Millennium Magazine_6th Ed

101 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine LINDA WILLIAMS MCCUNE ARTIST, EDUCATOR Greenville Technical College Greer, SC with the Morristown City School Systems, she enjoyed watching students improve and decided to pursue a career as an artist and educator. Early in her career, Ms. McCune was a certified teacher in Tennessee and South Carolina. She has served as a graduate student advisor at the Vermont College of Fine Arts since 1996 and lead professor in fine arts and academic program director at Greeneville Technical College in South Carolina since 1989. In the 1980s, she was an artist-in-residence at the South Carolina Arts Commission Residency Program, director at the Summer Art Series for Youth in Tryon, North Carolina, and a teaching associate and graduate assistant at the University of South Carolina. Ms. McCune worked for the University of Tennessee as an artist and illustrator, Station WSJK-TV as an art history commentator, and the Morristown Theater Guild as their artistic designer. She took on her first college teaching role as an assistant professor of art at Walters State Community College in 1973, and went on to be a display designer for Laminite-Laminall Corp. Additionally, she co-owned Upstairs Gallery and Studio III between 1976 and 1986. Ms. McCune was the recipient of a Governor’s Distinguished Professor Award in 2007 and the 100 Years 100 Artists Award from the South Carolina State Museum in 2000. Her work has also been showcased at numerous exhibitions throughout the U.S. and internationally, but despite so many achievements, she is proudest to have received the National NISOD Award for College Teaching Excellence. Ms. McCune’s membership in Educational Associations, service on state and regional boards and active support for the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Metropolitan Arts Council and Tri-State Sculptors, of which she served as conference chair, treasurer and South Carolina state representative, is an acclamation. L inda Williams McCune always created art, and when her fourth grade teacher told her she could make a career as an artist, her world changed. Ms. McCune received a BFA from the University of Tennessee in 1974 and an MFA from the University of South Carolina in 1982. During her residency for the Tennessee Arts Commission EDUCATION