Gray Gallery

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Founded in 1977, the Wellington B. Gray Art Gallery is an integral part of the School of Art and Design’s educational mission. The Gray Gallery provides educational programming for students and the community through six to eight exhibitions each year and numerous symposia and lectures by visiting artists and curators. The collections that the Gallery and School of Art and Design maintain includes a significant collection of western and central African art, Baltic ceramics, the Dwight M. Holland collection, a major and on-going donation of contemporary ceramics and a suite of Larry Rivers prints.

Upcoming Exhibit:

Spotlight on Student Fiber Trends: A Juried Exhibition and Edward Lambert, Fiber Artist: A Retrospective
The Wellington B. Gray Gallery is proud to present Spotlight on Student Fiber Trends: A Juried Exhibition and Edward Lambert, Fiber Artist: A Retrospective. The exhibitions open Friday, June 1 and run through Friday, June 29. The opening reception is scheduled for Friday, June 1, 2012. The Gray Gallery will open its doors at 5:00 p.m. At 5:30 p.m. in the Speight Auditorium opening remarks will be given by juror Ray Pierotti and Christine Zoller with a lecture to follow from awards juror, Jane Doub, fiber artist from North Carolina. The reception will immediately follow and the awards will be announced at the reception in the gallery.

East Carolina University’s School of Art and Design and the Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance (SEFAA) have joined forces to organize and promote a juried student exhibition of trends and creative works in fiber art. This show includes work by 38 graduate and undergraduate students from Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Lambert

Along with this exhibition the School of Art and Design has the honor to present a retrospective of the work of Edward Lambert, fiber artist and Professor Emeritus at The University of Georgia who passed away in May 2011. After earning an M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Arts, he joined the faculty at the University of Georgia in 1974, where he spent his career as an educator. (He also taught frequently at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, where he served on the Board of Advisors.) Lambert's art evolved over time, though always working with fabric. He began painting directly on silk, but experimented with screen printing as well, this work characterized by multicolored interwoven lines. Lambert’s late work was influenced by popular culture, especially television and sports, and tattoos.

Awards juror, Jane Doub, BCA UNC-Charlotte, has been a working fiber artist since 1980 specializing in handwoven garments. She was the Fiber Program Coordinator for Sawtooth School for Visual Art (82-04), has been a co-owner of Fiber Co., a cooperative studio/gallery in Winston-Salem, since 1987 and has been President and CEO of Piedmont Craftsmen, Inc. since 2005. Jane has served on a variety of nonprofit and community service boards and committees and was Winston-Salem's 2006 Artist of the Year.

The Wellington B. Gray Gallery is located off Fifth and Jarvis Streets on the campus of East Carolina University in the Jenkins Fine Arts Center. Summer gallery hours are Monday through Thursday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The gallery is closed for all university holidays. Jenkins Fine Arts Center if handicapped accessible. Parking for the lecture and reception is available in the lot surrounding the Center. For information please call 252-328-6336.