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December Issue 2004
South Carolina
State Museum in Columbia, SC, Features Works by Upstate Artists
Artworks by ten Upstate artists is being showcased in the exhibit,
TRIENNIAL 2004, on view at the South Carolina State Museum
in Columbia, SC, through Feb. 27, 2005.
Debbie R. Cooke of Liberty, SC; Pati English of Seneca, SC; Matthew
N. Kargol of Clemson, SC; Russell Biles and Alice Ballard Munn
of Greenville, SC; Doug L. McAbee and Jane Allen Nodine of Spartanburg,
SC; and Tom Stanley, Mike Lavine and Elizabeth C. Melton of Rock
Hill, SC, will have a variety of artwork shown in the exhibition.
Debbie R. Cooke, photography instructor at the Fine Arts Center
in Greenville, is a member of the Educational Advisory Committee
for the Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities. Cooke has
studied abroad in Cortona, Italy and has served as a consultant
for the Polariod Education Program in Cambridge, MA.
Basket weaver and instructor Pati English has been a past Featured
Artist of the Month at both the South Carolina Botanical Gardens
and the South Carolina Artisans Center, English won third place
in this year's North Carolina Basketmakers Association Convention
in the flat reed basket category.
Before coming to South Carolina, Matthew N. Kargol recently taught
high school art classes and served on the Art and Architecture
committee for the University of Iowa. This spring, he was awarded
the Clemson University Department of Art Fellowship.
Being displayed in TRIENNIAL for his third time, Russell
Biles' ceramics are currently being displayed at the Ferrin Gallery
at SOFA Chicago and the Fuller Museum of Art in Massachusetts.
Biles has served as a guest DJ for NPR's World Cafe art
show and has participated in Charlotte, NC's Metrolina AIDS project
art auction since 1990.
Alice Ballard Munn is presently an instructor of art at Christ
Church Episcopal School and also teaches ceramics at the Governor's
School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville. Munn's work
has been part of collections at the Resen International Ceramic
Colony Collection in Macedonia and the American Embassy in Portugal.
Doug L. McAbee is currently an adjunct professor at his alma mater,
Winthrop University. McAbee's painted sculptures have been featured
in many juried art shows and his work has been commissioned for
permanent collections at Fair Oak Elementary School in Westminster,
SC and Winthrop University.
Jane Allen Nodine's digital drawings have been shown in exhibits
across the nation and will be shown in her fourth TRIENNIAL.
Nodine is currently gallery director and professor of art at the
University of South Carolina-Spartanburg. She has performed research
in Italy and Great Britain and has taught abroad in Milan, Venice,
Florence, and Rome.
Tom Stanley is currently an associate professor of art and design
and director of galleries at Winthrop University. Stanley's art
has been seen abroad at the Furor et La Galerie du Marché
in Lausanne, Switzerland and the Musée de la Halle Saint
Pierre in Paris, France. His work returns to TRIENNIAL
for the second time after being shown in the 1998 show.
Mike Lavine, an assistant professor of art at Winthrop University,
has been featured in exhibitions across the southeast as well
as in Illinois, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC. Lavine
was recently awarded the regional Artist Grant from the Arts and
Science Council in Charlotte, NC.
Elizabeth C. Melton, an adjunct professor at Winthrop University,
is currently working on her MFA in sculpture at the university
and is also an art instructor for Rock Hill Parks, Recreation
and Tourism. Melton's sculptures have been featured in the Sumter
Gallery of Art and in 2001 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Contemporary
Art Exhibition.
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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