Currents: Annual Members’ Exhibit
Show runtime: May 22 – June 19
Public Reception: May 21, 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Juror: Michael Webster
TACS members’ exhibition, Currents, offers a snapshot of what artists are making and thinking about right now. The show highlights current work across disciplines and the ideas, materials, and questions driving each practice forward. It presents work not as a finished endpoint, but as part of an ongoing process of exploration and development.
Like water currents, artistic practice is always moving—sometimes steady and under the surface, sometimes forceful and directional, always responsive to the conditions around it. Currents speaks to both what is happening now in artists’ practices and the forces shaping where that work is headed.
We encourage all current members across all TACS studios to participate, and welcome submissions in all mediums.
Participating Members
JoAnne Alderman
Freida Allen
Jimmi Buell
Kristi Haynes-Campell
Erika Hanna
Patricia Nobles Jay
Lee Lanou
Jessica Lorey
Roe Sprouls
Debbie Thompson
Margaret Thompson
Priscilla Yeager
Don Clarke
Jim Cullen
Susan Davis
Ellen Davison
Kathy McKay
Tom McNaney
Diane Miely
Nancy Morrell
Gerry Drew
Gary Forrest
Tari Gerst
Amy Goldstein-Rice
Suzanne Monroe
Marc Rosseel
Sarah Sabiston
Brendan Sprouls
TACS Current Instructor Exhibition
Show Runtime: May 16 – June 19
Soft Opening: May 15, 6:00 – 9:00 pm (TACS Open House Mixer)
Public Reception: May 21, 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Juror: Michael Webster
The TACS Instructor Exhibition showcases work by teaching artists across all studios, highlighting the range of active studio practices within our instructional community. Featuring a variety of media, the exhibition offers a look into the evolving creative work of artists who also teach at TACS. It celebrates instructors as working artists, and the ways their studio practices and teaching roles continually inform one another.
Participating Instructors
Meghan Bernard
Jimmi Buell
Ray Buckmaster
Austin Burns
Ann Gleason
Pam Herres
Susan McDade
Suzanne Monroe
Chloe Compton
Joe Cooper
Jim Cullen
Ellen Davison
Sam Oliver
Karl Schwartz
Kathleen Sweeney
Monica Stevenson
Gerry Drew
Henry Gardner
Phil Garrett
Madison Geer
Kate Timbes
Wendy West
Priscilla Yeager
About the Juror:
Michael Webster focuses on the social organization of space through site-specific projects, sculpture, and installation. His work is context-driven and materially attuned, investigating the effects of power on social geography with a focus on long-term participatory projects rooted in the southern United States. He has participated in residencies at McColl Center, ChaNorth, Hambidge Center, Elsewhere Living Museum, and Penland School of Craft. He was the runner-up for the 2023 SouthArts Southern Prize and the recipient of the South Carolina State Fellowship.
Michael has exhibited at Locust Projects, the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Coker University, and the Liv Lab Watershed Project Space at Western Carolina University. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from East Carolina University and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, he is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid GVL and an Associate Professor at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
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