USC Upstate Exhibition of Student Work

Spartanburg, SC
November 2-Dec 7
A variety of works will be on display including photography, drawing, painting, prints, illustration and three dimensional constructions. The reception will be on Thursday, Nov. 8 at 5 p.m in Humanities and Performing Arts building on the campus of USC Upstate.

Hub-Bub artists live in store windows

For those of you that did not see the article in the Spartanburg paper, two Hub-Bub Artists, Rachel Harkai and Arielle Angel, have been living in the front store windows of what used to be the Regional Museum of Spartanburg County on 100 E. Main St. They will be there until Sunday evening.

For more information click the title of this post. It will link you to the original article.

If you are looking for something to do tonight

Accessibility 2007 - Sumter, SC

Where: Sumter County Cultural Center, 135 Haynsworth Street Sumter, SC
When: Saturday, October 27, 6-10pm, 135 Haynsworth St.
What: The event will feature the work of 8 visiting national level artists. All artwork is constructed and made from recycled, reused and repurposed materials. FREE EVENT.

Information: 803-775-0543 or 436-2260.
Directions: http://theartgrant.org/information.html

COLORS Art Studio

COLORS - Spartanburg, SC

Club Art & Design is excited to announce the opportunity to volunteer with COLORS art studio!

The COLORS art studio for inner-city youth is a program of the Spartanburg Art Museum. They provide the opportunity for at-risk youth ages 6-18 to experience high quality art instruction free of charge. The COLORS students can drop-in anytime Monday through Thursday from 3:00- 6:00pm at the art museum. Instruction is provided in watercolor and acrylic paint, colored and graphite pencil, charcoal, pastels and clay. They use professional grade materials and there are professional artists on staff as instructors.

More details on how Club members can get involved will be announced at our next Club meeting on thursday, Nov. 1.

For more information: http://www.spartanburgartmuseum.org/COLORS/Index.htm

Italy Study Abroad

Italy Maymester 2008 - USC Upstate
Spend Maymester in the rich culture of Italy viewing original works of art and architecture from Etruscan and Roman civilizations to the birth of the Italian Renaissance. Live in shared flats in Milan and study with Professors at Universita' IULM. Spend two free-choice weekends traveling to locations including Venice, Siena, Rome, Pompeii, France or Germany. Cost will include International Student ID card for discounts and insurance, shared apartment in Milan, metro pass for Milan, three nights in Florence and entrance fees for required sites, vineyard tour with wine tasting and traditional Tuscan dinner, instructor fees, and airport/hotel transport arrival/departure.

For more information: www.janenodine.com/italy.html or email jnodine@uscupstate.edu

Greenville Open Studios

Greenville Open Studios - Greenville, SC
November 3 & 4, 2007

One hundred and four greenville area artists open their studios to the public on november 3-4. This event allows you to interact with resident artists at their studios. Learn more about the artists participating in Open Studios by visiting www.greenvilleARTS.com

Earlesdale Art Sale

Earlesdale Art Sale - Landrum, SC
October 20, 2007 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
The very first Earlesdale Art Sale will include knitting, jewelry, funky furniture, drawing, mixed media, painting, metal work, mosaics, garden art, collage, pottery, birdhouses, paper cutting, books and glass. There will also be a live jazz band, the Fred Whiskin Trio playing there from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

For more information:
www.myspace.com/earlesdaleartsale
864-313-2462
jl@wingodesigns.com

The sale will be located at:
104 Earlesdale Dr.
Landrum, SC 29356

TRAM Fair

Travelers Rest, SC - TRAM Fair 2007 - October 6th, 10 am-6pm

Self-taught outsider and folk artists from all over the southeast join local artists for the second annual TRAM Fair at Gateway Park. Artists and travelers come all over the Southeast for the TRAM Fair, a celebration of outsider and folk art unlike any other festival in South Carolina. The Tram Fair is a family (and pet) friendly festival with live music, food, children's activities, poetry, story telling and some of the most unique handmade art on the planet.

2007 artists include: Ramona Hotel, Julia Masaoka, Susan Sorrell, Mike Jones, Jim Shores, Barbara Green, Carol Sutherland, Betsy Carr, Leslie Hart, Cham Little, Johnnie and Patricia Brisbon, Bobbie Holt, Craig Carey, James Anderson, Jacob Stephens, and many others.

*In case of rain the TRAM Fair will be moved to The Venue. Take Hwy 276 through Travelers Rest. Left on Renfrew Avenue. Follow the signs.

Gateway Park
115 Henderson Drive
(behind Sunrift Adventures)
Travelers Rest, South Carolina

Lloyd Toone: A Soulful Journey

Spartanburg, SC - Lloyd Toone - “A Soulful Journey: Mixed Media from Four Decades by Lloyd Toone”

The Milliken Art Gallery at Converse College will host “A Soulful Journey: Mixed Media from Four Decades by Lloyd Toone” Oct. 4-Nov. 1. The artist lecture will be at 3:00 and an opening reception, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for Oct. 4 at 6:30 p.m.

Originally from Virginia, Lloyd Toone is a Harlem artist and art teacher. His soulful expressions are celebrated internationally for the organic kinship and love that derives from growing up in rural Virginia raising livestock and cultivating the land. As well, his career as art therapist, educator, activist, historian, and his world travels influence his work greatly.

Toone will exhibit his watercolors and crayon-collages on board and paper since 1969. Also, his two- and three-dimensional sculpture works in ceramics and thematic applications of shoe soles will be on display. Toone’s life works evoke his intrinsic belief in the spirit of transformation and life coming full circle. For this, Toone has become an inspirational presence at the forefront of Harlem’s Second Renaissance.

Admission: Free Admission
Gallery hours are 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday. The Gallery is closed during school holidays.