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Before she came to college, Zoe Turner thought she might want to study marine biology. But \u201cI’ve been drawing and doing theater since I was a small child,\u201d she says, so she chose an art major with minors in theatre and art history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her passion for the ocean never waned, though, and she has found ways to explore the seas through her art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of my work is involved with marine conservation and environmentalism,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoe\u2019s senior thesis project, \u201cConverse to Conserve,\u201d is a case in point. In a series of acrylic paintings and film photography pieces, her work presents \u201ccurrent and future realities concerning the North Carolina coastline,\u201d her artist statement explains, and is intended to \u201cinspire critical opinions on the fate of our coastlines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zoe Turner’s BFA senior thesis project addresses marine conservation issues through both photography and painting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In preparation for the project, Zoe studied the environmental challenges along North Carolina\u2019s coast. \u201cI love doing research. I literally filled up an entire notebook.\u201d She then created a body of work that visualizes her research in surrealist ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne painting is a take on lionfish,\u201d she says. \u201cThey’re an invasive species, and they’ve kind of taken over our coast, and they don’t have any predators because they’re not native to here, and they’re venomous. So I made a bunch of different species that are native to North Carolina and I dressed them up like lionfish, basically.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zoe Turner’s surrealist paintings in her senior thesis project, “Converse to Conserve.” Top, middle: N.C. Native marine life “dressed” as the invasive lionfish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Zoe was the recipient this year of the Roderick MacKillop Memorial Art Merit Scholarship, established by the family of former painting professor Rod MacKillop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt has been really, really just a big blessing. I was going to be struggling to support myself for this last semester. So it was really nice to not have to worry. And it was also really nice to be recognized for painting. I guess everyone, especially artists, always deals with imposter syndrome. But this was like, \u2018Your work’s nice, your work is scholarship worthy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoe will actually graduate with a concentration in photography, a medium she \u201cfell in love with\u201d later in her UNC Charlotte career. She highlights photography faculty Aspen Hochhalter and Ann Kluttz as being particularly important to her final year, advising her through both her Honors thesis, the photography exhibition \u201c(in)Visible,<\/em>\u201d and the \u201cConverse to Conserve\u201d project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey’ve just both been incredible supports for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Zoe
Zoe Turner’s Honors thesis, “(in)Visible<\/em>,” and\u00a0her project “Parts of the Whole ; My American Redbud Tree<\/em>”\u00a0were featured in an exhibition at Goodyear Arts in February 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

She also has high praise for Jill Bloede, a lecturer in the theatre department, who has taught several classes in her theatre minor. Although Zoe has not performed in a Department of Theatre production, she regularly performs in musicals in Gaston County, where she grew up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zoe Turner, far right, in a recent production of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” at Gastonia’s FUMC Theatre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As she graduates, Zoe is looking ahead to graduate school and hopes to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in photography. At the moment, she has her eye on UNC Chapel Hill, which also has a strong marine science program. She may even get that marine biology degree after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had two resource advisors (for her senior project) that were grad students at Chapel Hill in the marine biology program, who guided my research, so I think it would be really nice to actually go there and be able to get more hands-on access that department for my art.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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