Artisphere, Greenville, SC’s Arts Weekend, will be held in Downtown Greenville’s Historic West End on May 8-10, 2009. The area along the Reedy River and Falls Park is an excellent location for an outdoor/indoor event featuring many visual art offerings.
The Artist Row will feature 100 artists from all over the US with works in a variety of mediums. The festival also offers the juried exhibition, Artists of the Upstate, on view at Centre Stage, during the festival and continuing through May 29, 2009. The exhibition was open to artists living within a 35-mile radius of Greenville and seeks to recognize the outstanding quality and diversity of work being generated by artists living in the Upstate region of South Carolina.
New to the festival this year is the Chairman’s Gallery Exhibition being presented in the Founders’ Room above Larkin’s on the River. This event features works from two well established galleries in the Carolinas: Jerald Melberg Gallery of Charlotte, NC, and Hampton III Gallery LTD of Taylors, SC. Both galleries have been long time supporters of Carolina Arts, so we want you to visit them for sure – click the links to go see their websites. A third gallery has been added, T E W Galleries from Atlanta, GA. I don’t know anything about them and they are from Georgia – where’s that? But, you can check them out too by clicking the link. Featured works from these galleries will be on display and available for sale on Saturday and Sunday during festival hours - May 9, 10am-8pm and May 10, 11am-6pm.
Of course while you are in Greenville we would advise you to check out that city’s regular visual art offerings too. The galleries at Art Crossing at River Place will be right there and others are not too far away in downtown Greenville – like the Artists Guild Gallery of Greenville at 200 N. Main Street. They are a new supporter of our paper from Greenville.
I think there will be so much to see in Greenville this weekend, but we will have to miss it. Linda and I can’t go – our son is graduating from the College of Charleston this same weekend. I can’t wait for that! So you go to Greenville for us.
For further info check out our gallery institutional and commercial listings for Greenville on the Carolina Arts website or visit (www.artisphere.us).
