Coker’s Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery presents the work of Kathleen Thum
Kathleen Thum has been awarded several fellowships to attend artist residencies, such as the Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming, the Vermont Studio Center, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and the Women’s Studio Workshop.
She has received a Quarterly Support Grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission and was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Mark Program. She presented her artwork at the 2016 International Petrocultures Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and plans to present new work at the upcoming 2018 Petrocultures Conference in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Thum received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and her MFA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She currently teaches drawing as an associate professor in the art department at Clemson University in upstate South Carolina, where she lives with her husband and son.
The Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery is located in the Gladys C. Fort Art Building on the Coker College campus, in Hartsville.
Gallery hours are Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. while classes are in session.
For more information about the gallery, please call exhibition director, Renny Prince, at 843-383-8156, or email him at artgallery@coker.edu or visit ceceliacokerbellgallery.com.
Coker College upholds and defends the intellectual and artistic freedom of its faculty and students as they study and create art through which they explore the full spectrum of human experience.
The college considers such pursuits central to the spirit of inquiry and thoughtful discussion, which are at the heart of a liberal arts education.
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Founded in 1908, Coker is a bachelor’s and master’s degree-granting institution and competes in 21 NCAA Division II sports.
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