February Issue 2000
Benedict College Features Exhibit Columbia's Own
The Ponder Fine Arts
Gallery, located in the Henry Ponder Fine Arts and Humanities
Center on the campus of Benedict College in Columbia, SC, is hosting
Columbia's Own, an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and
sculptures by some of Columbia's finest artist. The exhibit showcases
works by 15 talented and prolific African-American artists from
the city of Columbia.
The exhibition features the works of established Columbia-based artists, Tom Feelings, Larry Lebby, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, and Mac Arthur Goodwin. Feelings is showing drawings, illustrations, rarely seen wood carvings and insightful art boxes. Lebby's contributions to the exhibit include exquisitely executed paintings and prints. Jones-Henderson's enamel paintings included are described as "visual-music", and Goodwin's drawings give viewers a look at what the artist describes as a "micro to macro cultural continuum".
Other artists with works included in the exhibition are: Jim Barnes, Porter Dobb, Josie Brightstone, Ptah, Seitu Amenwahsu, Gary Taylor, Keith Tolen, John G.Wright, Carol Anderson, Vennie Deas-Moore, and Tyrone Geter, who is the Ponder Fine Arts Gallery director.
All of the artists included in this exhibit express their knowledge and concern for the plight of African-American people and their optimism for the future through their imagery.
On Feb. 6, from 1 to 4pm, Benedict College will host a panel discussion entitled, Columbia's Own: The State of African-American Art in the Year 2000 and Beyond. The event will take place in Little Theatre Ponder in the Henry Ponder Fine Arts and Humanities Center and music will be provided by The Benedict College Concert Choir. Terry K. Hunter will be moderator of the discussion panel which will include: Beryl Dakers, Tom Feelings, Cedric Adderley, and Napoleon Jones-Henderson. The event is free and open to the public.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the gallery at 803/758-4460 or e-mail at (tgeter@hikima.com).
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