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Photography’s Dynamic Duo
Written By: Zach Claxton - Highlands-Cashiers Art League | Issue: August 2023
Brilliant photographers Jacquelyn and Gil Leebrick share their talents and insights with members of the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers, 5:00 P.M. Monday, August 28.
The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers is pleased to announce that the guest speakers at the August meeting will be Jacquelyn and Gil Leebrick. The presentation will be at The Bascom Terrace at 5:00 P.M., August 28, following a social at 4:30 P.M.
Jacquelyn has been a practicing artist working in photo-based media and a photographic educator for more than 40 years. She is Professor Emeritus of Photography in the School of Art and Design at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She received a Masters of Fine Art from Clemson University and a Masters of Art from Florida State University. Feature articles on Jacquelyn’s artwork have appeared in Digital Fine Art Magazine and Camera Arts Magazine. She has exhibited her photographs internationally, nationally and regionally for over 35 years.
In the summer of 2008 The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film in Charlotte exhibited a mid-career retrospective of her artwork. In recent years, she’s lectured and conducted workshops in traditional photography, digital illustration and digital imaging. Jacquelyn and her husband, Gil Leebrick, were honored educators at the Southeast Society for Photographic Education Conference in fall of 2011.
Gil Leebrick has been photographing and teaching photography for more than 55 years. He is Professor Emeritus of Photography and the former Director of the Wellington B. Gray Gallery in the School of Art and Design at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He was Associate Professor of Art at Clemson University and was Director of the Appalachian Environmental Arts Center from 1984-1991. He’s taught at Western Carolina University, and was Director of the Image Foundation in Hawaii from 1977 through 1982, where he also taught photography at Honolulu Community College. He is the recipient of grants to photograph Pre-Columbian Native American ceremonial sites. His photographs have been in over 200 exhibits and reside in numerous public and private collections. Gil’s portion of the presentation will exhibit images from a decades long series of work entitled “Visual Meditations.”
Please join us for this free event. For more information about the Art League, visit artleaguehighlands-cashiers.com.
