EVENTS
SEPTEMBER GUEST ARTIST
SHANNON McGEE
Shannon is a native South Carolinian born in Iva, SC and having lived in downtown Greenville for more than 40 years. Leaving a corporate job in the late 1990s, he had an antique store on Main Street and the Westend Market for years where he began dabbling in artistic finishes on floors and walls.
His art uses Italian marble plasters and mixed media to capture unusual textures, colors, and layers on canvas and panels. Shannon draws inspiration from time as an exchange student in the Flanders region of northern France and later as an English assistant in the Pyrenees of Southwestern France near Spain.
Though his initial art was Italian marble plaster wall finishes in homes in the Upstate and Western North Carolina, it has evolved more to smaller, individual artworks (especially as he reaches Medicare age).
CHRISTINE SWANN - AGGG VISITING ARTIST
Christine Swann PSA, IAPS-EP Event at AGGG
Saturday, October 17
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OCTOBER GUEST ARTIST
JANIE CULLEN
MEET THE ARTIST
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 6-8PM
Janie is a mixed media artist whose interest in art began in high school. She was drawn early to black-and-white film photography, finding magic in the hands-on process of developing film and creating prints in the darkroom. This tactile relationship with materials and process continues to inform her work today.
In 2016, as her life underwent a significant transition, her artistic practice evolved as well. After returning to her hometown of Greenville, South Carolina with her 3 young girls, Janie reconnected with art and discovered the healing power of creativity. She now creates vibrant mixed media works using collected materials—paper, thread, her grandmother’s buttons, etc. These materials are torn, cut, shredded, and reassembled into animals, flowers, and organic forms.
Through this process of fragmentation and reconstruction, Janie explores themes of resilience, repair, and renewal. The fragments become something whole, mirroring her own lived experience and the quiet strength found in transformation.