Friday Arts Project

As with most mysteries, thinking about beauty brings us into deep and often choppy waters. The concept of beauty has been abused and misused in all sorts of philosophical, theological, ethical, social, and cultural ways.

Beauty has been limited by narrow categories (proportion, harmony, symmetry), reduced to personal preference (“beauty is in the eye of the beholder”), linked with particular forms of so-called high art (as opposed to “popular” or “folk” art) claimed as the purview of the privileged class (the people who can access and afford

“high art”), disassociated from its function in everyday life (“art for art’s sake”), attached to certain kinds of bodies (skinny, proportionate, white), leveraged for oppressive agendas (racialized, colonial aesthetics), reduced to whatever produces pleasant feelings (like the sentimentality of Christian kitsch), and utilized to sell products and line pockets (especially within capitalist economies). It’s a fraught history, and for these reasons and others some contemporary artists and thinkers have abandoned beauty as a description or goal of their work.

Beauty is notoriously difficult to define...

(extracts from ’s “Beauty is Oxygen” used in our AMs discussion)

It was good to be together again.

If you are looking for a delightful way to spend this Friday evening, consider coming downtown for with fun stuff to do all over town.

In our studio & .voigt.fox will have collage supplies & snacks to share.

Come by anytime from 5p-8p

Friday Arts Project in August - https://mailchi.mp/1e879d67914a/friday-arts-project-in-aug-2024

Every Friday we join at Amelie’s to discuss art related books and articles from 7am-7:50am.

We are returning from our July sabbatical this week and we hope you will join us.

Friday Arts Project in July! - https://mailchi.mp/fef0d8007921/friday-arts-project-in-july-2024 We are pausing most of our "regularly scheduled" activities this month. But we still need some help making sketchbooks, so we're meeting in our studio a couple times this month - be sure to check our events calendar for more details

is happening tonight! Friday Arts Project Studio will be open 5-8pm. See link for the page in our profile. Come out and see us!

It’s drawingnite and we are so excited to catch the viking vibes that is putting together to model for us.

Join in the awesomeness of it all from 7p-9p in the Courtroom.

Call for ARTISTS Submission Deadline Extended to June 28, 2024!

fridayartsproject.org/call-for-artists-2025

Friday Arts Project in June - https://mailchi.mp/00d341910b3f/friday-arts-project-in-june-2024 Courtroom Gallery Call for Artists! Deadline extended to June 28, 2024

Don’t forget to get that application in! We want to see your art in our space next year!!

Every Friday we gather on the second floor of for discussion and we would love for you to join us! It’s just 7am … mornings are surprisingly good when friends are involved.

Courtroom Gallery Reception - https://mailchi.mp/1525b5de26d7/cg-reception-inside_outside-jan-9365609 Tomorrow night! Reception for 'Regarding Facets' Exhibit, works by Felicia van Bork & Veda Saravanan

Come by our table and make a button; buy some art; have a great time.

First Fridays Rock Hill happening tonight. Check out the list of possible activities. The Friday Arts Project studio will also be open. And we have a new show up in the Courtroom Gallery. Seeya tonight, maybe!?

Friday Arts Project in March - https://mailchi.mp/982a944ff62c/friday-arts-project-in-may-2024

Opens tomorrow. Reception May 9th, 6:30-8:30pm. Also part of an Old Town Gallery Crawl. Come to Old Town May 9th - 5:30-8:30pm.

Friday AM Discussion: discussed the parallels of life and garden pruning - “…pruning is an act of will that the gardener must undertake with wisdom and artistry.” Great article by Megan C Brand from Front Porch Republic.

It is always exciting to watch a new show come together in the gallery! Mark your calendars for the reception on May 9th - you won’t want to miss this art.

The Courtroom Gallery is now accepting applications for 2025 gallery exhibitions. Exhibitions are 6 – 8 weeks in length.

The Courtroom Gallery is located in downtown Rock Hill on the second floor of the Gettys Art Center, 201 E. Main St., Rock Hill, SC; the city’s historic post office and courthouse. The exhibition space is a long hallway, illuminated by adjustable track lighting, and adjacent to the beautiful courtroom space where exhibition receptions are often held.

The Courtroom Gallery is a gallery for the exhibition of both emerging and established artists in primarily 2-dimensional work.

Works that sell while on exhibit at the
Courtroom Gallery are subject to a 30% commission fee.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Friday, May 31, 2024

Courtroom Gallery Exhibit - https://mailchi.mp/91becb2e0d26/cg-reception-inside_outside-jan-9364741 April 18, Reception for Goobers Exhibit. works by Kevin Morrissey, Andrew Frye & Kyle Morrissey

What a lovely time of drawing together!

We can’t wait to gather again on Thursday to celebrate the closing of our current reception. You won’t want to miss it!

It’s a third Monday which means a

Our friend is curating a still life and we will be gathering from 7-9 pm in the Courtroom

Winthrop friends! If you’re interested in animation and/or character design you definitely want to come to our Hub Meeting tonight to hear Chris Doehling. 7pm in Owens 203

Last night we had a lovely kick off for our forum, Birdsong Like A Canopy.

Our morning session starts at 9 with a delightful breakfast and our evening session at 1:30 … it isn’t too late to join in.

https://www.fridayartsproject.org/birdsong-like-a-canopy/

Tonight’s the night!!!

Come join us for a free film screening as part of

The full schedule is on our website

https://www.fridayartsproject.org/birdsong-like-a-canopy/

Prep is coming together for Birdsong Like a Canopy: Beauty, Art, and Ecology, starting tonight at The Mercantile