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This Month's Artist:
Amy Funderburk is a professional artist with over 20 years of experience, specializing in oils, pastels, and photography. Since she graduated summa cum laude in 1988 from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, her work has been exhibited widely across the US, including exhibitions in Chicago, Delaware, Maryland, New York State, North Carolina, Ohio, and South Carolina. She has also participated in group exhibits in both the Republic of Ireland and England. Inspired by the ancient Celts, who revered in-between places and times, Funderburk merges surreal figurative elements into sacred landscapes to represent the presence of the divine in her current series, Images From the Otherworld. These visionary works are based on her extraordinary experiences at sacred sites. Her three journeys to Ireland led her to begin this series, and she is now expanding her source imagery to include locations in Southern England, Cornwall, and Southern Wales. Content for certain paintings is derived from meditation during yoga poses. Funderburk's goal is to inspire both physical and psychological healing with her imagery as she explores the role of art imagery, belief, and the power of positive thinking on the healing process. She is provided with rich source material for this intention at holy wells, those natural springs or other water sources that are revered as places of healing, a continuation of the ancient Celtic tradition of venerating water. Funderburk was one of seven artists invited to participate in an art exhibit at The Chalice Well Trust, Glastonbury, Somerset, England, as part of their 50th Anniversary Conference in June of 2009. In 2008, she was selected for inclusion in the North Carolina Arts Council online Touring Artist Directory. Three of Funderburk's works were chosen in 2007 to travel to the US Embassy in Estonia for a two year loan. In 2006, Funderburk was honored with a Women in the Arts seed grant by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC. She was awarded a full fellowship for an Artist's Residency at the Vermont Studio Center in April 2005. In 2004, she was selected as one of fifty inaugural NC artists to have work featured on the Southern Arts Federation website, Southern Artistry. She was honored as one of the recipients of the Visual Artists' Fellowship for 2002 - 2003 from the North Carolina Arts Council, and was a recipient of an Emerging Artist Fellowship Grant from the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Arts Council in 1990. Her many commissions include an oil painting in 1996 for the Student Government Association Permanent Art Collection of Forsyth Technical Community College, Winston-Salem, NC, and illustrating the children's book Candle Lovefeast, published by Old Salem, Inc., in 1990. Other Permanent Collections that include Funderburk's work are Dubai Aerospace Enterprises (DAE Capital), Seattle, WA; The Babcock Graduate School of Business Management at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC; and the Artinian Self-Portrait Collection at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, and Who's Who in the World include Funderburk in numerous editions. Funderburk was a freelance Exhibitions Coordinator and curator from 1989 to 2009, providing artwork for several alternative locations in the Winston-Salem, NC area. A former art instructor with the Sawtooth Center for Visual Art and Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, NC, Funderburk now teaches privately, conducts various art workshops and seminars, and has served as juror for numerous regional exhibits. She and her husband, photographer James C. Williams, led an artists' workshop to the Republic of Ireland in 2005. Funderburk has also written freelance reviews and articles for several different publications since 1994. In the summer of 2000, she served as the business consultant to help form a co-op and membership organization in Hickory, NC. Find out more at www.AmyFunderburkArtist.com
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Dottie Moore is the author of Lives in Process  Dottie Moore is a studio quilt artist living in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Since 1980 her award-winning works have been exhibited, collected, and published throughout the world, and commissioned by many individuals, corporations, and hospitals. Dottie has been featured in numerous publications including Threads, American Quilter (front cover in addition to article), Art Quilt Magazine, Quilter’s Newsletter, and Traditional Home by Better Homes and Gardens. She is author of the CD book, Lives in Process: Creativity in the Second Fifty Years by Ladybug Press and one of the chapter authors of Midlife Clarity: Epiphanies from Grown-Up Girls by Beyond Words Publishing Company. She is passionate about the power of the creative process for transforming lives and is founder of “Piecing a Quilt of Life,” an international project dedicated to empowering senior women by recognizing their creative abilities. Students and audiences for her classes and lectures include visual artists, musicians, writers, storytellers, women’s groups, college students, and quilters. You can email Dottie
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