Roanoke Rapids High School Art Class Exhibits in Dunn Center

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March 9, 2006

Roanoke Rapids Art Students Exhibit Japanese-Inspired Art In North Carolina Wesleyan College’s Dunn Center

Rocky Mount, N.C.—Pathways and Portals: A Portrait of Japan: Student Show Using Japanese Techniques and Japanese Subjects; Roanoke Rapids High School Art Class Exhibits Work in Dunn Center

“Good art education is good education,” and how true that is when we see how Christina Gregory’s art students at Roanoke Rapids High School are learning about Japan. Gregory’s classes are exploring the geography, traditions, language, crafts and the art of Japan through a hands-on immersion into Japanese culture. Hand building and decorating clay bowls and teapots with Japanese subjects have introduced her students to the significance of the Japanese Tea Ceremony. Traditional kite making and learning the basics of Japanese brush calligraphy amongst many other art activities has opened up the other side of the world to Roanoke Rapids teenagers taking Gregory’s art classes in the 2005 school year.

National Board Certified Teacher Tina Gregory won the prestigious 2005 Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholarship to study and travel in Japan. Beyond her personal enrichment from this award, Gregory has put this experience into practice and shaped her 2005 art curriculum around Japanese culture in order to share her knowledge and the benefits of her travel last October.

Examples of tea ceremony bowls, teapots, kites, brush calligraphy and paintings depicting the Japanese landscape and architecture by Roanoke Rapids High School students will be displayed for a month in Wesleyan’s Civic Gallery in the Dunn Center. The exhibition opens March 22 and continues until April 22, when it will go to the Halifax County Arts Council Sale at Roanoke Rapids High School Library on May 22.

See Tina Gregory’s website for more information: http://local.rrgsd.org/rrhs/gregoryt/

Gallery Hours are 9-5 daily and during all evening Dunn Center performances. From Roanoke Rapids, Wesleyan is forty minutes south on I-95 and one hour from the Triangle east on I-64. All exhibits and tours are free. Call 252-985-5268 for information.

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