Celebrating our renaming, the Sensational Sigal exhibition presents highlights from the unparalleled musical instrument collection of Marlowe A. Sigal while exploring the life of a man behind this remarkable gift. The exhibition features a broad rand of objects and offers one of the most robust displays of keyboard instruments and wind instruments in the world.

“New Faces 2021: Artists We Want to Know.”
Opening this Saturday March 27th with a (masked) Open House
noon- 7pm (artist reception 4-7) and on view until May 7.
“New Faces” features 10 artists who live and work in Western North Carolina and the Upstate of South Carolina. They are: William Asman, Jennifer Bonner, Katya Cohen, Joan Lesikin, Shaun McCallum, Lisa Shimko, Lisa Steffens, Sandy Singletary, Jena Thomas and Carolyn Wright.
A second show features the charming, nostalgic postcard art of Terry Taylor
Upstairs Artspace regular hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12- 5pm.

GCCA will open their newest art exhibition, Uncanny Terrain, on Friday, April 2nd, 2021 from 1 pm – 9 pm. In Uncanny Terrain, artists Bryce Speed (Tuscaloosa, AL) and Maja Godlewska (Charlotte, NC) paint surreal environments as a means to investigate our relationship with the changing natural world. With abstracted fragments of shape and pattern and color derived from a heightened sensitivity to the environment, the artists help us to reconsider the world around us and our connection to it. Maja Godlewska’s paintings and installations contemplate and defy the instantaneous search for the idyllic landscape. Finding where synthetic and natural realities merge, Bryce Speed paints dream-like environments to chronicle the changing climate as a metaphor for the evolving human self. Uncanny Terrain is sponsored by OnPoint CFO.

The Greer Children’s Theatre is among GCAC’s most popular programs. Each year, GCT performs three musicals or plays at either the Center for the Arts, The Cannon Centre, or the J. Harley Bonds Career Center. GCT boasts the most affordable ticket prices in the Upstate, with adult tickets priced at only $15. During the summer, the performances put on by Camp ARK’s Advanced Camp are free to the public! Auditions for most GCT shows are open to children in first grade through High School.

Celebrating our renaming, the Sensational Sigal exhibition presents highlights from the unparalleled musical instrument collection of Marlowe A. Sigal while exploring the life of a man behind this remarkable gift. The exhibition features a broad rand of objects and offers one of the most robust displays of keyboard instruments and wind instruments in the world.

Begun in 2006, the Open Studios Retrospective is an exhibit of artists who have participated in Greenville Open Studios since its inception in 2002. The exhibit runs in conjunction with Artisphere, Greenville’s premier arts festival, and it allows for greater exposure and awareness of Greenville-area visual artists. It also generates additional interest and publicity for the full-fledged Open Studios event in November.

Due to COVID-19 the event is fully virtual this year but will still feature works in a 12 x 12 (x12) inch format.

www.greenvillearts.com/virtual-gallery

A highlight of the evening’s festivities is the opening of Seven Places, a new Community Gallery exhibition that showcases the work of seven students from Greenville’s Fine Arts Center as they explore the definition of place. From things like place in society to place in evolution, these advanced young artists have banded together to provide a perspective on how high school students view not only themselves but the world around them.

This is a juried Show. Both Judged and Awarded as well as Artist vendors. Categories in both Adult and Youth age groups. Evening Entertainment as well

Celebrating our renaming, the Sensational Sigal exhibition presents highlights from the unparalleled musical instrument collection of Marlowe A. Sigal while exploring the life of a man behind this remarkable gift. The exhibition features a broad rand of objects and offers one of the most robust displays of keyboard instruments and wind instruments in the world.

Join an audience that loves talking back to history to discuss Ann Lowe high society fashion designer presented by Rosylin Weston. When Ann Lowe designed and produced Jacqueline Bouvier’s wedding dress, very few knew her name. No one but her staff knew of the disaster that preceded the delivery of that now-historic wedding dress to the home of the bride. Even fewer knew that she was the great-granddaughter of a former slave.

For any designer, designing the wedding dress to be worn by Jacqueline Bouvier, future First Lady of the United States, for her marriage to John F. Kennedy would be a lifetime achievement. For Ann Lowe, it became a statement. The iconic gown would become the most photographed wedding gown in American history proving that (in Ann’s own words), “a Negro can become a major dress designer.”

No one in the small town of Clayton, Alabama could have dreamed of the heights this little black girl in the Jim Crow South would achieve, but from an early age she recognized her dreams. Armed with a great inner strength and natural talent, she rose above all obstacles and forged her own future.

The event is Free and will feature audience Q & A.

Registration required. https://tinyurl.com/5zc88fjz

After the event everyone who has registered will receive an email with a link to the presentation that will be available for two weeks only.

For more info: HistoryComesAlive.org