Membership Prints
Membership Print Series for Bronze,
Silver and Gold Members
Each year the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum
selects an area artist to be featured as its Membership
Print Artist. This program encourages both artists and
members to be part of preserving the rich heritage of
the Core Sound area.
Beginning in 2000 the Museum board decided
that for the next several years a special edition of
Membership Prints would be developed featuring the Core
Banks Hunt Clubs found along Core Banks in the early
and mid-1900s. The 2002 Membership Print will continue
the Core Banks Hunt Club series following the 2000 edition
featuring the Pilentary Club and 2001 with the Carteret
Gun & Rod Club. The full series will include all seven
of the historic hunting clubs that drew hundreds of
hunters from across the state and country for generations.
Those clubs to be considered for upcoming years include
the Harbor Island Shooting Club, the Davis Island Hunting
Club, the Hog Island Hunting Club and the Nine Island
Lodge.
This honor has been held by many of the
county's most accomplished artists including the late
David A. Lawrence of Harkers Island. Other artists featured
have been Alan Cheek, Anita Connelly, Larry Burge, Kenneth
Humphries and Lena Ennis. Membership prints are offered
to individuals and businesses with their annual membership
of $100 or more. Prints are signed, numbered and limited
to Museum members only. The originals are part of the
Core Sound Waterfowl Museum's permanent collection.
Click the image for a larger view of each
work of art.
Kimberly KC Schott, CSWM 2008-2009 Membership
Artist
“Map of Down East”
In response to visitors and members who have asked for a "nice map" of Down East we offer this work of art. This hand-sketched map gives a feel of the way things are done Down East ... by hand.
Kimberly KC Schott is a North Carolina native specializing in illustration and graphic design that showcases the state's abundant natural world. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, Kimberly's career has encompassed working in newspaper, book publishing, advertising, and on the art staff of Wildlife in North Carolina magazine, where she ultimately became the Art Director. She now heads hew own business, Red Gate Design.
Lawrence S. Earley, CSWM 2007-2008 Membership
Artist
“Workboats of Core Sound”
"I
fell in love with Atlantic's workboats because so many of them had a lot
of age on them and yet were still in use on the water," Earley said. "I felt
that I was photographing a neglected part of the history of the area."
Lawrence S. Earley is
a writer and photographer from Raleigh. NC. Previous to his twenty year career as editor with the North Carolina Wildlife Commission, Earley taught American studies and literature. In 1975 he received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As editor for Wildlife in North Carolina, Earley has written freelance articles for a number of regional and national magazines, including Audubon, Nature Conservancy and National Parks.
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David H. Turner, CSWM 2005-2006 Membership
Artist
bronze sculpture medallion
In 2005, the museum opted to go in a different direction and provide their members with a collectible of a new medium - bronze sculpture. Designed from museum founder David Lawrence's original museum logo, this medallion honors that beginning and David's important role in the establishment of the museum in a very artistic way. "Growing up on Virginia's Eastern Shore between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean where land and sea wildlife is both diverse and plentiful, has instilled in me a deep appreciation of nature," said Mr. Turner.
Mr. Turner, the youngest sculptor ever have a work accepted at Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, S.C., has commissioned work for the College of William and Mary, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Salisbury Zoo in Salisbury, Md., Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, Ill., first lady Barbara Bush, The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., Pelican Bay in Naples, Fla., and countless others.
Jack Saylor, CSWM 2004-2005 Membership
Artist
“Flight Over Fish Hunt”
“The down east experience has
certainly left a mark on me. Plus, any time that you
can do something that benefits an organization it makes
it all the more important.”
A
native of the Piedmont area, Mr. Saylor earned a bachelor’s
degree in 1983 from Atlantic Christian College. Initially
a furniture designer by trade, the artist has spent
time in Spain, Italy and Peru before making his home
in Carteret County in 1996. “He is recognized
as part of a current generation of artists who can be
called Southern Realists …” according to
the “Jack Saylor: Sea Land Sky” exhibition.
Jack Saylor’s paintings and drawings can be found
primarily in private homes of collectors around North
Carolina. artist website
Joseph DiRusso, CSWM 2003-2004
Membership Artist
“Sunrise — Davis Island”
“I was a little
surprised,” he said recently from his Morehead
City home. “I’ve never really won anything.
But it was a challenge and I figured I’d give
it a shot.”
A native of New York, Mr. DiRusso has been a Carteret
County resident since 1976. Now “pushing 80,”
he said he finds more time in retirement to paint even
though it has always been a pastime. After a stint in
the U.S. Army during World War II, Mr. DiRusso used
his education benefits from the military to attend the
New York Phoenix School of Design, studying in the graphic
art field before heading out on a similar career path.
He painted on the weekends here and there, he said,
but a career and family took precedence in those years.
When he retired to Morehead City, he began a second
career for fun, working nearly 20 years for Kurtis Chevrolet.
“All
the while I’ve been wanting to paint – art
was always a love of mine,” he said. And now,
in true retirement, he’s finally found the time
he needs to devote to his talent.
His
work can be found at Arts and Things and the Budding
Artists Art Gallery in Morehead City. But his print
of the Davis Island Hunt Club can only be found at the
Core Sound Waterfowl Museum.
