11th Annual Waccamaw Arts and Craft Guild Juried Exhibition

Various Artists and Media

May 1 – May 25, 2008

Opening reception: Thursday, May 1, 2008 from 5:30-7:30pm  

Sixty-seven artists from around the region will vie for top honors and over $2000 in cash prizes in the Eleventh Annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Exhibition. Eighty two-dimensional and three-dimensional works were selected for jurying from 209 entries.

Works selected for display include oil, watercolor, and mixed media paintings; photographs; wood, clay and steel sculptures; and an array of unusual craft items such as decorated gourds and mosaic tile pieces. With creations from artists throughout the Carolinas and as far away as Indiana, the show is a perennially popular event with locals and visitors. A large percentage of the works on display will also be available for purchase.

Judge and juror for this year’s competition is Sandra Rupp, director of the Hampton III Art Gallery in Taylors, SC, and an art consultant to private and corporate institutions. She will provide a descriptive tour of the exhibit at Thursday’s reception, offering insights on how the works were selected for inclusion in the exhibit and for prizes.

Cash awards to be given include the $800 Rebecca R. Bryan Best in Show Award, as well as First, Second and Third Place awards of $400, $250 and $100 respectively. An additional 10 works will also be selected for Honorable Mentions.

People Reading: Selections from the Collection of Donald and Patricia Oresman

May 8 – Oct. 5, 2008

Manhattan attorney Donald Oresman and his wife Patricia have collected over 1,300 works of art whose subject is simply people reading. From this collection, which has been featured in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, Dr. Thomas L. Johnson (Librarian Emeritus, South Caroliniana Library, Board of Directors, USC) has curated 60 works which will be on display. 

Aquatint, ink and pencil, watercolor, wood engraving, color lithography, etching, gouache and pencil, dry point—the list of media abounds, as does the notoriety of the artists, which includes heralded names such as Will Barnet, Pierre Bonnard, Elizabeth Catlett, Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera, Ben Shahn and Kees van Dongen.

The exhibition catalog includes a delightful forward written by Myrtle Beach's own Sigmund Abeles.