The Greenville Center for Creative Arts will offer a series of 6 “ARTalk” programs from May 2024 – March 2025. The talks will correspond to the six featured exhibits that will be on display in their Main Gallery during that period. The first event will take place on Tuesday, May 14, at 6:00 p.m. featuring Denny Webster & Sara Quattlebaum. SC Humanities supported this programming with a Mini Grant.
The Greenville Center for Creative Arts will host 6 exhibits over the next year. The proposed exhibits are: Carolina Mountains to Shore with the Upcountry Fiber Artists in April – May 2024; Silent Surfaces: Mapping Spatial and Personal Discoveries featuring the art of Donnie Copeland in June – July 2024; 2024 Annual Showcase featuring their three artist fellows in August – September 2024; Impermanence & Abject Space featuring the art of Brittany Watkins in October – November 2024; Gravel, Voices, Creosote Tears featuring the art of Arden Cone in December 2024 – January 2025; and an unnamed exhibit featuring the art of Malik Greene in February – March 2025.
Each ARTalk will feature one or more artists discussing and demonstrating their work, including process, techniques, inspiration, and themes. The talks are free and open to the public.
The May 2024 ARTalk will feature artists from the Carolina Mountains to Shore exhibit. Carolina Mountains to Shore features the work of the Upcountry Fiber Artists which consists of six Carolina artists including Evelyn Beck, Lynne Harrill, Sara Quattlebaum, Cynthia Steward, Denny Webster, and Kathryn Weston. They work with textiles to create artworks that range from pictorial to abstract, small to large, and colorful to subdued. Their adventurous use of fabric, surface design, and quilting create exciting and innovative works that share their unique and individual Carolina experience. This free exhibition will be on display from April 5th – May 29th, 2024. Admission is free and open to the public. Carolina Mountains to Shore is sponsored by TOWN Magazine.
Tuesday, May 14, 6:00 p.m.
ARTalk with Denny Webster & Sara Quattlebaum
Location: 101 Abney St, Greenville, 29611, SC, USA
Free and open to the public
Info: info@artcentergreenville.org
RSVP: https://www.addevent.com/event/wE20654327
Wednesday, July 24, 6:00 p.m.
ARTalk with Donnie Copeland
Silent Surfaces: Mapping Spatial and Personal Discoveries exhibit
Location: 101 Abney St, Greenville, 29611, SC, USA
Free and open to the public
Info: info@artcentergreenville.org
RSVP: https://www.addevent.com/event/CG20654355
Tuesday, September 10, 6:00 p.m.
ARTalk with Christine Moore Bonbright, Kephira Davis, & Elizabeth Wallace
The 2023-2024 Brandon Fellows will be providing demonstrations on their work over the past year in the Fellowship through their respective mediums of painting, digital illustration, and photography.
Location: 101 Abney St, Greenville, 29611, SC, USA
Free and open to the public
Info: info@artcentergreenville.org
Saturday, November 16th, 2024, 2:00 p.m.
ARTalk with Brittany M. Watkins
Brittany M. Watkins’ surrealist inspired performance exists on site in conjunction with her large-scale installation work. This temporary display presents living sculpture (or live collaborators) clothed, painted, directed, and placed throughout the space by Watkins. These objects may lie, stand, sit, or move throughout the work in silence or while engaging audience members with questions, requests, short narrative bits, gestures, or offerings. These momentary encounters extracted from everyday life are sure to draw mental associations, memories, or unexpected sensations in response to the recontextualized thing. Different from a theatrical performance, this work cannot be recreated. It is not rehearsed, but instead driven by a series of actions that stream from consciousness in real time. The living sculpture’s brightly colored costumes converse with the sculptural installation like a living breathing painting that exists only in the present. Lines between art, artist, and viewer are blurred as audience actions and reactions become part of this impermanent living work.
Location: 101 Abney St, Greenville, 29611, SC, USA (Main Gallery)
Free and open to the public
Info: info@artcentergreenville.org
More ARTalk dates will be added soon.
The Greenville Center for Creative Arts (GCCA) was established in 2015 by a dedicated group of artists, educators, and community leaders in response to the need for hands-on arts education in Greenville. Their vision is to be a recognized hub for accessible visual arts education and experiences through our work to energize and empower the arts community. Learn more: https://artcentergreenville.org/.
The mission of SC Humanities is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians. Established in 1973, this 501(c)3 organization is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of community leaders from throughout the state. It presents and supports literary initiatives, lectures, exhibits, festivals, publications, oral history projects, videos, and other humanities-based experiences that directly or indirectly reach more than 250,000 citizens annually. South Carolina Humanities receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as corporate, foundation and individual donors. The National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
