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February Issue 2006
Converse College in Spartanburg, SC, Offers Works by Linda McCune
The
Milliken Gallery at Converse College in Spartanburg, SC, will
use an exhibit by sculpture artist Linda McCune as a teaching
tool for the art of drawing. The 25-piece exhibit opens Feb. 8
and runs through Feb. 28, 2006.
"Even though I am very active with sculpture, this exhibit will show the importance of drawing, how artists can expand upon their talents by using it and how drawing can inspire their work to go in a completely different area than they may have thought," explained McCune. "This particular exhibit will feature four study sketches I had drawn for some of my sculptures and photos of the finished product which show how the projects changed throughout the process."
Mediums featured in
the exhibit include charcoal, graphite, prisma pencil, charcoal
with watercolor and pastel. "I wanted to include charcoal
because it is a very old medium and can be difficult to handle.
But if you stay with it and learn to use it well, it can be a
very rewarding medium," said McCune.
McCune will also showcase three different themes in the exhibit.
"A 10-piece grouping is called Corporate Caring and
reflects the throwaway society we have become. The drawings are
of items we throw away with little thought or emotion, animals
we run over and other things we show little regard for,"
she said. "A four-piece series metaphorically illustrates
the numerous stressful situations we humans get ourselves into
all the time. The third series is dedicated to the sense of home;
whether it is a physical place or just a state of mind."
McCune is the lead instructor
of fine art at Greenville Technical College, and has biographical
listings in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Who's Who of
American Women and Who's Who in the World. She has
guest lectured for the South Carolina Governor's School for the
Arts and is currently the South Carolina representative for Tri-State
Sculptors Group, with which she actively exhibits. She has been
featured in 28 one-artist exhibitions in the Southeast and has
participated in over 100 group shows. In addition to winning numerous
awards for her work, McCune is represented in critical reviews,
books, in many public and private collections including the State
Art Collection of South Carolina and the Embry's Foundation Collection.
Founded in 1889 and located in Spartanburg, SC, Converse College
is an independent, residential liberal arts college for women
with a professional school of music and graduate programs in education,
music, and the liberal arts. For more than 100 years, Converse
has been guided by one vision-to prepare women to approach the
world with intelligence and compassion. An emphasis on leadership
development and service learning coupled with career preparation
through a liberal arts foundation helps Converse students to find
their place among the successful and influential people of tomorrow.
Converse is consistently recognized by US News & World
Report as a top college in the South, and is named to Colleges
of Distinction and The Best 201 Colleges for the Real World.
For more information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call Eric Lawson,
associate director of communications at 864/596-9705 or e-mail
at (eric.lawson@converse.edu).
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