

Art-Related New Year’s Resolutions
The new year is a time of renewal and for setting goals. Some Anderson Artists Guild members shared their art-related New Year’s resolutions: Carrie Gibson I've been working with digital photography for nearly five years. Recently, some of my photographs have inspired me to begin painting again. I want to continue with photography and explore paint and mixed media more. But I'm not going to resolve to keep my work area picked up, for I usually fall back on that one. I do need


Sherron Fergason Always Found a Way to Use Art
As a child, new Anderson Artists Guild member Sherron Fergason got into trouble for painting murals on her bedroom walls. She took a lot of art classes, and relatives still hang her early paintings in their homes, but when it was time for college, she bowed to her family’s wishes and completed bachelor’s degrees in psychology and sociology at the University of Southern California Irvine and in education at the University of California Long Beach. “My family wanted me to be ab


Carol Frank: Decorator Extraordinaire
In a family of creative people, new Anderson Artists Guild member Carol Frank was the decorator. “My three aunts were all artists; my husband’s uncle did fabulous original design needlepointing; my dad was in architecture; my brother has been a set designer for movies, TV, and theater for over 40 years; both my sons do metal sculpting and construction design; and I focus on the house and yard,” she said. “I’ve always enjoyed decorating since I was a little girl. My sons learn


After a Detour, Pamela Hunt Found Her Way Back to Art
As a sickly child, new Anderson Artists Guild member Pamela Hunt spent a lot of time indoors by herself. She would draw paper dolls and their clothes, and she loved the watercolor illustrations in the Dick and Jane readers. When she graduated high school, she intended to major in textile design at an art school in Virginia, but her parents instead convinced her to attend Mercer University in Atlanta, from which she graduated with a more practical business degree. She worked a