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Dina Beshay
Dina Beshay Layers – a journey of self-discovery Artist Bio: Dina Beshay is a self-taught mixed media abstract artist based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Originally from Egypt, she spent 16 years in London where she started her artistic journey before moving to the US in 2024.Dina’s journey across cultures deeply informs her creative voice. Her…
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Brushes with Charlotte
Brushes with Charlotte An Exhibition with Charlotte Plein Air Founded by Jean Lee Cauthen and Tara Spil, Charlotte Plein Air exists to create time and space for artists to paint in the open air around our city. What began as a shared desire to step outside the studio has grown into a collective practice of…
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Molly English
Molly English Artist Bio: Molly English is an abstract painter currently living and working in North Carolina. She studied Art and Psychology at Queens University of Charlotte- a pairing that continues to shape her thoughtful and expressive practice. Her paintings serve as visual meditations on emotion, memory, and the shifting terrain of the self. Muted…
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Joann McDaniel
Joann McDaniel Artist Bio: Joann strives to be a creative powerhouse and art education architect – equal parts visionary, mentor, and maker. she leads vibrant, multi-generational classrooms where handmade papers, paint, clay, and even wool become tools of transformation.Previously she taught art in Georgia, Massachusetts, Illinois, North Carolina, and Italy for a total of 29+…
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Wesley Kelly
Wesley Kelly july Featured Artist Artist Bio: I never created much art as a child – unless you count the brown mural I smeared on my bedroom wall as an infant. Raised in rural Idaho, I was more interested in math and science than art, and I went on to study Computer Science at the…
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Jenn Garrison
Jenn Garrison Artist Bio: Jenn Garrison is a printmaker and textile designer who lives on a family farm in South Carolina. Her years in textile design and study of art history inform the patterns and designs used in her work. Jenn executes these designs through the medium of woodcut printmaking, meticulously carving each detail in…
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Jon Ferrer
Jon Ferrer may Featured Artist Artist Bio: Jon “Bailarin” Ferrer is a photographer, poet, and U.S. military veteran from the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Mostly self-taught, Jon honed his craft through years of observation, practice, and patience—learning to see the world through a lens shaped by experience. The streets of New York City were…
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Doris Barahona
Doris Barahona March Featured Artist Artist Bio: Doris Barahona was born in Santiago, Chile and has lived in Charlotte, North Carolina since1997. She is an abstract painter with realist tones using shellac, India inks, and oil in her work. Doris participated in a residency with Andy Braitman, and various workshops around the country. Doris believes…
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Nan Byar
Nan Byar March’s Featured Artist Artist Bio: Nan Byars is a Charlotte NC-based abstract artist who has been making art her whole life as a way to grant “equal time to the right side of my brain”. Following a long career as an engineering professor and raising two children, she began making art in earnest…
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Angela Lubinecky
Angela Lubinecky February’s Featured Artist Artist Bio: My family is from Germany and Spain. When I was 6 years old my adventurous parents moved our family to East Africa. I was raised in a multicultural expatriate community in Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya. After graduating from the German school in Nairobi, I first moved to France,…