Tom Stanley
Director, Winthrop University Galleries

Since 1990 Tom Stanley has served as the first director of Winthrop University Galleries. He received his MA in Applied Art History and MFA in Painting from the University of South Carolina in 1980. He has held faculty positions at Arkansas College and Barry University, and has served as director of the Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, N.C. Though a regularly exhibiting artist and associate professor in the Department of Art and Design, Stanley's primary role in the College of Visual and Performing Arts is to organize and bring diverse exhibition programs to the university and community at large. 

During his tenure as gallery director, Winthrop University Galleries has been recognized as "Best University Gallery" in the Metrolina Region by both the Charlotte Observer and Creative Loafing Magazine and has received a Regional Designation Award in the Arts from the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad. 

In its 2001 issue on "Art in the Sunbelt," Winthrop University Galleries was noted in Atlanta's Art Papers Magazine with its feature on the Charlotte Art scene noting, "The local college art galleries also play an important role, often showing artists outside the mainstream. Winthrop University Galleries in Rock Hill, South Carolina, leads the pack."

Projects that have extended beyond the university include co-curating "Still Worth Keeping: Communities, Preservation and Self-taught Artist" for the South Carolina State Museum and "Portraits et Personnages," a traveling exhibition organized in cooperation with the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Contact Information:

Tom Stanley
Winthrop University
College of Visual and Performing Arts
107 McLaurin Hall
Rock Hill, SC 29733

Phone: (803) 323-2653
E-mail: stanleyt@winthrop.edu