The beginning of a new year can be a great time for a clean slate. Unfortunately, people often use this fresh start to commit to eating nothing but cabbage until they lose twenty pounds. While this is an interesting test of willpower, it will hopefully have worn off by the time you read this article, in favor of just a few more vegetables and a little more walking.
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The Art League of Hilton Head presents Atelier/ABSTRACT opening with an artist reception on Thursday January 5, 5-7pm at the Art League of Hilton Head, Walter Greer Gallery at 14 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head Island. The exhibit runs through January 28. The public is cordially invited. 843-681-5060 or visit www.artleaguehhi.org
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As I intimated in my last column, I am often the victim of great expectations. I tend to idealize all sorts of things in my life, only to crash hard when the ideal turns out to me merely… real. The first step toward curbing this dynamic is, of course, recognizing it. (Check.) The second is maintaining a sense of humor. And I’ve found that if I can write about it, I can usually laugh about it.
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I breathe in the salt air and think, I know what it is like to grow up without the tides. It is like growing up without the change of colors in the trees during autumn. I came to the Lowcountry in tears, grateful and insecure, leaving behind what I knew and cherished forever. Or at least so it felt. I was moving back in with my parents after college.
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Our cover painting is “Story Girl,” by Amiri Farris, first place winner in the...
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Dear L. A. Plume, Last year for Christmas I received a gift certificate for a local restaurant from a colleague. My co-worker used her similar gift certificate and found it was for fifty dollars. Mine, when I went to use it recently, turned out to be for one dollar and twenty four cents.
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A Christmas Wish I have not seen my oldest daughter nor heard a word from her in almost two decades. I, now, would not recognize her if she passed me in the super market. I have seen her once since she was 11. She has not been in touch with my other daughters, my brothers and sisters—with any member of my family since she was 11.
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The Hilton Head Island Wine & Food Festival is proud to present its inaugural Official Poster Competition. Student Artists who are students 18 years or older, enrolled in Art and/or Graphic Design programs of study and residents of South Carolina and Georgia may submit original works for consideration in the design contest for the 2012 Festival Poster.
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With cooler weather comes the start of FWDG’s 21st Annual Coat Drive – and a goal of collecting 4,500 jackets, coats and sweaters to distribute to needy in Beaufort County.
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A joint show featuring the works of fiber artist Kim Keats and fine-art photographer Gary Geboy is as natural as, well, nature. Both are celebrated artists in their genres and they are avid collectors of each others’ work. The show will be both collaboration and continuum – on one end, Kim, constructing works of art from natural elements; and on the other end, Gary, deconstructing nature into elemental shapes, tone and texture.
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