West Columbia’s 3rd Annual Kinetic Derby Day

April 25, 2020
11:00am - 3:30pm

For more information see the Kinetic Derby Day Website or Facebook Event

2. Yarnbombers of Columbia | knitting and crochet

"Columbia's Main Street Gets a Yarn Bomb Makeover" - The State

"Yarnbombing Takes Over Downtown Columbia" - WLTX

"The Yarnbombing of Main Street" - Main Street District

Facebook: Yarnbombing of Columbia (@yarnbombingcolumbia)
Instagram: @yarnbombcolumbi

3. Columbia Art Center | clay / turning demos / hand building demos

Mission Statement: It is the mission of the City of Columbia Arts Center to provide the citizens of Columbia with activities and events for a safe and positive arts experience.

Cultural Arts  |  Goals and Objectives

The goals of the Cultural Arts Center are to:

• Foster and create a customer friendly environment that promotes, supports, and advances the arts through a variety of programs and a safe environment at the Arts Center

• Provide a variety of events from art camps to classes and workshops for youth to senior that provides quality of life experiences in recreation

• Implement a rotation schedule of art exhibits

• Foster community outreach by offering a forum for arts organizations and groups to make presentations

The arts are an integral part of the Columbia Parks and Recreation experience. From classes and shows to special events, we sponsor a variety of programmed activities for folks 6-90+ years old.

The Arts Center serves as a hub for pottery enthusiasts as well as classes in jewelry making, sculpture and visual art mini-workshops. Whether your experiences in clay include college level courses, workshops, or high school classes – we have the means for you to continue your enjoyment with clay. Throughout the year we also offer a variety of support classes such as sculpting, mold making, and intensive themed classes. Check out our listings to see what program best meets your needs. The Art Center is Parks and Recreation's home for cultural arts. It is the center of multiple opportunities for adults and children alike, as it houses classes, workshops and open studio for participants to explore and learn about the visual arts. Many of the classes are for pottery but we also offer some mixed media classes as well as specialty classes and workshops. With our location at 1227 Taylor Street we are able to provide a more rounded experience in the arts for the public. We can offer courses in basket weaving, sewing, painting, drawing, needle felting, fiber art, and so much more. 

For more detailed information contact Brenda Oliver at 545-3093 or e-mail at brenda.oliver@columbiasc.gov.

City of Columbia Art Center
Facebook: Columbia Art Center (@ColumbiaArt)
Instagram: @columbiaartcente

6. Michael Krajewski

Michael Krajewski is a self-taught artist who has shown in numerous galleries, collaborated on large commissioned pieces for museums, painted live at art events and been the subject of magazine and newspaper profiles. His style has been called neo-expressionist and compared to Jean-Michel Basquiat's, though Krajewski is less interested in defining, more interested in producing. He works in mixed media. Most recently, he's had solo shows at the HoFP Gallery, Frame of Mind, and Anastasia & Friends in Columbia, SC. He's participated in a two- man show at the Waterfront Gallery in Charleston and in group shows at 701 Whaley and the Tapp's Art Center in Columbia. In 2011, he taught a summer session at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts. He has also painted murals at the Upstate Children's Museum in Greenville, SC (collaborating with Justice Littlejohn) and for the Columbia Museum of Art (alongside painter Cedric Umoja). He has created set pieces for the Columbia City Ballet and Trustus Theater and painted on the flesh of live models at the What's Love art event in Columbia. In 2012, he painted a mural in reverse, on a window at the Tapp's Art Center; people attending the First Thursday gallery crawl watched the mural reveal itself, while a video camera positioned inside the window provided a live feed of him at work. Krajewski has been the subject of stories in The State newspaper, the Free Times, Jasper Magazine, Undefined ,and skirt! magazine. He is represented by the HoFP Gallery in Columbia, SC.

Instagram: @krajewski_radar

7. Jasper Project | Tiny Art Gallery

Collaborative Arts Engineering

Mission Statement:

The Jasper Project is a project-oriented, multidisciplinary arts facilitator serving the greater Columbia and South Carolina communities by providing collaborative arts engineering and providing community-wide arts communication.

The Jasper Project is committed to four integrated criteria:

• Process – illuminating the unique processes endemic to all art forms in order to provide a greater level of understanding and respect for that discipline.

• Community/Collaboration – nurturing community both within and between arts disciplines.

• Narrative – creating a more positive and progressive understanding of SC culture.

• Economy – being efficient stewards of arts funding committed to creating more with less.

jasperproject.org
Facebook: The Jasper Project (@JasperProjectColumbia)
Instagram: @the_jasper_project

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