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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:

The Art of Influence
The Wellington B. Gray Gallery is pleased to announce The Art of Influence, an international exhibition of metal design and other art media. The Art of Influence opens Friday, January 13, 2012 with a reception at 5:00 p.m. and runs through February 18, 2012. This exhibition is held in conjunction with the symposium Material Topics: Merging Methods, Saturday, January 14 in the Jenkins Fine Arts Center at East Carolina University. The artists’ lectures are free and open to the public.

The Art of Influence is not only a celebration of excellence in contemporary metal design but a revealing exploration of the lines of influence between teachers and students, peer artists and artistic traditions. Co-curators Joshua Craig and Tina Lazzarine, both graduate students in the metal design program at East Carolina University, collaborated on this exhibit with Interim Director Tom Braswell of the Wellington B. Gray Gallery.

Through this international exhibition of work by 47 artists, Joshua and Tina have traced a creative genealogy of influences involving diverse media and the aesthetic resonance of interpersonal artistic relationships.  It is an illuminating investigation into the evolution of individual artistic practice and the generation of continuing traditions. Work in metals as well as painting, drawing, sculpture, cast paper, ceramics, printmaking and architecture from the United States, Australia, Germany, Greece and Mexico are represented in the show. Artists in the exhibiton are:  Abigail Heuss; Shingo Furukawa; Alan Burton Thompson; Maria MacDonald; Tim Lazure; Leonard Urso; Susan Hamlet; Joshua Craig; Randy Long; Arline Fisch; Helen Shirk; Nicole Jacquard; Robert Baines; Hiroko Sato-Pijanowski; Tina Lazzarine; Sue Amendolara; Susan Ewing; Lynda LaRoche; Cappy Counard; Fred Fenster; Richard Mawdsley; Dejan Jovanovic; Robert Ebendorf; Laura Wood; Caroline Gore; Ken Bova; Joe Bova; Sandra Zilker; Kat Cole; Robert Ebendorf; Hermann Jünger; Elsa Freund; Talya Baharal; Doris Betz; Poly Nikolopoulou; Laritza Garcia; Clinton Hofmeister; Shalena White; Aaron Nytroe; Jesus Hurtado; Gerardo Garcia Luna; Leia Zumbro; Paulette Myers; Heikki Seppa; Alma Eikerman; Brigham Dimick; and Erling Sjovold.

The Wellington B. Gray Gallery is located off of 5th and Jarvis Streets on the campus of East Carolina University in the Jenkins Fine Arts Center.  Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM and Saturday 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM.  Please call ahead to verify Saturday hours.  The gallery is closed for all University holidays.  Jenkins Fine Arts Center is handicapped accessible.  Parking for the lecture and reception is available in the lot surrounding Jenkins Fine Arts Center.

For more information on the exhibition contact the Gray Gallery at 252-328-6336 or nichollsss@ecu.edu.