South Arts 2024 Southern Prize & State Fellows for Visual Arts Exhibition
Various Artists
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents South Arts’ 2024 Southern Prize and State Fellowships Exhibition, on view June 27-August 3, 2025 at City Gallery. City Gallery will host a reception on Friday, June 17 from 5:00-7:00 p.m.; it is free and open to the public.
South Arts’ 2024 Southern Prize and State Fellowships Exhibition is a touring exhibition of the award and fellowship recipients. SouthArts, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a nonprofit regional arts organization whose mission is to empower artists, organizations, and committees and to increase access to arts and culture. Since 2017, its Southern Prize & State Fellowship Program has recognized and awards direct financial support to some of the top contemporary artists in the region. A State Fellowship is awarded to an artist from the nine Southern states (Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina), and a second jury selects the Southern Prize finalists and winner.
This is the fifth year that South Arts has established a touring exhibition for the program. Shannon Lindsay acted as curator for this year’s exhibition; she is Associate Lecturer and Gallery Director for the University of Central Florida.
2025 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition
Various Artists
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs announces a call for submissions for the City Gallery’s 2025 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition. Residents of South Carolina and the nearby hurricane-affected states of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia or Florida are invited to submit original artwork for consideration. This annual juried art exhibition will highlight the recent work of artists across the region 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. The 2025 Juried Art Exhibition will be held at the City Gallery at Joe Riley Waterfront Park May 23 through June 8, 2025.
Calling Me Home: A Visual Ode to the Low-Country
Marcus Middleton
Children of Indigo
Caroline Gutman
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents two photography exhibitions that examine personal and cultural histories of the Lowcountry. Calling Me Home: A Visual Ode to the Low-Country by Marcus Middleton and Children of Indigo by Caroline Gutman will be exhibited at City Gallery December 13, 2024, through February 9, 2025. Children of Indigo is a documentary project that explores the plant’s painful history in South Carolina and spotlights women in the Lowcountry today who have revived indigo cultivation and dyeing, building a flourishing community of textile artists and homesteaders. Calling Me Home: A Visual Ode to the Low-Country is a tribute to Wadmalaw Island and its environs.
City Gallery will hold an opening reception for both exhibitions on Friday, December 13 from 5-7pm. An artist’s talk with Marcus Middleton will be held on Sunday, February 9 at 2pm. An artist’s talk with Caroline Gutman will be held on January 25 at 2pm. All events are free and open to the public.
Preservation Through Art
Various Artists
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents Preservation Through Art: Charleston, an exhibition at City Gallery that presents new interpretations by Charleston area artists of 150-year-old etchings of local vistas July 19 through September 8, 2024. City Gallery will hold an opening reception on Friday, July 19 from 5-7pm, and an artist’s talk on Saturday, August 10 at 2pm. Both events are free and open to the public.
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Untitled Places
Nigel Parry
The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs presents Untitled Places, an exhibition at City Gallery that assembles liminal landscapes by photographer Nigel Parry from March 1 through May 5, 2024. Parry, a renowned portrait photographer who has photographed US Presidents, celebrities, and other luminaries, will show more than forty of his impressionistic landscapes, photographed in the Lowcountry and upstate New York, almost exclusively on film. City Gallery will hold an opening reception on Friday, March 1 from 5-7pm, and an artist’s talk on Saturday, March 16 at 2pm. Both events are free and open to the public.
Untitled Places
Nigel Parry
Past Exhibitions
South Arts’ 2024 Southern Prize and State Fellowships Exhibition
2025 MOJA Arts Festival Juried Art Exhibition
2025 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition
Calling Me Home & Children of Indigo
2024 MOJA Juried Art Exhibition
Preservation Through Art: Charleston
2024 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition
Untitled Places
“Payne-ful” Business & Sleeping with the Ancestors
2023 MOJA Juried Art Exhibition
We Were Made from Shadows
Celebrating Black Mermaids: From Africa to America
2023 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Exhibition
Homegoing: A Juried Exhibition
Anonymous Ancestors
2022 MOJA Juried Art Exhibition
South Arts 2021 Southern Prize and State Fellows Exhibition
2022 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition
Creek by Creek
Griots of Cotton, Indigo, & Clay
Prototype for a Landscape
2021 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition
2021 MOJA Arts Festival Juried Art Exhibition
Susan Perkins’ Visual Vigil
Like a Girl: Dare to Dream by Fer Caggiano
The Robert Smalls Walking Tour of Downtown Charleston
Jonathan Green – The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls
Together At A Distance
Virtual Vigil: Susan Perkins’ Visual Vigil
Linda Fantuzzo: Penumbra
Mary Whyte – We The People: Portraits of Veterans in America
HBCUs: Creating Power through Education
Without Regard to Sex, Race or Color
2019 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition
The City Luminous: Architectures of Hope in an Age of Fear
Southbound
Interwoven: The Art of Indigo and Silver
Disconnected: Works by Christine Bush Roman
A Dialogue in Black and White
A Dialogue in Black and White Artists
WOKE: Rattling Bones, Conversations, Sacred Rites and Holy Places
On the Edge: From Combahee to Winyah
Posing Possibilities: Drawing Inspiration From and For Charleston’s Parks
MOJA Visual Arts
conNECKted: Imaginings for Truth and Reconciliation
2017 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition
Slightly Askew
Sculpt Mettle: Redux! A Henry G. Michaux Retrospective | January 21-February 26, 2017
Common Language, Unique Voices | November 19- December 18, 2016
We Cast Shadows: New Work by Mark Garry | July 12- August 24, 2014
African Diaspora- Convergence and Reclamation | September 6- October 5, 2014
John Duckworth: AWAKE | November 8- December 21, 2014
Drawing from the Lifeline – New & Recent Work by Tyrone Geter | January 24- March 1, 2015
Above, Between, Below | March 21- May 3, 2015
Remnants of the Rice Culture – Agricultural History as Art | July 18 – August 30, 2015
Richard Hagerty: American Surrealist | November 20, 2015- January 10, 2016
Altered Narratives | March 19- May 1, 2016
2016 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition | May 27-June 12, 2016
Sixteen Crowns: Manifestations of Ase | July 15- August 28, 2016
On & Off the Page
Requiem for Mother Emanuel | June 21-July 31, 2016
Flowers for Tony | January 30- March 6, 2016
2015 Griffith/Reyburn Lowcountry Artist of the Year Award Winner | October 24- November 1, 2015
Charleston By Design: Restoration of A City | September 26- October 18, 2015
ABOUT CITY GALLERY:
City Gallery, located at Joe Riley Waterfront Park, is owned by the City of Charleston and operated by the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs, presenting an annual program of exhibitions and events featuring the finest contemporary art from local, regional, national and international artists, with a focus on the Lowcountry. City Gallery is located at 34 Prioleau St. in downtown Charleston, and gallery hours of operation are noon until 5pm, Wednesday through Sunday. For more information and holiday closures, visit www.charleston-sc.gov/citygallery or call 843-958-6484.
