Joan Elliott Gardner

 

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Education

MFA - 1991 - University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Concentration in painting with a minor in art history

BFA - 1969 -  Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

Major emphasis of study in drawing and painting

 

Grants

1988 & 1992  Emerging Artist Grant, Catawba County Council for the Arts

 

Solo Exhibitions

1996 Landscapes, Real & Surreal, Lincoln Cultural Center, Lincolnton, NC

1996 Old Dominion University Gallery, Norfolk, VA

1994 Elliott University Center Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1993 Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC

1993 Mitchell College, Statesville, NC

1990 Message Art, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC

1990 Elliott University Center Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1990 Mitchell College, Statesville, NC

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Collaborative Exhibitions

2019 Examine the Past, Create the Future, YMI Cultural Center, Ashville, NC (in collaboration with Alvin C. Jacobs, Jr.)

2018 Compare & Contrast, Strickland Center Art Gallery, Forsyth Technical Community College, Winston-Salem, NC (in collaboration with Alvin C. Jacobs, Jr.)

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Select Group and Juried Exhibitions

2022 Art Through the Lens, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY

2022 Bank of Arts National Juried Exhibition, Craven Arts Council & Gallery, New Bern, NC

2022 Sacred and Liturgical Art, Liturgical Arts Festival of Springfield by Springfield Arts Association, Springfield, IL

2022 Persistence IV: d'Art Center's Annual National All Women's Exhibition, D'Art Center, Norfolk, VA

2021 Sauce: ODU Art Alumni Exhibition, Baron & Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Norfolk, VA

2021 Women in Art, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2020-21 Suffrage, Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC

2020 100 in 2020-Musings on Women & Voting Rights, Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC

2019 Homegrown, Cornelius Art Center, Cornelius, NC

2016 Encore, Alumni Exhibition, Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

1997 Halpert Biennial, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

1997 Spotlight, Juried Art Exhibition, Davidson County Museum of Art, Lexington, NC, Merit Award

1997 24th Annual Competition for North Carolina Artists, Fayetteville Museum Of Arts, Merit Award

1997 Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

1996 The Summa Composity, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

1996 9th Annual Artstravaganza, Hunter Museum of American Art,Chattanooga, TN

1996 Southeastern Spectrum, Associate Artists of Winston-Salem

1995 Nations Bank Regional Art Competition, Second Place Cash Award

1995 8th National Juried Art Exhibition, Historic Mable House, Mableton, GA

1994 Exhibition 280: Works On Walls, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV

1994 Dark Humor, Delta Axis Contemporary Art Center, Memphis, TN

1993 Discover a New World, Annual All-Woman Fine Arts Exhibition, Tennessee Valley Women’s Conference, University of Alabama, Second Place

1992 Measuring Up, National Juried Competition, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts

1991 19th Annual Competition for North Carolina Artists, Fayetteville Museum Of Arts

1991 Northern National, Nicolet College Gallery, Rhinelander, WI

1990 Summer Select, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem

1990 Women’s Perspective…, Elliott University Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
 

Collections

Burnhardt Furniture, Lenoir, SC

BB&T Corporation, Hickory, NC

First Union National Bank, Hickory, NC

Fox River Paper Company, Winston-Salem, NC

Numerous Private Collections
 

Teaching Experience

1991-94   Art Instructor, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC

1974-76   Art Instructor, East Lincoln Junior and Senior High Schools, Lincoln Co, NC
 

Related Experience

2010-16   Member, Board of Directors, Catawba County Council of the Arts, NC

1982-89   Owner/Operator, Mountain Creek Co-Op Gallery