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The Upcountry History Museum will continue its mission of connecting young audiences with hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) learning experiences when it hosts Framed: Step Into Art.
The bilingual (English and Spanish), exhibition transforms the works of well-known painters into interactive environments. Children ages 3-12, enter the exhibit by stepping though an oversized frame and are immersed in the worlds created by well-known artists. Each work is re-created as a three-dimensional, sensory, walk-in environment that includes a print of the artist’s original work as well as important facts about the artist’s life and painting style.
Supporting the National Standards for Arts Education for K through 5th grade, the exhibit provides conversational prompts that employ visual thinking strategies. Children explore the works of four specific artists, as well as enter a Mona Lisa Gallery where they discover a print of the original painting along with famous parodies, and step behind a a cutout version replacing Mona Lisa’s face with their own.
The exhibition’s four interactive spaces include:
• Dinner for Threshers by Grant Wood explores rural life at the turn of the century inviting children to tend to the chickens and eggs, prepare a seasonal meal, set the table, and mix and match the farmers patterned shirts.
• Camp at Lake O’Hara by John Singer Sargent invites visitors to Sargent’s 1916 camp in the Canadian Rockies. Children climb inside a tent, explore camping gear like Sargent’s, prepare a meal over the campfire, and create a painting of what today’s campsite might look like.
• Corn Festival by Diego Rivera visitors travel to Mexico through this piece from the Court of Fiestas in the Ministry of Education Building in Mexico City. Children explore a rendition of one of Rivera’s frescos, add flowers and ribbons to the flower tower for a celebration and add their flourish to a miniature building mural.
• Big Chicken by Clementine O’Hara visitors meet Louisiana’s most famous female artist and folk-art icon and create imaginary animals like Hunter’s “goosters”! Children load the cart and climb behind the reins of Hunter’s giant rooster to take the load into town.
In addition to climbing inside works of art, children are invited to curate their own exhibit gallery, draw self-portraits, take part in an art/history hunt through the exhibit and create different images at a three-dimensional pattern puzzle.
The Blue Duck Art Tour is a self-guided art crawl hosted by Downtown Spartanburg merchants. Use a Blue Duck Scooter (or your own two feet) to visit local retailers and discover local artists.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
- Take this self-guided tour during retail hours anytime between June 17-July 15, OR participate during ArtWalk from 5-7 p.m. on Opening Night (June 17) or Closing Night (July 15).
- All stores are within scooting or walking distance. Download the Blue Duck Scooter App, or use your own two feet. New Blue Duck users get 10 minutes free ride time by entering code “ART” when they register.
- Pick up a punch card at your first store, and visit a minimum of four stores to win a free t-shirt and qualify to win one of the pieces of artwork from the show!
WHO’S PARTICIPATING:
Spartanburg ArtWalk is a free self-guided tour through participating galleries across Spartanburg’s Downtown Cultural District. Stop by each 3rd Thursday of the month from 5:00 – 9:00 PM to enjoy Cocktails, hor d’oeuvres, and the Spartanburg cultural experience!
When: Each third Thursday of the month from 5:00 – 9:00 pm.
Where: Spartanburg Downtown Cultural District and more!
What: Art, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and the Spartanburg cultural experience.
Why: Galleries and museums stay open late to allow guests to enjoy various exhibitions and art-related activities. If touring the Spartanburg Arts Cultural is on your to-do list, there is no better time to do it than during Spartanburg ArtWalk! Wine. Food. Art. What more could you possibly need?
Uncensored expression: anyone is invited to step up to share song, music, poetry, comedy, rants & raves!
The most eclectic open mic around, in a welcoming gallery setting! 6 pm signup, perform 6:30-8:30 pm.
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The North Carolina Arboretum is going wild for art and nature in 2021 with Wild Art! On view April 1 through September 26, this outdoor sculpture exhibition features works by 17 local and national artists drawing inspiration from the natural environment. Situated throughout the Arboretum’s spacious, open-air gardens, the show offers guests a doorway into the wild world from the comfort and safety of cultivated landscapes transformed by art.
The 18 sculptures on display represent a variety of approaches to the theme of “wild art,” from the literal to the abstract, and are crafted from a diverse array of materials that will delight and inspire. Let your imagination take you on a wild journey into the world of plants and animals near and far with Wild Art at The North Carolina Arboretum.
The exhibit is available to all guests during normal Arboretum hours, and there is no admission cost to view the sculptures beyond our usual parking fee of $16 per personal vehicle.
Included with admission
A unique-to-Biltmore, large-scale outdoor sculpture will be crafted and installed in Antler Hill Village this spring by Patrick Dougherty. Over the last three decades, this internationally-acclaimed artist has combined his carpentry skills and love of nature to build over 300 of these wondrous works, captivating the hearts and imaginations of viewers worldwide.
Image: Close Ties (2006) Scottish Basketmakers Circle, Dingwall, Scotland. Photo: Fin Macrae
NOTE: This is an example of Patrick Dougherty’s work; the artist will create Biltmore’s unique structure in Antler Hill Village this spring.
artists
Samuelle Green
Liz Miller
We’re dividing our exhibition space in half for two artists to create two large-scale site-specific installations. Each artist will have approximately 1500 square feet to build immersive installations that incorporate and magnify fragments of reality into worlds of fantasy and fiction.
This exhibition is generously sponsored by The Arkwright Foundation, Bagwell Fence, Carolina Alliance Bank, Caroline + Brooks Crenshaw, Susan W. + Russel Floyd, Susu + George Dean Johnson Jr, Vicki + Tom Nederostek, and Margaret + George Nixon.
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Figurative |
| The Artists Collective | Spartanburg is showing off its “collectiveness” June 1 through 26 with its latest exhibition, “Figurative,” in its Gallery II and Gallery III.
The exhibition includes some 30 works in a variety of media by more than a dozen member artists. |
The Upcountry History Museum will continue its mission of connecting young audiences with hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) learning experiences when it hosts Framed: Step Into Art.
The bilingual (English and Spanish), exhibition transforms the works of well-known painters into interactive environments. Children ages 3-12, enter the exhibit by stepping though an oversized frame and are immersed in the worlds created by well-known artists. Each work is re-created as a three-dimensional, sensory, walk-in environment that includes a print of the artist’s original work as well as important facts about the artist’s life and painting style.
Supporting the National Standards for Arts Education for K through 5th grade, the exhibit provides conversational prompts that employ visual thinking strategies. Children explore the works of four specific artists, as well as enter a Mona Lisa Gallery where they discover a print of the original painting along with famous parodies, and step behind a a cutout version replacing Mona Lisa’s face with their own.
The exhibition’s four interactive spaces include:
• Dinner for Threshers by Grant Wood explores rural life at the turn of the century inviting children to tend to the chickens and eggs, prepare a seasonal meal, set the table, and mix and match the farmers patterned shirts.
• Camp at Lake O’Hara by John Singer Sargent invites visitors to Sargent’s 1916 camp in the Canadian Rockies. Children climb inside a tent, explore camping gear like Sargent’s, prepare a meal over the campfire, and create a painting of what today’s campsite might look like.
• Corn Festival by Diego Rivera visitors travel to Mexico through this piece from the Court of Fiestas in the Ministry of Education Building in Mexico City. Children explore a rendition of one of Rivera’s frescos, add flowers and ribbons to the flower tower for a celebration and add their flourish to a miniature building mural.
• Big Chicken by Clementine O’Hara visitors meet Louisiana’s most famous female artist and folk-art icon and create imaginary animals like Hunter’s “goosters”! Children load the cart and climb behind the reins of Hunter’s giant rooster to take the load into town.
In addition to climbing inside works of art, children are invited to curate their own exhibit gallery, draw self-portraits, take part in an art/history hunt through the exhibit and create different images at a three-dimensional pattern puzzle.
The Blue Duck Art Tour is a self-guided art crawl hosted by Downtown Spartanburg merchants. Use a Blue Duck Scooter (or your own two feet) to visit local retailers and discover local artists.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
- Take this self-guided tour during retail hours anytime between June 17-July 15, OR participate during ArtWalk from 5-7 p.m. on Opening Night (June 17) or Closing Night (July 15).
- All stores are within scooting or walking distance. Download the Blue Duck Scooter App, or use your own two feet. New Blue Duck users get 10 minutes free ride time by entering code “ART” when they register.
- Pick up a punch card at your first store, and visit a minimum of four stores to win a free t-shirt and qualify to win one of the pieces of artwork from the show!
WHO’S PARTICIPATING:
Fresh Fridays at Hartness will see The Grand Lawn come alive for an open-air market featuring a variety of local farmers, specialty artisans, live music by Spencer Rush and more. Artisans and merchants include The Community Tap, Create A Cutie, Dog Portraits by Natalie, Genevieve Sheridan, Gifted Hands Artisan Soap, Get Naked Bath Goodies, Humble Roots, Jessica Reynolds Art, Mercy Verity Candles, Mill Village Farms, The Nomadik Few, Rivers Peaches, Shwetha’s Jewels, Southern Pressed Juicery, Stoneman’s Bee Farm, Synergy Coffee and ThoroughFARE Food Truck.
This is a free event and tickets are not required. For more information, visit HartnessLiving.com and follow @HartnessLiving on Instagram and Facebook.
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The North Carolina Arboretum is going wild for art and nature in 2021 with Wild Art! On view April 1 through September 26, this outdoor sculpture exhibition features works by 17 local and national artists drawing inspiration from the natural environment. Situated throughout the Arboretum’s spacious, open-air gardens, the show offers guests a doorway into the wild world from the comfort and safety of cultivated landscapes transformed by art.
The 18 sculptures on display represent a variety of approaches to the theme of “wild art,” from the literal to the abstract, and are crafted from a diverse array of materials that will delight and inspire. Let your imagination take you on a wild journey into the world of plants and animals near and far with Wild Art at The North Carolina Arboretum.
The exhibit is available to all guests during normal Arboretum hours, and there is no admission cost to view the sculptures beyond our usual parking fee of $16 per personal vehicle.
Included with admission
A unique-to-Biltmore, large-scale outdoor sculpture will be crafted and installed in Antler Hill Village this spring by Patrick Dougherty. Over the last three decades, this internationally-acclaimed artist has combined his carpentry skills and love of nature to build over 300 of these wondrous works, captivating the hearts and imaginations of viewers worldwide.
Image: Close Ties (2006) Scottish Basketmakers Circle, Dingwall, Scotland. Photo: Fin Macrae
NOTE: This is an example of Patrick Dougherty’s work; the artist will create Biltmore’s unique structure in Antler Hill Village this spring.
artists
Samuelle Green
Liz Miller
We’re dividing our exhibition space in half for two artists to create two large-scale site-specific installations. Each artist will have approximately 1500 square feet to build immersive installations that incorporate and magnify fragments of reality into worlds of fantasy and fiction.
This exhibition is generously sponsored by The Arkwright Foundation, Bagwell Fence, Carolina Alliance Bank, Caroline + Brooks Crenshaw, Susan W. + Russel Floyd, Susu + George Dean Johnson Jr, Vicki + Tom Nederostek, and Margaret + George Nixon.
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Figurative |
| The Artists Collective | Spartanburg is showing off its “collectiveness” June 1 through 26 with its latest exhibition, “Figurative,” in its Gallery II and Gallery III.
The exhibition includes some 30 works in a variety of media by more than a dozen member artists. |
The Blue Duck Art Tour is a self-guided art crawl hosted by Downtown Spartanburg merchants. Use a Blue Duck Scooter (or your own two feet) to visit local retailers and discover local artists.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
- Take this self-guided tour during retail hours anytime between June 17-July 15, OR participate during ArtWalk from 5-7 p.m. on Opening Night (June 17) or Closing Night (July 15).
- All stores are within scooting or walking distance. Download the Blue Duck Scooter App, or use your own two feet. New Blue Duck users get 10 minutes free ride time by entering code “ART” when they register.
- Pick up a punch card at your first store, and visit a minimum of four stores to win a free t-shirt and qualify to win one of the pieces of artwork from the show!
WHO’S PARTICIPATING: