In the Gallery

GARDEN ART will be featured in ChathamArts Gallery during the month of June. Six local artists will exhibit a variety of outdoor art, including bird houses, sculptures, walking sticks, and murals at the gallery in historic downtown Pittsboro.

You can meet the artists during a gallery reception on June 3 from 12 noon to 5, when Pittsboro galleries, shops, and eateries will be open for First Sunday, with arts and crafts for sale on the street. ChathamArts Gallery, which sells a wide range of local arts, is open Tuesday through Saturday 11-5, at 121 Hillsboro St. 919-542-4144.

Artists in the June exhibit, GARDEN ART, are:

Mark Burnham, a retired naval aviator, regional planner and bookstore owner, who creates whimsical pieces from reclaimed wood and other found materials. Burnham has participated in the garden show at the Botanical Garden at Chapel Hill, and was awarded a first place honor at the Bird House show at the J.C. Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh.

Forrest Greenslade, a retired scientist who creates whimsical creatures called Forrest Dwellers, which he says will bring good luck to any garden. He is also the author of "Haicooo: Little Poems for Children."

Roger Lamanna, an artistic welder who likes to combine steel and stone for creative and functional pieces.

Tamera Mulanix, a creative welder who enjoys taking a rusty piece of scrap metal and turning it into something beautiful. Her grandfather, uncle and cousins were welders, and she says she has been fascinated with welding for as long as she can remember.

Janet Resnik, a self-supporting potter for more than thirty years who specializes in affordable, functional dinner and serving pieces glazed with impressionistic landscapes, animals, irises, and Christmas designs inspired by life on her farm. Her best known designs include trees depicted in all seasons.

Richard Seed, a UNC scientist who has enjoyed the arts since childhood. For the past 20 years he has been working with wood, creating sculptures, murals, and the canes for which he is best known, which tend to be human caricatures. He also carves ducks and creates "bugs" from twisted wood branches.