Artists Among Us - Softcover

Edward Emory; Stephen Stinson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891885863 ISBN 13: 9781891885860

Publisher: Hub City Press, 2011

Synopsis

During the past century Spartanburg has produced an abundance of world-class visual artists and dispersed them across the world. At the same time, the city has become a magnet for painters, sculptors, ceramicists, and more who have converged here in the South Carolina piedmont to create a vibrant and diverse arts community. Seeking to give the Spartanburg visual arts community the attention it deserves, Edward Emory and Stephen Stinson developed a plan in the summer of 2008 to create photographic portraits of scores of Spartanburg artists. Stinson shot the photographs, and Emory, who operates Spartanburg s Carolina Gallery, printed the colorful images on large, gallery-wrapped canvases. Month by month, they built a virtual army of artists, displaying them in downtown storefronts. Two years later, they decided it was time to make a book that would celebrate and pay tribute to the people who have shaped, and are continuing to shape, a remarkably robust art community. Artists Among Us highlights the Hub City s citizen-artists those whose civic spirit has helped build the local arts community through regular participation and association with such institutions as the Spartanburg Art Museum, the Spartanburg Artists Guild, HUB-BUB, the West Main Co-op, our public schools and colleges. What s startling about this group of artists is how widespread their backgrounds are. They have settled here from the Kentucky coal country, the Illinois prairie, rural Ireland, the countryside of France, the industrial Midwest, the wild swamps of Louisiana, and all points in between. Others are homegrown, blossoming after finding their way to master teachers at our local schools and colleges. This book itself is a snapshot in time, a sampler of what Spartanburg has to offer as we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century. These creative citizens are carrying the torch for the monumental artists and art-lovers of Spartanburg s past: Margaret Law, Josephine Sibley Couper, Peggy Gignilliat, Helen Dupre Moseley, August and Irma Cook and others. They are your neighbors, your teachers, and your co-workers, offering up their personal stories as well as some of their favorite artwork. This book is presented with gratitude for the spark and the beauty they have brought to Spartanburg.

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About the Author:

Edward Emory has spent the past thirty-four years working with, employing, and promoting artists. His love of visual arts began as a child and has continued throughout his professional career. He and his wife, Shannon, operate one of the largest original fine art galleries in South Carolina. In the 1980s Emory was among the first to embrace digital technology used to produce what eventually became known as "Giclee prints. His expertise in this technology led to strong personal relationships with artists from all over the United States. He has juried numerous fine arts exhibits, served two terms as president of the Spartanburg Artists Guild, is a current board member of the Healing Arts Foundation, and the co-founder of Spartanburg's monthly art walk. Emory regularly speaks to various art groups and artists about the business of marketing and promoting their artwork. He continues to be a devoted supporter of visual arts in his community and the region. If you had asked Stephen Stinson where his life was going at age seventeen, he would never have imagined photography as a full-time career. When he was in high school all he wanted to do was play his Fender bass with his pals in their band, Jericho. Eventually he attended and graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta with a degree in photography before returning to Spartanburg and working with Olencki Graphics (Mark Olencki) for eight years. He ventured out on his own in 1993 and today he is still producing images for a wide variety of clients, photographing people, food, architecture, and the world around him for advertising, editorial, and corporate assignments. He lives in Spartanburg, married to his high school sweetheart, Patty, and they have one son, Lane, who is now in college.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hub City Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1891885863
• ISBN 13: 9781891885860
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224