PICCOLO SPOLETO
The city of Charleston is transformed during Spoleto season. The theaters come alive with nightly performances, and the streets are filled with artists, actors, dancers, musicians and their fans.
AN ALCHEMY OF ARTS
Accomplished teaching is an art in itself, and that art is in illuminating a path to discovery. It is the drawing out, as Ashley Montagu wrote, not the pumping in.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
Sullivan’s Island is temperate and brightly lit, a picturesque area as welcoming as it is inviting. Even in February, when Charleston is battling unusually low temperatures, it feels warm outside. But it’s much warmer— physically and visually—inside Sandpiper Gallery on Sullivan’s Island.
TREASURE ISLAND
There’s more to Pawleys Island than quiet beaches and the well-known sculpture and botanical garden, Brookgreen Gardens. This small resort town between Charleston and Myrtle Beach is home to one of the best places in the Southeast to find antique maps and prints (by people like John James Audubon and Mark Catesby) as well fine contemporary paintings and sculpture—the Cheryl Newby Gallery.
VIEW FROM THE WATER
Sometimes all she carries with her in the kayak is a sketchbook and a stick of charcoal. Even a pencil will do. Other times, it’s a small canvas, not much larger than her hand, and a limited palette of yellow, blue, red and white. The materials are minimal. It’s all about getting the composition and values down.
CHARLESTON’S POETRY REVIVAL
In an era often indifferent to poetry, the Lowcountry is enjoying an energetic revival of the form, one rivaling the celebrated Charleston Renaissance of the 1920s.
Wild at Heart
Above the Savannah Bee Company on King Street sits a haven for sporting and nature lovers alike: The Sportsman’s Gallery, a fine art gallery specializing in wildlife, landscape and sporting art.
The Activity of Art
I am fascinated with the ability of humans to understand what they see. People don’t need everything spelled out for them, they can finish the lines I leave out.”
Art Meets Technology
Your text message pings Rebekah Jacob’s mobile device when she’s boarding a flight half a world away. You’re also at an airport, but in another time zone. New work by your favorite artist is at the Rebekah Jacob Gallery (RJG) right now. It’s alive with colors and textures, and the subject perfectly complements your collection.
Common Ground
Renowned painter Betty Anglin Smith has been represented all over the country, from New York to San Francisco and points in between. But here in Charleston she has her own gallery, Anglin Smith Fine Art, which features her work alongside that of her equally talented triplet children, painters Shannon Smith Hughes and Jennifer Smith Rogers, and photographer Tripp Smith.
