Mary in her studio.
Mary Bentz Gilkerson is active in the South Carolina art scene as an artist, critic and curator. She holds BFA and MFA degrees in drawing and painting from the University of South Carolina. A native South Carolinian, Gilkerson lives and works in Columbia where she is a professor of art at Columbia College. She has received grants from the S.C. Arts Commission and the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties in addition to having been selected as a Southern Arts Federation Fellowship Finalist. She is in the permanent collections of Palmetto Health, Morris Communications Company, and Seibels Bruce Group, among others.