CARA SMELTER
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 a non-cohesive show, So & So Books, Raleigh, NC
(curated by: VAE)
2023 title forthcoming, Foundation, Raleigh, NC
2019 - cara smelter, The Fiction Kitchen, Raleigh, NC
2020
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 - (k)ink, The Showroom, Garner, NC
present
2023 Libraries Staff Art Show, James B. Hunt Library, Visualization Lab, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
2023 Libraries Staff Art Show, D.H. Hill Library, Data and Visualization Studio, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
2023 Summer of feminine rage, Richmond, VA
2022 Libraries Staff Art Show, D.H. Hill Library, Data and Visualization Studio, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
2022 - Mid-Century Modern, Keel and Company, Raleigh, NC
present
2021 What is Beautiful: The Aesthetics of Pleasing the Mind, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO
(Juror: Bob Swearengin)
2021 Packard Group National Exhibition, Virtual Show, Vermillion Area Arts Council, Vermillion, SD
2021 Unity In Isolation, Virtual Show, Art For Unity Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
2020 All Geared Up and Nowhere to Go, Vermillion Area Arts Council, Vermillion, SD
(Jurors: Aaron C. Packard and Klaire A. Lockheart)
2020 Black & White 2020, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
(Juror: Jenée-Daria Strand, Curatorial Assistant, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY)
2020 Truth to Power: Social Justice Through Visual Arts, Scrap Exchange, Durham, NC
(Jurors: Angel Iset Dozier, activist, creative, educator and founder of Be Connected Durham ; Cornelio Campos, painter)
2020 Truth to Power 8: Social Justice Through Visual Arts, Power Plant Gallery, American Tobacco Campus, Durham, NC
(Jurors: Angel Iset Dozier, activist, creative, educator and founder of Be Connected Durham ; Cornelio Campos, painter -
NCMA, Duke, UNC -Chapel Hill)
2020 15th Annual Mail Art Exhibition, Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, Asheville, NC
2020 The Pandemic Postcard Project, Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center, Solomons, MD
2020 Packard Group National Exhibition, No. 7 Center, Vermillion, SD
2020 Toilet Paper Art: A Benefit Auction for NC Artist Relief Fund, VAE, Raleigh, NC
2020 Fe * Mail * Art: 2020 Postcard Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Subversive Celebration: International Altered Card Exhibition, Gallery 110, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
2019 Contested Spaces: 2019 Harnett Biennial of American Prints, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art,
University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
(Juror: Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY)
2019 PUSH, The Fruit, Durham, NC
2019 Anything Goes 2019, Litmus Gallery, Raleigh, NC
(Juror: Jayne Walther, resident artist at Litmus Gallery, Raleigh, NC)
2019 The Carrack’s Final Community Show, The Carrack, Durham, NC
2019 Sticky Note Show, The Carrack, Durham, NC
2019 Rupture, Rapture, Revolution, The Carrack, Durham, NC
2019 No Citation Needed, National Humanities Center, Durham, NC
2018 En Masse, Visual Art Exchange, United Arts Council, Raleigh, NC
2018 Empathy, 9th Annual International Exhibition, A.D. Gallery, UNC Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
(Juror: Ling-Wen Tsai, Professor of Sculpture, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine)
2018 Esse Quam Videri, National Humanities Center, Durham, NC
(Jurors: Linda Dougherty, Chief Curator & Curator of Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC ;
Ann Fox, Professor of English, Davidson College)
LECTURES / TALKS
2021 Artist Talk, “relief printmaking,” Technology in the Arts, Arts Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,
January 10, 2021.
2020 Artist Talk, “relief printmaking,” Technology in the Arts, Arts Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,
August 31, 2020.
2020 Artist Talk, “Truth to Power 8,” Zoom, Power Plant Gallery, American Tobacco Campus, Durham, NC, August 21, 2020.
2020 Artist Talk, “contemporary printmaking,” Technology in the Arts, Arts Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,
January 22, 2020.
2019 Artist Talk, “Linocut & printed text narratives,” Technology in the Arts, Arts Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,
September 9, 2019.
2019 Artist Talk, “Linocut,” Technology in the Arts, Arts Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, January 23, 2019.
2018 Panelist, “Esse Quam Videri: Claiming Identity in Disability Art, Curation, and Culture,” National Humanities Center, Durham, NC,
September 20, 2018.
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2021 African American Cultural Festival X Hunt Library, Hunt Library, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
2020 The Colors of Healing Coloring Book – 1st Edition Designs for Survivors by Survivors at NC State University,
Raleigh, NC (in collaboration with the Women’s Center at NC State University).
2020 Ruby Deluxe Fundraiser: protecting inclusive spaces, Raleigh, NC (in collaboration with Ruby Deluxe).
2020 Community Mural, The Raleigh Building, Raleigh, NC (mural painting collaboration between artist Trey Ansley,
the African American Cultural Festival, Artsplosure, CVS, and the Raleigh Building).
2019 Galaxy Gifts Vending, San Francisco, CA (in collaboration with Randi Pace Illustration).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“culture”, Moida Magazine , August 2021.
Pleiades Arts, “Truth to Power 8.” mutimedia zine and gallery guide online, August 2020.
Fox, Ann M., “To Be Rather than To Seem: Claiming Identity in Disability Art, Curation, and Culture.” Esse Quam Videri exhibit essay. In National Humanities Center repository online, October 2018.
Image, “Untitled.” In The Raleigh Quarterly Raleigh Art and Literary Magazine, Spring 2009.
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2016 Illustration Commission, Marketing and Advertising in print and social media, Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge, Pittsboro, NC
2016 Illustration Commission, Program and Marketing Redesign, Growing Research on Women and Girls of Color Project,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
2015 Public Art Commission, Bring The Ducks and Geese Home Painting, Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge, Pittsboro, NC
INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023 Printmaking Instructor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 9, 2023
2007 Art Education Instructional Assistant, Irene Wortham Center, Asheville, NC
2004 – 2006 Adult Art Therapy Instructional Assistant, Dorothea Dix Hospital, Raleigh, NC
2004 – 2005 Aphasia Art Therapy Instructional Assistant , Cary High School, Cary, NC
LEADERSHIP / MEMBERSHIPS
Artsplosure, Member, Board of Directors - Raleigh, NC (2022 - Present)
Visual Art Exchange (VAE) - Raleigh, NC