The Eno Arts Mill is home to the Eno Mill Gallery, a 1,000 square foot exhibit space that offers our studio artists the opportunity to exhibit their work. Each of our studio artists have a one-month featured exhibit of their work on a rotating basis. New gallery exhibits open the first Friday of each month and feature the opportunity to visit our artist studios and enjoy live music, food trucks and beverages.
CURRENT EXHIBIT:
COALESCE
A collaboration of poetry and visual art
Coalesce features twenty Orange County-based artists: ten poets and ten visual artists. Created and curated by husband and wife team Max and Morrow Dowdle, the selected artists were matched in pairs, with each poet creating a poem based on a visual work by their partner, and each visual artist creating a work based on a poem. The resulting exhibit will feature 20 works of visual art paired with 20 poems.
All visual works are for sale. In addition, broadsides (posters featuring each poem paired with its corresponding artwork) are available for purchase for $30 each at the Eno Arts Mill office or online here.
Featured artist teams:
Theresa Arico / Bartholomew Barker
Tonya Brami / Fred Joiner
Dennis Szerszen / Paul Jones
Ann Brownlee Hobgood / Samir Knego
Ryan Solstice / Amelia Loeffler
Natalia Torres del Valle / Blaine Purcell
Sudie Rakusin / Soteria Shepperson
TJ Mundy / Gideon Young
Esten Walker / Katie Bowler Young
Max Dowdle / Morrow Dowdle
The exhibit will be on view at the Eno Arts Mill Gallery through Saturday, January 28. The public is invited to visit the exhibit Tuesday-Saturday, 12-5pm.
STUDIO 17 HALL GALLERY
The mission of the Art Therapy Institute is to advance the well-being and mental health of diverse communities through accessible, strengths-based, culturally-responsive art therapy, education, and research.
ATI’s Hillsborough Office is located in the Eno Arts Mill, and this exhibit features work by clients, clinicians, and collaborative community art projects. This show is on view through January 2023, Tuesday-Saturday, 12-5pm.
UPCOMING EXHIBITS:
FEBRUARY, 2023: FROM THE GROUND UP: ROOTED IN PLACE, LAND, AND BODY
Featuring the work of Orange County Black and Indigenous artists.
Opening Reception Friday, February 3 | 6-9PM
PAST EXHIBITS:
DECEMBER 2022: Deck the Walls Annual Holiday Show
NOVEMBER 2022: RIPPLE featuring Ryann Carey and Amy Gelber
OCTOBER 2022: 6th Annual Paint it Orange Plein Air Paint-out

For three days, 66 painters from four states painted Orange County en plein air (outside) for Paint it Orange. More than 100 works of art on on sale through the end of the month. The Paint it Orange Wet Paint Sale is a unique opportunity to purchase original art featuring sites and scenery unique to Orange County ranging from landscapes to landmarks and everything in between! Mediums range from oil to watercolor to pastel. The works are in a wide variety of sizes at all price points.
View this year’s winners here and save the date for Paint it Orange 2023 happening October 4-6, 2023.
AUGUST-OCTOBER 2022: Esten Walker's Vibrant Matter: Book of Days
ESTEN WALKER
Vibrant Matter: Book of Days
a gladdening experience of continuity…admist a fluid medium made up of images belonging to memory and perception, a free to-and-fro between past and present, between solid order, and playful confusion.
– Byung Chul Han, The Scent of Time
Observing the gestalts and the emergences of the world around us––whether briefly encountered, or through a duration in a place––unlocks a creativity in us. I am intrigued by the vibrant matter all around us, of which we are part of its assemblage. This work is from my spring “book of days.” These are moments of attentiveness.
Esten Walker is a multi-media artist interested in exploring the poetic forces emergent and arising from nature, constructed environments, and the spaces of our human psyche. Esten lives and works in North Carolina where she enjoys hiking and walking. This informs her artistic practice, as well as her interest in NC conservation. She has studied with JSS, in Civita Castellana, Italy; Penland School of Craft; and Massachusetts College of Art, among others. In 2021, Esten received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she was a merit scholar, and recipient of the Mary Butler Fellowship Award. Esten is an Eno River Arts Mill resident artist.
SEPTEMBER 2022: To See and Be Seen; To Know and Be Known by Kelly Oakes
AUGUST 2022: INSIGHT featuring Audrey Pinto, Mar Hester, and Christine Hager-Braun
JULY 2022: Building Bridges: An Exhibition of Latin American Artists in the Triangle
Building Bridges: An Exhibit of Latin American Artists in the Triangle
Featured Triangle Artists:
Nana Abreu, Durham
Antonio Alanis, Durham
Fabrizio Bianchi, Durham
Cornelio Campos, Durham
Melissa Garcia Corona, Efland
The Dib Studio, Hillsborough
IKORMA, Hillsborough
Saba Jordan, Carrboro
Eduardo Lapetina, Chapel Hill
Cat de M, Durham
Luis MacKinney, Raleigh
Peter Marin, Raleigh
Sol Ramírez, Carrboro
Miriam Sagasti, Chapel Hill
José Guadalupe Saldaña
Marcela Slade, Carrboro
Natalia Torres del Valle, Hillsborough
Erik Valera, Chapel Hill
Jorge Zuluaga, Durham
JANUARY - JULY 2022: Analog Visual by Dibkorma
JUNE 2022: IKORMA Musicons
MAY 2022: Orange County Artists Guild Spring Art Show
APRIL, 2022: HOME? An Artistic Exploration of Housing in the Triangle

The Orange County Arts Commission, in partnership with the Orange County Department of Housing and Community Development presented HOME? An Artistic Exploration of Housing in the Triangle, which sought to showcase “home” through the eyes and words of working artists.
The exhibit featured 100 works of art by 53 Triangle-based artists; 16 literary artists read works at the exhibit opening on April 1.
MARCH, 2022: Mary Ann Rozear: The Shapes of Memories
Featuring work by Eno Mill Studio Artist Mary Ann Rozear
Mary Ann is an award winning artist whose subject matter is as varied as her choice of medium. Whether using watercolors, acrylics, or oils, she strives to elicit an emotional response from the viewer with each painting. Mary Ann began painting in 2002 while living in Blowing Rock, NC, where she studied for six years with many master painters. She was most influenced by Mary Ann Beckwith, Gerald Brommer, and Skip Lawrence, whose philosophy was to encourage each student to paint in their own style. Mary Ann has developed her own unique approach to painting, believing that the enjoyment she gets during the process of painting translates to the finished piece. Mary Ann received the WWA Walter Garner Memorial Award in 2013 and the WWA Gail Henderson Memorial Award in 2014.
“The Shapes of Memories” showcases Mary Ann’s work over the last fifteen years. The title represents the way in which Mary Ann paints – not from photos or images, rather her memories of the places, people, and things she remembers and loves.
FEBRUARY, 2022: Kennedi Carter: Notes From a Rodeo: Ridin' Sucka Free, Revisited
Notes From a Rodeo: Ridin’ Sucka Free, Revisited
A photographic exploration of southern Black equestrians by Eno Arts Mill studio artist Kennedi Carter
A Durham, North Carolina native by way of Dallas Texas, Kennedi Carter is a photographer with a primary focus on Black subjects. Her work highlights the aesthetics & sociopolitical aspects of Black life as well as the overlooked beauties of the Black experience: skin, texture, trauma, peace, love and community. Her work aims to reinvent notions of creativity and confidence in the realm of Blackness. Kennedi’s clients include British Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, The Fader, Essence, The New York Times, Men’s Health, and TIME.
Ridin’ Sucka Free is an ongoing photographic exploration into the lives of Black southern equestrians. The American cowboy can be traced back to antebellum Texas, when westward traveling white colonists first encountered Mexican vaqueros and later appropriated their equestrian techniques. By the end of the Civil War in 1865, one-third of cowboys in existence were vaqueros and a quarter of them were Black. The systemic white-washing of American history is not an unfamiliar tale. Despite the fact African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexicans made up the majority of the cowboys that existed in the United States, their presence has been erased from contemporary Americana. While a majority of this project is centered around the everyday lives of the American cowboy, the work featured in Notes From A Rodeo was shot in a single night at the RCA Finals in Shreveport, Louisiana.
JANUARY, 2022: Austin Cathey: Not All Who Wander Are Lost
January, 2022
DECEMBER, 2021: Deck the Walls Annual Holiday Show
Featuring works by members of the Orange County Artists Guild!
Featuring paintings, ceramics, fine crafts, and jewelry.
NOVEMBER, 2021: 5th Annual Paint it Orange Plein Air Paint-out & Wet Paint Sale
November, 2021
The Paint it Orange Plein Air Wet Paint Sale features 85 works of original fine art at affordable prices.
OCTOBER, 2021: Eno Arts Mill Grand Opening and Artist Preview Show
October, 2021
Photos by Nic Johnson
Click here to view photos of the Opening Reception Friday, October 1 featuring live music by XOXOK, food trucks Yagg Sii Tenn and Mr. Wingz & Mrs. Thingz and beverages by Starrlight Mead, Durty Bull Brewing, and BMC Brewing.