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October Issue
2008
Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle
Beach, SC, Features SC Watermedia Society and Folk Art
For the first time in nearly a decade, the South Carolina Watermedia Society's 31st Annual Exhibition will be held at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, in Myrtle Beach, SC, from Oct. 25 through Dec. 31, 2008. The Museum will also host an exhibition of South Carolina Folk Art, opening Oct. 21 and continuing through Dec. 31, 2008.
Thirty of the more than 60 works in the South Carolina Watermedia Society's 31st Annual Exhibition - selected from 150 entries - will receive up to $10,000 in awards during this prestigious juried exhibition. The 30 award-winning pieces will form a traveling exhibit that will visit art galleries and museums around the state.
The society is the only statewide visual arts organization in SC to promote artists who work in watermedia, which include watercolor, acrylic, gouache, casein and mixed media in conjunction with watermedia. The group provides exhibition opportunities, professional development and educational programs. The annual exhibition offers both new and established artists from around the state the opportunity to compete for prize money and to have their work featured in the Society's traveling exhibition, under the supervision of the SC State Museum.
Juror for this year's event is Mark Mehaffey, an award-winning watercolorist, art instructor and lecturer who is also a published author on watermedia. He has been featured in numerous publications as well as in a watermedia guide and showcase, Creative Watercolor Workshop, published by Rockport Publisher.
Barrie Burns Brown
Artists selected for the exhibition include: JoAnne Anderson, Randolph New Armstrong, Trish Arnold, Denise Athanas, Al Beyer, Angela Bradburn, Betty Bramlett, Pollie Bristow, Barbara Brock, Carrie Burns Brown, Arnold Carrouth, Ingrid Carson, Penny Carter, Kathy Causey, Bruce Chandler, Nancy Clayton, Gail Cunningham, Barbara O'Neal Davis, Marilyn Dizikes, Jack Dowis, Vickie Bailey Ebbers, Toni Elkins, Lynda English, Carolyn Epperly, Joe Farmer, Claire Farrell, Jim Finch, Steve Garner, Harriet Goode, Lynn Greer, Jennifer Hamilton, Ann Heard, Taylor Hemple, Anthony Hedrick, Anne Hightower Patterson, Linda Hood, Fran Humphries, Jim Ivey, Judy Bolton Jarrett, Russell Jewell, Peter John Kaniaris, Maura Kenny, Patricia Kilburg, Betty Lane Kornegay, Guy Lipscomb, Cecile Martin, Larry Mauldin, Rose Metz, Sybil Mitchell, Roy Paschal, Jane Popiel, Alex Powers, Betty Robinson, Jeanette "Pink Earth" Ross, Michael Slattery, Barnie Slice, Barbara Stitt, Beti Strobeck, Carole Tinsley, Bill Updegraff, Harrell Whittington, Genie Wilder, Jaclyn Wukela, and Suzanne Zoole.
The Watermedia Society plans to offer lecture and demonstration programs at the Museum during the exhibition, and will also produce a DVD of the juror's critique of the works in the exhibition, which will be available to artists, schools and community groups.
Among the works on view, a large number will be available for purchase. The Museum will also have Watermedia Society art posters available for sale in its Gift Shop.
Folk art, whose roots are closely tied to rural or pre-industrial societies, has long been a part of South Carolina's cultural tradition and, accordingly, holds a significant place in the South Carolina State Museum Collection. In collaboration with that institution, the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum will also host an exhibition of South Carolina Folk Art. A highlight of the exhibition will be a guided tour given by the exhibit's curator, Paul Matheny of the SC State Museum, which will take place Nov. 20, 2008 (time of the tour to be announced).
The term folk art is used to describe objects created primarily for a utilitarian need, yet which also reflect cultural traditions of the community, current popular taste and the artist's unique style. Additionally, folk materials are usually produced by hand labor using traditional materials and process, and its practitioners generally have little or no formal training in fine art traditions. Such works are often characterized by a naive style, in which traditional rules of proportion and perspective may not apply.
Over 50 articles make up the collection traveling to Myrtle Beach from the state museum in Columbia, which contains more than 70,000 artifacts housed in a four-story historic former mill. The exhibit will include both practical items - such as baskets made from grasses or split oak; pottery, stoneware and quilts - and purely decorative pieces, such as paintings, etchings and whimsical items of painted wood or other media.
Among the works to be displayed are such highly recognizable SC forms as sweetgrass basketry, Edgefield pottery and quilts, along with a wide range of other media. These artifacts, which span a period from mid-19th century to the present, rarely travel or are viewed outside the museum in Columbia. Each item is identified with the artist's name, if known, and its county or area of origin. Horry County is represented in the collection by three quilts made by early-20th-century artist Mary Lewis Stevenson. The quilts are created in stylized designs known as turkey tracks, compass and fish patterns.
Neighboring counties, including Williamsburg, Florence, Beaufort and Charleston, are also represented among the items to be displayed.
Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, SC, is partnering with SC Watermedia Society to exhibit 2-D and 3-D art with two exhibitions on view through Nov. 2, 2008. The two new exhibits will be on display at Brookgreen Gardens' Rainey Sculpture Pavilion. Both exhibits are being held in conjunction with the South Carolina Watermedia Society's 31st Annual Exhibition on view at the Franklin G. Burroughs - Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum.
The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum is a wholly nonprofit institution located across from Springmaid Pier at 3100 South Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach. Components of Museum programs are funded in part by support from the City of Myrtle Beach, the Horry County Council and the South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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