ED CAMP

“The Scrapel Hill Art Exhibit and Contest offers such a wonderful opportunity to not only encourage artistic expression but reward those who help make our community so much more colorful and interesting.  The management team at University Mall is thrilled to help organize and support this effort, and look forward to helping it grow in scope and stature for years to come.  Not only does the program allow us the opportunity to advancing Madison Marquette's vision for creating interesting spaces all across the country, but it allows us to celebrate what makes Chapel Hill such an interesting place to be.  Hats off to the creative community that add such vibrancy to our area."

JEFFREY YORK

“Scrapel Hill Art proves the old adage, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, or in this case, art.  That these talented artists can take societies detritus and create art that is evocative and sometimes beautiful is both inspiring and amazing.”

Jeffrey York is Public Arts Administrator Chapel Hill overseeing the town’s percent for art program as well as activities of the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission including an artist-in-residency, community arts, temporary exhibition and yearly outdoor sculpture exhibition programs.  He served as curator for the state’s 80-piece public art collection, and assisted communities with public art and facility design planning through a grant program he developed while with the NC Arts Council (2000-2008).  He was an advisor to the Art-in-Transit Program of the Charlotte Area Transit System (2003-2007), and the City of Raleigh Arts Commission (2005-2008).   Prior to his involvement with public art, Jeffrey spent 18 years in the art museum field as an art museum educator, curator, and director.   He has been a juror or a selection committee member for numerous public art competitions, gallery exhibitions, and arts festivals in North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas.  He served as a grant reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts, Artistic Excellence Category (2007-08, 2008-09)

MIKE ROIG

“In central North Carolina we are blessed with a talented pool of artists. My participation in helping to shape this exhibit bolstered my belief that there is still a deep well of creative potential in this practice we artists engage in, at once individual in expression and yet still able to engage an audience and nudge a creative spark in those with eyes to see. In these works you will find expressions of humor, wit, angst, meditative observation and wonder - a full palette of the visual language - and all recycled from your everyday world. That is primarily what art is meant to do, refocus jaded eyes on the magic we live amidst.

Mike Roig lives and works in Carrboro where he and his wife, Author/ Illustrator Clay Carmichael, enjoy lending some substance to that community's claim to be the "Paris of the Piedmont." Mike's welded sculptures in recycled steel and stainless steel, "often kinetic, always moving," are widely collected in both public and private collections, examples of which can be seen at www.mikeroig.com

JOY JAVITS

"The idea of introducing the art of our excellent community artists, into our community mall, is brilliant. Malls can be so much more than shops, (wonderful as these shops are!) They can be community centers, gathering places for friends and neighbors and colleagues to meet. The visual stimulation, the delight of art starts and deepens conversations. It changes radically the atmosphere from only buying to one of sharing...and buying, as DeepDish is doing."

Joy Javits is President of In The Public Eye, Effective Communication, coaching teachers, business people, speechmakers and artists: www.inthepubliceye.net  Javits is Founder and Coordinator of an Hospital Arts program called  DooR to DooR bringing music to the patient's bedside:  www.doortodoornc.com  And she is choreographing several shows for the esteemed Playmakers Repertory Company as she did for the most excellent DeepDish Theatre Company right here in the University Mall.

Jackie Helvey

“The creativity involved in the process of reusing materials for the making of art has always fascinated me. When I first saw Hunter Levinsohn’s work, beautiful, tailor-made clothing from cigarette packages, or plastic spoons and forks, I could hardly believe it! To have such a skilled group of artists participating will be sure to result in an unforgettable collection of art. I can’t wait to see the final products."

Jackie Helvey moved to Chapel Hill in 1979. In 1996 she taught herself graphic design and website development and started her business, UniqueOrn Enterprises. In 1997 she started the website carrboro.com, documenting the history of Carrboro in photos and stories. She is a founder and current member of the Carrboro Music Festival & Carrboro Film Festival. In 2007 she was named volunteer of the year by the town of Carrboro and one of the “Women Who Shine” by the N&O. In 2008 she was co-chair of the Community Art Project. Helvey has been on the Carrboro Arts Committee since 1998.

Callie Warner

Callie Warner has been an artistic welder in Chapel Hill since 1994.

Her work can be seen at Carrburito's Restaurant in Carrboro, several business's in Carrboro, the Museum of Life & Science in Durham and in many businesses and homes throughout the Triangle.

She's a member of the Artist Guild. Callie's website is: www.calliewarner.com. Callie also sings in a band called "Southern Routes". They play private parties and public venues. She wanted to help with Scrapel Hill because she values the need for art in public places

Ann May Woodward

"The Scrapel Hill exhibition is a great way to experience everyday throwaway materials through an artists perspective.  The artists involved are masters in making you rethink the way you see materials, and hopefully will change your behavior in what you throw away, reuse and recreate."

Ann May Woodward is the current Executive Director of The Scrap Exchange, the only creative reuse center in North Carolina. In operation since 1991, the organization is a vital community resource that houses a 13,000 sq. ft. facility in Downtown Durham. The reuse center is open 358 days of the year and defers over 300 tons of materials from heading to a landfill. The reuse center includes a retail store, workshop/open studio room, artist marketplace, art gallery, collection and drop off service for materials, and a creative arts service that travels throughout the Southeast. She has worked for the organization on and off since 1993. For more information you can go to www.scrapexchange.org

Jerri Phillips Meldrum

"The Scrapel Hill Art  Exhibit is is a wonderful way to bring art to many people who may never make it past the front door of an art gallery!  

This public art exhibit will provide a venue for many to view and learn about local artists and their artistic expressions. An added plus is that the public can vote for their favorite piece!"

Jerri Meldrum, is owner of Turning Point Gallery in University Mall and has been active in the Chapel Hill art community for nine years. Well grounded in the region, Jerri grew up in Durham where her dad owned a small grocery store and delivered groceries to the Duke family. Jerri went on to be a medical technologist and the data management director of a startup clinical research organization in Chapel Hill, before opening Turning Point Gallery in 2000.

Hunter Levinson

Now so many of the products we consume are encased in alluring packaging. Mostly, we rip off and discard the wrapping and consume or use the product. ......................I like to work with these materials in my own art and delight in the clever and stunningly creative way that I see many of the artists in the first ever Scrapel Hill Art Show sponsored by Chapel Hill’s own University Mall. Congratulations to the organizers and participants!

The Art of Recycling

It is hard to say where my interest in “alternative art materials” came from: my father who was a conservationist and a recycler long before most of us started thinking about the consequences of our “throw away” lifestyle; a student in my kindergarten class who asked for the Jell-O boxes on the day we made Jell-O for snack, Renata made pocketbooks for her dolls out of the boxes we would have thrown away...Art of Recycling pdf