On Jan. 9, 2010, from 1-4pm, the College of Charleston’s School of the Arts will celebrate the grand opening of its new building The Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts, 161 Calhoun Street (Calhoun at St. Philip Street) in Charleston, SC. The School of the Arts will also be celebrating its 20th Anniversary.
The community is invited to explore all five floors of the $27.2 million building while enjoying sweets and mini-presentations of music, theatre, dance and other events. Guests will also enjoy the final day of an exhibition of works by Aldwyth, Aldwyth: Work V. / Work N. Collage and Assemblage, 1991-2009, in the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. This esteemed artist will give a lecture at 2pm in the Recital Hall of the Simons Center for the Arts, adjacent to the new building.
This will be your last chance to see this exhibit in Charleston, but I’m sure it’s not the last time we’ll see works by Aldwyth in Charleston – at least I hope it’s not the last time. And, I hope we don’t have to wait that long to see more works.
You can read my posting about this exhibit at this link. You can see more images of the exhibit in the gallery space at this link. And, you can read an article presented in Carolina Arts at this link.
So, go see this exhibit again or for the first time and check out The Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts. I’m going, and I’m hoping to run into the first person we featured in our first issue of Charleston Arts back in July 1987 in the Theatre section of the new arts center. Now there’s a trivia question for you – who was that person featured on the cover of the first arts newspaper we produced in Charleston – way back when we covered all the arts in Charleston?
If you know the answer – you’ve been around Charleston a long time, you have a good memory, and you know who’s been in the Theatre Department at the College of Charleston that long – and you may work at a library reference desk in Charleston. Not fair.
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