701 CCA hosts Triennial Revisted Aug 18 - Sep 25

Every three years or so SC held a Triennial Art Exhibit featuring on average 35 artists of the 100's that submitted. Since arts funding has been cut so dramatically, the 701 CCA decided to host a show featuring some of the artists that had shown their art during the event over the past 20 years.

The opening reception will be at 701 CCA Gallery Thursday August 18th, from 7-9PM at 701 Whaley St. Columbia, it is free to members and only $5. to non members. The show will be catered and a complimentary signature drink provided by Gervais and Vine (Vista on Gervais St.) and Rosso Trattoria Chef Kristian Niemi.

Information below from the 701CCA website:

Featuring the following artists:

John Acorn (Pendleton), Aldwyth (Hilton Head Island), Michael Brodeur (Greenville), Clay Burnette (Columbia), Jocelyn Chateauvert (Charleston), Stephen Chesley (Columbia) Bruno Civitico (Charleston), Jim Connell (Rock Hill), Debbie Cooke (Greenville), Tyrone Geter (Elgin), Peter Lenzo (Columbia), Elizabeth Melton (Rock Hill), Phil Moody (Rock Hill), Jane Nodine (Spartanburg), Herb Parker (Charleston), Colin Quashie (Charleston), Lee Sipe (Columbia) and Tom Stanley (Rock Hill)

The exhibition is sponsored by First Citizens Bank. With TRIENNIAL Revisited, 701 CCA presents a selection from the five S.C. Triennial exhibitions organized by the S.C. Arts Commission and S.C. State Museum between 1992 and 2004 and shown at the museum. TRIENNIAL Revisited is a juried exhibition that provides a prelude and historical context for the inaugural 701 CCA South Carolina Biennial.

Congratulations to all the artists!

Music at 701 CCA Jan 30 Tiptons Sax Quartet

The Tiptons Sax Quartet, at 701 CCA on Saturday, January 30, show starts at 830 PM. 'With concerts that range from New Orleans “second - line” to jazz, Afro-Cuban to Balkan, klezmer and beyond, this all-female quartet creates some of the wildest sounds ever to come out of a sax quartet. Their dynamic, playful concerts feature high-energy interaction between members, and a repertoire that touches on soulful music from around the world. This event is located at 701 Whaley St. Columbia, SC. The admission is $10. ($8. for 701 members, $5. for students)

701 Whaley St Poetry Reading Sunday March 22

Delight at the renovations sported by the building at 701 Whaley St in Columbia's Mill Village. The turn of the century architectural style of the original building now with a facelift and an interior renovation is worth noting.


(artwork by Jean Bourque
mixed media oil pastels and markers
on paper, c 2005)


At 2 PM on Sunday March 22 their poet in residence Cathy Smith Bowers of Queens University, Charlotte, will be reciting her latest works @ 701 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Poetry reading and book signing; Part of the Working Poems and Stories Series, Artistic Director: Quitman Marshall.
Admission: $5 go to the 2nd floor this Sunday, March 22nd
Cathy Smith Bowers—has "been published in the ...." "The Love that Ended Yesterday in Texas" an award-winner. Cathy grew up in upstate SC and "moved out of it with literature, but always looks back, believing, as she says, that “the essence of our lives is story.” A long-time poet-in-residence at Queens University in Charlotte, she received the Fuqua Distinguished Educator Award there in 2003. "

"Quitman Marshall, a Columbia native living in Beaufort, SC coordinated the Sundown Poetry Series at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in the 1990s, a role which ultimately led to the founding of the Literary Series at Spoleto Festival USA. He's a former chair of the Board of Governors of the SC Academy of Authors and a founding board member of the SC Book Festival. He has published three chapbooks and is currently working on a book of poetry, a narrative and a novel. Marshall has studied across the country with Henry Taylor, Howard Nemerov, James Tate, David Ignatow and Charles Simic. In 1996 he won the Writers Exchange Award sponsored by Poets & Writers, Inc."

About 701 Center for Contemporary Art
701 Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) is a non-profit visual arts center that promotes understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of contemporary art, the creative process and the role of art and artists in the community. The center also encourages interaction between visual arts and other art forms. The Center is located at 701 Whaley Street, Columbia, SC 29201. For more information, visit www.701cca.org. Upcoming in the 701 CCA Working Poems and Stories Series: Earl Braggs, Michael Chitwood, Ron Rash & George Singleton.
For further inquiries, contact info@701cca.org or call 803.238.2351.

Artists for 701 Center for Contemporary Art Meeting

ARTISTS FOR 701 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Calling All Visual Artists

Join Laura Spong, Jeff Donovan, David and Ellen Yaghjian and Mary Glickerson for an artists' event in support of Columbia's new 701 Center for Contemporary Art. The event will take place Sunday, September 21, from 3:00 - 6:00 PM at Laura Spong's on Pinemont Dr, Columbia, S.C. The event will be catered by Southern Way. Several 701 CCA board members will be at the event to talk about the center.

About 701 CCA: 701 will open to the public mid-October with a Grand Gala opening on October 16 and the public opening of the inaugural exhibition, Textile Tales, on October 17. The center has already welcomed its first artist in residence at the renovated 701 Whaley Street in Olympia, Columbia's historic textile mill village. 701 CCA's first resident, Beth Melton of Rock Hill, moved in September 1 and is working on a textile-based installation. Melton is part of the center's inaugural year that focuses on art and residencies that engage the legacy and materials of the textile industry, mill villages and mill workers. She will be in 701 CCA's inaugural exhibition, along with South Carolina's artists Ellen Kochansky, Phil Moody and Scotty Peek.
This information was provided by Mary Gilkerson. For further info contact her 803.799.1368.
www.marygilkerson.com
mary@marygilkerson.com