Benjamin Billingsley          

EDUCATION

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO

1993 - 1995
Master of Fine Arts
Concentration in painting / printmaking
Graduate Assistantship in Art History - Teaching Assistant to Richard Gantt (’94-5) and to Amy Lixl-Purcell (’93-4) for Art-101, Survey of Western Art.

1989 - 1993
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Concentration in painting / printmaking
Graduated Magna Cum Laude

EXPERIENCE

2001 - current
CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE Wilmington, NC

Full time faculty course load including studio and lecture based courses
Departmental and College Committee service (including search committees, Diversity Committee, Native American 
    Heritage Month & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day committees, and Faculty Association)
Managed online art galleries (Fall 2006 – Fall 2009)
Editor Fine Arts Promotion Committee Newsletter (since Fall 2009)
Advisor to Renaissance Art Club (Fall 2001 – Spring 2008)
Coordination of student exhibitions
Advising and registration of college transfer students (including working at Advising Center)
Design and implementation of courses new to curriculum (Portfolio and Resume, Survey of American Art, Studio
    [independent study], Drawing II, Printmaking I, Printmaking II)

2000 - 2001 Alamance Community College and NC A&T University (adjunct)
1998 - 2001 Greensboro Art Alliance
1995 - 1998 Center for Creative Arts

AWARDS

2011 16^th Annual Artist Self-Portrait Exhibition – Glenn Eure's Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC – Honorable Mention

2006 Marilyn Goodman Anderson Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching CFCC

1994 River’s Scholarship for foreign study

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011
Constructions – Wilmington Wine, Wilmington, NC

2010
Full Bodied – Wilmington Wine, Wilmington, NC

2009
Places I Remember – Special Event, Wilmington Art Association Gallery, Wilmington, NC

2008
Landscapes (drawings, prints, paintings) - Fayetteville Technical Community College 
Artist of the Month (April 2008) – OutWilmington

2002
Double Vision – WHQR Gallery Wilmington, NC
 Recent Paintings – UNCW Kenan Hall

1997
New Paintings – Elliott University Center Art Gallery, UNCG

1995
Visiting Artist Exhibition – Saint Andrew's-Sewanee School Gallery, St. Andrew, TN

Publications

2011
Hide Behind Me by Jason Mott – hand-drawn/digitally colored cover – Main Street Rag, September 2011.

Days of Dark Miracles by Daniel Nathan Terry – 21x40” woodblock print cover – Seven Kitchens Press, Editor’s Series, August 2011.

2007
Illustrations for What If It Ended This Way? Vol. II – Edited by Rabbi James Apple (Pub’d by CFCC)

2005
Illustrations for What If It Ended This Way? Vol. I – Edited by Rabbi James Apple (Pub’d by CFCC)

Selected Special Projects
(recurring projects listed only in most recent year)

2011
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – exhibition organizer –
    CFCC (3^rd year)
Poetry judge CFCC’s art and literary magazine Portals (3^rd
    year)
Youth Arts Festival (participating artist/demonstrator) –
    ECU, Greenville, NC (printmaking) (7^th year)

2010
Juror – Wilmington Art Association Sales Gallery (4^th year)
Silent Auction Haiti Earthquake Relief (Doctors Without
    Borders) - organizer, donor - CFCC (Raised $4,043.00)
Native American Heritage Month – Committee member,
    exhibition organizer, exhibiting artist - CFCC (4^th
    year), organized visiting artist demonstration by Teddy
    Draper, Jr. (2^nd year), Silent Auction for Brenda Moore
    Native American Student  Scholarships – organizer,
    donor (Raised $450.00)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – Committee member,
    exhibition organizer, exhibiting artist, speaker (Harlem
    Renaissance) – CFCC (2^nd year)
Arts Poetica Exhibition (Collaborative piece) – CFCC (2^nd
    year)
One Book, One Community Exhibition (Greasy Rider) –
    organizer, exhibiting artist (recycled materials) – CFCC
Team leader CFCC Foundation FundDrive (6^th year)
Donated artwork to Love Your Body silent auction and
    ACES silent auction for World Aids day

2009
Donated artwork to Autism Awareness fundraiser –
    Wilmington, NC

2008
Habitat for Humanity Oktoberfest – Kids face-painting
    Wilmington, NC
Organized studio classroom visits by Dreams of
    Wilmington
Donated artwork to CFCC Foundation fundraiser (3^rd year)

2007
Kids @ CAM – children’s art festival, printmaking project –
    Cameron Museum Wilmington, NC
Judge – Onslow County Art Show (held at Coastal Carolina
    Community College in Jacksonville, NC)
Received CFCC Mini-grant ($1,000) to purchase art supply
    packages for scholarship recipients
Organized Fall Fundraiser – silent auction to benefit Dreams of Wilmington (Raised nearly $2,000) and       
     organized subsequent visiting artist lecture by George
     Pocheptsov
Renaissance Art Club Advisor (6^th consecutive year)
Organized Annual Spring All Student Art Exhibition (7^th
    consecutive year)

2006
Hurricane Katrina Relief Art Sale – CFCC (Raised $266.50)
Fall In-Service Workshop: Campus Cruiser (Web-based
    campus community groupware) – presenter
Donated art work to First In Families charity fundraiser

2005
Hurricane Katrina Relief Festival – organized silent art
    auction (raised $2,716.00)
Designer – Hurricane Katrina Relief CD cover for CFCC
Coordinated art student scholarships through CFCC
    Foundation
Organized visiting artist lecture by Deborah Cavenaugh

2004
Judged student exhibition for Holly Tree Elementary School

2001
Donated artwork for Art Alliance silent auction fundraiser

1999
Curator – New Visions – Center for Creative Leadership,
    Greensboro, NC
Curator – Art Alliance Faculty Exhibition at South Elm
    Pottery and Gallery, Greensboro, NC

1998
Commissioned sculpture – First Night, Greensboro, NC
Curator – The Expanded Image – Center for Creative
    Leadership, Greensboro, NC

1997
Judge  - Coraddi magazine Art Competition, UNCG (work
    reproduced within)
Teaching Assistant to Melanie Bassett – UNCG’s Arts and
    Sciences Academy

1995-1996
Co-curator for the following exhibitions at the Elliott University Center Art Gallery, UNCG:
     Modus Operandi: Paper
     Photography by Paul Batt
     Soy Americana: Michele Ramirez

1995
Solo exhibition and collage workshop with students of
    Saint Andrew's-Sewanee School, St. Andrew, TN

1994
Summer Study Abroad Program: Estonia, Latvia, Russia
    and Finland

Workshops etc.

Cameron Museum Life Drawing Group (current, began
    06/01/08)
Exquisite Corpse Drawing Group (current, began 01/09/10)

2011
Photogravure Workshop at Cape Fear Press with instructor
    Unai San Martin

2010
Print Summit 2010 – East Carolina University
Collagraph workshop with Glenn Eure at Ghost Fleet Gallery Nags Head, NC (08/2010)
FATE (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education)
    Conference at UNCW

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011
1x1=One – 2TEN Haustudio, Ivanhoe, NC
Monsters – Collaborate Gallery, Oakland, CA
Blue and Velvety – Projekte Gallery, Wilmington, NC
Night of the 3D Corpses – Wabi Sabi Warehouse, 
    Wilmington, NC
Maps (to Nevada?) – Wabi Sabi Warehouse, Wilmington, 
    NC
Likeness and Light - One Wicked Gallery, Wimington, NC
Art Exhibit with Exquisite Corpses – River Twist, Belville, NC
Cumulonimbus - Projekte Gallery, Wilmington, NC
State of the Art/Art of the State – Cameron Art Museum,
    Wilmington, NC
Hot off the Press: CFCC Printmakers - Projekte Gallery,
    Wilmington, NC
16^th Annual Artist Self-Portrait Exhibition – Glenn Eure's
    Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC
Define Surrealism – Thrive Studios, Wilmington, NC
    (Exquisite Corpse)
Kyoto International Woodprint Association 6^th Exhibition –
    Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan

2010
Continuing the Form – Bottega Gallery, Wilmington, NC
    (Exquisite Corpse)
The Dream Rocket – Brooklyn Children’s Museum,
    Brooklyn, NY, NY
Paperazzi – Bottega Gallery and Projekte Galleries,
    Wilmington, NC (work in both galleries)
The Creative Coalition, Inaugural Exhibition – Projekte
    Gallery, Wilmington, NC
Puppet Parlour – Acme, Wilmington, NC
Big Print Block Party – Artbox Gallery, Wilmington, NC
20/20: Filters of Light and Insight – Acme, Wilmington, NC
Arts Anonymous – Moore County Arts Council Campbell
    House Galleries Southern Pines, NC
Artists / Proof: CFCC Printmakers – Parallelogram,
    Wilmington, NC
Sense of Place II – Glenn Eure's Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags
    Head, NC
Self Portraits – Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags
    Head, NC
On the Wall – Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC

2009
Bloodline: A Billingsley Family Exhibition – Glenn Eure’s
    Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags Head, NC
Generations : A Billingsley Family Exhibition – Hampton
    Gallery / CCA, Kinston, NC
12x12x122 - BECA Gallery New Orleans, LA 
Arts Anonymous – Moore County Arts Council Campbell
    House Galleries Southern Pines, NC
Achromatics Exhibition - Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC
Self Portraits – Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags
    Head, NC

2008
Foundations Exhibition - Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC
Exhibition Downtown - Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC 

2007
Land and Sea – Bottega Gallery Wilmington, NC
Countdown to Peace – Mendenhall Gallery, East Carolina
    University, Greenville,NC 
Flesh – Bottega Gallery, Wilmington, NC

2006
Student/Mentor: UNCW & CFCC Professors and Their
    Students – Bottega Gallery Wilmington

2005
5 X 5 – Elon University, Elon, NC

2004
WHQR Portraits (Invitational)– Thalian Hall, Wilmington,
    NC (Cinematique program)

2002
Icarus – Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nagshead, NC
Center for Creative Leadership Exhibition– Greensboro,
    NC

2000
Department Faculty Exhibition – Taylor Art Gallery, NC A&T
    Campus, Greensboro, NC
10^th Annual Waterworks Visual Arts Center Regional
    Exhibition – Salisbury, NC
Icarus 2000 - Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags
    Head, NC

1999
Billingsley3 – Mendenhall Gallery, East Carolina University,
    Greenville, NC
Self Portraits – Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery, Nags
    Head, NC
New Visions – Center for Creative Leadership,
    Greensboro, NC

1998
Icarus ’98 – Seaside Arts Gallery, Nags Head, NC
Artful Collaborations II – Elliott University Art Gallery, UNCG
The Expanded Image– Center for Creative Leadership,
    Greensboro, NC

1997
All In The Family – Elliott University Gallery, UNCG
Invitational Four Person Exhibition – Greensboro Artists'
    League Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Frank Stick Memorial Art Show – Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet 
    Gallery, Nags Head, NC

1996 
Icarus '96 – Seaside Art Gallery, Nags Head, NC
Juried Exchange Exhibition – Arts Council of Greater
    Knoxville Gallery, Knoxville, TN
The Altered Image – American Graphic Art –
    Kastellaanimaja Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia

1995
Two Women/Two Men – Tallinn, Estonia; St. Petersburg,
    Russia
MFA Graduate Thesis Exhibition – Weatherspoon Art
    Gallery, UNCG
Works from Baltic Summer Trip– Burroughs-Welcome
    Gallery, ECU, Greenville, NC

Guest Lectures

2011
Cameron Museum Docents Program – ongoing series
    since 2007
Guest Lecture – Matisse and Picasso - Wilmington Art
    Association (4^th lecture for WAA)
Lecture on Surrealism at Thrive Studios
UNCW Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Courses – 
    “Women in Art: The Path to Cassatt;”
    “Abstract Expressionism: Method to the Madness?”   &
    “Magnificent Edifices: Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace”
UNCW – FNA102 class “Explorations in the Creative
    Process” (4^th lecture since 2008)

2010
UNCW Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Courses –
    “Matisse, Picasso and their Heirs, an Overview of
    Modernism” & “Hopper to Close”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day – Harlem Renaissance event
    – Lecturer – CFCC
Faculty Forum: “Being Human?” – Lecturer – CFCC (2^nd
    lecture for Faculty Forum)

2009
Guest Lecture – Expressionism - Wilmington Art
    Association (3^rd lecture for WAA)

2008
Guest Lecture – Post-Modernism – Wilmington Art
    Association (2^nd lecture)
Artists in the Galleries Lecture (public lecture in
    conjunction with Clare Leighton exhibition 12/2008)

2007
Guest Lecture – Modernism – Wilmington Art Association

2005
Faculty Forum: Beauty – Lecturer – CFCC

1997
Lecture: Special Education and the Arts – 48^th Conference
    on Exceptional Children, Public Schools of NC
Visiting Artist Lecture – GTCC, figure drawing course