Vol. 15, No. 1 January 2011 You Can’T Buy It
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ABSOLUTELY FREE Vol. 15, No. 1 January 2011 You Can’t Buy It Since we are now going back to color in our new online version, we thought we’d revisit some of our color covers from the three years we did color. JonathanJonathan GreenGreen BeachBeach TwinsTwins AcrylicAcrylic 10.2510.25 xx 14.2514.25 inchesinches RedRed LipsLips AcrylicAcrylic 10.2510.25 xx 14.2514.25 inchesinches SmallSmall WorksWorks ShowShow For additional information contact the gallery at 843•842•4433 or to view complete exhibition www.morris-whiteside.cowww.morris-whiteside.comm Morris & Whiteside Galleries 220 Cordillo Parkway • Hilton Head Island • South Carolina • 29928 • 843.842.4433 Page 2 - Carolina Arts, January 2011 thought they couldn’t afford to advertise at Carolina Arts, is published monthly by Shoestring Publishing our old prices. Rates for advertising are quite Company, a subsidiary of PSMG, Inc. Copyright© 2011 by by Tom Starland, Editor and Publisher PSMG Inc. It also publishes the blog Carolina Arts Unleashed Editorial reduced. Some folks will see their monthly bill and Carolina Arts News, Copyright© 2011 by PSMG, Inc. All rights reserved by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. for ads go down drastically, while others have Reproduction or use without written permission is strictly jumped their ads up in size, while still paying prohibited. Carolina Arts is available online at (www.CarolinaArts. less than they were. And, new advertisers have com). Mailing address: P.O. Drawer 427, Bonneau, SC 29431. Telephone: 843/825-3408 COMMENTARY come on board as we reached out to folks who E-mail at: ([email protected]) and on the web Something New for Carolina Arts not continue to support that, but now, we will have been sending us press releases. at: (www.CarolinaArts.com). Check out our online rates on the website be able to go back to color - online. So, we’re Editor/Publisher/Calendars/Distribution Well, if you haven’t heard, Carolina Arts producing the paper in color - beyond the front page - under the heading Advertising. Thomas J. Starland has had to suspend printing of the paper - due cover. As you’ll soon notice. Web Master/Advertising/Business Manager to a lack of “enough” advertising to support Now, ads can be in color, we’ll be adding Expanded Area of Coverage Linda Parks Starland the paper being printed. Although some say the color images to articles and at times adding Blog Guru & Graphics economy has recovered - we haven’t seen it some color graphics. Each month, we’ll be Although for over 11 years we have been Zelda Ravenel here or heard that many in the visual art com- learning more and more about what we’re providing info online that we received by Proofer munity have seen it either. doing and discovering new ways to bring it to deadline, but couldn’t fit in each issue or was Andrew A. Starland Linda and I have put all of the resources we you. So change will be our motto for now. from areas of the Carolinas we did not cover Contributing Writers This Month have available to us toward keeping the paper Ads or website links in ads will be active in the printed version of the paper - it will all None This Month going, but we’ve reached a point where we - meaning you will be able to click on an ad be together now. And the good thing about the Advertising Rates just can’t keep it up. We’ve dug a big hole for or click on the blue URL offered in an ad and electronic version is that it is archived - where Click here for advertising rates. ourselves which will take some time getting you will be taken to the advertisers website or the printed papers - once read are usually The deadline for the Feb. 2011 issue is out of - I’m looking for a part-time job, but we blog. Articles from advertisers will have active headed for the trash. People to this day are still Jan, 24, 2011. will still be keeping this paper going online. links at the bottom of the article. Advertiser’s pulling up old articles about exhibits that took place in 1999 from our site. So most every- We want to thank all the folks who have gallery listings will also be in bold and have To advertise all 843/825-3408. supported us throughout the years, those who active links. These are all special services to thing presented will have an afterlife. are continuing to support us online, and the our advertisers. Of course we have copies of every issue we good folks at Tri-State Printing, our printer, We’ll also be driving people to our ever printed and some libraries in both North who has stood by us during our struggles over electronic version of the paper on our blogs, and South Carolina have copies of the paper in the last years. Carolina Arts Unleashed and Carolina Arts their reference departments. We hope to make it back to a printed ver- News - as well as on Facebook and Twitter. Of You may have noticed that this commentary sion sometime, but for now and until advertis- course that 127 character limit on Twitter will is longer than most have been in the last couple ers line up in numbers which would make that be a challenge for me. of years - especially the last couple of months. possible - we’re going to be operating online. You can see that as an advantage or disadvan- If there is anyone, any organization, any The Suggestion Box is Open tage. angel out there who would like to make a con- In this issue - in what might be considered a siderable or any contribution to help us out of When talking with people about our cur- slow month - we’re presenting 49 pages of info that hole - we’d love to hear from you. rent situation and what we will be doing, we about exhibits taking place in the Carolinas, This is not the first time we have had to sus- have gotten some really good suggestions and of course the ads of our supporters. But I pend printing in our 23 year history. We tried about things we should offer or how we should can tell you this - content way out paces the going on as if nothing happened after Hurri- present things - some we never would have ads. During the scramble to pull this off, in the cane Hugo hit the Charleston area in 1989, but thought of on our own. So, we want to encour- middle of the Holiday season, we just couldn’t within a few months we just had to stop - and age people to keep making suggestion on how reach everyone who might have advertised it was almost a year later before we could print we can present the best possible product to and some just couldn’t get an ad to us in time. again. But, we came back stronger than ever. reach the most people. Linda and I are on a big The switch to color just isn’t that easy. We learning journey - we don’t know everything apologize for that. Electronic Opportunities about what’s possible and what new things are We have 23 pages of gallery listings, which coming out of creative minds. could eventually reach 30 pages - if everyone Now, there is always a good side to every- presenting the visual arts in the Carolinas thing. We know how much people have missed Electronic Prices contacted us about their exhibits. This is the our color covers we did for almost three years largest collection of that kind of info being before our recent economy took a nose dive, Producing the paper online also offers presented anywhere in the Carolinas. but the visual art community as a whole could some benefits to our advertisers and those who continued on Page 49 Glenna Goodacre & Rhett Thurman Glenna Goodacre The Winner Lifesize Bronze Rhett Thurman Wyoming Window Oil 30 x 40 inches Featured this Month For additional information 843•722•2172 www.thesylvangallery.com THE SYLVAN GALLERY 171 King St. • Charleston • SC • 29401 Carolina Arts, January 2011 - Page 3 W. 11th Street E. 11th Street Charlotte, NC Maps A N. Brevard Street N. College Street N. Tryon Street Tryon N. N. Church Street Uptown - South End - NODA W. 10th Street E. 10th Street E. 10th Street Historic South End W. 9th Street W. 9th Street E. 9th Street Independence Blvd. W. Hill Street O Dell Bank of America Monroe Rd. Building Stadium S. Tryon St. Tryon S. Rama Road S. Brevard St. W. 8th Street W. 8th Street E. 8th Street S. Cedar Street 74 N. Caldwell Street N. Davidson Street Transamerica Sq. Transamerica E. Morehead St. P 1 W. Morehead St. 2 P I-77 I-277 Bland Alexander Street 51 W. 7th Street E. 7th Street E. 7th Street Matthews1 Park Ave. A Planetarium Omnimax D P C Providence Rd. 3 P EastI-485 Boulevard Discovery Public Uptown Charlotte Institutional Gallery Spaces S. Tryon St. Library Pineville - Matthews Rd. Place N. Brevard Street Institutional Gallery Spaces A Charlotte Art League Gallery Camden E. 6th Street 16 W. 6th Street E. 6th Street A McColl Center For Visual Art Commercial Gallery Spaces E. Worthington Ave. P B Harvey B. Gantt Center 1 Elder Gallery Bank P of America Levine Museum of the New South 2 DOMA Gallery Tremont Ave. Tower C P Lark & Key (SouthEnd) D McColl Center for VA Spirit Square 3 Tremont Ave.