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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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