About the Artist
I'm an artist, singer, songwriter, violinist, dog mom & Skillet spouse living in Raleigh, North Carolina.
I moved here in 1993, and a year after that I joined Whiskeytown and began a pretty incredible hayride. Since then, I've released three acclaimed solo albums, a duets album with Thad Cockrell, two albums with the super-girl-group Tres Chicas, an EP with The Small Ponds, and released an album of original protest music with the NC Music Love Army.
There have been great reviews and accolades, and I've had the great fortune to perform and record alongside a great many noteworthy artists, many of them my friends as well as my heroes. Click on the links below to investigate.
In recent years I've turned a great deal of my focus toward work on my visual art, and in July of '15 I began a six-month residency at Artspace, a downtown studio collective and arts education organization, where I went on to occupy a studio for five years. In March of 2021, my husband Skillet and I signed a lease on a small gallery/studio space in the historic Oakwood neighborhood of Raleigh which we named The Pocket. There we display my needleprints and Skillet’s screen prints, along with a carefully curated selection of works by some of the area’s finest artists and makers. We welcome you to visit 222 N. Bloodworth anytime you’re in the area, and please check out the gallery’s website https://www.thepocketraleigh.com/ and sign up to receive our newsletters.
My work is represented by the Horse & Buggy & Friends & PS 118 galleries in Durham, NC, Visual Index in Winston-Salem, NC, and by Yard Dog Gallery in Austin, TX. Prints are available in Raleigh at the gift shops NOFO and DECO.
Please drop me a line at ccary2@gmail.com and sign up for my (very occasional) email newsletter.
Exhibitions in 2023 include The Maria V. Howard Juried show, Artspace Corridors Exhibition July through September, and a Solo Show at Rebus Works, Raleigh, featuring 12 brand new Raleigh landmark Needleprints in September! Opening reception at Rebus is Friday, September 22nd 6-8 PM.
Also, here’s a shameless plug for my talented husband Skillet Gilmore who runs a graphic & screen printing business from a humble shop in SE Raleigh. Check him out at thecrawlspacepress.com