“Summer Serenade”
by Cathy Kiffney of Chapel Hill
(21” x 28” x 1”)
hand-built ceramic triptych.
[now hangs in the lobby
of the Government Services
Annex in Hillsborough]
"Purchase of Existing Works"
Competition Results
July 2006
excerpted from the Orange County Arts Commission website
". . . . Fifty (50) eligible applications were received by the March 31, 2006 deadline from artists living in or having a studio in Orange County. Artists submitted images of already-existing original visual art for purchase by Orange County and for display in county-owned buildings. The selection committee, comprised of three Arts Commission board members, met on April 11 and May 4. Their recommendations were presented to the full Arts Commission on May 8, 2006 and to the Board of County Commissioners on June 13, 2006. Six (6) works of art by five (5) artists were selected for purchase. . . ."
"Cathy Kiffney’s Artist Statement: 'This work is from a series
of triptychs The Secret Garden, an ongoing narrative in clay, telling a
story of the beauty and mystery of an idyllic natural world. The title Summer
Serenade refers to a hopeful notion of harmony among species.' ”
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