Janette K. Hopper - janettekhopper@juno.com – www.janettekhopper.com

Janette K. Hopper is a retired Professor and former Art Department Chair at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Since receiving her MFA from the University of Oregon, her work has been shown extensively in major museums, colleges and universities and in private galleries nationally and internationally. During her Fulbright in Denmark, she began to have European one-person exhibits starting in Copenhagen with a grant from Danish Fulbright.  Her landscape paintings were included in a Fulbright juried retrospective in Washington, DC and with New York artists in the Lincoln Center and in many other juried exhibitions. She continues to actively exhibit in art centers and galleries independently in the United States, Germany, France and Italy and in Denmark as a member of Paleur International.

She has works in many permanent collections including: The Gilkey Collection Portland Art Museum, Portland OR, the City of Mannheim, Germany, Gonzaga University and the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane WA, many works purchased by the Washington State and Oregon State Arts Commission for public venues, The National Park Service, Stehekin WA, Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles CA, Bald Head Limited, Bald Head NC, UNCP Livermore Library, Pembroke NC, Padagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg Germany, PAN, Portland OR, SGCInternational, Oxford MS, the Museum of Humor and Satire in Gabrovo Bulgaria and the Marselisborg Gymnaseum in Aarhus, Denmark. 

Professor Hopper has presented her work at Monash University in Prato, Tuscany, Italy, at the Padagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany, the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC and The Kress Gallery, Spokane, WA.  She has prints juried into the International German Linoleum cut Exhibit, Linolschnitt Heute VII, Stadtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, into “Paper Politics”, Traveling Exhibit, Exposition D’Art, Montreal, Canada, into the SGCInternational Traveling Exhibit and collection and into the Museum of Humor and Satire in Gabrovo, Bulgaria.  She has produced a body of work for the National Park Service during an Art Residency in Stehekin, WA, and participated in the Montana Artist Refuge, Basin, Montana and the No Boundaries International Art Colony in NC.

Selected exhibits include: Club de la Presse and the Boulevard de Potes Bordeaux, France, Bürgerhaus Neckarstadt and Mannheim Rathaus, Mannheim, Germany, Frye Art Museum and the Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA, the Maryhill Museum of Art, Maryhill WA, North Carolina Museum of Art and the North Carolina Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, NC, LAP 20 - The National Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Washington County Museum, Portland OR, PAN International Print Project Show, Portland OR and New Zealand, Cameron Museum of Art, the Bellamy House Museum and the Warwick Gallery at UNC-Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, Georgia Perimeter College, Atlanta, GA and the Chapel Hill Town Hall, Chapel Hill, NC.

She is a former board member and current member of Prints Arts Northwest (PAN) and member of SGCInternational and the Printmakers of North Carolina (PoNC). Professor Hopper has been active in the Pacific Northwest, Michigan, Germany and North Carolina and currently lives in Wilmington NC.

Artist Statement

My creative impulses center on the environment and primal memories of the land. The landscapes and images inspired by nature are universal and global as are my concerns for our relationships with each other and with our universe. I feel a heartfelt affinity with the sky, water, and luxuriant growth of the landscape, which transfers through me into a meditative art. When I paint, draw and print, the space, light, rhythm and color involve me. Questions are asked in the images, which arouse anger, joy, peace and passion as experienced by the viewer.

On location painting and sketching rapidly, I find changes happen so quickly that I must paint from my memory of the relationships that already don’t exist and try not to be too distracted by the new developing possibilities. I work in my studio using my imagination and memory to create an expressive personal view. Gesture, movement and mark-making contribute to my work in a variety of media.

Thanks to my Galleries:

Woods Gallery, Bald Head Island, NC
www.baldheadisland.com/woods_gallery/index.aspx

Art @ Work, Spokane, WA
www.northwestmuseum.org/index.cfm/Art_Rental.htm

Print Arts Northwest, Portland, OR
www.printartsnw.org

Academic Information

Professor Janette K Hopper was hired by the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 2002 as the Art Department Chair. During her tenure the number of Faculty and students increased substantially and the Art Building (Locklear Hall, ca 1950) was completely renovated and increased in size. This $2 million renovation completed in 2005 added many new spaces including a new 960 sqft two story gallery (the A.D. Gallery), studios and offices for faculty. Under her leadership the Art Department was accredited by NASAD. In 2010 she received an Adolph E. Dial Award for Scholarship/Creative Work, a University wide honor.
Previously she was an Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University in Mt Pleasant MI, and Art Faculty Member and Department Lead at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, WA.
She has a MFA in Painting from the University of Oregon, a MA in Secondary Art Education from Boise State University and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Boise State University.