Wilmington, NC
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EDUCATION
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO
1993 - 1995
Master of Fine Arts
Concentration in painting / printmaking
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, Diversity Committee, Native American
Heritage Month & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day committees, and Faculty Association)
Managed online art galleries (Fall 2006 – Fall 2009)
Editor Fine Arts Promotion Committee Newsletter (since Fall 2009)
Advisor to Renaissance Art Club (Fall 2001 – Spring 2008)
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, Survey of American Art, Studio
[independent study], Drawing II, 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
2011 16th Annual Artist Self-Portrait Exhibition – Glenn Eure's Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC – Honorable Mention
2006 Marilyn Goodman Anderson Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching CFCC
1994 River’s Scholarship for foreign study
Publications
2012
Waxwings by Daniel Nathan Terry - acrylic on canvas - Lethe Press, July 2012.
2011
Hide Behind Me by Jason Mott – hand-drawn/digitally colored cover – Main Street Rag, September 2011.
Days of Dark Miracles by Daniel Nathan Terry – 21x40” woodblock print cover – Seven Kitchens Press, Editor’s Series, August 2011.
2007
Illustrations for What If It Ended This Way? Vol. II – Edited by Rabbi James Apple (Pub’d by CFCC)
2005
Illustrations for What If It Ended This Way? Vol. I – Edited by Rabbi James Apple (Pub’d by CFCC)
Workshops etc.
Cameron Museum Life Drawing Group (current, began
06/01/08)
Exquisite Corpse Drawing Group (current, began 01/09/10)
2012
The Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts conference at UNCG
2011
Photogravure Workshop at Cape Fear Press with instructor
Unai San Martin
2010
Print Summit 2010 – East Carolina University
Collagraph workshop with Glenn Eure at Ghost Fleet Gallery Nags Head, NC (08/2010)
FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education)
Conference at UNCW
Guest Lectures
2012
UNCW Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Courses –
“Women in Art: Part 2 - From Mary Cassatt to Judy Chicago” &
"America Comes of Age: Art of the Jazz Age"
Cameron Museum Docents Program – ongoing series
since 2007
2011
OASIS program for UNCW's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute - lecture
on my personal creative process
Artists in the Galleries Lexture (public lecture with Carl and Catherine
Billingsley in conjunction with State of the Art / Art of the State
exhibtion 08.2011) CAM
Guest Lectures – Women in Art (5th lecture for WAA) & Matisse and
Picasso - Wilmington Art Association (4th)
Lecture on Surrealism at Thrive Studios
UNCW Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Courses –
“Women in Art: The Path to Cassatt”
“Abstract Expressionism: Method to the Madness?” &
“Magnificent Edifices: Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace”
UNCW – FNA102 class “Explorations in the Creative
Process” (4th lecture since 2008)
2010
UNCW Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Courses –
“Matisse, Picasso and their Heirs, an Overview of
Modernism” & “Hopper to Close”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day – Harlem Renaissance event
– Lecturer – CFCC
Faculty Forum: “Being Human?” – Lecturer – CFCC (2nd
lecture for Faculty Forum)
2009
Guest Lecture – Expressionism - Wilmington Art
Association (3rd lecture for WAA)
2008
Guest Lecture – Post-Modernism – Wilmington Art
Association (2nd lecture)
Artists in the Galleries Lecture (public lecture in
conjunction with Clare Leighton exhibition 12/2008)
2007
Guest Lecture – Modernism – Wilmington Art Association
2005
Faculty Forum: Beauty – Lecturer – CFCC
1997
Lecture: Special Education and the Arts – 48th Conference
on Exceptional Children, Public Schools of NC
Visiting Artist Lecture – GTCC, figure drawing course
2011
Constructions – Wilmington Wine, Wilmington, NC
2010
Full Bodied – Wilmington Wine, Wilmington, NC
2009
Places I Remember – Special Event, Wilmington Art Association
Gallery, Wilmington, NC
2008
Landscapes (drawings, prints, paintings) - Fayetteville Technical
Community College
Artist of the Month (April 2008) – OutWilmington
2002
Double Vision – WHQR Gallery Wilmington, NC
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
2012
Faculty Exhibition - Hanover Gallery CFCC Wilmington, NC
Big Print Block Party - Hanover Gallery CFCC Wilmington, NC
Museum School Spring Exhibition - Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington,
NC
The Dream Rocket - Clay Center Carnegie Library, Kansas
Under Pressure: CFCC Printmakers - Projekte Gallery, Wilmington, NC
The Dream Rocket - Fernandina Beach Library, Florida
The Dream Rocket - Mabee Library at Washburn University, Kansas
Family Ties - (3 person exhibition with Carl & Catherine Billingsley)
Southeastern Community College, Whiteille, NC
2011
Visions of Guadalupe - One Wicked Gallery, Wilmington, NC
1x1=One – 2TEN Haustudio, Ivanhoe, NC
Monsters – Collaborate Gallery, Oakland, CA
Blue and Velvety – Projekte Gallery, Wilmington, NC
Night of the 3D Corpses – Wabi Sabi Warehouse, Wilmington, NC
The Dream Rocket - Ottendorfer Branch NYC Public Library New York,
NY
Maps (to Nevada?) – Wabi Sabi Warehouse, Wilmington, NC
The Dream Rocket - Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve Brimingham,
AL
Likeness and Light - One Wicked Gallery, Wimington, NC
Art Exhibit with Exquisite Corpses – River Twist, Belville, NC
Cumulonimbus - Projekte Gallery, Wilmington, NC
State of the Art/Art of the State – Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington,
NC
Hot off the Press: CFCC Printmakers - Projekte Gallery, Wilmington,
NC
16th Annual Artist Self-Portrait Exhibition – Glenn Eure's Ghost Fleet
Gallery, Nags Head, NC
Define Surrealism – Thrive Studios, Wilmington, NC (Exquisite Corpse)
Kyoto International Woodprint Association 6th Exhibition – Kyoto
Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan
The Dream Rocket – Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn, NY, NY
2010
Continuing the Form – Bottega Gallery, Wilmington, NC (Exquisite
Corpse)
Paperazzi – Bottega Gallery and Projekte Galleries, Wilmington, NC
(work in both galleries)
The Creative Coalition, Inaugural Exhibition – Projekte Gallery,
Wilmington, NC
Puppet Parlour – Acme, Wilmington, NC
Big Print Block Party – Artbox Gallery, Wilmington, NC
20/20: Filters of Light and Insight – Acme, Wilmington, NC
Arts Anonymous – Moore County Arts Council Campbell House
Galleries Southern Pines, NC
Artists / Proof: CFCC Printmakers – Parallelogram, Wilmington, NC
Sense of Place II – Glenn Eure's Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC
Self Portraits – Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC
On the Wall – Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC
2009
Bloodline: A Billingsley Family Exhibition – Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet
Gallery, Nags Head, NC
Generations : A Billingsley Family Exhibition – Hampton Gallery / CCA,
Kinston, NC
12x12x122 - BECA Gallery New Orleans, LA
Arts Anonymous – Moore County Arts Council Campbell House
Galleries Southern Pines, NC
Achromatics Exhibition - Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC
Self Portraits – Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC
2008
Foundations Exhibition - Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC
Exhibition Downtown - Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC
2007
Land and Sea – Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC
Countdown to Peace – Mendenhall Gallery, East Carolina University,
Greenville,NC
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 program)
2002
Icarus – Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nagshead, NC
Center for Creative Leadership Exhibition– Greensboro, NC
2000
Department Faculty Exhibition – Taylor Art Gallery, NC A&T Campus,
Greensboro, NC
10th 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 – Glenn Eure’s 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
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 Gallery, ECU,
Greenville, NC
Selected Special Projects
(recurring projects listed only in most recent year)
2012
Curator - 1st Annual CFCC Alumni Exhibition
Organized art students poster design project for CFCC's Diversity Committee's "In Cahoots!" event
Juror Youth Arts Festival (participating artist/demonstrator) – ECU, Greenville, NC (printmaking) (8th year)
Cameron Art Museum scratch mold iron pour, participating artist
Cameron Art Museum / Wicked Gallery - Dr. Sketchy's anti-Aat school life drawing events (01/13 and 04/13)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – exhibition organizer – CFCC (4th year)
Art House Co-Op's 2012 Sketchbook Project - participating artist (sketchbook toured CA, FL, GA, IL, MA, ME, NY, OR, TX from 04 - 09/2012)
Art judge CFCC's art and literary magazine Portals (4th year)
2011
Native American Heritage Month exhibition organizer CFCC (5th year)
Coordinated Middle School student art project focusing on Romare Bearden with Cameron Art Museum & Roland-Grise Middle School
Juror – 11th Annual Brady-Kendall Juried Art Exhibition, Columbus County Arts Council, Whiteville, NC
2010
Juror – Wilmington Art Association Sales Gallery (4th year)
Silent Auction Haiti Earthquake Relief (Doctors Without Borders) - organizer, donor - CFCC (Raised $4,043.00)
Native American Heritage Month – Committee member, exhibition organizer, exhibiting artist - CFCC (4th
year), organized visiting artist demonstration by Teddy Draper, Jr. (2nd year), Silent Auction for Brenda Moore Native American
Student Scholarships – organizer, donor (Raised $450.00)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – Committee member, exhibition organizer, exhibiting artist, speaker (Harlem Renaissance) – CFCC (2nd year)
Arts Poetica Exhibition (Collaborative piece) – CFCC (2nd year)
One Book, One Community Exhibition (Greasy Rider) – organizer, exhibiting artist (recycled materials) – CFCC
Team leader CFCC Foundation FundDrive (6th year)
Donated artwork to Love Your Body silent auction and ACES silent auction for World Aids day
2009
Donated artwork to Autism Awareness fundraiser – Wilmington, NC
2008
Habitat for Humanity Oktoberfest – Kids face-painting Wilmington, NC
Organized studio classroom visits by Dreams of Wilmington
Donated artwork to CFCC Foundation fundraiser (3rd year)
2007
Kids @ CAM – children’s art festival, printmaking project – Cameron Museum Wilmington, NC
Judge – Onslow County Art Show (held at Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville, NC)
Received CFCC Mini-grant ($1,000) to purchase art supply packages for scholarship recipients
Organized Fall Fundraiser – silent auction to benefit Dreams of Wilmington (Raised nearly $2,000) and organized subsequent visiting artist lecture
by George Pocheptsov
Renaissance Art Club Advisor (6th consecutive year)
Organized Annual Spring All Student Art Exhibition (7th consecutive year)
2006
Hurricane Katrina Relief Art Sale – CFCC (Raised $266.50)
Fall In-Service Workshop: Campus Cruiser (Web-based campus community groupware) – presenter
Donated art work to First In Families charity fundraiser
2005
Hurricane Katrina Relief Festival – organized silent art auction (raised $2,716.00)
Designer – Hurricane Katrina Relief CD cover for CFCC
Coordinated art student scholarships through CFCC Foundation
Organized visiting artist lecture by Deborah Cavenaugh
2004
Judged student exhibition for Holly Tree Elementary School
2001
Donated artwork for Art Alliance silent auction fundraiser
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
Judge - Coraddi magazine Art Competition, UNCG (work reproduced within)
Teaching Assistant to Melanie Bassett – UNCG’s Arts and Sciences Academy
1995-1996
Co-curator for the following exhibitions at the Elliott University Center Art Gallery, UNCG:
Modus Operandi: Paper
Photography by Paul Batt
Soy Americana: Michele Ramirez
1995
Solo exhibition and collage workshop with students of Saint Andrew's-Sewanee School, St. Andrew, TN
1994
Summer Study Abroad Program: Estonia, Latvia, Russia and Finland
Benjamin Billingsley, painter, art, painting, Wilmington, NC, North Carolina, acrylic, landscape, figure, print, printmaking, Catherine Billingsley, Carl Billingsley, UNCG, CFCC
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Wilmington, NC
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