Former USC Aiken student to exhibit at Etherredge Center through May

USC Aiken’s Etherredge Center will display the artwork of Mary Alice Lockhart, a former USC Aiken art student, during May.

Lockhart, who grew up in Aiken, is primarily a landscape and still-life painter who loves to paint the farm scenes and landscapes in the Aiken area. She began painting in oils and acrylics after her retirement from nursing in 1994. She spent most of her adult life in Atlanta but returned to Aiken in 1978 after the death of her husband, who was a physician.

She retired from University Hospital in Augusta in 1990 as an oncology nurse and from the Medical College of Georgia as a nursing supervisor in 1994. She returned to college to study art at USC Aiken under Albin Beyer and Elizabeth Cargile. She also studied art under Philip Morsberger at Augusta State University.

She has attended numerous workshops and courses since her retirement and said she enjoys her “new profession.” She is a member of the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art and the Morris Museum of Southern Art in Augusta, the Aiken Center for the Arts, and the S.C. Watercolor Society.

Lockhart exhibits in local, state, and regional shows and has won numerous awards and honors. She is represented by the Cameo Gallery in Columbia and Broadstrokes Gallery in Augusta.

For more information, including viewing hours, call the Etherredge Center at 56-3305.

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