Feature Articles


September Issue 2001

Pickens County Museum in Pickens, SC, Features 5th Annual Birdhouse Show & Sale

They're back and they're better than ever before! The Fifth Annual Celebrity Birdhouse Show & Sale is on again at the Pickens County Museum of Art & History in Pickens, SC. From Sept. 1-28, visitors can peruse and bid on this entertaining collection of "birdhouses" representing the heritage, humor, pride and promise of our region. The exhibit will end on Sept. 28 with a gala "Auction Party", to benefit the Pickens County Museum.

Thirty-four artists, craftspersons, businesspersons, community leaders and birdlovers have donated 28 of the most outstanding "birdhouses" you may have ever seen. Included in that list are Pickens County Assistant Administrator Lynn Fisher; Pickens County Councilman Ron Harrison and his wife, artist & educator, Sandy Harrison; Ken Martin for Celestial Flowers of Liberty; Shannon Paddie for Small Details event planning services; and David Young, Director for the Easley Housing Authority and his talented wife, the artist Judy Young.

This year's artist & craftsperson's roster includes Martha Betterin, Liz Smith-Cox with help from her husband, attorney H. Morris Cox, C. Allen Coleman who is also director of the Pickens County Museum, a collaborative piece from the marriage of Jamie Davis & Ellen Kochansky, Pati English, Rob Gentry, Glenda Guion, Griz & Helen Hockwalt for Grizzly Forge Studio, Pat Kabore of EXODUS, Bob Lipscomb, Judy Lane Mann and her Husband Dr. Robert Mann, Gale McKinley, Ron Mitchell, Maggie Moran, Roz Porter, Jo Ann & Bill Taylor, Harold Wayne Turner and a grandmother - granddaughter effort from Patty & Katelyn Turner.

Also featured this year will be "birdhouses" from Pickens County Museum Curator & Fiddler's Three musician Ed Bolt, a very special piece for the Central Heritage Society from the talents of Dr. Frank Tainter as well as a bit of Collins Ole Town from the talented Roy Collins.

Plan now to attend the exhibitions closing Auction Party at 7pm on Sept. 28, from which the highest bidder, maybe you, can leave with their chosen birdhouse in hand. The Fifth Annual Celebrity Birdhouse Show & Sale is sponsored in part by Animal Clinic, P.C. of Easley, SC.

For more information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the museum at 864/898-5963 or e-mail at (picmus@co.pickens.sc.us).

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