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Rustin & Teresa Gooden

root — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:34:02 +0000

Rustin and Teresa Gooden are South Carolina’s humble salt harvesters. They live on an acre of land in McClellanville, plotted with vegetables and a greenhouse with their three dogs, two cats, three pigs and 19 chickens. Every day the two rise before the sun with a thermos of coffee and skim across the waters to

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Mary Edna Fraser

root — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 04:24:47 +0000

Mary Edna Fraser grew up with her head hanging out the side of her grandfather’s silver airplane. During a time of social upheaval and war protest, she was able to look out across the inter-coastal waterways of the Georgia and Carolina coast and gain a unique perspective. Since she was a child, these wide-open aerial

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Becca Barnet

root — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:20:20 +0000

Becca Barnet recently created an installation with 500 honeybees, each one delicately preserved by hand and hung from a honeycomb of recycled materials at Charleston’s Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. Originally from Spartanburg, South Carolina, she came to Charleston by way of New York City where she worked for the American Museum of Natural History.

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Michael Moran & Celia Gibson

root — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 02:00:05 +0000

Michael Moran can show himself into a musty, abandoned barn and excavate a gnarly piece of oak, unseen for one hundred years. From the outside, the board might look dusty and dry, but when he cuts into it, the old knots and veins tell the story of the American South. Moran makes wood furniture: sleek,

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Hirona Matsuda

root — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:40:24 +0000

When it rains in Charleston, the streets can flood for hours. Most of the city sits below sea level, so a downpour at high tide means over-flowing drains and pools of water with no where to go. We visited 28 year-old assemblage artist, Hirona Matsuda at her home studio on a sunny day after a

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Harper Poe

root — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:16:08 +0000

On a narrow street tucked between Charleston’s up-and-coming design district and the Martin Luther King Memorial District is Harper Poe’s home studio. Lined with rows of historic single homes, some renovated to the tastes of a hip 20-somethings, others dilapidated and boarded up, the neighborhood appears to be in transition, just like Harper. A textile

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