Big Art Events Taking Place in the Carolinas – Nov. 18 – 21, 2010

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Starting this Thursday evening with Columbia, SC’s 25th Annual Vista Lights celebration and ending with Seagrove, NC’s 3rd Annual Celebration of Seagrove Potters – this week offers some great visual art events – for both viewing and buying. Make your plans now. Columbia, SC’s 25th Annual Vista Lights celebration, sponsored by the Vista Guild, will ... Read More

Cone 10 Studios & Gallery in Charleston, SC, Offers a Winter Wonderland Welcoming – Dec. 4, 2010

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Betsey Carter of Cone 10 Studios, located at 1080-B Morrison Drive in Charleston, SC, (in the heart of NoMo) writes that the group has finished scraping, painting, hammering, and sawing. The wheels are turning, the kilns are firing, and the gallery is stocked with fresh new work. They’re ready to show off the fabulous new studio ... Read More

Ronan Kyle Peterson Offers Annual Open Studio and Holiday Sale at Nine Toes Pottery in Chapel Hill, NC – Dec. 3-5, 2010

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Peterson writes to tell our readers to “Save the Date” for the first weekend in December. (I wonder if anything else is going on that weekend?) That is Friday, Dec 3-Sunday, Dec 5, 2010, he will be having his annual Open Studio and Holiday Sale, so swing on by for some gift buying, for others and ... Read More

Claymakers in Durham, NC, Presents a Holiday Exhibit

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Notices about pottery events are coming in fast now, so we may have posting – one, right after another. Claymakers in Durham, NC, is presenting an exhibit entitled, Season of Lights, to help celebrate the holiday season and bask in the warm light of luminaries, candle holders, and plenty of other pots available for the ... Read More

Seagrove Potters for Peace Raise Money for Greg Mortenson’s Central Asia Institute

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The Seagrove Potters for Peace 2010 fundraiser for Three Cups of Teaauthor Greg Mortenson’s Central Asia Institute has raised nearly $6000 so far. That’s enough money to buy school uniforms for over 1100 children, or pay the annual school fees for nearly 300 students. “Our kick-off weekend in August was very successful” stated organizer Beth ... Read More

Cady Clay Works in Seagrove, NC, Offers Annual Gallery Gala – Nov. 6, 2010

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Cady Clay Works will hold their annual Gallery Gala on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010, from 9am to 5pm. Featured works will be wood-fired pottery by John Mellage and Beth Gore and “Images of North Carolina” paintings by Winston-Salem, NC, artist Fe de la Torre. Over 600 new wood-fired pottery pieces from the annual firing of the ... Read More

South Carolina Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Forms to Help SC’s Artists

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It’s good to see that the SC Arts Commission is finally getting around to providing SC’s artists a service that has been in NC for over 20 years. North Carolina Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts is a network of lawyers in North Carolina with experience in art law issues. Find info at this link. Although ... Read More

5th Charleston Art Auction Takes Place in Charleston, SC – Nov. 6, 2010

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This is the big event in Charleston for long-time or first-time art collectors. Charleston’s entire visual art community will be putting it’s best on display this weekend. The auction is an interesting event in itself. You can read what I’ve said about it in a previous posting at this link. Read about this year’s event ... Read More

Artists, Art Collectors, Everyone – Beware!

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There is an interesting article everyone in the visual art community should read in Columbia, SC’s  The State today (10/24/10) written by Helen O’Neill, an AP correspondent. Here’s the link. I’m sure this story is appearing in a lot of Sunday newspapers around the country. Don’t think things like this couldn’t happen in the little ... Read More

Kentucky Artisan Center Goes Extra Miles for Kentucky’s Visual Artists

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It’s funny how you can run into something that takes on a life of its own. That’s what happened when I wrote a story about a visit to the Kentucky Artisan Center on my way to Michigan this summer. Ever since I wrote that entry, readers have been e-mailing me about items relating to that ... Read More