Tending the Creative Fire
With great delight, The Aiken Center for the Arts announces the privilege of hosting Taos, New Mexico artist Jan Haller, who will teach a five-day process painting workshop, “Brushes on Paper: Tending the Creative Fire.” This workshop will begin on Friday, November 8th and continue through Tuesday, November 12th, running from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. “Brushes on Paper” presents an opportunity for anyone who desires to unearth and explore inner creative impulses and learn how to bring these forward in a uniquely personal, engaging and freeing manner. Jan’s passion for painting is rooted in the creative process and it is this process that she will be sharing. Jan first […]
Back to Aiken | Going Home
The Welsh call it mynd adref: going home. Odysseus spent his entire life just trying to go home. It took Moses over 40 years, and then it didn’t really end that well for him. E.T. had to play dead and evade the government just to go home. And Princess Leia can never go home, it was vaporized by the Death Star. But for me it took four years. And 3,000 miles. Way back in 2015, I was working as a baker and pizza chef at Lake Theater Café, just outside Portland, Oregon. I had just graduated from Portland State and was trying to figure out my next move. I started […]
Back to Bella
Partnerships are sometimes like marriages – some make it; some don’t. Over the summer my business partnership split up, and I am happily publishing Bella on my own now. Getting this first solo issue out has been difficult, but at the same time it has exceeded my expectations. Once again I have received an overwhelming amount of support from the community with comments like “You got this!” to “Let me know if there is ANYTHING I can do to help you out.” Bella has been everything I thought it would be, and I have been connecting with the community just as I hoped I would! That partnership is working! Back […]
Back to Grassroots: Are You Ready to Help #ConnectAiken Through Arts + Music?
Are you ready for a whole season of music in Aiken? This Fall, neighborhoods, lifestyle and advocacy groups, dreamers and thinkers, and a collaboration of Aiken media resources are working together to help #connectAiken through arts and music. In the middle of this campaign, we are bringing all of our diverse communities together for Aiken City Limits Music Festival on October 17 – 20. Save the date! Plan a weekend to be a tourist in your own town with regional touring musicians; Allman Brothers, Jack Pearson, in town for a Showcase Concert; an Amp the Alley Kickoff show; three stages around town on Saturday; a Mimosa crawl and restaurant specials; […]
