GREENWOOD — The community is invited to join the Department of Art for a reception and conversation with visiting artist Kelley Pettibone on Thursday, March 12, at 5 p.m. in the Lander Art Gallery, located inside the Jackson Library at Lander University. The exhibit, titled “Peace by Pieces,” is on display now through March 24. The reception and visits to the gallery are free and open to the public, and the gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
This exhibit will feature a collection primarily focused on grief, loss and healing. Pettibone showcases her “decade of grief” through visual imagery and highlights the healing power of creativity. The works will feature a sense of nostalgia, as she uses art to redefine ‘home’ after devastating loss. Pettibone believes, “As a creative, we have a unique gift; we have a natural outlet of self-expression that affords us the opportunity to visually create that which lacks verbal definition.”
Pettibone is a fine artist and collegiate educator living in Columbia, South Carolina. Her practice includes woodcut relief, linoleum relief, intaglio, collagraphy, lithography, mixed media collage, painting, papermaking, pyrography and assemblage. In addition to being a fine artist, Pettibone is an instructor at the School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina, where she teaches printmaking and drawing studio art classes. She has been exhibiting works in galleries since 2018.
Please visit www.lander.edu/events for updates and to confirm event times and venues. For questions, please contact the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at 864-388-8323, or email hass@lander.edu.
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ALSO: Lander to Host Visiting Writer Jenn Blair
GREENWOOD — The community is invited to join the Department of Communication and Languages at Lander University for a conversation with visiting writer Jenn Blair Tuesday, March 10 at 3:30 p.m. in Carnell Learning Center Room 300. Prospective writers are encouraged to attend the event and join the conversation with Blair about writing. This event is free and open to the public.
Jenn Blair is the author of four collections of poetry, Face Cut Out For Locket (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2022), Malcontent (winner of American Popular Culture’s 2017 Press Americana Poetry Prize), The Sheep Stealer (Hyacinth Girl Press) and All Things Are Ordered (Finishing Line Press). A former recipient of Broad River Press’ Ron Rash Poetry Prize and a Dorothy B. Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award, her work has been published in such as journals as Rattle, the Kenyon Review, Copper Nickel, Pembroke Magazine, the Berkley Poetry Review, Atticus Review, Southampton Review, Still, The Chattahoochee Review, Appalachian Review, South Carolina Review, New South and the Tulane Review, among others.
Commenting on Blair’s many accomplishments, Lander creative writing professor Dr. Andrew Jameson added, “As a poet, I have always loved Jenn’s subtle humor and the way she can find spirituality in odd, unexpected sources. She’s also a teacher, a mom of three kids, and yet she’s still finding time to write poetry every day. That’s also impressive to me.”
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