Month: June 2008

Oh the Difference!

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I was surfing my list of websites to check each day in order to keep up with the visual arts in the Carolinas and on the NC Arts Council’s website I found a couple of interesting items. First was the press release for an exhibition taking place in Rocky Mount, NC, featuring the NC Arts ... Read More

Too New To This Blog Thing

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It’s going to take some time to wrap my head around this blog thing – although not new to the world – it’s new to me. I have a lot of things rolling around in my head I want to keep aware of – don’t write too much (that’s not easy), make sure it’s not ... Read More

An Overlooked Opportunity

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As I have mentioned before in a review of exhibits held during the 2008 Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the exhibit space at the Charleston County Public Library’s Main Branch, while small, is an excellent opportunity for any artist in SC to mount a small exhibition. It is located in one of the highest traffic areas in ... Read More

Lest We Forget Our Humble Beginnings

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The Greenville News in Greenville, SC, offered an article by Ann Hicks on June 22, 2008, entitled, “Phil Garrett’s King Snake Press Marks 10 Years”. The article gives a brief overview of Garrett’s past ten years running the press and mentions a collaboration between the press, SC artists, and the Greenville County Museum of Art. ... Read More

Meeting Number Two For Finding Art Space In Charleston

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One of my first blog entries was about the meeting held at the Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC, by artists looking for a solution of finding spaces for artists in Charleston. I just received the following notice about a second meeting – found below. An open discussion will be held on July 1, ... Read More

A Trip To The Gibbes

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I finally made it to the exhibit, Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, on view at the Gibbes Museum of Art in downtown Charleston, SC. The exhibition examines plantation-related works of art from the eighteenth century to the present. Organized by the Gibbes, this exhibit was on view at the University of Virginia ... Read More

Another Big Report on the Arts – Another Load of Baloney

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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has released a report on Artists in the Work Force based on US Census data. Translation – another bunch of guesses made by computer formulas – no hard facts. A headline in the Post & Courier newspaper in Charleston, SC, on 6/14/2008 reads – “Statistically, S.C. not too ... Read More

Sunday Mornings Will Never Be The Same

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I’m sort of a political/news junkie. When I’m working on the paper I’m most likely listening to our local public radio station – the one with the talk shows, not the classical music. Some days I’ll have a small TV tuned in to CNN or MSNBC – never FOX. When I’m delivering papers on the ... Read More

A Layman’s View

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OK, here we go – my review of the SC State Museum’s 20th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition, on view in Columbia, SC, through Sept. 7, 2008. This should not be taken as a “professional” review, done by someone who has a degree in art history, art criticism or was educated in writing art reviews. It ... Read More