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A.i.R. Exit Show Exhibit Opening Reception
at The Showroom, Downtown Spartanburg
Wednesday, March 24 7 - 9 pm
Admission if FREE
Please join us on Wednesday, March 24th from 7 - 9 p.m. for the opening reception of the 2009-10 A.i.R. Exit Show. The exhibit will feature a selection of works created by our most recent class of Artists-in-Residence: Claudia Dishon, Esteban del Valle, Gregory Bae, and Jameelah Lang.
The included pieces are meant to reflect the residents' artistic progression during their eleven-month stay in Spartanburg. The work features a variety of mediums including mixed media drawings, oil paint, collage, and film. Our Writer-in-Residence, Jameelah Lang, will present a reading from her in-progress short story collection at 8 p.m.
The HUB-BUB AiR program aims to give emerging artists the opportunity to advance their careers within a supportive, growing artist community. While in South Carolina, Artists-in-Residence are given ample time and space to "live free and create." In exchange, they participate in local, community-directed projects aimed to increase the relationship between Spartanburg and the arts.
*Admission is free.
*Beverages & hors d'oeuvres will be available.
The exhibit will be on display though April 23
The Carolina Chocolate Drops
at The Showroom
Friday, April 2nd 8:30pm
Tickets: $20 advance/$25 door
“To paraphrase Rakim’s immortal words, these Drops ain’t no joke: Their enthusiasm for the tradition is obvious even as the trio spans from traditional arrangements to self-penned works and stringband makeovers of modern-day works.” -Paste
“While Giddens is definitely enamored with the past, she gives Beyonce a run for her ‘Single Ladies’ money on the song ‘Hit ‘Em Up Style.’” -New York Post
“This striking North Carolina trio brings a modern sizzle to the legacy of classic African American stringbands… sparking an electrifying ruckus.” -Spin
“The hottest thing to hit the old-time music community in decades.” -NPR, Weekend Edition
“Not many bands could get away with calling their album Genuine Negro Jig, but the Carolina Chocolate Drops are a case apart – a group of young African-Americans who perform ¬antique jug band tunes with ¬swaggering hip-hop attitude. The music's potency comes from the fact that the trio – fiddler Justin Robinson, banjo-player Rhiannon Giddens and multi-tasker Dom Flemons – got it from the source.” –The Guardian
“The black string band and jug band traditions that were popular in the Carolinas in the 1920s and 1930s were probably doomed to oblivion until revivalists Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson met at a banjo convention in 2005.” –USA Today
The Consumers - CD Release Show
at The Showroom, Downtown Spartanburg
Friday, March 5 9pm
$10 advance /$10 door
What started as an impromptu show in a local sushi restaurant in 2005 with Joe Power, Mark Miller and Casey Burgess soon grew into an organized band with the addition of guitarist Wes Gosnell. The band quickly developed a local following playing tight renditions of an eclectic mix of classics and modern-day favorites. During the next few years the group built a regional following in the southeast entertaining music fans with a well crafted setlist that mixed in their own original material. The Consumers recorded and released their first CD in 2007, a self-titled collection of five songs. With the addition of a keyboardist, Louis Meyers, the band started work on a new CD in August of 2009. This show celebrates the release of their latest CD, Profiteering. A limited number of the CDs will be given away at the show.
The cost for each class is $25, or $20 for college students or members (those who have made a charitable contribution in 2009). A package of all five workshops is also available. Converse College is our partner in this program.
This class will focus on revision-the ability to re-see and more deeply comprehend our own work, and to make changes based on that new comprehension. She will lead students through the creation of an outline, and then how to fiddle with that outline to see how it might be profitably changed. The point is to help students work with flexibility, not always the easiest thing in the world. McGraw grew up in California and teaches at Ohio State University with her husband, the poet Andrew Hudgins. Her newest novel, The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard, was published in 2008 by Houghton-Mifflin. Before that she published The Good Life (stories), The Baby Tree (a novel), Lies of the Saints (stories, and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996), and Bodies at Sea (stories). . Her visit to Spartanburg is sponsored by Converse College.
7-9 p.m.
$25 ($20 for college students and members) REGISTERAn Evening with The Belleville Outfit
at The Showroom, Downtown Spartanburg
Friday, March 12 8pm
$15 advance /$18 door
Art Talk with Michael Dickins
at The Showroom, Downtown Spartanburg
Wednesday, March 3 7pm
Admission if FREE
The Preemptive Collapse of an Arduous Revolt Against Lunar Aspirations
or “That revolt gives life its value.”
at The Showroom, Downtown Spartanburg
Wednesday, March 17 7pm
Admission if FREE
“A man once sought to destroy the moon. He tired of a world that foretold lunar phases, clocked the tides, and dreamed of space stations.”
Silent Movie. 18:42 minutes
The film will be introduced by a 15 minute artist talk and followed by Q&A
This short film, created by current Artist in Residence Esteban del Valle, tells the story of one man’s attempt and failure to begin a revolution against the moon. The main character, being purely an academic (an “armchair activist”), composes his revolutionary argument by manipulating the words of various scholars. The movie, largely inspired by Charlie Chaplin, is a silent film that uses traditional conventions such as slapstick humor and over dramatic acting.
Glendale Outdoor Leadership School and HUB-BUB
Present: Art in the Woods
Artist and Facilitator: Warner F. Hyde, Spartanburg Native and Professor of Art at Meredith College
Glendale Outdoor Leadership School
Saturday March 20th, 10am-5pm
$25 workshop fee includes lunch provided by Panera Bread
reserve your spot by Wednesday, March 17th
“Transcended Earth”-
A study using clay to heighten spiritual awareness in the outdoors
This workshop will demonstrate and give participants a chance to use the creative process, by working in clay, to learn more about themselves and develop a deeper relationship with the natural world. The first part will feature slide show presentations, group discussions, reflective journaling, and instructor demonstration. Participants will then work on an assortment of ceramic hand-building exercises under the guidance of the instructor, which will focus on how to use the ceramic materials to communicate visually the ideas developed.
The second part will take place in the exceptional outdoor surroundings found at GOLS. That’s right! Participants’ will step out of the classroom and trek down through the bamboo corridor, into the hardwood forest, and down to the clay banks by the river. There, we will work collaboratively to create a high/low relief mural into the clay bank. Using the river’s water, we will create a pure white clay slip, which is the consistency of paint, and coat the exposed clay surface in the woods and by the river. Using various techniques and approaches, participants will carve and manipulate, into the “canvases”, exposing the contrasting pre-existing red clay. The resulting piece(s) created will serve to document the group’s personal and collaborative relationship with the natural world. The work will eventually erode back to its primary source of origin, as clay is the last geologic process, and participants will have the journey of their experience as the permanent impression.
For more information call 864-529-0259
talk20 Spartanburg
at The Showroom
Saturday, March 27th 7:30
Pay what you can • Donations accepted at the door
10 PRESENTERS
20 IMAGES PER PRESENTER
20 SECONDS PER IMAGE
talk20 began in Tokyo and has spread across the globe. talk20 is a series of short presentations by students, educators and professionals working across fields of art, design, and other technical and humanist disciplines. talk20 is not a lecture but a gathering, an informal exchange of ideas.
presenters include:
Elizabeth Pullan • Bill Barnet
Katie Freseman • David Stokes
Kathy Chandler • Ralph Paquin
Lizabeth Zack • Oakley Coburn
Steve Shanafelt • Joan Wheatley