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ABSOLUTELY FREE Vol. 25, No. 9 September 2021 You Can’t Buy It Michael Reibel, Watching The Sun Fall On Kiawah, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches Artwork is by Michael Reibel and is one of the works from the Living Large: A Group Show of Large Works, on view online and in the gallery at Wells Gallery in The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, through September 27, 2021. ARTICLE INDEX Advertising Directory College of Charleston, SC, Whimsy Joy© by Roz 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. Therapeutic Expressions for All Ages Page 1 - Cover - The Wells Gallery at The Sanctuary - Michael Reibel Page 3 - Whimsy Joy by Roz & Hickory Museum of Art / Together While Apart Art Project Offers Works by Namsa Leuba Page 2 - Article Index, Advertising Directory, Contact Info, Links to blogs, and Carolina Arts site Page 4 - Public Works Art Center The College of Charleston in down- Page 3 - College of Charleston town Charleston, SC, is presenting Page 5 - Halsey McCallum Studio Suzie’s Look At Me Page 4 - Editorial Commentary & Mary Martin Gallery Crossed Looks, an exhibition of work by Swiss-Guinean photographer and art Page 5 - College of Charleston cont., Charleston Artist Guild and Editorial Commentary cont. Page 6 - Wells Gallery at The Sanctuary “I am a big Girl now. I like Shapes, director Namsa Leuba, on view at the Col- Colors and Fun.”… Page 6 - Lowcountry Artists Gallery & City of North Charleston Page 7 - Emerge SC, Helena Fox Fine Art, Corrigan Gallery, Halsey-McCallum Studio, lege’s Halsey Institute of Contemporary Page 8 - Art League of Hilton Head, Society of Bluffton Artists & Rhett Thurman, Anglin Smith Fine Art, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Art, through Dec. 11, 2021. “Soon, I get to Go to School. Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage Crossed Looks is the first solo exhibi- I will follow All the Rules. The Wells Gallery at the Sanctuary & Saul Alexander Foundation Gallery tion of Swiss-Guinean artist Namsa Leuba ABC, 123, I will learn what Page 9 - Clemson University & Tiger Strikes Asteroid in the United States. The show will feature Page 8 - La Petite Gallerie They Teach to Me.” Page 10 - Tiger Strikes Asteroid cont., Greenville Center for Creative Arts, Art & Light Gallery, over 90 works from the photographer’s Greenville Technical College and The Johnson Collection Page 9 - Art League of Hilton Head & Melinda Hoffman projects in Guinea, South Africa, Nige- ria, and Benin, and it will premiere new Page 13 - The Johnson Collection cont. & Artists Collective | Spartanburg Page 11 - Metropolitan Arts Council work created in Tahiti. As a photographer Page 15 - Artists Collective | Spartanburg x 2 & Arts Council of York County Check my website for new whimsies! Page 12 - Wings of the City / Metropolitan Arts Council working across documentary, fashion, Page 16 - Waterworks Visual Arts Center & Davidson College and performance, Leuba’s images explore Images are available on: Page 14 - The Carolina Outdoor Project / Lake Greenwood State Park Page 17 - Davidson College cont. & Harvey B Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture the fluid visual identity of the African diaspora. • Prints • Notecards Page 16 - Carolina Renaissance Festival Page 18 - Harvey B Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture cont. + 1 With a dual heritage between Guinea • T Shirts • Decals Page 19 - Harvey B Gantt Center for African American Arts cont., Page 17 - Arts Council of York County / Fleming Markel and Switzerland, Leuba draws inspira- tion from her own experience growing • Aprons • Stickers 2021 Potters Marker at the Mint & Jerald Melberg Gallery Page 18 - Waterworks Visual Arts Center up between two different cultural tradi- Namsa Leuba “Damien”, 2015, 34 x 47.2 inches, • Calendars • Mousepads Page 20 - Sumter County Gallery of Art Page 19 - Mouse House / Susan Lenz tions. Her images are influenced by the Fiber pigment print Dibond NGL series, Nigeria • Children’s Paint Smocks Page 22 - Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Southern Highland Craft Guild & Animist traditions of her mother’s family Asheville Gallery of Art Page 20 - One Eared Cow Glass in Guinea Conakry, and the visual codes Looks is supported in part by the National of statues, masquerades, and religious Endowment for the Arts, the Swiss Arts Page 23 - Asheville Gallery of Art cont. & Pink Dog Gallery Page 21 - City Art Gallery & Noelle Brault Fine Art I am gorgeous... ceremonies in West Africa. They are also Council Pro Helvetia, and Garden & Gun Can’t you see I’m really cute! Page 24 - Pink Dog Gallery, 35th Annual Sculpture Celebration and Caldwell Arts Council x2 Page 22 - The Artist Index inspired by contemporary fashion and Magazine. This exhibition is supported in Put me on your personal Page 26 - Caldwell Arts Council cont., Upstairs Artspace, UNC-Greensboro & design. The result is a unique perspective part by Belinda and Richard Gergel, Diane mousepad for $12.00 Page 24 - Carolina Renaissance Festival Artworks Gallery (W-S) that straddles reality and fantasy. and Garey De Angelis, South State Bank, Page 25 - Caldwell Arts Council / 35th Annual Sculpture Celebration Leuba re-stages and constructs nar- Kathleen and Tom Wright, Carol Perkins All images are copyrighted Page 27 - Artworks Gallery (W-S) cont., Reynolda House Museum of American Art, rative scenes in collaboration with her and David Rawle, Cindy and Shon M. Village Pottery Marketplace Gallery & STARworks Glass / Pumpkin Patch Page 26 - STARworks sitters, incorporating bold colors, striking Barnett, Deena and Walter McRackan, and Rosalyn Kramer Monat-Haller M.Ed., LLC patterns, and intricate clothing and props. Marissa Sams. Page 28 - STARworks Glass / Pumpkin Patch cont., Florence County Museum x2 & Page 27 - Discover the Seagrove Potteries Counseling for Children, Adolescents, & Adults She often uses models that she informally The exhibition’s accompanying publi- Francis Marion University Licensed Independent Social Worker - CP Page 28 - Village Pottery Marketplace meets in the street, who become active cation, Namsa Leuba: Crossed Looks, was Page 29 - Francis Marion University cont. +1 & collaborators in the portraits. Leuba’s designed by Swiss design studio Maxim- Mother, Grandmother, Daughter, Friend, Psycho therapist Page 29 - Wilmington Art Association & Fayetteville-Cumberland County Arts Council / The 43rd Annual International Folk Festival / Fayetteville | Cumberland County photographs pose fundamental questions age and will be published by Damiani. and Artist who uses color and whimsical imagination Page 31 - The 43rd Annual International Folk Festival / Fayetteville | Cumberland County cont., Ellington White Contemporary about the medium of photography and its Crossed Looks features Leuba’s major to create joyful art for children of all ages role in forming our understanding of the projects to date, including photography se- NC Wesleyan College & The 32nd Annual Artrageous Kids Art Festival Page 30 - Fayetteville-Cumberland County Arts Council / Artscape 5 cultural “Other.” ries in Guinea, South Africa, Nigeria, Be- Page 33 - The 32nd Annual Artrageous Kids Art Festival, Sunset River Marketplace & Page 31 - Coastal Carolina Artists and Crafter’s Guild / Upcycled Art Contest Leuba states: “I have always been nin, and the debut of a new series recently Thalian Association Community Theatre / 25th Annual Orange Street ArtsFest characterized as the Other, whether I made in Tahiti. The exhibition and mono- www.whimsyjoy.com Page 32 - Charles Jones African Art am too ‘African’ to be European or too graph consider how Leuba’s photographic Page 34 - Hillsborough Gallery of Arts ‘European’ to be African. In this unique practice explores the representation of Page 33 - Sunset River Marketplace 843.873.6935 • 843.810.1245 Page 35 - Hillsborough Gallery of Arts cont., Morris Museum of Art / Augusta GA & positioning, I am interested in the politics African identity and the cultural Other in Some Exhibits That Are Still on View Page 34 - Ferns and Fancy Gallery & Triangle Artworks of the gaze - who is looking, who is being the Western imagination. Over 90 photo- Page 36 - Some Exhibits That Are Still on View & looked at, and the medium of which this graphs inspired by the visual culture and looking occurs.” ceremonies of West Africa, contemporary SC Institutional Galleries - Virtual Exhibitions & Allendale - Charleston Don’t forget about our website: www.carolinaarts.com fashion and design, and the history of pho- Page 37 - SC Institutional Galleries - Charleston - Columbia Area tography and its colonizing gaze present Page 38 - SC Institutional Galleries - Columbia Area - Greenville Leuba’s unique perspective that straddles reality and fantasy. Through the adaptation Page 39 - SC Institutional Galleries - Greenville - Lancaster of myths attributed to the Other, Leuba’s Page 40 - SC Institutional Galleries - Lancaster - Pickens photographs acknowledge this double act Page 41 - SC Institutional Galleries - Richburg - Spartanburg of looking, a cross-dialogue of global cul- Page 42 - SC Institutional Galleries - Spartanburg - Westminster and tures. The book features essays by Joseph Gergel, Emmanuel Iduma, and Dr. Mary SC Commercial Galleries - Aiken / North Augusta - Beaufort Area Trent which examine the nuanced themes Page 43 - SC Commercial Galleries - Beaufort Area - Charleston of identity and representation in Leuba’s Page 44 - SC Commercial Galleries