 Portrait of Ben Billingsley with Yoko Ono's Peace Tree at Hirshhorn in DC
Ben Billingsley Cape Fear Community College Art Dept, Wilmington Benjamin Billingsley is a painter and printmaker living in Wlimington, North Carolina. He holds an MFA from UNC Greensboro (1995), where he studied under Walter Barker, William Collins and John Maggio. Benjamin Billingsley has exhibited work in the Southeastern United States as well as in Latvia, Estonia, Russia and Japan. He has been a regular participant in the large-scale woodblock printing events held in Carolina Beach, at UNCW and at ECU since 2010. In summer 2015, Ben was co-director of a printmaking symposium at Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum in Sabile, Latvia; participants carved and printed large-scale 1 meter by 2 meter woodblocks using a steamroller. (This was the first time steamroller printing has been done at Pedvale, and most likely the first time such an event has been done in Latvia.) This was Ben's second residency at Pedvale. Ben has taught studio art and art history at Cape Fear Community College full-time since 2001. In 2006 Benjamin Billingsley received the Marilyn Goodman Anderson Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching. He teaches a variety of studio courses (including drawing and printmaking) as well as various art history courses. Ben is the third generation artist and art instructor in his family. His maternal grandfather, Robert Schellin, was a painter / printmaker / ceramicist based in Milwaukee, WI - he worked for the WPA during the Great Depression and taught art for the University of Wisconsin system for many years. Ben's parents are Carl Billingsley (MFA, UWM) and Catherine Billingsley (MFA, ECU). Carl is an award-winning sculptor whose work was displayed in downtown Wilmington, NC in 2008 through Ped Art. Catherine is a weaver specializing in large-scale tapestries. Carl and Catherine have both retired from teaching at East Carolina University's School of Art and Design. |
Where you can see this artist's work:
'Meet the Artist' Saturday, July 9th, 2016 7pm Cape Fear Community College Studio Theatre 'Mature Brains' 'Core' Perfromance, Premiere Saturday, July 9th, 2016 8pm Cape Fear Community College Studio Theatre Tickets>>>... Some photos of Ben Billingsley's work:
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