ArtWalk Slated for Thursday, March 17
March 10, 2016
ArtWalk Slated for Thursday, March 17
Spartanburg’s monthly ArtWalk will be Thursday, March 17, 5-9 p.m., and many of the local galleries and museums will have new or continuing exhibits for the public to see. ArtWalk, the self-guided tour of Spartanburg’s downtown arts community, is the third Thursday of every month when many of the art galleries and museums stay open late so that patrons can see what is new on the local art scene. Many of them have wine-and-cheese-type refreshments, receptions, and special programs. There is no cost to attend. This is a very social event, excellent for networking within the local arts community. The following venues are participating:
Carolina Gallery
523 West Main Street, Spartanburg
Carolina Gallery will present “Passages,” featuring oil landscapes by Gerard Erley. The public reception will be 6 to 8 p.m. Each Erley painting is a passage to another place. Those who visit this show should expect to be transported on short trips of the soul from mountain peaks to seaside dunes, to dense woods. Also featured will be new work from other artists.
Chapman Cultural Center
200 East Saint John St., Spartanburg
(864) 542-ARTS
In celebration of Youth Art Month — March — Chapman Cultural Center will exhibit works of art by students from virtually every school in Spartanburg County. In addition, Spartanburg Art Museum and Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg Gallery will be open for ArtWalk.
H+K Gallery
151 West Main Street, Spartanburg
Drop in to H+K Gallery 5:30–8 p.m. during ArtWalk to try your hand at origami. Guest artist Rebecca Mullen will be providing instruction and inspiration. Beer, wine, and light refreshments will be provided.
Isabel Forbes Studio & Gallery
401 E. Kennedy Street, Suite A2, Farmer’s Marketplace, Spartanburg
Isabel Forbes Studio & Galley is a working studio and gallery showcasing the oil paintings of Isabel Forbes. The exhibit Hub City is currently on display, and Forbes will be present and paint during ArtWalk. Normal business hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
The Johnson Collection Gallery
154 West Main Street, Spartanburg
The Johnson Collection is pleased to present A Process of Learning: Educating the Avant-Garde at Black Mountain College, a new exhibition exploring the intersections, dialogues, and rivalries that occurred between faculty and students at the experimental North Carolina art enclave. Secluded in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Black Mountain College offered an Arcadian environment where artists, musicians, dancers, poets, and intellectuals could engage in a collaborative creative exchange and embrace the democratic principles of the progressive education movement. Operating between the years 1933 and 1957, the school’s faculty included luminaries of the burgeoning modern art scene—groundbreaking teachers who encouraged independent thinking and innovative experiences. TJC Gallery is open to the public without charge during ArtWalk and on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, 1-5 p.m.
Kiss The Frog Gallery
518 East Main Street, Spartanburg
Kiss The Frog Gallery will be open 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. for ArtWalk serving refreshments and wine. New original work by internationally acclaimed Venezuelan artist Aldo Muzzarelli will be on display. His original and commissioned works are included in numerous collections around the world. He has studied in Italy, Madrid, Barcelona, and Miami and has served as Director for the Culture Department of the Autonomous Municipality Falcon in Venezuela. In addition he has been a cartoonist for award-winning movies in Spain and a member of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Also on exhibit will be original pottery by David Zachiaris (Converse College) and Spartanburg potter Patsy Simmons; photography by Donna Brown, Mark Olencki (Wofford College), Paul Fesperman, Jay Vaughan and Debbie Henderson; and original paintings by Jane Allen Nodine (USC-Upstate), Eula Lacroix, Greg Aughthan, Carol Augthun, Ella McBee Cart among others.
Spartanburg Art Museum
Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. Saint John Street, Spartanburg
Spartanburg Art Museum presents another ART² during March ArtWalk. ART² is an experimental event in which SAM invites non-visual artists to enter the museum and create their own interpretation of the works on display. This second installment, “Taking Tea,” written by local performance artist Anna Abhau Elliott and directed by Spartanburg Little Theatre regular Patric Phillips, presents a live performance inspired by our current exhibition Cognitive Dissonance. Elliott says, “While Cognitive Dissonancepresents deconstructions of traditional ceramic vessels, ‘Taking Tea’ is a durational performance piece that imagines what ceremonies would emerge from these deconstructed objects.” This event is free and open to the public, 5:30-7:30 p.m. All ages welcome.
UPSTATE Gallery on Main
172 E. Main Street, Spartanburg
UPSTATE Gallery on Main is honored to present Manifest Fiction, a solo exhibition of new small-scale collages by Evan Clayton Horback, a noted visual artist living and working in Olympia, Washington. The exhibition opens during ArtWalk, Thursday, March 17, and continues until April 30, 2016.
West Main Artists Co-Op
578 West Main Street, Spartanburg
West Main Artists Co-op announces the opening of “Adios Amigos!,” a final exhibition of works by Teresa Prater before her upcoming retirement and relocation to New Mexico. Both old and new paintings, drawings, photographs, artist books, and prints will be exhibited and for sale as an opportunity for collectors to add unique works of art to their collection. The show opens with a reception on during ArtWalk. The exhibition will be on display until April 16, 2016, during normal business hours, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Saturdays. For more information visit WestMainArtists.org/art-exhibitions or Facebook.com/WestMainCoop/.
