Artists
The Spring Daze Arts & Crafts Festival is open only to artists living in North Carolina and features atists and craftspeople living right here in Wake County. Festival attendees can enjoy the beauty of Fred G. Bond Metro Park and visit artists in several areas.
A unique area called The Artist Gallery opens the festival up to artists from throughout North Carolina. These select exhibitors must meet criteria established by the Festival Committee in regard to craftsmanship, quality, and overall artistic presentation.
The artist application period has closed for 2012. If you wish to be added to our artist database and receive information on future festivals, please email the Festival Coordinator with your name, address and phone number.
2012 Spring Daze Featured Artist:
Betty Ann Packler
Betty Ann Packler was born in North Carolina and moved to the Miami, Florida area after completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNC-Greensboro. Working for Dade County for eight years, she then worked as a freelance graphic artist creating drawings of watch models for a major brand, children’s fashion drawings for a local emerging clothing company, brochures, business cards, and note card designs.She has worked with known local artists in classes and workshops including, M. J. Wilson, David Chang,and Dottie Greene. While attending an arts institute at the University of Miami, she added clay and glass to her media. She has also worked with silk painting and design in silk. Lost wax jewelry design and calligraphy are other applications of her creativity. Packler has donated pieces to local charity auctions,to Fairchild Tropical Garden, and churches in the area. Donated designs include drawings, landscape drawings, logo designs, and calligraphy certificates. Her painting of the grotto at Merrick House in Coral Gables was chosen by the Museum Coordinator to be given in form of giclees as special awards and recognition and potential note cards. She has been on the Dade Art Educators Board of Directors for two years and acted as co-chairman of the Miami Watercolor Show Committee for the 2005 Fall Show. She was awarded Signature Membership in the Miami Watercolor Society in the spring of 2005. While in Coral Gables she volunteered as a docent for the George Merrick House. She taught art for 20 years in Miami before retiring. She was selected her school’s Teacher of the Year for 2006. She moved to Holly Springs, North Carolina in November 2006 and is now beginning to exhibit in the Raleigh area. Packler responds to the stimuli surrounding her and produces work reflecting the excitement and wonder that comes with the season changes. She is volunteering at the NC ART Museum and other venues to put back some of what has been given to her in the creation of a new life and the opportunity to be taken by her art to new levels. She has painted a watercolor of Yates Mill, which is displayed in the lobby where she volunteers.
