University Place Gallery hosts a closing reception for its dual exhibition
2020 FMU Juried Student Art Exhibition and
Adrian Rhodes | Blood and Honey
The Doctors Bruce and Lee Foundation Library’s Morris Gallery will exhibit the works of the Eastern Region students as a part of the South Carolina Art Education Association’s Youth Art Month.
Opening Reception is Saturday, March 28, 2020 from 2:00 – 4:00pm. Reception is free and open to the public
Artwork will be on display March 25 – 28, 2020
during Morris Gallery hours:
Monday – Thursday 9am – 8:15pm
Friday – Saturday 9am – 5:15pm
Sunday 2pm – 5:45pm
Awards will be announced at the reception. The judge to consider the art submitted will be Lynda English of the Lynda English Studio.
The Doctor N. Lee Morris Gallery is located on the second floor of the Drs. Bruce and Lee
Foundation Library in Florence
For more information please visit www.florencelibrary.org.
2020 FMU Juried Student Art Exhibition
This exhibition provides FMU Visual Art Students with an opportunity to exhibit their work in a professional gallery while gaining experience in presenting their work according to professional practices. This exhibition was open to FMU Visual Art majors and minors, as well as Art Education majors. Juror Adrian Rhodes selected twenty-one artworks created by fourteen Visual Art students. A wide variety of media are included and works range from ceramic sculpture and graphite on paper, to 35mm photography, cyanotype and scanography.
Adrian Rhodes: Blood and Honey
Adrian Rhodes is a painter, printmaker, and installation artist who transforms gallery spaces into new realities, rich with symbolic imagery and her bold design aesthetic. Themes of bees, the human condition, the matrilineal, the corporeal, and mortality find themselves looping out of paper trails and attached to walls in swarms of winged creatures made of paper.
Museum of the Moon is a touring artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram. Measuring seven meters in diameter, the moon features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface. At an approximate scale of 1:500,000, each centimeter of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 3.25 miles of the moon’s surface.
The art work will arrive in Florence, SC for installation April 25 and be on display over Dargan St. near Hyatt Place until Monday April 28. It will then move to the Florence Center and be open to the public and tour groups until May 6. It is made possible by the Willcox, Buyck & Williams Foundation and the Raines Hospitality Group.
From the beginning of human history, the moon has acted as a ‘cultural mirror’ to our beliefs, understanding, and ways of seeing. Over the centuries, the moon has been interpreted as a god and as a planet. It has been used as a timekeeper, calendar, and to aid nighttime navigation. Throughout history the moon has inspired artists, poets, scientists, writers, musicians, and lovers the world over. The ethereal blue light cast by a full moon, the delicate crescent following the setting sun, or the mysterious dark side of the moon have evoked passion and exploration. Different cultures around the world have their own historical, cultural, scientific, and religious relationships to the moon.
Community and school groups are invited to visit the moon any time on Dargan St. and from 9am to 5pm at the Florence Center.
For more information contact Roger Malfatti, 843.260.6210, or Reynolds Williams, 843.615.2646.
Connections, an interactive exhibit for children and families, explores the intersection of Visual Art and Music inspired by regional plants and local history.
Learn about the Pee Dee region through a large, sixteen-panel work of visual art created by artist, Nancy Griffin. This work is designed to create one overall composition that can be rearranged to shift the larger image. These visual ideas are similarly reflected in a musical composition by composer Dr. Sherry Woods, made of sixteen short individual works, combined to create a different whole composition as the parts are rearranged.
Children and families will have the opportunity to play historic musical compositions on the Museum’s wall xylophone and dig deeper with a Museum Explorer backpack filled with activities to engage with local history and regional plant life throughout the museum.
The Doctors Bruce and Lee Foundation Library’s Morris Gallery will host the Francis Marion University Juried Art Month exhibit from April 14- April 26, 2019.
The exhibit showcases a variety of media including painting, photography, and ceramics and will feature the art work of the following FMU students: Angela Acosta, Nicholas Barber, Breonna Brown, Shayna Hunter, Philip Jeffcoat, Jonathan Laster, Karen Lookenott, Samuel McCrea, Ada Smolen-Morten, Meredith Thornton, Thessalonia Thomas, and Patricia Witherington. The juror for this year’s exhibit is Susan Fecho, Professor of Art at Barton College.
The Doctor N. Lee Morris Gallery is located on the second floor of the Drs. Bruce and Lee
Foundation Library in Florence and is open Monday through Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 8:15
p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.; and Sunday, 2:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. For more information about the exhibit and related events, please visit www.florencelibrary.org.