Missie Dickens

1988-89 President

Missie was born in Windsor, NC, raised in Charlottesville, VA and now lives in Greensboro, NC. She holds a BS degree in nursing from UNC-Chapel Hill. Missie studied art at the studio of Madam Chabanier and the University of Montpellier in France and UNC-Chapel Hill. A signature member of six national watercolor societies, Missie has exhibited in museums and invitational exhibitions throughout the US. Missie’s work has been featured in The Artist’ Magazine and was published in Splash 5: The Glory of Color.

Missie states that she had a wonderful board during her term as president from 1988-89. “A lot was happening across the state and there was much interest and support for watercolor.” WSNC’s membership grew from two hundred to seven hundred and the treasury expanded from $2,000 to $20,000. Four programs were hosted each year: two juried exhibitions, winter educational meeting and summer paint-in. The summer paint-in was a free form program with an invited workshop instructor. “We met wherever was beautiful to paint--which in NC was from the mountains to the coast. I wish we still had that program”, comments Missie.

During Missie’s presidency, Fred Good wrote a grant proposal. For the first time in ten years, since Lotte Calhoun’s presidency, WSNC received grant money which Nancy Taylor and Ann Salisbury converted into “Waterworks”, an educational slide program that showed different members’ methods of working in watercolor. “There was a lot of fun and a lot of hard work accomplished during my presidency”, Missie says in closing.

"Peace"