Anderson Artists Guild member Ben Hursey has been a musician since high school. As a student at Clemson University, he played in the Clemson Concert Band and the Jungaleers (Clemson Alumni Band). He has been a member of the Anderson Symphony Orchestra for 40 years. He has also played in the Electric City Big Band and Renditions (combo) and created the Foothills Saxophone Quartet. He directed the St. John’s Methodist Church handbell choir for 30 years. He has performed in 22 d

Cecelia Lucas Stucker, the juror for the Anderson Arts Center’s 2021 Juried Show, has roamed far from her roots in Columbia, South Carolina. When she studied studio art (painting) and art history at the University of South Carolina, her goal was a career in restoration. But she was unable to secure an apprenticeship, which was her pathway to a job in this field. Instead, following a professor’s advice, she pursued an MBA at Sotheby’s in New York and then landed a job with an

Like her twin sister, Myrl Garment, Anderson Artists Guild member Marion Hursey is a traveler. A Navy Junior, she was living with her family in Hawaii when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Other stops were nearly as memorable. During a year in Newfoundland, Canada, she remembers taking high school correspondence courses from the University of Nebraska and spending Fridays in the bowling alley, which counted as both physical education and math classes since the students set the pins a

Anderson native Baylis Maxwell played football in high school and on scholarship at a junior college for a year before leaving the sport behind to complete a business degree at The Citadel, where his brother was also enrolled. After graduating, he entered the Army for two years, followed by two years in the reserves. While stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, he worked in air defense to protect the Navy. “It was a good experience,” he said. After his discharge, he worked in commer

“I’ve been defined by my ability to draw my whole life,” said Anderson Artists Guild member and former president Steve Walter. Rheumatic fever at age three left him with a heart murmur and prevented his participation in the usual youth sports, so his mother arranged art lessons that continued for years. He also was a willing practice subject for the standardized tests his mother utilized in her work as a reading teacher. He followed in his father’s musical footsteps, playing