ABSOLUTELY FREE Vol. 17, No. 2 February 2013 You Can’t Buy It Work by Rick Eggert is part of the exhibit Natural Progressions, on view at the Bender Gallery in Asheville, NC, through March 31, 2013 Work by Willard Hirsch (1905 - 1982) is part of the exhibit Willard Hirsch: Charleston’s Sculptor, on view at the Rainey Sculpture Pavillion at Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, SC, on view through April 21, 2013. Work by Nancy Cook is part of the exhibit Seeds Up Close, on view at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, NC, through April 7, 2013 Work by Jane Allen Nodine is part of the exhibit Heated Exchange, on view at the Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery at Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC, through February 23, 2013. Nodine also has a solo exhibit, Thermal Response: Jane Allen Nodine, showing at the Elizabeth Ross Gallery at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC, through March 17, 2013 and is part of the exhibit, Le Couer Rouge (The Red Heart), on view at the Redbird Studio & Gallery in Columbia, SC, February 1 - March 8, 2013. Photograph by Rob Travis is part of the exhibit Light of the Carolinas, on view at the Hollingsworth Gallery in Brevard, NC through February 28, 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS 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 - images on exhibit from around the Carolinas Page 3 - Morris & Whiteside Galleries Page 2 - Table of Contents, Advertising Directory, Contact Info, Links to blogs and Carolina Arts site Page 4 - Smith Galleries and Whimsy Joy Page 4 - Editorial Commentary, City of North Charleston and Redux Contemporary Arts Page 5 - Inkpressions, Halsey-McCallum Studios, Laura Szweda, Treasure Nest and Page 5 - Redux Contemporary Arts cont. and The Real Estate Studio The Finishing Touch Page 6 - The Real Estate Studio cont. and A Few Words From Down Under Page 6 - The Sylvan Gallery and Karen Burnette Garner Page 8 - A Few Words From Down Under cont. Page 7 - Rhett Thurman, Gibbes Museum of Art, Helena Fox Fine Art, The Sylvan Gallery, The Wells Page 9 - Some Exhibits That Are Still On View and Editorial Commentary cont. Gallery at the Sanctuary, Corrigan Gallery, Saul Alexander Foundation Gallery, Nina Liu & Page 10 - Coastal Discovery Museum, Picture This Gallery, The Society of Bluffton Artists, Friends, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Smith-Killian Fine Art, Redux Contemporary Art and USC-Beaufort Center, The Pink House Gallery, Spencer Art Galleries, Dog & Horse Fine Art & Portrait & Page 11 - Coastal Discovery Museum and 701 Center for Contemporary Art McCallum-Halsey Studios Page 12 - Vista Studios/Gallery 80808 Page 13 - Vista Studios/Gallery 80808 cont., Anastasia & Friends and University of South Carolina Page 8 - Smith-Killian Fine Art and The Wells Gallery Page 14 - Columbia College, Redbird Studio & Gallery, and University of South Carolina Page 9 - Peter Scala, Eva Carter, and The Pink House Gallery Page 15 - University of South Carolina cont. Page 11 - City Art Gallery and Picture This Gallery Page 16 - Lexington County Public Library, Hitchcock Health Center, Family Y of Aiken Page 12 - Vista Studios/Gallery 80808 County, and Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County Page 13 - Vista Studios/Gallery 80808 and One Eared Cow Glass Page 17 - Francis Marion University and Coker College Page 15 - The Gallery at Nonnah’s, About Face and Mouse House/Susan Lenz Page 18 - Asheville Art Museum Page 16 - 701 Contemporary Art Page 19 - Asheville Art Museum cont. and Southern Highland Crafts Guild Page 17 - Arts International/Francis Marion University and Equinox/CREATE! Conway Page 20 - Asheville Gallery of Art, The Bender Gallery, NC Arboretum, and UNC-Asheville Page 18 - Asheville Gallery of Art Page 21 - UNC-Asheville, Haywood County Arts Council, Hollingsworth Gallery, and Black Page 19 - The Artist Index Mountain (NC) Center for the Arts Page 20 - William Jameson Page 22 - Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, Arts Council of Henderson County, UNC Page 21 - Joan Van Orman Asheville’s Center for Craft Creativity and Design, and Brookgreen Gardens Page 23 - Dorian Hill/miPhone Pics and Blessing of the Inlet Page 23 - Brookgreen Gardens cont., Coastal Carolina University, The Arts Council of Page 24 - Art on the Neuse/Pamlico County Arts Council, Carolina Creations, Nelson Fayetteville/Cumberland County Fine Art Gallery, and Sunset River Marketplace Page 24 - NC Wesleyan College and Cameron Art Museum Page 25 - Cameron Art Museum cont., Barton College, and Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery Page 25 - Nelson Fine Art and Wilmington Art Association Page 26 - Furman University and Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg Page 26 - SC Watermedia Society and Carolina’s Got Art Page 27 - Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg cont., Artists Guild Gallery of Greenville, and Gallery East Page 28 - Spartanburg Art Museum and Artists Guild Gallery of Greenville Page 28 - Gallery East cont. and USC Upstate Page 29 - Lee Gallery/Clemson University and Blue Ridge Arts Council Page 29 - Spartanburg County Public Libraries Page 30 - USC-Upstate Page 30 - Spartanburg County Public Libraries cont., Greenville Technical College, Osher Page 31 - You Be the Judge Art Contest Lifelong Learning Institute, and Winthrop University Page 32 - Shain Gallery Page 31 - Winthrop University cont., Clinton Junior College, Mint Museum Uptown and Page 34 - Hodges Taylor Gallery McColl Center for Visual Art Page 36 - North Carolina Pottery Center McColl Center for Visual Art cont., and Lark & Key Gallery Page 32 - Page 37 - Yadkin Cultural Arts Center Page 34 - Jerald Melberg Gallery, Ciel Gallery, Central Piedmont Community College, and Page 38 - Discover Seagrove Levine Museum of the New South Page 39 - Eck McCanless and Kassan’s Creations Page 35 - Levine Museum of the New South cont., RedSky Gallery, NC Transportation Page 40 - Woodworker’s of North Carolina Gallery Museum, and Cabarrus Arts Council Page 36 - Reynolda House Museum of American Art Page 37 - Reynolda House Museum of American Art cont., Artworks Gallery in W-S, Green Don’t forget about our website: www.carolinaarts.com Hill Center for NC Art, UNC-Greensboro, and Artist League of the Sandhills Page 38 - Artist League of the Sandhills cont., SAXART Gallery, North Carolina Pottery Center, and In the Grove by Rhonda McCanless Page 39 - In the Grove by Rhonda McCanless cont. and Artspace Page 40 - Artspace cont., NC Museum of Natural Science, and City of Cary Page 41 - City of Cary cont., Ackland Art Museum, UNC-Chapel Hill, Editorial Commentary cont. and NC Institutional Galleries - Aberdeen - Asheville Page 42 - NC Institutional Galleries - Asheville - Boone Page 43 - NC Institutional Galleries - Boone - Charlotte Page 44 - NC Institutional Galleries - Charlotte - Charlotte Page 45 - NC Institutional Galleries - Charlotte - Goldsboro Page 46 - NC Institutional Galleries - Goldsboro - Highlands You can find past issues all the way back to August 2004! 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