DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS
FMU Art Education Alumni - "Working In The Business"
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DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS FMU Art Education Alumni - "Working In The Business" |
| Travis works for Dillon County School District 3. He is the art teacher at Latta High School, a position he has held since shortly after graduation from Francis Marion University. |  |
| Scott
Collins received the Peggy Love McLaughlin Art Award in 1993. Scott is the long-time art teacher at Marion High School. He has been the Fine Arts Department Chair for the school since 2000. He was named the Marion High School and Marion County District 1 teacher of the year for the 2002-2003 school year. He has also served as the lead teacher for the Horizon Gifted and Talented Visual Arts Program from 1997-2004 for fourth through sixth grades and 2007-present for seventh and eighth grades. |
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| Ciera Cyrus received the 2015 Donna H. Goodman Community Service Award in Art
Education by the FMU Department of Fine Arts. Following graduation, Ciera accepted a position at Fairfield High School in Winnsboro, South Carolina. |
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| Following graduation from FMU, Patti has been teaching at Latta Middle School. |  |
| Adrianna has been employed by North Hartsville Elementary School since shortly after graduation from Francis Marion University. |  |
| Elizabeth earned a Bachelor of Science degree in art education from Francis
Marion in 2014. While at Francis
Marion her studies focused on creative writing and fine art. After
graduation she began teaching fine art at South Florence high school.
Elizabeth has exhibited work at the Art Trail Gallery (Florence, SC), Jones Carter Gallery (Lake City, SC), The Curtis R. Harley Gallery at The University of South Carolina Upstate (Spartanburg, SC) and the former Railroad Junction Art Gallery in Florence. She has recently painted a piano for Play Me I'm Yours Florence. Elizabeth plans to hold her first solo exhibition of paintings and collages in September 2016 at the Dr. N. Lee Morris Gallery inside the Florence Library. This exhibition will be followed by an exhibition of works by her Advanced Placement Studio art students in the same gallery. She has also been featured in the April 2016 issue of She Magazine (p. 62) and her website is www.elizabethraye.com. |
 Elizabeth in She Magazine (p. 62)
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| Kim Groom is currently employed as Curator of Education at the Florence County Museum. |  |
| While attending FMU, Amber was presented the outstanding student teacher
award by The Center of Excellence to Prepare Teachers of Children of
Poverty and the Donna H. Goodman Community Service Award in Art
Education by the FMU Department of Fine Arts. Hekman also served as
president of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) FMU Student
Chapter. Currently employed as an art teacher at Lucy T. Davis Elementary School, Amber won her school's "Teacher of the Year" award in 2014. She received the Francis Marion University School of Education's 2014 Novice Educator Award, which recognizes a successful FMU graduate who demonstrates leadership in education. Additionally, this award recognizes Hekman's strong sense of pride and loyalty for her alma mater and service to her community through active involvement in civic and/or charitable and service organizations. Amber and Dr. Eunjung Chang will co-present on science-art convergent education at the 2014 convention of the South Carolina Art Education Association. |  |
| Melissa is a employed by the Florence County School District 1. She has worked for a number of years as an art teacher at Henry L. Sneed Middle School. |
| Immediately following graduation, Colleen accepted a position teaching grades K-8 at R. E. Davis Elementary School and Mayewood Middle School in Sumter. |
| During his second year of teaching at Wallace Gregg Elementary School, Sean Lafaye received their Teacher of the Year award. Sean went on to complete his Master of Education degree from Francis Marion in 2006. He is currently employed by Bookman Road Elementary in Richland District Two, where he again received the Teacher of the Year award for 2013-14. He has also taught at the Columbia Museum of Art. Sean recently received National Board Certification and is currently a board member of the South Carolina Art Education Association where he serves as the elementary level coordinator. |
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| Jessica
received the 2008-2009
Dr. John W. Baker Memorial Scholarship, which is
awarded for outstanding contribution by a junior in
art or music. She completed her master's degree in art education at the University of Texas, Austin. Her thesis: "Power to the Pupil!: One School's Bridging of Construction, Curriculum, and Caring," a case study of the Griffin School, a private art school. Jessica is currently manager of Dogwood Austin in Austin, Texas. |
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| Jill works in the Williamsburg County S.C. School District where she is employed at Kenneth Gardner Elementary School teaching art to third though fifth grades. |
| Harriet has accepted a position teaching Art at Wilson High School in Florence, South Carolina. |
| Carolina Smith, the 2014 recipient of the Donna H. Goodman award, first taught at Hemmingway Elementary School. Beginning Fall of 2015 she will be teaching at South Florence High School. |
| Ashley is now teaching at Andrews Elementary School in very near her home town in Georgetown County School District. |  |
| Andrew is the current executive director of the Florence Museum of Art, Science, and History. Under Andrew's leadership, the museum has undertaken major renovation of art exhibition space, which has included the indefinite loan of the Francis A. Lord Civil War collection, the donation of textiles from various global cultures by Andries and Linda Van Dam, and the acquisition of a landscape oil painting by Florence native, William H. Johnson. A new 11.7 million dollar building is currently in the planning stages for the museum in downtown Florence. The new museum will be 28,000 square feet with 11,000 square feet of exhibition space. Prior to being named the executive director of the museum, Stout taught art at Johnsonville Elementary School. |  |
| Heather has been employed at Florence County School District 1 since graduating from Francis Marion University. She is the visual arts teacher for Southside Middle School where she was selected as the 2013-14 Teacher of the Year. |  |
