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Thursday, February 16, 2023
The Gesualdo Six
Feb 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Brevard Music Center-Parker Concert Hall

A love for music is in the air with the all-male vocal group, The Gesualdo Six, and their heralded combination of voices – one each of countertenor and baritone, and two of tenor and bass. Describing their talents as “…skillfully used…” and with “…harmonies so perfectly achieved…” Gesualdo will utilize their abilities with changing tempos and dramatic use of dynamic contrast to woo concertgoers in their first western North Carolina appearance.

THE GESUALDO SIX Bring your Valentine for Mesmerizing Male Voices
Feb 16 @ 7:30 pm
Brevard Music Center-Parker Concert Hall

A love for music is in the air with the all-male vocal group, The Gesualdo Six, and their heralded combination of voices – one each of countertenor and baritone, and two of tenor and bass. Describing their talents as “…skillfully used…” and with “…harmonies so perfectly achieved…” Gesualdo will utilize their abilities with changing tempos and dramatic use of dynamic contrast to woo concertgoers in their first western North Carolina appearance.

The Judds: The Final Tour
Feb 16 @ 7:30 pm
Bon Secours Wellness Arena

Wynonna is bringing The Judds: The Final Tour with Tanya Tucker and very special guest Martina McBride to Bon Secours Wellness Arena!

Spartan Spinner Square Dance Club Open House
Feb 16 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
St. James United Methodist Church

Mark your calendar: Spartan Spinner Square Dance Club Welcome dance/Open House will be held Sep 24 2019 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm at St. James United Methodist Church 213 N Lanford Rd, Spartanburg, SC 29301

House Party: Local Improv Teams
Feb 16 @ 9:00 pm
Alchemy Comedy Theater at Coffee Underground

House Party: Local Improv Teams

 

This show features a rotating line-up of long-form House Teams or students and is always headlined by Haymaker, our Flagship Harold team.

10/6: Crash, a student and player improv jam

10/13: Crash, a student and player improv jam

10/20: Monarch, a monoscene

10/27: Kennedy, a Harold

11/3 & 11/10: New South Comedy Festival Shows

11/17: Monarch, a monoscene

No Shows on 11/24 for Thanksgiving

12/1: Kennedy, a Harold

12/8: Crash, a student and player improv jam

12/15: Monarch, a monoscene

12/22: Crash, a student and player improv jam

12/29: Improv 201 Student Showcase

1/5: Kennedy, a Harold

1/12: Improv 601 Student Showcase

1/19: Monarch, a monoscene

1/26: Crash, a student and player improv jam

2/2: Kennedy, a Harold

2/9: Improv 601 Student Showcase

2/16: Improv 301 Student Showcase

2/23: Monarch, a monoscene

3/2: Kennedy, a Harold

The Alchemy Comedy Theater is back and running shows every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night at 7:30 and 9pm. Downtown Greenville has street parking available as well as several nearby parking garages.

http://www.AlchemyComedy.com

Improv 301 Student Showcase
Feb 16 @ 9:00 pm
Alchemy Comedy Theater at Coffee Underground

Each of Alchemy’s classes are given a chance to show off their improv skills on stage. Come out and support our graduating Improv 301 class

Hosted by the instructor, students in these shows use the skills they’ve learned in either 101, 201, 301, or 401 to play in front of a crowd. Come out and support our training center and see if you have the chops to join us!

al·che·my [ˈal-kə-mē] a power or process of transforming the common into the special

Friday, February 17, 2023
Community Garden Volunteer Opportunity
Feb 17 all-day
Greer Relief

I’M READY TO GROW!

We’ll get in touch with you all once it’s time to put our plan into action.

The Southern Studies Fellowship in Arts and Letters: Culture of the American South
Feb 17 all-day
online
South
The Southern Studies Fellowship in Arts and Letters is a first-of-its-kind and immersive fellowship focused on the culture of the American South. We’ve officially opened applications for year three of the program starting this summer!

This first-of-its-kind program brings one early-career artist and one early-career writer to Spartanburg, South Carolina, for a nine-month fellowship of research, creativity, teaching, and travel, culminating in a collaborative project informed by the region. This program is perfect for those looking to immerse themselves in the culture of the American South.

In addition to focusing on their own creative projects, the Southern Studies Fellows will have opportunities and requirements for educational community service in Spartanburg County; these will include college and high school classroom visits/lectures, readings, open studios, workshops, and projects affiliated with the host organizations. The fellows will be expected to contribute up to 20 hours per week in the following areas: community service, artist-writer collaboration, and out-of-town travel for project research.

A key component of this unique fellowship is the opportunity to interact with leading scholars, artists, and writers throughout the South. Each fellow will have opportunities to travel in the Southern region to conduct research at cultural and educational institutions, which will inform their work and will be critical in the development of their ideas for a collaborative project that expands the understanding of the modern South.

Greenville State Farmers Market
Feb 17 @ 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Greenville State Farmers Market

 

The Greenville State Farmers Market includes retail sheds and farmer stalls that offer a wide variety of locally grown products and specialty goods. Both quality and variety are standards for the volume of products offered for sale at the Greenville State Farmers Market. Market operations continue Monday – Saturday all year long, ceasing for only two holidays: Christmas and New Year’s Day.

Find information about upcoming events and what’s in season at our market’s Facebook page.

 

Office Hours

Monday – Friday  •  7:30 am – 4 pm
Closed on State Holidays

 

Retail Hours

Monday – Saturday  •  8 am – 6 pm
Admission and parking are free
Closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day

CONSTRUCT + ASSEMBLE art exhibit
Feb 17 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Milliken Art Gallery

On February 2, 2023, at 6:00 pm, Chloe Alexander will present a Gallery Talk discussing CONSTRUCT & ASSEMBLE and her art process. The talk will be followed by a reception from 6:30-8:00 pm.

CONSTRUCT & ASSEMBLE will run in the Milliken Art Gallery from February 2-March 2, 2023. Gallery hours are Sunday 2:00-5:00pm, Monday – Friday 9:00am-5:00pm. The Gallery is closed during school holidays.

Art Exhibit: Adrian Rhodes: After the Ravens
Feb 17 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Spartanburg Art Museum

\an exhibition of site-specific mixed media contemporary art.

Adrian Rhodes, (b. 1983, in Logan, Utah) grew up and resides in Hartsville, South Carolina. She received her BFA in 2005 and MFA in 2011, both from Winthrop University. She is the recipient of the SC Arts Commission’s 2020 Individual Artist’s Fellowship and the 2019 SECAC Artist’s Fellowship. Her work has been included in highly competitive group exhibitions at museums and contemporary art institutions in the southeast. Drawn: Concept and Craft at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem presented her work alongside artists including LeRoy Neiman, Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Sarah Sze and Buckminster Fuller. Paper Worlds at the Spartanburg Art Museum exhibited herwork with eight other artists who, according to the curatorial statement, “push the boundaries and capabilities of paper.” 2019’s Coined in the South at the Mint Museum Uptown selected 64 works by 45 artists from a submission pool of 2000 entries, and was a survey of groundbreaking contemporary southern art.

Winner of the 2020 701 CCA Prize from the  701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, SC, she was also featured in the 701 CCA SC Biennial in 2019. In 2017 she was included in two national print exhibitions: the Clemson National Print and Drawing Exhibitionand VAE Raleigh’s Under Pressure. Her work has received numerous accolades including Best of Show/Top Honors at VAE Raleigh’s Contemporary South in 2018, Small Works 2018: A Florence Regional Arts Alliance Juried Showand the Arts Council of York County’s 24th Annual Juried Show in 2013.

Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including Coastal Carolina University, Francis Marion University, The University of South Carolina, UNC Charlotte, USC Beaufort, Jones Carter Gallery and TRAX galleries in Lake City, SC, the Arts Council of York County, and City Art in Columbia SC.

To see more of Adrian’s work, visit her website or follow her on Instagram @adrian_rhodes.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by Davis + Walker Barnes, Michele + Halsey Cook, Misti + Kevin Hudson, Susu + George Dean Johnson, Jr., Vicki + Tom Nederostek, and Margaret + George Nixon.

Art Exhibit: AI + ME
Feb 17 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Artists Collective | Spartanburg
Artist Collective: Pushing Pop
Feb 17 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Artists Collective | Spartanburg

Art Exhibit

Upstate South Carolina Coin Show
Feb 17 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium

53rd Annual Upstate South Carolina Coin Show

Sponsored by The Greenville & Parker Coin Clubs

February 17 -18 & 19, 2023

This Numismatic Show Event Will be Held at the

Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium
385 North Church Street
Spartanburg, SC 29304

UPSTATESCCOINSHOW.COM

Friday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM

*Young Numismatic Program Saturday 11:00 AM*
*Coin Grading Service on site *
*** Public Invited / Free Admission ***

Works by Warhol
Feb 17 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Upstate History Museum

“The idea is not to live forever; it is to create something that will.”

Andy Warhol

 

One of the 20th century’s best-known artists, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) made his name in the early 1960s with paintings and prints of brand celebrities and foods ranging from Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor to Coca-Cola and Campbell’s Soup.  These brash, innovative works are considered icons of Pop Art, a movement that both critiqued and celebrated postwar American consumer culture.  By the end of the decade, Warhol had become a celebrity in his own right, equally famous for his platinum wig and the star-studded parties he threw in his studio, the Factory, as he was for his paintings, drawings, sculpture, and films.

Before spearheading the Pop Art movement, in the 1950s Warhol achieved success on Madison Avenue as one of New York’s most popular advertising artists.  A skilled and inventive illustrator, Warhol won several Art Director’s Club awards for his work on Columbia records LP cover designs, I. Miller shoe drawings, and additional advertising work for Martini & Rossi, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue magazines.

Once his Pop art career exploded in 1962, Warhol focused on silkscreen painting and filmmaking.  He based his paintings on imagery he found in the American mass media: news photos, celebrity head shots, film stills, comics, logos, and advertisements. To convert his source images into paintings, Warhol made them into photo silkscreens and printed them on canvas.  Smudges, misalignments, and inconsistencies were accepted, giving the paintings a handmade appearance.  Sometimes the paintings included a single image, as in John Wayne (1986) and the Endangered Species series (1983).  These became larger-than-life iconic portraits, while those printed in grids, suggested the way that repetition can simultaneously embed an image in one’s memory and deaden its effect.

Works by Warhol, at the Upcountry History Museum, on loan from The Cochran Collection, LaGrange, GA, will feature 36 iconic masterworks by Warhol, dating from 1968 through his last series done in 1986. This once-in-a- lifetime exhibition includes a broad cross-section of examples from Warhol’s storied career.

The exhibit explores Warhol’s responses to major moments in U.S. history, including the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Neil Armstrong’s moon landing, and the perception of Native Americans in the aftermath of the bicentennial of the United States. Also included is Warhol’s entire series of “Myths”.  This body of work was completed in 1981 and showcases Warhol’s lifetime fascination with Hollywood imagery.  “Myths” marks a return to Warhol’s formative encounters with figures such as Howdy Doody, the Wicked Witch of the West, Superman, Mickey Mouse and many more.

Woven / Unwoven
Feb 17 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Spartanburg Art Museum

March 16 – May 31 2023 | tues wed fri 10am – 5pm thurs 10am – 7pm sat 11am – 4pm sun + mon closed


The world of textiles is vast. Every day, we touch dozens of types of fabrics, from our car interiors, to our office chairs, our couches, and our own clothing. Through construction, deconstruction, and exaggeration, these artists explore textiles as a departure point to reach new levels of understanding of fabric, garments, and our relationships with them.

For more information, contact our Associate Curator, Ashleigh Shuler, by email at [email protected] or call 864.582.7616 x 254.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by Davis + Walker Barnes, Michele + Halsey Cook, Gibbs International Inc, Misti + Kevin Hudson, Susu + George Dean Johnson, Jr., Tina + David Lyon, Vicki + Tom Nederostek, and Margaret + George Nixon.

opening reception 3.16.2023 | 5-8PM

Historic Neighborhoods + Architecture Tour
Feb 17 @ 10:30 am
Greenville History Tours

Our city has great architectural examples of styles that span the last 200 years and charming neighborhoods that give them context.

Our downtown is blessed with a selection of historic neighborhoods that encircle our city center, providing a great mix of the progress surrounding the Main Street area with the stability of traditional domestic living. As the young village of Greenville formed in the late 1700s, homes were naturally scattered around the region with large tracts of land tied to them. This tour traces the development of Greenville’s neighborhoods on the North and West sides of the Reedy River, taking you on a pleasant drive to see the variety of architectural styles, hear stories of their home-owners, and understand the role in Greenville’s revitalization.

Tours will take place in a comfortable Ford Transit high-roof tour van. Digital photographs will be shown on a screen to provide insights into the information that you hear from the tour guide. Your tour guide, John Nolan, is a local historian and author of “A Guide to Historic Greenville, SC” and “The Lost Restaurants of Greenville, SC

Highlights include:

• Current downtown condos and apartments

• Pettigru Neighborhood

• Alta Vista / Crescent Ave.

• Augusta Road neighborhood

• Mills Mill village

• Hampton Pinkney neighborhood

Leonardo da Vinci 500 Years of Genius
Feb 17 @ 10:30 am
Biltmore Estate

Explore Biltmore House with an Audio Guide that introduces you to the Vanderbilt family and their magnificent home’s history, architecture, and collections of fine art and furnishings.

PLUS: Immersive, multi-sensory Leonardo da Vinci – 500 Years of Genius exhibition created and produced by Grande Experiences

PLUS: FREE next-day access to Biltmore’s Gardens and Grounds

This visit includes access to:

  • Leonardo da Vinci – 500 Years of Genius at Amherst at Deerpark®
  • 8,000 Acres of Gardens and Grounds for two consecutive days
  • Antler Hill Village & Winery
  • Complimentary Wine Tastings at the Winery
  • Tastings require a Day-of-Visit Reservation, which can be made by:
    • Scanning the QR Code found in your Estate Guide
    • Visiting any Guest Services location
  • Complimentary parking

Art Exhibition: Leonardo da Vinci – 500 Years of Genius

Immerse yourself in the world’s most comprehensive and thrilling Da Vinci experience as his brilliance and extraordinary achievements are brought to vivid life!

Pelham Road Library Craft It: Shrinky Dinks
Feb 17 @ 10:30 am – 11:15 am
Pelham Road Library | F.W. Symmes Branch

Create a fun craft. Supplies provided. Ages 6 – 14.

Part of the event series: Craft It

Audience: Kids, Teens
Category: Arts & Crafts, Homeschool
Biltmore Gardens Railway – Wonders of the World
Feb 17 @ 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
Biltmore Estate

Included with admission

Our latest fun-for-all-ages botanical model train displays invite you to experience the Vanderbilt family’s love of travel and culture in an engaging new way.

Located in Antler Hill Village, these displays feature replicas of iconic landmark structures from around the world, some of which the Vanderbilts visited during their travels. Each beautifully executed piece was handcrafted from such natural elements as leaves, bark, and twigs. This one-of-a-kind, must-see experience is included with Biltmore admission.

Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Friday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.