Still Life Challenge

Art Central artists interpret this lovely still life by Detta Cutting Zimmerman for a future Third Thursday.
Tastes and tulips? Apple a Day? Red White and Blue? Which view will each choose?

KING CAKE at ART CENTRAL'S 3RD THURSDAY

With a Mardi Gras flourish, artists Sarah Kuhnell and Renee W. Bruce serve the last tidbits of King Cake at Art Central's February Third Thursday event.
Did you pull a good fortune? Visit www.artcgalleryltd.com to download a copy of this delicious recipe.

Photography Exhibit Now on View at Summerville Town Hall!

Congratulations to June Peel Sullivan on a well-earned ribbon for "Tri-Colored Heron" in the second ABCC Town Hall Photography Exhibit.

Given with a Heart!

"Ocean Breezes" (watercolor) by Helen K. Beacham


The "Heart Ball" raises funds and awareness for a great cause each year. When you attend this year's gala event in Charleston, be sure to bid high on Helen Beacham's "Ocean Breezes"!

Spring is on it's way! The daylilies are sprouting, the birds are singing. Even the groundhog says spring will come early. I'm ready!

This Week!

Happy Valentine's Day!
What a beautiful start to a busy week!

Art Central joins the Mardi Gras Parade to celebrate downtown and Love You Back Summerville! for Third Thursday, February 17th, 5-8 p.m.

More bells and whistles! More ruffles and drum rolls!!
Ticket sales open soon for the
3rd Annual Art Central On Wheels for
Meals On Wheels of Summerville Studio Tour!
Save April 16th, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and visit Art Central for your ticket.

Thank you to Helen Beacham, Christine Crosby, Yvonne Rousseau, and Sarah Kuhnell for contributing prints to be auctioned at Summerville Rotary Club's Gift of Life campaign during the month of February. Your gifts will help provide life-saving surgeries to children of third world countries who would otherwise have no other options. Summerville Rotary Club (summervillerotary-clubs.org) conducts a Gift of Life (http://www.giftoflifeinternational.com/pages/index.php) auction each February during its weekly meetings. At incipiency MUSC and it's staff was the only participating hospital conducting heart surgeries. Now there are three additional hospitals throughout the state and the scope of the surgeries has been broadened to include other areas, such as burns. Rotary's contribution to the project has been to provide for a relative to travel with each child. Often parents stay in the homes of local Rotarians during the children's hospitalizations. Art Central has been a contributor to this project for several years by donating photography, prints, and originals for auction.

Art Central Artists Are Winners!

Five Art Central artists have taken home ribbons from the Summerville Artist's Guild 2011 Judged Show, including the "Best of Show" winner, Kathleen Wiley. Pictured here are (l-r) Kathleen Wiley, Mary Ann Bridgman, Detta Zimmerman, Delaine Walters and Sarah Kuhnell. Visit the Dorchester County Library at 76 Trolley Road, Summerville, to see all the great paintings. The show continues through February 11, 2011.

First Summerville Town Hall Art Show

An Honorable Mention Award was given to Bette Lu Bentley-Layne for her painting entitled "Dancing For Joy" . The show hung in the new annex for most of December and January. The new exhibit beginning in February will showcase photography.