| Description: | Thursday, July 15 opening reception from 5:30-7:30 pm) through August 27. If you are not a member of the gallery, there is a $5.00 charge for the opening reception. At all other times admission is free.
Sumter has many talented artists in its midst, and a large, active artists’ guild. The Sumter Artists Guild was founded in 1966. It is comprised of amateur and professional artists and art enthusiasts. The annual Sumter Artists’ Guild show provides an opportunity for these artists to “strut their stuff”. Guild members working in visual arts or craft use a variety of media: oils, watermedia, sculpture, mixed media, natural material such as gourds, fiber arts and ceramics.
The judge for the 2010 show is Damond Howard. A graduate of South Carolina State University (B.S. Art Education) and University of Florida (M.F.A. Studio Art), Howard is an artist who combines art and history in unique ways. His interest and experience in African-American culture is a recurrent theme in his figurative drawings. Howard’s drawings have been exhibited at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC, (2009), University of Tennessee's Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, Hammonds House Galleries and Resource Center for African American Art, Atlanta, GA (2007), The College of Wooster Art Museum, OH, MOJA Arts Festival, Charleston, SC, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL, and solo exhibitions at Berea College, KY and Lyon College, AR.
Howard contributed a biography on renowned South Carolina artist Leo Twiggs to the Harvard University African American National Biography, published by Oxford University Press (2008). Howard’s writing and drawings about his own work have been featured in Envisioning, a journal produced by Binghamton University, NY.
The Sumter County Gallery of Art is open Tuesday – Saturday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm and Sunday 1:30 – 5:00 pm. Closed Mondays and major holidays.
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