Man, I know I created this site for late-breaking news, and this fits that description, but I’d really like a little more notice. I’ve just finished delivering our Nov. 2010 issue of Carolina Arts and I was checking the e-mail and found this. The info came to us from Susan Lenz about her Keys for the City storefront window installation being featured during the First Thursday On Main at the Tapp’s Center for the Arts. It may not actually be an arts center yet, but it is a project headed up by Brenda Schwarz Miller. You can read about Keys for the City at the Art in Stitches blog at (http://artbysusanlenz.blogspot.com/).
The Tapps building is located at 1644 Main Street in Columbia, SC, at the corner of Main and Blanding. The event takes place on Nov. 4, from 5-9pm this month.
Here’s some further info we found at the group’s Facebook page.
Tapp’s Arts Center Project
Join us at Tapp’s to meet artists, view original artwork and enjoy live demonstrations and local music. This month The White Mule will be providing food and a cash bar! We are excited to join Frame of Mind, S&S Art Supply, Columbia Museum of Art and others in this rapidly growing, creativity-filled event series. Our first event at Tapp’s on October 7th was fantastic! We hope that was only the first of many artful events to come!
This month we will “Reveal” the Window Installation Series! Local artists, art groups and businesses will use the Tapp’s windows to create a unique installation of their artwork. This month featured in the exterior windows are Susan Lenz, Amanda Ladymon, Molly Harrell, Mathew John, Amy Windland, Kimberly Bookman, Porter Dodd, Sandra Carr, Southern Pottery and Corley Mill Artists Group. And in the interior windows are Pat Stone, Jefferson Vimana, Alex Smith, Half Moon Pottery and Nancy Kauffman. The windows will remain on display for two months to promote the Tapp’s Window Installation Series and the participating artists.
Other exhibiting artists include: Whitney Lejeune, Jamie Blackburn, Ellin Baskin, Charlotte Lindsey Gaskins, Carolyn McLaughlin, Jean Bourque, Vanessa Bussey, JJ Casey, Cheryl Coble, Brenda Schwarz Miller, Sam Compton, Carol Anderson, Tam Hicks, Jennifer Ghelardini, Benira Sutphin, Val Zaba, Sue Shrader, Rachel Thomason, Howard Hunt, Carolyn Cobia, June Tucarella, Bryce Dixon and Rachelle Brundage.
Also, outside in the “Plein Air Studio” at Tapp’s Plaza get a live view of a clay sculpture demonstration by John Sharp and a wood turning demonstration by Kirk Miller. Inside Carolyn McLaughlin will be demonstrating “gourd-burning”.
Music for November will be courtesy of Johnny Cromer.
For more information on this or future events at Tapp’s please contact Brenda Schwarz Miller at 803/609-3479 or e-mail to (brenda@realworldartisans.com). Become a Facebook fan of Tapp’s Arts Center Project! at (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Columbia-SC/Tapps-Arts-Center-Project/147316798613136).
Tags: Brenda Schwarz Miller, Columbia SC, First Thursday On Main, Susan Lenz, Tapp's Arts Center Project
