ABSOLUTELY FREE Vol. 23, No. 1 January 2019 You Can’t Buy It Happy New Year! Artwork, Buffoon, is by Luis Ardila and is part of the exhibit ARTE LATINO NOW 2019 on view at the Max L. Jackson Gallery, Watkins building, Queens University of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC. This is the eighth annual exhibition featuring the exciting cultural and artistic contributions of Latinos in the United States. A reception will be held on January 17, 2019 from 5:30 - 7:30pm. Article is on Page 17. 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 - Queens University of Charlotte - Luis Ardila Page 3 - Karen Burnette Garner & Wells Gallery at the Sanctuary Page 2 - Article Index, Advertising Directory, Contact Info, Links to blogs, and Carolina Arts site Page 4 - Halsey-McCallum Studio & Whimsy Joy by Roz Page 3 - City of North Charleston Page 5 - Emerge SC Page 4 - Editorial Commentary & City of North Charleston cont. Page 5 - Editorial Commentary cont. Page 6 - Avondale Therapy / Susan Irish Page 6 - Charleston Artist Guild & Gibbes Museum of Art Page 7 - Helena Fox Fine Art, Corrigan Gallery, Halsey-McCallum Studio, Rhett Thurman, Page 8 - Coastal Discovery Museum Page 9 - Art League of Hilton Head x 2 & University of SC - Upstate Anglin Smith Fine Art, Spencer Art Galleries, The Wells Gallery at the Sanctuary, Page 11 - University of SC - Upstate cont. & West Main Artists Co-op & Saul Alexander Foundation Gallery Page 12 - West Main Artists Co-op, Converse College & Page 8 - Art League of Hilton Head USC-Upstate / UPSTATE Gallery on Main Page 13 - USC-Upstate / UPSTATE Gallery on Main cont. & Anderson Arts Center Page 9 - Lee Gallery / Clemson University & CERF + The Artists’ Safety Net Page 14 - Anderson Arts Center cont., Furman University & University of SC / McMaster Page 10 - Metropolitan Arts Council / MAC Page 15 - University of SC / McMaster cont. 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Page 2 - Carolina Arts, January 2019 Table of Contents Karen Burnette Garner ~Artist~ 1 SANCTUARY BEACH DR, KIAWAH, SC 29455 Fine Artwork for Discerning Collectors ~ Commissions Available For more information, visit www.karenburnettegarner.com 843.576.1290 678.602.7666 WWW. WELLSGALLERY. COM City of North Charleston, SC, Features Works by Quintin Visit Chaplin and Richard Amble Carolina Arts The City of North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department is pleased to announce that paintings by the current City of North on Facebook Charleston Artist-in-Residence Quintin Chaplin, in the exhibit, The Culture –Paint- ings by Quintin Chaplin, as well as pho- tographs by local artist Richard Amble, in Go to this link and the exhibit, Coastal Views – Photographs by Richard Amble, will be on exhibit at the “like” us! North Charleston City Gallery, through Jan. 31, 2019. Quintin Chaplin is a local muralist, illustrator, and portrait artist. While he is skilled in many forms of two-dimensional media, the new works featured in his exhibi- tion, The Culture, are primarily in acrylic and watercolor. In this exhibition, Chaplin highlights a variety of themes and issues of modern society that we all face on a day to day basis. Many of the pieces combine im- agery from politics, fashion, music, sports, Carolina Arts is now on movies, race, childhood, and religion, and Work by Quintin Chaplin explore their evolution through time. A native of the Lowcountry, Chaplin viduals as a freelance artist since 2011. Twitter! graduated from R.B. Stall High School and In addition, Chaplin currently offers earned an Associate’s Degree in Art from residencies to North Charleston schools Trident Technical College in 2013 and a and community groups as the City of North Sign up to follow certificate from Pixar Animation Studios Charleston’s 2018/19 Artist-in-Residence. in Los Angeles, CA, in 2015. His work has In Coastal Views, Richard Amble pres- been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions ents a series of drone photography captured Tom’s Tweets, click below! throughout the Lowcountry and has re- off the coast of Morris Island in South ceived a number of awards from judged art Carolina. Amble is interested in the coast- competitions at the Coastal Carolina Fair, line as a subject because it is a unique place the North Charleston Arts Fest, and more. where sea life and land creatures coexist. Chaplin worked as an apprentice for “The beach environment is invigorated by Walt Disney animation studios, served as the water, which provides the life sustaining the artist-in-residence for Ladson Elemen- minerals and material needed for food,” say tary School in 2012, and has offered art Amble. “The ebb and flow of the seawater instruction in the North Charleston Cultural not only brings nourishment, but is part of Arts Department’s after school and sum- the many rhythms of nature.” mer arts enrichment programs since 2017. By using a drone, Amble is able to view He has also