Corrie McCallum
Born in Sumter, South Carolina 1914

Education
Studied at the University of South Carolina
and the School of the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts
Background
Married to fellow artist William Halsey and is the mother of three children and five grandchildren
Teaching
WPA Director of Art Project
Columbia, SC, 1935
Taught children’s art classes at the Boston Museum School while attending school there as well
Boston, MA , 1938
Assistant to the Director of The Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences
Savannah, GA , 1943
Gibbes Art Gallery
Charleston, SC, 1944
Co-founder of & teacher at The Charleston Art School
Charleston, SC, 1945
Castle Hill Art Center
Ipswich, Mass , 1956
Newberry College
Newberry, SC
College of Charleston (initiated the art department’s printmaking program)- Charleston, SC
Curator of Art Education for the Gibbes Art Gallery
Charleston, SC, 1959-68

Honors and Grants
VERNER AWARD
Who’s Who in American Art
Who’s Who of American Women
International Directory of Arts
Art in Transition-
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Guild of South Carolina Artists-
prizes in 1956 & 1961
Mural contest winner, Municipal Auditorium , Charleston, SC, 1962
Piedmont Graphics Award 1964
15th Annual Guild of South Carolina Artists , purchase prize 1965
Hughes Foundation Grant to travel the world , 1968
Contemporary Artists of South Carolina, 1970
Cover of the Charleston Magazine, 1977
Southern Graphics Council, Printmaker Emeritus, 1984
Lowcountry Heritage Society, Volume I , 1997

Corrie McCallum Images

William Halsey Bio