Author: Margaret Evans

The Society of Bluffton Artists Gallery welcomes painter Bill Winn and clay artist Sheryl Winn as featured artists from July 6 through August 2. Bill’s moody watercolors, spontaneous acrylics, pastels and drawings form a beautiful chorus with Sheryl’s elegant, yet earthy hand-built ceramics and whimsical kinetic art.

  Paintings and Drawings by C. Steve Johnson
 at ARTworks Local artist C. Steve Johnson, born and raised in Kansas City, MO, has produced a wide range of artwork in a variety of mediums for more than two decades. The focus of his new exhibition at ARTworks, called Open Vision, is a collection of drawings and paintings that explore how we see and think.

The Society of Bluffton Artists is pleased to announce the 2015 Naomi McCracken Scholarship Awards going to two very talented student artists. Each year SOBA awards scholarships to deserving graduating seniors from Bluffton High School who have been accepted to an accredited art college and plan to major in the visual arts.

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.

  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.

  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.”

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.