March Issue 2002
Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC, Features Annual Waccamaw Arts and Crafts Guild
Alex Powers
The always popular Waccamaw Arts and Crafts Guild Annual Juried Show will open at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC, Mar. 2 and continue through Mar. 29, 2002. Mana D.C. Hewitt, art instructor and director of the McMaster Gallery at the University of SC in Columbia, will judge the 81 works juried into the exhibition and award $2,900 in prize monies. She will discuss the exhibition and her award choices at 6:30pm, Mar. 2.
Robin Salmon, curator of sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens, was the exhibition juror. She made her selections from more than 200 slides submitted by artists from throughout the Grand Strand area, as well as other parts of SC, NC and VA. Awards to be presented include the Rebecca Bryan Best in Show Award for $1,000; a first place award of $750 in honor of Fred Lyon, a Guild board member who recently passed away; a second place award of $500; a third place award of $250, and the Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture Award of $400. Three honorable mention recipients will also be named.
This show, which includes works in oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, collage, mixed media, photography and sculpture, marks the fifth annual Guild juried show the Museum has hosted since its opening. The Museum also houses the Waccamaw Arts and Crafts Guild Permanent Collection, a body of works the Guild collected in the years 1970 through 1980 by purchasing award winning pieces from its annual fall exhibition. The Guild donated that collection to the Museum when it opened in 1997. With approximately 150 current members, the Guild was founded in 1969 to encourage fine arts and crafts in the community. It meets the second Thursday of each month at the Myrtle Beach Trinity Episcopal Church at 7pm. Interested persons with questions can call Phyllis Dunn at 843/238-4628.
Mar. 17 will be" Free Sunday at the Museum" for this exhibit when the public is invited to visit at no charge, and a free docent talk is provided for the exhibition as well as the Museum's permanent collections.
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