Pat Adams
Pat Adams NA (July 8, 1928 in Stockton, California - ) is an American painter and printmaker. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949 after which she took courses at the California College of Arts and Crafts, University of the Pacific and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1950 she moved to New York City and enrolled in the art program at the Brooklyn Museum where she studied under Max Beckmann, John Ferren and Reuben Tam. In 1956 she won a Fulbright Scholarship to study in France, where she traveled with her husband, Vincent Longo, who is also a painter and printmaker. From 1971 to 1995 Adams taught at the Yale School of Art, and in 1995 she won the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Her style, a mixture of modernism and abstraction, is described by Adams as "yield[ing] more to qualities than ideas, more to matter than its naming".
Exhibitions
Adams’s first solo exhibition was in 1954 at the Korman Gallery, later renamed the Zabriskie Gallery, under the ownership of Virginia Zabriskie. She is now exclusively represented by Zabriskie Gallery. Adams has had many solo exhibitions at various other venues including the Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont, Burlington (1977) and the Rutgers University Art Gallery in New Brunswick, New Jersey (1978). In 1993 she was made a member of the National Academy of Design. In 1994, she exhibited at Dartmouth College’s Art Gallery.
Pat Adams (cyclist)
Pat Adams is in the British Cycling Hall of Fame. He organised Mountain Mayhem and Sleepless in the Saddle.
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Pat Adams (disambiguation)
Pat Adams is a painter and printer.
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Caswell Beach, North Carolina
Caswell Beach is a small seaside town located on the eastern part of Oak Island in Brunswick County, North Carolina, and is adjacent to the North Carolina Baptist Assembly and the island's United States Coast Guard station. The population was 398 at the 2010 census. The Oak Island Lighthouse towers over the town, which now owns the structure. The Oak Island Golf Club, featuring an eighteen hole course designed by George Cobb, is the sole business located in the town.
Caswell Beach is part of the Myrtle Beach metropolitan area.
History
Caswell Beach was incorporated as a town in 1975. The town was named for Richard Caswell, 1st & 5th Governor of North Carolina.
Geography
Caswell Beach is located at 33°54′13″N 78°3′38″W / 33.90361°N 78.06056°W / 33.90361; -78.06056 (33.903609, -78.060637).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 4.1 square miles (10.5 km2). 2.9 square miles (7.6 km2) of it is land and 1.1 square miles (2.9 km2) of it (27.57%) is water.
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