Boni Arendt grew up in eastern North Carolina, studied Art Education, and graduated with a BFA in Painting and Drawing from East Carolina University. She moved to England for a year where she painted portraits and studied Interdisciplinary Design at Berkshire College of Art and Design. She was fascinated by architecture and design as she traveled to Egypt, Amsterdam, France and Italy.

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Back in the United States, Boni opened The Red Rooster Gallery where she began selling art and teaching art lessons. She has since then acquired a Masters in Education. She served as an art teacher at Champion Learning Academy in Morrisville, NC  for 3 years where she taught ages 4-High School, afterschool, summer camp, and specialty art lessons for 3 years. Boni currently enjoys oil painting of contemporary figurative themes and landscapes where she inserts her inspiration from Italian Renaissance Art. She also continues to produce murals, portrait commissions, as well as teach painting and drawing lessons and workshops in her home studio.

 

                                     ART EXHIBITIONS & RECOGNITION

Chowan Art Gallery                                                                                                    Edenton, NC

Colonial Arts Center                                                                                                South Hill, VA

The Cotton Company                                                                                         Wake Forest, NC 

Red Rooster Gallery                                                                                            Wake Forest, NC

Magnolia Marketplace                                                                                                Raleigh, NC

Jill Flink Fine Art Gallery                                                                                             Raleigh, NC

Grayshot Gallery                                                                                              Grayshot, England

Jelly-legg'd Chicken Gallery                                                                          Reading, England

Splinters Cafe                                                                                                          Bristol, England 

Edge of the World Gallery                                                                                            Atlanta, GA

Cafe Tu Tu Tango                                                                                                            Atlanta, GA

Joyner Library, East Carolina University                                                            Greenville, NC

                                                                                                           

EAST CAROLINA SCHOOL OF ART, Greenville, NC                       Outstanding Senior 

 

 SPRING DAYS ART FESTIVAL, Cary, NC                               WRAL NEWS Celebrity Award