Art In/With Community

Union Pier

By Jean-Marie Mauclet Regardless of the way the State Port Authority was offered the Union Pier property free of any reverter clause, the City of Charleston should regard "this once-in-a-century opportunity" as an opportunity for all citizens, a common opportunity, a...

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Wim ROEFS

Wim ROEFS

It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Wim Roefs, one of 701 Center for Contemporary Art’s founders and always one of its fiercest advocates. He will be missed by everyone who believes in the value of arts and artists for our communities. But most of...

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Gwylene Gallimard with: IN PROGRESS….. ALBUM of DRAWINGS and RECYCLED COLLECTIVE ARTIFACTS dedicated to / perpetuating / honoring / memorizing collaborative ventures and explorations of Art in/with Community.

Gwylene Gallimard with: IN PROGRESS….. ALBUM of DRAWINGS and RECYCLED COLLECTIVE ARTIFACTS dedicated to / perpetuating / honoring / memorizing collaborative ventures and explorations of Art in/with Community.

Who are YOU ALL named or not?... Guess!!! YOU, my co-workers, my mentors, my friends, elders, fellow travelers and family; YOU, who influenced me and whom I may have influenced; YOU in pain, or who have passed away too early or at least before we could converse...

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SOLIDARITY ECONOMY

SOLIDARITY ECONOMY

When in Charleston, pre-covid, Sarah Turquety, with a simple exercise in social awareness, transformed a disparate group of individualists into a cluster of community strong neighbors. Her poetry speaks of solidarity, militancy, family, nature. Her voice is spiced with a ray of sun. She is young and French, an artist living in a region of villages with 200 to 2000 inhabitants, in SW France

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