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Koger Center Project Winners’ Exhibition
The Koger Center Project Winners’ Exhibition is an upcoming group exhibit in the Gallery at the Koger Center. The exhibit features the winning artists from our 2025 call for art sponsored by the Koger Center: Kate Timbes, Lori Isom, Anna Schumann Byars, Colleen Cannon-Karlos, Max Hardy, and Wilma King.
This opening reception coincides with Third Thursday Art Night featuring Ginny Merett.
About the Artists,
Kate Timbes (1st Place) is a South Carolina based interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the narrative and functions of materiality. Working primarily in painting, video, and sculpture, she weaves mediums together, carrying objects, paintings, seeds, weavings, and sculptural handmade paper through physical, emotional, and digital landscapes. Timbes contemplates sourcing of resources, rethinking use as an individual effort to engage in a curious ecological practice. Timbes has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions at the Richardson Family Art Gallery,…
Admission Cost: FREE.
Monday, June 15, 2026, 12:00 PM – Monday, July 6, 2026, 12:00 PM.
Koger Center for the Arts.
Third Thursday Art Night: Ginny Merett
As a member of the Vista Guild, the Koger Center for the Arts partnered with The Jasper Project to open a new rotating art space, titled The Nook, in celebration of Third Thursday Art Night. June 2026’s featured artist in the Nook is Ginny Merett.
Artist Biography ,
Ginny Merett has considered herself an artist beginning in early childhood. She was raised in Denver, moved from place to place growing up, and made SC home in 1987. Art traveled with her and is the cause for her every success. Merett graduated from the University of Georgia and holds two master’s degrees from the University of South Carolina. Because art played such an important role in her school years, she studied art education and taught art in public schools for 30 years and served as adjunct at the University of South Carolina.
Merett creates mixed media collage pieces inspired by stylish women from her grandmother’s era and portrays unique characters by reconstructing parts and pieces from current day and vintage papers.
Her art…
Admission Cost: FREE.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – Sunday, July 12, 2026, 12:00 PM.
Koger Center for the Arts.