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Hand-painted photographs, artist's books, photograms, and photographic dolls
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Bio Cordelia Williams is an artist/photographer, arts educator, and advocate for the arts. She has over 30 years of professional experience and has exhibited her work since 1965. She began her teaching career in the Philadelphia Public Schools for the National Anti-Poverty Program. Since 1977 Cordelia has worked and taught in Charlotte NC. She has actively participated in programming and workshops at The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center for more than two decades. Cordelia currently teaches Photography at Queens University at Charlotte (from 1988). She also teaches classes and workshops throughout North Carolina and the Southeast. She has an extensive list of regional, national, and international solo and group exhibitions. Her work can be viewed in numerous private and public collections. Some of these include the Corcoran Museum /College Working Library, Washington DC; The University of North Carolina J. Murrey Atkins Library, Rare Books Collection; Bank of America; Mohawk Paper Company; and Tucson Center for Creative Photography. She has received grants from the Philadelphia Arts Alliance, The North Carolina Arts Council, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Arts Council and Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Arts Commission. Cordelia Williams is best known for her lyrical painted black and white photographs and for her artist's books. Her photographic art book, The Extraordinary Adventure of Camilla and the Fairy Cat, published in1992, is a poetic document of her daughter growing up and a celebration of the mother-daughter relationship. Memoirs of A Single Mother: The Teenage Part Years, published 2005, is a self-portrait of raising a son and daughter through the teenage years. These two books together span 20 years of work focusing on the joys and struggles of being an artist and single mother raising two children. Resource Information Work is available for lease, exhibition or sale. There are additional images within each body of work. Hand-painted work is available printed in fine reproduction or the original art. Black and white work is printed on fiber photographic paper to museum standards. Prices for individual pieces begin at $200.00. Ms Williams accepts commissions in portraiture and fine art photography. She is available for teaching workshops in photography, hand painted photography, photogram, mural painting, and artist's books,. See her mural project with students from Northwest School of the Arts in Charlotte, NC, at “Art is the Heart of the City." | |||||||||
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