Well, the other day I had to remove some blogs, one coming to an end by Jeffrey Day and one that has become inactive. So, I thought I’d add a few new ones to give the blog links some diversity of location and viewpoints. I just haven’t come across too many blogs dealing with the visual arts in the Carolinas – except more pottery blogs and I hope to do something with them in the future.
One is Art Dispatch (http://artdispatch.blogspot.com/) – the Voice of the Jacksonville Council for the Arts… Dispatching art news, events, and info to artists and art lovers in Jacksonville, NC, and Eastern North Carolina. They have also website at (http://www.jaxarts.com/).
We don’t here much from visual art groups or individuals from the eastern parts of North Carolina – east of the Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) other than Wilmington, NC, and Calabash, NC. I guess they have not run across Carolina Arts and we haven’t come across them, but we’re willing to include everyone in the visual arts in the Carolinas on our electronic versions of the paper – as long as they get us their info by our deadlines. For more info about that go to this link.
The other blog I’m adding is by Colin Qusahie, a visual artists from the Charleston, SC, area – although it seems like he’s been spending time all over the country. His blog, Colin Qusahie Art, can be found at (http://quashieart.blogspot.com/). Qusahie’s blog will offer interested readers another look into the mind and life of an individual artist. Something most don’t get exposed to that often.
A lot of people think of life as an artist as something glamorous, mysterious, or even leisurely and privileged. But, it’s a lot of work – if you’re going to make any money at it and these blogs show that – if you follow them on a regular basis.
Check them out.
