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Haliwa-Saponi Tribal Country Art and Photography Exhibit at NC Wesleyan College Rocky Mount: painter Karen Lynch Harley and photographer Ivan Richardson at Wesleyan Wesleyan College’s Mims Art Gallery is excited to open its 2018 -19 Season with two Haliwa- Saponi artists painter Karen Lynch Harley and photographer Ivan Richardson in Haliwa-Saponi Tribal Country: Karen Harley and Ivan Richardson. The exhibit will be in venue from August 17 until September 23. Free to the public, we are looking forward to meeting Karen and Ivan at Opening Art Party featuring live Native American music with award-winning flutist Arnold Richardson, 5 pm Thursday, Sept. 6. Karen Lynch Harley and Ivan Richardson are both Native American Artists and members of the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe of Hollister, NC. As artists both concentrate on the life styles and culture of their tribe and neighbors in rural NC. In this exhibit their work captures what they see and experience in ceremonies like the April Pow-Wow, shared tribal spiritual beliefs and everyday moments in the countryside around them. Both artists have their respective fascination and artistic approach for capturing such enduring and ongoing testaments to tribal life in Halifax, Northampton and Warren Counties. If Richardson uses his camera to capture a moment in time with a play of light, angles and textures; Harley has the creative and imaginative ability to give her subjects an expressive quality. Karen Lynch Harley has had an extensive career as an artist, art administrator and teacher. Amongst an impressive record of exhibits and prizes, she has exhibited and/or curated six exhibits here at Wesleyan over the past three decades. She curated the notable 2009 exhibit Quilting: A Community History: Quilters from the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Community in Wesleyan’s Four Sisters Gallery. Karen has degrees from U. Maryland and the Schuler School of Fine Arts. Her work is realistic and has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally as well as featured in three children’s books; one of which she wrote herself. She has work in the permanent collections of the Pequot Museum in Connecticut and NC State’s Gregg Museum. She has won numerous awards for her works around the country and has won 1st Place at the NC Native American Unity Conference in Raleigh, NC (1992, 1994, 2002). She has been the focus of several news articles of the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, various magazines and small community papers. Photographer Ivan Richardson has a great eye for light and shadows and he says his work is best when he catches the unexpected. His photographs consist of a variety of candid and ceremonial images, as well as scenic and personal images that he sees in his travels when stopping to capture the moment with his camera, focusing on the texture, color, lighting and atmosphere that he sees. After taking continuing education photography classes at Nash Tech, Richardson has made photography his business, Fotoworkz: Photography by Ivan. His work has been juried into and exhibited in the United Tribes NC Indian Unity Conference and exhibited at the Haliwa-Saponi April Pow Wow. He works as freelance photographer for the Warren Record newspaper and is a member of Koncept photography in Tarboro, NC.
Haliwa-Saponi Tribal Country Art and Photography Exhibit at NC Wesleyan College Rocky Mount: painter Karen Lynch Harley and photographer Ivan Richardson at Wesleyan
Wesleyan College’s Mims Art Gallery is excited to open its 2018 -19 Season with two Haliwa- Saponi artists painter Karen Lynch Harley and photographer Ivan Richardson in Haliwa-Saponi Tribal Country: Karen Harley and Ivan Richardson. The exhibit will be in venue from August 17 until September 23. Free to the public, we are looking forward to meeting Karen and Ivan at Opening Art Party featuring live Native American music with award-winning flutist Arnold Richardson, 5 pm Thursday, Sept. 6. Karen Lynch Harley and Ivan Richardson are both Native American Artists and members of the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe of Hollister, NC. As artists both concentrate on the life styles and culture of their tribe and neighbors in rural NC. In this exhibit their work captures what they see and experience in ceremonies like the April Pow-Wow, shared tribal spiritual beliefs and everyday moments in the countryside around them. Both artists have their respective fascination and artistic approach for capturing such enduring and ongoing testaments to tribal life in Halifax, Northampton and Warren Counties. If Richardson uses his camera to capture a moment in time with a play of light, angles and textures; Harley has the creative and imaginative ability to give her subjects an expressive quality. Karen Lynch Harley has had an extensive career as an artist, art administrator and teacher. Amongst an impressive record of exhibits and prizes, she has exhibited and/or curated six exhibits here at Wesleyan over the past three decades. She curated the notable 2009 exhibit Quilting: A Community History: Quilters from the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Community in Wesleyan’s Four Sisters Gallery. Karen has degrees from U. Maryland and the Schuler School of Fine Arts. Her work is realistic and has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally as well as featured in three children’s books; one of which she wrote herself. She has work in the permanent collections of the Pequot Museum in Connecticut and NC State’s Gregg Museum. She has won numerous awards for her works around the country and has won 1st Place at the NC Native American Unity Conference in Raleigh, NC (1992, 1994, 2002). She has been the focus of several news articles of the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, various magazines and small community papers. Photographer Ivan Richardson has a great eye for light and shadows and he says his work is best when he catches the unexpected. His photographs consist of a variety of candid and ceremonial images, as well as scenic and personal images that he sees in his travels when stopping to capture the moment with his camera, focusing on the texture, color, lighting and atmosphere that he sees. After taking continuing education photography classes at Nash Tech, Richardson has made photography his business, Fotoworkz: Photography by Ivan. His work has been juried into and exhibited in the United Tribes NC Indian Unity Conference and exhibited at the Haliwa-Saponi April Pow Wow. He works as freelance photographer for the Warren Record newspaper and is a member of Koncept photography in Tarboro, NC.