Exhibiting artists include Lauri L. Arntsen, oils, from Wake Forest, N.C.; Bob Carl, mixed media, from Clinton; Rachel B. Compton, repoussé, pastel and mixed media, from Woodleaf; Susan Fecho, digital imagery and mixed media, from Tarboro; Jay Hahn, photography, from Swannanoa; Annemarie Johnson, digital photo montage, from Kernersville; V. Mae, photography, from Charlotte; Patrick McMullen, digital art, from Winston-Salem; Jackie Etta Ogden, oils, from Cary; Christine Rucker, photography, from Winston-Salem; and Helen Marie Smith, monotypes with oil pastel, acrylic and mixed media, from Winston-Salem. Also exhibiting are Stefani Joseph, oil on canvas, from Savannah, Ga.; and Gina Fuentes Walker, photography, from New York City.

The highly blended oil paintings of Arntsen are brightly colored. Carl's abstract acrylic works often incorporate found and reclaimed objects. Compton practices the ancient metal art of repoussé. The French word means "pushed out," referring to the method of raising a design in relief on metal using tools, hammers and punches. Fecho is trained as a traditional hand printmaker, but due to her professional contact with digital media and technology, her artwork has increasingly become interdisciplinary in media, Worrell Center hosts art exhibit combining traditional media with digital techniques. Hahn takes digital photography into the realm of printmaking as he manipulates his images with the computer, using it as a tool to change elements.

Johnson also explores the digital medium through digital photo montages. Joseph presents viewers with oil-on-canvas narratives of mystery and art history. Her figurative imagery depicts her main themes of ambiguity, duplicity and intrigue captured in a frozen moment in time. Photographer Mae produces works that, at a glance, appear to be charcoal drawings but are actually surreal portraits of figurative sculpture.

The digital art of McMullen depicts the bright colors, dancing shapes and swirls of fractals that are the result of his mathematical computer programs. "As someone who teaches applied mathematics to business students and one who engages in academic research by applying artificial intelligence techniques, I've long been interested in the computational beauty that nature has to offer. For me, fractals are the ideal way to simultaneously pursue both art and science," explains McMullen, who is a professor at the Babcock School.

Ogden, a figurative oil painter, uses her large canvases to reflect the human condition. Some of her works express her feelings about the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

Rucker was a staff photographer for the Winston-Salem Journal before pursuing a freelance career. Her varied subject matter ranges from dancers at the N.C. School of the Arts to landscapes in her color and black-and-white photography. Smith uses vibrant color in her monotypes that incorporate oil pastel, acrylic and mixed media. Photographer Walker's series, Abstract Architecture, explores the essence of the shapes around us.