Jasper is excited to introduce a new event series, Artists Showing Artists, where we invite a local artist to curate an evening of their favorite artists from different disciplines. Our hope is that the series will give fans a chance to get to know the featured artist better through seeing the local artists who inspire them, while also highlighting these lesser-known creators. Our first event will be March 23rd at The Living Room from 7–9pm, and we are featuring local musician and writer Saul Siebert as our curator. He has invited a selection of poet-songwriters, visual artists, and his band—King Saul and the Heretics—to perform.
Performers
Saul Seibert
Seibert is a performer, writer and composer from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the former singer and songwriter for South Carolina's veteran punk rock band, Boo Hag. Seibert has contributed musical scores to various commercials as well as independent cult classic films such as, "Party Hardy" and last year's award-winning film, "Bad Girls". His most recent work can be heard in the popular mainstream film He's All That. In 2022, Seibert’s musical arrangements and compositions were adapted to the much-anticipated video game Bugs and Boo Hags. In 2023, Seibert released the instrumental concept album, Zion, A Composition Acts 1, 2, & 3. Currently Seibert resides in Columbia, SC, and is writing and recording a record set to release in 2023 under the name King Saul and The Heretics. He has been a contributing writer to Jasper Magazine and the popular blog Manifestation Station. Smoke weed. Live free.
Alyssa Stewart
Steward is a Poet and Songwriter who has naturalized to Columbia over the past twenty-five years. On her art she says, “I’m so glad to serve whatever work comes to me—be it writing, singing, dancing, or any other form of creative expression, and grateful for the abundance of communities around town in which to share. I would be less myself without my friends and family.”
NoN (Keith Smyly)
The genre known as "alternative" Hip Hop is a meandering path that leads listeners in many different directions. Within it, there is such a vast array of so many styles that one would question whether or not the artists that make it up could be classified as a singular art form. The ties that bind these practitioners together is in its cerebral poeticism, its complete disregard for conventional subject matter and its use of typically untraditional soundscapes. NoN, Columbia based Hip Hop project, conceptualized in its entirety by musician/writer Keith Smyly, sits comfortably in this "genre." With the release of two EPs—"Elusive Positive Aspects” and “Random Acts”—along with a full-length release titled So Lame, NoN set out to be the tie that binds humanity together with his lyrics. His leave no one out approach saw him pen songs like "Hearse Surfer," which seamlessly connected topics like child mental health, a failing class system, organized religion, and death; to "Pride, Dice and Chips," which recognizes the burdens and difficulty of putting philosophical questions of self and honesty into art; to "Free Mustache Rides," an homage to a favorite sexual past time. With a new release entitled Picture Album in the works, NoN will keep it personal but not to the exclusion of listeners: "I make people music. I try to pull from very, very personal experiences with the idea that most folks go through similar things. Human emotion is human emotion. And, while positive aspects may be elusive, they do exist." NoN. It is an alternative…to whatever else it is you’re listening to.
Visual Artists
Art will be on display and available to purchase from the following artists:
Kara Virginia Russo
Russo is an abstract mixed media and interdisciplinary artist, whose work deals with themes of mysticism and spiritual reality. After earning her BFA from Converse College in 2005, she lived in Asia and Europe before returning to settle in South Carolina with her husband and two children. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Columbia, Greenville, and Charleston.
Adam Corbett
Corbett is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and visual artist from Lexington, South Carolina. After releasing numerous records, helping to produce a musical, and taking a break from his career as a music teacher, Corbett branched out into visual art as a way to cope with the COVID-19 lockdown. Throughout that period, he has experimented with various mediums in a variety of formats focusing always on exploration, play, and following his muse.
Emily Moffitt
Moffitt is a recent graduate of the University of South Carolina's School of Visual Art and Design. Growing up, she always found enjoyment through sketching and drawing her own original characters or art based on her favorite books and video games. Now as a young artist, she aims to blend the realms of fine art and illustration through her work, always experimenting with new techniques and materials to create new works. As she gets older, she continues to learn how events from a person's life can shape their art and style, for better or worse. Her favorite media to work with include ink pens, India ink, and gouache, and she values the power of mark making through these tools.
Tickets for the event are $12 in advance—and can be purchased online—and will be $15 at the door.
Refillable Jasper cups for beer and wine will be available for $10 as well as hotdogs and a selection of baked goods.
All proceeds go toward supporting the Jasper Project’s mission.