Heritage Hall Museum - Current Exhibits



February 2010 - New Works
by Allison McElroy and Betty Mills

Reception - February 7th 2:00 - 3:30 PM




Allison McElroy's Mixed Media

Artist's Statement: Allison McElroy



Mixed media artist Allison McElroy received an MFA in Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she was awarded the Lacoste Graduate Residency in Lacoste, France, and a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art. Her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in Atlanta and Savannah, GA, and elsewhere in the US.

McElroy's paintings and mixed media work are in museum, corporate, and private collections in Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, California, Tennessee, Connecticut, Maine, New York, and South Carolina. She has lived on both the east and west coasts and in Europe.

McElroy is part of the new painting faculty at Jacksonville State University and currently resides in Heflin, Alabama.




Betty Mills

Artist's Statement: Betty Mills-Groover



Betty is a native and lifelong resident of Alabama. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alabama where she studied with Frank Engle in ceramics, as well as Alvin Sella, Mel Price, and Richard Zoellner.

Betty has taught at both the high school and college level. Her most recent teaching experience was a Jacksonville State University where she taught drawing and design. Previously, she taught at Gadsden State Community College. She is now retired from teaching and works regularly in her studio.

Although primarily an oil painter, she also has a strong interest in three-dimensional media. She works in both clay and cast paper. Betty mixes and develops her own glazes that she uses on rustic, textured clay bodies. Both her clay and paper forms have an organic, natural quality. Most are freeform and irregular in shape.

The paper bowls are colored with oxides, minerals, and acrylics. Betty sees both her clay and paper as being "painterly" in quality.

Betty has shown in numerous juried exhibitions and has served as a juror for several exhibitions. She has work in numerous private collections throughout the eastern United States. She is a member of East Alabama Artists. Inc., the JSU Society for the Visual Arts, and Cheaha Creative Arts, Inc.


Work by Betty Mills