Mark Eliott Flowers
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Western Michigan University, 1979
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of South Carolina, 1977
CAREER
1991 - Present: Art Instructor, Mercersburg Academy
1983 - 1991: Professor of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design
1979-1983: Art Instructor, Sea Pines Academy
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1993-1998, Fine Arts Department Chairperson, Mercersburg Academy
1985-1988, Chairperson, SCAD Painting Department
1989 &1990, SCAD Off-Campus Instructor, New York City
1989-Visiting Artist: Sea Island School for the Arts, Beaufort, SC
1987-Instructor, Beaufort Co. Gifted and Talented Summer Art Program
1981-Instructor, S. C. Governors School for the Arts, Greenville, SC
1979-83- Fine Arts Department Chairperson, Sea Pines Academy, Hilton
Head Island, SC
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008-Sheffield Wood Gallery, FA Center, Greenville, SC
2007-West Liberty College, West Liberty, WV
2003 -Hodges/Taylor Gallery, Charlotte,NC
2003-Marcel Scheiner Gallery, Hilton Head Island, SC
2001 -Washington Co. Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
2000 -Hodges/Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1999 -Morris Gallery, Columbia, SC
1998 -The Madeira School, Washington, DC
1997 -Hodges/Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1996 -Frank Arts Center, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV
1993 -Owen-Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991 -Hodges/Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1990 -Exhibit A Gallery, Savannah, GA
1989 -Gibbes Art Museum, Charleston, SC
1987 -I.P. Stanback Museum, SC State College, Orangeburg SC
1986 -Hodges/Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1985 -Gallery Two Nine One, Atlanta, GA
1984 -McKissick Art Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
1983 -Artistic Sass Gallery, Hilton Head Island, SC
1982 -Exhibit A Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah,
GA
1980 -Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009/10 Art at the Airport/Selected Group Exhibition Asheville Regional
Airport, Asheville, NC
2008 -Where You’re From, Lee Gallery, Clemson University
2007 -Subject/Object, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville,
2006 -7th Annual National Exhibition Huber Art Center,
Shippensburg University, PA
Sequences and Events, Burroughs/Chapin Art Museum,
Myrtle Beach, SC
2005 -Asheville Area Arts Council National Juried Competition
As If Earth Mattered, Asheville NC
New x 3, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC
A Comfortable Place, Millbrook School, Millbrook, NY
2004 -72nd Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition, Washington County
Museum of Art, Hagerstown MD
Images 2004, Penn State University
5th Annual National Exhibition, Huber Art Center, Shippensburg
University, PA
All Media Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Competition Washington,
DC
2003-Related Separates, Columbia College, Cola, SC
2002-Feast Your Eyes,National Juried Competition, Target Gallery,
Alexandria, VA
Post This, National Juried Competition, Studio Gallery, Washington,
DC
9/11 Memorial Art Exhibit, Elizabethtown College, E’town PA
RECENT AWARDS
2008-Book Cover, ”Cleaning the Mirror” by poet Joel Chace.
2004-72nd Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition Washington County, Best
in Show
2003-Art Alumni Award, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI,
Second Place, Mixed Media York Art Association, Regional
Competition, York PA
2001-Honorable Mention, Miniature Art 2001, Chambersburg, PA
1999-First Place/Jurors Award, Elizabethtown College 9th Annual Art
Competition
1997-Best-In-Show, Ninth Annual Images, Penn State Univ., State College,
PA
1996-Allen Zearn Distinguished Teaching Award, Mercersburg Academy
1993 -Festival Poster and Purchase Award, Manayunk Art Festival,
Philadelphia, PA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Springs Mills Inc., New York Office
South Carolina National Bank, Columbia, SC
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Western Michigan University Fine Arts Department, Kalamazoo, MI
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Stevens and Wilkinson, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Citizens and Southern National Bank, Hilton Head Island, SC
Keane and Sheratt Architects, Hilton Head Island, SC
South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, SC
Macys of San Francisco, CA
Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC
Lander College, Greenwood, SC
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Charlotte, NC
Columbia College of Art, Columbia, SC
Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, PA
Partners National Health Plan, Inc., Charlotte, NC
OK Cafe Atlanta, GA
Hyatt Regency, Columbus, OH
McDevitt-Street-Bovis International Construction, Charlotte, NC
Virtual Corporation, Charlotte,NC
Wynn Design, Charlotte, NC
SPX Corporation, Charlotte,NC
CT Mid-Atlantic, Charlotte,NC
Burroughs/Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC
Carolinas Medical Center of Mercy, Charlotte,NC
Works included in over 300 Private Collections
Biography
Mark E. Flowers earned his BFA in Studio Arts from The University of South Carolina in 1977 and his MFA in Painting from Western Michigan University in1979. Following his academic career, he has exhibited his work throughout the United States and in Europe, and in the Fall of 2003,
exhibited his sixth one-person show with Hodges/Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina. His relationship with that gallery now spans more then 21 years. Mark's work can be found in 23 public and over 250 private collections. Throughout his career he has won numerous awards for his art in both regional and national competitions. Most recently he was named one of the 100 Art Alumni for the Centennial Celebration at Western Michigan University.
His art teaching career parallels his art making. He has taught art at the
secondary and postsecondary levels for more than 27 years. While he has been a teacher of art, he has also chaired two fine arts departments and one painting department. His most recent teaching award is the Allen Zearn Distinguished Teaching Award at Mercersburg Academy where he has been for the last 15 years.
While pursuing dual careers, he has served as a town councilman, volunteer firefighter, Little League baseball coach and president of a community recreational board. Along with his artist/wife, Kristy Higby, they have raised two sons, Carson and Morgan, who are now off learning to be artists themselves. Examples of Mark and Kristy’s work can be found on their website at www.calhounstudios.com
Mark has spent his adult life pursuing his art, teaching what he knows, and
serving his community well. He maintains a strong exhibition record and is now more committed to making art than ever before. He and his wife recently purchased a hand-made log cabin just north of Asheville, NC in the community of Alexander. They are now commuting between their teaching jobs in Pennsylvania and their new home. Soon they hope to be full time residents of the creative community of Western North Carolina.