Third Thursday Art Night: Ginny Merett

Schedule

Thu Jun 18 2026 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1051 Greene St, Columbia, SC, United States, South Carolina 29201 | Columbia, SC

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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. Join us for a free opening reception for Ginny's exhibit on June 18, 2026, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.!
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 has been shown in solo and group exhibits at 701 Whaley’s Hallway: community art gallery, Stormwater Studio, ArtFields, Koger Center for the Arts, the Jasper Project, USC’s McMaster Gallery, SC State Library and Fair, and other local venues like Sound Bites Eatery, Trustus Theater, Cottontown Art Crawl and Melrose Art in the Yard. Her work is published in the Jasper Project’s Jasper Magazine Spring 2019 and Fall 2022 editions, in Sheltered: SC Artists Respond During the 2020 Pandemic; and in Bullets and Band-Aids, Vol. 3.
She published the book Tall Women showcasing herTall Women series of work and ekphrastic poems from distinguished female poets from SC and has authored several articles for the Jasper Project’s The Jasper Magazine.
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