Old Main: A Trip Down Memory Lane explores the visual history of Wofford College through the Main Building, known affectionately as Old Main.  Referred to as “The College” for many years, Old Main remains one of the nation’s outstanding examples of “Italianate” or “Tuscan Villa” architecture.  The cornerstone of Old Main was laid with imposing Masonic rites on July 4, 1851.  Construction finally began in the summer of 1852 under the supervision of Ephraim Clayton of Asheville, NC. Skilled African American carpenters executed uniquely beautiful woodwork, including a pulpit and pews for the chapel.  The exterior of the building today is true to the original design, but the interior has been modernized and renovated three times — in the early 1900s, in the 1960s, and in 2007.  The selected archival and photographic prints as well as works on paper provide an opportunity to take a trip down memory lane to Wofford’s most famous landmark.

Sandor Teszler Library Gallery features the legacy of Wofford’s literary societies.  In August 1854, the first literary society was created as a venue to practice skills such as debating, oratory, parliamentary procedure and writing. Three more had been formed by 1920. During the college’s first century, the societies were integral to student life – starting libraries, building the college portrait collection and starting
three student publications.
Members planned major
student events and provided
the ceremonial activities of the
annual Commencement week.
While literary societies no
longer exist, their influence on the college continues.  This exhibit includes selected books, ledgers, and other artifacts from the College’s archives and special collections. 

Attention staff, faculty and coaches. On April 16, we will meet for the second time for a free lunch and to network and build relationships on campus.  It will take place in Grey Jones from 11:45am till 1pm. If you can, please bring your mobile device or sit next to someone with one, since there will be a short and friendly Kahoot competition around 12:15-12:30pm.  You may want to sit with people from different departments to make a strong team to answer questions about Wofford.

Join us for a good time.  The first meeting was a success with 43 attendees! The meeting in May will also be on the 16th.

Old Main: A Trip Down Memory Lane explores the visual history of Wofford College through the Main Building, known affectionately as Old Main.  Referred to as “The College” for many years, Old Main remains one of the nation’s outstanding examples of “Italianate” or “Tuscan Villa” architecture.  The cornerstone of Old Main was laid with imposing Masonic rites on July 4, 1851.  Construction finally began in the summer of 1852 under the supervision of Ephraim Clayton of Asheville, NC. Skilled African American carpenters executed uniquely beautiful woodwork, including a pulpit and pews for the chapel.  The exterior of the building today is true to the original design, but the interior has been modernized and renovated three times — in the early 1900s, in the 1960s, and in 2007.  The selected archival and photographic prints as well as works on paper provide an opportunity to take a trip down memory lane to Wofford’s most famous landmark.

Sandor Teszler Library Gallery features the legacy of Wofford’s literary societies.  In August 1854, the first literary society was created as a venue to practice skills such as debating, oratory, parliamentary procedure and writing. Three more had been formed by 1920. During the college’s first century, the societies were integral to student life – starting libraries, building the college portrait collection and starting
three student publications.
Members planned major
student events and provided
the ceremonial activities of the
annual Commencement week.
While literary societies no
longer exist, their influence on the college continues.  This exhibit includes selected books, ledgers, and other artifacts from the College’s archives and special collections. 

The on-going work of the artist is the byproduct of a deep engagement with environment, place and the physicality and materiality of all phenomena.  Each surface in our environment embodies an inner-essence that is significant, not only in its outer-form, but also in particle substance.  All substances are ephemeral and vulnerable due to the stresses they withstand and the obstacles they confront.  Through the employ of natural matter, like pulverized earth, plants, shells and insect secretions mixed with natural binders, en lieu of pre-made art materials, the artist has the freedom to most closely dictate the work's surface on an alchemic, particle level in order to re-create or emulate specific encountered terrains.  Terrain can be defined not only as a geological place, but also a psychological space.  Terrain encompasses both land matter and physical space and exists in nature as well as the built environment.  Each individual work, although seemingly diverse, has a strict set of unified criteria.  Ultimately when it communicates as a distilled abstract visual space with an embedded history, worthy of experiencing and questioning, then it is complete.  This often takes months to achieve.  In process, the work needs to be destroyed, cut into, sanded, washed over while retaining a sense of elegance and refinement.  There is a fine line of risk involved in resolving a work embedded with alchemic experimentation that can't be too gritty or too pristine, too colorful or too dull and so on.  Reaching a point of resolved balance, ready to leave the studio, is an ongoing system.

Old Main: A Trip Down Memory Lane explores the visual history of Wofford College through the Main Building, known affectionately as Old Main.  Referred to as “The College” for many years, Old Main remains one of the nation’s outstanding examples of “Italianate” or “Tuscan Villa” architecture.  The cornerstone of Old Main was laid with imposing Masonic rites on July 4, 1851.  Construction finally began in the summer of 1852 under the supervision of Ephraim Clayton of Asheville, NC. Skilled African American carpenters executed uniquely beautiful woodwork, including a pulpit and pews for the chapel.  The exterior of the building today is true to the original design, but the interior has been modernized and renovated three times — in the early 1900s, in the 1960s, and in 2007.  The selected archival and photographic prints as well as works on paper provide an opportunity to take a trip down memory lane to Wofford’s most famous landmark.

Sandor Teszler Library Gallery features the legacy of Wofford’s literary societies.  In August 1854, the first literary society was created as a venue to practice skills such as debating, oratory, parliamentary procedure and writing. Three more had been formed by 1920. During the college’s first century, the societies were integral to student life – starting libraries, building the college portrait collection and starting
three student publications.
Members planned major
student events and provided
the ceremonial activities of the
annual Commencement week.
While literary societies no
longer exist, their influence on the college continues.  This exhibit includes selected books, ledgers, and other artifacts from the College’s archives and special collections. 

The on-going work of the artist is the byproduct of a deep engagement with environment, place and the physicality and materiality of all phenomena.  Each surface in our environment embodies an inner-essence that is significant, not only in its outer-form, but also in particle substance.  All substances are ephemeral and vulnerable due to the stresses they withstand and the obstacles they confront.  Through the employ of natural matter, like pulverized earth, plants, shells and insect secretions mixed with natural binders, en lieu of pre-made art materials, the artist has the freedom to most closely dictate the work's surface on an alchemic, particle level in order to re-create or emulate specific encountered terrains.  Terrain can be defined not only as a geological place, but also a psychological space.  Terrain encompasses both land matter and physical space and exists in nature as well as the built environment.  Each individual work, although seemingly diverse, has a strict set of unified criteria.  Ultimately when it communicates as a distilled abstract visual space with an embedded history, worthy of experiencing and questioning, then it is complete.  This often takes months to achieve.  In process, the work needs to be destroyed, cut into, sanded, washed over while retaining a sense of elegance and refinement.  There is a fine line of risk involved in resolving a work embedded with alchemic experimentation that can't be too gritty or too pristine, too colorful or too dull and so on.  Reaching a point of resolved balance, ready to leave the studio, is an ongoing system.

Old Main: A Trip Down Memory Lane explores the visual history of Wofford College through the Main Building, known affectionately as Old Main.  Referred to as “The College” for many years, Old Main remains one of the nation’s outstanding examples of “Italianate” or “Tuscan Villa” architecture.  The cornerstone of Old Main was laid with imposing Masonic rites on July 4, 1851.  Construction finally began in the summer of 1852 under the supervision of Ephraim Clayton of Asheville, NC. Skilled African American carpenters executed uniquely beautiful woodwork, including a pulpit and pews for the chapel.  The exterior of the building today is true to the original design, but the interior has been modernized and renovated three times — in the early 1900s, in the 1960s, and in 2007.  The selected archival and photographic prints as well as works on paper provide an opportunity to take a trip down memory lane to Wofford’s most famous landmark.

Sandor Teszler Library Gallery features the legacy of Wofford’s literary societies.  In August 1854, the first literary society was created as a venue to practice skills such as debating, oratory, parliamentary procedure and writing. Three more had been formed by 1920. During the college’s first century, the societies were integral to student life – starting libraries, building the college portrait collection and starting
three student publications.
Members planned major
student events and provided
the ceremonial activities of the
annual Commencement week.
While literary societies no
longer exist, their influence on the college continues.  This exhibit includes selected books, ledgers, and other artifacts from the College’s archives and special collections. 

The on-going work of the artist is the byproduct of a deep engagement with environment, place and the physicality and materiality of all phenomena.  Each surface in our environment embodies an inner-essence that is significant, not only in its outer-form, but also in particle substance.  All substances are ephemeral and vulnerable due to the stresses they withstand and the obstacles they confront.  Through the employ of natural matter, like pulverized earth, plants, shells and insect secretions mixed with natural binders, en lieu of pre-made art materials, the artist has the freedom to most closely dictate the work's surface on an alchemic, particle level in order to re-create or emulate specific encountered terrains.  Terrain can be defined not only as a geological place, but also a psychological space.  Terrain encompasses both land matter and physical space and exists in nature as well as the built environment.  Each individual work, although seemingly diverse, has a strict set of unified criteria.  Ultimately when it communicates as a distilled abstract visual space with an embedded history, worthy of experiencing and questioning, then it is complete.  This often takes months to achieve.  In process, the work needs to be destroyed, cut into, sanded, washed over while retaining a sense of elegance and refinement.  There is a fine line of risk involved in resolving a work embedded with alchemic experimentation that can't be too gritty or too pristine, too colorful or too dull and so on.  Reaching a point of resolved balance, ready to leave the studio, is an ongoing system.

Old Main: A Trip Down Memory Lane explores the visual history of Wofford College through the Main Building, known affectionately as Old Main.  Referred to as “The College” for many years, Old Main remains one of the nation’s outstanding examples of “Italianate” or “Tuscan Villa” architecture.  The cornerstone of Old Main was laid with imposing Masonic rites on July 4, 1851.  Construction finally began in the summer of 1852 under the supervision of Ephraim Clayton of Asheville, NC. Skilled African American carpenters executed uniquely beautiful woodwork, including a pulpit and pews for the chapel.  The exterior of the building today is true to the original design, but the interior has been modernized and renovated three times — in the early 1900s, in the 1960s, and in 2007.  The selected archival and photographic prints as well as works on paper provide an opportunity to take a trip down memory lane to Wofford’s most famous landmark.

Sandor Teszler Library Gallery features the legacy of Wofford’s literary societies.  In August 1854, the first literary society was created as a venue to practice skills such as debating, oratory, parliamentary procedure and writing. Three more had been formed by 1920. During the college’s first century, the societies were integral to student life – starting libraries, building the college portrait collection and starting
three student publications.
Members planned major
student events and provided
the ceremonial activities of the
annual Commencement week.
While literary societies no
longer exist, their influence on the college continues.  This exhibit includes selected books, ledgers, and other artifacts from the College’s archives and special collections. 

The on-going work of the artist is the byproduct of a deep engagement with environment, place and the physicality and materiality of all phenomena.  Each surface in our environment embodies an inner-essence that is significant, not only in its outer-form, but also in particle substance.  All substances are ephemeral and vulnerable due to the stresses they withstand and the obstacles they confront.  Through the employ of natural matter, like pulverized earth, plants, shells and insect secretions mixed with natural binders, en lieu of pre-made art materials, the artist has the freedom to most closely dictate the work's surface on an alchemic, particle level in order to re-create or emulate specific encountered terrains.  Terrain can be defined not only as a geological place, but also a psychological space.  Terrain encompasses both land matter and physical space and exists in nature as well as the built environment.  Each individual work, although seemingly diverse, has a strict set of unified criteria.  Ultimately when it communicates as a distilled abstract visual space with an embedded history, worthy of experiencing and questioning, then it is complete.  This often takes months to achieve.  In process, the work needs to be destroyed, cut into, sanded, washed over while retaining a sense of elegance and refinement.  There is a fine line of risk involved in resolving a work embedded with alchemic experimentation that can't be too gritty or too pristine, too colorful or too dull and so on.  Reaching a point of resolved balance, ready to leave the studio, is an ongoing system.

Old Main: A Trip Down Memory Lane explores the visual history of Wofford College through the Main Building, known affectionately as Old Main.  Referred to as “The College” for many years, Old Main remains one of the nation’s outstanding examples of “Italianate” or “Tuscan Villa” architecture.  The cornerstone of Old Main was laid with imposing Masonic rites on July 4, 1851.  Construction finally began in the summer of 1852 under the supervision of Ephraim Clayton of Asheville, NC. Skilled African American carpenters executed uniquely beautiful woodwork, including a pulpit and pews for the chapel.  The exterior of the building today is true to the original design, but the interior has been modernized and renovated three times — in the early 1900s, in the 1960s, and in 2007.  The selected archival and photographic prints as well as works on paper provide an opportunity to take a trip down memory lane to Wofford’s most famous landmark.

Sandor Teszler Library Gallery features the legacy of Wofford’s literary societies.  In August 1854, the first literary society was created as a venue to practice skills such as debating, oratory, parliamentary procedure and writing. Three more had been formed by 1920. During the college’s first century, the societies were integral to student life – starting libraries, building the college portrait collection and starting
three student publications.
Members planned major
student events and provided
the ceremonial activities of the
annual Commencement week.
While literary societies no
longer exist, their influence on the college continues.  This exhibit includes selected books, ledgers, and other artifacts from the College’s archives and special collections. 

The on-going work of the artist is the byproduct of a deep engagement with environment, place and the physicality and materiality of all phenomena.  Each surface in our environment embodies an inner-essence that is significant, not only in its outer-form, but also in particle substance.  All substances are ephemeral and vulnerable due to the stresses they withstand and the obstacles they confront.  Through the employ of natural matter, like pulverized earth, plants, shells and insect secretions mixed with natural binders, en lieu of pre-made art materials, the artist has the freedom to most closely dictate the work's surface on an alchemic, particle level in order to re-create or emulate specific encountered terrains.  Terrain can be defined not only as a geological place, but also a psychological space.  Terrain encompasses both land matter and physical space and exists in nature as well as the built environment.  Each individual work, although seemingly diverse, has a strict set of unified criteria.  Ultimately when it communicates as a distilled abstract visual space with an embedded history, worthy of experiencing and questioning, then it is complete.  This often takes months to achieve.  In process, the work needs to be destroyed, cut into, sanded, washed over while retaining a sense of elegance and refinement.  There is a fine line of risk involved in resolving a work embedded with alchemic experimentation that can't be too gritty or too pristine, too colorful or too dull and so on.  Reaching a point of resolved balance, ready to leave the studio, is an ongoing system.

Old Main: A Trip Down Memory Lane explores the visual history of Wofford College through the Main Building, known affectionately as Old Main.  Referred to as “The College” for many years, Old Main remains one of the nation’s outstanding examples of “Italianate” or “Tuscan Villa” architecture.  The cornerstone of Old Main was laid with imposing Masonic rites on July 4, 1851.  Construction finally began in the summer of 1852 under the supervision of Ephraim Clayton of Asheville, NC. Skilled African American carpenters executed uniquely beautiful woodwork, including a pulpit and pews for the chapel.  The exterior of the building today is true to the original design, but the interior has been modernized and renovated three times — in the early 1900s, in the 1960s, and in 2007.  The selected archival and photographic prints as well as works on paper provide an opportunity to take a trip down memory lane to Wofford’s most famous landmark.

Sandor Teszler Library Gallery features the legacy of Wofford’s literary societies.  In August 1854, the first literary society was created as a venue to practice skills such as debating, oratory, parliamentary procedure and writing. Three more had been formed by 1920. During the college’s first century, the societies were integral to student life – starting libraries, building the college portrait collection and starting
three student publications.
Members planned major
student events and provided
the ceremonial activities of the
annual Commencement week.
While literary societies no
longer exist, their influence on the college continues.  This exhibit includes selected books, ledgers, and other artifacts from the College’s archives and special collections.