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July Issue 2008
Blue Ridge Arts Center in Seneca, SC,
Offers Works by Liz Smith-Cox
The Blue Ridge Arts Center in Seneca, SC, is presenting the exhibit, Liz Smith-Cox - Art & Soul, featuring distinctive paintings and drawings of this award-winning artist. Liz Smith-Cox. The exhibit will be on view through July 7, 2008.
A native of Washington, NC, Smith-Cox has resided in upstate Central, SC, where she has had an art studio for the past 38 years. She received her BA in Art from Meredith College in Raleigh, NC, and her M.Ed from Clemson University. Her studies have continued with Independent Watercolor Study in England and workshops with outstanding watercolorists Marbury Brown, Gerald Brommer, Carole Barnes, Catherine Chaing Liu, George James, Al Stine, and John Salminen.
Smith-Cox has had wide and varied teaching experiences including voluntary teaching in elementary schools that her children attended where there was no art program. She has conducted many watercolor workshops for both the National and South Carolina Art Education Associations, and has been a volunteer watercolor and drawing teacher for Clemson University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. In addition, she has taught at all public school grade levels and has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina and at Clemson University. In 1976, she was named the South Carolina Teacher of the Year, the first and only art teacher to have received this award. In 2003, she received the Elizabeth Verner O'Neill Award for Arts in Education.
Having been featured in many one-person art exhibits, group exhibits and juried shows, Smith-Cox's main medium is watercolor. She is a Member with Excellence of the South Carolina Watermedia Society and her other memberships include the Anderson Artists Guild, the Upstate Visual Arts organization, the Anderson Arts Council, and the Blue Ridge Arts Council. Her work is represented in the Bay 3 Artisan Gallery at the Anderson Arts Center and her watercolor, Honduran Doorway won the Best 2-D Art Award in the 2007 Blue Ridge Arts Council Juried Show.
Works to be exhibited in the Liz Smith-Cox - Art & Soul will include groupings of her works such as self-portraits from "way back when" up until now, travel series with works from England, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Santorini, Africa, and the Honduras series, plus figurative compositions exhibiting her love of doing people. Her unique style and versatility make this a must-see exhibit beyond verbal description.
For further information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Center at 864/882-2722 or visit (www.blueridgeartscenter.com).
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