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Reader Soapbox: Farmer On Graffiti

By Reader Soapbox

Soapbox contributor: Gloria Farmer To write your own Reader Soapbox, visit our Reader Soapbox submission page. Sometime around 2003, I came up with an idea that blew my own socks off. It’s like…one of those calendars where you tear off a page each day of the year. Here’s what I was envisioning … Say it’s Monday, February... »

FYI: ArtCycle Deadline Is Today

By Steve Shanafelt

If you’ve been dilly-dallying about sending in an application to be part of the 2010 ArtCycle sculpture program, you’d better get in gear. The deadline for the Spartanburg-based outdoor sculpture program that turns used bicycle parts into art is today. With a fairly forgiving set of rules — you have to send in an... »

Let The Fun Begin: Google Street View Expands Spartanburg Coverage

By Steve Shanafelt

Over the last year, we’ve been covering the achingly slow addition of Spartanburg’s roadways to Google Street View. If you’re not familiar with the service, the basic idea is that a car with a special camera mounted on top drives around getting street-level, panoramic images which allow people to take a virtual tour of... »

New Year, New Logo

By Steve Shanafelt

As many of you will have noticed, SpartanburgSpark.com has a spiffy new logo created by local artist/designer/mastermind Stephen Long. What’s awesome about this is that he decided to create this entirely on his own initiative, just because he thought it would be a good addition to the site. And boy, was he right. This is... »

It Came Upon A Weekend Clear

By Steve Shanafelt

It’s Thursday. It’s also the very last weekend before Christmas, meaning that most of you already have your preferred weekend plans trumped by the more urgent need to prepare for the pressure cooker of family togetherness that happens on these final December days. And, if you’re like me, you’ll probably want a place to... »

Crescent Gallery To Close

By Steve Shanafelt

Rogers Brandt, Director of The Crescent Gallery in downtown Spartanburg, recently announced via e-mail that the gallery will be closing for good at the end of December. Brandt citing the poor local economy as the reason, something that surely impacts a business selling mid-to-high end art pieces. The gallery has been a substantial force... »

An Arts Co-op In Spartanburg? For Real?

By Steve Shanafelt

Props to Katie for passing this highly interesting announcement along … Spartanburg will soon have an all arts cooperative. A labor of love and sweat equity project. If you need “affordable” studio space for creating and exhibiting your art then attend the meeting scheduled for 5:30pm, Tuesday, 22 September at 578 West Main in Spartanburg.... »

We Got This Weekend On Lock

By Steve Shanafelt

It’s Thursday again, and you know what that means: Time for me to harass you into revealing your plans for the weekend. Individually, most of us may have humble plans. But collectively, we have a collage of ideas that can create a roadmap to an awesome weekend. Of course, it would be tacky of... »

Spartanburg’s Transient Friends: HUB-BUB’s Artists-in-Residence (Part 3)

By Lydia Anthony

In HUB-BUB’s Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program, three young artists and one young writer “live free and create” in downtown Spartanburg for 11 months. As its third year draws to a close, I spoke with two of HUB-BUB’s founders, some former residents, and the 2008-09 residents to get an inside glimpse into the origins and workings... »

Spartanburg ‘Zine Project: Day Three

By Steve Shanafelt

Starting today, I’ll probably only be writing Spartanburg ‘Zine Project updates occasionally — maybe once a week — so we should probably move any discussions or questions about the project over to the discussion thread on the Spark forums. If you don’t have a forum account there, it’s a snap to start one. Also, I... »

Last Week In Hub City For HUB-BUB AIRs

By Steve Shanafelt

The HUB-BUB’s four Artists-In-Residence are packing up this week, as their nearly year-long residency ends. May is sneaking up on us. It’s always amazing to me how the end of things creeps up. This is the AIRs last official week at HUB-BUB. We had our last official meeting this morning. A good one, even though... »

Let’s Start A Spartanburg ‘Zine!

By Steve Shanafelt

Spartanburg needs a ‘zine. It needs a printed document of the community that exists right here, right now. It needs something that comes together collaboratively, stitching together people, places, ideas and ideals, art and insight. Blogs and websites are great, but to truly capture a fragment of this place and time, it needs something... »

Art Walk Spartanburg Still Kicking

By Steve Shanafelt

The worst of the winter cold is over. The economic news is so consistently bad that the stay-at-home panic has become more of a standard tough-times malaise. Nothing particularly good is on TV on Thursday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Can’t stay out later, though, as you might miss The Office.) So what can... »

Spartanburg’s Transient Friends: HUB-BUB’s Artists-in-Residence (part 2)

By Lydia Anthony

In HUB-BUB’s Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program, three young artists and one young writer “live free and create” in downtown Spartanburg for 11 months. As its third year draws to a close, I spoke with two of HUB-BUB’s founders, some former residents, and the 2008-09 residents to get an inside glimpse into the origins and workings... »

What art thou doing this weekend?

By Steve Shanafelt

Each Thursday, we ask you clever-minded and restless readers about your plans for the weekend. Catching a local show? Going to a game? Attending any meetings or events you feel deserve a shout out? Other people in Spartanburg are desperate for some good ideas about how to spend their weekend, and this is the... »