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December Issue 2004

South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Midlands Artists

Artworks by ten Midlands artists is being showcased in the exhibit, TRIENNIAL 2004, on view at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, SC, through Feb. 27, 2005.

Columbia artists Janet Orselli, Scotty Peek, Julie J, Jacobson, Tyrone Geter, Mana D.C. Hewitt, Jill E. Allen, Lee Sipe, Robert F. Lyon; Newberry, SC, artist Liisa Salosaari Jasinski; and Hartsville, SC, artist Larry Merriman will have a variety of artwork shown in the exhibition.

Janet Orselli is an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina and her installation will be displayed this year in her second TRIENNIAL show. Her art recently has been displayed in the Schopf Gallery on the Lake in Chicago and the Upstairs Gallery in Tryon, NC.

Scotty Peak's drawings have been displayed across the US and have been recently displayed in Columbia's City Art Gallery. Peek is presently employed at the McKissick Museum and is a part-time instructor at the University of South Carolina.

Julie J. Jacobson is a beginning drawing instructor at the University of South Carolina and is a candidate for an MFA in drawing. This summer, Jacobson was awarded a scholarship award by the Penland School of Arts and Crafts in NC to perform research and attend a workshop on drawing.

Tyrone Geter currently teaches drawing and painting at Benedict College and he was included in TRIENNIAL 2001. His work is in many collections, including the White House. Geter also has illustrated many children's books, including White Socks Only, by Evelyn Coleman.

Instructor and McMaster Gallery Director at the University of South Carolina, Mana D.C. Hewitt has authored and designed Prentice Hall's Study Guide to Understanding Art 3rd, 4th and 5th Edition. Hewitt has received the SC Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant three times and her work can be seen in the collection of the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties.

Jill E. Allen is currently an MFA candidate at the University of South Carolina where she is also a graduate teaching assistant. Allen was a resident artist at the Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts in Asheville, NC, and has spent time as a studio assistant at the Penland School of Arts and Crafts this June.

Basket-maker Lee Sipe's work is in the collection of the Mint Museum of Craft + Design in Charlotte, NC. Her baskets of pine needles and pottery have won her such awards as Best in Sculpture at the Renaissance Fair in Darlington, SC, and Best in Show at the SC Crafts Association's ninth annual juried exhibit.

Robert F. Lyon, a professor of art at the University of South Carolina, is a member of the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties Public Art Committee and member of the Columbia Art Studio Project Task Force. Lyon's mixed media sculptures have been featured in many group and solo exhibits.

Liisa Salosaari Jasinski has participated in local projects such as Doors Connecting the Past to the Future and The Palmetto Tree Project. Jasinski was awarded third place in this year's South Carolina Watercolor Society's annual exhibition among other honors.

An assistant professor of art and gallery director at Coker College in Hartsville, SC, Larry Merriman has spent time abroad studying art in Trujillo, Spain and San Cristobal, Mexico. Merriman's mixed media sculptures have also been displayed in the 1992 and 1998 TRIENNIAL shows.

TRIENNIAL 2004 is a collaborative project with the South Carolina Arts Commission.

For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call Paul Matheny at 803/898-4921 or at (www.museum.state.sc.us).


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