This year’s festival will span Main Street from Court and Main to Wardlaw and Main, is free to the public, and will feature 135 visual artists working in 17 different mediums on GE Artist Row. “Every year, Artisphere brings a wonderful variety of art, artists and entertainment to downtown Greenville,” said Chris Fincher, regional vice rresident for TD Bank. “TD Bank is happy to play a part in helping Artisphere continue its great success, and we look forward to another exciting festival this year along our beautiful Main Street.” Artisphere is an operating support grantee of the South Carolina Arts Commission.
Hispanic Alliance welcomes arts and education director
The Greenville-based Hispanic Alliance announced Gina Bridges as its arts and education director.

The Hispanic Alliance fosters collaboration and connectivity among people, resources, and cultures to build thriving communities. Learn more at https://www.hispanicalliancesc.com/.
Glow Lyric Theatre seeks technical director
Glow Lyric Theatre is looking to fill the position of technical director for our 2022 season.
The season runs June 11-August 3, 2022 at the Kroc Center in Downtown Greenville and includes:- Elton John’s Aida,
- Classic Broadway: Songs of the Golden Age,
- and Frances Pollock’s new opera Stinney: An American Execution
New leader announced for Greenville visual arts hub
GCCA makes decision after national search
An extensive national search led Greenville Center for Creative Arts to its next CEO, Jess Burgess.

About GCCA
Greenville Center for Creative Arts is a non-profit organization that aims to enrich the cultural fabric of the community through visual arts promotion, education, and inspiration. For more information, visit www.artcentergreenville.org, call 864.735.3948, or check out GCCA on Facebook (Greenville Center for Creative Arts) and Instagram (@artcentergvl).#SCartists: Teach at GCCA this summer
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Thursday, March 24, 2022
If you are an experienced visual arts instructor with a creative idea and a desire to share, we want you to be part of our summer schedule!

- Introductory level printmaking classes and workshops like monotype/monoprint press printing, collagraph printing, relief printing from linoleum, and drypoint intaglio printing using acrylic plates
- Jewelry workshops, including polymer clay and resin jewelry making, fabricating dimensional metal jewelry, wiring wrapping for beginners, beginner metalsmithing, introduction to enameling, and soldering instruction
- Watercolor classes and workshops
- Instruction in different drawing mediums
Upstate juried exhibition to highlight women of impact
City of Women opens Friday in Greenville

Upstate artists are set to help celebrate impactful Greenville women in an exhibition starting Friday at Greenville Center for Creative Arts (GCCA).
GCCA issued a call in late 2021 for art that highlights historical and contemporary women who have made a significant impact in the Greenville community. More than 50 artists submitted for judging by juror Jonel Logan, creative director of the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte. Areas of recognition include healthcare and well-being, education, economic opportunity, science and technology, civic engagement, and (natch) arts and culture. This effort will culminate in a free public exhibition that will be featured through a virtual gallery on GCCA's website and in a special juried exhibition opening on First Friday, March 4, from 6-9 p.m. and on display through April 27. All appropriate entries will be included in the virtual gallery. Juror selections will be exhibited in GCCA’s Community Gallery and be eligible for $2,000 in prizes. Juror selections can be seen in GCCA’s Community Gallery. To view the virtual gallery and see all submissions, visit https://www.artcentergreenville.org/exhibitions/city-of-women. From March 4-6, the public can vote online for their favorite piece to receive a “People’s Choice” prize package of art supplies. Greenville Center for Creative arts is located at 101 Abney St. in Greenville. Greenville City of Women will run through April 27 on Tuesday-Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. Provided images below. Click to enlarge. [gallery link="file" ids="49154,49155,49153"]Eight competitors reach S.C. Poetry Out Loud finals
State finals to be held virtually March 5

for immediate release
COLUMBIA, S.C. – From among statewide submissions, judges selected eight finalists who now have a chance to represent South Carolina this spring in the national finals of Poetry Out Loud—an annual, nationwide recitation contest.

- Tea Allen
- Kenneth Carrington
- Natalie Holland
- Adam Maierle
- Emily Allison, 2021 state champion (Fine Arts Center of Greenville)
- Harper Scott (Fine Arts Center of Greenville)
- Catherine Wooten (Westgate Christian School of Spartanburg)
- Caleb Xiao, 2021 first runner-up (Spartanburg Day School in Boiling Springs)
About the South Carolina Arts Commission


Two from S.C. among ’22 South Arts Emerging Leaders of Color
Leaders from Charleston, Greenville included
South Arts announced 18 cultural leaders of color from across its nine-state region have been selected to participate in professional development and networking opportunities.

Victoria Rae Moore
Vaughn Newman
Born in Philadelphia Newman began dancing at William Penn Arts Charter and continued training at Freedom Theater, PHILADANCO, & New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL. While at New World, he began performing with Momentum Dance Company and Brazz Dance Theater until a move to the Upstate in 2009. After choreographing for local theaters, dance studios, and the Peace Center for the Performing Arts, The Studio–Home of Vaughn Newman Dance(VND) opened its doors in 2018 offering dance instruction to Upstate communities, students, hobbyists, and pre-professional dancers. The Studio is the home of Greenville’s first Afro-American and professional contemporary dance company. Newman also founded ZAKI West African Drum & Dance Ensemble and ADAM Arts as community outreach programs that cross socio-economical barriers by making the arts accessible to the community, especially misaligned and underserved youths. Together, these outreach programs and Vaughn Newman Dance narrow the cultural divide through curated interactive performing arts experiences, Traditional West African drum & dance classes, and workshops.
GCCA adds seven to board
This week, Greenville Center for Creative Arts (GCCA) announced seven new members elected to its board of directors.

- Earle Furman, GCCA founder and chair, NAI Earle Furman, LLC
- Daniel Hartway, Upstate SC business banking manager/SVP, First Citizens Bank & Trust Co.
- Benjamin Hepner, attorney, Holder Padgett Littlejohn + Prickett
- Blair Knobel, editor-in-chief, TOWN Magazine
- Kate Lacher, artist & creative coordinator, Craig Gaulden Davis
- Rhonda Rawlings, neighborhood engagement director, Mill Village Ministries
- Heather Wheless, senior director of human resources, Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Chair - Yvonne Julian, retired, sales executive, The Dow Chemical Company
- Vice Chair - Bradley Wingate, director of visual & performing arts, Greenville County Schools
- Treasurer - Tony Callander, retired, partner, Ernst & Young LLP
- Secretary - Jim Gorman, studio artist