Celebrating our renaming, the Sensational Sigal exhibition presents highlights from the unparalleled musical instrument collection of Marlowe A. Sigal while exploring the life of a man behind this remarkable gift. The exhibition features a broad rand of objects and offers one of the most robust displays of keyboard instruments and wind instruments in the world.

Sigal Music Museum and pianist, Zachary Hughes have come together to celebrate the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven’s work has withstood the test of time and echoes of his famous hooks are heard in contemporary music spanning across genres. Join us Mondays on Facebook!

Alabama, Y’all
Benson Campus Galleries
Greenville Technical College
2522 Locust Hill Road, Greer, SC
Open to the public, M – F, 8am to 5pm
January 11, 2021 through February 19, 2021

Alabama, Y’all is a collection of Alabama photographs and sculptures made by an Alabama collector, Patrick Owens. His Alabama fascination began with childhood family trips to the home place in Tuskegee. Though never an Alabama resident, he was bred of Alabama stock. His people, his roots, his family stories and myths are all Alabama born. Now and particularly over the past decade, Owens makes intentional, frequent trips to Alabama to glean the landscape for images and detritus to bring home to his South Carolina studio. Each image, each discarded bit has its own origin story and its own history of usefulness. Owens has reimagined these stories making them his own.

The provenance of Owens’ photographs is mysteriously vague. The barbeque arrow, does it point to mouthwatering dinner for tonight or is it a eulogy for a long-gone mom and pop diner? The parlor chair, though threadbare and hemorrhaging cotton stuffing, has the presence of a dais in the wilderness or the happenstance destination of a discard. Even many of the storefronts he photographs could be just closed for the day or closed years ago. Owens honors and preserves the history of these destinations as he incorporates them reverently within his myths.

Owens’ wall hung assemblages are closer kin to quilts than relief sculptures or paintings. He has pieced together bits of detritus from his Alabama scavenging with the whimsy of an outsider artist but also with deliberate and learned precision. In speaking of these works, Owens says, “These collections stem from a desire to preserve the memory of authentic lived experiences, and their stories lend evidence to our existence in this world.” Alabama, Y’all proudly takes us on a fun trip of visual joy through an undetermined era in a very specific location but not just to make fun or have fun. Alabama, Y’all reminds us that memories and storied myths once abandoned lose us in the current cultural quagmire of dissention, greed, and grief.

Patrick Owens is a Greenville Tech Department of Visual Arts alumnus and is currently DVA’s Studio Manager/Gallery Assistant. He recently completed his BFA degree Magna Cum Laude from Clemson University in sculpture. His photography has been included in exhibitions across the US including Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco, CA; the Midwest Center for Photography in Wichita, KS; Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC; and Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL. He has photographs in the Looking at Appalachia project of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University, Durham, NC. He continues to make regular trips to Alabama, the home of generations of his family, to photograph and collect.

Alabama,Y’all is on view in Greenville Technical College’s Benson Campus Galleries, 2522 Locust Hill Road, Taylors, Monday – Friday, 8am to 5pm. The public is welcome. Face coverings are required on campus. For more information visit www.gvltec.edu/dva or call Fleming Markel, Gallery Director or Pat Owens, Gallery Assistant at 864 250-3051 or email fleming.markel@gvltec.edu.

An exhibition celebrating the life and work of visual artist Matthew C. Baumgardner (1955-2018) will be presented by the Furman University Department of Art Jan. 19-Feb. 19 in Thompson Gallery of the Roe Art Building. Thompson Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

As the campus remains closed to the public due to COVID-19 protocols, in-person viewing of the exhibition is limited to Furman students, faculty and staff. However, the online Zoom exhibition opening, which takes place Thursday, Jan. 28, 6:30-7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public. RSVP by email to the Furman Department of Art at furmanart@furman.edu to obtain a Zoom link.

Curated and organized by Furman art students, the exhibition, “Matthew Baumgardner: Grids and Glyphs,” is the culmination of the Curatorial Issues and Practices class taught by Diane Fischer, adjunct professor of art history, and marks the second exhibition of Baumgardner’s work hosted at Furman.

The show explores Baumgardner’s creative process and inner spirit through a selection of works and ephemera spanning the artist’s career from 1977-2018, and includes 17 paintings, sculptures, notes, journals and materials from his Travelers Rest studio.

Central to the exhibition are paintings rendered on birch plywood with Baumgardner’s signature medium – “mud” – a thick, paint-like paste created with gypsum and powdered pigments he applied to surfaces in multiple layers of grids and glyphs. This technique and the series of paintings born from it won him a Visual Arts Fellowship in Painting by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1993.

For the Jan. 28 Zoom opening, Furman’s Sarah Archino, associate professor of art history, and Fischer will give context for the exhibition, followed by students who appear in pre-recorded mini-presentations, including a video walk-through of the gallery, a chronological study of Baumgardner’s work, a discussion of a special display, and explanations of artifacts from the artist’s estate. A live Q&A will follow the student presentations.

One of the students integral to the exhibition is Furman senior Brandon Barney, an art major from Marietta, South Carolina. He said the hands-on experience of curating and organizing the exhibition never felt like a typical class, but rather, a vocation.

“There wasn’t a cookie cutter format that you could expect from the work or the assignments during the course,” he said. “It forced you to be prepared to do anything at any time for the sake of the team. We all learned how to work with each other extremely well, and by the end of the whole process, we all seemed to move and work as one unit.”

Other student curators for “Grids and Glyphs” include Mercy Fisher ’21 (Pottsville, Pennsylvania), Rebecca Fulford ’21 (Miami Beach, Florida), Gracey Greco ’21 (Dublin, Ireland), Micaela Hogan ’21 (San Antonio, Texas), Lily Russell ’22 (Elon, North Carolina), Sophia Scheibeler ’21 (Port Washington, New York) and Adare Taylor ’22 (Berwyn, Pennsylvania).

Fischer, former chief curator of the Allentown Art Museum (Pennsylvania), joined the Furman faculty in August 2020. She said the class represented a “rare opportunity” for students to get a real-world understanding of the curatorial side of art and much more.

“They learned teamwork and transferrable skills – not just how to organize an exhibition, but skills like project management, drafting and editing, connoisseurship, marketing, and creating presentations,” Fischer said. “This class has perhaps been the most amazing experience in teaching I’ve ever had.”

Born in Ohio in 1955, Baumgardner launched his professional career in the 1970s while studying under South Carolina artists Carl Blair, Emery Bopp and Darell Koons. In 1982, he earned his MFA in painting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A year later, he moved to New York City, where most of his work was created. During that time, he built a family and watched his career climb to new heights, exhibiting in 14 solo and 30 group shows. He relocated in 2006 to Travelers Rest where he designed and fashioned a home/work studio on an acre of land and worked until his death in November 2018.

Installation images and video of Baumgardner’s work in “Grids and Glyphs” will be available online at https://baumgardnerarchives.com/ by late January 2021. For more information, contact Diane Fischer at diane.fischer@furman.edu. Or contact the Furman News and Media Strategy office at 864-294-3107.

Celebrating our renaming, the Sensational Sigal exhibition presents highlights from the unparalleled musical instrument collection of Marlowe A. Sigal while exploring the life of a man behind this remarkable gift. The exhibition features a broad rand of objects and offers one of the most robust displays of keyboard instruments and wind instruments in the world.

Sigal Music Museum and pianist, Zachary Hughes have come together to celebrate the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven’s work has withstood the test of time and echoes of his famous hooks are heard in contemporary music spanning across genres. Join us Mondays on Facebook!

Alabama, Y’all
Benson Campus Galleries
Greenville Technical College
2522 Locust Hill Road, Greer, SC
Open to the public, M – F, 8am to 5pm
January 11, 2021 through February 19, 2021

Alabama, Y’all is a collection of Alabama photographs and sculptures made by an Alabama collector, Patrick Owens. His Alabama fascination began with childhood family trips to the home place in Tuskegee. Though never an Alabama resident, he was bred of Alabama stock. His people, his roots, his family stories and myths are all Alabama born. Now and particularly over the past decade, Owens makes intentional, frequent trips to Alabama to glean the landscape for images and detritus to bring home to his South Carolina studio. Each image, each discarded bit has its own origin story and its own history of usefulness. Owens has reimagined these stories making them his own.

The provenance of Owens’ photographs is mysteriously vague. The barbeque arrow, does it point to mouthwatering dinner for tonight or is it a eulogy for a long-gone mom and pop diner? The parlor chair, though threadbare and hemorrhaging cotton stuffing, has the presence of a dais in the wilderness or the happenstance destination of a discard. Even many of the storefronts he photographs could be just closed for the day or closed years ago. Owens honors and preserves the history of these destinations as he incorporates them reverently within his myths.

Owens’ wall hung assemblages are closer kin to quilts than relief sculptures or paintings. He has pieced together bits of detritus from his Alabama scavenging with the whimsy of an outsider artist but also with deliberate and learned precision. In speaking of these works, Owens says, “These collections stem from a desire to preserve the memory of authentic lived experiences, and their stories lend evidence to our existence in this world.” Alabama, Y’all proudly takes us on a fun trip of visual joy through an undetermined era in a very specific location but not just to make fun or have fun. Alabama, Y’all reminds us that memories and storied myths once abandoned lose us in the current cultural quagmire of dissention, greed, and grief.

Patrick Owens is a Greenville Tech Department of Visual Arts alumnus and is currently DVA’s Studio Manager/Gallery Assistant. He recently completed his BFA degree Magna Cum Laude from Clemson University in sculpture. His photography has been included in exhibitions across the US including Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco, CA; the Midwest Center for Photography in Wichita, KS; Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC; and Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL. He has photographs in the Looking at Appalachia project of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University, Durham, NC. He continues to make regular trips to Alabama, the home of generations of his family, to photograph and collect.

Alabama,Y’all is on view in Greenville Technical College’s Benson Campus Galleries, 2522 Locust Hill Road, Taylors, Monday – Friday, 8am to 5pm. The public is welcome. Face coverings are required on campus. For more information visit www.gvltec.edu/dva or call Fleming Markel, Gallery Director or Pat Owens, Gallery Assistant at 864 250-3051 or email fleming.markel@gvltec.edu.

The Foothills Philharmonic Orchestra continues its 2020-21 season at the Riverside Baptist 1249 S. Suber Rd Greer, SC 29650, Saturday, February 6, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. with The Chamber Orchestra All of Foothills’ concerts are free and general admission to the public. Refreshments will be provided following the performance at our reception where people can meet and greet the performers. The program features music written for Chamber orchestra.
Performing in Greenville since 2000, Foothills Philharmonic is committed to providing high-quality, classical music performances to the Upstate community free of charge. The orchestra is an all-volunteer orchestra made up of accomplished non-professional musicians from the Upstate region of South Carolina. Orchestra membership includes individuals from many walks of life including part-time musicians, teachers, lawyers, business professionals, and homemakers. Kory Vrieze is the Orchestra’s Artistic Director and Conductor. Membership in the Foothills Philharmonic is open to amateur and professional musicians. Training in youth orchestra, college orchestra, or professional orchestra, in the Greenville Concert Band or an equivalent band is suggested as necessary experience. For more information about joining the orchestra, interested parties should contact our personnel manager at foothillspersonnel@foothillsphil.org.
For more information about this concert, or about the Foothills Philharmonic Orchestra, please visit www.foothillsphilharmonic.org. or call the office at (864) 326-5780.

Celebrating our renaming, the Sensational Sigal exhibition presents highlights from the unparalleled musical instrument collection of Marlowe A. Sigal while exploring the life of a man behind this remarkable gift. The exhibition features a broad rand of objects and offers one of the most robust displays of keyboard instruments and wind instruments in the world.

Sigal Music Museum and pianist, Zachary Hughes have come together to celebrate the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven’s work has withstood the test of time and echoes of his famous hooks are heard in contemporary music spanning across genres. Join us Mondays on Facebook!

The Foothills Philharmonic Orchestra continues its 2020-21 season at the Greer Center for the Arts 804 Trade Street Greer, SC 29651 on Saturday, March 20, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. with the Woodwind Quintet Chamber Concert. All of Foothills’ concerts are free and general admission to the public. The program includes selected compositions by different composers, prepared and performed by the Foothills Philharmonic Woodwind Quintet.
Performing in Greenville since 2000, Foothills Philharmonic is committed to providing high-quality, classical music performances to the Upstate community free of charge. The orchestra is an all-volunteer orchestra made up of accomplished non-professional musicians from the Upstate region of South Carolina. Orchestra membership includes individuals from many walks of life including part-time musicians, teachers, lawyers, business professionals, and homemakers. Kory Vrieze is the Orchestra’s Artistic Director and Conductor. Membership in the Foothills Philharmonic is open to amateur and professional musicians. Training in youth orchestra, college orchestra, or professional orchestra, in the Greenville Concert Band or an equivalent band is suggested as necessary experience. For more information about joining the orchestra, interested parties should contact our personnel manager at foothillspersonnel@foothillsphil.org.
For more information about this concert, or about the Foothills Philharmonic Orchestra, please visit foothillsphilharmonic.org. or call the office at (864) 326-5780.

The Foothills Philharmonic Orchestra continues its 2020-21 season at the Riverside Baptist 1249 S. Suber Rd Greer, SC 29650, Saturday, March 27, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. with Masterworks III. All of Foothills’ concerts are free and general admission to the public. Refreshments will be provided following the performance at our reception where people can meet and greet the performers. The program features the orchestra performing Dvorak’s New World Symphony alongside members of Blue Ridge High School.
Performing in Greenville since 2000, Foothills Philharmonic is committed to providing high-quality, classical music performances to the Upstate community free of charge. The orchestra is an all-volunteer orchestra made up of accomplished non-professional musicians from the Upstate region of South Carolina. Orchestra membership includes individuals from many walks of life including part-time musicians, teachers, lawyers, business professionals, and homemakers. Kory Vrieze is the Orchestra’s Artistic Director and Conductor. Membership in the Foothills Philharmonic is open to amateur and professional musicians. Training in youth orchestra, college orchestra, or professional orchestra, in the Greenville Concert Band or an equivalent band is suggested as necessary experience. For more information about joining the orchestra, interested parties should contact our personnel manager at foothillspersonnel@foothillsphil.org.
For more information about this concert, or about the Foothills Philharmonic Orchestra, please visit foothillsphilharmonic.org. or call the office at (864) 326-5780.