MURAL AND MOSAIC PROJECTS
2008
An outdoor twelve foot diameter (113 square foot) marble mosaic
walk to be completed as a memorial to John Lennon
Hard
Rock Park, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
2007 "Creatures
Both Small and Great," a smalti and porcelain mosaic mural - 7 feet high by 51 feet wide (357 square feet)
The Ashworth, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
2006 &
2007 Two Italian glass mosaic murals of Saint Philip and Saint James (each measuring 9-1/2 feet high by 4 feet wide),
a mosaic altar and a mosaic baptismal font in Iglesia Episcopal San Felipe y Santiago, San Jose, Costa Rica.
2007
Assisted California artist Kim Emerson on the public art mosaic project installed at Southwest Human Development in Phoenix,
Arizona.
2005 “Smoke and Steel,”
a 110 feet long outdoor mosaic mural commissioned by the City of Salisbury, North Carolina. Funded in part by
a grant from The Blanche & Julian Robertson Family Foundation.
2000 & 2001 Assisted with the fresco completed by Benjamin F. Long, IV
at
the Civic Center, Statesville, North Carolina.
1998
Assisted with the fresco completed by Benjamin F. Long, IV
at The Chapel of the Prodigal at Montreat College, Montreat,
North Carolina.
1998 & 1997 Assisted with the fresco completed by Benjamin F. Long, IV
at
the Transamerica
Building, Charlotte,
North Carolina
1996
Assisted with the fresco completed by Benjamin F. Long, IV
at
The Law Enforcement
Center, Charlotte,
North Carolina
SPECIAL
PROJECTS
2007
Worked on a mission construction team in Germania,
Costa
Rica
2005 & 2006 Managed
a mission construction team in San Jose, Costa Rica
2005
Designed side chapel at Iglesia Episcopal San Felipe y
Santiago, San Jose, Costa Rica
2005
Juror, “Summer Art Explosion,” Stanly Art Guild
Albemarle, North Carolina
2004
Juror, Angels for Salisbury Project, Salisbury, North Carolina
2003
& 2004 Orchestrated restoration of the Old English Cemetery
Salisbury, North Carolina
BOARDS
AND COMMITTEES
2006 & 2007 Branding
& Wayfinding Steering Committee, City of Salisbury
Salisbury, North Carolina
2005 to 2006 Board
of Directors, Waterworks Visual Arts Center
Salisbury, North Carolina
2005 to 2007 Chairman,
Exhibition Committee
Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, North Carolina
2002 to 2006 Master Plan Implementation
Committee
Downtown
Salisbury, Inc., Salisbury, North Carolina
2005 & 2006 Vestry, St. Luke's
Episcopal Church, Salisbury, North Carolina
2004 & 2005 Stain Glass
Restoration Committee
St. Luke's Episcopla Church, Salisbury, North Carolina
2004 Search
Commitee for Executive Director
Waterworks
Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, North Carolina
2003 & 2004 Chairman, Downtown Salisbury Public Art Committee
Downtown Salisbury, Inc., Salisbury,
North Carolina
INTERNATIONAL
PAINTING & MOSAIC TRIPS
2008 Rome,
Italy
2006 San Jose, Costa
Rica
2004
La Paz, Bolivia
2002
Paris and Provence,
France
2001
Siena, Florence,
and San Gimignano, Italy
2000
Languedoc and Provence,
France
1999
Fiesole, Florence,
and Siena, Italy
GRANTS
AWARDED
2006 Grant awarded
by the Arts & Science Council of Charlotte-
Mecklenburg, Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina to attend the
Creative Capital Professional Development Retreat at the
McColl
Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
2006 Grant awarded
by the St. Luke's Church Foundation, Inc.of
Salisbury,
North Carolina for the completion of mosaic murals at
Iglesia
Episcopal Todos los Santos, San Jose, Costa Rica
2005 Grant awarded
by The Blanche & Julian Robertson Family
Foundation,
Salisbury, North Carolina for the completion of the
mosaic mural "Smoke and Steel" in Salisbury, North Carolina
1993 Regional Emerging
Artist Grant awarded by the
North Carolina Arts Council and the Arts & Science Council-
Charlotte/Mecklenburg, Inc.
ADDITIONAL
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
2007 Best
Outdoor Space Improvement for "Smoke and Steel" mosaic
North Carolina Main Street Award, NC Department of Commerce
Raleigh, North Carolina
2006
Historic Preservation Award for mosaic mural "Smoke and Steel"
Historic Salisbury Foundation, Inc., Salisbury, North Carolina
2006
Public Art Award for mosaic mural "Smoke and Steel"
Salisbury Community Appearance Commission, Salisbury, NC
2005 Honorarium to lecture
at Stanly Arts Guild, Albemarle, North Carolina
2004 Honorarium to lecture at Waterworks Visual Arts Center
Salisbury, North Carolina
2002
Honorable Mention Cash Award, “Spirit of America”
National Art
Competition, Tara Materials, Inc., Lawrenceville, Georgia
2002
Honorarium to exhibit at Queens University,
Charlotte, North Carolina
2002
Honorarium to exhibit at Pfeiffer University
Misenheimer, North Carolina
1994 Honorarium to exhibit at Davidson College,
Davidson, North Carolina
1994 Honorarium
to exhibit at "First Night Charlotte '94"
Arts & Science Council-Charlotte/Mecklenburg
Charlotte,
North Carolina
ONE
PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2004
Woodson & Osborne Galleries, Waterworks Visual Arts Center,
Salisbury, NC
2003
The Queens Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2002
Watkins Gallery, Queens University of Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
2002
Grace and Cameron West Gallery, Pfeiffer University, Misenheimer, NC
1999
by hand gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1994
Union Gallery, Davidson College,
Davidson, North Carolina
1993
Ursa Major Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
TWO
PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2003
Tyler White Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
2001
Fine Frame Gallery, Salisbury, North Carolina
1999
The Studio at Kothe Howard, Charlotte, North
Carolina
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Saving
the Places You Love, Long View Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2007 Dimensions
2007 Nat'l Juried Exhibition
AAWS
Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
2006 Friends'
Juried Exhibition, United Arts Gallery, Lexingotn, NC
2006 8 x 10
and Other Small Work, Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2006 Opening
Exhibition, The Collectors Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2005 Reflections
of the Divine, Grace Episcopal Church, Lexington, NC
2005
33rd Annual Competition for North
Carolina Artists
Fayetteville Museum
of Art, Fayetteville,
NC
2005
Representing Representation, Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2005
The Art of Solitude, Tyler White Gallery, Greensboro, NC
2004
Winter Show, Green
Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC
2003
Body Language, Moring
Arts Center, Asheboro, NC
2003
Body Language, The Art
Center, Lexington,
NC
2003
Grand Opening Exhibition, Waterworks
Visual Arts Center,
Salisbury, NC
2002
Small Works Art Exhibition, The Art Center Gallery, Lexington, NC
2001
Still Lifes, Iocovozzi Fine Art, Savannah,
GA
2001
Traditional Painters, CCB Gallery, Durham,
NC
2000
Carolina Representationalists, The Queens Gallery, Charlotte,
NC
1999
A Visual Harvest, Museum
of Art, Dallas, NC
1998
Life Forms in the Human Dimension, Old Fire House Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1998
Figurative Drawings and Prints, Studio at Kothe Howard, Charlotte, NC
1997
Images of Our Past, The Charlotte
Museum of History,
Charlotte, NC
1996
Presenting, Sawtooth Center for the Visual Arts, Winston-Salem, NC
1996
Paintings and Drawings From Life, Spirit
Square Ctr. for the Arts, Charlotte,
NC
1995
Freedom of Expression, Spirit
Square Center for the Arts,
Charlotte, NC
1994
Flight of Fantasy, Hodges
Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1994
13th Annual Henley Southeastern
Spectrum, Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem,NC
1993
August Invitational, Ursa Major Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1992
Black on White Nat’l Juried Exhibition, Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem, NC
1991
A Summer of Lithography with Master Printer Heather Hoover,
Spirit Square
Center for the Arts, Charlotte,
NC
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
"Artist Robert Crum Scores Mural
Project at Hard Rock Park in Myrtle
Beach," Salisbury Post Time Out, p. 6, February 21, 2008, Salisbury,
North Carolina.
"Robert Crum Completes Mural in N.
Myrtle Beach," Salisbury Post Time
Out, p. 9, January 3, 2008, Salisbury, North Carolina.
Younger, Mary Ward, "Preview: April
Shower of Events," Metro Magazine,
p. 64, April 2007, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Palmer, Sara, "Feliz Navidad" and
"Agradecidamente celebration de la
diversidad de los ninos de todo el dios," El Pueblo, pp. 1-3,
December
2006, Salisbury, North Carolina.
Edwards, Denisha, "Friends Juried
Exhibition Is on Display," The Dispatch,
pp. 6A &7A, November 23, 2006, Lexington, North Carolina.
Boone, Jan, "Salisbury-Rowan Holds
Natural Appeal for Artists," Rowan
Business, pp. 33 & 34, March/April 2006, Salisbury, North Carolina.
McNally, Jim, "Depot Street Mural
Dedicated," Salisbury Post, pp. 1A & 7A,
October 29, 2005, Salisbury, North Carolina.
Dodd, Robert V., Ford, Russell
W., and Lawing, Sr., T.R., 90 Years on
Hawthorne, Jostens, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2005, pp. 1 & 2.
"Salisbury's New 110-foot Mosaic Mural,"
Rowan County Explorer, p. 8
Fall/Winter 2005-2006, Salisbury, North Carolina.
Turner, Cherie L., “Pedacitos
de Azulejo,” La Voz, pp. 1 & 3, August 2005, Salisbury,
North Carolina.
Scarvey, Katie, “Tile by Tile,”
Salisbury Post, pp. 1B & 6B, June 26, 2005, Salisbury,
North Carolina.
Lyerly, Laura, “Robert Crum,
Following Dreams,” Yadkin Valley
Living Magazine,
p. 16, March-April
2005, East Bend, North Carolina.
“Stanly Arts Guild to Study
Oil Techniques,” The Stanly News & Press, p. 6A, January 2,
2005, Albemarle, North Carolina.
Ford, Emily, “It Starts With
the Children,” Salisbury Post, pp. 1B
& 2B, October 30,
2004, Salisbury, North Carolina.
Wineka, Mark, “Crum Contracted
for Mosaic,” Salisbury Post, pp. 1C &
3C, September
25, 2004, Salisbury, North Carolina.
Scarvey, Katie, “East Square: Salisbury’s
New Cultural District,” pp. 1B & 5B, Salisbury
Post, August 8, 2004, Salisbury, North Carolina.
Wineka, Mark, “Mosaic Mural
Design OK’d,” Salisbury Post, pp.
1C & 3C, August 7,
2004, Salisbury, North Carolina.
Wineka, Mark “Setting History
Straight…Again,” Salisbury Post,
pp. 1A & 3A, March
19, 2004, Salisbury, North Carolina.
Scarvey, Katie, “Beauty in the
Ordinary,” Salisbury Post, pp. 1B &
2B,
February 8, 2004, Salisbury, North Carolina.
Doss-Raines, Jill, “Arts United
Exhibit Explores the Human Form,” The
Dispatch, p. 5A, April 3, 2003, Lexington, North Carolina.
Doss-Raines, Jill, “Passion Drives Salisbury
Painter,” The Dispatch, p. 9A,
October 17, 2002, Lexington, North Carolina.
Brown, Linda Louise, “New Art:
The Real and the Invented,” Creative Loafing, pp. 55 &
56, April 17, 2002, Charlotte,
North Carolina.
Higbee, Dale, “Exhibit Showcases
Fine Local Art,” Salisbury Post, p. 4B,
November 20, 2001, Salisbury, North Carolina.
Brown, Linda Louise. "The Arts: Best
in Show," Creative Loafing, pp. 32 & 33, Nov. 18,
2000, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Fortson, Olivia and Jameson, Tonya.
"Night Moves: In Search of the Artistic,"
The Charlotte Observer, pp. 22E & 23E, November 5, 1999,
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Toppman, Lawrence. "Doing Them Justice,"
The Charlotte Observer, p 8F,
January 5, 1997, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Crum, Bob. "The Artists of Elizabeth," The Charlotte Observer, pp. 1R-4R, October 16,
1994, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Seewright, Sandy. "Look for October
Treats at Friday's Gallery Crawl," Break, p. 22,
September 29, 1993, Charlotte,
North Carolina.
SELECTED
VIDEOS
"Informe Once," Channel 11, February
3, 2006, San Jose, Costa Rica.
"The San Mateo Story," Episcopal Diocese
of North Carolina, January 2006, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Alhuas, Nicole, "Historic Salisbury's
Cemetery," Channel 6 News, May 7, 2004, NBC6/WCNC-TV, Charlotte, North Carolina.
SELECTED
CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Brown-Forman, Louisville, Kentucky
City of Salisbury, Salisbury, North
Carolina
Crawford-Henderson, Inc., Goldsboro, North Carolina
F & M Financial Center, Salisbury, North Carolina
Hammer, Cox & Simon, Dubuque, Iowa
Hard
Rock Park, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Hospice of the Piedmont, High Point,
North Carolina
Iglesia Episcopal Costarricense, San Jose, Costa Rica
Iglesia Episcopal San Felipe y Santiago,
San Jose, Costa Rica
North Cole Pottery, Sanford, North Carolina
Planning Department, City of Salisbury, North Carolina
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church,
Salisbury, North Carolina
St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance
Company, Charlotte, North Carolina
Salisbury Symphony Guild, Salisbury, North Carolina
The Ashworth, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
United States Senate Office of U.S.
Senator Elizabeth Dole, Salisbury, North Carolina
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
British Association of Modern Mosaic
International Guild of Realism (juried
membership)
Oil Painters of America (juried membership)
Portrait Society of America
The Society of American Mosaic Artists
REPRESENTED
BY
The Collectors Gallery, 323 Blake St., Raleigh, NC
27601
The Little Gallery, 16430 Booker T.
Washington Hwy., Moneta, VA 24121
Tyler White Gallery, State Street,
Greensboro, NC
EDUCATION
1977 to 1979 Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State Univ.
Cleveland,
Ohio
1977 Bachelor
of Arts, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
