It’s that time of year again. The heat index is well over 100 degrees, and the humidity is the only topic of conversation. Unpicked tomatoes are rotting on the ground, inviting thousands of flies into our homes and favorite restaurants. And baby Loggerhead sea turtles are hatching by the thousands along South Carolina’s coast. Yep, it’s August. We are in the midst of everything we either love or hate about living in the Lowcountry.
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Fine arts educator to be featured at Red Piano Too’s Annual Summer Art Show. On August 6th, 2011 the Red Piano Too Art Gallery is hosting its 19th “Annual Summer Art Show” from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. This art show is a convergence of the work of over 100 artists and authors from the Lowcountry and other locales. The “Featured Artist” this year is artist, musician and fine arts educator Amiri Geuka Farris, a renowned African-American artist. Amiri’s powerful paintings combine an alluring blend of vivid colors and layered textures that evoke images of Sea Island Gullah culture. His artistic vision introduces us to uplifting moments and insight into his contemporary view of Gullah culture.
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The HH Art League serves up a tasty exhibit The Art League of Hilton Head is currently featuring the Apple Pie Painters at the Arts Center’s Walter Greer Gallery. The exhibit runs through September 3. Each Friday the artists will host a Gallery Talk at 2:00 PM. The public is welcome. Call 843-681-5060 or visit www.artleaguehhi.org “The Apple Pies are a group of artists who enjoy painting together, critiquing each other’s work, discussing art ideas, encouraging each other and sharing meals together,” says Marilyn Dizikes, who is known for her abstract and figurative works.
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The other night, my daughter and I rode bikes down to Pigeon Point Landing, as we often do after supper. It was Amelia’s tenth birthday, and all of nature was celebrating as we took our usual spot on the pier. The sun was a nectarine hanging low on the horizon, squirting juicy pink streaks across an iridescent sky. The wind on the marsh was almost autumnal – whipping the water, stirring the Spanish moss, bathing us in blessed cool. We dangled our feet, waiting for the dolphins to make their nightly appearance, a chorus of cicadas serenading us from the trees. I hugged my daughter to my side, my heart full of wonder and gratitude. Everything was perfect. Except…
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Where tradition begins with community My style of writing was recently described as “spirited.” I guess once a cheerleader, always a cheerleader. But now, instead of rooting for my athletic peers, I choose to cheer for my adopted town of Beaufort and its neighboring islands. I communicate my thoughts and aspirations, my will to win and my acceptance of loss through writing now, as opposed to chanting to crowded stadiums and gymnasiums. But the goal is still the same. I hope to make people appreciate the institution of community.
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“Anxiety-free” mammograms and more at Beaufort Memorial’s new Women’s Imaging Center. Time for your annual mammogram? No worries. Beaufort Memorial Hospital is turning the dreaded breast check-up into a relaxing, anxiety-free experience with its new Women’s Imaging Center.
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We asked our Facebook friends: What’s your favorite Water Festival event – official or unofficial – and why? Charity Brancho: Do I have to choose just one? Bunny Stange Bohannan: Anything that can be done from my boat!! Becky Beach Romero: My family comes down from Columbia every year to watch the parade with us. The kids love the Shriners little red cars & getting squirted with the guns on the floats:)
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Penn Center launches new series celebrating South Carolina History through the arts The York W. Bailey Museum at the historic Penn Center proudly presents the debut exhibition of “The Beaufort Basket” by sweetgrass basket maker Jery Bennett-Taylor. This is the first in a series of exhibits celebrating Gullah traditional art in South Carolina This exhibition of ten original pieces is the first revival in Beaufort of the 300-year old native island coiled “work” basketry once practiced by generations of slaves who transported the craft from Africa.
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As you may have noticed, from time to time I make an executive decision to publish a classic from my archives. (That’s French for “retread.”) Normally, I do it when I’m on vacation, and have neither the time nor energy to produce one of the lengthy, mind-sapping, soul-sucking manifestos I refer to euphemistically as “my column.” This time, I’m doing it just because I want to. As I was musing about the end of the Harry Potter era – currently playing out in a theater near you – I revisited a column I wrote back in 2007, while breathlessly awaiting the release of the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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The rising country superstar is headed to the Beaufort Water Festival The rugged sound of steel guitar and fiddle, the images of fields and farms, allusions to heartbreak and hard work… You can’t miss the fact that Lee Brice is country all the way. It’s in his voice – think of it as honey trickling through lines of melody etched in leather – and in the images it conjures, of “country girls and redneck boys” anticipating the night to come in the sunset glow of a Dairy Queen (“Sumter County”), of growing up “on the edge of a cornfield” (“Picture of Me”).
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