Female #SCartists selected for CAE program
Airport to exhibit four through next February
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Clockwise from top left: Works by Cait Maloney, Laura Rohlfing, Emily Ward, and Marie Boyd.[/caption]
Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE as it's known to fliers) announce the four local artists who were selected to participate in the 2022/2023 Art in the Airport program.
The selected artists, an all women, represent some of the outstanding talent and creativity found throughout the region, according to an airport news release.
The four artists selected to exhibit their artwork during the upcoming season include:
- Emily Ward (March 2022-May 2022)
- Marie Boyd (June 2022-August 2022)
- Cait Maloney (September 2022-November 2022)
- Laura Rohlfing (December 2022-February 2023)
About the Artists
Emily Ward is an artist from Columbia and has had a passion for all things art related since kindergarten. Ward’s love for art continued in college and into graduate school where she earned a bachelor's in art history from the College of Charleston. Ward enjoys painting places and things that bring her joy – and the South Carolina Lowcountry has been a recurring subject for her many landscape paintings.
Marie Boyd is a writer, illustrator, artist, educator and scholar. She creates quilled illustrations and art from colorful pieces of paper that she collects, cuts into narrow strips and designs modern, bold, bright images that leap off the page. In addition to being an artist, Boyd is an associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. She is originally from Salt Lake City and now lives in Columbia with her husband and two young children.
Cait Maloney is a published illustrator, award-winning graphic designer, muralists and exhibition artist. In 2008, she earned her bachelor’s degree with a focus in illustration from Syracuse University. Maloney says that her recipe for her work is, “… a mix of a little real, a little surreal, a good helping of humor and a lot of color.”
Laura Rohlfing hails from Leesville in Lexington County but spends several months out of the year traveling and exploring with her wife to new places. A graduate of the Harris School of Art in the early 1980s, she focused her time there studying oil painting. She now prefers graphite and loves shades of gray and the effects of shadows and light on pictures.
Small art, Midlands art wanted
It's an afternoon double
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Rochester Contemporary Art Center 6x6[/caption]
Columbia Metropolitan Airport
- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, January 28, 2022 by 5 p.m. ET
Midlands #SCartists, let's start with you.
We've covered this before, so maybe you checked this in previously and it's your turn to board? CAE is looking for artists for the 2022 Art in the Airport program: "Throughout the year, this wildly popular program showcases the work of four artists’ from across Columbia region in the busiest part of the airport. [Art in the Airport] not only enhances the passengers’ experience while traveling through CAE, it creates an immediate sense of place to those visiting. Once a traveler lands, these pieces of art are the first creative and cultural touchpoints they have to the region."
This link will help you take off to the CAE website for more information.
Rochester (New York) Contemporary Art Center
- SUBMISSION DEADLINE (Mailed): Tuesday, April 12, 2022
From an email to Hub HQ: "...
the exhibition is our annual 6x6, which is the original small art phenomenon, and is hosted by Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo), a small, non-profit art center in Rochester, New York! This annual exhibition, 6x6, raises critical funds needed to pay artists, maintain our building and administer contemporary art programming to our community this coming year! The artwork(s) will help our mission to provide unique encounters for audiences and extraordinary opportunities for artists. Learn more about 6x6 at roco6x6.org."
The exhibition, a past version of which is pictured above, is scheduled to run June 4 through July 17, 2022. Artist participation is free, as one would hope, given that they are soliciting donations from which they hope to raise funds. There is a limit of four submissions per school or school group.
Tuning Up: #SCartists as active as the tropics?
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"Tuning Up" is a morning post series where The Hub delivers curated, quick-hit arts stories of interest to readers. Sometimes there will be one story, sometimes there will be several. Get in tune now, and have a masterpiece of a day. And now, in no particular order...
It isn't just the tropics that are active
Good soggy Thursday morning, Hub readers. As what's left of Sally creeps across South Carolina throughout the day and into tomorrow, take heart: despite everything tough weather and tough times, #SCartists are as busy as ever. Here's proof.
- Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE, according to tickets) is back in "Tuning Up." The airport announced the selected artists for its 2020/2021 "Art in the Airport" program. Out of 115 submissions received from local artists eager to reflect the talents of the area arts community, four were selected to exhibit their artwork for the upcoming season:
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- Christopher Garvey (October 2020 – January 2021)
- Ija Charles (February – May 2021)
- Sonya Diimmler (June – September 2021)
- Harold Branham (October 2021 – January 2022)
"Once a traveler lands, these works of art will be the first artistic and cultural touchpoints to the region,” CAE's Kim Jamieson said. The exhibit location will be in the connector of the terminal, the walkway between the security checkpoint and the departure/arrival gates.
Farther north and west on I-26, photographer Thomas Koenig and fused-glass artist Judy Martin are set to exhibit a collaborative work, Big In Glass, at Artists Collective | Spartanburg. The free and public exhibit will be open Oct. 6-31, 2020 Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Social distancing and other protocols will be practiced. Each artist is contributing 10-12 pieces of work. Martin will present a collection of fused glass creations especially made for this exhibit; Koenig will use macro photography (right) to present highly enlarged details of Martin’s work, giving the viewer a different perspective.
SCAC Fellow featured in Columbia
Back in the Midlands, 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia has a familiar face on exhibit now through Oct. 26. Well, her work is exhibited, anyway. "Reigning" SCAC fellowship recipient in craft
Valerie Zimany has
And I was Covered in Blossoms in the gallery Wednesdays through Sundays, 1-5 p.m. Visitors are required to wear coverings over mouth
and nose (You know who you are. -
Ed.).
Zimany, a chair and associate professor at Clemson, is a decorated ceramicist who was awarded her fellowship from the SCAC for FY2020.
Tuning Up: CAE lands call for art; Carter Boucher, GCCA news
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"Tuning Up" is a morning post series where The Hub delivers curated, quick-hit arts stories of interest to readers. Sometimes there will be one story, sometimes there will be several. Get in tune now, and have a masterpiece of a day. And now, in no particular order...
CAE: S.C.'s newest arts hotspot taking off?
(Sorry, we couldn't resist. The pilot has illuminated the fasten seat belts sign, because it gets worse.)
Columbia Metropolitan Airport (Lexington County) has been active on the arts scene in the past week. Consider:
- Midlands artists, please pick up the white courtesy phone. Last week CAE announced a call for Midlands artists to exhibit their artwork at the airport's new rotating exhibition. That is cleared for takeoff October 2020 into 2021. A new program, Art in the Airport is also intended to enhance travelers’ experience while “creating a sense of place” within the airport. Upon landing, travelers will see the art "which showcases the life and culture of the Midlands." Artists accepted may sell their work(s), and CAE will not be taking any commissions. That's more than ... fare; it's an upgrade! This link will route you to your final destination for more information from ColaDaily.com.
- Yesterday, a partnership with Transitions Homeless Shelter continued as 18 works of art by past and present residents of the shelter were displayed. These works, too, are available for purchase. Residents keep their commissions as well. Read more about the new exhibition from (again) ColaDaily.com.
Carter Boucher news
Works by #SCArtists Carter Boucher is being noticed. To wit:
- Another of his Enigma series paintings accepted in a juried show. This time, his painting "Pandemic Engulfment" (acrylic on canvas) was accepted in the Mid-Atlantic Juried Art Show in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
- Further, his poem, "A Love Letter To Covid 19," was accepted for publication in Constellations. Boucher has had four creative pieces, three poems and one creative non-fiction piece, accepted so far this year. He also published his book, How to Be an Artist in Residence (And Excel at It!) on Amazon.
GCCA honors founder
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Greenville Center for Creative Arts has completed a $1 million fundraising campaign to sustain operations and expand its impact—all in the name of a beloved member of the Greenville arts community. GCCA’s historic Cloth Building at 101 Abney St. will now be named the Linda Quinn Furman Building in honor of one of its founders, a dynamic artist and philanthropist. Family and friends surprised her with the announcement yesterday when they stopped by GCCA to view the newly installed signage (above).
Homeless artists’ exhibition takes off at CAE
From ColaDaily.com:
Representatives from Transitions Homeless Center brought about 40 pieces of original art to the Columbia Metropolitan Airport Wednesday afternoon to showcase beside the food court. This is the second year Transitions has been able to display current and past residents’ artwork in the airport. The exhibit not only features the artists’ pieces, but also provides a welcoming visual to travelers entering the Columbia area.
Read the full story, and see pictures, here.
