THE FALL of TYRANNY Kristi Ryba, 2020-2021
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ABSOLUTELY FREE Vol. 25, No. 2 February 2021 You Can’t Buy It Print is by East Carolina University’s printmaking professor Heather Muise and is part of the Invitational Print Show at FRANK Gallery in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The exhibition is on view through February 6, 2021. See the article on Page 28. ARTICLE INDEX Advertising Directory This index has active links, just click on the Page number and it will take you to that page. Listed in order in which they appear in the paper. Page 1 - Cover - FRANK Gallery - Heather Muise Page 3 - Art Support: NC Arts Council, SC Arts Council, CERF & Page 2 - Article Index, Advertising Directory, Contact Info, Links to blogs, and Carolina Arts site National Endowment for the Arts The Arts in North Carolina and COVID-19 Page 4 - Editorial Commentary & Gibbes Museum of Art Page 4 - Wells Gallery Even though participation in the arts has been greatly Page 6 - Gibbes Museum of Art Cont. and Gibbes Museum of Art / Robert Marks Collection disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, and artists and Page 5 - Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art Page 8 - College of Charleston and Redux Contemporary Art Center arts organizations severely impacted, our network across Page 6 - Halsey McCallum Studio & Whimsy Joy by Roz North Carolina is responding in a myriad of creative ways Page 9 - Redux Contemporary Art Center, City of North Charleston & Charleston Artist Guild Page 7 - Emerge SC, Helena Fox Fine Art, Corrigan Gallery, Halsey-McCallum Studio, that demonstrate the power of the arts to connect, Page 11 - Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art, Robert Lange Studios & cope, and heal. We at the North Carolina Arts Council Rhett Thurman, Anglin Smith Fine Art, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Editorial Commentary Cont. want to do our part to call attention to important action items and resources that will benefit the state’s Page 12 - Coastal Discovery Museum, Society of Bluffton Artists & The Wells Gallery at the Sanctuary & Saul Alexander Foundation Gallery arts industry. For further information visit The Johnson Collection Gallery Page 8 - Deane V. Bowers Art & Pastel Society of South Carolina (https://www.ncarts.org/arts-north-carolina-and-covid-19). Page 13 - Greenville Technical College Page 9 - Art League of Hilton Head Page 14 - Greenville Technical College cont., Metropolitan Arts Council & Hampton III Gallery Page 10 - Kristi Ryba / The Fall of Tyranny North Carolina Artist Relief Fund Page 15 - A Book Review by Steve Wong & Hampton III Gallery cont. Location: North Carolina Page 13 - Hampton III Page 17 - Jerald Melberg Gallery & Hickory Museum of Art This fund has been created to support creative individuals who have been financially impacted by gig cancellations due Page 14 - Greer Cultural Arts Council Page 18 - Hickory Museum of Art cont., Columbia Museum of Art, to the outbreak of COVID-19. Artists and arts presenters in North Carolina can apply for emergency funding. 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Page 2 - Carolina Arts, February 2021 Table of Contents Table of Contents Carolina Arts, February 2021 - Page 3 Editorial by Tom Starland, Editor and Publisher Don’t forget about our website: COMMENTARY www.carolinaarts.com Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art Paying Tribute to Our Queen tunities for less expensive ownership. I’m giving you a warning that now is Being Queen of the Carolina Arts’ the time to start collecting works by this Facebook Page isn’t just a hollow award rising art star. Ryba recently won a South- of so called bragging rights. Good thing, ern Prize and State Fellowship award from as our current Queen, Kristi Ryba of South Arts based in Atlanta, GA, was one Charleston, SC, doesn’t brag about her of the top awards at ArtFields in Lake City, accomplishments. Most of the time I learn SC, and her work has been featured in the about her accomplishments second hand. 701 CCA Biennial in Columbia, SC. But, being our Queen comes with perks - Strike now before her works rise above not the kind you can take to the bank, but your pay grade. Long live our Queen! the kind others wished they had use of for You can find past issues all the way back to sure.