Featured Artist - Nan
Cunningham
Nan Cunningham, a distinctly Southern voice with universal appeal
and national attention, is a creative presence that is not bound
by the limiting category "Regional Artist". She is
a teller of tales, a transformer of light, and a lens through
which we may be transported from the present moment to the realm
where time is suspended. About her art and the creative experience,
she says, "It is about the process, not the product."
Her personal presence and uncanny ability to translate emotion through light, color, form and story sing out through her painting and transports her students to the creative moment. They reach beyond themselves to transform feelings into images. Likewise, her painting can express transcendence through the most humble of every-day forms: tree or flower, fence or barn.
An Auburn University graduate and faculty member of Arrowmont School, Armory Learning Arts Center, Third Street Painters Workshop and the Alabama Art Education Center, Nan Cunningham is also a Teacher/Painter in high demand for her creative workshops and expressive presentations.
Nan is currently represented in more that fifteen galleries. She has mounted a dozen one-person shows, many two-person and group shows, and has recently exhibited at Dauphin Way Biennial (Best of Show), Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Mississippi Art Colony Traveling Exhibition, Alabama Exhibition, and the Rosa Parks Museum (Top Award in 2003).
About her art and the creative process, Nan says, "The brushstroke is the most telling thing. The moment one puts the first mark on the paper or canvas, the movement begins . . . the movement of the medium and the emotion. That is how the story begins - with the mark, the first mark. The movement surpasses the subject. If the student, the artist, is hones and the work is honest, then it just happens. We tap into it - whatever IT is."
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