Anderson Artists Guild member Mary McDonough grew up in Salsbury, North Carolina, a self-described “high-energy child, always making stuff.” When she enrolled at Clemson University, she said, “I started in nursing because I thought I had to get a job that was important.” But a difficult chemistry class and a professor who told her to find another major led her to graphic arts and later a master’s degree in art education from Winthrop University. Over the years, in between rai

The 2021 Juried Show opened at The Blue Ridge Arts Center (BRAC) in Seneca on Jan. 15 and continues through Feb. 25. No opening reception was held due to public health concerns. Thirteen Anderson Artists Guild members had works selected for the show. Their pieces were among the 74 pieces selected by juror Denise Woodward-Detrich. AAG members in the show are Evelyn Beck, Sue Cheney, Carolyn Gibson, Sharon Jacobs, Julie Lamp, Brenda McLean, Hamed Mahmoodi, Donna O’Hara, Yv

Anderson Artists Guild member Kathy Moore has relished every stage of her life. She grew up in Alabama, married young, and then traveled the world as a military wife, from California to Florida to Japan. She moved every three to four years, gave birth to her second child in Okinawa, and enjoyed the close-knit communities wherever she lived. When her husband retired early, they moved to Anderson, where Moore was very involved in her kids’ lives. During their high school years

Anderson Artists Guild member John “Mac” Read went to work in a grocery store at age 11 in his hometown of Rome, Georgia, earning enough money to buy his first camera, “a cheap little box camera,” he said. “I took pictures of anything I could find.” But his greatest passion was chemistry, which he studied at Emory University, ultimately earning a Ph.D. He spent 26 years with Dupont, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, starting in the Plastics Department, identifying proble