A middle school and high school art teacher for 35 years now, art- ist Alvin Glen is well known for his captivating Lowcountry imag- es, done mostly with pastels. He’s currently busy with several series, including one in- volving the survivors of last year’s Charleston shooting. “It’s my opinion that the three surviving persons of the Mother Emanuel AME church shooting have been overshadowed by coverage of those who lost their lives,” he says.
Everything about the
Lowcountry—the diverse people, the history, the buildings— inspires Glen’s work. “During my teen years, I became aware of Charleston’s architecture while working for my father, who was a brick mason,” he says. Glen is the official 2014 MOJA Festival poster artist and the featured artist at the Charleston Art Institute, and his works can be seen at Charleston Artist Guild events, the Salt Gallery in Beaufort, the Walterboro Artisans Center, and in the Outdoor Art Exhibit in Marion Square during Piccolo Spoleto—the latter of which he has participated in ever since the early 1980s.
