The photographs in this exhibition were shot by Ed Clark for Life magazine before, during, and after a Grand Ole Opry performance at Nashville, Tennessee’s famed Ryman Auditorium on a Saturday night in July of 1946.  Ed Clark (1911–2000) started his career at the Nashville Tennessean newspaper as an assistant and later became a staff photographer. His work came to the notice…

Drawn from the permanent collection, the seventeen paintings in this exhibition—many rarely exhibited and more than a few never exhibited before—celebrate the everyday in their depiction of agriculture and the rural life it has supported from time immemorial throughout the American South. The predominance of agriculture within the economy of the region until recent times has played a significant role…

These photographs are drawn from White’s ongoing portrait series of painters, sculptors, muralists, and other artists who live and work in the Central Savannah River Area and shape the region’s cultural landscape. Working principally in abstraction, still life, and portraiture, White has spent his professional life—a career of forty-plus years—mainly on the West Coast, concentrating on telling stories as a photographer…