The Art of Susan Ellzey and Cynthia Zeiss at BAA Sculpture and Silk: The perfect combination for this summer’s featured artist exhibit at Beaufort Art Association. Now through July 29, “Sculpture and Silk,” the raku art of Susan Ellzey and the silk creations of Cynthia Zeiss will be on display and for sale at their Downtown Beaufort Gallery.
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Artist. Student. Teacher. Entrepreneur. Above all other definitions, LouAnne Barrett has always had the sense that she was meant to be creative. As a girl, she found joy in the solitude of a self-designed studio in the attic of her parents’ home.
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By Margaret Evans, EditorWhen you’re a woman of my rapidly advancing years and particular interests, chances are you’ve ingested the thoughts of so many great minds – again and again – that those thoughts are now part of your own mind, mixing and melding into a kind of spiritual background music, the soundtrack of your solitude.
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Salt gallery hosts formal evening with Jan Spencer. Artist Hank Herring, owner of Salt gallery, plans to invigorate the arts in downtown Beaufort with a formal evening of jazz, blues, R&B and original music performed by popular local singer Jan Spencer.
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Acclaimed Fine Artist Fleetwood Covington Comes Home With a Show at Thibault Gallery By Mark Shaffer Up until now Fleetwood Covington has been something of an enigma – a name attached to the local mythology that precedes me. Mostly I know of him through his brother Vince and sister-in-law, Debbi and a handful of mutual friends with longer histories in Beaufort than mine. Artist, musician and songwriter are among the list of words attached to the name when it comes up in conversation along with another: character. A few days before we’re set to do this interview I mention to a mutual friend that I’m finally meeting the man himself. “You won’t be disappointed,” he says. “That Fleetwood, he’s quite the character.”
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On Saturday, July 25 dragons will invade Beaufort for the 3rd Dragonboat Race Day in conjunction with the 60th Beaufort Water Festival! There will be 30 teams competing for medals during the day, with each team racing three times.
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The Photography Club of Beaufort has announced the winners of the annual Spring Competition, held Monday night, May 11. Judging the event were photographers Ed Funk, Scott Hansen and Phyllis Seas.
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James Scott to Talk About Jimmy Doolittle Raid By Jack Sparacino Get ready for a real treat. James Scott is coming to the Beaufort Library on June 25 to talk about his highly acclaimed new book, Target Tokyo. Mr. Scott brings award winning credentials to town. He is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard and the author of The War Below and The Attack on the Liberty, which won the coveted Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award.
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By Margaret Evans, EditorI was Facebooking with a friend the other day about a phenomenal concert we’d both seen the night before – a performance by the Clover Choraliers, an award-winning high school choir from the upstate – and she mentioned that their first number had brought her to tears. “It brought me to tears, too,” I responded. “And I remained there.”
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By Bill Rauch There’s good news and there’s bad news in the City of Beaufort’s recent proposal to impose a “public safety fee” on the city’s non-profits.
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