Winters

Windy Lampson graduated from East Carolina University in 2003 with a dual BFA in Studio Art with a Concentration in Painting and a BFA in Art Education. She received an MFA in Studio Art with a Concentration in Painting in 2005. She is currently teaching elementary art in Orlando, FL while painting in her spare time.

I feel that the arts are important because they invite people to feel a unique connection with someone else. When viewing paintings- I am always caught up in the detail of the brushstrokes, imagining the artist at work. After letting the image of a photograph sink in, I picture the photographer actually on location trying dozens of angles, hoping to end up with the perfect one and I try to imagine what they were feeling based on the feeling I get from the photograph. When I don't understand a poem, I spend time trying to picture the poet's life based on what I know of them, even if it is very little... and I try to use that understanding as some sort of insight into the poem. I think all of this relates back to empathy and art's ability to bring complete strangers together, if only in a small way.

2006: Art Educator's Exhibition, ELC Building, Orlando, FL

2005: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gray Gallery, Greenville, NC

2004: The Quickening, Gray Gallery, Greenville, NC
Illumina, Mendenhall Student Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

2003: Wayne County's 24th National Juried Art Exhibition, Wayne County Arts Council, Goldsboro, NC
Kinston Arts Council's National Juried Art Exhibition, Kinston Arts Council, Kinston, NC
Juried Undergraduate Exhibition, Gray Gallery, Greenville, NC
Illumina, Mendenhall Student Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

2002: The Rebel Magazine Exhibition, Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC

2001: Wayne County's 22nd National Juried Art Exhibition, Wayne County Arts Council, Goldsboro, NC

2003: Paintings and Drawings, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC.

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