"Carolina Arts Unleashed" – Page 60 – A Blog by Tom Starland, Editor/Publisher of Carolina Arts

SC Fellowship Hopefuls Mark Your Calendars

SC Visual ArtsSC Arts Commission, SC Arts Commission Fellowships

South Carolina’s individual artists working in visual arts or crafts, who wish to receive an award of $5,000, can apply for the 2009-2010 Fellowships. The deadline to enter the Fellowship sweepstakes or to apply for this award is Oct. 1, 2008. Applications can be found at the South Carolina Arts Commission’s website at (www.southcarolinaarts.com) – ... Read More

Bank of America Gives Free Admission

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Bank of America’s Museums on US program has come to Charlotte, NC. Charlotte residents and any holder of a Bank of America ATM, credit or debit card can receive free admission to the Mint Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, and the Levine Museum of the New South, during the first Sat. ... Read More

Unleashed Kicked Off Carolina Blogger Directory

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I was doing some surfing of blog directories and came across Carolina Blogger Directory, a site which is run by The State.com. It had a category for the arts and a registration form to be included. I registered to be included with their art blogs and they put us there, but shortly – after a ... Read More

Oh the Difference!

NC Visual ArtsNC Arts Council, SC Arts Commission, Visual Art Fellowships

I was surfing my list of websites to check each day in order to keep up with the visual arts in the Carolinas and on the NC Arts Council’s website I found a couple of interesting items. First was the press release for an exhibition taking place in Rocky Mount, NC, featuring the NC Arts ... Read More

Too New To This Blog Thing

Charleston SC Visual Arts

It’s going to take some time to wrap my head around this blog thing – although not new to the world – it’s new to me. I have a lot of things rolling around in my head I want to keep aware of – don’t write too much (that’s not easy), make sure it’s not ... Read More

An Overlooked Opportunity

SC Visual ArtsCharleston County Public Library, Saul Alexander Foundation Gallery

As I have mentioned before in a review of exhibits held during the 2008 Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the exhibit space at the Charleston County Public Library’s Main Branch, while small, is an excellent opportunity for any artist in SC to mount a small exhibition. It is located in one of the highest traffic areas in ... Read More

Lest We Forget Our Humble Beginnings

Greenville SC Visual ArtsArt Thomas Gallery, Charleston SC, Gibbes Museum of Art, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville News, Greenville SC, King Snake Press, Phil Garrett

The Greenville News in Greenville, SC, offered an article by Ann Hicks on June 22, 2008, entitled, “Phil Garrett’s King Snake Press Marks 10 Years”. The article gives a brief overview of Garrett’s past ten years running the press and mentions a collaboration between the press, SC artists, and the Greenville County Museum of Art. ... Read More

Meeting Number Two For Finding Art Space In Charleston

Charleston SC Visual Arts

One of my first blog entries was about the meeting held at the Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC, by artists looking for a solution of finding spaces for artists in Charleston. I just received the following notice about a second meeting – found below. An open discussion will be held on July 1, ... Read More

A Trip To The Gibbes

Art News, Charleston SC Visual ArtsAngela Mack, Brian Rutenberg, Charleston SC, Corrie McCallum, Gibbes Museum of Art, Jasper Johns, Juan Logan, Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, Paul Figueroa, The Wells Gallery, Todd Smith, William Halsey

I finally made it to the exhibit, Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, on view at the Gibbes Museum of Art in downtown Charleston, SC. The exhibition examines plantation-related works of art from the eighteenth century to the present. Organized by the Gibbes, this exhibit was on view at the University of Virginia ... Read More

Another Big Report on the Arts – Another Load of Baloney

SC Visual ArtsArtists in the Work Force, Asheville NC, Charleston SC, National Endowment For The Arts, NEA, Post & Courier, Wilmington NC

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has released a report on Artists in the Work Force based on US Census data. Translation – another bunch of guesses made by computer formulas – no hard facts. A headline in the Post & Courier newspaper in Charleston, SC, on 6/14/2008 reads – “Statistically, S.C. not too ... Read More