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As the Art Museum's 20th anniversary year enters its final months, we are getting ready to say adieu to Feast Your Eyes: Celebrating the Food of the South. I know you'll enjoy Karen Olson's wrap-up of the Feast exhibition and the engaging lecture series, Food for Thought, which complemented it.
Simultaneously, we are preparing to end the year with Grand Strand Collects, an exhibition celebrating art and community. In 2005, when the Museum was a mere eight years old, we embraced the concept of a Myrtle Beach Collects exhibition. This idea was introduced by then-curator Ka
y Teer and roundly embraced by staff, Board, visitors and community alike. To support our 20th year milestone, we thought it would be perfect to revisit collections housed in loving homes along
the Grand Strand with Grand Strand Collects. As you'll discover when the exhibition opens on September 28th, the more than 200 works in the exhibition reflect the tastes, passions and pleasures of a community that revels in a diverse and multidimensional culture life. Grand Strand Collects will be on display through December 14th
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're grateful to our generous collectors for loaning us their treasures for all of us to enjoy.
Exhibitions like Grand Strand Collects wouldn't be possible without supporters who recognize how much our Art Museum contributes to the cultural resources of our two-county area. We offer a special thank-you to Presenting Sponsor United Community Bank and to our Supporting Sponsors Ms. Nancy Cave and Burroughs & Chapin Company, Inc.
The Art Museum is also producing a catalogue for this exhibition, and a limited number will be available for purchase in the Museum Shop. Thank-you to area photographer Keith Jacobs for taking such lovely images and for Sheriar Press for their design and printing.
And while you are all perusing the engaging
Collects
exhibition, be sure to visit the Museum's Reception Room Gallery, which Charleston-based artist Jocelyn Cateâuvert will have transformed into a fantasy land of light and unique, whimsical shapes, created from her handmade paper. Curator Liz Miller and I were transfixed when we first saw Jocelyn's site-specific installation at the Jones-Carter Gallery during ArtFields 2016. We knew right away that we wanted to invite Jocelyn to the Art Museum, show her our space and discuss a possible exhibition. The timing was perfect.
Jocelyn Chateâuvert: The South Carolina Arts Commission Turns 50 commemorates
the 50th anniversary of the South Carolina Arts Commission by highlighting the work of one of the Commission's fellow artists. Another anniversary celebration!
We know these two very different exhibits will delight your senses as they instill a sense of wonder at the extraordinary variety of expression we can enjoy through art. As always, it's a great time to be part of the Art Museum.
Patricia Goodwin
Executive Director
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