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March Issue 2000

The Verner Gallery, in Charleston, SC, Presents Works by Corrie McCallum

The Verner Gallery, the oldest contemporary fine arts gallery in the city of Charleston, SC, is pleased to announce an exhibition entitled, Early and Late, featuring work by Corrie McCallum. The works shown will be ink drawings and fine art prints including lithographs and monotypes. There will be work from three decades ago as well as recent work. The exhibit opens on Mar. 6 and continues through Mar. 31, 2000.

McCallum's long career includes many years of teaching and working in the arts education field. The Charleston community owes a great debt to her for the dedication she gave the Gibbes Museum of Art and other teaching ventures. Her artwork varies from studious illustration to lyrical loose abstractions and has been widely shown including a retrospective at the Gibbes a few years back.

McCallum was born in Sumter, SC, in 1914. She studied art at the University of South Carolina and the Boston Museum School of Fine Art. In 1936, McCallum directed a gallery space for the WPA/Federal Art Project where she exposed school children to works by South Carolina's finest artists.

Over a period of four decades, McCallum held a variety of teaching positions: at the Charleston School of Art (which she founded with husband William Halsey and fellow artist Williard Hirsch, a sculptor), Newberry College in SC, The Telfair Academy in GA, and the Gibbes Art Gallery in Charleston (now the Gibbes Museum of Art). At the same time, she was having major exhibits in places like Charleston, Boston and Zurich, as well as participating in group exhibits throughout the region and country. In 1960, McCallum became the Gibbes Art Gallery's first professional Curator of Art Education, bringing art to over 20,000 children in public schools yearly. In 1971, she accepted a position at the College of Charleston where she taught for eight years and helped establish the fine art print department.

McCallum's first experience with fine art printmaking was made during visits to fellow artist and friend, Jasper Johns, when he was still living on Edisto Island, SC.

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