Artist: Lese Corrigan | Location: Charleston, SC
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Artist: Lese Corrigan | Location: Charleston, SC
Charleston, SC
Corrigan’s artwork is in collections in the US, France, Great Britain, Costa Rica, Japan, and the Medical University of South Carolina in the Merrill Lynch and Barbara Bush collections. She was the poster artist for the Charleston Cup Steeplechase in 2003 and was featured in the Fall 2003 issue of the international Orient Express Magazine. She was the featured artist on Turner South Network’s 3 Day Weekend Charleston episode, which premiered in 2005, and was the Gibbes Museum Poets' and Painters’ artist-in-residence for 2005. She was also included in the Southern Living Idea House residency in 2006. Her gallery representing other artists opened in the fall of 2005. She has had feature articles in The Post and Courier, Charleston Magazine, and Charleston City Paper. She received the Martha Rivers Ingram Award for Achievement in the Arts in 2011 and the Griffith/Reyburn Artist of 2014. She won a grant from the Charleston Scientific and Cultural Education Fund to study marble sculptures and carving in Greece for 2017. The US Embassy Dakar Exhibition, April 2012, includes her work as does the catalogue, Reconsidering Regionalism: Prints Inspired by the South, 1951-2011 by Lynn Katz.