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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Three
New Exhibitions at the Pickens County Museum of Art & History<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>Join us for a reception to meet the artists on December 12</span></font></i></b><i><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:
italic'><o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> The <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Pickens County Museum of Art & History</span></b>
will be presenting three new exhibitions<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b>from
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>December 12, 2009 through February 11, 2010</span></b>.
Please join us from <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>6:00 until 8:00 p.m. on
December 12</span></b> as we host a reception to meet the artists featured in <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>“April Harrison: Grateful,” “Story, Song, and Image: A
merging of Musical Heritage and Narrative Painting,” </span></b>and<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> “The Up’State of Clay.” </span></b>All three
exhibitions will continue through February 11, 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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name=AdrianaBuggino></a><a name=JeanBurman></a><a name=EvanCharteris></a><a
name=Cheng-KheeChee></a><a name=FrancescoClemente></a><a name=WilliamH.Condit></a><a
name=MicheleCooper></a><a name=SharonCrosbie></a><a name=TheresaR.Einhorn></a><a
name=NitaEngle></a><a name=JeanGrastorf></a><a name=IrwinGreenberg></a><a
name=TonyvanHasselt></a><a name=RayHendershot></a><a name=JohnHulsey></a><a
name=KwanY.Jung></a><a name=BillKerr></a><a name=WillemdeKooning></a><a
name=FrankLaLumia></a><a name=RobertLovett></a><a name=MarydeLoyht-Arendt></a><a
name=AngelaLynch></a><a name=FrankMarcello></a><a name=DonnaJoMassie></a><a
name=DianneMiddleton></a><a name=DavidMilne></a><a name=CarltonPlummer></a><a
name=JohnSingerSargent></a><b><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>April Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>“Grateful”<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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A native of Greenville, SC, April Harrison paints images primarily in acrylic,
powder, watercolor, pencil and collage. Working with this diverse collection of
media she is able to work fast, often layering numerous colors, textures and
images in a single session to create her lush tapestry-like backgrounds. Found
objects such as coins, specialty papers, magazine print and interesting
treasures found on the street are often incorporated into her paintings. These,
coupled with bits and pieces of her recycled older works, create strikingly
rich textures and dimensions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Though April has
received no formal training, she feels that with each new brush stroke she is
guided by “the greatest Master-Teacher-Creator of all time!” She says, “One has
only to look around at God’s magnificently creative masterpieces and marvel at
the handiwork of his hands! It is with this understanding that I’m merely a
vessel being utilized to instinctively create narrative, sentiment and
observation. Why I’ve been chosen, I know not, nonetheless, I am humbled by
this gift.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
About this exhibition, April says, “The name of my exhibit is
“Grateful”......It speaks to a life of faith in a God who blesses daily. It
also speaks to a life of simplicity, one in which the viewer is asked to stop
and meditate on the true treasures surrounding them, treasures that are eternal
and not just for a little while. My hope is to cause the viewers of this
exhibit to pause for a moment and thank God for the one thing we sometimes take
for granted...Love & Life.” She continues, “My exhibit is in homage of life
itself and the God that provides said life.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><font size=1
face=Arial><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> April has been
professionally involved in the arts for nearly 20 years as an award-winning
artist and illustrator. Her work has been featured at numerous venues including
the Hampton University Museum in Hampton, VA, Morris Museum of Art in Augusta,
GA and the Romare Bearden Juried Invitational at Charlotte’s Mint Museum. Her
work has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s McDougal Littell’s
Literature, The Judith Roth Collection, San Francisco’s Image Conscious and
Doll Graphics in Louisville, KY. Her work has also been featured in ‘Upscale’,
‘Essence’ and ‘Talk’ Magazines as well as on BET, 106 & Park. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Represented by
numerous galleries such as Avisca Fine Art in Marietta, GA, International
Visions in Washington, DC, ArtJaz of Philadelphia, House of Art in Brooklyn, NY
and Ethnic Notions in Benicia CA, April’s work has made its way into numerous
collections including the Atlanta Housing Authority, Vanderbilt University and
Erskine University Museum collections and high profile collections such as
Whoopi Goldberg and S. Epatha Merkerson.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=1 color=red
face=Arial><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>John
Fowler & Glen Miller<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>“Story,
Song, and Image”<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>A
merging of Musical Heritage and Narrative Painting <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=1
face=Arial><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> “Story, Song, and
Image” is the conception of Glen Miller and John Fowler. Both artists have a
passionate interest in the traditional music of South Carolina, and how it
intertwines with its’ people and their lives. Miller, a visual artist and
educator, is also a musician. Glen creates narrative works and themed
exhibitions and has often used music and dance as subject for his work. Fowler,
storyteller, musician, and music collector with production experience, has
created several successful field recording projects relative to South Carolina.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Miller and Fowler
have combined their fields of study, creating a multi-media project, which celebrates
South Carolina's broad music heritage. They have combined elements of visual
and performing arts and regional history into a museum based experience, which
will include music and contemporary narrative paintings. Several forms of roots
music, each relative to a particular geographical region of South Carolina are
incorporated in the project. The exhibition and performance elements will be
available as an educational opportunity for schools (private & public) as
well as the general public. The educational elements include regional and local
history, music, art, language and oral history.</span></font><font size=2
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style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> “Story, Song
& Image” focuses on 10 musicians who represent different genres of roots
music that are important to South Carolina’s regional musical traditions. The
musicians represented were drawn from different geographical regions throughout
the state. The exhibition aspect of the project encompasses the historical and
cultural traditions of the genres of music as well as the musician’s personal
stories which are the subject of the contemporary narrative paintings. The
paintings were derived from conversations with the musicians, their music,
their stories, and composed in the studio from sketches, notes, and photographs
taken in their home environment. The non-traditional paintings are intended to
present the musicians as persons that, although representative of a historical
tradition, are nonetheless living stories themselves. The performance aspect of
the project further emphasizes this concept by bringing the music into the
present, completing the purpose of Story, Song, and Image.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> This project
highlights some of our living history and one of the greatest cultural
resources of our state, our musicians and their music.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Glen Miller, a
native of Northeast Tennessee, has taught art in South Carolina since 1979.
Glen has a BFA in drawing and painting from East Tennessee State University and
an MA in Art and Education from The University of South Florida and further
graduate study at the University of Tennessee. A public high school art teacher
for many years, Glen currently teaches drawing and painting at Converse College
and is a member of the faculty of the Greenville County Museum of Art where he
teaches figure drawing. Glen Miller has received numerous awards in regional
exhibitions. His most recent solo exhibition was “Ruminations With A Charred
Vine”, a gallery sized narrative drawing installation at the Greenville Fine
Arts Center. The artist maintains a studio in the Pendleton Street Arts District
of Greenville and is represented locally by Hampton III Gallery. </span></font><font
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</span></font><font
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style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> John Thomas
Fowler, from Boiling Springs, SC, is a traditional musician, storyteller, and
music collector. John is a graduate of the SC Community Scholars Program, and
is a Southern Artistry Artist. He has produced several recordings, and
conducted a number of documentaries for SC-ETV. John plays a number of folk
instruments, which include the banjo, guitar, spoons, auto-harp and washboard,
and he has won a number of traditional music awards at regional and national
festivals. At present John is working on a biographical sketch of an old-time
black fiddler from the early 1920's, and also teaches as an artist-in-residence
in SC. He is currently serving as the state scholar for the S.C. Humanities
Council on the 2011-2012 tour of the traveling Smithsonian Exhibit <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music</span></i>.
John is the host of the old-time radio show on WNCW 88.7 FM, called “This Old
Porch”, which airs on Sunday afternoons.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
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Up’State of Clay<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> With
Columbia as a dividing line, this collection, of works includes a few of the
Upstate’s most influential ceramic artists, including <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Alice Ballard, Sharon Campbell, Bob Chance, Gary
Clontz, Jim Connell, Nathan Cox, Kyleigh Daigle, Roger Dalrymple, This e-mail
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</script>Rob Gentry, Diane Gilbert, Sue Grier, Amy Goldstein-Rice, Lynn
Jenkins, Peter Lenzo, Cynthia Link, Jennifer Mecca, Johnny Nutt, Jay Owens, Renee
Rouillier, Virginia Scotchie, Paula Smith, Chris Troy, Mike Vatalaro, Ashley
Womack, Denise Woodward Detrich </span></b>and <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>David Zacharias.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> The
exhibition is guest curated by the Johnny Nutt who says about the show, “South
Carolina has a long, rich tradition of ceramic production. Edgefield,
South Carolina is recognized widely as the birthplace and earliest center of
the alkaline-glazed stoneware tradition in the southern United States, and from
there spread as far west as Texas and on up into the northeast. By the
middle of the 20th century, however, there were virtually no traditional
potters working anymore in South Carolina. Today however, a combination of
thriving university-based ceramics programs, such as those at Clemson, the
University of South Carolina, Winthrop, and Furman, along with the Professional
Clay Program offered by Piedmont Tech in Edgefield, have revitalized ceramic
production in South Carolina. Graduates of these programs, along with
newly-immigrated South Carolinians and self-taught outsider-artists
have brought an incredible diversity of ceramic production to the Upstate area
of South Carolina. It is the hope of the Pickens County Museum, through this
exhibition, to highlight not just the work of the twenty-six participating
artists but to provide a unique opportunity for folks to see, in a single stop,
the wide array of ceramic art being produced in the upper half of South
Carolina in these early days of the 21st century.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> These three
Exhibitions are part of the museum’s 2009 – 2010 exhibition season sponsored by
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Pickens</span></b> <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Savings & Loan</span></b> and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Upstate
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery & Dental Implant Center.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> The Pickens County
Museum of Art & History is funded in part <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>by Pickens County</span></b>, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>members and friends of the museum </span></b>and a
grant from the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>South Carolina Arts Commission</span></b>,
which receives support from the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>National
Endowment for the Arts</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Located at the corner
of Hwy. 178 at <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>307 Johnson Street</span></b>
in <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Pickens SC</span></b>, the museum is open <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Tuesdays</span></b>, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Wednesdays</span></b>
and <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Fridays</span></b> from <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m</span></b>., <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Thursdays</span></b> from <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>9:00 a.m. until 7:30 p.m.</span></b> and <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>Saturdays</span></b> from <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>9:00 a.m.
until 4:30 p.m</span></b>. Admission is free but donations are welcomed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> For more
information please contact the museum at (864) 898-5963. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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