President
Charleen Baggett, has been known over the years as "Charlie," is an award-winning fine art nature, landscape, and formal portrait photographer. Charlie began her photography studies in high school where she was the only female student in her photography class. Charlie studied art composition in her undergraduate and graduate studies at Campbell and Pfeiffer Universities and continues to study with photography and art experts throughout the United States.
Whether it be to capture emotion of the moment or defining a sense of place, Charlie strives to bring significance to her work. Charlie currently shows her work at various exhibitions in the South and has a working studio and gallery at TheArtWorks in Wilmington.
Charlie is a member of the Photographic Society of America, Professional Photographers of America/NC, Carolina Nature Photographers Association, Cape Fear Camera Club, Coastal Carolina Camera Club, Wilmington Art Association, Art League of Leland, Brunswick Arts Council, and several local photography and arts groups.
Board Member at Large; Chairman of the Exhibits
Chairman of Fundraising
Cathy is a multi-talented, award winning, nationally recognized realism nature and wildlife artist with a style that captures breathless images. She specializes in the most detailed and realistic oil, graphite, pastels, sculpting, pyrography, and wood-carved subjects. Cathy has had a passion for art since early childhood but began her formal art training in 1982 at Cape Fear Technical Institute and continued to the UNCW Art program. From there, Cathy studied extensively with various artists groups and experts in the field. Cathy currently shows her work in Seaside Gallery in Nags Head, NC, Eclipse Artisan Boutique, theArtWorks in Wilmington, NC Sunset River Marketplace Gallery in Calabash, NC, and various NC art shows and exhibitions. She has a working studio at theArtWorks in Wilmington, NC.
Cathy is tenacious and detail-oriented while being a good friend and mentor to other artists.
Secretary
Over the years, I combined different sources of media I love to work with, drawing, painting, and photography. I select subjects that are of interest to me. My inspiration comes from places I’ve been, people I see, textures and colors of materials. Painting landscapes or figurative scenes from observation and sometimes imaginary, I enjoy certain freedoms that derive. "I don't want to limit myself to oil painting or pencils. Making art is more versatile and as a visual artist, I want to express a certain style in my work. I'm trying to be not only creative with my process, but to develop my technique."
I grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and as a young girl, I liked to draw characters and flowers. After my first visit to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, I was fascinated with oil paintings of flowers. I discovered I had a desire to study art. My father was always encouraging, and he helped me to realize I should explore my passion for the arts. Years later, those remembrances inspired me to attend my first drawing class at Heron University in Indianapolis, IN.
However, it wasn’t until after my family and I moved to North Carolina, I decided to enroll in Guilford College, in Greensboro, NC and completed my education in Liberal Arts. I received James McMillan Honors for Excellence in Art, awarded in 2013 and 2015. In 2017 to 2018, I joined the Greensboro Mural Project, a community involved organization, who paints murals in public places and schools. I participated in the first Artist in Residence (AIR REV) Program in 2017. My first solo art exhibit was hosted at the Revolution Mill Historical Building in 2018.
As a Visual Artist, I continue to develop my technique with an open mind in making art.
Current Membership Committee Chairperson
After retiring in 2019, from 30 years in IT sales in the Washington DC area, Lisa T. Myers went back to her roots and passion for creating art.
As her artistic journey continues to mature, she has been focused on mixed media abstract art. She states that abstract art is wild, passionate, and imaginative. Her work is fun and whimsical.
She does commission work and is a member of the Art League of Leland, the Wilmington Art Association, the Brunswick Arts Council, Cameron Art Museum and the Wildlife Artists of the Carolinas. For more information about Lisa and her work, please visit www.lisatmyers.com.
Current Chairperson of Communications, Marketing, Social Media & Wesbite
Terry Ganey, a self-taught artist from Wilmington, NC, loves to work in multiple mediums because sometimes just ONE medium doesn't help her express what she's seeing in my head. She likes to focus on creating art that is Carolina related, including many seascapes.
She started out working primarily in acrylics, because that is what she was learned to paint with in her younger years.
As she started traveling around with her Port City art gang five years ago - the Wilmington chapter of Urban Sketchers - she fell in love with the combo of watercolor and inks. She just loves that expressive, illustrative style she can create with lines and colors.
She loves creating artworks in watercolor and inks, but she also loves painting dramatic ocean pieces in acrylics and oils.
You can always stop by her studio for a chat during open hours at theArtworks in the South Front District of Wilmington or find out more about her on the website, www.terryganeystudio.com .
Ed Hearn was born in Nashville, Tennessee on June 26, 1949, and lived in that same general area of the state for his first fifty years. After graduation from Tennessee Technological University, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management, he moved to Hendersonville, Tennessee and worked for 32 years in Nashville at a manufacturing/printing business, where he served as a member of the management team and as a part-owner.
He has two sons, John and Matt, and two grandchildren, Owen and Isabella. The decision to retire from the business world came for Ed well over two decades ago, and he currently lives in the Landfall community located in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Ed enjoys golf, tennis, boating, fishing, traveling, writing, creating highly detailed three-dimensional sculptures made of both wood and bronze, producing acrylic paintings, and participating in both U. S. National and World Level Masters Track and Field Championships held throughout the United States and in many foreign countries around the globe. His specialties have been the javelin throw, shot put, and discus events. After winning the World Championship gold medal in the javelin throw, within his five-year world-wide age bracket during 2017 in South Korea, he finally decided to retire from those aggressive physical activities, which included eleven years of intensive involvement as part of Team USA.
He currently has fourteen books in print and spends a large amount of his time creatively writing both personal memoir stories about his life and creating a variety of other novels
Melissa is a local photographer who has resided in Wilmington, NC since 1995. In addition to being a member of the Wildlife Artists of the Carolinas, she is a member of The Art League of Leland, a member and current treasurer of The Wilmington Art Association, and a member of the Cape Fear Camera Club.
Her photos represent her emotional ties to the natural beauty of the Cape Fear Area, particularly the coastline. Melissa’s photos have been displayed locally at various art galleries and events such as the “8th Annual ArtFall” (Community Arts Center of Wilmington juried event); “It’s ALL Art” (Art League of Leland juried event); Wilmington Art Association Annual Art Show and Sale (Juried event and official art show of the Azalea Festival); “Cape Fear Landmarks” at Gallery Citrine (Juried event show); Wilmington Art Association “12x12” Show (Juried event at Aces Gallery); and “Art in the Arboretum” ’22 (Juried show). Her work has also been part of the Wilmington Art Association Window at Gallery Citrine.
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