Local artist of the week Tina Christophillis

Visual artist Tina Christophillis says what the world needs is, "Artists, creators, innovators, people who are comfortable with asking questions, real questions, real hard questions.

11/24/2011 BY VIKKI MATSIS VIEW MORE

Q&A with Baird Hoffmire, local artist of the week

Baird Hoffmire is an illustrator, animator, graphic designer and dreamer. His talent is ever-expanding and his artwork is powerful and full of sentiment. He has illustrated more than 20 children's books and has done work for The North Face, Timex, Amazon and BellSouth.

10/27/2011 BY VIKKI MATSIS VIEW MORE

Q&A with local artist Nathan Durfee

The characters in Nathan Durfee's paintings have names, lives and stories to tell. Their emotions run deep.

10/06/2011 VIEW MORE

Local artist Lisa Shimko

Lisa Shimko’s art does not want to be categorized. In her acrylic paintings, foxes climb through windows on oak tree limbs and blue rabbits wear glittering high heels on a throne palace. Paintings are created on wood or canvas and range in size from several feet to a few inches. ...

5/05/2011 VIEW MORE

Torreah "Cookie" Washington

Local quilter does work for Obama and the North Charleston Arts Festival

Torreah "Cookie" Washington's accomplishments go beyond her involvement in the North Charleston Arts Festival. The textile designer was selected as one of 44 Master Art Quilters for a quilt that honors President Barack Obama.

4/27/2011 BY VIKKI MATSIS VIEW MORE

Johnny Pundt answers the tough questions

John Pundt and Trever Webster's opening reception for their show, "Creatures of Habit," is 7-10 p.m. Friday at Muddy Waters Coffee Shop in West Ashley. Pundt is a screen printer. In this art show, he and Webster explore the darker side of life. The show is free.

3/17/2011 Vikki Matsis VIEW MORE

Ceramic artist Betsey Carter

Featured SEWE artist can be found at Cone Ten Studios

Ceramic artist Betsey Carter loves the way things feel, Whether it's clay in her hands or fabric she's sewing, she always has been drawn to the tactile nature of things. Carter is a partner with Cone Ten Studios, now on Morrison Drive. Last June, Cone Ten had to move out ...

3/03/2011 BY VIKKI MATSIS VIEW MORE

Erin Eckman's layered work to line the walls of Greenway Studio

Erin Eckman spent her younger years wandering the halls of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Her first crush was on American artist John Singer Sargent.

2/23/2011 Vikki Matsis VIEW MORE

Koury captures "unusual atmospheric conditions"

Brian Francis Koury loves a cloudy day in Charleston; he says that bad weather is a photographer’s best friend. Koury is willing to pull over on the side of the road to capture an image that will last a lifetime.

2/16/2011 VIEW MORE

Summerville artist creates glass art with sand

Sand and glass artist Lex Melfi is disciplined. Every morning, he gets in his studio no later than 8 a.m. and works until 5 p.m., sometimes working on the weekends and pulling 80-hour weeks if there is a deadline to be met.

2/10/2011 BY VIKKI MATSIS VIEW MORE