Holt A. Harris is an artist and teacher living in Gastonia, North Carolina. She holds a degree in Art Education K-12 from Sacred Heart College in Belmont, North Carolina and a Master’s Degree in Secondary Education with a concentration in painting from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Holt taught Public High School art for 13 years and has been teaching at Gaston Day School since 2007. Holt received the Excellence in Teaching Award from Gaston Day in 2011 and the Scholastic Regional Art Educator of the Year Award in 2019. She is presently teaching Art Honor and Upper School Art Classes at Gaston Day School and teaches oil painting to students and adults in an afternoon program at Gaston Day School.

 

Holt’s drawings and paintings have been on display in the The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Schiele Museum of Gastonia, PKW Gallery at Gaston Day, Rausch Gallery in Dallas, NC and the NCAEA Conference in Raleigh and has exhibited work in numerous juried shows receiving Best in Show, Merit Awards and Honorable Mentions. Most recently, she received the National Teacher Medal from the Alliance for Art and Writing Competition and Regional Master Teacher award from Scholastic Art and Writing.  She is a member of the ArtPopCLT class of 2020. Her painting will be on billboards, newsstands in Uptown CLT and digital charging stations at the CLT airport.  She is a member of the Gaston County Art Guild, National Art Honors Association, and NCAEA.

 

Holt is married to Randy Harris and they have 2 children, Miles Harris and his wife Carolina and son, Noah and dog Nemo and Carter Harris and her partner Kevin Shaver and their dog Piper..

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  Holt's favorite saying,

  " Everything is harder than it looks and takes longer than you think."

                                                                                     

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