I am a good example of why encouraging experimentation in different mediums and fields of study is a good idea. For a few years, I took it upon myself to take some poetry workshops to gain more confidence in writing poetry (I am a visual artist who happens to love poetry). One of the prompts in […]

— Paintings, Poems and Assemblages — at Artspace 201 E. Davie St. Raleigh, NC 27601 March – May 2016 These works are my “rearview mirror” observations…a looking back while moving forward. I picked up oil painting again after years of producing drawings and more recently assemblages. This act of seriously painting feels new and strange […]

An Unlikely Valentine to Public Art! One of my students, Maya, is working on a portfolio for college art school admission. Her love of the graphic arts has sparked an interest in graffiti. This has inspired a series of work on street art. Her most recent piece is a tongue in cheek Valentine. The image: […]

Egg in Nest is pleased to present our three new themes for Summer Camps in 2015: Taming Dragons (ages Kindergarten +), Print It! (middle school and high school students), and Magical Mystery Tour Part Three: A Painting Intensive (high school students.) Our studio owner and professional exhibiting artist, Jenny Eggleston, will lead each camp in […]

We’re not leading you on a wild goose chase! (Pun intended:-) The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has a stellar special exhibit on display until March 23, 2014: Birds of Paradise Amazing Avian Evolution. For those interested in the art that nature has to offer in all her splendor, the 39 species of Birds […]

Jenny has yet another showing of her artwork,Twisted Tongues, at 311 West Martin Galleries and Studios, Raleigh with an Artist Reception during First Friday events this June 7th. (While you may recognize many pieces from her contributions to Egg in Nest’s A Field of Teacups at the Halle Cultural Center this Spring, some of the […]

Could there be a better place to see the best of the best art locally over the next few months?  (Cough, cough…I know Paris, Florence, and NYC might come to mind, but I’m working with what we have here folks:-) The North Carolina Museum of Art (henceforth, NC Art) is currently exhibiting 26 of Edvard […]

If you live locally, and have a chance, make sure to stop in and see all of the art that inspired these poems (or the poems that inspired the art) while it is still hanging at the Halle Cultural Arts Center in Apex, NC until 5/5/12.  Egg in Nest Art Studio’s Spring show, FORWORD, combines […]

mL of Red connor gerney age 14   Imagine the walls of Every house burning   In the streets The people are screaming The old bell is ringing   Blood spilling Creatures die Artists cry Was it a soldier or soldiers? No one can tell Marching through bodies   I smell shoe polish Taste smoke […]

Another amazing student poem included in the Egg in Nest Art and Poetry Show. FORWORD,  at Halle Cultural Arts Center until May 5, 2012.  Kids art classes with writing interspersed?  What could be better!  And right here in the Raleigh/Cary, NC area. Sleeping Flowers Rachel Zino, age 14   sleeping little flowers close up as […]