| About King |
| Rebekah King Visual Art, Department of Fine Arts Chair. Heide Trask Senior High School, Rocky Point, NC. Education: Attended Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania, California Polytechnic University. Appalachian State University graduate 1996. Suma Cum Laude Summer course work at Savannah College of Art and Design. Majors: Visual Art, Biology. Minor: Anthropology. Teaching certificate: Visual Arts K-12, National Board Certification in Secondary Visual Art. Member of National Art Education Association, Delta Kappa Gamma Presentation Record: (NCAEA conference presentations): Art, Monsters and Social Fears. Bringing the Outside In. Unwritten Record: Un-writing Books as Sculpture. Cyber Schools on the Internet. Cracked Babies: Dealing with the Drug Culture. Beyond Speed Racer: the Influence of Anime. Aesthetics of Revolutionary Technologies: Art, Ethics and Transgenics. The Singing Bones: Forensic Art. With Melissa Ball-Martin: Great Gourd Allmighty! Ethnic Crafts Curriculum. Death is Not the End. In Good Taste: the Aesthetics of Food in Art. Alterations: Altered Book Workshop. Challenge Me! Curriculum design. In co-operation with the St. John's Museum of Art: Art Topic Boxes: Curriculum for the Classroom. Designed curriculum box for "Outsider and Folk Art". In co-operation with Dreams of Wilmington, African-American Dance Ensamble and the Louise Wells-Cameron museum: Storytelling gourd workshops and presentations. County Staff Development presentations: "No Roadkill- How to Survive the Internet". Assisted with National Board workshops. Show Record: Appalachian State University: undergraduate awards in Fibers and Visual Arts. Purchase award 1996. Brunswick County Art Council Shows at Franklin Smith Gallery in Southport, NC. Singular shows "Strange Saints" (2002) , "Lotteria" (2003), "Star of the Sea" (2004) at Flying Pig, Oak Island, NC. North Carolina Gourd Show 2003, 2004. "Mail Art" (1997) Black Mountain, Ashville NC. Folk Art show and Competition, Louise Wells Cameron Museum in Wilmington, NC. (2004). Barbee Library exhibits, Oak Island, NC. Shells- natural history exhibit (2003), Dragons- collection/ art (2003), Gourds- student work (2004), Altered Books- student work (2004), Singing Bones- forensics- student work (2004). Collection Record: Appalachian Heritage Museum, Appalachian Cultural Museum, Beth-Shalom Temple, American Craft Museum. (sculptural figures). Church of the Shepard (Mixed Media painting on cloth). Cathedral of St. John the Devine, NYC (painted organ pipe based on William Blake). Private collections: sculptural figures, assemblages and painting. Visual Art Description: Sculptural Figures:1988-1996. Figures are doll-like assemblages depecting figures from mythology or a cultural group. The content is mainly focused on the mythological beings of the Christmas season or illustation of traditional dress. Painting: Two major divisions of paintings- large scale acrylic paintings with magical-reality content. Small (8'x10') tempera icons based on saints or mythological themes. Gourds: story gourds, masks and mixed media figures- mythological themes. Fibers: mixed media assemblages with a focus on embroidery techniques- mythological/ sacred themes. Art Cars: Grapes of Wrath (1976 Ford Pinto) Green Man (1988 Toyota Tercel Wagon) Shadow Mermaid (1988 Toyota Tercel Wagon) Lotteria (VW Bus- in progress) Nomad (1997 Saturn Wagon- in progress) Greenevers: home page. |