ABSOLUTELY FREE Vol. 16, No. 12 December 2012 You Can’t Buy It Artwork by Angela Trotta Thomas is part of the exhibit The Magic of Toy Trains, on view December 1-31, 2012 at COCO VIVO Fine Art in Charleston, SC. Artwork by Mickey Williams is part of the exhibit A Change of Season, on view through December 31, 2012 at Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art in Charleston, SC. Artwork by Michelle Peterlin is part of the exhibit Window Dressing, on view December 1 - 30, 2012 at North Charleston City Gallery in North Charleston, SC. Artwork (detail) by Vernon Grant is part of the exhibit Vernon Grant’s Santas, on view through December Artwork by Dawn Whitelaw is part of the exhibit Variations, on view through December 31, 31, 2012 at The Arts Council of York County’s Dalton Gallery at the Center for the Arts in Rock Hill, SC 2012 at Skyuka Fine Art in Tryon, NC TABLE OF CONTENTS Advertising Directory This index has active links, just click on the Page number and it will take you to that page. 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Page 1 - Cover - a collection of works reflecting the Holiday season Page 3 - Morris & Whiteside Galleries Page 2 - Table of Contents, Advertising Directory, Contact Info, Links to blogs and Carolina Arts site Page 4 - USC Upstate and Smith Galleries Page 4 - Editorial Commentary Page 5 - Hampton III Gallery and The Artist’s Coop Page 5 - Article about Spartanburg Art Museum Page 6 - Carolina Gallery and Artist Guild Gallery of Greenville Page 6 - Article cont. about Spartanburg Art Museum and Pickens County Museum of Art Page 7 - Spartanburg Art Museum and Blue Ridge Arts Council Page 7 - Article cont. about Pickens County Museum of Art, Artists Guild Gallery of Greenville, and Page 8 - High Museum of Art Some Exhibits That Are Still on View Page 9 - Brian Neher Portraits and DVD’s Page 8 - Article cont. about Some Exhibits That Are Still on View and Providence Gallery Page 10 - Hodges Taylor Art Consultancy and Providence Gallery Page 9 - Article cont. about Providence Gallery and McColl Center for Visual Arts Page 12 - Elder Gallery Page 10 - Article cont. about McColl Center for Visual Arts, Jerald Melberg Gallery, and The Light Factory Page 15 - Mouse House/Susan Lenz and City Art Gallery Page 16 - One Eared Cow Glass, Trenholm Artist Guild, Vista Studios/Gallery 80808, and Michel Page 12 - Article about Waterworks Visual Arts Center McNinch Page 13 - Article cont. about Waterworks Visual Arts Center and How About An Art Book Page 17 - 701 Center for Contemporary Art and The Gallery at Nonnah’s Page 14 - Article cont. about How About An Art Book and A Few Words From Down Under Page 19 - New Bern ArtWorks & Company, Nelson Fine Art Gallery, Nelson Fine Art Gallery, Page 15 - Article about Sumter County Gallery of Art Sunset River Marketplace, and Carolina Creations Page 16 - Article cont. about Sumter County Gallery of Art Page 21 - Discover Seagrove Potteries and Eck McCanless Pottery Page 17 - Article cont. about Sumter County Gallery of Art and City Art Gallery Page 22 - Sierra Terra Cotta and Jim Hines Commercial Photography Page 18 - Article cont. about City Arts Gallery, Historic Douglas-Reed House, Center for the Arts in Rock Hill Page 23 - Yadkin Cultural Arts Center Page 19 - Editorial Commentary cont. Page 24 - The Sylvan Gallery and Eva Carter Studio Page 20 - Article about NC Pottery Center Page 25 - Rhett Thurman, Gibbes Museum of Art, Helena Fox Fine Art, The Sylvan Gallery, The Wells Page 21 - Article cont. about NC Pottery Center, In the Grove Column, and UNC-Greensboro Gallery, Corrigan Gallery, Saul Alexander Foundation Gallery, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Page 22 - Article about Bulldog Pottery and Green Hill Center for NC Art Smith-Killian Fine Art, Nina Liu & Friends, The Pink House Gallery, Spencer Art Galleries, Dog Page 23 - Article cont. about Green Hill Center for NC Art, SECCA, and Charleston Museum & Horse Fine Art & Portrait, Cone Ten Studios & Gallery, & McCallum-Halsey Studios Page 24 - Article about Corrigan Gallery Page 26 - Karen Burnette Garner and Smith Killian Fine Art Page 26 - Article cont. about Corrigan Gallery, Charleston Co. Public Library, COCO VIVO Fine Art & Page 27 - Inkpressions Interior, and Charleston Artist Guild Page 28 - Whimsy Joy and The Wells Gallery Page 27 - Article cont. about Charleston Artist Guild, Hamlet Fine Art Gallery, and City of North Charleston Page 29 - Halsey McCallum, Laura Liberatore Szweda, Pink House Gallery, Treasure Nest Art Page 28 - Article cont. about City of North Charleston and Atrium Art Gallery Gallery, and Finishing Touch Page 29 - Article about Nina Liu & Friends, Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art, & Steve Hazard Studio Gallery Page 31 - Hillsborough Gallery of Art Page 30 - Article cont. about Steve Hazard Studio Gallery, A Few Words From Down Under cont., and Page 32 - Eno Gallery Society of Bluffton Artists Page 33 - Louise Franke Page 31 - Article about FRANK in Chapel Hill, Center for Documentary Studies, & NC Museum of Art Page 34 - Joan Van Orman Page 32 - Article cont. about NC Museum of Art and Artspace in Raleigh Page 35 - William Jameson Workshops Page 33 - Article about Durham Arts Council, CAM Raleigh, Center for Documentary Studies, and Skyuka Fine Art Page 34 - Article about Mica Gallery and Black Mountain Center for the Arts Don’t forget about our website: www.carolinaarts.com Article cont. about Black Mountain Center for the Arts Page 36 - Article about Woolworth Walk, UNC-Asheville, Flood Galley and NC Institutional Galleries - Aberdeen - Asheville Page 37 - NC Institutional Galleries - Asheville - Cary Page 38 - NC Institutional Galleries - Cary - Charlotte Page 39 - NC Institutional Galleries - Charlotte - Durham Page 40 - NC Institutional Galleries - Durham - Greensboro Page 41 - NC Institutional Galleries - Greensboro - Pittsboro Page 42 - NC Institutional Galleries - Raleigh - Salisbury/Spencer You can find past issues all the way back to August 2004! 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Page 63 - SC Commercial Galleries - Pawleys Island, Litchfield & Murrells Inlet - Walhalla To advertise call 843/825-3408. Page 2 - Carolina Arts, December 2012 Table of Contents Morris & Whiteside Galleries Ken Auster Milt Kabayashi Open House Friday, December 7th 6 - 8 pm Karin Jurick Bernard D’Andrea 843•842•4433 or to view additional works www.morris-whiteside.com 220 Cordillo Parkway • Hilton Head Island • South Carolina • 29928 • 843.842.4433 Table of Contents Carolina Arts, December 2012 - Page 3 Editorial by Tom Starland, Editor and Publisher COMMENTARY Buy Art for the Holidays Under” about the visual art community in Western Australia. McGrath, a dual citizen It’s my annual plea to call for readers of America and Australia offered her ar- to buy art for the holidays. Many of you ticles, which at times seemed that she was have heard it before - many times, but I’m writing about events taking place in the giving it again to remind readers that one Carolinas - not thousands of miles away of the best ways to help our economy - in an different hemisphere. It does seem to especially our local economies - is to buy be a small “art” world after all. art from local artists, from local galleries, I was reminded of this article about from local art museum gift shops, and who is an artist when viewing the fine art other non-profit art organizations. But, exhibition at the recent SC State Fair in make sure the works are made by local Columbia, SC, where I saw works entered artists.