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In this episode, we delve into the creative world of Thomas Hicks, a rising multidisciplinary artist who seamlessly blends photography, mixed media, and sculpture. Through his work, Thomas demonstrates that art is an ever-evolving conversation—one where reuse, remixing, and reimagining old ideas lead to new stories. Building on themes introduced by our first guest, Ty Davis, we see how generational shifts have reshaped how artists approach their craft. Where Ty once felt a tinge of shame for painting over an old piece, Thomas boldly reuses and reinterprets materials without hesitation—reflecting how younger generations embrace art as a fluid, living process. We explore: How Gothic art, vintage photography, and found materials inspire Thomas's creations. The power of reworking and remixing, challenging traditional notions of "finished" art. His evolving creative process and its intersection with themes of preservation and decay. Why art history is both a guide and a starting point for innovation. Thomas's perspective invites us to let go of old stigmas and embrace the infinite possibilities that come from reworking what we already have. Thomas Hicks is a multidisciplinary artist from Greenville, South Carolina, currently completing his senior year at the College of Charleston. His work draws on themes of connection, spirituality, and transformation, using materials like vintage photography, textiles, and pastels. Thomas has exhibited at Redux Contemporary Art Center, the Halsey Institute's Young Contemporaries, and beyond, crafting art that reimagines the past for the future. Follow Thomas: Instagram: @th.hicks In THE club WE ALL CREATIVE XOXOX @susartclub hosted by @rabidlegion
On today's show: 1. Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art website - https://halsey.cofc.edu 2. Halsey's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/halsey_institute This episode's music is by Tyler Boone (tylerboonemusic.com). The episode was produced by LMC Soundsystem.
Episode No. 610 features artist Dyani White Hawk and curator Kelly Montana. White Hawk is included in "Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America" at the African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition presents new works that examine the question, "Is the sun rising or setting on the experiment of American democracy?" The exhibition was organized by a six-person curatorial team and is on view through October 8. White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) makes works multiple media that often foreground Lakota art forms and cultural knowledge and blend both Native American and non-Native interests and art histories. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver and the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston. She's also been in group shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Ark., and more. Montana is the curator of "Si Lewen: The Parade" which is at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston through September 3. The Parade is an epic narrative that unfolds across 63 drawings. Lewen, a Polish-born immigrant who lived and worked in New York and Pennsylvania, witnessed the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 while serving in the United States Army. In the 1950s he published a graphic novel that responded to the horrors he encountered as part of his war-time experience. This exhibition is the first in the United States to bring together the complete set of works from The Parade.
Charleston, South Carolina is the best city in the world and one of our country's most desirable places to live. From the history & culture, to the beaches & shopping, to the restaurants & real estate... Charleston has something for everyone! Our mission at Lively Charleston is to tell the stories of the amazing people, places, and businesses in our city. In this Lively Charleston Podcast episode we're sitting down with Director & Chief Curator of the Halsey Institute Katie Hirsch and Transmedia Artist & NYU Professor Carla Gannis. Carla's work is currently on display at the Halsey Institute through July 15th. Carla's exhibition wwwunderkammer is a real-world manifestation of her ongoing project of the same name. The ongoing project consists of different “chambers” that focus on specific aspects of our contemporary life that explore what it means to be a human in the age of the internet while also endeavoring to make information and knowledge accessible to all. Website: halsey.cofc.edu Instagram: @halsey_institute Carla Gannis Instagram: @carlagannis Twitter: @carlagannis Linkedin: carlamgannis If you'd like to watch our episodes rather than listen, check out Lively Charleston on YouTube! See this episode HERE. Make sure to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode! And follow us on Instagram: @livelycharleston
In this episode of Speaking of … College of Charleston, CofC's official podcast, Katie Hirsch, director and chief curator at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston, speaks with Stolle, whose exhibition Only You Can Prevent a Forest, is on view at the Halsey through Dec. 10, 2022.Kirsten Stolle is a visual artist working in collage, text-based images and installation. Her research-based practice is grounded in the investigation of agribusiness propaganda, food politics and biotechnology. Stolle was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1967, lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for 19 years. She currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the San José Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Show Notes:0:47 - Water Valley, Mississippi1:20 and 1:27 - Yalobusha County4:51 - University of Mississippi4:57 - BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) 5:29 - Benny Andrews6:41 - Coulter's 10' x 8' piece with sculptural elements9:19 - Walmart14:07 - Example of Coulter's work framed16:59 - Running stitches20:54 - Piecework Collective Girls in New York21:52 - Coulter's quilt show in Halsey, South Carolina, Raw Materials of Escape21:53 - Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, South Carolina23:51 - United States Artists23:54 - United States Artists fellowship24:15 - Mississippi Museum of Art24:16 - Mississippi Museum of Art fellowship 24:55 and 25:46 - Water Valley, Mississippi27:20 - Coulter's Instagram doll quilt sale 28:05 - Coulter's 12 quilts, 1 a month sale 28:24 - Coulter's concept behind the sale of her doll quilts 28:51 - West Georgia31:12 - Rail Fence traditional quilt block32:00 - Coulter's current exhibition in Southside Gallery, My Love For You is Deathless32:02 - Southside Gallery32:06 - Coulter's, My Love for you is Deathless exhibit32:12 - Fabrica quilt by Coulter32:35 - River Raft Quilts 32:37 - The Midway Quilts 32:38 - Raw Materials of Escape Quilts32:51 - Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, South Carolina33:40 - Singer Simple33:41 - Walmart35:41 - Megan Patton of Doe Quilts (@DoeQuilts)35:54 - Cathy Fussell 36:39 - Roderick Kiracofe36:41 - Marjorie Childress36:44 - Example of one of Barbara Brackman's Facebook groups37:05 - Coulter's River Raft quilts 37:55 - Carole Harris Textiles (@caroleharristextiles)37:58 - Detroit 38:20 - Samantha Haring (@Samantha.Haring)38:25 - Cincinnati 38:32 - Realist paintings38:52 - Carolyn Drake (@drakeycake)Follow Coulter:Instagram - @coultyalohttps://www.coulterfussell.com/Follow us:Amanda: @broadclothstudio https://broadclothstudio.com/Wendy: @the.weekendquilter https://the-weekendquilter.com/Anna: @waxandwanestudiohttps://www.waxandwanestudio.com/Quilt Buzz: @quilt.buzzhttps://quiltbuzzpodcast.com/Intro/Outro Music:Golden Hour by Vlad Gluschenko
L'arte del disegno può contribuire a comunicare la scienza e documentare le specie in modo da non perderne la memoria? Lo scopriremo cercando di tracciare un percorso inedito e stimolante tra scienza e arte, partendo dalle suggestioni dei disegni di una tavola parietale scientifica, strumento didattico in uso nelle università e nelle scuole di tutta Europa, tra Ottocento e Novecento, e passando attraverso le voci di chi abita i laboratori di biologia e mescola ricerca scientifica e attività artistica, mettendo quotidianamente nuovi disegni e nuove immagini al centro delle proprie attività.Ci accompagnano in questo viaggio Marco Oliverio, zoologo; Luigi Suglia e Marzia Munafò, biologi ed illustratori scientifici; Maurizio Mei, entomologo e disegnatore. Le voci narranti sono di Elena De Carolis, bibliotecaria, Margherita Martinelli, studentessa di Ecobiologia e Davide Marzi, ricercatore.Le interviste sono state registrate presso RadioSapienza, con la collaborazione di Andrea Pranovi. Il podcast è stato scritto da Elena De Carolis e prodotto e montato da Benjamin Cucchi.Fonti e creditiTavole parietali scientifiche. Collezione digitale a cura dell'Università di Padova, 2014Echinoidea, Zoologische Wandtafeln von Prof. Dr. Paul Pfurtscheller [1902-1911]Università di Padova, Biblioteca Biologico-Medica "Antonio Vallisneri" (licenza CC BY-NC-SA), https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/collections/tavole_didattiche_scienzeLe tavole parietali del Dipartimento di Biologia, a cura di Graziella Buccellati, Università degli Studi di Milano, 1997Associazione Giovanile Laboratorio11, https://instagram.com/associazione_laboratorio11/Cheryl L. Ames, et al., Cassiosomes are stinging-cell structures in the mucus of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana, Nature Communication Biology, 2020, doi: 10.1038/s42003-020-0777-8https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-0777-8John D. Barrow, Le immagini della scienza. Cinquemila anni di scoperte: una storia visiva, Mondadori, 2009La mosca, film di David Cronenberg, 1986Niccolò Falchi, 20 ritratti disumani. Catalogo della mostra, Museo dell'Arte Classica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 2019Hitnes: The Image Hunter: On the Trail of John James Audubon, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston USA.DNA, musica di Ludovico Einaudi, Marco Decimo, 2004Sigla: Jacopo Mengarelli
We talk about the fascinating photographs of Namsa Leuba and what we learned from her recent online conversation with Nomusa Makhubu, organised by London's Photographers' Gallery. See links below. http://www.namsaleuba.com/ Artist Talk: Namsa Leuba, Photographers' Gallery, London (12 October 2021): https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/artist-talk-namsa-leuba Miss Rosen, ‘Namsa Leuba's kaleidoscopic photographs explore the politics of the gaze', Dazed (13 October 2021): https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/54348/1/namsa-leuba-kaleidoscopic-photographs-explore-politics-of-the-gaze-crossed-looks Namsa Leuba, ‘Crossed Looks', Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at The College of Charleston (27 August – 11 December 2021): https://halsey.cofc.edu/main-exhibitions/crossed-looks/ Helen Jennings, ‘Namsa Leuba', Nataal (2016): https://nataal.com/namsa-leuba Esther Mahlangu, South African History Online (2015/2021): https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/esther-mahlangu
Mika speaks about her own experiences working in the South as a Black woman and challenges the ways in which Black women's labor is often consumed and marginalized. Episode also includes audio clips featuring author Saidiya Hartman, Eve Ewing, Dr. Brittney Cooper and Rihanna. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/books/wayward-lives-beautiful-experiments-saidiya-hartman.html Saidiya Hartman at the Hammer Museum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGxZQ3Py4-A&t=821s Greenville Ordinance for Negro Women: https://twitter.com/BaelockHolmes/status/1077006002392834053 Katrina Andry at the Halsey Institute: halsey.cofc.edu/main-exhibitions/katrina-andry/ New to the Pod, check out this previous episode: bit.ly/ImmigrantDetentionInChas Please Favorite, Share, Rate and Subscribe! We run on love & community support: bit.ly/SupportCAN , $mikagadsden on CashApp Get exclusive content by supporting this podcast via Patreon: patreon.com/ChsActNet Follow the Charleston Activist Network on Social Media: FB: @charlestonactivistnetwork IG: @charlestonactivistnetwork Twitter: @ChsActNet Email Mika: Tamika@charlestonactivistnetwork.com Website: www.charlestonactivistnetwork.com
On today’s episode Hilary sits down with Cinelle Barnes, essayist, memoirist, and author of the recently published “Monsoon Mansion." Books have been the one constant in her life—through her tumultuous childhood in the Philippines, her years living as an undocumented immigrant in the New York City, her time as a new bride living in the American South, and as she completed her MFA program and began writing about her secrets. Barnes is also an AWP Journal Intro Award nominee, a Kundiman Creative Non-Fiction Intensive Fellow, a VONA/Voices alum for political content writing at the University of Pennsylvania, a presenter and panelist on Diversity in Literature at the Creative Writing Studies Conference at Warren Wilson College, a founding member of the C.D. Wright Women Writers Conference, a screener for WILLA: Women Writing the American West, and the incoming writer-in-residence at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Literary Hub, Buzzfeed, South 85, TAYO Literary Journal, Skirt!, West Of, Your Life Is A Trip, the Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Series, and Hub City Press’s online anthology, Multicultural Spartanburg. Her first book, Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir, arrives in May 2018 from Little A/Amazon Publishing. Barnes teaches writing workshops throughout the year, including Poses and Prose, a yoga + writing workshop. We explore these hot topics! The beautiful, albeit complicated, process of writing a book The discipline of writing daily for hours each day, and how much of her book was written with one hand while holding and breastfeeding her daughter The power of the 3x5 index card The necessity of play “Let’s go back to the beginning” as a tool for breaking down breakdowns! The pursuit of long term goals, like writing a book that took over 5 years to reach publication ;) Connect with Cinelle Barnes: Website “Monsoon Mansion” Connect with Hilary Johnson and Hatch Tribe: Website Members Circle Instagram Facebook
In this season finale of Spoleto Backstage , Jeanette Guinn talks with the stars of The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk , Marc Antolin and Daisy Maywood. Victoria Hansen speaks with Geoff Nuttall, artistic director for the Spoleto Chamber Music Series, about working with local schools to introduce classical music to students. Then, Christian Orendt , one half of the artistic duo behind The Carrion Cheer: A Faunistic Tragedy on display at The Halsey Institute, explains the in between of life and death.
Renee Stout is a visual artist who explores the mystical and rhythmic planes of existence. Her assemblages combine painting, sculpture, found objects, vintage photographs, ancient symbols, herbs and potions, and remnants of stories and letters. Her mixed-media, multi-sensory installations delve into spiritualism, soothsaying, magic and spells. She creates fictional narratives with imaginary characters derived from alter egos that trace her personal history and address contemporary issues of community strife and healing. Her work has been exhibited internationally and at the National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African Art, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Smithsonian Institution American Art Museum. Renee is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. This episode is perfect for anyone interested in the conjuring of mystical powers and the life of a contemporary visual artist. IN THIS EPISODE Renee explains her art and what viewers would see at one of her exhibits. She shares what she wants viewers of her art to feel and the story she is telling. She reveals the role alter egos play in the construction and presentation of her work. She discusses what herbs, roots and found objects have to do with her art. She explains who Fatima Mayfield is and the conjuring of supernatural forces. Renee talks about connecting with spirits and interventions from other dimensions. She discusses moments of possession and the role music plays in her work. She tells a story about when she cast a spell of her own. She reveals who exactly are Madame Ching and Dorothy. Renee talks about how the relationship of her parents affected her and the burden and benefits of being sensitive. She shares what it was like growing up in Pittsburgh and key advice she received from her father. She tells the story of an early encounter with art that changed her life. She discusses how she feels about the label 'black art' and being known as a black artist. She talks about her breakout exhibition and what people don't know about the life of an artist. Renee shares what she is working on now, whether her art is where she wants it to be, and what spell she would cast on the world. After the conversation, host Mark Peres adds a personal word that begins this way, "When I hear Renee Stout talk about spirits and music and spells, I'm brought back to the street of Rio de Janeiro watching African-Brazilian women in white crinoline dresses..."
Karen joins us in the studio to discuss the personal tragedy of her long term partner committing suicide, and how that led to the unexpected 'death of herself' as well. We talk about her ditching pharmaceutical school to follow her passion to be a full-time artist. An incredibly talented painter, she moved to Charleston to become the executive director of REDUX Contemporary Art Center, then became an associate director at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. We talk about moving towards a life where everything she does is in alignment - and how the death of her long-time partner has her contemplating moving away from the female figure as a subject and instead painting her succulents.
This video accompanies the exhibition entitled, Rebound: Dissections and Excavations in Book Art. Curated by Karen Ann Myers, Assistant Director of the Halsey Institute, Rebound brings together the work of five mixed-media artists from around the world who, using books as a point of departure, sculpt, scrape, bend, and carve to create astonishing compositions. Doug Beube, Long-Bin Chen, Brian Dettmer, Guy Laramée, and Francesca Pastine transform various types of literature and/or printed books through sculptural intervention. The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art commissioned Rebound artist, Long-Bin Chen, to create a site-specific sculptural work that is on view in the Rotunda of the Marlene and Nathan Addlestone from May 23 -- October 12, 2013. Chen created the work during a residency (May 1 - 23, 2013), using books from the Charleston community. College of Charleston students Tommy Fox and Jordan Fowler, and sculpture studio technician Michael Morrison were Chen's studio assistants during the residency. The Friends of the Library at the College of Charleston are sponsors of Long-Bin Chen's residency and installation.
Mark Sloan has been the Director and Senior Curator of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston since 1994. The Halsey Institute is a multi-disciplinary, non-collecting contemporary arts museum, with an emphasis on emerging and mid-career artists from around the world. In his twenty-eight year career he has organized hundreds of exhibitions, ranging from contemporary Japanese installation art to 19th Century Baluchi tribal weavings. Several of his exhibitions have traveled to institutions such as the High Museum in Atlanta, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Presentation House in Vancouver, and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. He has authored or co-authored twelve books on subjects ranging from Russian conceptual art to early twentieth century circus life. He is also an active visual artist whose works have been exhibited, published, and collected internationally. Watch a video of a recent Halsey Institute exhibit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLIJuQSOJis