Two Anderson Artists Guild members—Rebecca Carruth and JoAnne Anderson—are part of the 43rd Annual National Exhibition of the South Carolina Watermedia Society, which this year is completely online. The juror was portrait artist Ted Nuttall. The show includes 71 pieces. The top three prize winners, pictured above from left to right, are Stacy Lund Levy’s Bliss ($1000 Best of Show), Mary Axelson’s Peony Exuberance ($700 Second Place), and Suzanne Acetta’s Voice of Freedom ($50

It was probably inevitable that Anderson Artists Guild member Donna O’Hara would grow up to be an artist. As a child, she lived on a clay pit in Sayreville, New Jersey. “I used to play with the clay all the time,” she said. “I made little things. And I rubbed it all over my body and would then jump in the water.” As an art major at East Tennessee State University, she chose clay for one of her major media. After graduation, she and her husband traveled the circuit of high-end

The annual juried show at the Pickens County Museum of Art and History has opened and will run through Dec. 18. Awards were announced via live stream on Oct. 27. The $1000 First Place Award went to Andrea Garland for Lineage (charcoal and pastel on embossed paper). The $750 Second Place Award went to Julia Poole for The Story (paper collage). The $500 Third Place Award went to Scott Cunningham for Dusk (oil on panel). The $250 Honorable Mention Awards went to Larry Seymour fo

Anderson Artists Guild member Barbara Ervin’s earliest influences were her parents. Her mom painted while her dad, a design engineer, “loved creating things. He had all kinds of machines,” she said. Ervin also remembers wandering her Greenville neighborhood, digging clay out of the creek bank to make stuff. She has always approached art as a problem-solving exercise, a mysterious process that sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. When it does, she says to herself, “That was