He’s the man in the mirror
AUGUST 26, 2010 7:37 a.m. 
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For Christopher Adam Turner, self-portraits are a form of therapy.
Some people may talk to friends about issues going on in their lives but Turner picks up a paint brush. Continue reading...
They can FLY!
‘Peter Pan’ production puts an actor in the air
SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 12:43 p.m. (0)
Toss in some physics, geometry, algebra, special flying harnesses, pulley systems and a Labor Day weekend full of instruction for five cast members by a flying director from the same company that helped former gymnast Cathy Rigby take to the air in the Broadway revival of the childhood favorite.
“People who sit in the audience have no idea what it takes mathematically and scientifically and a lot of times the people backstage don’t know what it takes artistically to make this work,” said Dan Kondas, the flying director with ZFX Flying Effects who was in Greenville last weekend. Continue reading...
Scene. Here. Greenville.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 12:55 p.m. (0)
Water you doing?
Coldwell Banker Caine will host an exhibit opening reception for its next resident artist, watercolor painter Lynn Greer. The event will be held at The Real Estate Gallery at 428 South Main St. in Greenville on Thursday, Sept. 16 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. The reception is free to attend and open to the public. Continue reading...
Greenville arts writer moves on to next chapter
Ann Hicks plans to write two books, teach children to appreciate the arts
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 1:33 p.m. (0)
Although she spent her childhood behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest, Hungary, in an upper-class family where original paintings hung on the walls, the sound of classical music filled the air and where appreciation of the arts was as natural as mother’s milk, she had no idea how to write a review.
“I went to Barnes and Noble looking for ‘Criticism for Dummies.’ There was none,” she said. Continue reading...
This season at the Chap
From Glenn Miller to Second City, season has diversity, depth
SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 9:04 p.m. (0)
The schedule needs to have some crowd favorites that are sure to be slam dunks at the box office and acts that push the envelope and are outside the norm for the Spartanburg arts community.
“We feel a strong obligation not only to give the community what it wants, but also give it things that are different,” said Steve Wong, marketing director for the Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg. “Part of our responsibility artistically is to broaden horizons.” Continue reading...
Just west of here
Artists flock to Pendleton Street Arts District
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 8:59 a.m. (0)
They’ve organized the West Greenville Arts Festival, a smaller, more intimate successor to Upstate Visual Arts’ Art in the Park.
“Even with the economy, more and more artists are coming to West Greenville and the Pendleton Street Arts District to work,” said Ryan Callaway, one of the event organizers and an artist who transformed an empty textile machine shop on Andrews Street into his working blacksmith’s studio and an art gallery. “They know it’s the art district in Greenville.” Continue reading...
Inspired
Leah Brown, one of Hub-Bub’s first artists-in-residence, returns for installation
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 9:07 a.m. (0)
The landlord loved her idea – one of more than 100 he had received – and Brown was suddenly an art gallery owner.
“In a matter of minutes, I went from having nothing to having a gallery,” said Brown, who opened 18 Rabbit Gallery in 2009. Continue reading...
It takes one to dance
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 12:56 p.m. (0)
But there was one problem. Ballroom dancing takes two people and she didn’t have a partner as serious about it as she was.
Then White discovered belly dancing. Continue reading...
Warhol is here
Exhibitions boost city's cultural possibilities
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 1:53 p.m. (3)
Jane Nodine almost threw away the University of South Carolina Upstate’s chance at owning a collection of photographs by famous pop artist Andy Warhol.
Back in 2007, Nodine was cleaning papers off her desk when a letter with the Andy Warhol Foundation’s return address caught her attention. Continue reading...
Snap it up
Snapshot Spartanburg begins Oct. 6
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 11:19 a.m. (0)
As a professional editorial and commercial photographer, Ian Curcio has access to some of the best photographic equipment on the market.
Sometimes, though, he just uses the camera on his iPhone. Continue reading...
Mummy, where art thou?
Greenville’s arts organizations capitalize on popularity of Halloween
OCTOBER 19, 2010 11:00 a.m. (0)
“People celebrate Halloween because it’s fun,” said Allan McCalla, artistic director for the Greenville Little Theatre. “All of us trick or treated as kids. And arts organizations are always looking for an angle.”
Americans are expected to spend $447.1 billion on Halloween this year, according to the National Retail Federation. And while Halloween used to be considered primarily a children’s event, it has become the second leading adult party reason behind New Year’s Eve. Continue reading...
In harmony
Henry Gibson, Greenville Chorale celebrate their golden anniversary
OCTOBER 22, 2010 6:07 a.m. (0)
That’s because he has been performing with the Chorale since its inaugural season in 1961.
Gibson had graduated from North Greenville Junior College and transferred to Furman University. Shortly after the fall term had begun, one of Gibson’s professors told him he should join what started as the Rotary Civic Chorale. Continue reading...
Arts and the app
Metropolitan Arts Council offers mobile help for Open Studios
NOVEMBER 5, 2010 11:46 a.m. (0)
And there’s an app to help her do that.
Miller, an art lover who has lived in the Upstate just a few weeks, plans to visit as many as a dozen of the 142 participating artists on Saturday and another half dozen on Sunday, and she’ll use a new app to help her decide which artists she wants to see and the route she’ll use to get there. Continue reading...
North Greenville raises curtain on new theater
NOVEMBER 14, 2010 2:48 p.m. (0)
The facility is one of two new buildings belonging to the theater department. Billingsley Theatre is located in the new Village at Tigerville, a 20-acre site that is home to the NGU Visual Arts Department, Carolina First Bank and Einstein’s Bagels.
The vision for the village includes numerous retail and campus-related buildings. Across from Billingsley is the new School of Theatre building, which occupies the historic Tigerville Elementary School building given to the university by the school district. The original structure dates back to the early 20th century. Continue reading...
So much drama
For these Governor’s School grads, that’s a good thing
NOVEMBER 22, 2010 8:26 a.m. (0)
Three graduates from the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities have roles in plays showing on New York’s Broadway.
Teyonah Parris and Nichole Beharie are appearing in John Guare’s “A Free Man of Color” with Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Wright, while Liza Bennett appears in “The Merchant of Venice,” which stars Al Pacino. All three women attended Juilliard before they started acting professionally. Continue reading...
The Peace Family
Seven generations now. Quietly helping grow a community.
DECEMBER 3, 2010 2:21 p.m. (0)
And without a $10 million pledge from three branches of the Peace family the idea to build a performing arts center beside the Reedy River likely would have died before it got started.
That was more than 20 years ago. Continue reading...
Zzzzzzzz
“In My Sleep,” produced by Greenville native, makes its premiere here
JANUARY 6, 2011 1:46 p.m. (0)
They wanted him to read books instead.
Then he discovered he could study filmmaking at the Fine Arts Center. Continue reading...
Centre Stage
Set for a comeback
JANUARY 21, 2011 10:34 a.m. (0)
Then auditors told her they were considering issuing a going-concern opinion, a warning they are required to give when they have substantial doubt about whether a company or entity can survive for another 12 months.
ManWaring said she was not aware of the full extent of the theater’s financial troubles when she took the job. Continue reading...
Art's all in their family
Cowpens husband-wife pottery team to participate in Smithsonian craft event
JANUARY 27, 2011 4:03 p.m. (0)
Bending over backwards is something Rosa Eugene has had to work on all her life.
As a girl, she had a habit of telling people the truth point-blank, never stopping to think whether the words coming out of her mouth would hurt the people to whom they were directed. Continue reading...
"Life is short, Art endures."
Chapman Cultural Center makes plans for its next phase of growing here
FEBRUARY 3, 2011 3:48 p.m. (0)
H. Perry Mixter, outgoing director of the partnership, said, “It wasn’t so much that fundraising slipped (that income was fairly steady) but that our expenses had jumped considerably (in 2009 through 2010) due to the opening of Chapman. We knew this was coming.”
Mixter said the partnership’s income from donations has remained steady at about $800,000 a year while expenses jumped sharply to around $1.2 million. Continue reading...
The South, at work
Artist works to preserve a vanishing way of life
MARCH 2, 2011 12:05 p.m. (0)
But it saddens her as well.
Bechdolt is one of 30 workers included in Whyte’s series of watercolor portraits highlighting Southern workers, but they are Southerners working in jobs that are fading away. Continue reading...
The week in pictures: 2/25/11
Look who's in the Journal this week
FEBRUARY 25, 2011 8:43 a.m. (0)
The Palmetto Association of Independent Schools (PAIS) held its Inclusivity Conference 2011 at Christ Church Episcopal School. The day-long conference featured speakers, presentations and break-out work sessions designed to foster cultural awareness and multicultural education.
Stone Academy presented “ ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’ by the Incomparable Dr. Seuss’” at Furman University. The school-wide production was funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission. Students in grades first through fifth, strings students, Percussion Ensemble, Play Production, Stone Singers, and the Dance Ensemble were directed in the original production by Stone’s related arts teachers. Continue reading...
Dream on, and on, and on
Warehouse has a unique take on Shakespeare classic ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’
MARCH 7, 2011 8:08 a.m. (0)
In the early planning stages for the Warehouse Theatre’s production of the Shakespeare classic, somebody threw out the idea of having the mechanicals – the acting troupe that performs the play “Pyramus and Thisbe” during “Midsummer Night’s Dream” – not just do the play within a play, but the entire play.
Everybody laughed – and then agreed the unique spin was a great idea. Continue reading...
High noon
Music sandwiched in gives Spartanburg music lovers something to eat to
MARCH 3, 2011 3:13 p.m. (4)
They were there for Music Sandwiched In, a free event open to the public and presented by the Music Foundation of Spartanburg and held every other Wednesday.
The people were seated in rows of chairs and at tables throughout the room. Some of the audience members ate at the tables in the back of the room, either the lunches they brought with them or sandwiches that were available for purchase at the event. During the music, which lasted from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m., people trickled in and out of the room. Continue reading...
Old school, new life
Legacy Charter School takes over Parker High campus
MARCH 17, 2011 9:27 a.m. (0)
They will again thanks to Legacy Charter School.
Legacy has turned the old Parker High into its middle and high school campus. Continue reading...
Mike Gallagher, on stage
Radio talk show host to star in Centre Stage production
MARCH 17, 2011 10:35 a.m. (0)
National syndicated conservative radio talk show host Mike Gallagher says being a conservative and having an appreciation for the arts is not mutually exclusive.
He should know. Continue reading...
With grace and poise
Carolina Ballet Theatre’s prima ballerina says goodbye
MARCH 28, 2011 11:02 a.m. (0)
And never more so than for Carolina Ballet Theatre prima ballerina Anita Pacylowski-Justo.
The Carolina Ballet’s April 9 production of “Giselle,” a romantic masterwork of the ballet world, was to be Pacylowski-Justo’s swan song, her farewell to the stage, a fitting end to a dancing career that has spanned more than two decades. Continue reading...
All pride, no prejudice
Spartanburg Philharmonic debuts suite by Academy Award winner
MARCH 24, 2011 12:13 p.m. (0)
Award Winning Film Score Night was the fifth in a series of Masterworks Concerts, performed at the Twichell Auditorium. Along with the new piece, the concert also featured Marianelli’s “Atonement” suite, “Clair de Lune” by Debussy, arranged by Stokovski, and “Le tombeau de Couperin” by Ravel.
The performance of the “Atonement” suite was originally scheduled to be performed by the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra last year, but was canceled because of weather. Continue reading...
A baseball story
Bob Jones University premiers movie
APRIL 4, 2011 10:44 a.m. (0)
“Milltown Pride,” the newest production by Bob Jones University’s Unusual Films, tells the story of a young man who dreams of playing professional baseball.
But to do so, he has to defy his father and leave his privileged life for the local textile mill. Continue reading...
Arts takeover
Artisphere features new faces, old favorites
MAY 12, 2011 9:56 a.m. (0)
That’s something that began to happen gradually a couple of years into their marriage.
Because Signe Grushovenko was used to drawing with pastels on colored paper, she did not want to paint on a white canvas. Continue reading...
This market's for artists
SLAM to open June 11
JUNE 2, 2011 10:39 a.m. (0)
The Saturday Local Art Market will give local artists a venue at which to sell their art on Saturday afternoons from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.
The market will run June 11 through Oct. 29 and will be held at 702 S. Main St. in the vacant lot across the street from the Army-Navy store. Continue reading...
Right neighborly
Nature photographer Clay Bolt heads international project to highlight wildlife that lives among us
JUNE 16, 2011 11:45 a.m. (0)
Not the neighbors who live in the house next door or across the street or even down the block, but the kind of “neighbors” that call our backyards, parks and other natural spaces home.
Think salamanders, snakes and frogs. Trillium, lady’s slippers and orchids. Continue reading...
All season long
The Peace Center’s major renovation and ‘The Lion King’ won’t be the only highlights of The 2011-12 season
AUGUST 1, 2011 10:53 a.m. (0)
“You can’t get a much stronger season,” Riegel said.
The 2011-12 season also features an expanded “The Place for Everyone” shows where tickets start at $5. Continue reading...
Bead Weaver
Melissa Earley turns old craft into fine art
AUGUST 1, 2011 11:18 a.m. (0)
“It seems the general conception of artists is they’ve got some kind of supernatural talent or something,” said Spartanburg bead artist Melissa Earley. “I think it’s important for people to see the artistic process because it demystifies it. Art in general becomes a little less intimidating.”
That’s one of the reasons Earley decided to weave a large-scale beaded portrait during the month her work is being exhibited at the Metropolitan Arts Council gallery at 16 Augusta St. in Greenville. Continue reading...
100 words, 1 illustration
Upstate Book Project seeks local artists to write, illustrate group project
AUGUST 18, 2011 11:20 a.m. (0)
He’s looking for 29 adult artists from the Upstate to finish it.
“Artists, even the most nonchalant, are control freaks up to a point,” Bailie said. “This project is all about giving up comfort and security. It’s out of control and awesome.” Continue reading...
Pawprints everywhere
Clemson and the arts come together downtown
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 1:43 p.m. (0)
“Over the last 15 years, Greenville has transformed itself in terms of cultural identity,” said Denise Woodward-Detrich, director of Clemson’s Lee Gallery. “And in terms of the city’s art scene, Clemson alumni have made a big contribution.”
An event Friday night at the Wyche Pavilion beside the Reedy River downtown is designed to make Greenville residents aware of those contributions and to raise awareness for the Center for the Visual Arts at Clemson. Continue reading...
Upstate Visual Arts starts fresh
New executive director Katie Screven wants to elevate understanding of visual arts in the community
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 11:40 a.m. (0)
But the nonprofit arts organization’s newest executive director Katie Screven says there’s no doubt UVA should – and will – play an important part in elevating the stature and understanding of visual arts in the Upstate.
“There’s definitely a place for UVA in the arts community in the Upstate,” she said. Continue reading...
MAC has record year – again
Nonprofit organization surpasses $1 million for second year in a row
JANUARY 12, 2012 12:58 p.m. (0)
The nonprofit organization that provides support for Greenville’s art organizations and artists in each arts discipline raised $1,071,786 in 2011, the most in its 38-year history and the second consecutive year MAC surpassed the $1 million mark.
But that wasn’t the only record set by the organization. Continue reading...
Telling a story on one sheet of paper
Minibook Collective challenges artists to tell about the Greenville they know
JANUARY 12, 2012 1:06 p.m. (0)
And complicated.
That’s what Greenville artists and residents are being asked to do in the Minibook Collective, a project that got its start when Greenville artist Melinda Hoffman read about a project in the United Kingdom that challenged artists around the world to create small books using a single sheet of paper that created a sense of place and told the story of their home. Continue reading...
"Every poem is a love poem"
Spartanburg's newest artist-in-residence is a poet
JANUARY 20, 2012 9:31 a.m. (0)
Travis Blankenship dabbled in all types of art before he became serious about poetry when he was 21.
“Poetry is the most natural expression of emotion I’ve been able to accomplish,” said Blankenship, who arrived in Spartanburg last month to complete a residency that ends in May. Continue reading...
Textiles come back to Reedy River
‘Textiles in a Tube’ exhibition features contemporary textile art
MAY 31, 2012 10:59 a.m. (0)
For decades, the Reedy River was the conduit from which fabric flowed from Greenville to all over the country.
In the latest Riverworks Gallery exhibition, that was reversed. Continue reading...
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