| Cara Bevan Skills: Acrylic painting, colored pencil artwork, pen and ink art, graphite/pencil art, digital design, digital art and illustration, sculpture, freelance writing Education: Honors High School graduate at Trinity High School in 2006 Attended classes at the John C. Campbell Folk School, (3 in 2006, 2 in 2009) o Class instructors: Pebbie Mott, Amy Rands, Wayland Moore, and Alan Young (professional artists) Honors and Awards: Won a gold and two silver keys from the Scholastic Art Awards, 2002-04 Double Finalist in the Artist’s Magazine 2008, 25th Annual Art Competition (with painting “Crustacean Salutation” and “The Beauty of Writing”) Honorable Mention in the Artist’s Magazine 2009, 26th Annual Art Competition (with panting “Writer’s Block”) Finalist in the Artist’s Magazine 2009, 26th Annual Art Competition (with painting “Fowl Martyr”) Double Finalist in the Artist's Magazine 2011 Annual Art Competition (with "Ivy" and "Lunar Light") 2nd place in the North Western Randolph County Arts Council’s 3rd annual art exhibit 2009 Semi-Finalist in DeviantArt’s community wide “Splice” contest 2 Honorable Mentions at the NWRCAC 4th annual art show 2010 Juror’s Choice award of $100 and plaque at High Point Art Council’s Day in the Park Festival 2010 First prize in the MyFeenix(tm) art contest. Adult Traditional category Bibliography: ***various online sites, such as Deviantart.com, Furaffinity.com, Fineartamerica.com, and Artwanted.com*** Article in the Archdale Trinity Newspaper Photo in the Highpoint Enterprise Photo of work from an exhibit in the Archdale Trinity Newspaper One woman show at the Gallery Hall in Lexington, 2008 Joint artists show at the Gallery Hall in 2008 Article about my first show and artwork in the Lexington newspaper “Dispatch” Painting on front page of Courier Tribune, advertising for NC Zoo’s Zoo-to-do benefit auction 2009 Art showing in the Ragan House, from September 28th to November 9th, 2009 Feature in the December 2009 issue of the Artist’s Magazine Filmed by Fox 8 WGHP news and featured in Roy’s Folks news segment April 12th 2010 Shared art display at the Ragan House (118 Trindale Rd, NC) for six weeks in 2009 Vendor at the His Scars to Our Scars fundraising event Vendor at the Day in the Park festival run by the High Point Art Council Full Article of my work and showing at Day in the Park in the Courier Tribune, September 28, 2010 Self-written article published in “Backyard Poultry Magazine” April/May 2011 issue Full page article about my gourd art in the High Point Enterprise. December 26th, 2010 Vendor at Randolph Art Guild's 42nd Annual Fall Festival. October 1st and 2nd, 2011 Professional Affiliations: NWRCAC Vice President 2009-2010 NWRCAC Secretary 2010-2011 Part of the Lexington Gallery/Printmaker The Gallery Hall Donation of large 18x24” painting “Arctic Sovereign” to the NC Zoo’s Zoo-to-do benefit auction (getting $500 during the live auction for the zoo) Donated original acrylic painting “Golden” to the John C. Campbell Folk School for Blacksmith auction, Nov. 7, 2009. Auctioned for $320.25 Donation of 1/1, remarked, and hand-signed AP print of “The Journey” to the NC zoo benefit auction 2010 getting $180 Donation of original painting “Otter Curiosity” to the NC zoo benefit auction 2010 getting $200 Donation of original painting “Lunar Light” to the NC zoo benefit auction 2011 Donation of original sculpture to NC zoo benefit auction 2011 Taught by Wayland Moore in a 5 day class at John C. Campbell Folk School Owns website www.carabevan.com with several outstanding affiliates Part of many advertising websites o Artwanted.com o FineArtAmerica.com o Red Easel o Deviantart.com o Furaffinity.com Related Work/Professional Experience: Volunteer teacher aid at the Archdale Trinity Middle School, 2008 school year Art presentation to Studio Art class at Archdale Trinity Middle School, Dec. 2009 Art presentation at Level Cross Elementary, March 22nd 2010 Art presentation at Level Cross Elementary, March 2nd 2011 Art presentation at Hopewell Elementary, January 26th 2011 John. R. Lawrence Elementary School presenter for Art's Day, 2011. November 4th 2011 Weekly art instructing after school – ATMS (Jan – May 2010) Painted four large murals at Trinity High School in 2006 Taken commissions selling from $20 to $350 Work displayed and sold at the Hall Gallery in Lexington, NC 200+ original paintings and countless other artworks and crafts made Giclee’ on canvas or paper prints made of artwork for sell to public Designing of the Wheatmore High School mascot Vice President of NWRCAC 2009-2010 Secretary of NWRCAC 200-2011 Attendance of art shows, contests, festivals, and galas Artwork sold all over the world: o Across the United States: Illinois, California, Florida, Washington state, Washington DC, Arizona, New York, etc o International: London, Russia, Canada, Australia, UK (northern Ireland), Singapore, Germany |
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| Cara Bevan Professional animal, landscape, and wildlife painter. Primary medium, high quality acrylic paint on various surfaces (mostly canvas and wood.) Other professional mediums include: colored pencil, natural sculpture and crafts, and graphite/pen, graphic design/digital painting, and ink. Area of expertise: animals I paint animals as if they are real, as if you can touch them. It's my priority to portray them as so, with their personality clear as day. With every painting I do there is a soul and a message, whether it's about conservation or preserving memories of a dear friend. Any project I take on, I do it with all of my abilities. |