Gina Harrison

Gina Harrison is an artist, graphic designer, musician, and arts ed advocate. She received her BFA in studio art from UNC, studying printmaking with Richard Kinnaird and James Gadson. She is currently board president of CAG and a board member of Arts NC, the statewide advocacy organization for the arts. Harrison received a 2010 Friend of the Arts Award from the NC Art Education Association and the 2018 Music Educator Advocate Award from the NC Music Education Association.

After studying serigraphy and itaglio at UNC, my digital works now are a kind of 21st Century printmaking. I explore color, line, and gesture. Like time travel stories or musical variations, digital tools are perfect for creating multiple and sometimes vastly different compositions from common source material. My camera is my visual journal to document home, travel, ideas, and personal history. Some images are the basis for representational works, others are captured essentially for color palettes used to create abstract compositions.