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

Winter Show, Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC

70th Annual Juried Exhibition, Truist Gallery, Durham Arts Guild, Durham, NC

Spotlight Juried Exhibition, Sawtooth School for Visual Art, Winston Salem, NC

2024 National Multi-Media Art Show, Wilson Arts Center, Wilson, NC

ARS Poetica 11, Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, Blowing Rock, NC

Schwa Show, Emerge Gallery and Art Center, Greenville, NC

42nd Annual Juried Competition, “A Sense of Place,” Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA

Durham Art Guild Showcase, Truist Gallery, Durham, NC

Artifact (BOLD) 2024, Sechrest Art Gallery, High Point University, High Point, NC

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

The “F” Word: Feminist Art of the 21st Century, Mary Davis Holt Gallery, Salem Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC

2011

5x4 Show, E. Taylor Greer Gallery, Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA

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