NCWC News: Cedar Grove and Swift Creek Elementary Art Show At Dunn Center

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April 1, 2005

Cedar Grove and Swift Creek Elementary Art Show At Dunn Center

Rocky Mount, N.C.—From the Nash County elementary schools of Cedar Grove and Swift Creek comes a gallery full of curious and colorful artworks made by little hands with big imaginations. On display at North Carolina Wesleyan College’s Civic Gallery in the Dunn Center through April 15 are things children have made in art teacher Wendy Ferguson’s classes.

Ferguson is not only an energetic art teacher at both schools but chairs the Nash-Rocky Mount Art Teachers Association. She has taught art at all levels for nearly three decades in her native Australia, Europe, and here in North Carolina, all the while pursuing her artistic interest in pictorial quilt-making. Her inspiration, she says, "… is the beauty of nature, its colors, tones, and textures…" and as a teacher she shares her knowledge and excitement for the visual and tactile world with her students from kindergarten through fifth grade.

A 1976 graduate of the State College of Victoria in Australia, Ferguson later gained international certification as an art teacher from Monash University and has been teaching art since 1977 and art in North Carolina since 1999. She was awarded the prestigious position of Edison USA Trainer in 1999. The Edison program was a unique and highly successful private corporate program that collaborated with public schools to enhance learning world-wide.

Ms. Ferguson exhibited her quilts in the World Art Exhibition at Wesleyan’s Mims Gallery in 2002 and in numerous group and solo exhibitions here and abroad. Her students have exhibited in the Civic Gallery at Wesleyan on several occasions in years past.

Wesleyan encourages the parents of Cedar Grove and Swift Creek art students to visit this exhibition and encourages the Nash-Rocky Mount community to take note of the art made by the most junior members of the art community. Gallery hours are 9-5, Monday through Friday.

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