The Sea Islands Center Gallery at the University of South Carolina Beaufort is pleased to present an exhibition featuring the work of the Department of Visual Art & Design faculty. The artist reception is Friday, September 7, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. and the exhibition is currently on view until September 21.

This year’s exhibition features a diverse collection of work, ranging from themes of military conflict and strategy to ruminations on the word ‘touched’. Chris Robinson’s digital prints and drawings display images of jets and chessboard-like patterns. Joanna Angell is showing embossed, printed, and stitched words on paper, as well as a graphic ink drawing on wood and one of her signature ceramic bird bowls.

Kim Keats focuses on our connection to nature, harvesting her own materials to create her sculptural forms of white pine bark and twigs, stitching and weaving the forms together. Laurie Lovell is also working with fiber, incorporating wire mesh, acrylic, and thread into her meditative pieces.

Chad Penner displays a large-as-life pastel and charcoal satirical drawing of a politician cloaked as superhero and Ann Holderfield shares a colorful pastel and acrylic work on paper created during a personal health issue. Art History Professor Lisa Ciresi’s recently published essay Maria Ecclesia: The Aachen Marienschrein as an Alternate Body for the Virgin Mary will also be on display.