11.02.07
South Carolina Arts Commission 40 Lists Project
Join in the South Carolina Arts Commission’s 40 Anniversary celebration by adding your favorites to the 40 Lists Project! Visit 40 Lists Project to submit ideas for such lists as:
- an arts organization that has enhanced the quality of life through the arts
- a “non-arts” business that supports the arts
- an outstanding arts educator
- your favorite S.C. writer or poet
- your favorite place to enjoy or buy visual art
- your favorite way to express your creativity
A few lists generated by Arts Commission staff are already posted. Other lists results will be revealed in stages beginning in late November. Don’t miss this chance to have your say about your favorites!
Patricia Adelman said,
December 3, 2007 at 11:00 pm
It would be nice to get information. I am an artist. I think I have worked hard to get where I am! I have an education and yet I feel like there are a select few who get the information, so those select fEW are catered to in this STATE!!!! It is so NICE to get information three days after the fact!!!! There are a LOT of SOUTH Carolina artist that feel this way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE HAVE TO GO OUT OF THIS STATE TO GET ANYTHING OR ANY WHERE!!!!! After that why should we tell anyone we’re from SOUTH CAROLINA?
Marianne Lenti said,
February 9, 2008 at 1:04 am
Patricia, I would guess by now you have found your way to a much higher level of visibility, if only through complaining at a web site. There are so many venues for art today in SC, I can only guess that you have been, for some reason, out of the loop.
Welcome to the loop. As you go about making acquaintances at the Arts Commission, I will share one thought with you regarding what I hope will be your successful career here. The arts world, and I speak as a lifelong musician with more degrees than normal, and an international career, IS EXTREMELY SELECT. We are a distinguished but small group of the population, and words, once spoken, cannot be recalled.
Hard work in the arts can bring nothing but fulfillment. Keep your options open, and when you are frustrated, do not curse the darkness. Go out into the light with your work under your arm, and find whatever exhibit space you can. Good things come from good work. Don’t make any enemies by careless criticism. What goes around comes around. It’s an important lesson to learn, and you cannot learn it early enough.
Wishing you success,
Marianne Lenti