President of the National Art Education Association, he is an educational consultant
in the arts. He retired in May 2000 from the South Carolina Department of Education,
where he helped develop arts academic achievement standards, established the Arts in Basic Curriculum Project based at Winthrop and established a center for dance education. He gained national
recognition for South Carolina as a leader in arts education reform and is a recipient
of the 1994 Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Award for Arts Education.
This Tony Award winning costume designer has four shows running on Broadway and has
been involved in providing costumes to more than a dozen plays, rock concert performances,
and other events. From a theatre family, Long is the son of William Long, who established
the theatre program at Winthrop.
This internationally acclaimed jazz musician and composer (posthumous award) stayed
in his home state of North Carolina despite the allure of big entertainment centers.
The Charlotte resident was known as a gifted pianist and composer who wrote songs
recorded and performed by such great entertainers as Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney,
Eileen Farrell, and Jose Ferrer. More than 40 artists have recorded his song, "Blackberry
Winter," written with Alec Wilder.
This philanthropist and arts patron grew up in Rock Hill and graduated from Winthrop
in 1958. She and her family, the late Wayne Patrick, and daughters, Trish McGuinn
and Kathy Wilson, have supported the university's arts programs and sports teams.
One of Winthrop's three exhibition spaces is named for her - the Elizabeth Dunlap
Patrick Gallery.
This patron of the Winthrop University Galleries is a long-time supporter of the Department
of Art. Her late husband, Edmund Lewandowski, chaired the department and worked as
a mosaic artist, a painter of marine and coastal views and a community activist. The
Edmund D. Lewandowski Gallery is the main gallery space for the university's student
exhibitions.
