Chatham Attitude ...

Chatham Attitude

Longitude and Latitude

Chatham County is the geographical center of North Carolina. It is the artistic focus of the Chatham Aritsts Guild. It is the locus from which we view the world and create our art.

Place these Lat/Long coordinates in: https://www.latlong.net/Show-Latitude-Longitude.html and it will give you the address and a map to each studio.

Studio # 1 Janet Resnik Affordable, functional stoneware
Lat 35.860290, Long -79.218380

Studio # 2 Vince Pitelka Ceramics / Mixed Media
Lat 35.864790, Long -79.211540

Studio # 3 Jeffrey N. Clark Wood Turning, Jonathan Clark Wood, Barry Udis Photography
Lat 35.848360, Long -79.183560

Studio # 4 Marie Wright Ceramics
Lat 35.846250, Long -79.133770 

Studio # 5 Cathylee Mahin Watercolors
Lat 35.826560, Long -79.109670

Studio # 6 Hamish Jackson Ceramics
Lat 35.836190, Long -79.096930

Studio # 7 Louise Hobbs Ceramics
Lat 35.826460, Long -79.233200

Studio # 8 Judy Bauman Acrylic Painting
Lat 35.856460, Long -79.016640

Studio # 9 Rusty Sieck Stoneware Pottery
Lat 35.830880, Long -79.218720

Studio # 10 Annabelle Stein Textiles, screen-printed and painted silks
Lat 35.810680, Long -79.199400

Studio # 11 William Moore Sculpture in marble, wood, ceramic, bronze, steel and stone
Lat 35.809360, -79.198560

Studio # 12 Andrew Wilson Wood and Jewelry
Lat 35.807750, Long -79.134940

Studio # 13 Doug Dotson Ceramic / Stoneware
Lat 35.808290, Long -79.132220

Studio # 14 Leslie Palmer Drawing, Watercolor & Mixed Media Painting
Lat 35.808360, -79.080490

Studio # 15 Forrest Greenslade Nature-Inspired paintings and sculpture
Lat 35.804910, long -79.087660

Studio # 16 Lani Chaves Watercolor Painting
Lat 35.806049, Long -79.083458

Studio # 17 Steve Shafer Photography, Digital art
Lat 35.804100, Long -79.078770

Studio # 18 Eric Saunders Photography
Lat 35.790150, Long -79.075260

Studio # 19 Vidabeth Bensen Hand screened prints
Lat 35.806220, Long -79.073160

Studio # 20 Michael Blotzer Photography
Lat 35.796880, Long -79.125766

Studio # 21 Karen West Painting
Lat 35.794170, Long -79.067970

Studio # 22 Andi Sobbe Ceramics
Lat 35.784970, Long -78.986940

Studio # 23 Shannon Bueker Natural wonders in paint, clay and cards
Lat 35.769110, Long -79.166560

Studio # 24 Selden Lamoureux Ceramics
Lat 35.769070, -79.149330

Studio # 25 Amanda Greiner Painting, Craig Greiner Photography
Lat 35.774120, Long -79.139910

Studio # 26 Bronwyn Watson Ceramics
Lat 35.743600, Long -79.173050

Studio # 27 Linda Callihan Watkins Painting
Lat 35.731920, Long -79.140910

Studio # 28 Julio Alberdi Sculpture
Lat 35.733360, Long -79.097010

Studio # 29 Linda Collura Drawing painting
Lat 35.722650, Long -79.183720

Studio # 30 Mark Hewitt Beautiful place, beautiful pots
Lat 35.713200, Long -79.132860

Studio # 31 Judith Smith Painting, Rita Baldwin Oil on Canvas
Lat 35.705470, Long -79.103850

Studio # 32 Lee Kazanas Ceramics
Lat 35.620070, Long -79.076600

Studio # 33 Eva Green Basketry, Fiber, Mixed Media, Wood, Gretchen Niver Fused and stained glass panels, bowls, platters, ornaments, and tiles, Lara O’Keefe Ceramics Janice Rieves Glass mosaic, sculptural lighting and ferrocement sculpture, Diane Swan Wood Furniture, mixed media, Painting
Lat 35.682230, Long -79.218310

Studio # 34 Kim Campbell Glass, Heather Gerni Painting mixed media
Lat 35.664650, Long -79.134800

Studio # 36 Beth Bale Painting Sarah Graham Painting
Lat 35.599560, Long -79.199340

Place these Lat/Long coordinates in: https://www.latlong.net/Show-Latitude-Longitude.html and it will give you the address and a map to each studio

Butterfly Garden

For several months, I have been creating sculptural butterfies from galvanized steel flashing. They are painted with exterior housepaint, so they can live indoors or out in your garden. I sell them for $100 plus the cost of shipping and handling. They are living all over the world. You can see them in our Forrest Dweller Sculpture Garden in Fearrington Village, NC. This collection will be featured in the 2019 North Carolina Botanical Garden Sculpture in the Garden Show beginning in September. If you are interesting in learning more about my butterflies, email me at fgreenslade@nc.rr.com or call be at 919-545-9743.

Here is a sampling:

Adonis Blue

American Copper

Atlas Moth

Banded Orangre

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Bue Morpho

California Sister

Black and Orangr

Dead Leaf

Lime Swallowtail

Luna Moth

Monarch

Painted Lady

Purple Admiral

Red Admiral

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Sleepy Orange

Spicebushush Swallowtai

Sulphur

Tiger Swallowtail

Zebra Swallowtail

BeeLeive It Or Not

I had made a series of boxes to serve as native bee nesting boxes. I decorated them with a folk art flower design. Some Mason Bees have taken advantage of them over the last couple of years. Carolina Wrens also liked them.

We noticed some saw dist on our deck and thought that Carpenter Bees were attacking the trim on the house. Then we noticed a bee fluttering around the painted flowers on the boxes.

Here is a cloce up of her on a flower.








Then, we were surprised to see that she had "drilled" a hole through the very center of one of the flowers. She was slithering in and out of the hole. She had made holes in the center of other painted flowers on the boxes.

We have never heard of this phenomenon.

I decided to add branch cuttings to the boxes. I painted similar flowers on the ends to see if the bees might make holes in them.

Stay tuned!

UNC Native Bee Sculptures Installed

The final step in the Fall 2016 Maker In Residence project was the installation of the student sculptures in the Coker Arboretum and the Community Garden.




Coker Arboretum curator Margo MacIntyre worked with me to display sculptures in trees near the arbor entrance of the garden.







Annie McDarris' little flower 














Ritam Chakraborty's "trompe l'eoil" tree branch










Nissa Coit's remembrance of Alice in Wonderland









Community Garden  staff and volunteers pause in their labors to pose with Zachary Gonzales' bright flower sculpture

Zac's piece 
















Sarah Wright's colorful balloon. Sarah volunteers at the Community Garden 
















Laurina Bird's abstract form












Helina Wolf also went abstract and finished her sculpture in bright yellow












Nancy Dianderas' "Curious" owl












Liza Zhytkova's Aztec sun god 














Zita Voros' tarnished bronze flower













We are blessed to have these excellent botanical gardens in our UNC community. Visit the Coker Arboretum and the Community Garden to see these creative student sculptures.

UNC Maker Capstone Event

Students at the Bee Fair in the Makerspace in Murray Hall 

Our Maker in Residence project on Native Bee nesting sculptures held a Capstone Event for participants to demonstrate their works and explain what they had learned about native bees to fellow undergraduate students.

They set up stations and talked about a variety of issues related to native bee biology, including:

-the sculpture process;

-the difference between honey bees and native bees;

-native bee nesting behaviors;

-the dangers of insecticides to bees;

-direct and indirect threats of human activity to bees;

-the importance of bees to food production.

They set out a delicious array of snacks for their visitors.

Student leader Isaac Boulter offering refreshments

NC State entomologist Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, who had given a presentation on native bee biology during the course, had a bee display.

She even brought some live bumble bees.

Claire Lorch, who directs the UNC Community Garden, informed students of the activities of the garden. The student sculptures will be on display there over the winter and spring. Here she shows Sarah Wright's piece. Sarah volunteers at the Community Garden.

Student Leader Abby Gancz and Brooke Kilker from the Community Garden at the Garden display.

Zachary Gonzales with his sculpture. Zac left his piece with the original aluminum surface, and adorned it with bees that were produced on the Makerspace 3D printer.

Laurina Bird created an abstract form and coated it with a tarnished bronze patina.








Helina Wolf also went abstract and finished her sculpture in bright yellow.

















Nancy Dianderas made a "Curious" owl, which she finished with multiple tarnish bronze and acrylic touches.

Annie McDarris sculpted a brightly colored flower.

Liza Zhytkova conjured up an Aztec sun God

Nissa Coit remember Alice in Wonderland with this fanciful creation with a tarnished bronze surface and a wood message made on the Makerspace laser cutting machine.

Ritam Chakraborty experimented with "trompe l'eoil" with this tree branch finished with extensively tarnished bronze

Finally Zita Voros created this tarnished bronze flower. She is shown here wearing the T-shirt that she designed for the participants of the Fall 2016 Resident Maker Project

As the Maker in Residence, I am so grateful to the UNC staff,

the student leaders and most of all the students who made this one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life.








Thanks so much,
 Forrest