August 2009 – "Carolina Arts Unleashed"

Going To The Creative Town Hall Meeting In Charleston, SC – Aug. 25, 2009

August 26, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009, was an interesting day. It started out like every other day with scanning and sometimes reading of The Post and Couriernewspaper, the Charleston, SC, area’s only daily newspaper. The item of the day which caught my attention was an ad for the new WLCN HD TV 18 station operating out of ... Read More

Post Script to: A Major Arts Program That Seems Kind of Minor

August 22, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

Well, it seems that things just get more revealing every step of the way. I received an e-mail from someone at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, MS (it seems our blog is far reaching) and I was informed that their facility, damaged during Hurricane Katrina (Aug. 2005), has still not re-opened and isn’t ... Read More

Adding New Blog Links

August 22, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

During my usual process of keeping up with what’s going on in the Carolinas and in the world of blogging I found an entry on the Arts Beat Blog at Freetimes, Columbia, SC’s alternative newspaper – where Dan Cook, the paper’s editor had talked about some of the blogs in the Columbia area and low ... Read More

A Major Arts Program That Seems Kind of Minor

August 20, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

We recently – after deadline – received a press release about a major exhibition taking place in South Carolina. The exhibit, Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Art, organized by the Southern Arts Federation is coming to the Sumter County Gallery of Art in Sumter, SC. It will be on view from Sept. ... Read More

Woodstock – 40 Years Ago This Weekend

August 17, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

On July 20, I went down memory lane about man’s first steps on the moon. In order to do something as exciting – on our own scale – some high school friends of mine from back in Michigan decided to make a trip to Montreal, Canada. It was a big adventure for us. I also ... Read More

SC Arts Commission Board Meets in Columbia, SC – Aug. 18, 2009 – Sort Of

August 16, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

A notice was posted on the State of South Carolina’s official press release site on Aug. 4, 2009 of an upcoming Board meeting at the SC Arts Commission in Columbia, SC. Well, it’s sort of a meeting – a one hour meeting via conference call. The notice stated that: “Interested parties can attend the meeting ... Read More

Juried Show Opportunity For NC and SC Visual Artists

August 15, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

During the month of October historic Atherton Mill, located in Charlotte, NC’s SouthEnd District, will host a month-long art event named Carolina’s Got Art!. Larry Elder, owner of Elder Gallery in Charlotte, has fashioned the exhibition after a long running annual art exhibit which was at one time sponsored by Springs Mills in SC. The ... Read More

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

August 12, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

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!

August 11, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

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

August 10, 2009December 4, 2014 by admin

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