#Susan ann reames in santa monica professional#

Her works may be found in both private and commercial collections throughout the Southeast. She shares a studio at the Confederate Home in Charleston, SC for summer and weekend painting. Reames was chosen for the 2008 Summer Program at Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy with a focus on portrait painting, and studied classical realism at the Mims Studios in Southern Pines, NC. She also studied portrait painting under Michael del Priori and still life painting under Qaing Huang. Reames studied portraiture under Art Student League instructor, Gary Faigin and University of South Carolina instructor, Deanna Lemon. Reames is a member of the South Carolina Art Education Association, the National Art Education Association, The American Portrait Society, The Oil Painters of America, the Sumter County Gallery of Art and the Sumter Artists Guild. Reames Received Teacher of the Year Award at Wilson Hall in 2007, and runner up for State Teacher of the Year in 2007. She taught elementary art for three years in Sumter School District and has been teaching high school art and photography at Wilson Hall for over thirty years. Reames majored in art at Coker College and received a Masters in Art Education from the University of South Carolina. She started drawing and painting in oils at age 14 under the instruction of Sumter artist, Mildred White, and still enjoys studying art.

#Susan ann reames in santa monica professional#

She has been both a professional painter and an art instructor for over thirty years. Mary Ann Reames is a native of Sumter, South Carolina, and a fourth generation South Carolinian. Châteauvert will give an artist talk Thursday, Januat the closing reception. The exhibition in Sumter will include several installations that feature flowing kelp and diaphanous morning glories, lighted pieces and paper jewelry. Oversized and immersive, diminutive and whimsical, my pieces dilate the natural world and bring it inside. My paper forms revert to their botanical origins I make plants from plants. I merge this science with the unknown by air-drying my pieces: the paper shrinks, twists and cockles, forming three-dimensional shapes more subtle than I could design. The ritual of hand papermaking is ancient, scientific, and rhythmic. Informing her 30-year career, Châteauvert’s passion has been to create intricate, self-supporting structures from hand-made paper.”Ĭhâteauvert observes – I build worlds from the most common and least known material: paper. Her work involves a distinct approach to sculpture.

In 2016, she won the 3D People’s Choice prize at ArtFields, Lake City SC.įrom an interview with Kyle Petersen in the May 2017 issue of Free-Times: “Châteauvert’s commissioned installations are threaded throughout South Carolina, with everything from her magical lily pad display at the Medical University of South Carolina at the Ashley River Tower to the colorful “The Space in Between” mobile installation commissioned by the South Carolina State Museum for its planetarium. She was recently included in the prestigious Paper Biennial 2018 in Rijswijk, The Netherlands and also Paper Global 4 in Deggendorf, Germany. Châteauvert exhibits extensively nationally and internationally. Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Mint Museum, South Carolina State Museum and the Medical University of South Carolina.

She is the recipient of a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and the Craft Fellowship award from the South Carolina Arts Commission. Since 1999, she has lived in Charleston, South Carolina, devoting herself to plant-based, handmade paper. After earning an MFA from the University of Iowa, she established her career in San Francisco. Jocelyn Châteauvert, raised and educated in Iowa City, is a paper artist – or as she calls herself, a “paper wrangler”, who creates jewelry, lighting, sculpture, and installations from the paper she makes by hand.