Join the Summerville Artist Guild for a peaceful and inspiring morning of nature journaling at Magnolia. This immersive two-hour experience begins with a brief introduction, followed by time spent exploring the gardens—observing, sketching, and photographing the natural world around you. Then, return to the Magnolia Workshop to turn your field notes and sketches into your own personalized nature journal. All materials and light refreshments are provided, and garden admission is included with your ticket.
📍 Where: Magnolia Workshop
🕘 When: Thursday, August 28, 9–11 AM
🎟️ What’s Included: Garden admission, art supplies, and refreshments
Summerville Artist Guild
The Summerville Artist Guild is dedicated to stimulating interest in the visual arts, encouraging all levels of artistic abilities, and promoting art education within the Summerville, South Carolina community. This year they are celebrating their 50th anniversary. The Guild welcomes visitors and new members. Our membership includes artists of all skill levels and represents a variety of artistic interests and mediums. For more information, visit our website at www.summervilleartistguild.net.
The Summerville Artist Guild is offering a nature journaling workshop led by Dr. Leigh Mincks. Dr. Leigh Mincks has been an art educator and educational collaborator for 34 years in public education, to include pre-school, elementary, and middle school levels, most recently teaching as an Adjunct Professor at the university level in Missouri. During her career in public art education, she also expanded her professional knowledge through her role as a cohort member for the Missouri Fine Arts Curriculum Revision Committee, served as Team Leader / Content Coordinator for the Arts Department at North Kirkwood Middle School, and served on her school district’s Salary Committee for 20 years.
Dr. Mincks’s passion for creating learning for all students to advance themselves as “literate artists” reinforced the practice, skills, and exploratory opportunities promoted within her curriculum. Her students maintained a daily sketchbook, practiced reflective journaling, shared cognition as a class community, celebrated both process and product of art making right alongside skill development of painting, drawing, sculpture, fibers, and ceramics using various media. Dr. Mincks was awarded Kirkwood School District Teacher of the Year, Missouri Middle School Art Teacher of the Year and Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award during her career. She holds a B.S.E. in Art Education from Truman University, an M.A. in Education from Maryville University, and earned an Ed.D in Teacher Leadership from Maryville University, St. Louis, MO.