Artist Educator
Artist Statement
These paintings honor the people whose knowledge, faith, music, and traditions transformed the American South. Inspired by the Gullah Geechee community and the rich cultural heritage of West Africa, the works celebrate the resilience of a people who preserved their identity despite unimaginable hardship. Rice fields become landscapes of memory, music becomes a language of survival, and storytelling becomes a bridge between generations. Together, the paintings affirm that culture is not simply inherited—it is lived, shared, and continually renewed.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2010 Studio Art for Educators – FACETS, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
1989 Advanced Printmaking - South Carolina State College, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
1986 Advanced Ceramics – Winthrop College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA
1981 Study of the Artistically Gifted – Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina
1979 Bachelor of Science Arts Education - South Carolina State College, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO (SELECTED)
2024 "Stance in Circumstance", Coastal Discovery Museum, 70 Honey Horn Drive, Hilton Head Island, SC 29926
2024 "The Art of Alvin B. Glen" The Doctor N. Lee Morris Gallery, 509 S. Dargan St., Florence, South Carolina 29506
2020 "Low Country Rhythms" The Saul Alexander Gallery, Charleston County Public Library, 68 Calhoun St. Charleston, SC 29401
2019 The More They Afflicted Us, the more We Multiplied, and They were Afraid - The Doctors Bruce and Lee Foundation Library in the Dr. N. Lee Morris Gallery on the second floor 509 South Dargan Street, Florence, South Carolina, USA
2014 Man, Media, Message – Charleston Art Institute, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
2007 Man, Media, Message - Avery Research Center, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
1991 Art of Alvin B Glen – Charleston Trident Chamber of Commerce, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
GROUP (SELECTED)
2026 The North Charleston Arts Fest, City of North Charleston
Cultural Arts Department
PO Box 190016
North Charleston, SC
2026 The American Dream? Celebrating 250 Years? Exhibition
Arts & Heritage Center
100 Georgia Avenue, North Augusta, South Carolina 29841
2024 Gullah Celebration and NIBCAA, Poster Artist and featured Artist Walter Greer Art gallery, Hilton Head, SC
2023 Lusty Gallery, Orangeburg County Fine Arts Center, 649 Riverside Drive Orangeburg, South Carolina 29115
2023 "Lifting Black Voices: The Rhodes Collection of African American Art", Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, 3100 South Ocean Boulevard Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 9577
2023 Selected Poster Artist and featured Artist, Second Annual Geechee Gullah Festival, Location: JF Gregory Park, 521 Cedar Street, Richmond Hill, Georgia 31324
2020 Glen selected as Hilton Head Island Gullah Celebration and NIBCAA, Poster Artist and featured Artist Walter Greer Art gallery, Hilton Head, SC
2018 Resistance, Reform, & Reasoning: The Orangeburg Massacre & It's Aftermath, 50 Years Later, I.P. Stanback Museum, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
2016 THE HOLY CITY: Art of Love, Unity and Resurrection – Passages Artists Collective, 414 King Street, Charleston, South Carolina
2015 The Slave Dwelling Project, Passages Artists Collective, North Charleston City Hall Gallery, North Charleston, South Carolina, USA
2015 ISMs, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
2013 Civil Rights Then and Now, I.P. Stanback Museum, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
1991 Statements of Heritage, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
COLLECTIONS (institution)
2010 FACETS, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
1979I.P. Stanback Museum, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
COMMISSIONS
PRIVATE OR CORPORATE (SELECTED)
1990 (circa) The International Longshoremen’s Association, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, Mixed media dye Prisma color pencil on rag paper. Drawings depicting the intricate interactions of the dockworkers and machinery. Commissioned as new art for office and hall remodel.
PUBLICATIONS
"Glen selected as Moja Festival Poster Artist and featured Artist" The Eagle Record, October 2, 2014: page 9, Newspaper.
"Artist as a young man" Summerville Journal Scene, Publication March 18, 1992: Page 1B. News Paper.
LECTURES AND/OR TEACHING
2016 Charleston City Gallery, Charleston SC, USA, Gallery Talk
2015 Goose Creek Artist Guild, Goose Creek SC, USA, Demonstration and Lecture
2014 Charleston Art Institute, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, Gallery Talk
1986 – 2023 Dorchester Four Schools, High and Middle School Dorchester County SC, Teacher
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
F A C E T S, Orangeburg SC, USA,
2010 to 2016 Supervisor,
Preparing exhibition furnishings,
crating, delivery and exhibit
