ABSOLUTELY FREE Vol. 15, No. 2 February 2011 You Can’t Buy It Tony Morano Vicky McLain John Johnson Patz Fowle Beth Wicker Robert Feury Barbara and Ed Streeter Lori Kaim Selected works from the exhibit, A Celebration of Many Talents: Artisans of the Cotton Trail & the Tobacco Trail, on view through March 4, 2011 at the Art Trail Gallery in Florence, SC. StephenJonathan Scott Green Young Beach Twins Acrylic 10.25 x 14.25 inches Red Lips Acrylic 10.25 x 14.25 inches Prayer Book Dry Brush 27.25 x 15.75 inches SmallFeaturing Works New WorkShow 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, February 2011 Carolina Arts, is published monthly by Shoestring Publishing new online version of the paper - lower Company, a subsidiary of PSMG, Inc. Copyright© 2011 by by Tom Starland, Editor and Publisher ad rates and equal coverage and distribu- PSMG Inc. It also publishes the blog Carolina Arts Unleashed Editorial and Carolina Arts News, Copyright© 2011 by PSMG, Inc. All tion of the paper. Everyone has the same rights reserved by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. access to the same one copy of the paper Reproduction or use without written permission is strictly prohibited. Carolina Arts is available online at (www.CarolinaArts. we are producing. Unfortunately, as I com). Mailing address: P.O. Drawer 427, Bonneau, SC 29431. mentioned earlier, not all folks have that Telephone: 843/825-3408 COMMENTARY E-mail at: ([email protected]) and on the web same access or want that kind of access. at: (www.CarolinaArts.com). Number 2 - 51 Pages and during an unexpected, very chaotic But, hopefully we’ll have this same kind process - I’d say that was a pretty good of experience all over the Carolinas. Editor/Publisher/Calendars/Distribution Thomas J. Starland Well, here we are with issue #2 of beginning. As far as being able to answer the new Carolina Arts. It seems like the advertiser’s questions about how many Economic Outlook Web Master/Advertising/Business Manager blink of an eye since we launched the people saw their ad and benefited them in Linda Parks Starland last issue for Jan. 1, but I want to remind a positive way, I don’t have those answers. The big question of the year will be - Blog Guru & Graphics folks who plan on sending us info for our I ask all for patience. This is all new to are things getting better? Some say they Zelda Ravenel March 2011 issue. We’ll be working with us. We hope to make improvements each are and at the same time galleries are still Proofer a short month in February - so get us your month, and we think all factors will grow closing. It is definitely a challenging time Andrew A. Starland info early. Info received close to or at our with time. for all - especially those in state and local Contributing Writers This Month deadline on Feb. 24 may find itself located In respects to those 9,000 downloads, governments trying to balance budgets. Judith McGrath in very strange places. we know that many more people just By the time you are reading this the Advertising Rates looked at the paper in their browsers stock market may have gone over the Click here for advertising rates. By the Numbers while others looked at individual pages. 12,000 mark. Apple may have sold a few The deadline for the Mar. 2011 issue is What was really frustrating was the fact million more iPhones to Verizon custom- Feb., 24, 2011. So how did that first issue do? Well, that thousands of folks pulled up pages ers, but we’ll still have a huge debt here that’s a little subjective, but we’ve heard a from our online Dec. 2010 issue. These at Carolina Arts and the Governor of SC To advertise all 843/825-3408. lot of rave reviews from those who loved are pages people had bookmarked on will be hoping to eliminate the budget of the new colorful electronic version of their computers. By mid-month we made the SC Arts Commission. You’re going to the paper and very little from folks who adjustments to let these folks know they be hearing a lot about that latter issue, but may be still looking to find a copy of our need to go to our new front page and not from me. Joan Z. Horn non-existent “printed” version of our Jan. bookmark that page to get our updated info. I know a lot of regular readers of my issue. editorial commentary are hoping I’m And, that’s our perpetual conundrum. New Supporters going to be a major cheerleader for our How do we know what’s happened with Governor, but I’ve got better things to do. those folks who are not so oriented to- One of the encouraging signs which We have to survive our own economic wards using electronic media? We have no took place between these two issues is troubles ourselves. And, mostly I think it’s way of reaching them and they may have the fact that we picked up new supporters a lot of smoke and mirrors - like pledges no idea that we are still publishing, but and new viewers from areas that were not to cut taxes while major budget deficits publishing beyond their reach. Although served by the printed paper. are looming. You’ll hear enough about anyone can go to any public library and One example of that is the explosive this issue from the Arts Commission and get access to a computer, the Internet, and response we received from the visual art their friends (the people who receive then to us. Hopefully, someday they will community in Florence, SC - an area often money from them) that if this agency was figure that out and find us. ignored by statewide media covering the eliminated - all art as we know it will stop So who is reading our new online arts in South Carolina. We reached out and disappear. That’s not true. version of the paper? Here’s one solid bit and they reached right back. We reported Necklace from the Joan Z. Horn - Heart Collection of information. There were at least 9,000 a lot of new info we were receiving on our Last Words visitors to our website who downloaded blog - Carolina Arts Unleashed and in this the complete PDF of the Jan. 2011 issue. issue we have two pages of ads and info I want to leave you with some wise Smith Galleries We’ll know exact numbers later. about exhibits taking place in Florence. words I saw recently from one of Ameri- American Craft, Art & Framing Before Jan. we printed 10,000 cop- And, in response to all that interest and ca’s most successful businessman. smithgalleries.com ies of the paper and distributed 90-95% the fact that we received a flood of images “A man who stops advertising to save The Village at Wexford, Suite J-11 UPPER LEVEL of those papers throughout areas of the for that blog coverage - we highlighted money - is like a man who stops his clock Hilton Head Island 10-6 Mon.-Sat. 843-842-2280 REWARD YOURSELF - JOIN OUR E-CLUB Carolinas. 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