Anne Cammer teaches art in the Lower and Middle Schools. She has been teaching at Charlotte Latin since 2000, and previously taught in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools for 13 years.

Cammer's favorite media and subjects include watercolor, acrylic with drawing, figurative and abstract. Her paintings and prints are currently exhibited at Eight Legs Gallery in Waxhaw, N.C., and her works can be found in private collections. She has participated in workshops at the McColl Center and Penland, and has taken post-graduate classes at Winthrop University.

Cammer graduated magna cum laude from the University of Dayton with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in art with a concentration in painting/drawing. She also received K-12 teacher certification.

 

Richard Fletcher is the chair of the art department and teaches in the Middle and Upper Schools. He is a native of Charlotte, N.C., and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in ancient history and studio art. Fletcher has spent the past 20 years teaching visual arts at Charlotte Latin, his high school alma mater, in addition to summer courses in Spoleto, Italy. He specializes in oil painting and ceramics, and his artwork can be found in corporate and private collections in Charlotte, Atlanta, Greensboro, Asheville and Hong Kong.

His current series of paintings are an exploration of his Southern youth. Here he recalls a childhood spent scavenging arrowheads from the fields around Charlotte, as well as the wonder-filled nights on his uncle's Virginia farm. Conceptually, the paintings of the fields and farmland that were integral in his development are transformed into cathedrals of sacrosanct memories.

 

Clark Hawgood teaches art in the Middle School. He has 14 years of teaching experience, including 11 years at Charlotte Latin. His artwork has been displayed in more than 25 group and solo shows throughout the United States, and his artwork can be found in private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. His artwork is currently on display at the Cabarrus County Museum of Art, and he will be lecturing and demonstrating to Charlotte artists at the Mint Museum of Art during spring 2010.

Hawgood has participated in workshops throughout the United States and Europe, and has taught numerous workshops to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' art educators and other adult art groups throughout the community. He also continues to work with nationally renowned artist Andy Braitman. Hawgood and Braitman have worked directly with each other for the last 15 years teaching adults and high school students at Braitman Studio. Their students have attended universities such as the Rhode Island School of Design, Savannah College of Art and Design, Pratt Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the Chicago Art Institute, among many others.

Hawgood received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in art education with a concentration in painting from East Carolina University. Please visit www.clarkhawgood.com to view his work and a listing of his exhibitions.

 

 

Chip Martin has 37 years of teaching experience in the visual arts, including five years at the Middle School level and 32 years as a high school instructor. He has taught drawing, painting, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, design, advertising design, graphic design, photography, digital imaging, computer-based art, and art presentation. Martin also has 36 years of experience as a presentation specialist and picture framer; two years of experience in business and finance; and one year of experience as a freelance logo designer and illustrator. He served two years as exhibition chairman for the Guild of Charlotte Artists and three years in the U.S. Army Medical Services Corps.

Martin has received 17 citations for Teaching Excellence from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National Alliance, and served on the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Advisory Board from 2000-2005 and again in 2009. He was recognized for his excellence in teaching at Charlotte Latin with the Inlustrate Orbem Alumni Award in 2007, and was an invited presenter at the National Art Education Association National Conference during the same year.

Martin’s artwork was part of the inaugural exhibition at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, N.C., and has placed in four professional regional competitions from 1974-1978. Martin also designed the Charlotte Latin School crest, which is featured on diplomas, awards, and other school documents.

Martin received his Bachelor of Science degree in art education from the School of Art at East Carolina University, and earned a North Carolina Visual Arts Teaching Certificate for Grades K-12. He has undertaken advanced study in ceramics, drawing, and photography at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, as well as graduate studies in marketing at Winthrop University.

 

Joann McDaniel has taught art to students in pre-kindergarten though the university level in Georgia, Illinois, Vermont, North Carolina, and Torino, Italy. She came to Charlotte Latin from Castleton State College in August of 2004 and teaches in the Lower School.

McDaniel is a practicing watermedia artist and photographer, and also enjoys working in collage, multi-media design, clay and wooden sculpture, and jewelry design. She exhibited her watermedia and photography work in Charlotte, N.C., in 2009, and her watermedia and photography exhibit, “La Mostra Presso Piazza Matiri,” will be on display in Isolabona, Italy, in June of 2010.

Joann McDaniel received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in art education (with an emphasis in 3-D design) from Valdosta State University and her master’s degree in art education (with an emphasis in art technology and computer graphics) from Illinois State University.

 

Will Thomason has been teaching art in the Upper School since 1996. Before coming to Charlotte Latin, Thomason worked with the SPACE program for the City of Charleston, S.C. He also was an assistant to sculptor Antony Gormley and painter Bruno Citivicio; an artist for American Advertising Agency in Charleston, S.C.; a freelance illustrator in Atlanta; and a color analyst for Delmar Studio Photography in Charlotte, N.C.

Thomason completed a two-year apprenticeship at Johnson Atelier, where he learned cast metal techniques in bronze, aluminum and iron. During this time he worked with internationally renowned sculptors Louis Nevelson, George Segal, Joel Shapiro, Marisol, Magdalena Abakonowicz and Beverly Pepper to cast and install their sculptures.

Thomason is an editorial cartoonist for the Charleston Mercury, and his work has been featured in shows and exhibits in North Carolina, South Carolina and New Jersey. His paintings and sculptures are in numerous private and corporate collections.

Thomason was a visual arts instructor for the Spoleto Study Abroad Program in Italy in 2002, and will teach there again during the summer of 2010.

Thomason is the recipient of the Outstanding Student Artist Award (College of Charleston), the Violet Niles Art Award, and a Johnson Grant for the Visual Arts. He also received a certificate of achievement for Exemplary Instruction from Charlotte Latin, and has been recognized five times by the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards as an Outstanding Educator. His students annually win regional or national awards in competitions, and their artwork is shown in major galleries and museums in Charlotte. Thomason’s students have graduated from almost every major art and design school, and they have gone on to (among other things) build puppets on Broadway, exhibit in New York City, and teach painting at the graduate level.

Thomason attended the Rhode Island School of Design and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Charleston.