Art + Community = Photos from Last Night

Art = good

Community = good.

Art + community = lucky Columbia, SC

Below are just a few photos from September’s First Thursday Gallery Crawl last night. Inspiring art. Joyous faces. Friends. Family. A community of artists and arts lovers that grows in complexity, diversity, gifts, and talent with every event held.

Don’t stay home. Don’t be alone. Don’t be apart from it all; be a part of it all.

Tonight — Cola-Con 2011 featuring Talib Kweli at Columbia Museum of Art

And, First September Art Bar Improve Comedy Players at The Art Bar

And, Whiskey Tango Review CD Release party at 5 Points Pub with The Capitol City Playboys

And, Bey’s Gays — name says it all — at Bey’s 711 Harden Street

And tomorrow — SC Pride 2011 Parade and Festival at Finlay Park

Next Door Drummers with Dick Moons and Lee Ann Kornegay

(L to R), Jasper webmaven Lenza Jolley, Jasper editor Cindi Boiter, Bonnie Boiter-Jolley and Coralee Harris

Natalie Starr Mudd and Terrell Rittenhouse (Terrell modeled for Linda Toro’s show below)

Poster for Linda Toro’s delightfully non-heteronormative photog exhibit at Frame of Mind

Maria Mungo and Ann Smith Hankins

(Maria and Ann — Anastasia’s Mom — helped serve at Anastasia & Friends Gallery – glorious peanut soup prepared by Marvin Chernoff & vino courtesy of Roe Young)

Anastasia Chernoff and Roe Young

Art (Tapp’s Arts Center) by Kirkland Smith

Artist David West & Baby Boy at Anastasia & Friends

Cindi (right) with Columbia Arts guru & dear friend, Jeffrey Day

Artist, Thomas Crouch in Tapp’s Center window

From the Baboon and Wolf Series by Thomas Crouch

(possibly Baboon IV and, if so, now Cindi’s)

From the Baboon and Wolf Series by Thomas Crouch

Tapp’s Art Center Gang featuring Brenda Schwartz Miller

(More from the Tapp’s folks, this time with Molly Harrell, and depicting more of the Crouch exhibit)

Jenny Maxwell with fodder for “Obsessions — A Fine Line Between Collecting and Hoarding” – still on display at the Tapp’s Arts Center, Main Street Columbia

SCA Group — Abstractalexandra

SCA Group – – Joanne Crouch