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6/25/2009	The Pickens County Museum of Art & History
6/25/2009	The Upstairs Artspace
5/18/2009	Spartanburg Art Museum
5/17/2009	The Artist Index of Upstate of South Carolina and Western North Carolina
5/17/2009	Area Art Walks

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Recently...

The Artist Index has undergone a major overhaul in the way it helps art lovers find art and artists. Besides the Artist Portfolios, Fine Artist Websites Directory let the viewer search for listed artists by last name, locale, medium and genre. If you haven't visited it for a while, it's worth a look!

The following artist(s) have recently joined
the Artist Index Fine Artist Website Directory:

• Chuck Bailie
• Angelique Brickner
• Isabel Forbes
• Rich Nelson

The Artist Index has added the following artist(s) to its
Fine Artist Portfolio:

• Pat Cole-Ferullo
• Ann Crenshaw

The following artist(s) have updated their
Artist Portfolios or Fine Artist Website Directory listing:

• Jean Souther Jones
• Eula LaCroix
• Jeff Pittman
• Suzanne Zoole

 

If you're an artist, live within a 75 mile radius of Spartanburg, already have a website and would like to find out how to listed in this directory, please click here.

 

Artwalk News

Greenville - First Fridays of every month
Spartanburg - Third Thursdays of every month

Spartanburg - June 18

Art Walk Spartanburg returns on Thursday, June 18 from 5 to 9 p.m.

Brookgreen Gardens presents 20 works from its world-renowned collection on exhibit at Chapman Cultural Center, Converse College and Wofford College. Explore the art of sculpture in this "one night only" opportunity to drive or take the trolley between all three locations.

Carolina Gallery, at 145 West Main Street, continues "His and Hers, Recent Works by Trey Finney and Christine Lawrence."

MYST, at 154 West Main Street, exhibits the abstract, surreal and expressive works of over twenty artists.

Spectrum, 151 West Main Street, will be open with a selection of affordable framed prints.

At 172 East Main Street, The Artists Among Us Project will feature additional photographs this month. Open only on the night of each Art Walk, this gallery exhibits Stephen Stinson's photographic portraits of artists, reproduced as giclees on canvas by Ed Emory of Carolina Gallery.

Also at 172 East Main Street, The Crescent Gallery represents regional artists and their work in the genre of realism mixed with a bit of impressionism.

Gallery 155, at 155 East Broad Street, features rotating exhibitions with work from the Johnson Collection, including works by Josephine Sibley Couper, Margaret Law and Helen DuPre Moseley.

The Spartanburg Art Museum is showing "Selections from the Permanent Collection," and "Betty Bramlett: Past and Present." The Artists Guild Gallery has continuing exhibitions of members of the guild.

HUB-BUB's Showroom continues "Hit the Deck: Art on Skateboards," at 149 S. Daniel Morgan Avenue.

Several local retail merchants are participating by extending their hours for the evening.

Art Walk Spartanburg returns every third Thursday of the month with all venues open to the public.

For information call 864-585-3335.

oThe Pickens County Museum of Art & History

Three Watercolorists in Exhibition:
Exhibits featuring Dale Cochran, Lynn Greer & Russell Jewell

June 27-August 27, 2009

The Pickens County Museum of Art & History will be presenting “Three Watercolorists in Exhibition” from June 27 through August 27, 2009. Please join us from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. on June 27 as we host a reception to meet the three artists featured in “Dale Cochran: Extraordinary Experiences,” “Lynn Greer: Night Views” and “Russell Jewell: Legacy and Light.” All three exhibitions will continue through August 27, 2009.

Watercolor is a tradition that spans the chronicles of history. Primitive man’s use of pigments mixed with water to create cave paintings evolved to the ancient Egyptians work on papyrus and traditional Asian masters painting on silk and handmade paper. In the Middle Ages illuminated manuscripts were brightly colored with the medium. The increased availability of paper by the fourteenth century allowed for the increase of artistic possibilities so artists such as Albrecht Durer, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean Honore Fragonard and many more used watercolor as a means of drawing and developing compositions.

With the production of higher quality papers in the late eighteenth century, the first national school of watercolorists emerged in Britain. These renderings encompassed visual identity of ports of sea, as well as the surrounding landscape and in 1768, influential topographers founded the Royal Academy which encouraged watercolorists to carry the medium beyond their own technical achievements, encouraging the likes of Joseph M. W. Turner to grow into one of the most influential painters of the nineteenth century.

The earliest American watercolors were often created for documentation of the "new world", thus American artists worked in the shadow of European masters until the late nineteenth century. Gradually, painters such as Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and James A. M. Whistler began to develop artworks that challenged the Europeans and the rise of American painting ensued. Watercolor became an inevitable medium for the American painter who, from the beginning, made landscape painting one of the dominant features of the American art tradition. Watercolor's inherent luminosity, combined with its capacity for rapid execution, gave landscape painters an ideal means for recording the fleeting effects of nature.

Located at the corner of Hwy. 178 at 307 Johnson Street in Pickens SC, the museum is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free but donations are welcomed. For more information call the museum at (864) 898-5963.

oSpartanburg Art Museum

Current Exhibits

Betty Bramlett: Past and Present

May 19 - Aug 1

BETTY BRAMLETT served for four decades as coordinator of fine arts for Spartanburg County School District 7, influencing generations of students and teachers. She has received the state's Elizabeth O'Neill Verner award for outstanding service in art education, as well as being recognized as Regional Supervisor of the Year in the Southeast.

Her abstract work is familiar in local galleries, juried exhibitions, and collections, including those of Greenville City Hall, Mary Black Hospital and the South Carolina Arts Commission. Bramlett earned her B.A. from Converse College, her M.A. in Fine Arts from Columbia University, and her Ed.D. from the University of South Carolina, with additional studies at institutions including Furman University and the University of North Carolina. She has received the Alumnae Award for Career Achievement from Converse. She was a founding member of the Artists' Guild of Spartanburg, a board on which she currently serves

2008 Exhibition Calendar

To view the 2008 Exhibition Season calendar, please click here.

Art School Schedule

A .pdf of The Art School Schedule for Summer 2009 is available online. You may then register by downloading the file Art School Webpage.

For more information call the Museum at 864-582-7616 or visit our website at www.spartanburgartmuseum.org.

oUpstairs Artspace

Open Stage

Something different is happening at the Upstairs this Friday, June 26, 7 p.m. It's the new OPEN STAGE--a chance for budding and established writers to share their poetry, fiction and nonfiction with an appreciative audience. Songwriters are welcome, too.

Doors open at 6:15. Participants will sign up as they arrive and read in that order; reading time is limited to 10 minutes per person. There's so much literary talent in our community, so come to the Upstairs and enjoy!

We'll have light refreshment, including wine for a small donation. Otherwise, the evening is free. The next Open Stage will be this fall. Call 859.2828 for more information.

Upstairs Artspace is located at 49 S. Trade St. in Tryon, NC 28782 and is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 to 5.

For more information call: 828-859-2828

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