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Jailbreak 5 Charleston

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jailbreak logoOn Saturday November 16th, I attended Jailbreak Arts & Music Festival. It was my first year attending the event. I had heard about previous years and always thought a party at the Old City Jail would be awesome. Redux also had a screen printing station set up there that I helped with earlier. Seemed like everyone really chipped in to make this happen. They had Redux there, food trucks, Holy City sponsoring the beer, Charleston Dance Alliance, and DanceFX, a lot of support. Entropy Arts, the American College of Building Arts, and Ear for Music financed the  majority of the event.

I got there early to help Redux set up. It was also my friend Mikey’s birthday, he is a bit of an old man at heart so we got to see a lot of the early comedy. I am not the biggest fan of stand up comedy or I guess my standards are set high, but Jeremy McLellan was really funny, his awkward stage presence made his act. It was great to see all of these mediums of art coming together for 6 hours or so, something I haven’t seen since Spoleto. I, however, was more interested to see the music. I had never seen SLO before. I know most of the guys in the band and know they generate a good bit of hype I had just never had the chance to see them. I thought it was great, not what I expected at all. I was expecting a reggae feel  by their personalities but I was way off. I was also very interested to see MindRobber as well. I was intrigued by the video they posted on Jailbreak’s website so I had to check it out. I have a deep seated appreciation for electronic music. And his set up reminded me of some basement parties in Detroit. It wasn’t great but it was so fun to watch him work all of his gear. His set up was very expensive to say the least, very cool for Charleston, SC.

I thought it had a great turn out and definitely lived up to the hype. Would definitely recommend going next year. Great opportunity to support local art.

Photography and the American Civil War

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DP281452_smallFor my second ARTM event I decided to go see the new exhibit at the Gibbes Museum called Photography and the American Civil War. The exhibit opened September 27th. and will conclude on January 5th. The photographer of the entire exhibit was a man named Matthew B. Brady, according to the wall mounts their were not too many people taking pictures at this time. I thought parts of the exhibit was extremely gory. Some of the photos were very cool though, they had some landscapes of just rubble and battlefields and those I thought were somehow pleasant in there chaos, like the calm after the battle has finally set in. However, there was an entire room dedicated to what looked like  pictures of wounded soldiers and medical procedures, its like they were keeping a record. Pretty gruesome.

I thought that going to the Gibbes would be a good call for this art event. All of the examples of non profits we have been talking about in class have been  big museums in New York, most of which I have been to, but then I realized I had never been to the “big” museum in Charleston. The Gibbes is also an institution with a lot of moving parts, curators and management and a full staff. It doesn’t strike me as the type of museum where people are doing two different jobs which is another aspect we have addressed in class, a full staff.

I would recommend this to anyone really. The black and whites were really cool. The old newspapers were very cool too. They had rewards for signing up for war and bounty out on people heads. I would avoid the room with all the gore, no one needs that in their life.

Gwyneth Scally’s Wilderness Management

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For my first blog post, I wanted to write about the exhibit at Redux.  I have wanted to write a little blurb about the artist since I met her and heard what she had to say about her art. It was fascinating and really resonated with me.

The exhibit is called Wilderness Management and the artists name is Gwyneth Scally. The exhibit came to Redux on August 2nd and will be there until the 5th of October. I helped set up the exhibit with the artist to it was really interesting to see her process of how she created her mood in our space. She gave a talk about her artwork on opening night and I thought I would share what she had to say. Her entire talk was about succumbing to the awesome power of nature. She spoke off all these excursions throughout history that had been ravaged by bad weather, harsh conditions, predators. I thought it was really interesting because I used to work in the outdoor industry. My company would take middle schoolers out into the woods and teach them soft skills like team work and effective communication. But we were still out in the woods and the conditions would get really rough sometimes. I can recall trips where I was terrified, but you can’t tell a fifth grader  that his chances of getting struck by lightning are actually really good from where we are sitting on this mountain.

When she was giving her talk I was just going over all these events in my head where nature scared the hell out of me. I think that relation to someone’s work is what keeps people attending art shows and going to galleries. Maybe you don’t feel that relation with 99% of the art that you see, but when you see something and it hits you, its a very personal experience. I think it keeps people coming back.

Come check it out though, Im there Tuesdays and Thursdays and Ill show you around!