November 2019 Presenter: Sara Schneckloth

We invite you to join us at our next meeting on November 18, 2019 for food, fun and fellowship! Our presenter this month will be Sara Schneckloth.

Sara will show drawings from current projects underway, including work from the San Juan Basin badlands of New Mexico. “Since 2014, I have made artwork centering on the natural landforms and vernacular architecture of the American Southwest. I have recently started integrating materials I collect by hand from the landscape into my drawings, including natural charcoals and a range of iron oxide pigments. This process invites a viewer to consider both the history and substance of the drawing materials and the terrain upon which they stand. These drawings seek to convey the history and physicality of the forms I encounter, while evoking living, natural, systems.”

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Sara Schneckloth’s current artwork engages with the varied landscapes of Northern New Mexico, through drawing, painting, and interactive installation. Her studio practice began in the early 1990s in San Francisco; she has since created and shown artwork in South Africa, France, Norway, the UK, and in over 80 group and solo exhibitions in the United States. Sara has held numerous artist residencies and led collaborative drawing workshops across the US and UK, including public drawing events at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the OXO Center in London, and curates the Seed Cultures Archive, a digital project in conversation with the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle. An Associate Professor in the School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina, she heads the SVAD Drawing program and teaches all levels of studio art courses.

Sara Schneckloth

Associate Professor

School of Visual Art and Design

University of South Carolina

See more about Sara and her work at www.saraschneckloth.com and instagram.com/saraschneckloth.

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A reminder to our members:

The theme for the artwork in the TAP Gallery for Nov/Dec will be <tbd>. Be sure to bring some art to hang in the gallery and compete in the monthly contest.

Also, artists with artwork from the “What I’m thankful for... Giving Thanks” exhibit should plan to take home their pieces while at the meeting.