"Carolina Arts Unleashed" – Page 53 – A Blog by Tom Starland, Editor/Publisher of Carolina Arts

Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC, Closes Blockbuster Exhibit With Record Attendance

Columbia SC Visual ArtsAmerican Federation of Arts, Blanchard Family, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia SC, Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, National Museum Wales, Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collect

Berthe Morisot Well, we just received a press release from the Columbia Museum of Artabout their impressive attendance numbers posted during their presentation of the exhibit, Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales, which was on view from March 6 through June 7 – 3 months. The release stated that the ... Read More

Another Funky Exhibit by Mark Sloan at The College of Charleston for Piccolo Spoleto

Charleston SC Visual ArtsAlthea Murphy-Price, Caryl Burtner, Charleston SC, College of Charleston, Hair On Fire, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Loren Schwerd, Mark Sloan, Ruth Marten, Sonya Clark, Talia Greene

Last year it was the exhibit, Richard McMahan’s Mini Museum, on view in the Sanders Rotunda at the Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston. McMahan has been creating his own personal museum collection featuring miniature replicas of the world’s greatest works of art. This was an unbelievable display of one person’s effort to recreate ... Read More

“25th Annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival Juried Arts Exhibition”

Charleston SC Visual ArtsBillie Sumner, Charleston Artist Guild, Charleston SC, Charleston Visitor Center, City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Piccolo Spoleto Festival Juried Art Exhibition, Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Exhibit 2009, Spoleto Festival USA, Vickie Ellis, Victoria Platt Ellis

I’m not sure you’ll be able to call this a review, but I went by the Charleston Visitor Center (Charleston, SC) today and viewed the 25th Annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival Juried Art Exhibition. The Exhibit is organized by the Charleston Artist Guild for the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs. After viewing all the ... Read More

Some Pottery News – Not From Seagrove, NC

Columbia SC Visual Arts, Not About Seagrove Pottery, Pottery, SC Visual ArtsColumbia SC, Edgefield SC, Holcombe Family Collection, Pottery, Seagrove NC, Slave Potter Dave, South Carolina State Museum, Stoneware

Just to show that I am not a one pottery subject blogger – here is something about pottery in the Carolinas (South Carolina) that is not about Seagrove, NC. Well, I’m not really sure – there might be some Seagrove pottery in this collection, but I don’t know. Anyway, this exhibit will show that important ... Read More

Info Offered At Carolina Arts’ Website

Art News, NC Arts, NC Visual Arts, SC Visual ArtsArt Administrators, Art Meetings, Art News, Art Opportunities, Art Organizations, Artists, Call For Entry, Carolina Arts, Carolina Arts Online, Juried Show Results, Lectures

I just finished loading up some info to our website at Carolina Arts Online.For years we’ve been receiving e-mails about all sorts of things going on in the visual art community of the Carolinas. This is stuff we don’t and wouldn’t have room for in the printed version of the paper – like the results of ... Read More

Carolina Arts Unleashed – One Year of Blogging

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My oh my, has it been a year already? And, what a year it was. By early fall of 2008 the economy had gone South (Why does going South mean a bad thing?) – I came South 35 years ago and I think that was a good thing. In November, the first black man was ... Read More

Pottery Events Coming Up in Seagrove, NC, in June 2009

About Seagrove Pottery, NC Pottery Center, NC Visual ArtsBen Owen III, Charles “Terry” Zug III, Cynthia Bringle, Denny Mecham, Mark Hewitt, Michael Sherrill, Michelle Francis, NC Pottery Center, Pam Owens, Rob Amberg, Seagrove NC, The Living Tradition - North Carolina Potters Speak, Tom Spleth, Vernon Owens

First off is the Cousins in Clay event on June 6 & 7, 2009, at Bulldog Pottery in Seagrove featuring works by Bruce Gholson and Samantha Henneke of Bulldog and invited guest and “clay cousin” Michael Kline from Bakersville, NC. This will be a wonderful opportunity to meet the artists and add to your pottery ... Read More

The Piccolo Spoleto Festival Starts in Charleston, SC, on May 22, 2009

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If you want to see visual arts at the Spoleto Festival USA – you’re out of luck. That festival isn’t offering visual arts as part of its “World’s Most Comprehensive Arts Festival”. I guess they’ve finally been forced to stop using that moniker. So, if you want to see visual arts in a festival setting, ... Read More

2009 SC Watermedia Society Traveling Exhibition

SC Visual ArtsFlorence Museum of Art, North Charleston City Gallery, SC Watermedia Society

I was delivering papers – a little early last month – so I got a chance to see the 31st SC Watermedia Society Traveling Exhibition at the North Charleston City Gallery, located at the Charleston Area Convention Center Complex in North Charleston, SC. This exhibit features the top 30 award winning entries from the Society’s ... Read More

We Did It – We Helped Teri Tynes Become Best Travel Blogger In The World

BloggingBest Travel Blogger in the World, Teri Tynes, Times Online UK, Walking Off the Big Apple

I put out the call for help – people responded and now Teri Tynes has been voted the Best Travel Blogger in the World, in a straw poll on Times Online UK. She won the straw poll, coming out on top of the six finalists – winning 42% of the votes edging out bloggers in ... Read More