Eno Mill Gallery

Building Bridges: An Exhibit of Latin American Artists in the Triangle

Opening Reception Friday, July 1 | 6-9PM

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Featuring work by Eno Mill Studio Artist Audrey Pinto

Opening Reception Friday, August 5 | 6-9PM

Featuring work by Eno Mill Studio Artist Kelly Oakes

Opening Reception Friday, September 2 | 6-9PM

Featuring the Paint it Orange Plein Air Paint-out Wet Paint Sale

Opening Reception Friday, October 7

Featuring work by Eno Mill Studio Artist Ryann Carey with guest artist Amy Gelber

Opening Reception Friday, November 4 | 6-9PM

Featuring works by members of the Orange County Artists Guild

Opening Reception Friday, December 2 | 6-9PM

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. 

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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.

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

December, 2021

Featuring works by members of the Orange County Artists Guild!

Featuring paintings, ceramics, fine crafts, and jewelry.

November, 2021

The Paint it Orange Plein Air Wet Paint Sale features 85 works of original fine art at affordable prices.

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.