December 2009 – "Carolina Arts Unleashed"

End Of The Year 2009 – Looking Back & Forwards

December 31, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

Here’s the start of last year’s comments about how bad a year 2008 turned out to be. End Of The Year – Looking Back & Forwards Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Well it’s happened again – one year is ending and another will soon begin. Frankly, I’m ready for 2008 to be good and gone and ... Read More

Going Deep Down the Mine Shaft to Extract Info About SC Arts Commission Activities

December 29, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

I guess in South Carolina you can’t be critical of a State Agency like the SC Arts Commission without being cut off from the flow of information as to what they are doing on a regular basis. Yes, I’ve been critical and yes, they have taken Carolina Arts off the list of media they send ... Read More

Happy Holidays to All

December 23, 2009December 4, 2014 by admin

I say Happy Holidays – not to be politically correct, but because although we will be celebrating Christmas and New Years, many others will be celebrating other holidays. Linda and I hope you and yours will be having a good one. We’ll get back to the art world after a few days – after all, ... Read More

Columbia College in Columbia, SC, Offers Works by SC Art Teachers

December 22, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

Here is another late arriving press releases to Carolina Arts on a subject that does not often get much attention – art teachers – not university art professors. These are the folks who teach young students or beginning artists. This is the 4th annual invitational hosted by Columbia College. I don’t know of any other ... Read More

Another Art Book Selection – Christopher Rico’s The Forest and the Sea

December 21, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

During the holidays some people give books as gifts – table top books – the big books that cover some subject in a special way. Art books are often a choice. Of course art books are good for any time. And, in the last week or two I’ve mentioned the book, Brian Rutenberg: The Sensation ... Read More

Works by Mary Whyte and Jill Hooper are Being Auctioned to Benefit the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC

December 19, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

While Linda and I were ending our visit of the exhibit, Brian Rutenberg: Tidesong, (on view in the Gibbes’ Main Gallery through Jan. 10, 2010) last Saturday, just before we left the building I noticed a couple of paintings hanging on the wall across from the recently remodeled Gibbes Museum Store. One painting was by ... Read More

Riverworks Gallery in Greenville, SC, Features Works by Tracie Easler – Jan. 8 – Feb. 28, 2010

December 18, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

As usual we received several press releases about exhibits starting in January – after our deadline. We can’t reward all the stragglers, but occasionally we single out one or two for exposure here. It’s not that they’re all not interesting, but some just stand out more than others and after all – all we receive ... Read More

A Day of Visual Arts in Charleston, SC, to See Works by Brian Rutenberg, Aldwyth, and More

December 16, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

Well, the wintery weather continued on Saturday Dec. 12, 2009, so Linda and I traveled to downtown Charleston, SC, to see some exhibits that she and I did not have a chance to see when they first started. Our son decided to skip this trip – two days away from the XBox 360 and his ... Read More

A Trip to Columbia, SC, for One Special Gift and to See the Ansel Adams Exhibit

December 14, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

On Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, the family made the two hour journey to Columbia, SC, to select a gift from One Eared Cow Glass. We have a trade agreement and we wanted to get something special, but at a reasonable price, for one Christmas gift. Of course we could have gotten a special gift of ... Read More

Charleston, SC, Artist, West Fraser, has People Looking in Trees for Paintings

December 10, 2009December 3, 2014 by admin

I received this notice about an unusual fundraising project by West Fraser, an artist working in Charleston, SC. I’ve known Fraser for a long time, love his work, and have known that he sometimes sees things in the art world a little differently – like I do at times. Fraser is also one of the ... Read More