary of State 214
20. Ike Anderson, Attorney, color photograph 8" X 10" $150
Patricia A. Moore
Patricia A. Moore is currently Curator of Education of Morris Museum of Art,
Augusta. She coordinates all educational and public programming and her
achievements include the initiation of a three-year, sequential teacher
development program for a four-county region. Patricia has been involved with
the Georgia Art Education Association including member of the Board of
Directors, serving as Secretary from 1999 to 2001. She also served as the
museum education division representative from 1997 to 1999.
Patricia A. Moore
Augusta
Secretary of State 214
21. Gothic Arcade, mixed media on paper, 20 x 26" $450
Eleanor Neal
Eleanor Neal enjoys teaching art for Gwinnett County Schools, painting and
exhibiting her art- work. She is a graduate of Indiana University with a
bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, and a Masters of Science Degree in Art Education.
The Woodruff Arts Center Georgia Games exhibition: "Art in Motion
'98" has also featured Neal's work. Hers artwork can presently be seen at
the New Orleans African American Museum of Art, History and Culture. Neal
explains that "mutual escapism is what connects me and my work with the
viewer. Through my art I create what I see and feel."
ELEANOR NEAL
ATLANTA
Secretary of State 214
22. Little Girl in the Woods, acrylic 39 1/2 x 40 $1000
Dr. W. Robert Nix
Dr. W. Robert Nix attended West Georgia College, then the University of Georgia
where he earned BS, MA, Ed., Ed.S., and Ed.D Degrees in Art Education. Dr. Nix
is Professor of Art Education/Photography at UGA, where he is a member of the
graduate faculty. He has forty-three years' teaching experience with extensive
involvement at all public school grade levels. Photographs have been published
in books in the U.S., Europe, and China. The National Art Education Association
named Nix Georgia Art Educator of the Year in 1995.
DR. W. ROBERT
NIX
ATHENS
Secretary of State Room 214
23. Slow Day At The Mall, Photography/Silverprint 9x13" $250
Dr. Andra Nyman
Dr. Andra Nyman has been a member of the Lamar Dodd School of Art faculty at
the University of Georgia since 1984. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she was raised
in the midwest, attending weekend and summer programs. She attended the
University of Illinois earning degrees in Ceramics, special education and art
education between 1969 and 1984. Employed as education specialist for Colonel
Wolfe School (a unit of the Institute for Child Behavior and Development at the
University of Illinois) and teaching art at University High School - UIUC, she
continued to produce ceramic art and photography while completing her doctorate
in Art Education. An avid birder and photographer, she spends several weekends
a year on the Georgia Coast and the North Georgia mountains, and leads teams
for Global volunteers during the summers.
Dr. Andra Nyma
Athens
Governor's Office Room 245
24. Cumberland Creek, cibachrome photographic print 8 x 10" $350
James Michael Padgett
James Michael Padgett has been the East Paulding High School Fine Arts
Department Head from 1990-99. He began painting Georgia themes about five years
ago. His wish in the near future is to contact the Georgia Department of
Tourism and publish a booklet including his work as well as the work of his
student's about places to visit in Georgia. Michael feels that it is
important for teachers to also have an area of studio, art history or actively
participate in an organization such as Georgia Art Educators Association.
Many teachers have talents in many different areas, they all teach but some
produce art; some study art and write about it, some help others with their
professional development.
Michael Padgett
Marietta
Lieutenant Governor Room 240
25. Jekyll Hotel, Watercolor 15x18 $1200.
Lieutenant Governor Room 240
26. Christ's Church, Watercolor 11x14" $1000
Lieutenant Governor Room 240
27. Crane cottage Jekyll, Watercolor 15x22" $1200
Lieutenant Governor Room 240
28. Cherokee House, Watercolor 15" x22" $1200
Lieutenant Governor Room 240
29.Crane Cottage Courtyard, Jekyll Island, Watercolor 15" x 22" $1200
Paula Peatross
Paula Peatross was born in North Carolina and grew up in the Deep South. Her
family moved to an island of the coast of Florida when she was quite young.
Paula was always talented in art and continue to explore that gift through high
school, college and graduate school. She received her MFA from Hunter College
in New York City and traveled extensively through Europe and Central America.
She explains, " I am a product of 20th Century Western thought and images
and as such my work is concerned with a discourse grounded in an abstraction
that develops out of Western arts collision with multicultural forms within the
20th century."
Paula Peatross
Decatur
Secretary of State 214
30. Ascension, oil, wax, metals, flos on wood approximately 22" C x
1.5" D $1,000.00
Lee A. Ransaw
is currently an art professor and art
department chair. He has shown his work extensively throughout the nation
including the Firestone Art Gallery, Naussau Colllege, Long Island, Afro
American Museum of Life and Culture, New Orleans, and the ART STATION, Stone
Mountain, Georgia. He has received many awards including the Eugene
Grigsby Award, Ford Foundation Award and Rockefeller Foundation Award. He has
received a couple of major commissions including Portrait of District Attorney
hanging in the State Capitol Building and the Centennial Mural commission by
Coca Cola Bottling Company for Morris Brown College.
Lee A. Ransaw
Stone Mountain
Secretary of State 214
30. Tiny Tina’s Tiny Toys, mixed 18 x 24” $800
Secretary of State 214
31. The Wedding Reception, mixed 20 x 30” $900
Shelby Recesso
Shelby Recesso grew up in Sarasota, Florida until she moved to Albany, New York
to study art education at the College of Saint Rose. She moved to Valdosta,
Georgia with her husband in 1998 where she is completing her Bachelor of Fine
Arts in art education at Valdosta State University. She is currently President
of the Student Chapter of the National Art Education Association and Secretary
of the Art Student League at VSU. Shelby has participated in several
exhibitions including and Interactive Art Show for Children at Walden Book
Store and an Art Education Major's Exhibition at the Lowndes/Valdosta Arts
Center. Shelby is student teaching this spring at Hahira Middle School under
the direction of artist and teacher, Walter Hobbs. After graduation in May she
plans to work in the area as an art teacher while continuing to exhibit her
art. Shelby enjoys painting, ceramics and photography.
Shelby Recesso
Valdosta
Secretary of State 214
32. Red Pear with Squash, oil 21 x 23” $300
Domini Re-Darling
began her teaching career in 1977 when
she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia with a BSED in Art
Education. Her first teaching assignment was in Dekalb County at Briarcliff
High School. During that time, Re-Darling completed her graduate work in
textiles and quilting at Georgia State University earning an MVA in 1982. She
has taught high school art for 17 years in Dekalb and Clayton counties.
Currently she teaches art at Eagles' Landing Middle School in Henry County.
Re-Darling continues to produce and show her work throughout the state and
region and has numerous pieces in private collections.
DOMINI RE-DARLING
HAMPTON
Governor’s Offices
33. Providence Canyon, pastels 10 x 8” $125
Jeanette Smith
Jeanette Smith was born in Bad Kissengen, Germany in the 1970's and currently
calls Conyers, GA her home town. She is pursuing a B. F. A. in Art
Education at Valdosta State University. After graduating in May she will
move back to Conyers. Ms. Smith enjoys reading, traveling, her puppy, and
photography. Jeannette has special training in calligraphy and enjoys many
other art mediums, however photography is one of her favorites. She has
been in five exhibitions and had the opportunity to attend GAEA this year in
Savannah where she presented a workshop. She is excited about her
student teaching next semester at a local elementary school and she cannot wait
to graduate in the spring and hopefully find a job.
Jeanette Smith
Valdosta
Secretary of State 214
34. Dragon, Color Relief Print 16x8" NFS
Dr. Helen Fleming Stone
Dr. Helen Fleming Stone received her B.A. from La Grange College and her
M.V.A., and Ph.D from Georgia State University. Twice was named as one of the
outstanding students of GSU. She has being involved extensively with the
Georgia Art Educators Association including president, historian and treasurer.
Dr. Stone has work in many private collections and several temporary
exhibitions, including both individual and group showings.
DR. HELEN FLEMING
STONE
CANTON
Governor's Office Room ?
35. Untitled, ceramic 9 3/4 X 6 $55
JEANETTE WACHTMAN, CO-CHAIR
Jeanette Wachtman received her BS in 1971 and her MS in 1972 from the State
University of New York at Buffalo. She taught for ten years in the Syracuse,
NY, area before moving to Georgia and creating a line of jewelry. Since 1991,
she has taught at Bryant Elementary in Cobb County and in the Department of
Continuing Education of Kennesaw State University. She will receive the
Southeastern Elementary Art Educator Award for 1999.
JEANETTE WACHTMAN,
CO-CHAIR
Ball Ground
Secretary of State 214
37. Red Shirt's Feathers, Silk Screen 12X 18" $300
Jan Ward
Jan Ward was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio; and has lived in the Atlanta area
since 1984 with her husband and three daughters. She studied drawing and
painting at Bowling Green and Ohio State Universities, and her degree in Art
Education from North Georgia College in 1993. An elementary art teacher since
1994 for Fulton County Schools, Ward is currently working on her Master's
Degree in Art Education at Georgia State University.
Jan Ward
Alpharetta
Governor’s Offices
35. View from Blood Mtn. GA, Oil 30 X 24 " $600
Governor’s Offices
36. Anna Ruby Falls, Oil 30x15” NFS
Vanessa Wardi
Vanessa Wardi was born and raised in Oklahoma where she was surrounded by
paintings and fine art that she found fascinating and inspiring. This led to
the pursuit of her Bachelor degree in Art History and a minor in Art from Mills
College in 1978. Ward also completed her M.A.T. in Education in 1981 and did
post-graduate work at the Art Institute in San Francisco. Wardi currently resides
in Atlanta where she has lived with her family for the last thirteen years.
Time is divided between raising her three sons, doing substitute teaching for
Dekalb County in French and Art and volunteer work in the community.
VANESSA WARDI
ATLANTA
Governor’s Offices
38. Mornings Light, pastel 14 x 10” $300
Governor’s Offices
39. Forest Shadows, pastel 22 x 16 1/2” $400
Lieutenant Governor 240
40. Wild Poppies, pastel 20 x 20” $450
Deborah Dunavant West
Deborah Dunavant West was born in St. Joseph, Missouri and lived her childhood
years in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She attended the Philadelphia College of
Textile and Science for one year and transferred to the University of South
Carolina. West received her BA in studio art, concentration on graphic design,
from USC in 1989. Two years later she received an art certification award from
the Moor College of Art and Design. Currently, she is attending the University
of Georgia, where she is working on her MAED. West became the Youth Art Month
chair in 1996 and has received the Clare Flanagan Youth Art Month National
Grand Award for 1998 and 1999. She was named the Georgia Elementary Art
Educator of the year in 1999.
DEBORAH DUNAVANT WEST
CUMMING
Secretary of State 214
41. The Art of Making Art, Oil Pastels/Mixed Media 12" x 12" $250.
Barbara Lord Willis
received her BFA in graphic design from
the University of Georgia, cum laude, in 1974, followed by a Masters of Art
Education from UGA in 1984. Willis has taught art at Brookwood High School in Gwinnett
County since 1981 where she was Teacher of the Year in 1987, and received
national recognition with the Claire Flannagan Memorial Youth Art Month Award
in 1986.
BARBARA LORD WILLIS
STONE MOUNTAIN
Secretary of State 214
42. Barlow Clan, computer art 11 x 14” $50
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Votes from November 1999 on the title
of the exhibit.
4 = did not vote
4 = voted for calling the show the Capitol
Gallery Exhibit
21 = voted for calling it the Governor’s
Exhibit, which won.
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For further
information about the artists or the exhibition, please contact:
Richard Waterhouse
Visual Arts Manager
Georgia Council for the Arts
260 14th St Suite 401
Atlanta Ga 30318-5360
Work: 404-685-2797 Fax: 404-685-2788
E-mail: waterhouse@arts-ga.com
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