When You Can’t Be Everywhere – Look For Help From Others

This month during my normal deliveries of Carolina Arts I had hoped to make a visit to the Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Sailsbury, NC, to see an exhibit of sculptures by Spartanburg, SC, artist, Doug McAbee – a friend of Carolina Arts. I had downloaded maps of Sailsbury (the Waterworks had changed location since ... Read More

A Carolina Potter Needs Your Help!

I was going through my normal blog list this morning and there was a lot of news there today about all kinds of subjects and I ran across a notice of a benefit to help a potter, Liz Zlot Summerfield, on Michael Kline’s blog. Kline was passing along info he had received from Lindsay Rogers ... Read More

Starving Visual Artists and Galleries in SC Offered Opportunity

Just when visual artists and art galleries in South Carolina thought it couldn’t get any worst – along comes the SC Arts Commission with a great opportunity – an opportunity to help whom? In my recent travels I was handed a letter which someone received from the SC Arts Commission about an opportunity to rent ... Read More

I’ve Been Taking a Survey of Charleston, SC, for 35 Years

I came to the Charleston, SC, area from Michigan in November of 1974. I liked what I found here and have found no reason to leave since – although I eventually moved 45 miles away to Berkeley County – a place where I could afford to do an arts newspaper and own a home. And, ... Read More

Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC, Reinstalls Collection

I went to the Déjà View Day at the Columbia Museum of Art on July 18, 2009, for several reasons – it was free admission all day, for once you could take pictures in the museum, to do some research, and to see how different things would look – it’s been awhile since I’ve been ... Read More

The Day Man Stepped on the Moon

All day today members of the media will be posing the question – do you remember where you were when man first stepped on the moon – July 20, 1969? And, I do – I’m really lucky I have any memory of those times – really lucky to have a few brain cells left from ... Read More

Those Seagrove Potters Are At It Again!

I bet some of you thought this was going to be about a drive-by shooting on the streets of Seagrove, NC – one pottery gang taking out a few of their rivals from another pottery gang or about the authorities finding bones at the bottom of someone’s kiln. No such luck. It’s just another boring ... Read More