Art Gallery
The visual arts are in full swing at Roanoke Island Festival Park. Artists exhibit their work solo or in group shows. This includes folk working in fiber, clay, wood, metal, paint, pencil, pastel, photography, stone, mixed media and more.
Educational programming enhances many exhibitions and the visual arts partner with performance and literary arts to offer exciting collaborations. Annual shows include a quilt exhibition late winter that draws hundreds of fiber lovers. Receptions are a great time to meet the artists. Check the Calendar of Events for those dates and times. Visitors can purchase art and prints at most art gallery shows.
The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.
Become a Friends of Elizabeth II member and get on the gallery shows mailing list.
For more information about having a show in the art gallery, email maryellen.riddle@ncdcr.gov.
Earth Speaks 2010: Art Gives Voice to Nature
A Year of Visual Arts Exhibitions and Programs
Roanoke Island Festival Park Art Gallery
During 2010 the gallery at Roanoke Island Festival Park will feature a group of exhibitions that give voice to the Earth. Earth Speaks will feature earth-friendly mini quilts, recycled materials fiber art, recycled beach glass art and chandeliers, nature, weather and sky photography, realistic wildlife paintings and prints, botanical drawings, reed baskets, clay vases, mixed media art and more. The Visual Arts calendar features a collage art class, jewelry and woodworking expos and a lecture.
February/March
Priceless Pieces Quilt Show
Art Gallery
February 27-March 29
Reception: February 28, 2-4 p.m.
Features new and old quilts plus nature-themed mini quilts and fiber art made from recycled materials.
March 13: Vender Day, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Venders show and sell quilting materials.
March 20: Special Event Day
March 24: Trunk Day, noon to 3 p.m.: Regional quilters show and tell.
April
Dare County High Schools Student Art Show
Art Gallery
April 5-25
Reception: April 25, 2-4 p.m.
Features a variety of two- and three-dimensional art that often rivals adult work.
Betty Tyler Collage Workshop: Burlington painter teachers the art of collage.
May
Mollie Fearing Memorial Art Show
Art Gallery
May 2-26
Reception: May 2, 2-4 p.m.
Features wide variety of paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, fiber and metal art and mixed media by local and regional artists.
June
Mark Peyton: Recycled glass figurative wall art and beach glass chandeliers
Art Gallery
June 6-28
June 6 reception, 2-4 p.m.
July
Steve Alterman: Nature photography by award-winning artist and published photographer.
Art Gallery
July 3-27
Reception July 11, 2-4 p.m.
August
Michael Halminski, Ray Matthews, Eve Turek exhibit weather and sky photography
Art Gallery
August 1-30
Reception: August 1, 2-4 p.m.
September
Petra Schmidt: mixed media artist
Art Gallery
Sept. 5- 28th
First Friday Reception: Sept. 3, 6-8 p.m.
Pennsylvania artist who combines musical instruments with natural materials to make mixed media sculptures
October
Woodworking Expo
October 9
Sat. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Artists show and sell work made from wood to include decoys, musical instruments, wood turned bowls, furniture, and more.
October/November
Duane Raver: Wildlife Illustrator and Painter
Jeff Lewis: Flora and Fauna Photography
Art Gallery
October 3- November: 29
Reception Oct. 3, 2-4 p.m.
Duane Raver has done more than two hundred Wildlife in North Carolina cover illustrations. He will lecture with Charles Manooch as part of Wings Over Water. Manooch is the author of Fisherman's Guide: Fishes of the Southeastern United States. Raver is the illustrator. Jeff Lewis is the Gardens and Nursery Manager of The Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo and an avid birder and amateur naturalist. He’s had more than 1000 photos published in books, magazines, newspapers and a variety of other media.
Duane Raver and Charles Manooch Lecture
Oct. 4, 7 p.m.
Art Gallery
Charles Manooch, author of Fisherman's Guide: Fishes of the Southeastern United States, and Duane Raver, the book’s illustrator, will discuss their book project and share anecdotes.
November
Outer Banks Jewelry Expo 2010
Art Gallery
Nov. 13-14, Sat. 9 a.m. to 5p.m., Sun., noon to 5 p.m.
17 jewelry designers will sell work and demonstrate techniques. The Expo includes everything from beadwork to fine art jewelry.
December
Kitty Dough Botanical Drawings and Nature Art
Jim Fineman-Clay Vases and Basketry
Art Gallery
Dec. 5-29
Reception: Dec. 5, 2-4 p.m.
Enjoy botanical drawings and nature art by this certified botanical illustrator, Kitty Dough and stoneware vases and basketry by Jim Fineman. Fineman gathers vines on Roanoke Island and combines them with reeds and sea grass to make the baskets.
For more information, call (252) 475-1500 or email FestivalParkInformation@ncdcr.gov.
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