Community Calendar

Art in Bloom Gallery is celebrating this holiday season through its Annual Holiday Show, featuring the powerful exhibits of mixed-media painters Clarence Mayo and Joan McLoughlin! Combining strong color with unconventional materials, Clarence’s playful creations draw from instinct, cultural echoes, and his own personal roots. Meanwhile, inspired by the renewal of nature and the energy of abstraction, Joan works freely to express a love of life, imagination, joy and hope.

Join us in the gallery on Sunday, November 9th, 2-5pm for our Holiday Show Reception! Enjoy special refreshments, meet our artists, and enjoy live music by guitarist Miles Moore! Delight in the discovery of our 30+ Gallery Artists’ new holiday creations, and shop for one-of-a-kind gifts that are sure to bring smiles all year-round!

Clarence Mayo: “The Evolution of Identity: Defining Myself”

My work explores the interplay of strong colors, textures, and unconventional materials. I experiment with plaster, drywall compound, silicone acrylic chalk, modeling paste, wallpaper adhesive, acrylic paint, oil stick, and cold wax and oil - applied with whatever tool feels right in the moment: brushes, palette knives, credit cards, plastic bags, fingers, spoons, and forks.

These studies often emerge as intuitive, primitive, childlike, and abstract expressionist. They reflect a deep curiosity about form and surface, while drawing inspiration from African art symbolism, outsider art, and my own family history. Each piece is a layered exploration of material and memory, shaped as much by play and instinct as by cultural echoes and personal roots.

Joan McLoughlin: “Awakening”

My paintings are celebrations of color, movement and emotion.

Inspired by trees, flowers, and the energy of abstract form, I work in a loose, lively style that embraces freedom and spontaneity.

Through variations of size and vibrant hue, I wish to express growth, rebirth, and new beginnings. Each canvas is a reflection of the heart, an exploration of optimism and possibility.

I invite viewers to feel the same sense of love of life, imagination, joy and hope that can be found in my paintings.

The University of North Carolina Wilmington’s “Fall 2025 Senior Exhibition, The Sum of Us”, will open with a free, public reception on Thursday, November 13th, 2025 in UNCW’s Cultural Arts Building (CAB) Art Gallery.

The exhibition will be on view until December 12, 2025 and showcases the work of 18 graduating seniors majoring in Studio Art:

Logan Beechner
Andrea Boctot
Karoline Carl
Atlanta Carrera
Sara Driver Dyjak
Madelyn Frazier
Dana Moon
Sarah Horning
Brandon Huebner
Chaniris Jimenez Nieves
Ryan Lewis
Tatiana O’Brien
Kit Osborne
Maya Scalabrino
Emelia Stinson
Julie Sydes
Owen Varner
Ella Williamson

“The Sum of Us” is a multi-media exhibition characterized by various art styles and subject matter. The works range from digital prints, to screen prints, pastel drawings, oil paintings, photography and feature everything from digitally created characters to biblical figures brought to life in soft pastel.

This exhibition is the culmination of artwork created over the last four years; the painstaking hours, days, and weeks spent learning technique, exploring new media, and searching for their own voice.

These graduating seniors will also give individual artist presentations in the UNCW Cultural Arts Building, Room 2033, on Friday, December 5th, 2025 beginning at 11:30 am. These presentations are free and open to the public.

CAB Art Gallery hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with extended hours on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The gallery will be closed November 26-28 for Thanksgiving.

The CAB Art Gallery is located on UNCW’s campus on the ground floor of the Cultural Arts Building, near the building's main entrance. Visitors can access the gallery from South College Road or Racine Drive, and parking is available in front of the box office entrance to the building.

For more information visit https://uncw.edu/seahawk-life/arts/venues/cultural-arts-building/

Interested media should contact Gallery Director, Keltsey McKoy, at cabartgallery@uncw.edu or 910.962.3031.

The Burgwin-Wright House is excited to welcome North Carolina artists, Ellie Snow and Kathryn DeMarco for the show “ The View from Here” on display throughout the holidays and into the New Year!

The Opening reception, in conjunction with Fourth Friday Gallery Nights, is on Friday, November 28 from 6-9PM.
Their artworks will be on display and for sale in our art gallery through January 17. Admission is free. The gallery is open Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm.

The View from Here reflects a perspective grounded in observation, memory, and imagination. Artworks by Kathryn DeMarco and Ellie Snow navigate the space between humanity and the natural world — where identity and instinct intertwine. We invite viewers to pause with us in a moment of reflection, to consider how we see ourselves and others, and how beauty resides in the fragile, the ordinary, and the deeply personal.

Kathryn DeMarco’s work is a celebration of portraiture through the medium of collage—where the tactile nature of cut paper meets a deep commitment to realism. In creating images of companion animals, winged creatures, and self-portraits, she seeks to capture more than likeness; she aims to reveal presence, spirit, and emotional truth through layers of paper, paint, and glue.

Ellie Snow’s paintings are a means of escape, a window into a fairy-tale kind of world where she can ponder the beauty and complexity of being human, and the stories that repeat themselves through time like a pattern. Lately she has begun capturing the bits of magic found in corners of antique shops, in addition to the landscapes, plants, and animals around her woodland home.

From the Artists

About Kathryn DeMarco

I am Kathryn DeMarco. I am an artist living and working in Durham, NC. My dog, Rosemary Petunia, and my cats, Ted Talks, Charlotte Schyler Ruth, and Sheena of the Jungle, a tortie with tortitude, are my studio assistants and sometimes models.

My medium is collage and my focus is portraiture. I love figurative painting and sculpture and drawing. The cut and paste technique is a process that I started experimenting with in college. I have worked to perfect and enjoy this method ever since. The process of choosing colors and textures and then applying them to a detailed drawing slows me down and allows me to think about the composition.

All of my work is realistic portraits of animals, people, and myself all made out of cut paper, a little paint and glue and lots of skill and imagination. I specialize in animal portraits of your companions, using materials that YOU want to incorporate to celebrate your companion. Enjoy!

My work is included in many personal collections in the Triangle and beyond. I have had many solo shows at Craven Allen Gallery in Durham, and many other galleries in Durham, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough over my 30+ year career.

My solo show “Finding My Way” was exhibited at The Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington in November 2019.

About Ellie Snow

Ellie Snow is an artist based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Her paintings explore emotional themes through landscapes and still lifes, often beginning with photographs she takes around her home in rural North Carolina. The paintings that result are color driven, emotive, and sometimes dream-like, balancing the beauty, complexity, and humor of being human. She imagines them as a snapshot of a larger story.

Ellie is a member of the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, and fairly new to working as a professional artist.

The Holiday Train Expo is fun for the whole family. See 12 layouts, over 30 trains and beautiful holiday decorations. Come experience the magic of the POLAR EXPRESS!
The Expo is open on Saturdays and Sundays from Noon to 5 pm starting November 30th through December 29th.
A special Black Friday showing will be Friday November 29th from Noon to 5 pm.
After Christmas, come out on additional days: December 27th and 30th from Noon to 5 pm to keep the Holiday magic going.
Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
$9.00 for adults, $7.00 for children, Infants are free.
Located in the Dillards Wing at Independence Mall.

Art in Bloom Gallery is celebrating this holiday season through its Annual Holiday Show, featuring the powerful exhibits of mixed-media painters Clarence Mayo and Joan McLoughlin! Combining strong color with unconventional materials, Clarence’s playful creations draw from instinct, cultural echoes, and his own personal roots. Meanwhile, inspired by the renewal of nature and the energy of abstraction, Joan works freely to express a love of life, imagination, joy and hope.

Join us in the gallery on Sunday, November 9th, 2-5pm for our Holiday Show Reception! Enjoy special refreshments, meet our artists, and enjoy live music by guitarist Miles Moore! Delight in the discovery of our 30+ Gallery Artists’ new holiday creations, and shop for one-of-a-kind gifts that are sure to bring smiles all year-round!

Clarence Mayo: “The Evolution of Identity: Defining Myself”

My work explores the interplay of strong colors, textures, and unconventional materials. I experiment with plaster, drywall compound, silicone acrylic chalk, modeling paste, wallpaper adhesive, acrylic paint, oil stick, and cold wax and oil - applied with whatever tool feels right in the moment: brushes, palette knives, credit cards, plastic bags, fingers, spoons, and forks.

These studies often emerge as intuitive, primitive, childlike, and abstract expressionist. They reflect a deep curiosity about form and surface, while drawing inspiration from African art symbolism, outsider art, and my own family history. Each piece is a layered exploration of material and memory, shaped as much by play and instinct as by cultural echoes and personal roots.

Joan McLoughlin: “Awakening”

My paintings are celebrations of color, movement and emotion.

Inspired by trees, flowers, and the energy of abstract form, I work in a loose, lively style that embraces freedom and spontaneity.

Through variations of size and vibrant hue, I wish to express growth, rebirth, and new beginnings. Each canvas is a reflection of the heart, an exploration of optimism and possibility.

I invite viewers to feel the same sense of love of life, imagination, joy and hope that can be found in my paintings.

The Burgwin-Wright House is excited to welcome North Carolina artists, Ellie Snow and Kathryn DeMarco for the show “ The View from Here” on display throughout the holidays and into the New Year!

The Opening reception, in conjunction with Fourth Friday Gallery Nights, is on Friday, November 28 from 6-9PM.
Their artworks will be on display and for sale in our art gallery through January 17. Admission is free. The gallery is open Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm.

The View from Here reflects a perspective grounded in observation, memory, and imagination. Artworks by Kathryn DeMarco and Ellie Snow navigate the space between humanity and the natural world — where identity and instinct intertwine. We invite viewers to pause with us in a moment of reflection, to consider how we see ourselves and others, and how beauty resides in the fragile, the ordinary, and the deeply personal.

Kathryn DeMarco’s work is a celebration of portraiture through the medium of collage—where the tactile nature of cut paper meets a deep commitment to realism. In creating images of companion animals, winged creatures, and self-portraits, she seeks to capture more than likeness; she aims to reveal presence, spirit, and emotional truth through layers of paper, paint, and glue.

Ellie Snow’s paintings are a means of escape, a window into a fairy-tale kind of world where she can ponder the beauty and complexity of being human, and the stories that repeat themselves through time like a pattern. Lately she has begun capturing the bits of magic found in corners of antique shops, in addition to the landscapes, plants, and animals around her woodland home.

From the Artists

About Kathryn DeMarco

I am Kathryn DeMarco. I am an artist living and working in Durham, NC. My dog, Rosemary Petunia, and my cats, Ted Talks, Charlotte Schyler Ruth, and Sheena of the Jungle, a tortie with tortitude, are my studio assistants and sometimes models.

My medium is collage and my focus is portraiture. I love figurative painting and sculpture and drawing. The cut and paste technique is a process that I started experimenting with in college. I have worked to perfect and enjoy this method ever since. The process of choosing colors and textures and then applying them to a detailed drawing slows me down and allows me to think about the composition.

All of my work is realistic portraits of animals, people, and myself all made out of cut paper, a little paint and glue and lots of skill and imagination. I specialize in animal portraits of your companions, using materials that YOU want to incorporate to celebrate your companion. Enjoy!

My work is included in many personal collections in the Triangle and beyond. I have had many solo shows at Craven Allen Gallery in Durham, and many other galleries in Durham, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough over my 30+ year career.

My solo show “Finding My Way” was exhibited at The Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington in November 2019.

About Ellie Snow

Ellie Snow is an artist based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Her paintings explore emotional themes through landscapes and still lifes, often beginning with photographs she takes around her home in rural North Carolina. The paintings that result are color driven, emotive, and sometimes dream-like, balancing the beauty, complexity, and humor of being human. She imagines them as a snapshot of a larger story.

Ellie is a member of the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, and fairly new to working as a professional artist.

The Holiday Train Expo is fun for the whole family. See 12 layouts, over 30 trains and beautiful holiday decorations. Come experience the magic of the POLAR EXPRESS!
The Expo is open on Saturdays and Sundays from Noon to 5 pm starting November 30th through December 29th.
A special Black Friday showing will be Friday November 29th from Noon to 5 pm.
After Christmas, come out on additional days: December 27th and 30th from Noon to 5 pm to keep the Holiday magic going.
Closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
$9.00 for adults, $7.00 for children, Infants are free.
Located in the Dillards Wing at Independence Mall.

Get in the Holiday Spirit with an evening walk through the beautifully decorated Burgwin-Wright House!

Inspired by the Colonial era, the 1770 house is decorated with fresh greenery, fruits and flowers, as it would have been in the 18th century. Enjoy lively music by Masonboro Parlor, interpreters in period costumes, and crafts for the children.

Admission is Free; Donations are appreciated.

The Burgwin-Wright House is a Toys for Tots drop-off location, a bin is located in the visitor center.

Art in Bloom Gallery is celebrating this holiday season through its Annual Holiday Show, featuring the powerful exhibits of mixed-media painters Clarence Mayo and Joan McLoughlin! Combining strong color with unconventional materials, Clarence’s playful creations draw from instinct, cultural echoes, and his own personal roots. Meanwhile, inspired by the renewal of nature and the energy of abstraction, Joan works freely to express a love of life, imagination, joy and hope.

Join us in the gallery on Sunday, November 9th, 2-5pm for our Holiday Show Reception! Enjoy special refreshments, meet our artists, and enjoy live music by guitarist Miles Moore! Delight in the discovery of our 30+ Gallery Artists’ new holiday creations, and shop for one-of-a-kind gifts that are sure to bring smiles all year-round!

Clarence Mayo: “The Evolution of Identity: Defining Myself”

My work explores the interplay of strong colors, textures, and unconventional materials. I experiment with plaster, drywall compound, silicone acrylic chalk, modeling paste, wallpaper adhesive, acrylic paint, oil stick, and cold wax and oil - applied with whatever tool feels right in the moment: brushes, palette knives, credit cards, plastic bags, fingers, spoons, and forks.

These studies often emerge as intuitive, primitive, childlike, and abstract expressionist. They reflect a deep curiosity about form and surface, while drawing inspiration from African art symbolism, outsider art, and my own family history. Each piece is a layered exploration of material and memory, shaped as much by play and instinct as by cultural echoes and personal roots.

Joan McLoughlin: “Awakening”

My paintings are celebrations of color, movement and emotion.

Inspired by trees, flowers, and the energy of abstract form, I work in a loose, lively style that embraces freedom and spontaneity.

Through variations of size and vibrant hue, I wish to express growth, rebirth, and new beginnings. Each canvas is a reflection of the heart, an exploration of optimism and possibility.

I invite viewers to feel the same sense of love of life, imagination, joy and hope that can be found in my paintings.

The Burgwin-Wright House is excited to welcome North Carolina artists, Ellie Snow and Kathryn DeMarco for the show “ The View from Here” on display throughout the holidays and into the New Year!

The Opening reception, in conjunction with Fourth Friday Gallery Nights, is on Friday, November 28 from 6-9PM.
Their artworks will be on display and for sale in our art gallery through January 17. Admission is free. The gallery is open Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm.

The View from Here reflects a perspective grounded in observation, memory, and imagination. Artworks by Kathryn DeMarco and Ellie Snow navigate the space between humanity and the natural world — where identity and instinct intertwine. We invite viewers to pause with us in a moment of reflection, to consider how we see ourselves and others, and how beauty resides in the fragile, the ordinary, and the deeply personal.

Kathryn DeMarco’s work is a celebration of portraiture through the medium of collage—where the tactile nature of cut paper meets a deep commitment to realism. In creating images of companion animals, winged creatures, and self-portraits, she seeks to capture more than likeness; she aims to reveal presence, spirit, and emotional truth through layers of paper, paint, and glue.

Ellie Snow’s paintings are a means of escape, a window into a fairy-tale kind of world where she can ponder the beauty and complexity of being human, and the stories that repeat themselves through time like a pattern. Lately she has begun capturing the bits of magic found in corners of antique shops, in addition to the landscapes, plants, and animals around her woodland home.

From the Artists

About Kathryn DeMarco

I am Kathryn DeMarco. I am an artist living and working in Durham, NC. My dog, Rosemary Petunia, and my cats, Ted Talks, Charlotte Schyler Ruth, and Sheena of the Jungle, a tortie with tortitude, are my studio assistants and sometimes models.

My medium is collage and my focus is portraiture. I love figurative painting and sculpture and drawing. The cut and paste technique is a process that I started experimenting with in college. I have worked to perfect and enjoy this method ever since. The process of choosing colors and textures and then applying them to a detailed drawing slows me down and allows me to think about the composition.

All of my work is realistic portraits of animals, people, and myself all made out of cut paper, a little paint and glue and lots of skill and imagination. I specialize in animal portraits of your companions, using materials that YOU want to incorporate to celebrate your companion. Enjoy!

My work is included in many personal collections in the Triangle and beyond. I have had many solo shows at Craven Allen Gallery in Durham, and many other galleries in Durham, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough over my 30+ year career.

My solo show “Finding My Way” was exhibited at The Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington in November 2019.

About Ellie Snow

Ellie Snow is an artist based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Her paintings explore emotional themes through landscapes and still lifes, often beginning with photographs she takes around her home in rural North Carolina. The paintings that result are color driven, emotive, and sometimes dream-like, balancing the beauty, complexity, and humor of being human. She imagines them as a snapshot of a larger story.

Ellie is a member of the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, and fairly new to working as a professional artist.