The Tipping Point: The Moment That Made The Difference

Born in 1953 in Greensboro NC, Vandorn Hinnant received a BA from NC A & T State University in Greensboro NC in 1981 and studied Sculpture at UNC-Greensboro. He is a recipient of a 1993-1994 NC Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award, and has participated in artist residencies at The Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, Project Row Houses (Round 10), Penland School of Crafts, Center for Design Innovation (W-S, NC), the National Arts Education Association, and the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, a leader in the development of offset lithography as a fine art.  He has served as guest curator, juror, and as guest lecturer at a number of colleges and universities. Hinnant has also served as a museum preparator for his alma mater and the Diggs Gallery at Winston Salem State University. Since 2011 he has devoted most of his time creating sculptures for public spaces and collectors.

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What Was Your Tipping Point?

That Moment That Made The Difference.

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Paul Branton was born in 1973 in Chicago.  He was influenced at an early age by the sights & sounds of the South Side’s urban environment.  Choosing visual art as his main focus, he entered Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, majoring in Commercial Art with a strong emphasis in painting. It was at Millikin where he also discovered a love for poetry, a strong desire for painting, eventually putting on a one-man art exhibit displaying his works.  The art of Paul Branton is/has been exhibited throughout dozens of galleries and one museum.   His art hangs in the homes of private owners from New York to Los Angeles