Pollination
Bees, Cold Wax, and Melba Cooper Oil paint and beeswax are a marriage of content and medium in Melba Cooper’s new abstract paintings inspired by the Honeybee.
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Author: Margaret Evans
That’s So Conroy
By Margaret Evans, Editor In the days immediately following Pat Conroy’s death, I couldn’t write a word. It happened on a Friday night, and by Saturday morning there were already long, comprehensive tributes appearing in publications as nearby as the Beaufort Gazette, as far-flung as the New York Times, and everywhere in between. Lowcountry Weekly was scheduled to go to print the following Monday morning. I’d already written my column – some trifle, or so it now seemed, about the Trump phenomenon – but there was still time to bump it for a Conroy homage. And I couldn’t write a word.
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Bill Mead’s Lowcountry Surrealism
Bill Mead is the featured artist at Thibault Gallery during the month of March. Inspired by the natural beauty of the Lowcountry and possessed of a sardonic wit, Bill is known for what some have called “Lowcountry Surrealism.” He typically combines landscape with still life to create a strangely realistic illusion.
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Bombs Away
Ka-booooom. In this era of political bomb throwing, with negative ads and rancor having sadly demonstrated their grating effectiveness, it is worth considering how we came to so admire the power of a bomb. Or, frequently, clusters of them.
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Beaufort Theatre Company Presents ‘Godspell’
Beaufort Theatre Company will present the iconic and inspiring musical Godspell, March 12, 18, 19 at 7:30 pm and March 13 and 20 at 3 pm at USCB Center for the Arts.
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Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche on Fripp
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in a band with your mother? What if your mother were an accomplished singer, songwriter, performer and author? And your father a renowned singer/songwriter in his own right, much like your half brother and sister?
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Rockapella at USCB Center for the Arts
  USCB Center for the Arts welcomes back the popular dynamic vocal group Rockapella to the Center for the Arts stage for one show only – Thursday, March 31st at 7:30 pm.
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Envisioning 2021 and Beyond
As he prepares for his investiture this month, USCB’s new Chancellor Al Panu is excited about the future of the university. By Margaret Evans, Editor When young Al Panu, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, arrived at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in the early 1970s, he was fluent in several languages. English was not one of them. Thinking back on that time of difficult transition, the new Chancellor of the University of South Carolina Beaufort has a faraway look in his eye. It’s been 40 years, but his memories are vivid.
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Arts Center to Host Youth ArtsFest
 The Arts Center will host the annual Youth ArtsFest in recognition of National Youth Arts month, held from 11am – 1pm and featuring dance and drama workshops, food, drinks, arts and crafts, followed by Island School Council for the Arts’ Rising Stars Talent Competition at 2pm.
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Union Troops to Occupy Beaufort Arsenal
The bark of officers mustering troops for review. The resounding clack of marching boots. Crackling fires. Bubbling cook pots. Mail call. These are just a sample of the sights and sounds that will accompany Union troops as they occupy Beaufort at a Living History Encampment presented by the Beaufort History Museum.
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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
