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My Mediterranean Legacy

The Dixie Carter Performing Arts Center is excited to announce the opening of the art exhibit, “My Mediterranean Legacy,” on Saturday, May 31, 2008. “My Mediterranean Legacy” is a collection of watercolors by Teresa Burch Dunlap of Memphis.

“My Mediterranean Legacy” will be on display at The Dixie Carter Performing Arts and Academic Enrichment Center in Huntingdon, Tennessee from May 31 – July 26, 2008. The exhibit is free and open to the public during normal Dixie Box Office hours (Monday – Friday from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) and before and after performances. For more information, please call 731-986-2100.

Teresa Burch Dunlap was born in Barcelona, the capital of the Catalan region of Spain. Growing up in this ancient city, she enjoyed the culture while excelling in musical pursuits in school. She earned two degrees from the renowned Conservatory of Music del Liceu in her home city; one as a professor of music and the other as a professor of piano. She also has a certificate of the Lower House of English from Cambridge University of England and a degree in Estenografia Internacional at the Friendendorff Academy, Barcelona which she used in translating all of the foreign correspondence for INIBSA.

She met and married a man from Mississippi, where she lived and taught piano for many years. During this same period she had five children. After moving to Memphis, she decided to pursue her lifelong interest in art. In the mid-eighties she apprenticed in the oriental brush stroke with friend and local artist, Cecilia Lin. In 1989, Teresa’s love of art lead her back to Barcelona where she painted under the tutelage of the well know artist Carles Madrirolas for several months before returning to the United States. For the next decade, she continued to spend five or more hours per day in the studio. It was during this period that she produced “My Mediterranean Legacy” while thinking of her children. According to Teresa, her art has always been closely intertwined with an emotional attachment to her Catalan/Spanish heritage and a desire to share this treasure with her children who grew up in Mississippi and Memphis. After years of friends and family looking at her wonderful watercolors, she has agreed to share a selection of her paintings.

When asked about her life and living in Memphis, Teresa stated, “I now have two beautiful countries and cultures to draw from that enrich and comfort me.” She chooses, however, to live in Memphis in order to be near her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

“My Mediterranean Legacy” will be on display at The Dixie Carter Performing Arts and Academic Enrichment Center in Huntingdon, Tennessee from May 31 – July 26, 2008. The exhibit is free and open to the public during normal Dixie Box Office hours (Monday – Friday from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) and before and after performances. For more information, please call 731-986-2100.

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Winter 2007
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Summer 2007
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Winter 2006
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The Southern Arts Federation

November 2005
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February 2006
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April 2006
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May 2006
Carroll County High Schools Visual Arts Exhibit

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