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(RALEIGH, N.C.) \u2014 Chatham County artist Shannon Bueker has always drawn. \u201c<\/strong>As a kid, there wasn\u2019t any surface that was safe from me and my crayons.\u201d Surfaces remain at risk. After earning a degree in studio art from the University of Texas she migrated to North Carolina, where for the past 24 years her wooded surroundings have proven to be fertile ground for her personal and artistic growth. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences\u2019 Nature Art Gallery<\/strong><\/a> presents \u201cDeer, Oh Dear,\u201d a selection of Bueker\u2019s acrylic and watercolor paintings featuring deer.\u00a0October 6\u201329. A Gallery reception honoring the artist will be held Saturday, October 7 from 2 to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n Bueker\u2019s paintings, created in her Pittsboro studio, are acrylic on canvas and watercolor with ink and charcoal. But drawing remains a big part of her process. \u201cI go back and forth between paint and line, drawing, and color, over and over,\u201d she says. She constantly works on picturing the connections that bind humans to creatures and creatures to nature.\u00a0\u201cI am so curious animals, their lives, their concerns, how our behaviors affect their lives,\u201d Bueker says. \u201cI am lucky to live in the woods with a forest right outside my studio windows. Every day there is beauty out there and creatures about. Lots to draw, lots of opportunities for an overlap with a fellow creature.\u201d<\/p>\n Bueker teaches art classes at the Pullen Art Center in Raleigh, the Chatham Arts Council in Pittsboro, and the Artists League of the Sandhills in Aberdeen. She has participated in the Chatham Artists Guild\u2019s annual Studio Tour since 1994.<\/p>\n The Nature Art Gallery is accessible through the Museum Store. Hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 4:45 p.m. All exhibited art is for sale.\u00a0For more information about the Nature Art Gallery, call 919.707.9854.<\/p>\n The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences<\/em><\/strong> in downtown Raleigh (11 and 121 W. Jones St.) is an active research institution that engages visitors of every age and stage of learning in the wonders of science and the natural world. Hours: Mon.\u2013Sat., 9 a.m.\u20135 p.m., and Sun., noon\u20135 p.m. General admission is free. Emlyn Koster, PhD, Museum Director. For more information, visit the Museum online at www.naturalsciences.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22134,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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