Fort Mill teen’s art to ‘pop’ in Charlotte
All around Charlotte. On billboards and such.
S.C. Arts Commission announces six Emerging Artist grantees
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Six emerging individual #SCartists are benefitting from grants and career mentorship courtesy of the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Emerging Artist grant in FY2023, providing them valuable development as arts entrepreneurs.
The SCAC defines emerging artists as being at an early stage in their artistic career development with no basis in age. Six South Carolina artists were selected to each receive Emerging Artist grants ranging in amount from $1,500 to $1,800 from the SCAC in the current fiscal year (2023). They are:- Zeynep Gedikoglu of Clemson (multimedia sculpture)
- Jordon Mack of Orangeburg (visual art)
- Amanda Nicole of Liberty (music/composition)
- Jessica Swank of Easley (photography/sculpture)
- Shaquelle-Elijah Wiley of Columbia (music/performance)
- Rolf Anthony Young of Charleson (mixed media)
- “I'm so grateful ... not only for the funding but also for the community, accountability, and access that it will provide to this new group of southern artists,” Easley-based photographer and sculptor Jessica Swank
- Charleston mixed media artist Rolf Anthony Young anticipates growth from his participation. “Receiving the grant not only fills me with more confidence in my art practice but connects me to a valuable network of grant winners who inspire me.”
- Music artist Shaquelle-Elijah Wiley said it is overwhelming to be recognized this way. “I intend on representing the state with class and innovation,” he said.
About the South Carolina Arts Commission
The mission of the South Carolina Arts Commission is to promote equitable access to the arts and support the cultivation of creativity in South Carolina. We envision a South Carolina where the arts are valued and all people benefit from a variety of creative experiences. A state agency created by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1967, the SCAC works to increase public participation in the arts by providing grants, direct programs, staff assistance and partnerships in artist development, arts industry, arts learning, creative placemaking, and folklife and traditional arts. Headquartered in Columbia, S.C., the SCAC is funded by the state of South Carolina, by the federal government through the National Endowment for the Arts, and other sources. Visit SouthCarolinaArts.com or call 803.734.8696, and follow @scartscomm on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for #Arts4SC and #SCartists content.
Tuesday was a big day for grant announcements
S.C. arts orgs, one artist benefit from NEA, South Arts funding
Within hours of each other yesterday, the National Endowment for the Arts and regional arts organization South Arts made their first 2023 grant announcements that will find an artist and several arts organizations in South Carolina.
The NEA went first, announcing more than $34 million in funding to support the arts nationwide. This is the first of the NEA’s two major grant announcements each fiscal year and includes grants to organizations through the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects, Challenge America, and Research Awards categories. This announcement also includes grants to individuals for Literature Fellowships in creative writing (poetry) and translation.
Evelyn Berry, a writer from Aiken, was among those latter awards, getting a creative writing fellowship of $25,000. Additional grants awarded in South Carolina include:
- Coker University in Hartsville (Grants for Arts Projects - Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works; $10,000)
- Colour of Music, Inc. in Mount Pleasant (Grants for Arts Projects - Music; $10,000)
- Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg (Grants for Arts Projects - Literary Arts; $35,000)
- Puppetry Arts Theatre in Charleston (aka Tuffy Tiger Productions) in Ravenel (Challenge America; $10,000)
- Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston (Grants for Arts Projects - Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works; $10,000)
- Trustus, Inc. in Columbia (Grants for Arts Projects - Theatre; $10,000)
- Warehouse Theatre (aka Greenville Community Warehouse Theatre) in Greenville (Challenge America; $10,000)
By afternoon, it was South Arts' turn, making (rightful) hay over 16 new Cross-Sector Impact Grant recipients for 2023. These organizations are each receiving up to $15,000 to support "arts and..." projects developed by partners—one arts organization or artist, and one non-arts organization—harnessing the power of collaboration. Vaughn Newman Dance of Greenville is the lone South Carolina recipient. Cross-Sector Impact Grants are offered each year as part of South Arts' portfolio of programming to support artists, arts organizations, and communities across the south. These projects support collaborative efforts that connect the arts with non-arts aspects of local communities.
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Hub Quick Hits: S.C. State Parks’ 2022 AiR’s review year
Every year the South Carolina State Parks Service hosts an artist-in-residence program.
In return for a week-long stay at a state park cabin, each artist produces an original piece of artwork that is presented to the park. This competitive program attracts outstanding artists from all over the state and beyond, and provides artists with the opportunity to gain inspiration from the natural and cultural resources of the South Carolina State Parks.
Today, the parks released a retrospective of all 23 of the 2022 artists, which The Hub HIGHLY recommends you review right here.
ArtFields announces 2023 competition artists
#SCartists well represented
Lake City ArtFields Collective dropped an impressive list today that has The Hub ready for 2023.
Among the more than 400 artists from throughout the Southeast are 124 #SCartists who will vie for the big, $50,000 grand prize. The list features artists known well by the SCAC: fellowship recipients, emerging artists, and artist partners; and we recognize a couple South Arts fellows as well.
An email from ArtFields said the panel was "extremely impressed" by the applicants' quality of work. ArtFields 2023 takes place April 19-29 in Lake City.
Additional opportunities
- ArtFields, Jr.: open to S.C. student artists (submission deadline February 11)
- Makers Market: open to southeastern makers (application deadline February 16)
- Volunteers needed: application opens January 1
#SCartists at ArtFields 2023
| Jim Arendt | Conway |
| Kara Artman | Hilton Head Island |
| Carlo A. Balistrieri | Lake City |
| Dylan Bannister | Rock Hill |
| Emma Margaret Barnes | Beaufort |
| Elizabeth Barnes | North Augusta |
| Logan Beasley | Aiken |
| Catherine Beemer | Mount Pleasant |
| Nakisa Beigi | Irmo |
| Chris Bilton | Eutawville |
| Joanna Biondolillo | Johns Island |
| Jonathan Bolton | Simpsonville |
| Dustin Bonner | Charleston |
| Adam Boykin | Sumter |
| Nikki Bracy | Gaston |
| Dionah Bryant | Goose Creek |
| Anna Grace Burch | Greenville |
| Neva Campbell | Myrtle Beach |
| Vivianne Carey | Spartanburg |
| Carson Carroll | Charleston |
| Shaun and Lucy Cassidy | Rock Hill |
| Colleen Critcher | Florence |
| Terrence Culbreath | Johnston |
| Roberto Clemente De Leon | Columbia |
| John Derhammer | Lexington |
| Michael DeWitt | Columbia |
| Adam Eddy | Charleston |
| Morgan C. Eddy | Columbia |
| Jewel Edwards | Fountain Inn |
| Gerard Erley | Columbia |
| Diana Farfán | Greenville |
| Amiri Farris | Bluffton |
| Ellen Fishburne | Columbia |
| Mason Foster | Awendaw |
| Emily Furr | Charleston |
| Sydney Gambrell | Pendleton |
| Brittany R. Gilbert | Florence |
| Samantha Goss | Greer |
| Barry Grant | Rock Hill |
| Douglas Gray | Florence |
| Amira Hanafi | Surfside Beach |
| Mary Ann Haven | Columbia |
| Malik Hayward | Nesmith |
| Annie Heisel | Spartanburg |
| Robb Helmkamp | North Charleston |
| Joanna Henry | Rock Hill |
| Joe Hiltabidel | Travelers Rest |
| Kirsten Hoving | Charleston |
| Alexis Howard | Rock Hill |
| Betsy Hughes | Aiken |
| Lori Isom | Columbia |
| M. Jason | Mt. Pleasant |
| Uschi Jeffcoat | Florence |
| James Jennings | Charleston |
| Joseph Kameen | Graniteville |
| KELA | Ravenel |
| Diana Kirkpatrick | Aiken |
| Cassandra Kokenos | Myrtle Beach |
| Maike Kowal | Charleston |
| Robert E. Krone | Greenville |
| Alicia Leeke | Columbia |
| Connie Lippert | Seneca |
| Jared T. Mack | Loris |
| Cait Maloney | Columbia |
| Michael Mitchell | Florence |
| Katy Mixon | Charleston |
| Phil Moody | Rock Hill |
| Kevin Michael Morrissey | Summerville |
| Jacob Mossbrook | Charleston |
| Aldo Muzzarelli | Mauldin |
| Dorothy Netherland | North Charleston |
| Stefanie Wilson Neuner | Summerville |
| Maggie Mullin O'Hara | Cayce |
| Kate Hooray Osmond | Charleston |
| Patrick Owens | Taylors |
| Patrick Parise | Columbia |
| Sean Patrick | Goose Creek |
| Cameron Porter | Columbia |
| Quincy Pugh | Blythewood |
| Joshua Redfearn | Cheraw |
| Austin Reynolds | Orangeburg |
| Adrian Rhodes | Hartsville |
| Ellie Marie Rose | Columbia |
| Barbara Dunn Rowe | Lugoff |
| Kristi Ryba | Charleston |
| Bethany Salisbury | Rock HIll |
| Georgette Wright Sanders | McClellanville |
| Sandrine Schaefer | Myrtle Beach |
| Laura Schuler | Beaufort |
| Murray Sease | Bluffton |
| Sam Shamard | Greenville |
| Jackson Shaner | Greenville |
| Jordan Sheridan | West Columbia |
| Edward Shmunes | West Columbia |
| Robert V. Shuler | Clolumbia |
| Adrian Smith | Darlington |
| Haley C. Smith | Myrtle Beach |
| Liz Rundorff Smith | Travelers Rest |
| Paula Renae Smith | Rock Hill |
| Nathan Spainhour | Greenville |
| Kevin Spaulding | Florence |
| Alvin Staley | Orangeburg |
| Nadia Stieglitz | Charleston |
| George Stone | Columbia |
| Darryl Stoneworth | Mount Pleasant |
| "James E. Stratton, Jr." | Florence |
| Andrea Stubbs/BurntIdentity | Charleston |
| Janet Swigler | Columbia |
| Raven Lewis Tarpley | Pawleys Island |
| Bri Taylor | Hamer |
| Stuart L. Tessler | Isle of Palms |
| Horst Trojahn | Elgin |
| Meghan Verret | Pelzer |
| Cristina Victor | Charleston |
| Rebecca Waechter | Johns Island |
| Witzel Art | Johns Island |
| Michael Webster | Spartanburg |
| Ian J. Welch | Hampton |
| Gregory Wilkin | Columbia |
| Jordan Winiski | Greenville |
| Monica Tovar | Bluffton |
| Logan Woodle | Conway |
| Gerry Wubben | Easley |
| Olga Yukhno | Columbia |
Hub Quick Hits: Showcasing Columbia area artisans
Columbia area makers have a new opportunity to showcase themselves according to local reports.
From Carolina News & Reporter:
"A new art market in West Columbia debuted Sunday with more than 20 local, creative vendors.
The market was held inside the New Brookland Tavern music hall and bar and featured food and shopping."
That's the "where" and "what," so visit the story by Addison Hinkle for the "who" and "why" details on this new venture at the Midlands entertainment mainstay. Also, remember to shop local and support local art this holiday season (and beyond).Ed. note: Your friendly Hub editor served on the then Carolina Reporter in fall 2002.
Artist entrepreneurs receive support from SCAC grants
Support arts businesses on Small Business Saturday, 11/26
for immediate release
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Two South Carolina artists (#SCartists) are recipients of FY23 South Carolina Arts Commission Artists’ Business Initiative grants, which provide career satisfaction and sustainability for artists making a living off their craft.
The Artists’ Business Initiative is a grant and program from the SCAC that offers financial support for arts-based entrepreneurial initiatives and professional training for the artists who are grantees. Grants can support start-up costs, taking an existing business in a new direction, or executing a temporary initiative (like a single business purchase) that will improve sustainability. A one-time purchase may be awarded up to $3,500, and an ongoing business initiative may be awarded up to $5,000.
New grantee Talin Keyfer is an Anderson County artist who works in enamels and metals to create contemporary jewelry. Her works are available at various shows and through her website, talinkeyferjewelry.com.
“In 2020, after some difficult transitions, I decided to commit to my love of art full time,” Keyfer said. She was accepted as an emerging artist at significant arts festivals and plans to use her grant on marketing, hoping to increase effectiveness through a marketing plan and growing a customer base.
Eric Schultz, assistant professor of music at Coastal Carolina University, is a prize-winning clarinetist who performs as a soloist and in chamber and orchestra settings. His grant will enable him to record and release a debut solo album, “Storytelling.”
“The album will feature several new pieces written by diverse composers, for me,” Schultz said. The central theme of the album will be identities, including the LGBT community and a Caribbean religion from a Puerto Rican composer, another’s Afro-Latina perspective, and “melding traditions from the eastern and western sound worlds” created by a Taiwanese composer, among others.
As the annual Small Business Saturday approaches on Saturday, Nov. 26, the SCAC encourages South Carolinians to support local artists and arts-based businesses as they shop for unique, considered holiday gifts now and for any reason throughout the year. The latest data from the SCAC showed that South Carolina’s creative economy supports 115,000 jobs and generates tax revenues of $269 million.
Artists’ Business Initiative grants, intended for professional caliber working artists in South Carolina, open for letters of intent to apply in late summer each year. More information is available at https://www.southcarolinaarts.com/grant/abi/.
About the South Carolina Arts Commission
The mission of the South Carolina Arts Commission is to promote equitable access to the arts and support the cultivation of creativity in South Carolina. We envision a South Carolina where the arts are valued and all people benefit from a variety of creative experiences. A state agency created by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1967, the SCAC works to increase public participation in the arts by providing grants, direct programs, staff assistance and partnerships in artist development, arts industry, arts learning, creative placemaking, and folklife and traditional arts. Headquartered in Columbia, S.C., the SCAC is funded by the state of South Carolina, by the federal government through the National Endowment for the Arts, and other sources. Visit SouthCarolinaArts.com or call 803.734.8696, and follow @scartscomm on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for #Arts4SC and #SCartists content.
701 CCA Prize winner for 2022 announced
Honor includes solo exhibition, residency, more
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The Mother: Entanglement | Jordan Sheridan | Provided photo[/caption]
A Columbia artist was named winner of the 2022 701 CCA Prize this week, a biennial juried award for artists under 40 that is presented by the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia's Olympia neighborhood.
Installation artist Jordan Sheridan, who was named an SCAC Emerging Artist for FY2022, is a full-time faculty instructor at the University of South Carolina, teaching courses in painting. Her installation, THE MOTHER, was featured in the 701 CCA Biennial of 2021 and at the 2022 ArtFields competition, the latter of which earned her a summer residency at the McColl Center in Charlotte. Sheridan has also received a residency through Stormwater Studios in Columbia. Her next exhibition is a solo show at the Redux Contemporary Arts Center in Charleston.
The 701 CCA Prize Exhibition, featuring the work of the three finalists will remain on view through January 15.
“I was taken aback on hearing my name called as the 701 CCA Prize winner,” Sheridan said. “The artists I competed with were fierce, and I am so proud to have exhibited in the 701 CCA gallery with them. I am thrilled by this award; I have dreamt of a residency at 701 CCA and filling the entire gallery space with my work. I will turn the area into a massive installation with woven womb rooms filled with sculptures and experimental paintings. I am working with light technicians to develop lights specifically for my work and plan to design sculptures experimenting with 3D printers and welding.” The other two finalists have impressive résumés of their own. Kate Hooray Osmond, a Charleston painter; and Brittany M. Watkins, a Columbia mixed media artist, are both South Arts state fellows.
- Charleston painter receives 2018 South Arts State Fellowship
- Nine visual artists named 2022 South Arts Fellows
Sheridan was born in Southeastern Arkansas in 1989. She gave birth to her son, Samuel, in 2017 while attending graduate school at the University of South Carolina. As a mother pursuing an MFA degree, Sheridan’s work organically shifted to include her understanding of motherhood. This change in research pushed her from working primarily in 2-D painting to large-scale textile installations.
2023 North Charleston Arts Fest poster design competition underway
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Thursday, December 15, 2022
The City of North Charleston is calling upon South Carolina visual artists to participate in the 40th Annual North Charleston Arts Fest Poster Design Competition.
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The winning piece will become the official poster design of the 2023 North Charleston Arts Fest, taking place May 3-7, and will be featured on all promotional materials and merchandise, including posters, billboards, print and digital advertisements, television commercials, program booklets, apparel, online, and more. The winning artist will receive a $500 purchase award and a solo exhibition at Park Circle Gallery during May 2023. In addition, the winning piece will become part of the City of North Charleston’s Public Art Collection, which is displayed throughout City Hall.
The deadline to submit works for the competition is Thursday, December 15, 2022.
There is NO entry fee to participate in the North Charleston Arts Fest Poster Design Competition. The competition is open to South Carolina residents ages 18 and older. Categories of work accepted are: acrylic, oil, drawing, pastel, watercolor, and 2-D mixed media. Entries must be submitted online at http://NorthCharlestonCulturalArtsDepartment.Slideroom.com by the December 15 deadline. Artists may enter a maximum of three pieces into the competition.
The North Charleston Arts Fest is organized and presented by the City of North Charleston Cultural Arts Department. The annual five-day celebration of arts and culture highlights regional and local artists and performers in the areas of Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual Art, Media Art, and Literature. For more than 38 years the festival has made quality arts programming affordable and accessible to the widest spectrum of the public, attracting thousands of residents and visitors from throughout the Southeast and beyond to experience free and modestly priced performances, workshops, exhibitions, and activities in a variety of venues, including libraries, community centers, schools, businesses, and parks. The event has matured into one of the most comprehensive arts festivals in the state of South Carolina.
Previous Arts Fest Design Competition winners include:
- Deborah Kinard of Kiawah Island, SC (2022),
- Christine Bush Roman of Johns Island, SC (2020/2021),
- Joseph Kameen of Graniteville, SC (2019),
- Hamed Mahmoodi of Greenville, SC (2018),
- Judy McSween of Charleston, SC (2017),
- Lisa Shimko of Charleston, SC (2016),
- Karole Turner Campbell (KTC) of North Charleston, SC (2015);
- Amiri Geuka Farris of Bluffton, SC (2014);
- and Linda Elksnin of Mt. Pleasant, SC (2013).
Koger opens Laura Spong exhibition
Laura Spong: A Passionate Perspective runs through Dec. 18
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An artist has serious influence when her voice remains loud and clear even after her passing.
Laura Spong has that influence. See for yourself now through Dec. 18 at the Koger Center for the Arts (1051 Greene St., Columbia), which opened a new exhibition of her works last week.
Laura Spong: A Passionate Perspective covers works from her later years. Included are Big Red (pictured above) which has not been on exhibit since 2015, according to the Koger Center website. It continues:
Recognized as one of South Carolina’s leading abstract painters, Spong began painting in the 1950s, quickly receiving awards in local and state art exhibitions. Through the years Spong continually worked and exhibited while raising her family, but it was not until the late 1980s that she committed to being a full-time artist and embarked on a period of enormous productivity and growth. During these later years, Spong moved from her earlier more angular compositions to the organic, complex oil paintings that defined her mature style. In 2015, Spong commented on her work with these words, “First of all, I like to paint – it’s my passion. I move around shapes, forms, textures and colors until the components fall into place, like a child on the floor arranging and rearranging blocks.”
Spong’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia with pieces acquired for the permanent collections of the Columbia Museum of Art, the South Carolina State Museum and the Greenville County Museum of Art as well as many private collections ... Spong continually painted, completing works until shortly before her death at 92 in 2018.
The SCAC presented Spong the Governor's Award for the Arts for Lifetime Achievement in 2017. Two of her works are included in the State Art Collection, which the SCAC manages. Laura Spong: A Passionate Perspective can be viewed Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Koger Center's Upstairs Gallery. Free.