Art Milestones

Art Milestones

Why a Second Career in Art?

My great granduncle, Rafael Eiroa, was an artist in the late XIX century Spain. One of his paintings was in my parents? home. It was a middle age woman sitting in a dilapidated straw chair. Her eyes were unfixed and gazed into space. It was almost as if she was waiting to catch the opportunity she did not have. Every night I fell to sleep thinking about her, about opportunities, the future, and most definitively that I wanted to paint like my uncle Rafael.

After the Spanish Civil war, my family like many others immigrated to Argentina looking for the freedom they did not have. I still remember vividly those 21 days crossing the ocean aboard the steamship Buena Esperanza (Good Hope). My great granduncle?s large canvas was carefully removed from the frame by my father, rolled and stored into a trunk labeled ?memories from Spain?.

Many years had passed before my mother decided to open the trunk. The canvas was severely damaged. I was a teenager and had forgotten the woman sitting in a chair. Nevertheless, my parents knowing my interest for art suggested that I repair her. I bought oils and brushes and I did it! I knew then what I wanted to become. But when I told my father about my desire to enter the school of art he said ?study son, you will always have time to paint?.

I became a physician and soon after graduation I moved to the USA with my wife and daughter looking for freedom and opportunities, like my parents did. It has been a great 40 years journey but I never found time to paint like my father said.

Thus, I left medicine and science at age 60 to find time to paint. My youngest son Rafael after reading this statement he smiled and firmly said ?I will start a career in art this fall semester?. If I finish wanting to paint like my uncle Rafael and my son Rafael, I would say it is not a bad way to end.

Presentations at Juried Shows.-

2009	Greenville Museum of Art Annual Juried Show. Greenville, NC Only in California and The Magic Five Minutes in the Morning
2011	Pastel Society of North Carolina, Winter Exhibition. Greensboro, NC The Beach at Acadia National Park
2013	Ninth Annual Northeast National Pastel Exhibition, Old Forge, NY I am not a little girl anymore
2013	27th Annual International Exhibit. Northwest Pastel Society. Tacoma, WA At Acadia National Park
2013	First Carteret County Juried Art Show by Michael Dorsey former Dean of the School of Art at East Carolina University. Emerald Isle, NC Shall I grow up? and At the Poconos Mountains
2013	North Carolina Statewide Juried Pastel Exhibition. On Common Grounds: Pastel Paintings From The Mountains To The Sea. I am not a little girl anymore
2013	The 23rd International Association of Pastel Societies Juried Exhibition. Marshfield, MA I am not a little girl anymore
2013	9th Annual Northeast National Pastel Exhibition 2013 I am not a little girl anymore
2014	The Southeastern Pastel Society 16th International Exhibition. Oglethorpe University Museum of Art. Atlanta, GA I am Not Alone and Dreaming About Spring
2014	28th Annual International Exhibit. Northwest Pastel Society. Tacoma, WA At Acadia National Park
2014	Northeast National Pastel Exhibition, View.Old Forge NY Maternity
2014	Degas Pastel Society Fifteenth Biennial National Exhibition. New Orleans, LA. Maternity and I am not alone
2014	Southeastern Pastel Society On-Line Juried Exhibition. Choices
2015	Southeastern 2015 juried members exhibition. Quinlan Visual Art Center, Gainesville, GA. Maternity
2015	Degas Pastel Society Nineteenth Membership Exhibition. New Orleans, LA Choices and I am not a little girl anymore
2015	The Peninsula Art League 2015 Open Juried Show. Harbor History Museum, Gig Harbor, WA Maternity and The hug
2015	117th Annual Juried Exhibition, Richmond Art Museum, Richmond IN. Choices
2105	Indiana Artists Member Exhibition 2015, Minnetrista Museum, Muncie IN Dreaming about Spring
2015	Southeastern Pastel Society 2015 Online Exhibition What are you thinking?
2016	84th Annual Juried Exhibition. Indiana Artists at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Maternity
2017	85th Annual Juried Exhibition. Indiana Artists at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. I am not Alone
2017	Degas Pastel Society Twentieth Membership Exhibition. Selfie to the Sunglasses
2017	Pure Color 2017. Pastel Society of North Carolina. Why
2017	Sixth Biennial National Juried Open Exhibition, Pastels Chicago Birthday Party
2017	Indiana Artists Annual Members Exhibition The joy of Life
2017	Southeastern Pastel Society, online memebers showcase Healthy
2018	Seventh Biennial Member Juried Exhibition, Strokin' VII! Our Polititians
2018	Southeastern Pastel Society"s 2018 Juried 18th International Exhibition Selfies at the glasses
2018	Hoosier Salon, New Harmony Gallery Are we ready to leave home?

One Person Shows.-

2013	Emerald Isle Recreation Center, Emerald Isle, NC
2013	Bogue Banks Public Library, Pine Knoll Shores, NC
2013	Arts for the Hospital, Carteret Hospital, Morehead City, NC

Presentations at Non Juried Shows.-

2013	Art for the Heart Annual Exhibition. Carteret County Art Council. Morehead City, NC . ?I am not a little girl any more? and ?The beach at Emerald Isle?

Awards/Honors/Publications.-

2012	The Editor Choice: Celebration of Water?. Art & Beyond Vol. 6, page 16, 2012.
2013	Juried Member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA)
2013	Featured Artist of the Week with "Are we ready to leave home?" at Artists Registry.com
2013	Featured Artwork @The Library. The Shoreline, Vol. 9, No. 8, p. 10
2013	Featured Pastel Artist. News-Time, Vol. 102, No.59, p.
2013	News and Mentions. Art Line, Pastel Society of NC. Vol. 2013 May
2014	The Artist's Magazine. Annual Art Competition. Portrait/Figure Third Place Winer "I am not a little girl anymore"
2015	Juried Full Member of the Degas Pastel Society.
2015	Juried Full Member of the Indiana Artists Club

Professional Societies and Memberships.-

2008 - 2012	The Indiana Art Association
2009 - Present	Hoosier Salon, Patron Association and Fine Art Gallery
2009 - 2012	Northern Indiana Pastel Society
2012 - 2014	Craven Arts Council & Gallery, Inc., NC
2012 - 2014	Seaside Arts Council, NC
2012 - 2014	Art Council of Carteret County, NC
2012- 2014	Pastel Society of North Carolina
2012- 2014	Greenville Museum of Art, NC
2013- Present	Juried Associate Member Pastel Society of America (PSA)
2013- Present	Northwest Pastel Society
2014- Present	Southeastern Pastel Society
2014 - Present	Juried Signature Member of the Degas Pastel Society
2018	Member of Excellence, Southeastern Pastel Society

Invited Lectures. -

?The role of art in society?. Lookout Rotary Club, Morehead City, NC 2012

?The Past and Present of Pastel Painting?. At the Art for the Hospital Annual Meeting.

Carteret Community Hospital, Morehead City, NC 2013

Consultant/Advisory Activities. -

Member of the Board of Arts for the Hospital. Carteret County Community Hospital, Morehead City, NC

Member of the Jury for Arts for the Heart, Student Category, Carteret County Art Council, Morehead City, NC

Art education.-

2008-2010	Semester Courses in Fine Art at the Indianapolis Art Center.
2010-2012	Study in Fine Art at CCC College, Morehead City, NC
2011-Present	Participation at Workshops, critic sections and art classes with experience artists such us W. Creevy, R. McKinley, P. Newell.

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