Ten Anderson Artists Guild members have pieces in the 2022 juried show at the Pickens County Museum of Art & History: Teresa Anderson, Evelyn Beck, Carolyn Gibson, Pamela Hunt, Tommy Hunt, Brenda McLean, Donna O’Hara, Kate Salley Palmer, Karen Powell, and Diana Walter. The show opened on Oct. 26 and will run through Dec. 16. Diana Walter won an Honorable Mention Award for Repurposed (mixed media), which is pictured above. Here are her thoughts on this piece: “The inspiration

His parents’ discouragement about all things artistic steered new Anderson Artists Guild member Alan Smith away from his desire to create for many years. “I started acting in plays in fourth grade, and by seventh grade they said no,” he remembers. “Art, drawing, all that stuff—no, no, no. They said I needed something concrete.” He attended Herkimer College on a soccer scholarship, earning an associate’s degree in human services. He also has a bachelor’s degree in speech patho

After leaving Michigan at age 18, new Anderson Artists Guild member Marcee Musgrove moved 25 times before arriving in Taylors, S.C., earlier this year. She has lived across the U.S., from New York to Arkansas to Atlanta but has a connection to Anderson, where her parents had retired, and to Clemson, where she and her husband were married in the botanical garden. Most of the moves were for his work as an electrical engineer. Throughout the relocations, Musgrove raised a family