Mary Glenn Keadle’s Pluff Mud and Red Clay
Mary Glenn Keadle, winner of the 2026 North Charleston Arts Fest Poster Design Competition, will display her winning piece, Looking North, along with a collection of paintings that explore rural South Carolina and its small towns as both a physical landscape and a remembered one. Through paintings and sketches, Keadle focuses on spaces that exist just beyond attention—quiet back roads, working land usually overlooked by Southern lifestyle magazines, a worn sense of home, and the structures and spaces shaped by use and time. Featured works consider how rural spaces hold history without spectacle. Working in watercolor, gouache, and acrylic, Keadle balances nostalgic memory with lived experience. Pluff Mud and Red Clay explores the rural character woven throughout our state. On view at Park Circle Gallery in North Charleston, Wednesdays through Saturdays, April 29-May 30, 2026.