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UPCOMING EVENTS

E.g., January 2025

EDITORS' PICKS

Arts & Culture
February 1
CHARLESTON POUR HOUSE & REDUX CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER MURAL COMPETITION
In collaboration with Redux Contemporary Art Center, the Charleston Pour House presents this opportunity for select...
Arts & Culture
February 1
“US MARINE CORPS AIR-GROUND TEAM”
In celebration of the National Museum of the Marine Corps’s 250th birthday, The Citadel’s Fine Arts Program hosts this...
Arts & Culture
February 1
STORIES OF AFRICAN & AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AT MIDDLETON PLACE
Learn about the women of color who contributed to the legacy of Middleton Place throughout the centuries during this...
Family
February 1
LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET
This musical adaptation of Matt de La Peña’s acclaimed children’s book follows the curious CJ and his grandmother on...
Dance & Theater
February 1
THE SHARK IS BROKEN
This dramedy from Pure Theatre offers a look at the chaotic production behind filming Jaws. Inspired by true events,...
Family
February 1
OWL PROWL
This moonlit walkabout teaches the behaviors and lifestyles of local owls. Learn about their breeding, feeding, and...
Dance & Theater
February 1
GUTENBURG! THE MUSICAL
The Footlight Players present this two-man comedy that made its Broadway debut in 2023. The show is centered on...
Dance & Theater
February 1
TOM SEGURA: “COME TOGETHER”
An observational stand-up star in his own right, Tom Segura cohosts the Your Mom’s House podcast with his wife, fellow...

ARTS & EVENTS


April 2022
Creating murals that sing with McKenzie Eddy Smith and Elliott Smith of Headspace Murals
See their local projects and find out how they’re encouraging more large-scale works

April 2022
Author Virginia Beach explores the nuanced history of Middleton Place in her latest book, “American Landmark”
Read Stephanie Hunt’s review

March 2022
Charleston’s own Shovels & Rope releases a monster album, Manticore, in time for the return of High Water Festival in April
Read our review and watch a video of the duo sing one of their single “Bleed Me”

March 2022
Get a closer look at fine artist Jen Swearington’s intricate paper-cut sculptures inspired by her new home
Discover why the artist is at a turning point and how she landed on Folly Beach

February 2022
Renée Fleuranges-Valdes’s curvy path to finding her voice as a fine arts quilter
See her work on display at City Gallery at Waterfront Park this month

January 2022
Modern-Day Sweetgrass Basket Stand: How a centuries-old traditional craft is getting a tech boost—and a global audience—from Etsy
One Mount Pleasant basket maker says the Uplift Makers program inspired her to keep up the art form

January 2022
Learn what influences painter Katy Mixon’s abstract work and found out why she wants to reveal her artistic process
See Mixon's work next month when she's the visiting artist at Gibbes Museum

December 2021
How abstract artist Susan Altman was influenced by William Halsey and why she paints without fear
See her latest work at December‘s ”Mixtape” show at Meyer Vogl Gallery

December 2021
In his second book, “Gullah Spirit: The Art of Jonathan Green,” the artist showcases his vibrant vision
See how Green's work has evolved over the past 25 years

November 2021
Why assemblage artist Robin Howard seeks to surprise and delight viewers
See her work this month at Miller Gallery

November 2021
SUSTO’s latest album reflects on life, death, and “Time in the Sun”

October 2021
Opera at The Joe? Meet the couple behind Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera
HALO stages nontraditional performances to bring live theatre to everyone

October 2021
With singer Kanika Moore at center stage, Doom Flamingo channels electric ’80s Miami on its new EP
Why the synthwave band has the pieces needed for “wild success”

September 2021
With New Muse Concerts, violinist Lydia Chernicoff aims to make classical music more accessible
Why she thinks Charleston’s art scene is flourishing

September 2021
A Short History of Charleston: The newly expanded edition examines the decades from Mayor Riley’s election to the Emanuel AME church shootings
Attorney and author Robert Rosen stresses the city’s contradictions

August 2021
See the finalists of our 8th Annual Images of Charleston Photo Contest
And help select the Readers’ Choice Award winner!

August 2021
Get an insider’s look at Charleston society through author Gervais Hagerty’s debut novel
With In Polite Company, she joins the coterie of local women novelists writing beach-worthy reads

August 2021
A Cut Above: Illustrator Sam Sidney attracts a strong following with her colorful felt creations
Find out how her pandemic project led to hundreds of commissions

July 2021
Learn about the legacy of artist Alice Ravenel Huger Smith
Exhibitions of her work are spread from the Gibbes Museum of Art to Middleton Place and the Edmondston-Alston House

July 2021
Author David Rogers’s work of devotion documents the city’s oldest neighborhoods and buildings
It’s part comprehensive reference guide and part coffee-table book

June 2021
Black mermaids and goddesses tell empowering stories on Cookie Washington’s quilts
See her latest work at the African American Fiber Arts exhibit at North Charleston City Hall

June 2021
Charleston Music Hall’s Charles Carmody on the joy of live music and anticipating a full house later this summer
Learn about the successful Around the Bend outdoor concert series and what’s to come

June 2021
Lowcountry author Mary Alice Monroe explores family dynamics in her latest summer release that feels written in real time
The Summer of Lost and Found revists the Rutledge family during a pandemic

May 2021
The 45th season of Spoleto Festival USA will be Nigel Redden’s grand finale as general director, and a curtain call like no other
Learn about the impact he’s made on the arts in Charleston, and around the world

May 2021
Glimpse the minds of four local artists via personal tours of their studios that are as intriguing as they are revealing
Visit the creative spaces of sculptor Herb Parker, painter Rhett Thurman, graphic designer Gil Shuler, and batik and...

May 2021
A Fitting Tribute to beloved late author Dorothea Benton Frank, just in time for beach reading
Fellow writers Mary Alice Monroe, Patti Callahan, and Marjory Wentwoth contributed

May 2021
How photographer Jack Alterman captures Charleston’s people and places in a surprising light
The photographer's latest book juxtaposes images from his 40-year career

March 2021
How artist Whitney Stoddard uses tea-stained paper to create a vintage yet modern look
Learn why she uses bold but minimal brushstrokes

March 2021
Country singer-songwriter Lauren Hall’s upcoming EP could propel her to stardom
Find out how the Charleston native's sound came to life

February 2021
Why painter Mark Horton had his heads in the clouds
The SEWE artist is always looking for silver linings

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