Susan Fecho • 1107 Saint David Street, Tarboro, NC 27886 • 252.823.6717

www.susanfecho.com

 

Position: Professor/Chair of Art and Design, Barton College, NC

 

Education

1988          Masters of Fine Arts. Studio Arts, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

1982          Bachelor of Fine Arts. Major: Studio Arts, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Postgraduate
Penland School of Crafts, NC
Northern Illinois University
Milwaukee Insititue of Art and Design
Humboldt Field Reseach Institute, Eagle Hill, Maine
Krueger School of Graphics, Chowan University (Imaging Technology and Print Production)
Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Holland
Goldsmiths, London, England

Artist Residences:

Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA, 2006

Pouch Cove Foundation’s Residential Arts Program, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 2006

English Harbour Arts Centre, NL, 2010

 

Solo Exhibitions

2010     Recent Works by Susan Fecho, The Green County Museum, Snow Hill, NC

            Celebrating Light and Line, English Harbour Arts Centre, Newfoundland, CA

Flutterings: Expressions of Nature, Barton College Art Galleries, Wilson, NC

2008     Travel Notations, Mims Gallery, North Carolina Wesleyan College, NC

.................Recent Works, Francis Gallery, Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA

2007     Landscapes, Commons Gallery, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

2006     Landscape Convergence, Barton Museum, Barton College, NC

                        Layers of Meaning, Cary Senior Center, Cary, NC

2005     25 Year Retrospective, Blount Bridgers Museum. Tarboro, NC

Recent Works, Council for the Arts, Jacksonville, NC

The Painted Word: Image, Text & Ideology, Durham Arts Council, Allenton Gal., Durham, NC

2004     25 Year Retrospective, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, NC

1999     Point of Departure, Theater Galleries, High Point, NC

            Featured Artist, Evans Street Gallery, Greenville, NC

1998     Intrinsic Memories, Mims Gallery, Dunn Center, Wesleyan College, NC

            Featured Artist, Evans Street Gallery, Greenville, NC

1995          Nothing Overlooked, Edna Boykin Cultural Center, Wilson, NC

1994     Pen and Ink Drawings, Rawls Museum of Arts, Courtland, VA

            Book Arts, Edgecombe Community College, Tarboro, NC

            Celebrating Edgecombe County, Pender Room, Edgecombe County Library, Tarboro, NC

1993     Drawings, Paintings, and Prints, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA

1990     Life Rhythms, Art Council of Wilson, NC

1989     Textures, Rocky Mount Art Center, Rocky Mount, NC

1988     Portrait of a Town Called Penny Hill, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH

            Monoprints and Photography, Greenville Museum of Art, NC

 
Recent Invitationals/Juried Exhibitions

2010          2010 Instructor Exhibition, Sandra J. Blain Galleries at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

Painting the Town, Tarboro Artists Guild in the Hobson Pittman Gallery, Blount-Bridgers House, Tarboro, NC

Pressed for Time: Contemporary Printmakers, Davison Gallery, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY

2009          6th Annual Photographic Image Biennial Exhibition, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
Conversations: An exhibition of work by members of the Southeast Fibers Educators Association, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, NC

Olde Town Gallery’s Holiday Exhibition, Fayetteville, NC

Group Exhibition with Mark Gordon and Chrys Riviere-Blalock at the Chapel Hill Town Hall, sponsored by the Public Arts Commission

The St. Andrew’s-Sewanee Gallery hosted Conversations: an Exhibition of the Southeastern Fibers Educators Association

The Paul Hartley Legacy, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2008          The New World: America,  To Look Back, To Look Forward,  Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA

It’s Later Than You Think, Chowan University, NC

Renaissance Regional Art Exhibition, The Renaissance Center, Dickerson, TN

The New World: America, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA

Eye of the Beholder, Old Town Gallery, Fayetteville, NC

String Of Pearls, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC

2007          5th Photographic Image Biennial Exhibition, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Roots, Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA

2006          Bringing It All Back Home: Alumni Exhibition, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Photography at High Speed, The Millard Sheets Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA

Layers of Meaning, Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary, NC

            New Works, Chapel Hill Pubic Arts Commission 2006 Exhibition, Chapel Hill Town Hall, NC

117th Annual Exhibition, Googleworks Community Art Center, Reading, PA

2-D-2, Energy Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

49th National Juried Exhibition, Rocky Mount Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC

Traveling Exhibition, Ryazan State University, Russia

Fusion, Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA

Annual Juried Exhibition, Greenville, Museum of Art, Greenville, NC

2005     Human Condition, Mendenhall Administration Building, Davidson County Community College

Arts & Healing Gallery at Cannon Memorial Hospital in Linville NC

Governor School Visual Faculty Exhibition, Salem College, NC

Art of Music, Smithtown, Township Arts Council, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY

New Art International, 2005-2006 edition, Book Art Press, NY

25th North Carolina Photographers Annual, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC

7th Annual Collage and Mixed Media, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE

The Renaissance Center’s 7th Annual Exhibit. Dickson, TN

TarRiver Gallery, Sneak Preview Exhibition, Tarboro, NC

Photo Exhibition, Rawls Museum of Art, Courtland, VA

Face Value, Associated Artist of Winston Salem, Sawtooth Center, Winston Salem, NC

2004     Worrell Professional Center, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

Person and Place: An Exhibit of People and Environments, Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA

Sight Unseen: A Touchable Exhibition, Duke University Eye Center and Durham Art Guild, NC

Arts in Bloom, Boykin and Hammond Galleries, Arts Council of Wilson NC

Many Minis: Mini Skirts and Miniature Art Works, Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA

Celebrating Barton’s Centennial, Boykin Galleries, Arts Council, Wilson, NC

20th Annual Through Women’s Eyes by Women’s Hands, The Women’s Center, Chapel Hill

Water Levels, Rawls Museum of Art, Courtland, VA

Current Work 2004, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University, NC

2003          40th Annual Juried Exhibition, Rawls Museum of Art, Courtland, VA

Color I, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

Photography Annual, Rawls Museum of Art, Courtland, VA

Twenty-third North Carolina Photographers Annual, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC

An American Experience 2003, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, NC

Digitally Speaking, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

49th Annual, Durham Art Guild, Inc. NC

Selected Design and Illustrated Publications

2010     1000 Artisan Textiles: Creative Fiber Works, by Sandra Salamony and Gina M. Brown

Series of 16 Illustrations. The Story of How Old Car got his Bark. By Vernon Lindquist. VA: DoubleABooks,                         2008. 1-16.

2009     Kakalak 2009 Anthology of Carolina Poets, Charlotte, NC  

2008     Fecho, Susan B. Design and Nature: Compositional and Typography Studies. 2008. 1-120.

Fecho, Susan B. Function: Compositional and Typography Studies. 2008. 1-170.

Kakalak 2008 Anthology of Carolina Poets, Charlotte, NC

Series of 16 Illustrations. The Day Anna Ganna Bandanna Learned to Fly. By Vernon Lindquist. VA: DoubleABooks, 2008. 1-16.

2007          Kakalak 2007 Anthology of Carolina Poets, Charlotte, NC

Fecho, Susan B. Pilgrimage to Milan: Searching for Convergence within the Traveled Landscape. Tarboro: S. Fecho, 2008. 1-32.

2006     Kakalak 2006 Anthology of Carolina Poets, Charlotte, NC

                        Theater of the American South; logo/print/www; Photographer/Designer

            2005     New Art International, 2005-2006 edition, Book Art Press, NY

2004     Western Journey, artist book – digital design

                        North, South, East, West, artist book – digital design

2003          Trunkful: an Illuminated Year, artist book – digital design

Princess For A Day, Illustrator, Author: Lamont Ferguson

1996          Portrait of the Outer Banks: an Artist's Sketch, Tryon Publishing, Tryon, NC
Cake Seller, artist book - produced with use of woodcuts and lithography

Selected Collections/ Patrons

The Smithsonian Institution: American Art Mus./ National Portrait Gallery Lib., Washington, DC

Word and Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Zimmerli Art Museum, NAWA Collection, Rutgers University, NJ

Museum of Women Artists, Washington, DC

Blount-Bridgers Museum, Tarboro, NC

Twin County Museum and Hall of Fame, Rocky Mount, NC

City of Rocky Mount, NC

North Carolina Wesleyan College, NC

Phillip Morris Inc., Winston Salem, NC

Wachovia Bank and Trust, Wilson, NC

Murfreesboro Historical Society, Murfreesboro, NC

Chowan College, Murfreesboro, NC

Chancellor’s Collection, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Private Collections