Meetings & Groups
The Camden Art Association (CAA), an affiliate club of the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County (FAC) in Camden, SC -- The group will meet in the Bassett Gallery at the FAC. The meeting is free and open to anyone in the public who is interested in the arts. The CAA is a group of local artists, both professional and amateur, who meet each month and present two annual exhibits in the Fine Arts Center's Bassett Gallery. The CAA welcomes anyone interested in the arts to join this affiliate club. Membership will provide opportunities for artists to showcase their work, to hear from speakers and demonstrators who can share their expertise and meet other artists in the community. For more information, contact CAA president Lea McMillan at 843/432-5243 or 843/478-6562, or Ginny Caraco at 843/425-1603. The Fine Arts Center is located at 810 Lyttleton Street in Camden.
The Lake Norman Art League will hold its monthly meeting on the second Monday of the month, at the League's facility at 108 South Main St., Davidson NC, from 7-9pm. Meetings are open to the public. The Lake Norman Art League is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to promoting visual arts awareness in our community. We cultivate all levels of artists through net working with colleagues and other art related professionals, and providing monthly lecture series on various art topics. For more information call 704/237-1042 or go to (www.lknart.org).
The Seven Oaks Art League meets on the third Thur. of each month at Seven Oaks Park, 200 Leisure Lane, in Columbia, SC, at 7pm. Each meeting is an opportunity to meet other artists in the Columbia area and learn from informative presentations given by guest speakers. Membership is only $20 a year. Call 803/772-3336 for more information.
About Face, an artists' group, meets every Wed. evening 7-9pm to draw from live models at Emily Douglas Park at Queen Street entrance in Columbia, SC. Each two-hour portrait or life drawing session is only $5 for About Face members and non-members alike. Those who pay membership dues and regularly attend About Face sessions become eligible to hang their works in About Face Exhibits, and may vote and hold office. Check it out! For more information call 803/345-5373.
Artists' Discussion Group - Creative folk of all types (visual artists, writers, sculptors, architects, musicians, photographers) are invited to gather for insightful discussions every second Wednesday of the month at New Garden Friends meeting (across from Guilford College, Greensboro, NC) from 7-9pm. Everyone's comments are valued at these meetings, regardless of their level of involvement in their art. Call 336/643-0308 for more info, or just show up.
The Charleston Artist Guild in Charleston, SC, will present general meeting of the Guild beginning at 6:30pm at the Charleston Area Senior Center, 259 Meeting Street in Charleston, SC. Lectures and art demonstrations are part of the Charleston Artist Guild's monthly meetings and are open to the public as an ongoing mission to further the appreciation and education of all aspects of the art world. For further information call Robert G. Ingram, Executive Director at 843/722-2454, or the Guild gallery at 843/722-2425.
The Charlotte Art League holds it's monthly meetings on the third Tuesday of every month at it's headquarters located at 1517 Camden Road, in the South End of Charlotte, NC. The meetings begin at 7pm wwith a social and the program starts at 7:30pm. The following programs are planned. For further information call the League at 704/376-2787.
The Crooked Creek Art League meets on the third Monday of each month at Crooked Creek Park, 1098 Old Lexington Hwy, in Chapin, SC. On Monday, Jan, 17, 2011, 6:30pm (social), 7pm (meeting) - Ted Scypinski, a self-taught artist native of New Jersey now living in Savannah, GA, will present the program for Crooked Creek Art League. He attend Newark College of Engineering and spent his career in mechanical engineering and technical illustration. As a natural progression, Scypinski changed his focus from his vocation of applied art to an avocation in fine art. He began painting with oils and ten years later he honed his skills painting with watercolor. His work has been juried into many competitions and has received awards from at least six other states. Each meeting is an opportunity to meet other artists in our area and listen to a speaker on an art related topic. Membership is only $15 a year. Call 803/781-6353 for more information.
The Greenwood Artists Guild meets the second Saturday of every month at the Arts Council in the Federal Building in Greenwood, SC, beginning at 10am. Membership is open to people in all of the visual and performing arts, as well as those interested in furthering the arts in our community. Visit us at our website (www.greenwoodartistsguild.com) or by contacting the guild secretary, Dot Hershey at 864/229-5195.
Artists are beginning to organize the Pineville Art Guild in Pineville, NC. They meet on the 1st Thursday of each month at 7 pm. The meetings are held at The Hut, 413 Johnston Drive, Pineville, NC. For directions call the Pineville Park & Rec. dept. at 704-889-2400 or call Judy Phillips at 704/889-7388.
The Mooresville Artist Guild will hold monthly meetings at the Depot Fine Arts Gallery at 103 W. Center Ave. in Mooresville NC. Each meeting takes place on the 4th Tuesday of the month, starting at 7pm and is free and open to the public. For further information call 704/663-6661 or at (www.mooresvilleartistguild).
Red Bank Arts Guild is currently taking membership applications. Red Bank Arts Guild is designed to encourage exhibition and communication for artists and crafters in the Red Bank, White Knoll, Pelion rural communities of Lexington County, SC. For more information contact a member at 803/808-5328 or visit (www.RedBankArtsGuild.com).
For info on Seacoast Artist Guild of SC, Pawleys Island, SC, call Edna Fenske at 843-357-2626 or e-mail to (fensk@aol.com).
The Southern Arts Society in Kings Mountain, NC, meets the 1st Tue. of the month for a meeting where business is discussed and a presentation on some aspect of the arts is made. The event begins at 6:30pm (social) and the meeting starts at 7pm at the Kings Mountain Arts Center at 301 North Piedmont Ave. (Hwy 216) in Kings Mountain. The meetings are free and open to the public. For further info call 704/739-2056.
Trenholm Artists Guild meets the second Monday of each month at the Richland County Recreation Commission's Forest Lakes Park recreation center at 6820 Wedgefield Road just off Decker Blvd. in Columbia, SC. For information, call Nancy Hill at 803/865-1431.
The Community of I'ON Artists in Mt Pleasant, SC, meets on the third Wednesday of each month from 9am-4pm, at the Creek Club in I'ON, on Saturday Road. After refreshments and a short business meeting there will be a program followed by time to create in your chosen field and exchange ideas and techniques. Throughout the year, there are educational opportunities with special speakers and demonstrations on various aspects of the artistic experience. The group started as a few artists who were interested in painting together twice a month. From that core interest of communing with other artists we have expanded to participating in local events. Our first art shows have been attended by hundreds of people who came to buy our art and we are excited by the enthusiasm of our guests and the number of paintings that were purchased . We now have over 100 members from beginners to professionals from I'On and the Greater Charleston Area. We have come from all walks of life to share a mutual joy in self-expression. Through social gatherings, exposure and exhibitions thr group provides learning experiences at all levels; promotes artistic activities and an exchange of ideas; builds a reputation as a thriving art community; exploits opportunities for exposure with I'ON and the community at large. To join, contact Robert by e-mail at (Rbyronart@yahoo.com). For further info contact Diane Balister at 843/971-6317, e-mail at (diane@balister.org) or Pam Schussel e-mail at (devoncroft@comcast.net) and visit (www.ionartist.com).
The Log Cabin Art Guild serving Columbia & the Midlands of SC, meet at 10am on the 2nd Sat. of each month in the Log Cabin at Sesqui-centennial State Park, 9564 Two Notch Road, Columbia, SC. For info call 803/788-4605.
Piedmont Artists meet on the 1st Tuesday of each month at the Rock Hill Arts Council's classrooms at 121 E. Main Street, Rock Hill, SC, for business meetings. The group will now meet weekly for an Open Studio session every Tue., from 7-9:30pm. Rock Hill artist, Harriet Goode will moderate the sessions which will include models and still life setups. For complete details call the Arts Council at 803/328-ARTS.
The Art League of Henderson County in Hendersonville, NC, meet at the Opportunity House each month for it monthly meeting and a demonstration. Oct. 10, 2010, at 2:30pm - Russell Jewell will present the the program "Painting Solutions" . He will focus on problem-solving in watercolor, with an emphasis on plein air painting. Compositional methods will be explored. Dr. Jewell holds a Doctorate of Education from the University of Georgia and a Master of Art degree from the University of South Carolina. He is a signature member of the South Carolina Watermedia Society, the National Watercolor Society and the Transparent Watercolor Society of America. His work has been published in several national art publications and he has received awards in national juried exhibitions. For further info call 828/3132 or visit (www.artleague.net).
The Northwest Artists' League in North Wilkesboro, NC, meets at the Wilkes Art Gallery, at 800 Elizabeth Street, North Wilkesboro every third Tue. of the month for a general meeting where there is 30min, of business and one hour of fun such as making monotypes. For further information, call the gallery at 336/667-2841.
The monthly meeting(s) of the Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild will take place 2nd Thursday of each month at 7:30pm at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 3000 N. Kings Hwy, (Bus. 17) in Myrtle Beach, SC. For info call Betty Stritzel at 843/497-3897.
A new organization, the Western North Carolina Glass Club is being formed - open to people in both North and South Carolina. Glass crafters of all skill levels are invited to participate in monthly meetings, in the Hendersonville, NC, area, starting at 7pm. This clubs objectives are to encourage glass artist's, share information and techniques, and provide a forum for informal discussions about the craft. Meetings, on the second Monday of each month, will include presentations by local artists, new tool and technique demonstrations, project "show and tell", and opportunities to discuss and receive helpful solutions for problems or challenges with a work in progress. Tours of member studios and workshops will be frequently arranged, and given member support, art works may be created and donated to local charities for fund raising. All art glass, hot glass, and glass mosaic artists are encouraged to participate by e-mailing to (wncglassclub@yahoo.com) or by calling 828/697-2078 or 828/595-4864 for more information.
Women's Caucus for Art, Charleston, SC, Chapter - A national, nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the opportunities for women in the visual arts. The Charleston Chapter of the WCA meets to discuss exhibition opportunities, to critique art and to build a network of women in the local art community. Meetings are informal, and held at a variety of sites throughout the Charleston area, often at openings and art events. For more information e-mail (WCAcharleston@yahoo.com) or visit (www.WCAcharleston.blogspot.com).
Fundraisers
Editor's Note: We will not list fundraisers which feature Art Auctions which do not list all the artists' names who have donated art to the fundraiser. The phrases: including works by local artists; including works by the area's best artists; or featuring works by the regions top artists - just won't cut it. Many organizations promise these artists publicity for their donations of art, but their names never seem to make it into the press releases. Not here. If you sent a press release and didn't know about this policy - shame on you for not reading our paper, but wanting to use us to spread you info.
The Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville, NC, presents "Season's Greetings", the final party in the 2010 FUNd Party Series, on Dec. 11, 2010 at 6:30pm at the home of Tom and Libby Irwin, Waynesville. Tickets are $50 per person. Party is limited to 30 people. Tickets may be purchased at the Haywood County Arts Council at 86 N. Main in Waynesville or by calling the office at 828/452-0593. Deadline for ticket purchase is Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. Tickets may be purchased at the Haywood County Arts Council at 86 N. Main in Waynesville or by calling the office at 828-452-0593. Deadline for ticket purchase is Wednesday, December 1, 2010. Come celebrate the holidays and the arts! 'Tis the season to be happy, thankful, and festive. Don your holiday finery and enjoy an evening of delicious hors d'oeuvres, an elegant dinner, wine, and music-all for only $50. The Yule log will be blazing awaiting your wishes to be sent up the chimney to the North Pole for the merriest of seasons and the happiest of New Years. The Arts Council's FUNd Party Series offers an eclectic array of social excursions throughout the year featuring delicious food, unique experiences, and entertainment to benefit the arts in our community. For more information about the FUNd Party Series, visit the Arts Council web site at (www.haywoodarts.org).
"Art With Heart," an annual
art auction benefiting nonprofit United Family Services' domestic
violence programs, recently announced Alice Ballard, Carolyn DeMeritt,
Jayne Johnson, Linda Foard Roberts, Virginia Scotchie and Margie
Stewart will serve as featured artists for the 11th annual
"Art With Heart Auction," to be held Feb. 5, 2011,
at Founders Hall in Charlotte, NC. The featured artists are all
represented by the Hodges Taylor Art Consultancy, Charlotte. These
six artists have pledged to donate pieces from their collections
and will headline the live auction the night of the event. "Hodges
Taylor is pleased to support this year's 'Art with Heart Auction',"
says Managing Partner Christie Taylor. "Six female artists
were selected because of the nature of their work as it relates
to the human experience, and honoring the women that benefit from
this program." Alice Ballard was born in Florence, SC,
and received her Masters in painting at the University of Michigan.
She attended numerous classes at Penland School of Craft in North
Carolina, returning years later as an Instructor. Currently, she
teaches at the SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities
and works in her home studio in Greenville, SC. She has work in
numerous collections that include the Renwick American Museum
of Contemporary Craft, a part of the Smithsonian. Her work will
travel nationally for 2 years with "Tradi-tion/Innovation
American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional
Art" organized by Southern Arts. Charlotte native, Carolyn
DeMeritt is a self-taught photographer who has worked at
her craft for over twenty years. She has photographed the
coastal areas of North and South Carolina since the 1980's. DeMeritt
has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including "Contemporary
NC Photography from the Collection at North Carolina Museum of
Art" and has had solo exhibitions at Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts; Levine Museum of the New South; The Light Factory; and Asheville
Art Museum. Her works are in numerous public and private collections,
including Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; National Museum of Women
in the Arts; High Museum of Art; North Carolina Museum of Art;
and Mint Museum of Art. Jayne Johnson is a native Texan,
and earned her M.F.A in printmaking and drawing from James Madison
University and her B.F.A from Baylor University. She is currently
a Professor of Art at Queens University of Charlotte. Johnson
paints both landscapes and still life paintings, though both are
based on landscape. In the still life paintings there is
a subtle and skillfully drawn landscape supporting the more obvious
icon, most often an item that shares a meaningful relationship
on a personal and universal level. This subject matter may be
a child's toy or something found in nature, but it invariably
refreshes sometimes forgotten memories for the viewer. A
Charlotte native, Linda Foard Roberts received a Master
in Fine Arts from Arizona State University, and a Bachelor in
Fine Arts from Virginia Intermont College. She was Executive Director
of The Light Factory Photographic Arts Center from 1990-1995.
Her work has been exhibited in many group and one person shows
from Australia to New York and is in the collections of BankAmerica,
the Mint Museum of Art, the Bechtler Collection, and Haarmann
& Reimer, West Germany. She lives and works in Weddington,
NC, where she is raising her two children. A North Carolina
native, Virginia Scotchie is a ceramic artist and area
head of ceramics at the University of South Carolina. Scotchie
exhibits her work extensively throughout the United States and
abroad, and is a past recipient of the prestigious Sydney Meyer
Fund International Ceramics Premiere Award from the Shepparton
Museum in Victoria, Australia. Her work can be found in many
public and private collections and reviews about her work appear
in prestigious ceramic publications. Margie Stewart received
her Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro and maintains a studio in Durham,
NC. She has shown in many group and solo shows and her work is
found in collections across the country. Her gestural still life
and landscape paintings explore ideas about internal and external
space and the joys of color. "We are so excited to enter
the second decade of 'Art with Heart' featuring such an impressive
group of national, regional and local artists," "Art
With Heart' Co-Chairs Becky Silverstein and Gracy Wooster add. "A
special thanks to Hodges Taylor Art Consultancy for their support
as this year's featured gallery. We commend them for their
thoughtful approach to selecting their featured artists and collaborating
with us to ensure a successful fundraiser for United Family Services."
Media and corporate sponsors for the event include Berkeley Capital,
Englishman's Fine Furnishings, Flagship Capital, Gerrard Homes,
Melissa Gustafson, DDS, Halstead Designs, Hawthorne Retail Partners,
James A. Herron, DDS, KPMG, Lake Norman Oral & Facial Surgery,
Lisa Sherry Interieurs, The Marks Family Foundation, Moore Van
Allen, Northwestern Mutual, Oxner Thomas & Permar, Peidmont
Natural Gas, Red F, SunStar Development Group, Syncot Plastics, WCNC
Carolinas News Channel 36, and Gracy and Scott Wooster. Hodges
Taylor is an art consultancy firm with a private gallery located
in uptown Charlotte, open by appointment and for special events.
With over three decades of experience as professional art consultants,
Hodges Taylor offers a full range of consulting services focusing
on businesses and individual private collectors. Their private
gallery in uptown Charlotte is devoted to showing and promoting
works by exceptional regional artists, and to offering stimulating
programs in cooperation with artists and cultural groups that
encourage creative conversation. Started in 2000, the annual
auction which has raised over $750,000 since its inception when
a group of local women decided to combine their extensive resources
to plan a fun and educational benefit to help United Family Services
launch programs for victims of domestic violence. Over 50
strong, the Art With Heart volunteer committee is led by Co-Chairs
Becky Silverstein and Gracy Wooster. United Family Services, a
nonprofit United Way member, is a multi-faceted family service
agency. "Art With Heart' benefits the agency's domestic violence
programs including The Shelter for Battered Women and Victim Assistance
Court Services. These programs provide safety planning and shelter,
counseling and support groups, children's services, court and
legal advocacy, services for incarcerated women, and on-site emergency
room response to patients. To purchase tickets to the art auction,
call 704/367-2799 or visit (www.unitedfamilyservices.org) or
(www.artwithheartauction.com). Tickets are $75 each. For
further information contact Adele Yonchak, "Art With Heart"
Communications Chair, by calling 704/651-8681 or e-mail
to (arankinm@gmail.com).
The Spartanburg Art Museum (SAM) will
host the Third Annual Art & Antique Show, Feb. 24
27, 2011, at the Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg, SC.
The event provides the opportunity to see, learn about and purchase
predominantly 18th and 19th century American, English and Continental
antiques and accessories. Dealers from Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
New York, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia will be
represented at the show. The idea for the Art & Antique Show
was born five years ago when a few friends were sitting around
a table talking about the fact that the Spartanburg area did not
have an event of this type. "One thing that surfaced from
the discussion was that the Chapman Cultural Center would be the
perfect venue for an event of this scope and that the Spartanburg
Art Museum was a perfect fit for hosting the event," says
Katherine Fulmer, co-chair of the Art & Antique Show. The
details of planning and executing the show were passed along to
Fulmer and Anna Converse, who have co-chaired the show since its
inception. "The first two shows were wildly successful,"
Fulmer says, noting that proceeds from the events have enabled
SAM to bring in world-class exhibitions that would not have been
made available to the community without the funds raised by the
Art & Antique Show. Featured speakers this year include Caroline
Ragsdale Reutter, Grainger McKoy and Estill Curtis "Buck"
Pennington. Reutter, owner of Caroline's Cakes in Annapolis, MD,
will speak on "Taking It to the 7th Layer," focusing
on her seven-layer yellow cakes iced with "melt-in-you-mouth"
caramel icing. McKoy, a South Carolina carver of intricately detailed
sculpture, jewelry and fine silver of or about birds, will present
"Carving a Story from the Gifts of Birds." Pennington,
a scholar of fine art of the South, will speak on 19th Century
paintings in the George Dean Johnson Collection. Converse emphasizes
that the event offers something for everyone, including fine furniture,
silver, jewelry, painting, rugs and linens. "We offer a wine
and cheese party each afternoon as well as the option to come
and purchase lunch Friday, Saturday and Sunday before or after
attending lectures or looking around," Converse says of the
activities that fill the weekend. SAM, a regional museum, promotes
the visual arts by supporting educational programming, sponsoring
exhibitions and acquiring, displaying and conserving a permanent
collection. As one of eight partners at the Chapman Cultural Center,
SAM is funded in part by The Arts Partnership and its donors,
the County and City of Spartanburg and the South Carolina Arts
Commission which receives support from the National Endowment
for the Arts. Past shows have attracted more than 600 people,
resulting in more than $85,000 raised to help fund SAM's exhibits.
Some of the proceeds from each event has been invested with the
Spartanburg County Foundation with the goal of making the event
self-sustaining in the future. This year organizers have set a
goal of raising $100,000 to assist SAM in bringing in a series
of "Heroes" exhibits, including an exhibition of Annie
Liebowitz photographs. General admission to the show, offered
daily, provides admission to vendor merchandise. Items available
for purchase include a variety of price ranges. Tickets for daily
admission are $10 and weekend passes are $20. Tickets are available
at the door or in advance at the SAM Gallery or by calling 864/582-7616.
Admission to featured speakers events is an additional $5 per
speaker. Parking is free. Information is available on SAM's
website at (www.spartanburgartmuseum.org).
Tours
None at this time
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