The work of four Francis Marion University students and one faculty member is on display in Florence County Museum’s Waters Gallery.
The Legacy exhibition traces the influence and legacy of Ansel Adams through the work of former FMU visual arts students Tari Federer and Elizabeth Kinser and current students Kathleen Kennebeck and Allison Triplett and Assistant Professor of Visual Art (Photography) Julie Mixon. The works will be on display at the gallery until June 28.
The Florence Regional Arts Alliance and the Florence County Museum collaborated on the Legacy exhibit. The exhibit is open to the public. There is no admission charge. Exhibit hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and on Sundays from 2-5 p.m. An artist reception for the show will be held May 12 at 6 p.m. in the Waters Building.
The Waters Building is located at 135 S. Dargan Street.
The Legacy display stems from the special “Ansel Adams Experience” trip that Mixon and the students made last fall to the Eastern Sierras of California. The trip was funded by an FMU Ready to Experience Applied Learning (R.E.A.L.) grant and was aimed at teaching the students about the methods behind Ansel Adams’ work. Touring the Sierras gave them the opportunity to practice photographic methods in some of the very locations Adams made photographs.
“Many people think (Adams) just makes pretty landscapes,” says Mixon. “I wanted (the students) to experience what he had to go through, the hiking, weather conditions. They learned a little more about large format film photography.”
The exhibit title, Legacy, suggests the importance of ongoing knowledge transfer: from teacher to student, from photographers of one generation to another. Mixon says Adams’ legacy will continue with the fundamental techniques and ideas featured in the show.
The exhibit will move to FMU’s Hyman Fine Arts Center on campus in the Spring of 2015.
