EDUCATION
1952-1954 University of the South (Sewanee)
1954-1958 Auburn University (B.A. in Art)
1962-1964 University of Missouri
(M.A. in Art: Printmaking)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1961-1962 Instructor of Art
Auburn University
1964-1967 Instructor of Art
University of Missouri
1967-1969 Assistant Professor of Art
University of Mississippi
1969-1997* Asst. Professor/Assoc. Professor/Professor of Art
Appalachian State University
*1976-1979 Chairperson/Art Department, ASU
*1980-1983 Assistant Dean/College of Fine & Applied Arts, ASU
*1984-1986 Acting Dean/College of Fine & Applied Art/ ASU
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
1958- 1960 Guard and night watchman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art/ New York City
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1958 First Place Award in Painting/ Nashville Arts Festival
1964 Brooklyn Museum National Print Annual (Brooklyn, NY)
Etching: Good Friday selected for American Federation of Arts traveling exhibition
1965 Midwest Biennial/Joslyn Art Museum/ Omaha, Nebraska
1967 57th National Oil Painting Exhibition/Mississippi State Historical Museum/ Jackson, Mississippi
1968 4th National Arts & Crafts Exhibition/Jackson, Mississippi
*First Award: Graphics (etching: Self at Thirty-five)
1969 Mississippi Arts Festival, Jackson Mississippi, April 22- May 30
Etching: Cradle of Hypocrisy
1969 Mint Museum of Art/Drawing & Print exhibition/ Charlotte, NC
Noyes Capehart received an honorable mention in drawing
1969 15th Annual Virginia Beach Art Exhibition/ Virginia Beach, Virginia/ July, Noyes Capehart received first prize in the graphics division: etching, Self at Thirty-five
1972 34th Annual North Carolina Artists Exhibition/ North Carolina Museum of Art
Raleigh, NC
Etching: Anonymous Man of the Night/ Print Award*
Drawing: Anonymous Man*
*selected for traveling exhibition
1973 Invitational: Whitney Museum of American Art, Extraordinary Realities, New York, NY
Etching: Anonymous Man of the Night
1976 39th Annual North Carolina Artist’s Exhibition/ North Carolina Museum of Art/Raleigh, NC
1976 18th Annual Spring Mills Art Show/ Lancaster, South Carolina
1978 Workshop Leader: North Carolina Art Education Association’s Annual Conf./ Wilson, NC, Two-day workshop topic: Drawing
1979 Invitational: Green Hill Gallery/Greensboro, North Carolina/Fantasy Imagery/ November 4-25
1979 Asheville Art Museum’s Realist Invitational Exhibition/ March 27 through April 29, 1979, Works selected: Watauga Vigil (ink on paper) and Anonymous Man of the Night (etching)
1979 Panel discussion Leader: The State of Visual Art in America/ The New School/ New York City, NY, June 11-15
1981 National Museum of American Art’s The Art of Appalachia exhibition/Washington, DC, October 30, 1981 through January 3, 1982.
(The exhibition included Capehart’s Evil Conversations from 1973 as well as work from artists representing the 13 states comprising the Appalachian region. The exhibition toured institutions throughout the Appalachian region for two and one-half years. )
Note: This work introduced Noyes Capehart’s Private Diary series
1981 Invitational: Mural of 40 paintings by 40 North Carolinians for Philip Morris/ Raleigh, NC* (work submitted was Salmon Snow, acrylic on canvas 24” x 24” ) *Exhibition particulars were handled by the Collector’s Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1981 An Invitational Exhibition of Southern Monumental Art by Southern Artists / Memphis State University/ Memphis, TN. Work submitted: watercolor Figures and Plants: A Triptych (1978), October 18 through November 27
1982 More Than Land or Sky Symposium: Panelist and discussion leader at the Sawtooth Center for the Visual Arts/ Winston Salem, NC.
1985 Auburn University’s Alumni Art Exhibition/ Auburn, Alabama/ January 7 – December 20
1989 Dimensions ’89 /Associated Artists of Winston-Salem’s National Juried Art Competition, October 12- November 26 Noyes Capehart exhibited Christmas Eve Surprise*/acrylic (1972) and The Poet’s Vigil /ink (1989)
Note: currently on display at the Art Cellar Gallery, Banner Elk, NC
1995 14th Annual Henley Southeastern Spectrum/ May 26-June 22/Sawtooth Gallery, Winston-Salem NC
painting: The Arrival
1995 October issue of American Artist featured a seven-page article on Noyes Capehart: Art Emerging From Real Experiences. One of nine works reproduced was Primavera (1994).
1995 Double Kafka (acrylic on canvas: 1995) purchased by Appalachian State University for the Belk Library
Note: this work is currently on display at the Art Cellar Gallery in Banner Elk, NC
1995 Dimensions ’95: The 31st Annual National Juried Art Competition presented by the Associated Artists of Winston-Salem/ January 6 – February 3 / Sawtooth Gallery/Winston-Salem, NC
Etching: Sophia’s Dream
Etching: Lugano Memory
1998 One-man exhibition at Meredith College’s Weems Gallery/ Raleigh, North Carolina
2001 Appalachian Cultural Museum’s The Carolina Decades (1970-1980-1990-2000): A retrospective exhibition of works by Noyes Capehart/ Boone, NC/ July 6 – October 7
2002 Kafka’s Prague, an etching by Noyes Capehart was selected as the cover of the winter issue of Symposium, A Quarterly Journal In Modern Literatures
2003 Noyes Capehart’s suite of fourteen woodcuts depicting the Stations of the Cross, were published by Morehouse Publishing (now Church Publishing) under the title, Walking the Way of Sorrows. This Lenten meditation book includes fourteen monologues by writer Katerina Whitley. View Stations of the Cross Page
2005 Solo juror for the Spoleto Arts Festival/ Charleston, South Carolina
2005 An Invitational Exhibition of Local Artists/ Blowing Rock Art History Museum (BRAHM), September 2005
Note: Noyes Capehart was one of 55 artists selected to participate in this exhibition. Works by Art Cellar Gallery artists Tony Griffin, Tim Turner and Greg Smith were also included in this exhibition.
2006 The Private Diary of Noyes Capehart was published by Dancingfish Press
2007 Turchin Center Exhibition: From the Private Diary of Noyes Capehart, June 1 – September 15
2007 March issue of Our State magazine featured an article on Noyes Capehart, A Life in Pictures
2007 UNC-TV produced a video featuring Noyes Capehart and his art. The video was aired on the Our State television program (# 402) and has reappeared on the PBS channel with frequency since its initial appearance. Note: a link to this video is available on the home page.
2007 Auburn & Beyond: 12 Alumni Artists Return
Noyes Capehart exhibited two paintings: Marilyn (private collection) and Blue Poles
2007 Saving the Places You Love/ An Invitational Exhibition of North Carolina Artists benefitting the Conservation Trust for North Carolina/ Collector’s Gallery/ Raleigh, NC/ April 21 – May 26. The work of Noyes Capehart selected for this exhibition was Song of the Waterway (2007)
2008 Forgiveness, Noyes Capehart was one of 15 artists invited to explore the theme of forgiveness for Longview Gallery (a project of the Collectors Gallery) Charlotte, NC September 5 – November 8
Beach House. (acrylic on canvas/ 2012/ 48” x 48”)
2013 In April of 2013, Noyes Capehart was commissioned by the North Carolina Bar Association to paint a work for an art collection to accompany the completion of its new headquarters in the State Government Complex in Raleigh, NC. (Recommended artists were selected from the western, central and eastern part of the state to participate in the commissions.) Capehart’s work was titled Beach House. (acrylic on canvas/ 2012/ 48” x 48”)
2013 Invitational: Green Hill Gallery’s Winter Show/ Noyes Capehart was one of 120-150 artists from across the state invited to participate/ Greensboro, North Carolina/ Dec. 8, 2013 – Jan.12, 2014
2013 Noyes Capehart’s first fictional novel, Devil’s Mark, is published. Devil’s Mark is available at the Art Cellar Gallery in Banner Elk, NC
Note: Devil’s Mark was selected as the suspense book-of-the-year by the High Country Writers/ Boone, NC
2016 Chameleon, Noyes Capehart’s fictional sequel to Devil’s Mark, is published. Chameleon is available at the Art Cellar Gallery in Banner Elk, NC
2017 Noyes Capehart joined the Art Cellar Gallery in Banner Elk, NC. The gallery hosted Life on Canvas, a retrospective exhibition of Capehart’s work from 1958 through 2017/ August 2-26
2018 Noyes Capehart releases Cheap Joe, a biography on Boone entrepreneur Joe Miller, founder of Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff. The book is featured in the summer issue of Carolina Mountain Life. Cheap Joe is available at the Art Cellar Gallery, Banner Elk, NC
2018 The autumn issue of Carolina Mountain Life featured The Artistic Voice of Noyes Capehart, an overview of his art in words and images
2019 An exhibition of recent works by Noyes Capehart is scheduled at the Art Cellar Gallery in Banner Elk, NC from August 20 through September 7. The reception/gallery talk is scheduled for Saturday, August 24 from 4:00 – 6:00pm