Artists
Each August, the Lazy Daze Arts & Crafts Festival welcomes over 350 artists and fine crafters from all over the country to Cary. The Artist applications period has closed for 2011. To be added to the mailing list for next year, please email the Festivals Coordinator with your name, address, email, and phone number.
Featured Artist for 2011
Grace Li Wang
Grace Li Wang was born in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, in 1953. She arrived in the United States in 1964. Grace graduated from the School of Design at the North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Environmental Design Degree in 1974. She participates in numerous international, national, and regional design conferences as seminar panelist and jurist. After many years of working in the Art and Design Director capacity for major corporations, Grace became the gallery director for The Grace Li Wang Art Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina.Grace’s work has been exhibited and collected by private and public sectors regionally and internationally. She is the recipient of numerous international art and design awards, including the Designers Choice Awards from the International Design Publications, the Distinguished Art and Design Graphics Awards from the International Society for Technical Communications, among dozens of other art and design awards.
Art with a Touch of Grace – Grace believes her art is to energize and enrich the spirit in each of us. Her passionate expressionistic and impressionistic works reflect her extraordinary love and celebration for beauty and Nature. Grace’s art conveys her distinctive joyful exuberance style as shaped by intense colors and graphic forms in her diverse works of subjects. The immediate strong character of the vibrant and passionate colors along with the innovative and stylized form transforms and transcends that sense of radiant vitality into her wondrous world of imaginative and captivating scenes. A portfolio of her art is at www.GraceLiWang.com
“I want to create vibrant imageries that become the active force in expressing Colors and Forms in Nature, with emotional qualities that are strong and radiate energy and exuberance.”
Jerry Miller Artist Awards
In 2001, to commemorate the 25th annual festival, the Lazy Daze Committee instituted the Lazy Daze Invitation Awards, now named the Jerry Miller Artist Awards, to honor the Lazy Daze festival’s founding father, local artist Jerry Miller. The Jerry Miller Artist Award winners are judged to be the “best in the show” for the Lazy Daze Festival. They represent a wide range of artistic forms and styles. Each award winner is automatically invited to participate in Lazy Daze the following year and is also exempt from festival fees that year. Each year, there are six artists honored with this award.
