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April Issue 2003
Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC, Features New Exhibitions for Spring
Spring comes to Myrtle Beach, SC, at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum with From the Garden, a collection of innovative works inspired by the garden and the arrival of the season. Noted South Carolina artist Alice Ballard Munn will be presenting earthenware ceramics and monotype prints; she will be joined by Vermont fabric artist Anna Ferri and emerging garden sculptor Aaron Pierce of Georgetown, SC. The exhibition will be on view from Apr. 3 through June 8, 2003.
The Museum will also be offering the exhibition, Horry & Georgetown County High Schools Juried Exhibition IV, which will be on view from Apr. 3 through May 4, 2003.
Alice
Ballard Munn
Born in Florence, SC, Alice Ballard Munn grew up traveling the world as a child in an Air Force family. After earning her masters degree in art at the University of Michigan, she came to join her parents in their retirement in Myrtle Beach. She taught art at Coastal Carolina before it became a University, and then moved on to become the first curator of education at Charleson, SC's Gibbes Museum of Art. It was there she discovered and began to explore her fascination with clay sculpture, which has now been her passion for 30 years. Currently living in Greenville, SC, she teaches art in a private school as well as at the Governor's School for Arts and Humanities.
Munn's challenge is to balance her love of art education with her family and her career as a professional artist. With fascinating credentials, including a Fullbright for study in India and an International Ceramic Colony invitation to Macedonia, her recognition is growing beyond the Southeast into national circles. She has served as South Carolina's representative to the American Crafts Council and has been included in numerous national and regional juried and invitational exhibitions, as well as solo shows. She has conducted workshops and served as an artist in residence on many occasions as well as being actively involved in a wide variety of community-centered artistic endeavors. Munn's work is in the collections of many southeastern institutions, such as Charlotte's Mint Museum of Art and South Carolina's State Art Collection. In the midst of her demanding schedule, Munn finds "my garden is a place where I restore my soul. In my life, nature has become 'the thread that binds'."
Anna
Ferri
A native of Britain, Anna Ferri has studied art in Rome and the Far East - a background that brings an air of the exotic to her luminous fabric appliqué tapestries. Accolades for her works include creating the banner for the 1996 International Women's Conference in Beijing, China, as well as being included in prominent corporate and hotel collections, such as General Electric and Caesar's Palace. She has created more than 700 tapestries in the course of her 25-year artistic career. From the Garden will include 29 recent works. Nature has always influenced her designs, but more so since she has settled in rural Vermont to restore an old home and plant hundreds of trees.
Aaron Pierce
Munn and Ferri will be joined by "new kid on the block" Aaron Pierce, who just eight years ago, as a high school student, won a statewide competition to design an ornament for the Governor's Christmas tree. His stainless steel angel ornament was described by an official for the ceremony as "by far the most beautiful and most original" received. While following in the footsteps of his father who owns a machine and welding shop, Pierce has discovered the artistry in sculpting iron. Selftaught, he has participated in several Brookgreen Gardens' Southern Living Expositions, where he has displayed metal sculptures for the garden. Brookgreen purchased his butterfly bench for its children's garden. He has created four original works for this exhibition.
A showcase for the artistic talents of area students, the Horry & Georgetown County High Schools Juried Exhibition IV will feature works selected by popular area artist Dixie Dugan and noted Myrtle Beach sculptor Robert Sadelmire. About $700 in prize monies will be awarded to students during the opening reception. All nine Horry County high schools and Waccamaw and Georgetown high schools of Georgetown County will be represented with an array of widely diverse works and media reflecting teenagers' eclectic approaches to life. The show, which was coordinated by Carolina Forest art teacher Reatha Wilkins, has been sponsored by the Waccamaw Arts and Crafts Guild for the last four years to inspire students to excel in the visual arts and to provide an opportunity for young artists to prepare works for exhibition in a professional setting.
For more information, check
our SC Institutional Gallery listings; call the museum at 843/238-2510,
or on the web at (www.B-CArtMuseum.org).
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