2023 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Exhibition

The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents the 2023 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition, on view March 17-May 7. This annual juried art exhibition highlights the recent work of artists across South Carolina featuring painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and photography. Artworks receiving prizes are presented alongside a limited selection of pieces identified by the juror as meriting display. This year’s juror is Harriett Green.

Harriett Green is a former visual arts director of the South Carolina Arts Commission. She received her B.A. degree in art history from the University of South Carolina in Columbia in 1980. From 1980-1988, she was the registrar and assistant curator (1988) at the Columbia Museum of Art. As former assistant curator of the Columbia Museum of Art and as the Visual Arts Director from 1993 to 2021 of the South Carolina Arts Commission, Green has curated or co-curated exhibitions in South Carolina and New York City. She also served as the curator of the South Carolina Arts Commission State Art Collection.

Green has served as project director for collaborative efforts with other state arts agencies such as Craft of the Carolinas with the North Carolina Arts Council (1993) as well as the S.C. Arts Commission Visual Arts & Craft Fellows exhibition in (2017-18). Green is a former board member of the Alternative Museum in New York City and has served on the Charlotte Area Transit System’s (CATS) Art-in-Transit program as a member of the Oversight Committee, the selection panel for the North Carolina Freedom Monument project; fellowship panels for the Kentucky Arts Council and the Idaho Commission on the Arts. She is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Penland School of Crafts, the Artists Selection Committee for CATS Art in Transit project and the Windgate Fellowship panel.

She was appointed to the National Register of Peer Professionals by the General Services Administration in Washington, DC for its Art – in- Architecture Program serving on selections panels for federal courthouse projects in Columbia, SC, Jacksonville, FL, Greenville, SC, Charleston, SC as well as the CDC in Atlanta, GA. Green served on the Crafts Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) Arts Emergency Relief Grants Panel, South Arts’ Suffrage Mural Project Selection Committee, City Gallery at Waterfront Park in Charleston, SC and currently 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia Advisory Committees. She is a member of the board of trustees for the Columbia Music Festival Association, American Craft Council and Central Carolina Community Foundation. Green is currently an independent art consultant.

City Gallery will be open Wednesdays through Sundays from noon until 5pm.

Invited artists for this year’s exhibition are:

Fairoozan Abdullah
Brittany Alston
Robert Ariail
Douglas Balentine
Donald Bennett
Debanjana Bhattacharjee
Pascale Bilgis
Chris Bilton
Joanna Biondolillo
Laura Burcin
Micheline Callicott
K T C
Alfred Champy
M.C. Churchill-Nash
Catherine Conrad
Yvette Dede
Morgan Serreno East
Peggy Ellis
Robert Fine
Sandy Frazier
Susan C Gregory
Katie Heatley
E.B. Heston
Tina Hirsig
Melinda Hoffman
Kirsten Hoving
Betsy Hughes
Cynthia Huston
Marjorie Huwa
Anne M. Jennings
Carla Johannesmeyer
Rachel Jones
Celeste Joye
kolpeace
Kelly Kopaka
Hilarie Lambert
Christopher Lane
Annie Rhodes Lee
Alicia Leeke
Susan Livingston
Jean Lomasto
Flavia Lovatelli
Kim Malecky
Austin Manchester
Judy Martin
Hirona Matsuda
Ervin McDaniel
Judy McSween
Ginny Merett
John Michiels
Dan Mohan
Donna Murray
Aldo Muzzarelli
Bruce Nellsmith
Kathleen Pompe
Shamsad Rahman
Connie Rigdon
Rick Sargent
Tony Scully
Alvin Staley
Chantiana Staley
Donald Sturdivant
Janet Swigler
Laura Liberatore Szweda
Linda Thorndike Williams
Gene Tennison
Susan Trott
Lynne Trotter
Kenny Vaden
Margaret Vetter
Dianne Tennyson Vincent
Mary L. Hoffman
Jalen Williams
Barbara Yongue