Born to a military family Mana Hewitt has lived in Arizona, England, Florida, Illinois, and South Carolina. With a mother that was an art teacher she was drawn to art from childhood. She studied at the University of SC where she earned her BA and MFA. Mana is a Senior Instructor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Visual Art and Design of the University of South Carolina.

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Conference : Plans for our 2019 event at the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR are progressing well. Details and logistics are being organized with the University Conference Services and with the School of Art and Design. We are also working on the plenary program and speakers plus planning for all our usual activities including; the live & silent auctions, the instant gallery, the vendors room, the pin swap, closing dinner, etc.

Workshops : The planning committee is busy completing the workshop line-up and here are a few of the instructors who are committed so far; Gillie Hoyt Byrom, Sarah Perkins, Aurelie Guillaume, Heejoo Kim, Judy Stone, Sharon Massey, Anne Havel, Marissa Saneholtz and Kathleen Wilcox. As we get the workshop topics and studio needs identified we will begin to figure out which workshops will go in which of the Art department spaces.

Exhibitions : The call is already out for “ Alliance – Reliance ,” the collaborative exhibition to be shown and auctioned, during the 2019 Conference in Oregon. Follow this link to enter! Next will be Alchemy5 and the call for that exhibition will be finalized in the next couple of weeks – you will be hearing a lot more about that soon.