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SUMMARY:Urban Sketchers Greenville: Exploring Our Communities One Drawing at a Time
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to a special Sift Gallery show in collaboration with AIA Greenville (The American Institute of Architects) featuring Urban Sketchers Greenville! \nUrban Sketchers Greenville is a chapter of the global Urban Sketchers organization. Started in 2022 by three local architects\, Sophia Delgado\, Mollie Greene\, and Edgar Mozo\, Urban Sketchers Greenville has grown to 100+ members. They are a group of artists\, architects\, and sketching enthusiasts who meet regularly to experience the city through drawing. They often invite guest artists to lead short lessons on various mediums like charcoal or watercolor. All events are open to the public and free to attend. \nVisit this exhibit\, “Urban Sketchers Greenville : Exploring Our Communities One Drawing at a Time” featuring drawings\, sketches\, and scenes of our city on display at Sift Gallery (inside McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture) September ~ December\, 2025 — visit during business hours: 8:00am – 5:00pm. \nOpening Reception\nThursday\, September 4\, 2025\n4:30 – 7:30pm \nSift Gallery at McMillan Pazdan Smith\n400 Augusta Street\, Suite 200\, Greenville\, SC \nLearn More\nhttps://www.instagram.com/urbansketchers_greenville\nhttps://www.instagram.com/siftgallerygvl/ \nHome
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/urban-sketchers-greenville-exploring-our-communities-one-drawing-at-a-time-2/
LOCATION:Sift Gallery\, 400 Augusta Street\, Suite 200\, Greenville\, SC\, 29601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Mending A Broken Heart: One Brushstroke at a Time
DESCRIPTION:The next community exhibition\, Mending a Heart: One Brushstroke at a Time\, demonstrates “painting through tragedy\, tears\, illness\, despair\, regrets\, fear\, forgiveness\, courage\, survival\, joy\, hope\, and healing. It is amazing how creative grief and love can be\,” says artist\, Suzanne Accetta. \nThe Opening Reception will take place on Friday\, September 5 from 6-8pm in the Sturgis Gathering Space. All are welcome to come and see the exhibition and meet the artist! The exhibit will be located on the 1st and 2nd floors of the Galleries at First Pres. \nThis Event Runs From Sep 5\, 2025\, 9:00am to Jan 16\, 2026\, 3:00pm Timezone: EST
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/mending-a-broken-heart-one-brushstroke-at-a-time/
LOCATION:The Galleries at First Pres\, 200 West Washington Street\, Greenville\, SC
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="First Presbyterian Church of Greenville":MAILTO:mward@firstpresgreenville.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T080000
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SUMMARY:ART CALL: Inaugural Opening of the “art gallery @ NCC\,” Supporting Cancer Patients + Their Caregivers
DESCRIPTION:ART SUBMISSION GUIDELINES \nWe are your neighbors! The Neighborhood Cancer Connection has supported Greenville’s cancer patients and their families for 60+ years and has thousands of visitors and clients each year. We’re all about connecting and offering support; belonging makes life worth living. We also believe that art lifts the spirit. \nPartner with Us:\nCurrently\, our stunning new building at 113 Mills Ave. is adorned with art donated by local artists. Now\, we have opened a significant and beautiful space for exhibitions: the art gallery @ NCC\, and we are creating a flexible program tailored to you. One or two local artists will be exhibited each quarter; each artist will have three months of exhibition time. \nThe Space:\nYour artwork will be displayed on a total of 41’ of linear wall space in our inviting\, light-filled second-floor mezzanine and hallways. Floor plan with measurements is attached (red lines indicate available wall space). This is a beautiful area ideal for artist receptions and talks. \nThe Art:\nWe seek proposals for art for our 2026 exhibits that align with the NCC’s mission to equip patients and their caregivers for the most successful journey through cancer. We wish to give our clients respite from their challenges and uplift their spirits. We seek original artwork that conveys healing\, wellness\, connectedness\, and/or recovery. \nArtwork selection will be made in coordination with the NCC’s Art Gallery Director Emily Randolph. All work must be 2D and be wired for hanging. \nTerms:\nThere is no submission fee. Your artwork will be made available for sale with 100% of the sale going to and handled directly by the artist. A minimum 30% of sales shall be paid directly by you to the NCC to support the NCC’s mission. We welcome higher donations levels. The NCC will provide a tax donation receipt for your donation. Therefore\, not only do you receive a three-month long exhibition space\, you also receive a tax benefit for sales. \nYou are responsible for delivery and removal of art\, as well as for insuring your work. A contract and damage waiver must be signed\, and NCC will work with you to hang artwork. \nMarketing:\nThere will be an artist’s reception for each exhibit\, which will be promoted on the NCC’s social media\, website and newsletter\, and through the Metropolitan Art Council. We will participate informally on First Fridays as an afternoon event. Events such as an artist’s talk may also be scheduled. As your partner\, we are open to ideas for events. \nCurrently\, the quarterly 2026 exhibition dates are slated for: \nJanuary 20 – April 15 (submission deadline December 5\, 2025)\nApril 20 – July 15\nJuly 20 – September 15\nSeptember 20 – December 31 \nSubmission Details:\nPlease email Emily Randolph\, Art Gallery Director at\ninfo.EMRart@gmail.com:\n– a short paragraph about how your art aligns with NCC’s mission (visit NCCgreenville.org)\n– artist’s statement\n– website address\n– Instagram/Facebook handles\n– Three images that best depict the body of work you wish to display. Under 5MP\, please.\n– Deadline: December 5\, 2025. Notification by Dec. 12th.
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/art-call-inaugural-opening-of-the-art-gallery-ncc-supporting-cancer-patients-their-caregivers/
LOCATION:the art gallery @ NCC\, Neighborhood Cancer Connection\, 113 Mills Ave\, Greenville\, 29605
CATEGORIES:Artist Opportunities,Calls for Art,Calls For Artists
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SUMMARY:SIRENS
DESCRIPTION:SIRENS \nTiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville (TSA GVL) is excited to announce our next exhibition\, SIRENS. This exhibition features work by artists and new Tiger Strikes Asteroid members Michaela Pilar Brown\, Zen Cohen\, Rebecca Forstater\, Hani Le\, and Dana Potter. Through installation and digital transformation\, the exhibition investigates virtual landscapes and the ways environments\, both physical and digital\, are constructed. The artists use the gallery as a site to examine the reciprocal relationship between the digital world and the individual: how digital experiences shape us\, and how we\, in turn\, shape them. The exhibition will run December 5th to January 9th at our gallery located in The Lofts of Greenville and Monaghan Mill. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday\, December 5th from 6-10 pm. \nMichaela Pilar Brown Michaela Pilar Brown’s installation Dancing Time is focused on grief and its relationship to the landscape. It’s an exploration of Black American burial rituals and ancestor reverence. She has chosen material gathered from land occupied by her family for more than two centuries\, where her ancestors lived\, loved and toiled. The primary element uses cedar trees historically planted at grave sites as a symbol of everlasting life\, and includes bones\, reflective material\, sound and moving images to punctuate the deep and abiding connection to the life cycles of the land and the human tendency toward the collection of momentos. \nZen Cohen’s Southern Oracle is an interactive video installation made in response to the acceleration of machine learning\, the magnitude of digital images rendered daily using this technology\, and the role of the human collaborator in this hyper production. The installation utilizes a monitor lying flat on a pedestal underneath a suspended endoscope to perform video feedback. The viewer/participant is invited to infiltrate the video signal by moving their hands under the camera to generate additional feedback currents across the screen. Video feedback requires subtle camera movements for the image to continuously replicate itself and generate complex patterns\, textures\, and color variations. When users interact with their hands\, skin tones generate dynamic variations in color and patterns. This interactivity is further mediated using TouchDesigner\, a visual programming software designed for the installation to mix pre-recorded video clips of different water bodies (oceans\, waterfalls\, and floods). These video clips combined with the live camera\, simulate additional currents or visual occurrences across the screen. Throughout the exhibit\, interactions with the installation will be recorded to produce media files for extracting still frames for printmaking. In total\, the installation and its iterative process of echoing digital images\, functions as a generative machine. \nRebecca Forstater’s {Training_camp} examines the creation of public memory in the current AI-fueled rat race through the lens of pop-culture history. The works from Version 2.0 displayed in this exhibition focus on photographed moments of crisis involving female celebrities in the early 2000s that circulated widely as entertainment through early digital media. Forstater utilizes the materiality of emerging AI software to create these works\, asking the training models to contextualize the past given the algorithm’s present pool of data. The results\, imagery deeply rooted in social and cultural narratives surrounding gender\, serve as a case study of biased ideologies embedded in our digital social consciousness. The objects and videos visualize peculiar amalgamations\, attempting to reverse the uncomfortable\, revealing fleeting instances of progress entangled with societal mistakes\, and shapeshifting into new iterations. \nHani Le’s Ode to the Perfect Unicorn in My DM’s — She is the perfect friend\, she is the comforting big sister\, digital confidant\, the secret you keep in your pocket\, the one to spill all your heartfelt fears to; She is the elusive\, ideal unicorn you are looking for. A virtual stranger that becomes a friend that becomes a confidant then turns into a flattened digital deity whose messages comfort your every woes. This unicorn is an avatar of netizens who fold themselves into the role of the therapist friend\, the always-there friend\, the instant notification bubble of comfort for someone spilling their sorrows. A feedback loop spawns of the sacrificial slivers one shows the internet of themselves—echoed back by the internet denizens who know only that persona—ritualizes these beings into an iconistic form. This unicorn lives a self-condemned existence trapped in an idyllic virtual landscape\, cursed to forever play confidant to all they come across. \nDana Potter’s Am I the Only One Freaking Out Right Now is a video installation presented on a cellphone and TV display. A sequence of screen recordings from TikTok\, focusing on a single\, seemingly mundane product: tubing mascara. Potter collected hundreds of videos of people applying\, removing\, discussing\, and promoting the mascara. The product’s popularity online is tied to its visual appeal in video: the act of removing the mascara with hot water\, produces a black pigment that streaks down the cheeks. Watching someone do this is visually engaging and the action is reproducible. To emphasize this repetition and spectacle\, Potter collages the original screen recordings in repeated and mirrored patterns which mimic kaleidoscopes or fun-house mirror \nAbout TSA GVL\nTiger Strikes Asteroid is a 501(c)(3) non-profit network of independently programmed\, artist-run exhibition spaces with locations in Philadelphia\, New York\, Los Angeles\, Chicago\, and Greenville\, SC. Our goal is to collectively bring people together\, expand connections\, and create community through artist-initiated exhibitions\, projects\, and curatorial opportunities.
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/sirens/
LOCATION:Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville\, 201 Smythe St.\, Greenville\, SC\, 29611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T110000
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SUMMARY:The Holiday Weirdo Market!
DESCRIPTION:Help your artist and small business community Dec 6 by buying your gifts locally! From 11am-4pm at Poe West Greenville\, we will have our last Weirdo Market of the 2025! There will be 70+ vendors of all types set up to share their wonderful items with you! Give a gift that was bought from a local person\, made or curated with love. It would mean so much more to the recipient than something bought from a chain or corporation. Remember\, it’s the thought that counts! You’ll find such interesting gift ideas here. One of a kind pieces. We will also have a lovely band @bennetttollison2235 along with a special surprise band playing for your shopping pleasure! Poe West features several permanent businesses to get award winning chocolate from @laruefinechocolate \, coffee and pastries from @unlockedcoffeeroasters \, a brew and some of the best pizza around from @carolinabauernhausgvl and @sixandtwenty offers food and beverages from their distillery as well. So much to see and do. Make it a special day with friends to do your part in supporting your local arts community!
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/the-holiday-weirdo-market/
LOCATION:Poe West Greenville\, 556 Perry Ave\, Greenville\, 29611
CATEGORIES:Film & Literary Arts,Music,Performing Arts,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Small Works Holiday Show
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Small Works Holiday Show at Thornback Gallery from December 11-14! Find unique\, artful gifts and support over 20 independent artists while you enjoy goodies from our friends at Pride and Joy Provisions and Canvas Coffee! \nThursday\, 12.11 | 6-8pm First Dibs Party!\nFriday\, 12.12 | 10am-6pm\nSaturday\, 12.13 | 10am-6pm\nSunday\, 12.14 | 11am-4pm
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/small-works-holiday-show/
LOCATION:Thornback Gallery\, 201 Smythe Street\, Greenville\, 29611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:GCCA Holiday Vendor Market 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a festive Holiday Market featuring over 60 local artists\, makers\, and small businesses\, plus delicious food and seasonal decorations throughout the historic Brandon Mill! Hosted by Greenville Center for Creative Arts\, this annual event is the perfect opportunity to shop local and discover one-of-a-kind gifts created right here in our community. \nBrowse a wide variety of handmade goods—including fine art\, ceramics\, jewelry\, prints\, textiles\, home décor\, and holiday specialties—while enjoying a warm\, creative atmosphere. With so many unique vendors and treats to explore\, there’s something for everyone on your list. \nKick off the season with creativity\, community\, and holiday cheer at GCCA’s Holiday Vendor Market! \nFree and open to the public.
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/gcca-holiday-vendor-market-2025/
LOCATION:Greenville Center for Creative Arts\, 101 Abney Street\, Greenville\, 29611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251214T110000
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SUMMARY:Camperdown Plaza GVL Arts Christmas Market
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the season in the heart of downtown Greenville at our Christmas Arts Market on Saturday\, December 13th from 11 AM – 4 PM at Camperdown Plaza. \nStroll through a charming holiday market filled with local artists\, handmade goods\, festive treats\, and plenty of cheer. Enjoy a delightful mix of art\, food\, music\, hot chocolate\, and unique gifts\, all set against the cozy glow of holiday décor at the plaza. \nWhether you’re shopping for meaningful presents or simply looking to soak in the festive atmosphere\, this is the perfect way to spend a December day in Greenville. Bring friends\, family\, and that holiday spirit—we can’t wait to see you there!
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/camperdown-plaza-gvl-arts-christmas-market/
LOCATION:Camperdown Plaza\, 20 E. Broad St.\, Greenville\, SC\, 29601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="Camperdown":MAILTO:hello@camperdowngreenville.com
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SUMMARY:Oh Christmas Tree!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second annual Lighted Christmas Glazing holiday workshop! Each item comes with a single lightbulb and plug (Santa and Reindeer) and the others also include colorful plugs.\nUpon registration\, choose from various tree sizes\, a vintage reindeer\, a truck with a tree or Santa. After the workshop\, your piece will be fired and ready to pick up within a week. We have limited spots\, so sign up soon if you want a seat. It’s going to be jolly!
URL:https://www.greenvillearts.com/event/oh-christmas-tree/
LOCATION:Make and Believe Artists\, Younts Center\, 315 N. Main Street\, Fountain Inn\, 29644
CATEGORIES:Artist Opportunities,Calls For Artists,Workshop
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