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CAG Members Meeting – March 14, 2023
March 14, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
CAG Member Meeting
- Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
- Where: Charleston County Public Library, 68 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC
- Agenda:
- 5:00 PM Hospitality Setup*
- 5:30 – 6:00 Gathering and Socializin
- 6:00 – 6:15 CAG Buiness Meeting
- 6:15 – 7:15 Presentation by Mary Whyte
- 7:30 Meeting Adjourned
*Reach out now to let Jan Kelley, the Hospitality Director know any appetizer you will bring so she can plan accordingly.Email Jan at artist.jankelley@gmail.com or text her at 843.425.8122
Our presenter for the March Member Meeting is Mary Whyte
The Charleston Artist Guild is pleased to announce that Mary Whyte will be the speaker at the Tuesday, March 14th Members’ Meeting at the Charleston County Public Library at 68 Calhoun Street starting at 5:30 pm.
Mary Whyte is an American figurative artist known internationally for her watercolors of contemporary people. Her works are in private, corporate, university and public collections nationwide, and have been featured in numerous media outlets including CBS Sunday Morning, PBS and NPR.
The author of seven books including We the People: Portraits of Veterans in America, Whyte’s work has also been featured in many international publications, including periodicals and books in China, Russia, France, Germany, Canada and Taiwan.
She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Portrait Society of America’s Gold Medal, the Carolinas Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Award, and the South Carolina Governor’s Award for the Arts, South Carolina’s highest honor in the arts. Whyte received the 2020 National DAR Medal of Honor and the 2020 NSDAR Women in the Arts Award. In 2021, Converse University in Spartanburg, South Carolina, awarded her an honorary doctorate degree.
In 2019 Whyte founded the Patriot Art Foundation as a means to honor and inspire veterans through the arts.
Today, Whyte’s groundbreaking national, traveling museum exhibition of fifty large-scale watercolors called We the People: Portraits of Veterans in America is on view at the National Museum of the United States Army near Washington, DC, March, 18, 2023 through July 2023.
For more information on acquiring available works, or for more information on upcoming museum exhibitions, events and current news, please contact Sharon Crawford.