Feature Articles


February 2000 Issue

Two New Exhibits at Burroughs - Chapin Art Museum

The Burroughs Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC, will be having two exhibits on view from Feb. 1 through Mar. 12. Gullah and African American Art, History and Artifacts will feature the work of Gullah and African American Artists and Carolynne Miller will be showing her collages and assemblages in an exhibit entitled Remnants, Relics and Wishbones.

Gullah and African American Art, History and Artifacts will feature the work which reflects the art, history and artifacts of Gullah and African Americans of SC.

This exhibit will present a collection of one-of-a-kind, hand-made Gullah dolls designed and made by Zenobia K. Washington. According to the artists, "each doll is created in honor of a person whose thoughts or deed have helped to inspire [her] in her lifetime." Also included in this exhibit will be Gullah story quilts created by Vermelle "Bunny" Rodrigues, such as Gullah Ooman, a quilt that depicts the origin of man, life in Africa before the Europeans arrived and the enslavement of African people.

Vennie Deas Moore will present an exhibit of photographs from the seafood industry of McClellanville, SC. These works depict oystermen, shrimpers and crabbers at work as well as seafood dockworkers and others at work at the seafood trade. Baskets from a private collection of sea grass or sweet grass baskets will be on display as well. These contemporary baskets, made in Mt. Pleasant, SC, descend from an ancient African Folk art that was introduced in Carolina in the late 17th Century.

Finally, the exhibit will include images from a recently published book Black American Series, Georgetown County, South Carolina as well as both contemporary and historic photographs by local writer and photographer Ramona La Roche. There will be a book signing at the opening reception and La Roche's book will be on sale in the Museum Store throughout the exhibit.

Remnants, Relics and Wishbones is an exhibit of collages and assemblages by Carolynne Miller. Her work responds to the social, political and cultural environment and addresses various aspects of the human condition, oftentimes incorporating objects we abandon. For the artist, "there is beauty in the texture of worn surfaces and cast-off debris."

Carolynne Miller

Miller's exhibit will include a recent project entitled Burgess, the Legacy, a story quilt based on the memory and history of the Burgess Community in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Miller received her Masters in Fine Arts in Visual Art from Vermont College, Montpelier. She has taught art in the Montgomery County Community College in Blueball, PA and more recently at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC.

For more info check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call 843/238-2510.

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