Spend a morning with band of young artists on the lily farm.

We’ve asked these local, Augusta high school artists to share their works and vision. They’ll be showing, selling, talking, and learning. We’re also pairing them with renowned ‘mentors’ from Columbia – so they can build networks and have informal time to ask questions about art and the art world.

Enjoy the lily fields and flowers too!

May 27, Saturday. 8:30 until 2 pm. Rain or shine. The event is free. Artists will sell their own work. But RSVP is required.

Iris Moore works on the Lily Farm and spearheads this event!

Iris Moore

Iris is an eleventh grader at Davidson Fine Arts and majoring in visual art and costume design. Iris has worked on the farm with us for two years. She’s coordinated this event. Iris says, “I hope to incorporate as many mediums as I can, including watercolor, sculpture, acrylic and oil paint, and metal work, jewelry, and sculpture.

My aim is to create an atmosphere for young people like me to learn beyond the classroom.”

Alivia Miller has explored various types of art and landed in what she does now, ceramics.

Alva Miller

She began ceramics in high school during her sophomore year and loved the experience of building with her hands. Putting what she has in her head into a ceramic sculpture makes her proud of her work and want to pursue this life after high school. She translates what her mind creates and has a longing passion for it, with each mistake or step back simply part of finishing her point and achieving more.

Jaden painted Buck into a mural on the farm!

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Jaden

Jaden graduated from Davidson Academy of Fine Arts but currently is working on a horticulture degree at Augusta Technical College. Jaden does awesome quick sketches and she painted our donkey Buck into our mural on the barn.

Virginia Scotchie has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. Joining us as a mentor, Columbia, S.C., ceramic artist Virginia Scotchie has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. Among her solo- and two-person exhibitions are those at C.R.E.T.A. Ceramic Center in Rome, Italy; the Vallauris Institute of Art in France; the Tulsa (Okla.) Center for the Arts; the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, N.Y.; the Trinity Building in Charlotte, N.C.; and the Gertrude Herbert Art Institute in Augusta, Ga. She has had residencies in Italy, France, Wales, England, China, Taiwan, The Netherlands and Australia, where she received the Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award from the Shepparton Museum in Victoria. Scotchie received a BA in sociology and religion from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and an MFA from Alfred University in the state of New York.
Virginia’s Artist Statement,
“Recent work has dealt with the relationships of whole forms to that of their components. The act of taking apart and putting back together has contributed to the accumulation of a personal library of fragmented images. My current interest is in the exploration of new forms derived from rearranging fragments of disparate dissected objects.”

More Artists to Come!

MORE TO COME.

More to Come!

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More to Come

Hanna Price says, “Clay is a medium that both comes from the earth and is refined by it.”

By natural means and man, literal ground is transformed into another likeness altogether – according to the maker’s heart and hands. That an entire person’s passion, values, and personality can be displayed in one physical form amazes me; that each vessel is, more or less, the potter’s heart laid bare before the viewer. This perfect vulnerability defines itself in my work; my thoughts, emotions, and deepest knowledge can be impressed into the texture of each vessel. Each joy, love, heartbreak, or trouble can be recorded in the silhouette of an object, the intangible, inexpressible components of life made physical. Communication in this form can be accomplished with ease, a plight that can be recognized without speech. By a conversation of the eyes and clay surfaces, an entire cause can be given a voice; an entire being understood.

Alexis Lanier says, All art derives from a place of human expression.

Alexis Lanier

I am currently a Psychology major and Sociology minor at Augusta University. I am also a 2020 graduate of Davidson Fine Arts. At Davidson, I primarily studied music. Despite taking just a few art classes at DFA, my love for art has always been present and has continued to grow over the years! In my free time, I draw self-portraits and other forms of reference drawings. I am also a self-taught photographer. I hope to create a photography and artwork-based brand/small business one day.
I also have a small business called “Lanier’s Jewelry & Crafts” which I started towards the end of junior year at the age of 17. I initially started selling custom-made bracelets/anklets, but I have expanded to selling bracelets/anklets, earrings, keychains, phone straps, wristlets, coasters, terracotta pots, etc.
I look forward to being in an artistic setting where I can share my work and get to know other artists and learn from them.

CLAY BURNETTEis a self-taught pine needle basketmaker who has been coiling longleaf pine needles for over 45 years .

He has exhibited his work in over 260 venues throughout the US and abroad. In 2017, his work was included in Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America, which traveled for three years to eight venues in the US. In 2019, his work received the Award of Excellence by the National Basketry Organization (NBO), an award he also received in 2013. In 2000, his work was selected for inclusion in two significant exhibitions: Contemporary International Basketry, which toured the United Kingdom for two years; and 100 Years/100 Artists: Views of the 20th Century in SC Art, at the SC State Museum. His work is included in numerous public and private collections.

He has exhibited his baskets at the Smithsonian Craft Show, Philadelphia Craft Show, ACC Atlanta Craft Show, ACC Charlotte Craft Show, SOFA New York, SOFA Chicago and has been included in numerous print publications. In 2013, his work was included in Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art, an exhibition that toured the southeastern US for six years. He is the recipient of the SC Arts Commission’s Craft Fellowship for 2022, an award he also received in 1988.  He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina with AS, BAIS, and MLIS degrees.  A native of Dalton, GA, he resides in Columbia, SC. ARTIST STATEMENT
I use the basic basket-making technique of coiling to create contemporary shapes that incorporate lots of patience, persistence, and imagination.

I begin the process by gathering fresh pine needles from longleaf pine trees that grow in the sandhills of South Carolina.  The needles are often colored with fabric dyes, acrylic paints, and iridescent inks, then sewn into coils using various colors of waxed linen thread and/or plated copper wire.  My tools are simple: a large steel upholstery needle and a pair of sharp-pointed scissors. When completed, each piece is preserved with a light coating of beeswax and signed with my initials. I follow no patterns and make no preliminary sketches before I begin a basket.
Time is irrelevant whenever I am stitching.  The exploration of color, pattern, texture and form keeps me focused on the moment, but always thinking of what is yet to come.

WE’RE CREATIVE

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WE’RE PASSIONATE

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WE’RE AWESOME

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