Jasper Announces Winners of Contributors to 2015 Fall Lines – a literary convergence
On July 13th, Jasper Magazine, with the support of Richland Library, One Columbia, USC Press, and Muddy Ford Press, released the second volume in Columbia, SC’s own literary journal, Fall Lines – a literary convergence. Edited by Jasper’s Cindi Boiter, Ed Madden, and Kyle Petersen, and adjudicated by Madden and Julia Elliott, Fall Lines welcomed […]
Curating Warhol: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Columbia Museum of Art — Story by Kara Gunter, Photos by Jesse Cody
How often do we really consider the work it takes to put together a huge art exhibition at the Columbia Museum of Art, like Marilyn to Mao: Andy Warhol’s Famous Faces? Chances are, not often. And that’s how the curatorial staff at the Columbia Museum of Art wants it. Everyone on staff works hard to […]
In Memoriam: Leslie Pierce
This past Sunday, June 28th, 2015, The Columbia arts community lost one of its best. For nearly two decades, Leslie Pierce, a visual artist herself, worked as a volunteer and staff member at the Columbia Museum of Art, eventually becoming the director of adult programs and partnerships, and became well-known for her passion and dedication […]
In Memoriam: Leslie Pierce
This past Sunday, June 28th, 2015, The Columbia arts community lost one of its best. For nearly two decades, Leslie Pierce, a visual artist herself, worked as a volunteer and staff member at the Columbia Museum of Arts, eventually becoming the director of adult programs and partnerships, and became well-known for her passion and […]
SC Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth dedicates poem to victims of Charleston Shooting
SC Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth reads for the BBC
Arts and the Confederate Flag: Ed Madden’s Evocative Poem “When we’re told we’ll never understand”
On Saturday, June 20th, 2015, thousands of impassioned South Carolinians gathered on their statehouse grounds to peacefully stand shoulder to shoulder and speak truth to power. Three days earlier, a disturbed young man, one of our own, walked into a place of solace in our sister city, shattered its peace, and stole the lives of nine […]
Film Review: Love and Mercy
An effectively stylized glimpse into Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson’s troubled life composing what remains as the arguable pinnacle of the modern American popular music canon, in the brilliant Love and Mercy we find depicted his mid-1960s creative eruption as well as the sad, bizarre interlude twenty years later when the shattered Wilson, his work by then rightly venerated and admired, nevertheless found himself under the mental and […]
Shining Light in the Dark: Caitlin Bright on Culture Shake and the underground arts scene By Haley Sprankle
Every day we are faced with monotonous opportunities. We revel in routine and consistency. We stick to what we know because it’s safe. How often do we challenge ourselves and step outside of our comfort zones? Caitlin Bright, Executive Director of Tapp’s Arts Center, asks Columbia just that with her recent Culture Shake initiative. “We […]
Writing What He Knows — Spotlight on James D. McCallister by Kirby Knowlton
James (Don) McCallister grew up in Kershaw County, where he dreamed of one day writing big, literary novels. Now, a published author and teacher, McCallister has created an entire fictionalized world: Edgewater County, SC, where most of his writing is set. This summer, McCallister returns to his Storytelling Workshop at Midlands Technical College after […]
On Andy Warhol’s Jimmy Carter 1, by Ed Madden
His hand is a fist but it is not a fist. His watch is on the inside of his wrist. Doctors do that, and nurses. But so do farmers. It’s so you don’t scratch the crystal when you’re doing manual labor, doing something difficult. Is this a signal? He is about to do something […]
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