Lady power! This Myrtle Beach art museum is celebrating women in 2020
A Myrtle Beach art museum believes it’s time women artists receive their due.
That’s why it will feature exhibitions throughout the year that represent women through artwork and who create art.
Pat Goodwin, executive director at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, said work from the museum’s permanent collection and two other exhibits will be shown through April in an exhibit coined “The Power of She.”
“We are focusing the majority of our exhibitions on women in art — as artists and as inspiration,” she said.
“The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women in America the right to vote,” Goodwin said. “But more than a century later, women have yet to reach full equality in our society — and this is painfully clear in the field of fine arts.”
The collection of work will also include exhibits Birds of Paradise by Sara Golish and Voice Lessons, a multimedia, visual-arts narrative of women’s lives. Also within the exhibit is work from Gullah artist Jonathan Green, whose art includes many pieces featuring women he grew up around, showing how they worked the land and kept up their homes and families, Goodwin said.
Goodwin said she hopes visitors will be inspired to learn more about the “incredible artists” and their work, messages and what drives them to create.
The exhibit opens Jan. 30 and runs through April 22. Folks may visit the museum, at 3100 S. Ocean Blvd., for free from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays.
This story was originally published January 24, 2020 at 9:49 AM.
