May Issue 2000
Camden Art Association Honors Show Features Works of Four Winners
The Camden Art Association's Honors Show, featuring the works of four artists, will be exhibited through May 31 in the Bassett Gallery of the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County in Camden, SC.
The artists who captured the top awards for the Camden Art Association's 22nd Annual Membership Show held this past December comprise the Honors Show. Those artists are Nancy Williams Rogers, Betty Lou Williams, Betty Waldkirch, and Burton Gale.
Winning the first place award, Nancy Williams Rogers is a portrait painter and member of the Portrait Society of America. Born in Augusta, GA, Rogers graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in commercial art. She worked as a civilian illustrator for the United States Army Signal Corps at Ft. Gordon, GA. Rogers has studied under American portrait painters John Howard Sanden and Roberta Carter Clark.
Betty Lou Williams garnered the second place award. Born in Marietta, GA, she grew up in Sandford, NC, and received an AB Degree from James Madison College in VA. After serving in the Red Cross during World War II, she and her husband, Clyde, moved to Camden in 1950. Williams says, "I have been fascinated by drawing and painting from the moment I could hold a pencil. Watercolors, acrylics, and pastels also provide means to enjoy depicting things, people, and places around me." Williams is "inspired to create pen and ink drawings of Camden's historical sites and buildings" that were made into "Camden Notes", sold locally for 30 years.
The third place award went to Betty Sensing Waldkirch, a native of Old Hickory, TN, and graduate of Saint Thomas School of Nursing. After moving to Camden in 1965 with husband Richard, Waldkirch renewed her lifelong interest in art by taking classes in oil and acrylic techniques. In 1982 she broadened her scope with watercolor studies and has continued to study that medium with various instructors. While flowers are her preferred subject matter, "my watercolors cover a veritable bouquet of subjects, ranging from still lifes to landscapes." Waldkirch's work is in corporate and private collections around the Southeast. She has received numerous awards and has been featured in one-person shows. In addition, she has also exhibited in juried shows including the SC Watercolor Society Membership Show and the Columbia Museum of Art watercolor exhibit, Southern Styles.
Sculptor Burton Gale captured the popular vote award. A Camden resident for 26 years, he is a native of Vermont. After retiring from a career in the United States Air Force and later as a teacher, Gale is enjoying considerable recognition as a sculptor for his animalier bronzes. He is also producing welded metal constructions and ceramic works. Gale has exhibited in Vermont, New York, Texas, South Carolina, Massachusetts, and Louisiana. Currently he has bronze animalier sculptures in Myrtle Beach's Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild juried show and the Thirteenth International Exhibition on Animals in Art, Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine in Baton Rouge. His work has been accepted at Hilton Head Art League's National Juried Exhibition 2000 and the Academic Artists Association's 50th National Exhibition of Contemporary Realism in Art.
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