Fran Gardner

Fran Gardner is Distinguished Professor Emerita of art and art history at the University of South Carolina Lancaster where she taught studio courses and art history for thirty-two years. Through these many years of teaching, she developed her methods for working with artists on their studio practices and creativity and gained the expertise for writing about art, leading retreats, teaching workshops, and judging and curating exhibitions. She works in mixed media collage with a heavy emphasis on fiber arts. She paints and draws with traditional materials, but also with thread, layering her work with rich texture, color and mark-making.