A Trip to See Several Exhibits in the Pee Dee Area of South Carolina in July 2014 – Part II

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On a day when it was thundering and lightening around the lake here in Bonneau, SC, I decided to head over to the Pee Dee area of South Carolina, to see a few exhibits on view in Florence, SC, and Lake City, SC, just an hour’s drive north on Hwy. 52. If the computer had ... Read More

A Trip to See Several Exhibits in the Pee Dee Area of South Carolina in July 2014 – Part I

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On a day when it was thundering and lightening around the lake here in Bonneau, SC, I decided to head over to the Pee Dee area of South Carolina, to see a few exhibits on view in Lake City, SC, and Florence, SC, just an hour’s drive north on Hwy. 52 (Lake City is one ... Read More

Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail Folks Have Been Busy Installing New Quilt Blocks Throughout Upstate SC

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The “Summer Winds” quilt block is located at the Pendleton Branch Library of the Anderson County Library System, 650 South Mechanic, Pendleton, SC. “Summer Winds” is a quilt block sponsored by Greeta G. Peden who has made the cloth quilt pattern numerous times as gifts for family and friends. She keeps using this creative block ... Read More

The July 2014 Issue of “Carolina Arts” is Now Ready to Download

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The July 2014 issue of Carolina Arts is up on our website at (www.carolinaarts.com) – all 63 pages of it. Last month Linda presented the paper with an option to download the paper in a side by side spread or single page format. Single page dowloads were about double the amount for side by side ... Read More

A Trip to Lancaster, SC, the Red Rose City, for the 2014 Lancaster County Ag + Arts Tour, Which Took Place June 21-22, 2014

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Back in the day, when I was delivering printed copies of Carolina Arts, one of my nightly routes was from Bonneau, SC, to Manning, SC, to Sumter, SC, to Camden, SC, to Lancaster, SC, to Rock Hill, SC, then to Columbia, SC, Orangeburg, SC, and back home to Bonneau. My only drop in Lancaster was ... Read More

Carolina Arts Has a New Facebook Post Queen

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On June 1, 2014, a week from today, I posted the notice that our June 2014 issue of “Carolina Arts” was up and ready to be downloaded from our website at (www.carolinaarts.com). Right away we started getting a bunch of “shares” of that post. It looked like we were heading to a new Facebook record ... Read More

The June 2014 Issue of “Carolina Arts” is Now Ready to Download

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The June 2014 issue of Carolina Arts is up on our website at (www.carolinaarts.com) – all 60 pages of it. Last month Linda presented the paper in a side by side spread for the first time and some of you responded that you liked the single page version better. We’re here to please all we ... Read More

ArtFields Redux 2014, A Look Back at Lake City, SC

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What a difference a year makes. It will be really interesting to see what version this event shows up in next year. The first event was just a big juried art show with a bigger than normal cash prize for four of the 400 + artists who had one piece of their work on display ... Read More

A Visit to a Few Art Exhibits at the North Charleston Arts Festival Taking Place in North Charleston, SC

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Every year I try and go see a couple of art exhibits presented during the annual North Charleston Arts Festival taking place throughout North Charleston, SC. This year was the 32nd version of the Festival. The shows I try to see are the annual “Judged Fine Art & Photography Exhibitions” and the “South Carolina Palmetto ... Read More

The Results of the ArtFields 2014 Competition in Lake City, SC, Are In

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The judges have spoken, after the people registered their votes and the winners have been announced. I voted for 26 works and 4 out of the 5 winners were on my list. Top Prize of $50,000 goes to Craig Colorusso of Rogers, AR, for “Sun Boxes”. These wooden boxes are not much to look at, ... Read More