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November Issue 2002

Charleston Library Features Works by Arthur McDonald

Arthur McDonald will share his work throughout the month of Nov., 2002, in the Saul Alexander Gallery, located on the first floor of the Charleston County Public Library system's Main Branch, in Charleston, SC. McDonald's exhibition of works of handmade paper is titled Journeys and Boundaries: Fragments of Travel Journals.

The exhibition will explore the concept of journeys that are real or metaphysical and boundaries that are imagined or actual. The journeys might be religious or secular and the boundaries might be internal or external.

The exhibition of fragmentary journals is divided into three parts: the journey, the arrival and the return. The journey includes pages from atlases that indicate the challenge of the boundaries. The arrival with its meditation pages suggest a place of contemplation. The return includes non-traditional books that reflect on time and possible meanings of the journey.

McDonald has studied traditional Asian hand paper making in Thimphu, Bhutan; Lampang, Thailand; Yunnan Province of China; and in rural villages of Myanmar/Burma. He has done additional studies in paper at the Penland School of Crafts (NC) and the Arrowmont School of Crafts (TN).

McDonald makes his paper from a variety of Asian fibers including kozo/mulberry, bamboo, gampi, and daphne. His composition combine paper and natural elements such as rocks, fossils, and clay.

McDonald's works are in private collections from Michigan to North Carolina and from Thailand to England. In Charleston, his works are in Nina Liu and Friends Gallery. He exhibited in the 2002 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Show, in Charleston. In Aug., 2002, he had two works in The Healing Powers of Art exhibition at the Meridian Gallery in Lexington, KY.

McDonald is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre at the College of Charleston. His theatre productions had continuing interests in the fundamental nature of ritual. This interest was seen in his production of Kalidas' 8th century Sanskrit drama, Shakuntula, in his reinterpretation of the Oedipus myth in La Mythologie and in his restaging of King Lear as a rod puppet production set in West Africa.

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