Category: Art

Samples of Kate Palmer’s Artwork on Display, Salon, Emeritus College: Beach Towel ~ Mountain View ~ Robber Barons in the Gilded Age ~ Lunch with a View

Please save the date for a special event on July 8, 2025, 10:00 am – 11:30 am in the Salon at the Emeritus College

More Details Coming Soon!

Join Us for a Special Event!

SPECIAL EMERITUS COLLEGE MUSIC EVENT – OCTOBER 18TH

Event: Interview Mac Arnold and enjoy Mac’s music along with one band member

Date: Friday, October 18, 2024, at 10:00 am (Coffee House Music Session)

Place: Emeritus College Seminar Room

Cost: Free (donations are welcome!)

The Clemson University Emeritus College has arranged for legendary Blues performer Mac Arnold to discuss his career and provide musical entertainment during our regularly scheduled Coffee House event on Friday, October 18, 2024, beginning at 10 AM.

You may be familiar with Mac, but here is a brief bio: Born in Ware Place, SC to a family of sharecroppers, he and his brother, Leroy, taught themselves how to play guitar by fashioning a broom stick and a gas can into an instrument. As a teenager, Mac formed a band with James Brown playing the piano. In 1965, he moved to Chicago to be close to the electric blues scene and became a part of Muddy Waters’ band. By the 1970s, Mac was in Los Angeles and began coordinating music on the TV show Soul Train, later playing bass on the theme song for the extraordinarily successful television show Sanford and Son, starring Redd Fox. Mac became remarkably busy doing recording work with Otis Redding, B.B. King, Bill Withers, and others. In the 1980s, he returned to South Carolina to become an organic farmer. Mac eventually formed the Plate Full O’Blues band, and they toured together.

We will interview Mac about his career and enjoy a jam session with a member of the Plate Full O’Blues band. Please invite friends and family who would appreciate getting to know this South Carolina treasure. He is a very humble and approachable man. Please feel free to ask him questions as this will be very informal and lots of fun. Sponsored by The Debbie and Vince Jackson Endowment for Music and your contributions, which make music events at the Emeritus College possible.

Date: Saturday, June 8, 2024

Time: 11:30 am – 2:00 pm

Location: Emeritus College at 511 Westinghouse Rd. Pendleton, SC 29670

Registration Link for Catered Lunch: REGISTER HERE

On Saturday, June 8, 2024, the Emeritus College is catering a Lunch Social beginning at 11:30 am in the Break Room at 511 Westinghouse Rd., Pendleton, SC 29670 – the Emeritus College. After lunch, at 1:00 pm, we proudly present one of our own, Chris Benson, and the band KREW in the Seminar Room for a concert featuring classic rock songs of the 50s, 60s and 70s. A fun time guaranteed for all! The concert is FREE. Please bring your family and friends for an afternoon of good vibrations brought to you by the Debbie and Vince Jackson Endowment for EC Music. Your donations make the continuation of these music programs possible in the future. Please register (link above) for our luncheon so that our caterer provides enough food and drink. Thank you!

Lots of people enjoy watching birds out the window during the winter – curiosity raises questions about birds, habitat, and how to take really good photos. Our nature loving friends and family would appreciate the gift of an online, self-paced course on Birding and Photography!

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Need a great holiday gift idea for your friends and family? A lot of people enjoy watching birds in winter out their backyard window! For those nature lovers, consider the gift of our online course BIRDING AND NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY, created by our own Emeritus College field trip leaders Imtiaz Haque and Vince Jackson. This course, offered through Clemson University’s Online Education, is self-paced and comes with easy instruction, and some of Imtiaz’s fabulous bird photos. (He even explains how he takes those great shots). This course has received A+ reviews and has been completed by dozens of birders. Suited for beginners and people with some birding knowledge, the course is reasonably priced at $75. Proceeds benefit the Emeritus College. Thank you for your support!

Online Course, Self-Paced:  Birding and Photography

Cost: $75 

Register Here

Clemson, SC – Admission is Free!

The Emeritus College is pleased to announce that South Carolina’s First Lady of Rock, Rhythm and Soul, Wanda Johnson, will perform a free concert on Friday, November 17, 2023, in the Emeritus College Seminar Room beginning at 11:00 a.m.

Ms. Johnson, a seasoned performer from nearby Belton, SC, will perform songs she has written as part of the Debbie and Vince Jackson Endowment for Music Appreciation. Wanda has performed in nine countries in Europe as well as China. She is well-known in our area for her appearances during the Anderson Summer Concert Series, Pendleton’s Palmetto BBQ jazz programs, and Seneca’s Jazz on the Alley.

A natural-born singer, “brought up singin’ in church” with her eight sisters, Ms. Johnson has shared stage appearances with well-known artists Johnny Winter, Robert Cray, James Cotton, Drink Small (“The Blues Doctor”), Kip Anderson, and the late, great BB King.

Ms. Johnson’s original music is well received locally, nationally, and internationally. Her song “The River”, a tribute to her father, has been used in independent films.  Wanda’s sultry voice graces at least five CD recordings with fans comparing her to Nina Simone and Etta James. Very approachable, her fans love Wanda – not only for her vocal abilities – but also for her ability to intimately connect with her audiences. Do not miss this opportunity to meet and hear a local musical legend.

• Featured Event: Free Concert by Wanda Johnson,
• Friday, Nov. 17, 2023
• Emeritus College Seminar Room 
• 11:00 AM
• Special: Emeritus College Coffee House Regular Participants may join Wanda at 10:00 AM.

Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts Tom Dimond is busy in his retirement!!

His current project is participating in the inaugural exhibition of an arts center in Westminster, SC. The Gateway Arts Center  is an all volunteer art exhibit and education organization that relies entirely on donations, grants and fees to offer services to the public. The center is located in the renovated old post office at the corner of Highway 123 and Highway 76.

It is the Center’s goal is to make a wide variety of art, history and culture accessible to people of all ages and from every walk of life. The Center seeks to engage the community by offering public participation events free of charge alongside formal exhibits and classes.

Through active collaboration with the Westminster Music Centre, Mountain Lakes Convention and Visitors Bureau, Westminster Depot and other local non profit arts organizations; by establishing an active membership; and with a well -rounded schedule of yearly events that complements established venues: it is their mission to help open the doors of creativity to everyone.

Gateway intends to do this as a “green” organization by reducing our environmental impact and setting a positive example- from continuous recycled art projects, paperless gallery procedures and reuse of building materials to solar power panels and car charging stations.

The gallery’s grand opening will be January 12th with an exhibition called “Oconee Artists of Distinction”. Below are photos of two of Tom’s works that will be on display!!

GATEWAY ARTS CENTER
213 E. Windsor Street (76/123)
Westminster SC 29693
Phone:  864-613-2211
gatewayartscenter213@gmail.com

                           
 Bouquet -T. Dimond                                                Turning -T. Dimond

John Acorn’s  work will be on display at the Anderson Arts Center from January 12-February 16, 2018 as part of Espana Conexiones de Arte (A Spain Inspired Exhibition) in association with the Anderson International Festival.  The opening reception will be held on Friday, January 12, 2018 at 6:30 pm. See John’s description of the exhibition works below:

            The large low relief paintings are in honor of Joaquín Torres-García.  He was a Spanish artist who painted in the first half of the twentieth century.  When I visited Madrid about twenty-five years ago I saw his work in the Museum of Reina Sofía.  I enjoyed the everyday subjects and the directness of his work.  I purchased the exhibition catalog.

            When Kimberly Spears (Anderson Arts Commission) asked me to exhibit art works that had a relationship to Spain I realized an opportunity to recognize Torres-García as well as Picasso. My connection to Spain is with a family whose daughter, Ana, lived with my family as an exchange student at Pendleton High School. 

            The black and white relief paintings are titled Homage to Torres-Garcia.  I have shared his use of common objects with my interest in common objects.  I have also tried to use and share the structure of his paintings.

            The steel sculpture in the exhibition is titled Homage to Picasso’s Guernica. The fish head is looking upward as bombs are being dropped on the City of Guernica in WWII by the Nazis.  The fish head was first made of wood with the intent of reproducing it in plate steel.  This was done locally by CSI, Consolidated Southern Industries in Anderson, SC. 

            The large wooden sculpture is obviously a larger version of the fish head.  I have interest in also having it reproduced in plate steel sometime in the future.

John T. Acorn

   John began his career as an assistant professor at Clemson University in 1961 and retired as Department Chair in 1998. Click HERE for more information about John and to see his works displayed at the Emeritus College Suite in Pendleton, SC. We are proud to call John a member of the emeritus faculty and encourage folks to visit the exhibition.

Torres-Gracia Artwork-Constructivo De Gris Y Negro Con Centro Rojo

(Notice the initials JTAG in the upper left-hand….John’s full name is John Thomson Acorn and the Torres-Garcia artist’s full Spanish name is Joaquin Torres-Garcia)

TOM DIMOND, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF VISUAL ARTS has added two pieces to the ever growing  collection at the Emeritus College Gallery. Tom began his career at Clemson University in 1973 and retired in 2006. Visit the EMERITUS COLLEGE GALLERY page for more information on the artists and their work or stop by and visit the gallery at the Emeritus College Suite at the CAT Building 511 Westinghouse Road in Pendleton.