He is represented by ArtSource Fine Art Gallery in North Hills, Raleigh, NC.įor more information on Don Mertz, visit his website at ( For more information on the Waccamaw Arts and Crafts Guild, visit ( ). He is a member of the Visual Arts Exchange of Raleigh, the Fine Arts League of Cary and the Durham Art Guild. A former truck driver, Marine, and IBM branch manager, he attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and The Art Students League in New York City, where he lived for 25 years. Mertz will also discuss his decisions at the show’s opening reception, which will be held from 5:30-7:30 Thursday evening.ĭon Mertz is an abstract artist who has lived in Cary for 12 years. Mertz will then award prizes in four categories: Professional, Non-Professional, New Artist, and Student. The show will be hung in the Springmaid Beach Resort Convention Center on Nov. Membership is open to professional, non-professional, and student artists and crafts persons, as well as associate members interested in the arts.Īccording to show director Jackie Stacharowski, there are usually 100 entries in the Members Show. The Waccamaw Arts and Crafts Guild is a non-profit, state-chartered organization founded in 1969. It is a real privilege to be able to do this, and I know it will be a challenge to make the final selections.” “One of the jurors from a previous year commented to me on the high level of professionalism she saw in the member’s work in the show she judged. “I am very honored to have been asked to judge this annual show,” he noted. 7 and 8, 2012.Ī member of the Visual Arts Exchange of Raleigh, NC, the Fine Arts League of Cary, and the Durham Art Guild, Mertz, an abstract painter, has participated in numerous group art shows himself. Overlook, disregard and neglect are still there, waiting to be seen.Fine artist Don Mertz of Cary, NC, has been asked to serve as the judge for the “Waccamaw Arts and Crafts Guild’s 2012 Members Show” in Myrtle Beach, SC, Nov. MyĬontemplative pieces are a reminder that the small bits of nature that we all Where I am going, traveling by foot or on the space in front of me at my loom. I am surprised by the time that has slipped away as I witness where I have been and NC Museum of History Gift Shop, Raleigh, NC. One thread after another carrying me forward. Member shop of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, sell Century Series Boxes. Tree full of galls or a vine that is particularly beautiful that day. Sometimes I come around a bend in the land and am delighted to see a dried pod, a Occasionally I flush out a bird, a deer or two. Mostly it’s routine, tranquil, and quiet. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and can be found in the collections of North Shore University HealthSystem in Chicago Illinois Fidelity Investment Bank in Raleigh North Carolina, Baylor University, University of Washington, and the Universities of California at San Diego and Santa Cruz. She recently built a new studio where she will continue her exploration of textiles along with paper, and book arts. She later became proficient at working with uncommonly fine yarns and slowly developed a body of work that incorporated intricate patterns with remnants of nature and fragments of old books. Vicki’s professional career began over two decades ago, when she studied hand weaving, textiles and design. Her work is quiet, contemplative and deliberate. Studio work includes weaving and paper making, collecting and observing. Vicki Essig is a full-time artist living and working in the mountains of North Carolina.
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