COVER ART Evening Radiance (oil on canvas, 20x20) by Jane Desonier JANE DESONIER moved to Asheville in 1998 from Louisiana, where she had lived since the age of ten. She received her BA in Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans. She went on to study at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Since then, she has studied with nationally known artists including Ted Goerschner, Charles Sovek, Julyan Davis, Gay Faulkenberry, and Thomas Buechner. She participated in the Scottsville Artists’ School “The Best and The Brightest Art Show and Sale” for two years. She won Wickwire Gallery’s Best in Show (in 2002) and first place (in 2005) for Wickwire Gallery’s “City of Four Seasons in Two Dimensions” annual juried competition in Hendersonville, NC. She is a member of the Oil Painters of America and participated in its 11th Annual National Juried Exhibition in Chicago, IL. She was a member of the Asheville Gallery of Art coop until moving back to Louisiana in 2016. See more of her work on her website.
Published annually by East Carolina University and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association © COPYRIGHT 2017 NCLR
COVER DESIGNER NCLR Art Director DANA EZZELL is a Professor at Meredith College in Raleigh. She also currently serves as the Interim Head of the Art Department. She has an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. Her design work has been recognized by the CASE Awards and in such publications as Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual, the Applied Arts Awards Annual, American Corporate Identity, and the Big Book of Logos 4. She has been designing for NCLR since the fifth issue, and in 2009 created the current style and design. In 2010, the “new look” earned NCLR a second award for Best Journal Design from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. In addition to the cover, Dana designed the Parker fiction, Kirkpatrick poem, and Cornett interviews in this issue.
ABOVE and BACK COVER Summer Sunset (oil on canvas, 18x24) by Jane Desonier