Art in the Woods - 3/20/10 - Saturday

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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
 

AiR Exit Show Opening - 3/24/10 - Wednesday

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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

Art Mart - 4/10/10 - Saturday

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Art Talk with AiRs - 4/15/10 - Thursday

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Congressional Art Exhibit - Closing Reception - 4/30/10 - Friday

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Butler, Sawyer, Tanner - Exhibit opening - 5/6/10 - Thursday

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Valdes Solo! - exhibit opening - 6/9/10 - Wednesday

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm