“Art was not my thing,” says new Anderson Artists Guild member Beckey Miller about her younger self. Born in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania (near Hershey), she was always outside, and she played interscholastic field hockey and basketball at Shippensburg University until she dislocated her knee. This was a time before girls were awarded athletic scholarships. She majored in elementary education and taught for a couple of difficult years in an inner city school in Harrisburg. “I st

The Greenville Center for Creative Arts (GCCA) is hosting an online exhibit called Art Has a Voice. The exhibit opened on Sept. 4 and will run through Oct. 23. The purpose of the exhibit, according to GCCA, is to express feelings about “the current discourse in our country and beyond. We know that Art Has a Voice to express feelings, share perspectives, and build bridges to understanding. Through the artwork selected for this online exhibition, the intent is to create a platf

The 2020 Juried Exhibition presented by the Artists Collective of Spartanburg opened on Sept.15 and runs through Oct. 17. The jurors were Alice Sebrell and Connie Bostic. The $2500 first place award went to Gregory Wilkin for his oil painting Harriet Hancock Center, Melrose Heights, Columbia. The $1000 second place award went to Seth Scheving of Anderson for Ignorance Was Bliss (watercolor and ink). The $500 third place award went to Bennett Stowe for Dining Room (acrylic, ch

Larry Seymour’s mom used art to keep him quiet in church. “She wrote a number on paper, and I had to make a face out of that number,” he said. “It kept me from talking.” Another early art memory is winning first place at the county fair for a drawing of a chipmunk from the cartoon Chip ‘n’ Dale. Despite his talent, Seymour’s parents discouraged an art career, and he completed a bachelor’s degree in biology at The Citadel in Charleston. He spent 33 years teaching high school b