Special opening reception set for Thursday
From staff reports
The USC Beaufort Center for the Arts is hosting “Office Hours,” a solo exhibition by artist and USCB instructor Emma Barnes McClure, through Friday, Sept. 29.
A special opening reception will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 21.
Also featured will be works by USCB Studio Art juniors and seniors created under McClure’s guidance.
Barnes is a multi-disciplinary artist from Islandton, S.C. She attended the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities from 2008 to 2010.
In 2014, she graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Painting & Printmaking and a double major in Gender Studies. In 2019 she attended Athena Standards, an art residency in Athens, Greece.
In 2022, Barnes received an MFA in Painting, Drawing and Photography in the Alfred University international Düsseldorf program. She continues to produce and exhibit work around the country including Lake City’s 2023 Art Fields Festival, the Arts Center of Greenwood, Florida Mining Gallery, Michigan Medicine Gallery, Montgomery College Gallery in Maryland, and Sulfur Studios in Savannah.
