Benjamin Billingsley   

EDUCATION

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO

1993 - 1995
Master of Fine Arts
Concentration in painting
Graduate Assistantship in Art History - Teaching Assistant to Richard Gantt (’94-5) and to Amy Lixl-Purcell (’93-4) for Art-101, Survey of Western Art.

1989 - 1993
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Concentration in painting / printmaking
Graduated Magna Cum Laude

EXPERIENCE

2001 - current
CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE Wilmington, NC

Full time faculty course load including studio and lecture based courses
Departmental and College Committee service (including search committees and
Faculty Association)
Advisor to Renaissance Art Club
Coordination of student exhibitions
Advising and registration of college transfer students (including working at Advising Center)
Design and implementation of courses new to curriculum (Portfolio and Resume, American Art History, Studio, Printmaking I, Printmaking II)

2000 - 2001 Alamance Community College and NC A&T University (adjunct)

1998 - 2001 Greensboro Art Alliance

1995 - 1998 Center for Creative Arts

AWARDS

2006 Marilyn Goodman Anderson Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching CFCC

1994 River’s Scholarship for foreign study

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Landscapes (drawings, prints, paintings) - Fayetteville Technical Community College (Nov.) 

2008 Artist of the Month (April 2008) - OutWilmington

2002 Double Vision – WHQR Gallery Wilmington, NC

2002 Recent Paintings – UNCW Kenan Hall

1997 New Paintings – Elliott University Center Art Gallery, UNCG

1995 Visiting Artist Exhibition– Saint Andrew's-Sewanee School Gallery, St. Andrew, TN

Special Projects

2009
On-going guest lecture seires - Cameron Art Museum, docents' meetings

Youth Arts Festival - ECU, Greenville, NC (printmaking) 5th consecutive year

Arts Poetica Auction (Leo M. Hodson Medical Fund)

Guest Lecture - UNCW Creative Writing Program - Explorations in the Creative Process (2nd invitation) 

2008
Artists in the Galleries Talk - Cameron Art Museum

Guest Lecture/Demonstration - Relief Printmaking Techniques - Cameron Art Museum, docents' meeting

Guest Lecture - Post-Modernism - Wilmington Art Association

Guest Lecture - UNCW Creative Writing Program - Explorations in the Creative Process

2007 
Guest Lecture – Modernism – Wilmington Art Association

Judge – Onslow County Art Show (held at Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville, NC)

Book Illustrations for second edition of What if it Ended This Way?, edited by Rabbi James Apple

Received CFCC Mini-grant ($1,000) to purchase art supply packages for scholarship recipients

Organized annual Fall Fundraiser – silent auction to benefit Dreams of Wilmington (inner-city youth art ed.)

2006
Hurricane Katrina Relief Art Sale

Fall In-Service Workshop: Campus Cruiser (Web-based campus community groupware) – presenter

Book Illustrations for What if it Ended This Way?, edited by Rabbi James Apple

2005
Hurricane Katrina Relief Festival – organized silent art auction (raised over $2,700 for affected community colleges)

Faculty Forum: Beauty – Lecturer – CFCC

2004
Judged student exhibition for Holly Tree Elementary School

2003
Renaissance Art Club Activity – UNCW Race Unity Festival Mural

1999
Curator – New Visions – Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC

Curator – Art Alliance Faculty Exhibition at South Elm Pottery and Gallery, Greensboro, NC

1998
Commissioned sculpture – First Night, Greensboro, NC

Curator – The Expanded Image – Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC

1997
Lecture: Special Education and the Arts – 48^th Conference on Exceptional Children, Public Schools of NC

Judge  - Coraddi magazine Art Competition, UNCG

1995
Coraddi (arts and literature magazine, UNCG): Paintings reproduced on front and back covers and interior.

Solo exhibition and collage workshop with students of Saint Andrew's-Sewanee School, St. Andrew, TN

Art history consultant to the Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance for the performance of The Heidi Chronicles

1994
Summer Study Abroad Program: Estonia, Latvia, Russia and Finland
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
12x12x122 - BECA Gallery New Orleans, LA 

Arts Anonymous – Moore County Arts Council Campbell House Galleries Southern Pines, NC

Self Portraits – Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC

"Achromatics" Exhibition - Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC

Arts Poetica - Thalian Hall / CFCC LRC

MLK Day Exhibition - CFCC 

2008
"Foundations" Exhibition - Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC

Native American Heritage Month Art Exhibition - CFCC 

Exhibition Downtown - Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC 

2007
Land and Sea – Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC

Countdown to Peace – Mendenhall Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville,NC  http://pages.suddenlink.net/w2la_design/peace/index.htm

Flesh – Bottega Gallery, Wilmington, NC

2006
Student/Mentor: UNCW & CFCC Professors and Their Students – Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC

2005
5 X 5 – Elon University, Elon, NC

2004
WHQR Portraits (Invitational)– Thalian Hall, Wilmington, NC (Cinematique – Girl with Pearl Earring)

2002
Icarus – Glenn Eure Ghostfleet Gallery, Nagshead, NC

Center for Creative Leadership Exhibition– Greensboro, NC

2000
Department Faculty Exhibition – Taylor Art Gallery, NC A&T Campus, Greensboro, NC

A&T Art Department Exhibition – The Clubhouse, Florida

10^th Annual Waterworks Visual Arts Center Regional Exhibition – Salisbury, NC

Icarus 2000 - Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC

1999
Billingsley3 – Mendenhall Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Self Portraits – Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC

New Visions – Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC

1998
Icarus ’98 – Seaside Arts Gallery, Nags Head, NC

Artful Collaborations II – Elliott University Art Gallery, UNCG

The Expanded Image– Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC

1997
All In The Family – Elliott University Gallery, UNCG

Invitational Four Person Exhibition – Greensboro Artists' League Gallery, Greensboro, NC

Frank Stick Memorial Art Show – Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC

1996 
Icarus '96 – Seaside Art Gallery, Nags Head, NC

Juried Exchange Exhibition – Arts Council of Greater Knoxville Gallery, Knoxville, TN

Olete Oodatud USA Kunstnike (The Altered Image – American Graphic Art) – Kastellaanimaja Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia

1995
Two Women/Two Men – Tallinn, Estonia; St. Petersburg, Russia

MFA Graduate Thesis Exhibition – Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNCG

Works from Baltic Summer Trip– Burroughs-Welcome Senior Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC