Charleston Runner by Mary Edna Fraser
Metallic canvas
6” x 22”, framed

The pioneering work of Mary Edna Fraser has been collected and exhibited

worldwide. Her silk batiks and oil paintings range from panoramic to plein air. The

common thread in her career of four decades is environmental awareness. Her art

has supported the efforts of Charleston Waterkeeper, Coastal Conservation

League, SC Environmental Law Project, Water Missions International, The

Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club and Southern Environmental Law Center

among others. Her blog, Delete Apathy, is a venue for activism, from local to global.

NASA recognized Fraser as their Artist of the Year 1995 and she was featured

demonstrating batik in DC at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2008. The Verner

Award was presented in 2016, South Carolina’s highest honor for an artist. Fraser

has lectured internationally in Indonesia, Taiwan, and Australia. Venues such as

the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the National Academy of

Sciences, Duke University Museum of Art, and the National Science

Foundation have hosted over 100 of the artist’s one-woman exhibitions.