"Carolina Arts Unleashed" – Page 52 – A Blog by Tom Starland, Editor/Publisher of Carolina Arts

Seagrove Potteries Added to Carolina Arts’ NC Commercial Gallery Listings on Our Website

About Seagrove PotteryAbout Seagrove Pottery, NC Pottery Center, Not About Seagrove Pottery, Seagrove NC

OK, we have a category, Not About Seagrove Pottery, now we also have a category, About Seagrove Pottery – officially. Yes, we’ve done a lot of entries about Seagrove, NC’s pottery community – whether it be about the North Carolina Pottery Center and its efforts to stay open in difficult financial times, or pottery events ... Read More

Rutherford County Visual Arts Center in Rutherfordton, NC, Offers Juried Pottery Exhibition

Not About Seagrove PotteryCrabtree Creek Art & Floral Gallery, Cynthia Bringle, David Stuempfle, Ken Sedberry, Mark Hewitt, Micaville NC, Michael Kline, Penland School of Craft, Rutherford County Visual Arts Center, Rutherfordton NC, Seagrove NC, The Bascom, Wheel and Coil and Slab

In my continuing effort to bring you readers info about pottery events – not taking place in Seagrove, NC, we received a short e-mail which told us about a juried pottery exhibit taking place at the Rutherford County Visual Arts Center in Rutherfordton, NC. The e-mail came after our deadlines for both the paper and ... Read More

Thinking of Judith McGrath Down in Western Australia

What Ever Happened To..., Word From Down Under4th Annual National Outdoor Sculpture Competition and E, Art Seen in Western Australia, Corrina Sephora Mensoff, James Burnes, Judith McGrath, Kalamunda, North Charleston SC, Pattie Firestone, Western Australia

Yesterday, after another sweltering trip to Charleston, SC, I returned home to check my e-mail. While sorting through the days’ list of junk, outlandish offers, jokes about our Governor (no name offered) and even a few directed for Carolina Arts – I found myself gazing at a few e-mails I leave on my incoming list ... Read More

New Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, NC, Launches Website

Charlotte NC Visual ArtsAndreas Bechtler, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Center City Charlotte, Charlotte NC, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts &, Mint Museum of Art, Wells Fargo Cultural Campus

Over the next two years, Center City Charlotte will be transformed by the development of the Wells Fargo Cultural Campus (formerly the Wachovia Cultural Campus), which will include an expanded Mint Museum of Art, an expanded Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture (formerly the Afro-American Cultural Center) and the new Bechtler Museum ... Read More

Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, Invites You to Walk Off with Exhibition Components

Charleston SC Visual ArtsCharleston SC, Gibbes Museum of Art, Juan Logan, Prop Master, Susan Harbage Page

The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, is inviting the public to the “Prop Master Deconstruction Party,” on Saturday, July 18, 2009, from 2-5pm. The event is free with museum admission. Take home a piece of exhibition history from the Prop Master: An Installation by Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page. Museum goers can ... Read More

Photos of Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit in North Charleston, SC – Hot off the Press

SC Visual Arts4th Annual National Outdoor Sculpture Competition and E, Adam Walls, Bob Doster, City of North Charleston Cultural Arts Department, David Furchgott, Gary Gresko, Hanna Jubran, Jonathan Brilliant, North Charleston SC, Stephen Chilingirian

As I mentioned before on June 20, 2009, the weathermen were calling for 100+ degree temps in the Charleston, SC, area so I headed out to take digital images of this year’s crop of sculptures at the Riverfront Park, located at The Navy Yard at Noisette (former Charleston Naval Base) in North Charleston, on the ... Read More

The Big Piccolo Spoleto Exhibition at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston, SC

Charleston SC Visual ArtsBen Timpson, Charleston SC, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Contemporary Charleston 2009: Revelation of Process, Dorothy Netherland, Erin Glaze, Ishmael, Jonathan Brilliant, Karin Olah, Mary Gilkerson, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Redux Contemporary Art Center

What do you do when the weathermen are calling for 100+ degree temps in the Charleston, SC, area? Why you jump in your car and travel to North Charleston, SC, to photograph an outdoor sculpture exhibit and then head to downtown Charleston to check out the big Piccolo Spoleto exhibit,Contemporary Charleston 2009: Revelation of Process, ... Read More

Piccolo Spoleto Festival Exhibitions Slip Away Again

Charleston SC Visual Arts, Politics10 Storehouse Row, Amelia “Mimi” Whaley, Charleston City Hall, Charleston SC, North Charleston SC, Piccolo Spoleto Exhibit Breaking Out, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Exhibit 2009

Even with the best of intentions on my part, once again many of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival visual art offerings have slipped away before I could get by to see them. Even some of the exhibits I did get to see are over before I could post a blog about them. I have always said ... Read More

NC Pottery Center Offers Summer Fundraiser – June 20 2009

About Seagrove Pottery, NC Pottery Center, NC Visual Arts, Seagrove PotteryBen Owen III, Charles “Terry” Zug III, Dr. Everette James, Mark Hewitt, Michelle Francis, NC Arts Council, NC Pottery Center, North Carolina Pottery Center. Saving the NC Pottery Ce, Pam Owens, Pots from the Attic, Rob Amberg, Seagrove NC, The Living Tradition - North Carolina Potters Speak, Vernon Owens

The doors of the North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC, were kept open due to the efforts of many last year, but – and I hate to be the one to tell you this – the Center is not yet saved, and the cavalry in the form of the NC Arts Council, a.k.a. the ... Read More

Artistic Encounters in Waynesville, NC – June 19 2009

NC ArtsArtistic Encounters, Waynesville Gallery Association, Waynesville NC

I received this press release from the Waynesville Gallery Association in Waynesville, NC, about a new event they are presenting called Artistic Encounters. The press release stated: There’s a new event in town, Artistic Encounters, a kaleidoscope of imaginative expression to be enjoyed in gift shops, galleries, restaurants, and bed and breakfasts in and around ... Read More