Our 2026 Gallery Show Schedule is Coming Soon!
Beginning March 6th, 2026, Art in Bloom Gallery will uncover the versatility of collage through the distinctive creations of gallery artists & two guest artists! Gallery artists Elizabeth Darrow, Constance Pappalardo, Angela Rowe, Pam Toll, & Rebecca Yeomans will be joined by guest artists Jo Ann Alford & Lois Watson to present their unique approaches to collage in this major collaboration. By cutting paper, embroidering fabric, tearing textures, and layering paint, illustration and multimedia, these artists independently and collectively explore collage’s creative expanses.
Join us in the gallery on Sunday, March 15th, 2-5pm for our Artist Reception! Enjoy special refreshments, meet our artists, and enjoy live music by violinist Shirley Lebo. In addition to a new selection of works by our 30+ Gallery Artists, this exhibit will be featured alongside our Pop Up Exhibit: Works by Fabio Napoleoni, whose heartfelt, childlike paintings are as narratively compelling as they are powerful emotive.
Also beginning March 6th, in collaboration with The Gallery of Fine Art, we are thrilled to offer a pop up art exhibit with the works of Fabio Napoleoni. This exhibit will feature a variety of limited edition prints by the artist.
What the heart wants and the heart needs can be found in a Fabio Napoleoni painting. Nostalgia, sorrow and moments that lift the soul are all there for the world to see and experience along with him. The vivid colors and captivating characters invite you into an emotional ride that is welcomed by the mind and the heart. Simple landscapes set the stage to the value of emotional attachment that can be compared to no other. Influences from some of this century’s greatest artists are hard to find in his pieces, but are drenched deep in the fabric of what puts a Napoleoni painting together.
This exhibit will run through April 19th, alongside a new selection of featured works by our 30+ Gallery Artists!
Art by Hannah Fridholm & Lisa Mullikin
This April, we’ll introduce you to the imaginative moments and immersive landscapes of guest artists Hannah Fridholm & Lisa J. Mullikin – two recent arrivals to our area with fresh perspectives to share! Ceramicist Hannah Fridholm explores the fragility of memory and the fleeting moments that shape our lives, using clay as a medium to reflect transformation and impermanence. Through hand-built sculptures and textured forms, she captures the delicate nature of human experiences. Painter & architect Lisa J. Mullikin focuses on the relationships we have with regional landscapes, and the cultural connections we have to place. Since moving to Wilmington, Lisa’s oils have reflected the area’s unique relationships between the placid land, dynamic sky and the formidable ocean. Both artists incorporate mixed media into their works to explore our relationships with nature, history, and self – crafting tranquil expressions of our underlying experiences.
Joanne Geisel “Healing Loved Ones,” Oil on canvas, 21.5″ x 17.5″ x 1.25
This June, gallery artist Joanne Geisel exploring brand new dimensions to her designs! Painter Joanne Geisel uses oil to capture our Carolina coastlines, working from her photos or life to authentically render each scene. After an initial foray into abstraction in 2022, Joanne outwardly returned to impressionism, while cultivating the lessons she’d learned behind-the-scenes. Now, in addition to her impressionist landscapes, we can finally offer expressive landscapes from Joanne Geisel’s own imagination, using abstract colors and curves to visualize their winds, currents, and movements.
Join us in the gallery on Sunday, June 14th, 2-5pm for our Artist Reception. Enjoy special refreshments, meet our artists, and enjoy live music by guitarist Miles Moore! This exhibit will run through July 27th, alongside a new selection of featured works by our 30+ Gallery Artists.
Art by Catharine Carter & James P. Garrett
From July 31 – September 13, we’ll have the pleasure of introducing you to the landscapes of Guest Artists Catharine Carter & James P. Garrett! Growing up with fairy tales, fables and myths read by her performer father, Chapel Hill photographer Catharine Carter uses digital darkroom tools to develop dreamlike photomontage images. By overlaying her monotone images of places and models with textures or colors, Catharine imagines fantasy narratives within shadowy, inscrutable worlds. It was the discovery of Venetian plaster in the mid-eighties that inspired Atlanta-based painter James P. Garrett to explore painting as a medium for art. Moving from faux and decorative painting to the historical techniques of Venetian plaster, James layers tints of marble and lime, polishing his painting to a silky feel to create effects only his plaster can achieve. Moving between representational and abstract, Catharine and James’ natural and undefinable influences can be discovered through the variety of approaches they take to the artforms they have committed themselves to.
Join us in the gallery on Sunday, August 2nd, 2-5pm for our Artist Reception. Enjoy special refreshments, meet our artists, and enjoy live music by jazz guitarist Roger Davis! This exhibit will be featured alongside a new selection of featured works by our 30+ Gallery Artists.