Below is an archive of the news and events from the 2009-2011 gallery years. Included are student shows, visiting artist shows and happenings in the Department of Art.
Join the Piedmont senior art students as they celebrate the opening of their capstone show, Thursday April 29th at 5:30pm. The gallery will showcase the work of Autumn Richardson, Lara Varner, Katie Crunkleton and Ariana Sharpe.
The Piedmont College Art Gallery in Demorest is hosting an exhibition of paintings by Maggie McMahon from March 18-April 11. The exhibit is entitled “An exploration of forgiveness through the lens of Byzantine iconography.” A reception for the artist will be held at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, March 25, in the Gallery.
McMahon, who is a professor of art at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, applies the form of traditional Byzantine iconography to current subjects, including Wyoming murder victim Matthew Shepard, with panels showing Shepard and his two assailants. “My intent is that this will prevent the viewer from dismissing the assassin as inhuman; pure evil; an abomination,” McMahon said. “My hope is that the viewer will instead consider perpetrator and victim as two members of the human family, and will be led to consider what it would mean to forgive the perpetrator.”
McMahon attended Douglass College, Rutgers University and completed her undergraduate studies at New York University. She was awarded a Masters in Fine Arts from Clemson University. She received one of 10 annual grants awarded by the Southern Arts Federation and the National Endowment for the Arts to emerging artists in the Southeast. She has had solo exhibitions at the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, S.C.; Asheville Museum, Asheville, N.C.; Anderson College in Anderson, S.C.; and the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Piedmont College Department of Fine Art Presents
Rondal Reynoso
Artist Rondal Reynoso will display a series of paintings in the Piedmont Art Gallery through February 14th.
Opening5:30PM Thursday, January 14th
Fine Arts College Experience (FACE), November 12-13, 2009
Come for a fine arts time at Piedmont College! Visit the campus, stay over with a current
Piedmont student in your area of interest in the fine arts, and be immersed in some of theactivities of college life.
This event is for students who have an interest in the visual arts, theatre, or music. The weekend will begin at 4 p.m., Thursday, after registration. Activities will conclude Friday afternoon between 1-3 p.m., with check-out in Brooks Hall. This program is for 11th and 12th grade students only. Housing and meals are provided.
Click here for more information about FACE
If you are currently a student at Piedmont, consider taking an art class this spring!
All introductory art courses are open to all majors.
Take a ceramics, drawing, print making or photography course!
Learn more about our courses and programs.
Kappa Pi and Alpha Psi Omega Present
Halloween Ball 2009
The Halloween Ball is here, so put on your best costume and come over to the Art Gallery. Enjoy food, friends, and music in this years haunted forest. The entrance fee is $2 with a costume and $3 without. Snacks and drinks will be served, as well as pizza for $1 a slice. There will be a costume contest with prizes for king and queen of the ball, best couple, and best group costumes. So come start your Halloween Celebration with us October 29th from 8 p.m. to midnight in the Art Gallery.
Piedmont College Department of Fine Art Presents
Collaborations: Scott Meyer, Rick Hirsch, Kenneth Baskin, and Virginia Scotchie
October 22 - November 22
Four ceramic artists from across the country are coming to the Piedmont's Demorest campus to demonstrate their techniques. Part of the Art Department’s new show “Collaborations,” the artists include Scott Meyer, Rick Hirsch, Kenneth Baskin, and Virginia Scotchie, who will each create their artwork in the ceramic studio in the Art Annex.
The four artists are all professors at different universities in the U.S. Scott Meyer is a ceramics professor at the University of Montevello in Alabama; Rick Hirsch a ceramics professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, Kenneth Baskin is an assistant professor of art at McNeese State University in Louisiana, and Virginia Scotchie is head of the ceramics department at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
The works that the four artists complete will become part of a later show. Collaborations will open Oct. 22 at 5:30 p.m. and at 6 p.m. there will be a panel discussion on the show.
The Art Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The ceramic studio will be open to the public Oct. 22-24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Click below to visit the artists' websites:
Virginia Scotchie
Scott Meyer
Department of Fine Art Washington DC Trip 2009
Piedmont College's Department of Fine Art traveled to Washington DC this past weekend
to visit museums at the nation's capital. Students visited four museums, including the Renwick Gallery, a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which features one of the finest collections of American craft in the United States. They visited the Corcoran Gallery of Art to view two shows: Sargent and the Sea and Edward Burtynsky: Oil. In addition students also viewed the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Museum as well as the National Gallery of Art.
Piedmont College Department of Fine Art Presents
Sandra Trujillo Churros Locos
Artist Sandra Trujillo will display a series of ceramics works and 2-D art in the Piedmont Art Gallery through October 11th. Her ceramic work includes 3-D decorated heads and
2-D artwork includes mixed media. Refreshments will be seved.
Opening 5:30PM Thursday, September 17th
Location Piedmont Art Gallery
Krispy Kreme Doughnut Sale
Fresh and yummy doughnuts....don't YOU want a doughnut?
We are selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts for $5 presale, and $6 day of. The money raised will help fund a trip for the art department to Washington D.C. where we will study art in our national museums. Any extra money will also help fund the Halloween Ball. Donations will also be welcome.
Time 12:00AM Monday, September 14th
Location All over campus
Pick ups will be in the Art Gallery, doughnuts will also be on sale in the Cafe
The first art exhibit of the new school year is a show by Piedmont's art faculty.
A reception will be held at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 20, in the Art Gallery on Georgia Street in Demorest to kick off the show. The exhibit will be on display through Sept. 30.
The show presents ceramics, sculptures, paintings, drawings, and photos created by the art faculty members, including department chair Chris Kelley, who teaches ceramics and sculpture classes; assistant professor Rob Jones, who teaches painting, printmaking, and film; assistant professor Karl Michel, who teaches art education foundations; and assistant professor Kaitlin Wilson-Bryant, who is new to Piedmont this semester and teaches graphic design and photography.
The Art Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
