Jasper is Back On Main Street for First Thursday Fun! Join us from 6 - 8:30 pm in our old stomping ground at Tapp's! This month we're proud to present Emily Moffitt, Cam Moore, and Kate Timbes. We've also got live music in the works, so stay tuned for that announcement!
Come shop, have a drink, and hang out with us in the alley! The artists and Jasper Board members will be on site to chat about their work.
About Emily Moffitt:
Emily Moffitt is an illustrator based in Columbia, SC. She currently works as the Gallery Curator for the Koger Center for the Arts, Secretary on the Jasper Board of Directors, and as the Visual Arts Editor for Jasper Magazine. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina's School of Visual Art and Design and has exhibited in places like the Edward R. Driggers Center for the Arts in Greer, SC, Stormwater Studios for The Jasper Project's inaugural "Degenerate Art Project," and the Richland Library. Having worked in the Columbia arts scene since she graduated college, Emily finds joy and fulfillment in helping put together exhibits for her artist peers, which continues to motivate her to fall back in love with making her own artwork on a consistent basis.
About Cam Moore:
Cam Moore is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator based in Columbia, South Carolina. His work focuses on transformation, turning upcycled materials like thin cardboard and packing paper into mosaic style collage pieces detailed with charcoal. He's interested in taking overlooked materials and making something beautiful out of them. His work has been shown at Richland Library Main, where it won an award, and at Stormwater Studios, and he regularly sets up at community vendor markets. Outside of his studio work, Cam is the Art Lead at Camp Cole's Camp Rise Above program and started The Sessions, a community art series. He's currently working on The Source Columbia, a community creative arts studio that he hopes will give artists in underserved neighborhoods in Columbia a lasting space to create. He's been showing his work since early 2025.
Cam's Artist Statement:
My work starts with materials most people throw away. Thin cardboard, packing paper, stuff that passes through everyone's hands and ends up in the trash without a second thought. I use a mosaic style collage technique, adding charcoal details, to turn these materials into figures and moments that make people look twice. There's usually a moment where the viewer realizes what they're actually looking at wasn't meant to be beautiful in the first place, and that surprise is a big part of what I'm going for. It's a small thing, but I think it points to something bigger, that value isn't fixed, that things (and people) can be transformed, and that what gets cast aside can end up being what draws you in. I believe creativity is for everyone, not just people with formal training, and that the process of making something matters just as much as how it turns out. At the end of the day, my work is really just asking people to take a second look, at materials, at people, at things we assume have already been used up.
About Kate Timbes:
Kate Timbes is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the narrative and functions of materiality. Working primarily in sculpture, painting, and digital media, she weaves mediums together, carrying paint, seeds, weavings, and sculptural handmade paper through physical, emotional, and digital landscapes. Timbes contemplates sourcing of resources, rethinking use as an individual effort to engage in a curious ecological practice. Timbes has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at the Koger Center for the Arts, The Morgan Paper Conservatory, Visalia Arts Center, and the DIS Student Hub in Copenhagen, Denmark. She also teaches papermaking workshops across the Carolina’s, passionate about sharing resources and education around craft. In addition to her studio practice, Timbes manages her business, Woven Studios and creates public artworks to engage with local communities, social histories, and urban spaces. Timbes is from South Carolina and received her BA in Studio Art from Wofford College in 2023. She completed a Work-Study Fellowship at Arrowmont School of Craft in 2025, is a member of Zero Space Collective, and is currently based in Charlotte, NC.
Kate’s Artist Statement:
My practice serves as a network to find an affinity between myself, material, and the unseen agents in our ecosystems that are suffering from human-centric production and consumption of natural resources. I create sculptural forms out of paper embedded with seeds, woven and dyed or painted bed sheets, and conjoined found material. My process puts these materials through extremes of tearing, soaking, boiling, blending, beating, weaving, and mending. The forms born from these vessels and wearable sculptures search for a kinship between bodily and natural ecologies. Woven wings and paper pulp shells allow the wearer to distort, conceal, reveal, and camouflage the bodily form within space. I carry my woven arms up to snowy mountain tops to photograph them where glaciers melt beyond existence. I cast my body in abaca fiber infused with local wildflower seeds multiple times, sewing the parts together. My biological and microbial research manifests itself in paintings on large handmade paper sheets. My work informs my motivation to think interdisciplinarily, weaving together social histories, ecological phenomena, and the abstract that reveal a sense of place and human attitudes of other. I'm drawn to these mediums because of their evidence of occupying multiple states at once. Ephemerality paves the way to an afterlife, vulnerable fibers woven into resilient materials, sharp edges enforce fluid forms, and a repetitive process creates individual outcomes. I search for a finish that borders raw, vaguely familiar, and other worldly all at once.