Exhibition


Mel Stanforth with Meldanceanger + Weanger: for WesCrawley


Mel Stanforth, Please be Quiet, 2006 (interior of installation)


A gallery space was set aside to capture the genre of Stanforth’s artist studio.

Correspondence

Stanforth collaborated with Ocracoke Artist, Bob Ray to build a correspondence wall where staff of the Rocky Mount Arts Center installed correspondence constructed and received from Stanforth via postal service. Click HERE to see selected pieces from this exhibit.


Correspondence Board (detail)

Related Programs

In celebration of Mel Stanforth’s reunion exhibition, the Rocky Mount Arts Center resident dance group Signature choreographed a dance preformed the night of the opening of the exhibition.

Stanforth’s exhibition set the stage for a mask-making workshop inspired by the faces found on humans, in nature, and on man-made objects. The masks are permanently installed at the Arts Education Center of the Imperial Centre. In addition, the artist Stanforth oversaw the community constructions of a chalk street quilt during the Storytelling and Folklife Event of Tarside Tales.


Mask making workshop

Web-based Interactive Exhibition

The above, Ambry for the Elements, St. Frances Church, Eastern North Carolina, a major work by Stanforth, will inspire participation in the web-based interactive exhibition by recreating an image insert. The guidelines are:

  1. Request a copy of Ambry for the Elements, St. Frances Church, Eastern North Carolina, contact the Arts Center at 252-972-1163 or maureen.daly@rockymountnc.gov.
  2. Remove the insert to reveal the original interior of Ambry for the Elements, St. Frances Church, Eastern North Carolina.
  3. Using the insert as a canvas, redesign the four blank areas using any media of your choice. Images should reflect your interpretation of the original work.
  4. Upon completion, mail your creation to the Rocky Mount Mount Arts Center, 270 Gay Street, Rocky Mount, NC 27804;
  5. Returned images will become the property of the Rocky Mount Arts Center and will be posted on artscenter.rockymountnc.gov (see Exhibitions, Ambry Exhibition)
  6. Participation runs from February 15, 2007 – January 19, 2008.


Cassandra Adams


Jayne Duryea


Luc Fierens


Terry Howard


Willie Marlowe


Willie Marlowe


Amanda Swinton


Anitra Williams

Posterworks

Five “A” board forms or sandwich boards were constructed to contain five different poster images by the artist Mel Stanforth. Matt Gibson’s High School Art students from the Rocky Mount Senior High School designed the placement of the posters on the “A” boards. The “A” boards were then placed on carts on the grounds of the Rocky Mount Arts Center – allowed to weather and move around the campus.

During the run of the exhibition at the Rocky Mount Arts Center, Stanforth created three images in paper billboard format. The billboard can be viewed from the exhibition gallery through a window, serving as an extension of the exhibition.


October’s Billboard


November’s Billboard


December’s Billboard