SC Arts Commission

Some Information about SC’s Verner Awards and its Gala Event

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After my first posting about the opportunity for SC’s visual artists to participate in an art auction during the Gala for the Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Awards – I got some inquiries, comments and it started me thinking. That can’t be good! The Verner Award So here is some info I found on the pages ... Read More

SC Arts Foundation in Columbia, SC, Seeks Artworks for 2010 SC Art Auction

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I received this e-mail from the SC Arts Commission today about a call for artists to submit works for an “art auction” to be held during this year’s gala celebrating the Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Awards. In the past, at least to my memory, there has been an art sale of selected works during the ... Read More

What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate!

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For today’s posting or should I say – rant – I’m going to focus on the non-profit visual arts lack of communication skills. The commercial art galleries are scrambling for every inch of publicity they can get in these times. Example – I had already received more info about exhibits taking place at commercial galleries ... Read More

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

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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

A Major Arts Program That Seems Kind of Minor

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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

Starving Visual Artists and Galleries in SC Offered Opportunity

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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

Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC, Reinstalls Collection

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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