Visual Arts/Artist Row

Gallery Director, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN.

Karen Green has a BFA in Design from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro; exhibition installer and registrar for the South Eastern Center of Contemporary Craft, Winston-Salem, NC; founding member of non-profit art co-op SEED Collective, Winston Salem, NC; Gallery Director Piedmont Craftsmen Guild, Winston-Salem, NC; Karen is currently the Gallery Director for Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN where she manages onsite, national conference, and traveling permanent collection exhibitions, facilitates local, state, and national juries; she has served as juror for Tennessee and North Carolina Art Councils and the Piedmont Craftsmen Guild.

Assistant Director of the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, Asheville, NC

An experienced art administrator, curator, and teacher, Katie Lee has curated numerous exhibitions including; "Mapping Ports: Sullivan's Island, Goree Island, Portobelo, Havana and Seville," a mid-career retrospective exhibit of the artist Arturo Lindsay at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston, SC, "Fresh Work" a juried exhibition of alumni artists from the College of Charleston, "Surface Tension: Multimedia Abstractions by Cindy Neuschwander and Hiroyuki Hamada" at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and, most recently, "Celebrating the Bringle Sisters: Clay & Textile Mentors" at the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design. Lee served as Assistant Director and Curator at the College of Charleston's Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art from 2005 to 2008. During this time she also served as Adjunct Professor of the Museum Studies/Gallery Fundamentals course for the College of Charleston. Additionally, she has worked on projects with the City of Charleston's Office of Cultural Affairs. Lee also represented the works of Eva Carter and William Halsey as Gallery Director of Eva Carter Gallery from 2003 to 2005. Katie Lee became the Assistant Director of CCCD in February 2008. Lee has a B.A. in Art History from the College of Charleston with Departmental Honors and an Intercultural M.A. in Art History from Richmond, The American International University in London.

Assistant Professor of Art, Painting, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.

Todd McDonald earned his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and then went on to receive an MFA in painting and drawing from Arizona State University. He has taught at a variety of Universities and currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Painting at Clemson University. In conjunction with his work at Clemson, Todd maintains an involved studio practice and exhibits locally, regionally and nationally. His studio practice is divided between two methods. One avenue exploits the surface, material, and history of oil painting to describe the nuances and cues of post-digital abstraction. The other mode explores the use of the non-traditional material of duct tape as an image-making device. These images play on architecture, virtual space and abstraction in roles that simultaneously celebrate and mock the character of our constructed environment.

South Carolina Jewelry and Metal Artist and Designer, Greenville, SC

Danielle Miller Gilliam grew up in Western Pennsylvania surrounded by beautiful rolling hills juxtaposed by bridges, railroads and industry. Clean, simple geometric forms are the building blocks of Miller Gilliam’s designs, which are inspired by architecture, machines, toys and nature. By combining these seemingly different influences, she explores the concept of jewelry as playful object. Miller-Gilliam attended Moore College of Art and Design, intending to concentrate in sculpture but becoming entranced by jewelry making. She soon transferred to Tyler School of Art/Temple University for their renowned Jewelry/Metals Department where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited at leading juried shows and is sold at fine craft galleries and jewelry stores across the country. Miller-Gilliam has been awarded with the American Jewelry Design Council’s 2010 New Talent Honorable Mention and is a nine time NICHE Awards finalist. Her designs have been featured in many periodicals including National Jeweler, Jewelry & Watch Review, skirt!, InDesign, InStore, NICHE, Lapidary Journal and Metalsmith. Additionally, she has been published in specialty books including 1000 Rings, Creative Chains, 30 Minute Rings (2011), Chains, Chain, Chains (2011), Jewelry Design Challenge (2011) and New Rings (2011).