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May Issue 2007
2007 Piccolo Spoleto Invitational Features Works by Mary Walker
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents Mary Walker Invitational Exhibition: Variations on a Theme, featuring works by Mary Walker, a John's Island, SC, painter and printmaker, who is this year's Piccolo Spoleto Spotlight Series poster artist. The exhibit will be on view at the Footlight Players Theatre, in Charleston, SC, from May 28 through June 10, 2007. Using singing birds and butterflies, Walker produced collages depicting the symbolic aspects of the concert series that illustrates "Opera is for Everyone".
Walker was born in New York City. Her family moved south to Tryon, NC, when she was five. In college Walker majored in mathematics, but took as many art courses as possible. After college she taught math in New York and while there took courses at the Art Students League. It was then that Walker began her lifetime commitment to art. As a narrative painter, her main interest is with the figure.
Currently Walker lives with her husband and three dogs on Johns Island where she has a painting and printmaking studio. In the last several years she has made trips to Italy, Ireland, and to Provincetown, MA, to work and vacation. She has exhibited frequently in the Southeast as well as nationally and internationally. Her work has been represented in several galleries including The Bus Stop Gallery in Columbia, SC, Lime Blue in Charleston, Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Mary Praytor in Greenville, SC, Julie Heller in Provincetown, MA, Maralyn Wilson in Birmingham, AL, and the Watson Gallery in Atlanta, GA. Walker has received several grants from the South Carolina Arts Commission and the LQAGP and is the 2006 winner of the Griffith Lowcountry Artist's Award. She has been invited to teach and work in many print studios, both in the US and in Italy. In the last three years Walker has organized exhibitions of The Scrolls, an anti-war project involving both national and international artists.
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