WPCC Faculty Member Earns Second Place in State Competition

Mark Poteat, department head of the visual and performing arts program at Western Piedmont Community College (WPCC) was recently awarded second place in “Carolina’s Got Art, The Salon Show,” an arts exhibition and competition held at the Elder Gallery located in Charlotte, N.C.

This annual exhibition began in 2009 and is open to artists living and working in North and South Carolina.  This year, the gallery received over 3,000 entries and 400 artists were chosen to exhibit in a two part exhibition held during May and June.

Poteat’s entry, “The Factory”, is a semi-abstract depiction of an industrial building’s skeleton frozen in space.  Poteat began his art studies under Raymond Goodfellow at WPCC and then received his bachelor of fine arts degree from East Carolina University and master of fine arts degree, specializing in painting from East Tennessee University.   Poteat began teaching at WPCC in 1998 and teaches art history, design and painting courses.

To learn more about the College’s visual and performing Arts programs, contact Mark Poteat, at 448-3538 or mpoteat@wpcc.edu. Fall registration will be held Thursday, August 13 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday, August 14 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.