Wesa Neely capped her senior year of high school with an art award and even studied art at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, for a year. “I loved art so much, but I was young and didn’t know how to pursue that line of work,” she said. So this Anderson native returned home to attend Clemson University, where she majored in early childhood and elementary education, leading to a 40-year career that included teaching various grade levels and reading in elementary schools and pr

The Third Annual Juried Show at the Gateway Arts Center in Westminster opened on August 30 and runs through October 11. The top three awards went to Tom Dimond ($1500 first place for Atlas, mixed media), Cecile Martin ($750 second place for Rain…Again, monoprint collage), and Nancy Basket ($325 third place for Free-form Kudzu Chandelier, kudzu vine). Anderson Artists Guild member Margaret Mattox won a Merit Award for her pastel drawing Present in the Moment (pictured at right

Nathan Cox, the juror for the 2019 Anderson Artists Guild Juried Show, shared thoughts about his selection process at the AAG meeting on Sept. 9. His process, he said, is to walk through the gallery multiple times. “It’s the pieces that pull me back that get in the show or win awards,” he said. He tries to choose an array of work that is representative of the submissions in terms of style and materials. He looks to be surprised and intrigued. Here are his reflections on indiv

Nathan Cox, the juror for the 2019 Anderson Artists Guild juried show, was headed toward a career in graphic design until he took a required 3D class at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. “It happened that I could get into a ceramics glass, and I had a natural ability with clay,” he said. “The next semester I took a pottery class and learned how to throw. I kept taking classes, and I fell in love with it.” After completing a master of fine arts degree in ceramics and d