ABSOLUTELY FREE Vol. 16, No. 7 July 2012 You Can’t Buy It Celebrating 25 Years! Artwork by Robin Cheers work available at Tidewater Gallery in Swansboro, NC Artwork by Rhett Thurman, work available at Sylvan Gallery in Charleston, SC Artwork by Karin Jurick, work available at Morris and Whiteside Galleries in Hilton Head Island, SC Artwork by Detta Cutting Zimmerman, work available at Pink House Gallery in Charleston, SC Artwork by Todd Baxter, work available at Providence Gallery in Charlotte, 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. Listed in order in which they appear in the paper. Page 1 - Cover - artworks by various artists showing Summer activities 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 - The Sylvan Gallery and Smith Galleries Page 4 - Editorial Commentary Page 5 - Peter Scala and The Wells Gallery Page 5 - Articles about Gibbes Museum of Art and Redux Contemporary Arts Center Page 6 - Inkpressions, Halsey-McCallum Studios, The Pink House Gallery, The Treasure Nest Page 6 - Articles about City of North Charleston Art Gallery and Charleston Artist Guild Art Gallery & The Finishing Touch Page 8 - Articles cont. about Charleston Artist Guild, Charleston County Public Library and Page 7 - Rhett Thurman, Gibbes Museum of Art, Helena Fox Fine Art, The Sylvan Gallery, The Sandpiper Gallery Wells Gallery, Corrigan Gallery, Saul Alexander Foundation Gallery, City Gallery at Page 9 - Articles cont. about Sandpiper Gallery, The Wells Gallery, Ella Walton Richardson Fine Art Waterfront Park, Smith-Killian Fine Art, The Pink House Gallery, Spencer Art Galleries, and Rick Rhoads Photography Dog & Horse Fine Art & Portrait, Cone Ten Studios & Gallery, & McCallum-Halsey Studios Page 10 - Article about the Mint Museum Page 8 - Whimsy Joy and Eva Carter Studio Page 12 - Articles cont. about the Mint Museum, MONA Gallery, and Shain Gallery Page 9 - Smith Killian Fine Art Page 13 - Articles about Charlotte Fine Art Gallery, Hickory Museum of Art, Providence Gallery and Page 10 - Karen Burnette Garner and Shain Gallery Some Exhibits that are Still on View Page 15 - Articles about Hitchcock Health Center and Aiken Center for the Arts Page 12 - Annette Ragone Hall, Hodges Taylor Art Consultancy, and Providence Gallery Page 16 - Article about 701 Center for Contemporary Art Page 13 - City Art Gallery and Mouse House/Susan Lenz Page 19 - Articles cont. about 701 Center for Contemporary Art, City Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina Page 14 - ARTFIELDS University and Picture This Gallery Page 15 - One Eared Cow Glass, SC Watermedia Society, and Vista Studios Page 20 - Articles cont. about Picture This Gallery and Coastal Discovery Museum Page 16 - 701 Center for Contemporary Art and The Gallery at Nonnah’s Page 21 - Article cont. about Coastal Discovery Museum and Carolina Creations Page 17 - SC State Museum Page 22 - Articles about New Bern ArtWorks and Pickens County Museum of Art Page 18 - USC’s McKissick Museum Page 23 - Article cont. about Pickens County Museum of Art Page 19 - Carolina Renaissance Festival Page 24 - Articles cont. about Pickens County Museum of Art, Blue Ridge Arts Center and Page 20 - Create! 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Spartanburg Art Museum Page 21 - New Bern ArtWorks & Company, Tidewater Gallery, Sunset River Marketplace, and Page 25 - Articles cont. about Spartanburg Art Museum, Artists Guild Gallery of Greenville, West Carolina Creations Main Artists Co-op, and MESH Gallery Page 22 - Art in the Park in Myrtle Beach, SC and Carol Beth Icard Page 26 - Article about Southern Highlands Craft Guild Fair Page 23 - The Artist’s Coop Page 27 - Articles cont. about Southern Highlands Craft Guild Fair, Crimson Laurel Gallery, and Page 24 - Artist Guild Gallery of Greenville and Hampton III Gallery Western Carolina University Page 25 - Spartanburg Art Museum Page 28 - Articles cont. about Some Exhibits that are Still on View, Woolworth Walk, Flood Gallery Page 26 - William Jameson Workshops and Crimson Laurel Gallery Fine Art Center, The Bascom, and Haywood County Arts Council Page 29 - Articles cont. about Haywood County Arts Council, North Carolina Pottery Center Auction, Page 29 - Yadkin Arts Council, Eck McCanless Pottery and Carolina Clay Resource Directory and Randolph Arts Guild Page 30 - North Carolina Pottery Center Auction Page 30 - Articles cont. about Randolph Arts Guild, Artists League of the Sandhills, and Reynolda Page 31 - Discover Seagrove Potteries House Museum of American Art Page 32 - Hillsborough Gallery of Art and ENO Gallery Page 31 - In the Grove with Rhonda McCanless, Artworks Gallery in W-S, Sawtooth School for Visual Arts, and Hillsborough Gallery of Arts Don’t forget about our website: www.carolinaarts.com Page 32 - Articles cont. about Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Durham Arts Council, and ENO Gallery Page 33 - Articles cont. about ENO Gallery, Anastasia & Friends and Editorial Commentary cont. Page 34 - NC Institutional Galleries - Aberdeen - Boone Page 35 - NC Institutional Galleries - Boone - Charlotte Page 36 - NC Institutional Galleries - Charlotte - Charlotte Page 37 - NC Institutional Galleries - Cherokee - Greensboro Page 38 - NC Institutional Galleries - Greensboro - Morganton Page 39 - NC Institutional Galleries - New Bern - Siler City Page 40 - NC Institutional - Siler City - Winston-Salem Page 41 - NC Institutional - Winston-Salem - Yadkinville & NC Commercial Galleries - Aberdeen - You can find past issues all the way back to August 2004! 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All rights reserved by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. Reproduction or use without written Page 50 - NC Commercial Galleries - Wadesboro - Winston-Salem & SC Institutional Galleries - permission is strictly prohibited. Carolina Arts is available online at (www.CarolinaArts. Allendale - Anderson com). Mailing address: P.O. Drawer 427, Bonneau, SC 29431. Telephone: 843/825-3408, Page 51 - SC Institutional Galleries - Beaufort - Columbia e-mail at ([email protected]) and on the web at (www.CarolinaArts.com). Page 52 - SC Institutional Galleries - Columbia - Greenwood Editor/Publisher/Calendars/Distribution Thomas J. Starland Page 53 - SC Institutional Galleries - Hartsville - Spartanburg Web Master/Advertising/Business Manager Page 54 - SC Institutional Galleries - Spartanburg - Walterboro & SC Commercial Galleries - Aiken/ Linda Parks Starland N. Augusta - Camden Blog Guru & Graphics Zelda Ravenel Page 55 - SC Commercial Galleries - Charleston - Charleston Proofer Page 56 - SC Commercial Galleries - Charleston - Columbia Andrew A. Starland Page 57 - SC Commercial Galleries - Columbia - Greenville Contributing Writers This Month Rhonda McCanless Page 58 - SC Commercial Galleries - Greenville - Lexington Advertising Rates Click here for advertising rates. Page 59 - SC Commercial Galleries - Mt. Pleasant - Summerville The deadline for the August 2012 issue is Page 60 - SC Commercial Galleries - Summerville - Sumter and articles about NC Museum of July, 24, 2012. Natural Sciences and Artspace To advertise call 843/825-3408. Page 2 - Carolina Arts, July 2012 Table of Contents Karin Jurick Cliff Hanger Oil 8 x 8 inches Oh the Good Life Oil 8 x 8 inches Biker Gang Oil 16 x 6 inches Morris & Whiteside Galleries For additional information contact the gallery at 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, July 2012 - Page 3 Editorial by Tom Starland, Editor and Publisher COMMENTARY 25 Years Ago enough info to fill the paper - the problem was finding enough advertising support Twenty-five years ago I delivered Shoe- to add pages to cover everything that was string Publishing Company’s first publica- going on. Printing costs were a problem and tion, Charleston Arts, to art spaces through- soon many other publications wanted to out the greater Charleston, SC, area. I think cover the arts. we were printing 2,500 - 3,000 copies back But, now that we have all the space we then. Now we’re receiving over 100,000 could want, our problem is getting info from downloads of the paper each month - during those who are presenting the arts to us by the last three months. deadline so we can bring it to our readers. That was July 1987 when Charles- Although we provide more info about the ton’s art scene was bursting at the seams. visual arts in the Carolinas than any other Charleston still has way more arts than a publication, I still think we are only receiv- city of its size should have or can support, ing a little more than 50 percent of what’s but it didn’t have an arts publication back happening in any given month. Sometimes then. I’m not talking about your standard people tell us they can’t process anymore, arts and entertainment publication found but our goal is to have it all. You have to everywhere now. I’m talking about a news- have something to shoot for. paper covering the fine arts. It seems the golden years for the arts I can still remember many people’s community was the 1990’s and then in the remarks about that first issue, which took 2000’s it all started moving down hill.