Her oil paintings, simple and primitively styled, often deal with historical events and usually work as part of a series. Her exhibit South Carolina Memories, for example, was shown this summer at the Coastal Discovery Museum in Hilton Head and chronicled early African-American experiences in South Carolina, where Valelly now lives. (Her son, Richard Valelly '75, teaches political science at the College.)
"The hardest part is coming up with the idea, problem solving, creating something within a general theme," Valelly explains. "The act of painting is secondary to the idea. I don't think you could sit there and chew gum and play basketball and come up with a coherent body of work."
Our Art Gallery also has work by Reverend Howard Finster, Inez Nathaniel Walker, William Edmondson, Thornton Dial, Missionary Mary Proctor, Miz Thang, Nancy Valelly, R A Miller, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, folk pottery and all the great outsiders new or old.
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