the CCAL
- Jan 11, 2022
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January 2022 General Meeting UPDATE

In light of the rapid rise of COVID cases due to the spread of Omicron, the board has decided that it is most prudent for us to hold the January 17 meeting via Zoom only. So, we're bringing this meeting to you online - straight to your home studio or sofa, so we can stay connected during these unprecedented times.

As a reminder:

For January, we're in for a treat. Our presenter will be long time CCAL member, national award winner and all around great person Anne Hightower Patterson.

How is Your Composition Doing?

Anne will offer a critique of members’ current artwork with an Eye on Composition. Each artist is invited to send no more than one jpeg image to Anne at patter816@aol.com. Please list in the subject line: Your Name / Crooked Creek Art League. Please also include in your email the title of the piece.

Always extremely popular, Anne has offered this opportunity to our members in prior years and it has always been a big hit and a great learning experience for all. Anne will critique as many pieces as time allows.

CUT OFF FOR EMAIL SUBMISSIONS to Anne will be

Noon this Friday, Jan 14

so that Anne has enough time to review the submissions and make her comments.

To keep the business meeting shorter, please review the information provided by our President regarding Board business activities and decisions prior to the meeting <Click HERE one week prior to the meeting>.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89404936824

The Zoom session will open at 5:45pm

The Meeting will begin at 6pm

Photo of Artist Anne Hightower Patterson White

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Anne Hightower-Patterson B. 1950

A native of South Carolina, Anne is now ending her fifth decade of creating art. At the age of 12, her school system provided the opportunity for art classes. It was the first step awakening that artist in her.

Under the tutelage of her high school teacher, Virginia Fouche Bolton, she found her lifelong love and passion for making art.

In 1972, Anne graduated from the University of South Carolina with a BFA in studio art. In 1975 she earned a Master’s Degree in education also from USC. In 2002 she retired from the Richland One School system where she worked for 27 years as an art teacher, counselor, assistant principal and principal. In her final years, she served as Principal of Crayton Middle School which provided a curriculum rich in the arts. The school provided studies in visual art, band, chorus, strings, ballet and drama. After working 29 years in the public-school system, Anne now paints full time in her studio and teaches classes and workshops in South Carolina and throughout the Southeast. Her background as an artist and experience as an educator has enabled her to be a highly popular instructor in watercolor.

Her work was featured in Splash 16, 17 and 18 The Best of Watercolor in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Her painting “Fishermen’s Tales” was featured in the April 2016 issue of Watercolor Magazine as a part of their Watercolor Showcase. This is the second time her work has been featured in their Watercolor Showcase.

In 2016, she was selected by Watercolor Magazine as one of 10 artists selected nationally in the annual feature as “Ones to Watch”. This article highlights 10 emerging watercolor artists across the United States. To be considered for this award, the artist must be nominated by a Master Artist chosen by the magazine.

Signature Memberships: SC Watermedia Society, Watercolor Society of Alabama, Mississippi Watercolor Society, Georgia Watercolor Society, Louisiana Watercolor Society, and the prestigious Rocky Mountain National Watercolor group.

Associate Memberships: American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society

In 2005 she received the Fine Art Spirit Achievement Award from the SC State Fair. (For 21 years, the South Carolina State Fair named annually an individual who had notably contributed to the arts of South Carolina. Each merit award given annually is named after a South Carolina State Fair Fine Art Spirit Achievement Award winner. No one can apply for this award. It is selected by committee based on the recipient’s involvement in the community.)

She served on the Board of the South Carolina Watermedia Society from 1987 until 2009.

She is member of Crooked Creek Artist guild where she had served on the board for several years and taught workshops and given multiple presentations.

In 2018 she served as President of the South Carolina Watermedia Society and served on the board as past president in 2019.

She currently serves on the Board of Create Newberry which is a supporting foundation for the Newberry Art Center.

Publications: Splash 16, 17 and 18; Watercolor Artist Magazine Article August 2017; Watercolor Showcase Selection 2011, 2016

Anne is one of 10 artists who is featured in the upcoming book: Her Voice: Contemporary Watermedia Masters Speak, By Laurie Goldstein-Warren.

Represented by: The Carpenter Gallery, Newberry, SC and The Newberry Art Center

*A former Fellowship Winner

Website: Anne Hightower-Patterson.com

Facebook: Anne Hightower-Patterson Fine Art and Anne Hightower- Patterson White