Polly Turner

Polly Turner, a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Philadelphia College of Art, has lived on South Carolina’s northern coast since 2012. Her artwork captures the spaciousness, energy, and warmth of local landscapes, showcasing their flora and fauna through digital photography, drawing, and painting. She taught art at the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Her work has been exhibited at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Seacoast Artists Gallery, and William Miller Gallery in Myrtle Beach, S.C.; City Gallery in Charleston, S.C.; Artfields in Lake City, S.C.; the FCM Waters Gallery in Florence, S.C.; the Contemporary Art Exchange (2019 Elmwood Invitational) in Washington, N.C.; Art of the Image 2019 juried photographic media competition and exhibition, Verazzanno Gallery, theArtWorks, Wilmington, N.C.; Dalton Gallery in Rock Hill, S.C.; and the Gallery @ 5th & Water, Charlottesville, Va., among other venues.

THE FRANKLIN G. BURROUGHS-SIMEON B. CHAPIN ART MUSEUM IN MYRTLE BEACH

Myrtle Beach’s Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum strives to be one of the finest visual arts museums in the Carolinas. With 11 galleries that change throughout the year, Myrtle Beach’s only art museum offers exhibitions featuring paintings, textiles, sculpture, photography, video, ceramics, assemblage, collage and more. A visit to the Art Museum’s exhibitions can be enhanced by its lively programming, including artist receptions, tours, lectures, workshops and classes for both adults and children.