Image for Flowertown Festival 2011

Artist Kathleen Wiley's oil painting of a white water lily has been selected as the image for the 2011 Flowertown Festival. Consistently ranked one of the Top 20 events in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society, the Summerville Family YMCA Flowertown Festival has been a Summerville, South Carolina tradition since 1971. The three-day event features over 200 jury-selected artists from throughout the country who display their work for sale on the beautiful grounds of Azalea Park and on Main Street. Festival attendees also enjoy delicious foods from local restaurants at the Taste of the Town, fun activities and rides for children at the Children’s Jubilee and free admission and parking.

Save the date now! April 1, 2 and 3rd 2011.
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August Featured Artist- Alexandra Kassing

The featured artist this month is Alexandra Kassing. Her newest works are oil paintings painted with a palette knife and inspired by her trip to Europe this summer. The paintings have vibrant, lively colors and a wonderful impasto texture. The first painting is a poppy field in Spain. Other scenes are from France and England.

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Judy Jacobs Jewelry for Team in Training

Our very talented jeweler- Judy Jacobs is training for a half marathon to raise awareness and money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. During the month of August Judy will be donating 100% of her sales from Art Central Gallery in Summerville and Courtyard Gallery in Charleston. Visit her page @
http://pages.teamintr...aining.org/sc/diswine10/jjacobsza9 for more details.

11 Years and Pushing the Limits!

Art Central recently celebrated 11 years! Here are a few photographs from the reception. We had a wonderful evening of wine, live music from Steve Jacobs and catering from April Agren. Door prizes of wine, chocolates and gift certificates to Firewater Grill were awarded in a drawing at the close of the evenings festivities. We would like to thank everyone who attended and participated in making this event a memorable occasion. We would also like to thank everyone for voting in our People's Choice and Favorite Artist. After all the votes were tallied the favorite artist was Helen Beacham and the People's choice for favorite art was Kathleen Wiley's oil painting "Auspice".

Sarah Allums Kuhnell's Portrait Demo

On September 3rd Art Central artist Sarah Allums Kuhnell gave a portrait demonstration in pastels to the members of the Summerville Artists Guild. In a very short time she skillfully demonstrated gesture drawing, blocking in values, and the creative use of colors in the pastel medium. The model for the portrait was Art Central artist Kathleen Wiley.

Sarah will be offering a Portrait Workshop through the Summerville Artist Guild in January.

Last Art Walk of 2009

Mark your calendars for September 17th. This is the last Art Walk of the year on Short Central. We hope you can join us from 5pm-8pm for an evening of Art, Wine and great music! The band in the photo shown is the "Josh Padgett Band" from our July Art walk.

Beacham wins 1st Place for Watercolor

On Thursday, May 14, one of Art Central's artists, Helen K. Beacham, took 1st Place for her watercolor painting entitled NOT "on edge" at the Community of I'On Artists Guild's Spring Show. A total of 152 paintings were submitted to this prestigious exhibition. NOT "on edge" is part of Beacham's "Barefoot..." series, and the painting is currently hanging back at Art Central Gallery for the remainder of the month.