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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.

The annual East Carolina University School of Art and Design Undergraduate Exhibition will be on view in the Wellington B. Gray Gallery from March 7 to April 6, 2013.  Area curriculum coordinators in the School of Art and Design select the outstanding works submitted from over 600 undergraduate students.

The awards ceremony will be Thursday, March 7 at 5:00 pm in Speight Auditorium of the Jenkins Fine Arts building on the ECU campus.

East Carolina University features the largest studio art program in North Carolina, which is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Curriculum areas represented in the show are:  art foundations, ceramics, drawing, graphic design, illustration, interactive media, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture textile design, video, and film.

The awards judge, artist and curator Catherine Coulter Lloyd will give a talk on her work on Wednesday, March 6 at 5:00 PM in Speight Auditorium. 

Catherine Coulter Lloyd is Visual Arts Specialist at the Maria V. Howard Arts Center in Rocky Mount, NC. Originally born and raised in Asheville, NC she has lived and worked all over the state. She obtained a BFA from Western Carolina University and an MFA from East Carolina University with focuses in the areas of ceramics, fiber, and photography. Lloyd’s arts administration experience spans a variety of capacities including journeyman potter, educator, collections manager, and curator among others. Holder of a museum management certificate through the Jekyll Island Management Institute, Lloyd has served on the board of the North Carolina Museum Council as Government Affairs Chair and Directory Chair. In addition to administrative and volunteer activities in the arts, Lloyd struggles to maintain a presence as an independent artist. Her works in ceramics, photography, and fiber have been shown in juried, invitational, and solo exhibits throughout the state.

In writing about her work, Lloyd has said, “The intention of my work is to draw awareness to the simple and clear beauty around us that is so often unnoticed. The coexistence of nature, architecture, people and their environments is as closely related for me as the imagery I choose and the earth-born material with which I work. Creating in clay connects me to the earth and the flora images I choose connect me to a long and broad family history of gardeners, cultivators, landscape architects and nurturers I honor and admire.

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The Wellington B. Gray Gallery is located off of Fifth 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.  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, please contact Tom Braswell, Interim Gallery Director, at (252) 328-6336.