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After receiving degrees from Brevard College and the University of North Carolina, Cunningham spent the better part of a year in Lausanne, Switzerland. before coming to Spartanburg, SC where he worked as an architectural illustrator and a graphic designer. In addition to his career in the commercial arts, Scott Cunningham has been deeply involved in the development and promotion of the visual arts in Spartanburg and the surrounding region. He has served The Artists' Guild of Spartanburg in various capacities including President, Treasurer and guild representative to the United Arts Fund Task Force, The Guild of South Carolina Artists as Treasurer, and was involved in helping to start The Guild Gallery on Main in downtown Spartanburg and The Art of the Upstate Gallery at the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport. Since August of 2000, he has scheduled and overseen curation of exhibitions for Spartanburg Art Museum (110 exhibits through 2/08). The quest to find a balance between fine art, art education and commercial art has led him to his latest project, sparklenet.com and its affiliate websites, most notably theartistindex.com. Beginning about 2005, Cunningham began to channel his creative energy into the production of fine art. Cunningham confides, “I’m a people person. Even when my subject matter isn't human, I try to reflect some aspect of humanity in the work. I will explore relationships between trees as if they were people. A forest becomes a dance, or a party, or a street scene. Sometimes I interject the human element by the theme of man vs. nature, the impact of one on the other, the state of their coexistence and the lack of concern one may have for the other.”
Commercial Clients Artists' Guild of Spartanburg Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg Ballet Spartanburg Carolina Gallery CEO Furniture, Charlotte NC City of Cowpens City of Spartanburg Cleveland White Realtors Converse College Converse College Department of Art & Design CWS Insurance Easlan Capital Corporation, Greenville, SC ElderArt, Charlotte NC Gerald West Interiors, Greer, SC Goodyear Tire and Rubber Graham Enterprises, Charlotte NC Greenville Little Theatre, Greenville, SC Hoechst-Celanese Corporation JN Pease and Associates Architects & Engineers, Charlotte, NC Limestone College, Gaffney, SC Lockwood Greene Engineers March of Dimes, South Carolina Chapter, Upstate Division, Greenville, SC McGarity Gilmore & Forrester Architects McMillan Smith Architects Meyers, Meyers & Tonachio, New York Palladian Group Piedmont Club Piedmont Honda, Anderson, SC Planning and Design Associates, PA, Raleigh, NC R.R. Donnelly & Sons Rental Guide RS&H of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Rufus D. Lewis Jewelers Share the Vision Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic Spartanburg Art Museum Spartanburg County District School System District 6 Spartanburg County Historical Association Spartanburg Day School Spartanburg Development Association Spartanburg Downtown Association Spartanburg Homebuilders Association Spartanburg Little Theatre Spartanburg Methodist College Spartanburg Regional Medical Center Stone & Webster Engineers, Atlanta, GA Textile Machines Import-Export Co. The Church of the Advent Travel Host Magazine Trinity United Methodist Church University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC Wofford College Zimmer Machinery Corporation, Cowpens