EMILY CLARE
Education
Vanderbilt/George Peabody College, Nashville, TN
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Welborn Gallery, Yadkinville, NC.
2019
Seeing From Within: The Magical Femiverse
The Sechrest Gallery of Art, High Point University, High Point, NC
Into the Femiverse! Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC
2017
Drawings: 2015 – 2017 Elberson Fine Arts Center, Salem College, Winston –Salem, NC
2011
The Seeing from Within and Hemerocallis, Inter_Section Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
2009
Seeing From Within” Duke Family Performance Hall, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
1992
Drawings: Mulberry Progression” Durham Arts Council, Inc., Durham, NC
1992
“Drawings: Emily C. Ferguson” Artspace Exhibition, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
1989
Drawings of Emily C. Ferguson” Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC
1987
Drawings by Emily C. Ferguson” Greensboro Artists League, Greensboro, NC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Sawtooth Print Group, Davis Gallery, Sawtooth School for the Arts, Winston Salem, NC
2023
From the Outside In, Emily Clare and Terri Dowell-Dennis, Pure Space Gallery, Winston Salem, NC
Teeny Tiny Trifecta 6, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Sawtooth Spotlight, Sawtooth School for Visual Arts, Winston Salem, NC
41st Annual Juried Competition, “A Sense of Place”, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
National Multi-Media Juried Art Show, Wilson Arts Center, Wilson, NC
2022
Symbiosis, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Drawn: National Juried Show, Indiana University Art Gallery, Kokomo, Indiana
Teeny Tiny Trifecta, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Compact Prints 2022, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Art Gallery, Townsville, Australia
Fine Arts Festival, Arts Council of Moore County, Southern Pines NC
Yadkin Arts Council Juried Exhibition Yadkinville, NC
Abstract, National Juried Show, Macon Arts Gallery, Macon, GA
2021
Teeny Tiny Trifecta, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Community Chords, Juried Show, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC
2019
New Impressions: A Showcase of Contemporary Printmaking, Sechrest Gallery of Art, High Point University, High Point, NC
2016
Artist for Artists Project’s Williams Prize in Drawing Exhibition, Silpe Gallery, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT
The Drawing Show, Delurk Gallery , Winston Salem, NC
2014
Memories, Umbrella Studio, Townsville Queensland Australia
Compact Prints, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary of Arts, Fortitude Valley Queensland Australia
Compact Prints, Gatakers Artspace, Maryborough Queensland Australia
2013
Natura, Umbrella Studio, Townsville Queensland Australia
2012
29th National Juried Open Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, TX
Scope: The NC Landscape, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
2011
5x4 Show, E. Taylor Greer Gallery, Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA
2012
The “F” Word: Feminist Art of the 21st Century, Mary Davis Holt Gallery, Salem Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC
2011
34th Annual National Juried Art Show, Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
Halpert Biennial National, Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition, Turchin Center for the Arts, ASU, Boone, NC
22nd International Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artists Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, NY
Art for the Auction Juried Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Five and Seven, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
Dimensions, National Juried Fine Art Competition and Exhibition, Winston Salem, NC
Small Works Invitational, Art West Gallery, Elon University, Elon, NC
2009
Cultural Crossroads, National Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Winston-Salem, NC
Dimensions, National Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Winston-Salem, NC
2001
Dimensions National Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Winston-Salem, NC
2000
Border Biennial, The Museum of York County, Rock Hill, SC
1993
30th Annual Dimensions National Juried Exhibition, Winston-Salem, NC
1992
20th Annual Competition for North Carolina Artists, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC
38th Annual National Juried Art Show, Durham, NC1991
Goldsboro’s 12th Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Goldsboro, NC
The WVAA New Show, Raleigh, NC
1990
26th Annual Exhibition of ART on PAPER, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNC-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Exhibition 280: Works on Walls, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Ninth Annual Henley Southeastern Spectrum, Milton Rhodes Galleries, Winston-Salem, NC
1989
34th Annual Juried Art Show, Durham, NC
Glaxo Inc, Presents Selected Works, Research Triangle, NC
Dimensions National Art Competition, Winston-Salem, NC
1988
CCA Competitive Exhibition, Kinston, NC
1987
Southern Draw, Drawing Exhibition, The Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC
Dimensions USA, 24th Annual National Juried Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Exhibition
Selected for Traveling Show, Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
6th Annual Henley Southeastern Spectrum, Winston-Salem, NC
1986
First Annual Members Exhibition, North Carolina Print and Drawing Society, Charlotte, NC
1985
13th Annual Open Juried Print and Drawing Exhibition, Winston-Salem, NC
1981
Anuszkiewicz Show and Selects, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC
1979
Two-Person Exhibition: Emily C. Ferguson and Diane C. Smith, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
1976
Central South Art Exhibition 76, Tennessee Art League, Parthenon, Nashville, TN,
Collections:
The Habboush Group, Istanbul, Turkey
Tasyapi Enerji Grubu, Istanbul, Turkey
Glaxo Smith Kline, Research Triangle, NC
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Peabody College, Nashville, TN
Yadkin Arts Council, Yadkinville, NC
Numerous Private Collections: United States, Australia, Turkey Germany, and China
Grants:
2010 Regional Artist Grant, Arts Council of Winston Salem and Forsyth County
2020 Marianne Oberg Foundation for Spiritual Art Grant
2022 Artist Support Grant, NC Arts Council, Arts Council of Winston Salem and Forsyth County and Arts Greensboro
Awards:
1st Place award, Anuszkiewicz Show and Selects, 1981
Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC
Selected for traveling show Hickory Museum of Art, 1987
1st Place, Foothills Arts Council, Elkin, NC, Juried Show 1987
Awarded solo show, Durham Art Guild 1989
Glaxo Inc. purchase award 1989
Selected Bibliography
“Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” The Yadkin Ripple, February 23, 2023 https://www.yadkinripple.com/features/arts/24709/yadkin-arts-council-hosts-emily-clares-where-have-all-the-flowers-gone-in-the-welborn-gallery-march-2-april-21
Ken Keuffel, “Feminist Works Full of Life”, Winston-Salem Journal, November 6, 2011
Associated Artist Gallery, Catalog: Dimensions 2011, Winston- Salem
Tom Patterson, “Works by 78: Annual Juried Show”, Winston-Salem Journal, April 26, 2009
The Central Carolina Bank Gallery, Thirty-Eighth Annual Juried Art Show, Catalog:
Thirty-Eighth Annual Juried Art Show, 1992-1993
Orange County Women’s Center, Catalog: “Through Women’s Eyes” April 1993
The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Catalog: Halbert Biennial 2011, boone-nc-announces-winners-of-2011-halpert-biennial/
Glaxo presents, Selected Works of the Durham Art Guild Thirty-Fourth Annual Juried Art Show: Catalog, 1989 Glaxo Ink, Glaxo products let artist’s work continue: Volume 5, Issue 5, May 1989
Milton Rhodes Galleries, Catalog: Dimensions 89 National Juried Art Competition, 1989
Milton Rhodes Gallery, Catalog: The 24th National Juried Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Exhibition, Dimensions ’87, 1987
Milton Rhodes Galleries, Catalog: Dimensions 89 National Juried Art Competition, 1989
Greensboro Artist’s League, Voice of the Visual Arts, January 1987, Emily Clare Ferguson Artist of the Month