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Floor Plan: What: Supplies and works-in-progress on the floor of Katie Walker’s studio.

When: April 10, 2015 Where: ArtBomb, 1320 Pendleton St, Greenville.

Photograph by Paul Mehaffey (see “Collective Conscious,” page 84)

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THE LIST

See, hear, read, react.

The month’s must-dos.

ON THE TOWN

Pics of the litter: Upcountry fêtes & festivities.

WEDDINGS TOWNBUZZ

Palmettopalooza spotlights South Carolina art; Paul Savas brings the drama; the women powerhouses behind Artisphere; Governor’s School president Dr. Bruce Halverson talks life after retirement; and more.

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COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUS Sanctuaries, second homes, and wellsprings of inspiration: artist collectives help drive Greenville’s creative renaissance.

/ by John Jeter, Kathleen Nalley & Steven Tingle // photography by Paul Mehaffey

GLASS WORK

Lou Ellen Beckham-Davis’s stained-glass works shine in the light of day.

/ by Steven Tingle // photography by Paul Mehaffey

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Violinist Maggie Gould rediscovered her love of music during a five-month teaching program in Belize.

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WORD COUNT

Poet and teaching artist Glenis Redmond fights for everyone’s right to be heard.

THIS PAGE: Karen Leigh of the Ward Artist Studios works on canvas.

Photograph by Paul Mehaffey

COVER: Commissioned for the 2015 Arts Issue; Cloisonné ceramic tile by Suzanne Vitti.

Photograph by Paul Mehaffey

EAT & DRINK

Willy Taco in Spartanburg brings a spicy new take on tradition; a tequila cocktail to bring you face-to-face with the devil; and Restaurant 17’s charcuterie board makes for a delicious conversation starter.

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Mark B. Johnston PUBLISHER mark@towncarolina.com Blair Knobel EDITOR-IN-CHIEF blair@towncarolina.com

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Paul Mehaffey ART DIRECTOR

e herald beautiful May with our fifth Arts Issue. As lovers and practitioners of the arts, we pride ourselves on uplifting this critical aspect of our community in every issue, but here we give more room to experiences, supporters, and especially artists, who push us to a higher cultural level.

Nowadays, we have the option of working in multiple environments (our dining table, the coffee shop), seeking out creative sanctuaries, places where the flow of thought reigns uninterrupted. Comfort is a matter of preference and usually means better ideas and a bigger bottom line.

For artists, these zones of creativity have manifested as collectives in renovated homes and buildings, where they promote their work through classes, shows, and partnerships (“Collective Conscious,” page 84). Beyond just sharing space, the artists are friends, pushing each other creatively while helping to navigate life’s ups and downs, acting as a second family or support system. In essence, these spaces are incubators—part gallery, part classroom, but with the creative engine smack in the heart.

Those that we focus on—The Ward Artist Studios, White Whale Studios & Gallery, and ArtBomb (the mothership)—have their own vibes and renovation stories. The Ward’s hallowed halls (formerly an African-American hospital during segregation) offer art of a supernatural quality, while the open, painted rooms of White Whale Studios in the storied Monaghan Mill area deliver a design focus.

The ArtBomb is like an explosive combination of the two, with a studio dog or two in the mix roaming the rooms of the former Brandon Mill village commissary building. These spaces call attention to our broad spectrum of talent, pushing the boundaries of our cultural experience, while preserving history.

But, exposure to the arts rests on the shoulders of patrons as much as the artists. The former Brandon Mill now houses the Greenville Center for Creative Arts, which officially opens on May 1. The center will offer a variety of classes, exhibits, and programs to promote Greenville’s thriving arts community.

Artisphere, the award-winning, nationally recognized arts festival, is around the corner (May 8–10). And each fall, we look forward to the Greenville Open Studios, produced by the Metropolitan Arts Council, which recently celebrated its largest granting program to date.

Without MAC and the tireless efforts of every arts non-profit, not to mention the inexhaustible talent of our artists, our world would be a windowless room.

Let us thank those who create spaces for us to see.

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Suzanne Vitti creates the custom mold for the cover art of this year’s Arts Issue. Suzanne founded The Ward Artist Studios, where she and others create and collaborate. For more on The Ward, go to page 84.

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Jamie Wyeth (born 1946) Smart Pig, 2014 oil on canvas 29 x 19 1/2 inches

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Andrew Wyeth Watercolors: Selections from the Greenville Collection

on view through September 20, 2015 Among the most important American artists of the 20th century, Andrew Wyeth (1917- 2009) focused on two locations: Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, his birthplace, and Cushing, Maine, his second home since childhood.

Drawing inspiration from these locations, he revealed universal attributes in his depictions of landscapes, objects, and people. The Greenville Collection encompasses the full scope of Wyeth’s extraordinary career. The artist himself described it as “the very best collection of my watercolors in any public museum in this country.”

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on view through July 5, 2015 Award-winning artist Dan Yaccarino grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, where he whiled away the hours with comic books, vintage cartoons and films, and toys. Today, children around the globe know Yaccarino from his more than 30 books, including The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau and All the Way to America. Yaccarino also has had work featured in a number of publications, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Time. This exhibition was organized by the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature.

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Jamie Wyeth: Our Own Rabelais

on view through June 21, 2015 Representing the third generation of one of America’s most renowned families of artists, James Browning Wyeth (born 1946) began pursuing his career as an artist at the age of 11. Featuring 21 of Wyeth’s most recent paintings, many of which have never been seen publicly before, Jamie Wyeth: Our Own Rabelais invites viewers to conjure their own narratives based on the artist’s provocative titles and ambiguous imagery.

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Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings from the Johnson Collection on view through May 31, 2015 On loan from a private collection in Spartanburg, this exhibition invites viewers to consider romanticism as it developed between 1810 and 1896 in the South. Depictions of the region’s natural beauty and scenes of daily life combine with heroic portrayals of soldiers and statesmen and images of impending change to create a complex, evocative look at the American South.

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continuing on view The exhibition features the work of three African-American artists from South Carolina, David Drake, William H. Johnson, and Merton Simpson. Their work echoes the stories of slavery, the struggle for equality, and the Civil Rights movement.

on view through September 6, 2015 Sidney Dickinson (1890 – 1980) studied at the Art Students League, where he later taught for more than 25 years. He was an active member of the National Academy of Design, becoming a full Academician in 1927. Dickinson occasionally visited Calhoun, Alabama, where he worked with his maternal aunt, Charlotte Thorn, who with guidance from Booker T. Washington, established the Calhoun Colored School. It was there that Dickinson created many of these paintings, some of which he later exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

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on view through September 6, 2015 Palmettopalooza spans more than 170 years of artistic achievement in South Carolina, beginning in the mid-1800s with an early utilitarian storage vessel and two rare pitchers turned by enslaved Edgefield potter and poet David Drake and ending with a painting by John Moore, a major American realist painter, whose visit to Greenville resulted in a body of work that extols the Upstate’s transition from textile town to quality-of-life leader in the New South of the 21st century.

acclaimed Southern Collection invites viewers to survey American art history through works with ties to the South, including a breathtaking collection of antebellum clay vessels created by enslaved artisan, David Drake.

Greenville County Museum of Art 420 College Street Greenville, SC 29601 864.271.7570 gcma.org Wed - Sat 10 am - 6 pm Sun 1 pm - 5 pm admission free

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NEEDTOBREATHE The South Carolina natives bring their own brand of Christian rock back home to the Upstate during this leg of their “Tour De Compadres,” along with special guests Ben Rector, Colony House, and Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors. The Grammynominated foursome has received critical acclaim for hits like “Multiplied” and “Slumber,” and their newly released album Rivers in the Wasteland has set the stage for further success.

But for these boys, there’s no place like home, and it’s only right to give them a proper welcome back.

Bon Secours Wellness Arena, 650 N Academy St, Greenville. Fri, May 8, 7pm. $26-$46. (864) 241-3800, bonsecoursarena.com

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Don’t try to pretend you don’t belt along whenever “Soak Up the Sun” comes on the radio. At least now you can do it in person. The multi-Grammy Award–winning singer and songwriter comes to the Upstate and brings all your favorite songs with her, including works from her latest album Feels Like Home. Known for her natural ease and lyrical relatability, Crow has amassed millions of fans the world over with hits like “If It Makes You Happy,” “Every Day Is a Winding Road,” and “The First Cut Is the Deepest.”

It’s time to get your Greek on at this iconic Upstate festival. Whether you hail from the Hellenic isles or just down the street, you’ll be welcomed with open arms—and a plate full of delicious food. Pick from a variety of freshlymade pastries, including baklava and kataifi, hefty servings of roast lamb, moussaka, and spanakopita. Don’t be afraid to get down with a little traditional horos and be sure to pick up some goods from the marketplace.

There’s something to be said for a community that embraces and supports the local arts year-round. With May comes Artisphere, a celebration and open marketplace of handcrafted visual and live arts that the whole family can get on board with. In addition to more artistic ability than Picasso could shake a stick at, there’s Kidsphere for children’s crafts, and plenty of culinary delights to give visitors a true taste of the town.

St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 406 N Academy St, Greenville. Thurs, May 14, 10:30am–8pm (dining only); Fri, May 15–Sat, May 16, 10:30am–10pm; Sun, May 17, 11:30am–8pm. $1. stgeorgegreenville.org

Downtown Greenville. Fri, May 8, noon–8pm; Sat, May 9, 10am–8pm; Sun, May 10, 11am–6pm. Free. artisphere.us

Photograph courtesy of the Peace Center

The Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Mon, May 25, 7:30pm. $85-$95. (864) 467-3000, peacecenter.org

Step into the Arts in Greenville with International Ballet CLASSICAL BALLET. MODERN WORLD. Greenville, South Carolina

Giselle

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All photos courtesy of © Karl Trump Photography 4/14/15 1:20 PM

BMW CHARITY PRO-AM Whether you like golf or only pretend to like it so you can shamelessly stalk your favorite celebrities, the BMW Charity Pro-Am has become a centerpiece in the Greenville sporting community. Pairing up the game’s professionals with amateur and celebrity golfers for four days of competition on the Upstate’s most manicured greens, the Pro-Am has amassed $10 million for charity since its inception in 2001.

Green Valley Country Club, Thornblade Club, and The Reserve at Lake Keowee. Thurs, May 14–Sun, May 17; times vary. $10-$625. pgatour.com

UPSTATE STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL Nothing says spring like seeing the first ruby-red strawberry sprout up from the ground. In honor of this annual awakening, the Bank of Travelers Rest sponsors the annual Strawberry Festival, where you not only can delve into some of your favorite berry recipes, but can also indulge in the sultry stylings of Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues, arts, crafts, and family activities—all against a backdrop of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.

Hwy 276, north of Travelers Rest. Sat, May 2, 10am–4pm.

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BLUE RIDGE FEST Interested in joining the biggest classic car cruise-in that the Upstate has to offer?

Then motor on over to this annual festival, where retro rides, shagging, and prize raffles create the perfect opportunity to give back to community charities like the Rosa Clark Medical Clinic and United Christian Ministries. Now more than a decade old, Blue Ridge Fest kicks off with the cruise-in, followed by an evening of live beach music, great eats, and plenty of kid-friendly fun.

Blue Ridge Electric Co-Op, 734 W Main St, Pickens. Fri, May 8, 2pm. Free-$25. blueridge.coop/ blueridgefest

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Centre Stage, 501 River St, Greenville. May 28–June 13; Thurs–Sat, 8pm; Sun, 3pm. $20-$30. (864) 233-6733, centrestage.org

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z Taste of the Upstate invites 13 local restaurants to share their wares at this year’s culinary event.

Scheduled to appear at the “Masquerade in Venice” are Miso, City Range, Smoke on the Water, and many more, with paired beverages provided

by Thomas Creek and Carolina Vino. The Matt Dingledine Jazz Trio will be on hand to provide live music, and there will be both silent and live auctions. Proceeds will benefit the Loaves & Fishes organization, which aims to combat food insecurity in Greenville County.

Embassy Suites Greenville, 670 Verdae Blvd, Greenville. Sun, May 31, 6–9:30pm. $70. loavesandfishesgreenville.com

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z A romantic ballet told in two acts, Giselle is internationally renowned, celebrated both for its uniquely adapted storyline and its mesmerizing visual appeal. Through the power of dance, the International Ballet tells the gripping story of Giselle, a young village girl who became the object of affection for two men, only to have her heart broken by betrayal. Based on the German poet Heinrich Heine’s retelling of a Slavic folk tale, this performance features principal guest artists Cara Marie Gray and Temur Suluashvili of the Joffrey Ballet.

Gunter Theatre at the Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Thurs, May 21, 7:30pm. $35. (864) 467-3000, peacecenter.org

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z The Duck Derby has been steadily growing over the last few years, with 2015’s goal set at 10,000 rubber duckies for community organizations to adopt and send down the Reedy. This year’s race benefits the Greenville Area Interfaith Hospitality Network, Polio Plus, Mauldin Miracle League, EarlyAct FirstKnight, and World Hunger.

Falls Park, 601 S Main St, Greenville. Sat, May 2, 10am–4pm. $10 per duck; $30 for 5. duckrace.com

Gallabrae Scottish Games Proving that Scots can do much more than drink heavily and look great in a variety of tartan patterns, this South-meets-Scots festival certainly can’t be missed. The ten-year celebration gets started with the Great Scot! Parade through downtown Greenville, followed by a bagpipe challenge. Join the clan on Saturday at Furman University for the Scottish Games (war paint optional), the British Car Show, historic demonstrations, and more before things close out with a Celtic Jam. Locations vary. Fri, May 22 & Sat, May 23; times vary.

Celtic Jam, $10; Games, free-$15. gallabrae.com

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Black & White Ball March 7, 2015 The Guild of the Greenville Symphony hosted its annual Black and White Ball at the Westin Poinsett Hotel.

Guests were joined by renowned Maestro Edvard Tchivzhel and his wife Luba, as they enjoyed fine dining, live entertainment, and silent and live auctions featuring a seven-night vacation in Tuscany, an Alaskan cruise, and much more. Proceeds from the ball will benefit the Greenville Symphony Orchestra.

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Heart of Steel Opening March 12, 2015 Hampton III Gallery welcomed art enthusiasts across the area to an opening reception for its month-long exhibition of Yuri Tsuzuki’s collection of sculptures titled Heart of Steel. A Japanese artist and Greenville resident, Tsuzuki was present at the reception to mingle with guests as they enjoyed light hors d’oeuvres and the vibrant lyricism of works the artist refers to as “calligraphy in three dimensions.”

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Katie Carnes & Seth Peterson January 10, 2015 Getting lost sometimes means you find something better. Seth had told Katie there was a fish fry on John’s Island, SC, but really Seth was planning on proposing at Brittlebank Park along the Ashley River.

However, when Seth turned down the road to head toward the Ashley River, Katie kept insisting that he had gone the wrong way. It wasn’t until they were strolling down the boardwalk that Seth got down on his knee and proposed at the very place the couple had taken their first solo date.

After the proposal, Seth stayed true to his word as the couple attended a surprise engagement party that happened to also be a fish fry. The couple’s reception took place in the Certus Loft at the Peace Center where the couple added personal touches like toothbrushes in their party favors that said “For your sweet tooth”—a nod to Katie’s work as an Upstate dentist. Katie and Seth, a real estate developer, live in Greenville.

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Elizabeth Koppang & Chandler Barton December 27, 2014 There’s just something exciting about starting college, and something romantic about exotic locations. Elizabeth and Chandler got a dose of both when they started their college experience with a study abroad trip to China before their freshman year at Furman. The couple dated for four years before getting engaged. Since Greenville is the place that brought them together, Chandler proposed outside of the Fourth Presbyterian Church. Eleven months later, the couple was wed there. During the ceremony, a close family friend sang “The Prayer,” accompanied by Greenville Symphony Orchestra’s Catherine Crowe on violin, which captured the spirit of the couple’s feelings toward each other.

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outh Carolina has always stirred the imagination of artists.

From portraiture set in the elegant drawing rooms of Charleston’s elite, to the rural plantations of antebellum days, our state has been the inspiration for a wide range of visual expression.

From now until September 6, the Greenville County Museum of Art will be showcasing supreme examples of artwork spanning 170 years by artists who resided in and resonated with South Carolina, in a colorful and varied exhibit titled Palmettopalooza.

The show comprises many pieces from the museum’s permanent collection, with 30 works they are eagerly trying to acquire through the Art for Greenville 2015 campaign. Doing so will help the museum preserve their Southern Collection of American Art as the best of its kind in the nation.

“The museum has a strong collection of works related to the South, either by subject or artist, and we highlight the entire state from the Lowcountry to the Upstate. The purpose of this show is to add depth to the museum’s collection, as well as see how various artists perceive the same or similar subject matter,” says Paula Angermeier, head of communications at the museum.

“We named it Palmettopalooza to celebrate the degree of artistic achievement in the Palmetto State.”

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The rooms are arranged chronologically, beginning with Romantic eighteenth-century portraits, progressing through the Antebellum and Civil War periods, and ending with recent contemporary works. Media includes watercolor, oil, etchings, screen prints, and sculpture.

Of particular interest is pottery done by literate slave potter and poet David Drake, who has three outstanding vessels on display from the museum’s large collection of his work.

Also noteworthy are paintings done during the Charleston Renaissance, which proved to be the catalyst that launched the preservation movement in Charleston. An Alice Ravenel Huger Smith woodblock print speaks volumes. Additionally, South Carolina–bred international art powerhouse Jasper Johns, one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century, is also represented.

Greenville County Museum of Art, 420 S College St. Wed–Sat, 10am–6pm; Sun, 1–5pm.

(864) 271-7570, gcma.org Palmettopalooza is on display until September 6, 2015.

Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Cotton Picker at Twilight, color woodblock print, circa 1917; Jasper Johns, Usuyuki, screenprint, 1981; Hugo Bosse, Whilden-Hirsch House, Charleston, gouache on paper board, circa 1860; David Drake, storage jar and pitchers jar, 1840 pitchers, alkaline glazed stoneware, circa 1850; artwork courtesy of the Greenville County Museum of Art

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Show Man Paul Savas pushes the boundaries of local theater at the Warehouse / by Ruta Fox

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or the past eight years, Paul Savas, executive director and artistic director of the Warehouse Theatre, has brought his passion for presenting top-quality theatrical performances to this city.

Although arts funding in the state continues to be in flux, he’s proving there’s a vibrant, entrepreneurial spirit alive and on stage in Greenville. We asked him why theater is important to a community and what’s ahead for the Warehouse.

Have you always been interested in the theater? >> It’s always been part of my life for as long as I can remember. In the eighth grade, I attended school in Kuala Lumpur and produced a show to raise money for the school. Running a non-profit theater has always been my dream.

Talk about the theater community’s growth in Greenville. >> Four theaters in a town of this size is remarkable. My goal is actually to make fewer and fewer talented theater people leave. We aim to increase the opportunities for theatrical artists to live in Greenville. We want to expand our touring program. We want to expose more young audiences to Shakespeare, and with the National Endowment for the Arts and BMW grants we’ve received, we are increasing our reach of going into schools and performing arts centers around South Carolina.

What do you hope to bring to the Warehouse in the future? >> I’m trying to build a theater “industry” here. With our programs, we are building a way for actors to really make a living here. I’ve been meeting with state legislators to get them thinking about theater as an “economic engine.” I’m asking for help in building public-private partnerships. We manufacture cars and tires here; we should manufacture theater, too.

What is the level of acting talent in this town? >> The level is super high and is getting better. We are dedicated to using local talent. We want to make the opportunities greater by paying legitimate salaries, and we feel with our diverse approach to education, teaching, and performing, we can create a total system that allows people to become working actors here.

Why is theater important to a community? >> For over 2,500 years, people have been attending theater. It brings communities together. It gives people the chance to think about what it means to be a human being, to escape reality or confront reality, sometimes at the same time.

What would you say to encourage people who don’t go to the theater? >> If you like good storytelling, thinking about big ideas, or being entertained, all at the same time, there’s nothing like the Warehouse. For whatever reason you are not coming to the theater, I’ve got something that will definitely dazzle you.

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T Mother Art A powerhouse group of women brings Artisphere to life

/ by Stephanie Trotter // photograph by Eli Warren

Artisphere runs May 8–10, where you can enjoy great food, performances, and more than 100 visual arts vendors.

For a full list of exhibitions, shows, and maps, go to artisphere.us.

his month, between May 8 and May 10, an estimated 70,000 will flood the streets of Greenville for Artisphere.

Expect to see dozens of artists puffing with pride over their creations on display.

Yet no one will beam more brightly than the trio of women who birth the art festival after a year of planning, preparation, and even pain. “I’m staring at the calendar right now,” chuckles executive director Kerry Murphy.

“This is the time of year when the rubber meets the road.”

These aren’t just like helicopter moms, hovering above the fray. They are Super Cobra attack helicopters, with the vision, accuracy, and operational acumen to produce an amazing event that entertains thousands. This will be Murphy’s eighth festival and marketing and communication manager Carrie Braun’s first. “It’s like I’m coming in at month seven of the

gestation,” says Braun, as she keeps the Mother Art theme going, describing prefestival planning for Artisphere’s three staff members. “We have amazing sponsors and volunteers and our board is incredible, but the daily workload is huge.”

What started as a few blocks of colorful exhibits snaking down Main Street in 2004 now features almost 200 artisans and performers driving $5.5 million into Greenville’s economy over three days.

Program director Liz Rundorff Smith rounds out the matriarchal festival staff and has been with the signature event the longest.

“I was hired right after the first festival,” she explains. “Back then, people would ask what I did, and they’d have no idea what I was talking about when I said ‘Artisphere.’

Now people know immediately what it is and are excited to talk about it. Every year, it becomes something much bigger.”

Like most mothers, the three toil away unnoticed the other 362 days of the year, feeding, guiding, and nurturing Greenville’s art scene. Like all parents, they work long hours, make sacrifices, and hope they’re building a foundation for success. “There are always new things to work on and every year there are issues you have to take in stride,” reveals Rundorff Smith. “You can never plan for what they’re going to be, but you just deal with it knowing you do the job to the best of your ability.” The trio’s done their job so well that the nation has noticed: Artisphere just grabbed a top-ten slot on USA Today’s Reader’s Choice poll for Best Art Festival, knocking out those in Chicago, San Francisco, and more. That’s a huge badge of success for these festivallovin’ mommas. Perhaps they’ll even get a bumper sticker to put on their car.

“I’m staring at the calendar right now. This is the time of year when the rubber meets the road.” —Kerry Murphy

Designing Women: Liz Rundor ff Smith, Carrie Braun, and Kerry Murphy are the three masterminds behind the annual Artisphere festival, which was recently voted number three in USA Today’s readers’ poll of the nation’s top-ten arts festivals.

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panish moss drips like tawny tinsel from the Live Oak trees along the road to the Inn at Palmetto Bluff, a 35-minute drive north of Savannah. After a mile or so, you’ll cross a small arched bridge spanning a quiet lagoon that provides refuge for wood storks, herons, egrets, and ibis. On the other side of the bridge, a picturesque grid of cottage-style homes huddles around the village green. Bordering the green along the May River sits the two-story River House, where you’ll find the inn’s reception desk, along with the fine-dining River House restaurant.

“The land here has always spoken to people,” notes Christine Wrobel, the inn’s PR and marketing manager. Decades before the inn was built, the natural beauty of this bluff—one of the highest in the area at a whopping 40 feet—called to R.T. Wilson, Jr., son of a New York railroad magnate. In 1913, Wilson purchased 18,000 acres of land and named it “Palmetto Bluff.” On the spot where the green is today, he erected a grand 72-room winter home, christened Palmetto Lodge.

Here the Wilsons entertained friends until the tragic day in 1926 when a fire broke out in the attic and burned the house to the ground. Wilson was so distraught that he never rebuilt the home.

Today, ruins of the stairs and three of the four white columns that once graced the façade stand as eerie reminders of another era.

Guest rooms now hide in a clutch of 50 clapboard cottages that tuck between venerable Live Oak trees, a short walk—or golf-cart ride—from the River House. Inside, these handsome havens are decked out in upscale Lowcountry style with a spacious bedroom and a separate sitting room with a flat-screen TV, gas fireplace, and a 52 TOWN / towncarolina.com

wet bar with refrigerator. Ample baths, featuring steam showers and free-standing soaking tubs, open to a dressing area with twin closets. Each cottage has a screened porch, most of which overlook the May River or the lagoon.

Around the grounds, you’ll find a tiny chapel with soaring Gothic-style windows and heart-pine pews and floors. Walk on to discover boutiques and a one-room museum detailing Palmetto Bluff’s history and archaeology. Atop the boathouse, the Canoe Club, whose wood-lined vaulted ceiling echoes the shape of its namesake craft, presents a menu that ranges from curry fish stew to a Kansas City strip.

When you’re not playing golf or tennis, you can work out in the fitness facility, indulge in a spa treatment, and take a dip in the pool. If you prefer to be on the water, the on-site outfitter will hook you up with a variety of boat tours. After dark, gather around the fire pits next to the River House, where the inn furnishes ingredients for s’mores.

Too much activity for you? Don’t feel guilty if you prefer to lean back in one of the lounge chairs on your screened porch, where birds whistle a soundtrack and you can revel in a slower pace of life as the river flows lazily by.

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to fully engage her passions alongside other visionaries and hone her self-described “all-over-the-place” artistic process.

After trying her hand at a mixed bag of careers in Colorado to Washington, D.C., Shain eventually signed on with a non-profit in Charleston. But no matter the city nor the job description, Greenville native Dorothy Shain returns to Shain couldn’t deny her creative hunger.

“I was seeing people my age in Charleston who were her home state as a young, driven artist doing art full-time,” she says. “I thought, ‘If they can do that, I can surely do that.’ So I turned in my notice and got into / by Mary Cathryn Armstrong Redux Studios.”

Shain says the roots of her artwork are the people she meets and the connections they share. Her diverse portfolio is ozart composed his first symphony by the age a realization of that very sentiment. Be it a simple ink-on-paper of eight. Ansel Adams began photographing of a local bakeshop, or a blend of colors on canvas, each piece Yosemite at 14. Emerging artist Dorothy Shain has embodies a sense of understated character and effortless-yetthem both beat in spades. She’s been painting intentional style. Shain has even translated her panache for since before she was even born. patterns into a collaboration with luxury pajama retailer Tink “When my mom was pregnant with me, she bought a bunch + Tiger, and, just to prove that life comes full circle, will be of Martha Stewart magazines, and just went crazy,” Shain teaching at a children’s art camp this summer. explains. “She felt like instead of craving food, she was craving this imaginative, ‘glitter everywhere’ kind of deal.”

For more on Dorothy Shain, Growing up in Greenville, Shain learned early on how to visit dorothyshain.com satisfy that same indelible appetite to create—dabbling in her mom’s garage studio or painting all of the family’s picture Art Walk: frames white to mimic the trends she saw on television. Her A Greenville native, Shain’s careers and schooling took her most “transformative” years were spent at Southern Methodist from SMU in Texas, to Colorado, to Washington, D.C., before University’s Meadows School of the Arts, where she was able landing in Charleston.

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outhern living, its ebb and flow as opaque and meandering as the Saluda, serves as a fertile backdrop for the greats. William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, and Harper Lee all used life below the Mason-Dixon to create captivating characters. Pat Conroy, Anne Tyler, and others have written their way down the South’s proverbial dusty road. So who will be the next James Lee Burke or Kathryn Stockett? Better yet, who will encourage, print, and promote the next generation of Southern authors, preserving the South on paper?

“We have eyes on becoming the premier literary publisher in the South. That’s where we’re going,” declares Betsy Teter, executive director of Hub City Writers Project. Before you close the book on that vision, take a look at the numbers.

HCWP is celebrating 20 years this month. The past two decades have included publishing 70 titles, featuring 700 authors, and selling 150,000 Hub City Press books. What started as a dream among three writers over coffee has grown into a nationally-recognized independent press, winning awards and revitalizing Spartanburg in the process. “We had no idea where we were going,” Teter says of her initial vision with husband John Lane and journalist Gary Henderson.

“We just grew organizationally based on what seemed to be working within the community.”

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For more information on the Hub City Writers Project, drop by their headquarters and bookstore at 186 W Main Street, Spartanburg, or visit hubcity.org.

Photography by Paul Mehaffey

Book Affair: The Hub City Writers Project celebrates 20 years of promoting regional literary talent and kickstarting Spartanburg’s cultural renaissance.

Initially, the trio wanted to create one book that preserved a “sense of place” about living in Spartanburg. Along the way, they gave the town a literary identity and a new focus on the old nickname: Hub City. “It comes from the railroads and was heavily used here in the ’20s and ’30s, at which point it died out,” Betsy shares. “We decided to re-adopt that name, and in the last five years, there’s been a mega-explosion of things naming themselves Hub City.” The area HCWP occupies has exploded, as well. As the project grew to include a bookshop inside the old Masonic Temple downtown, a luxury hotel and Grain District grew around it, morphing boarded up buildings and warehouses into an arts and entertainment destination.

Betsy predicted the growth. “Bookstores are really good for cities. The environment of a bookstore is something people value and want to hang on to. They know it’s good for their community, for their kids. Reading is important.”

HCWP has grown into the largest literary organization in South Carolina. The non-profit group has donated thousands of books to public schools, sponsored writers in residence, hosted youth summer writing camps, and donated more than $20,000 to emerging authors. As part of its anniversary celebration, HCP will release Minnow, by first-time author James E. McTeer II. “One day, I hope to live my life as a writer. That would be my dream,” reveals the Columbia school librarian. “They’ve done everything to get me on the way to my dream. I feel like I’m a part of the Hub City family.

It’s awesome synergy and it’s really exciting.”

When the hoopla dies down, HCWP will continue to discover, edit, and publish Southern writers’ novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and memoirs that emphasize the region.

Betsy says she has the best job possible. “We are able to rally the community through books, to love and appreciate what’s unique about our culture and history. I think we have had an important formative role in what Spartanburg is today.” It’s a novel with a never-ending ending that keeps getting better with each turn of the page.

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Old rockers never die. They just get another gig. Though Dr. Halverson tried to retire once before, he has accepted a role that takes him back to his first love: theater.

Swan Song The SC Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities bids farewell to its longtime president / by John Jeter

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ne of Dr. Bruce Halverson’s favorite songs remains “The Last Time,” a Rolling Stones tune that he and his band usually played to close their three-hour shows back in the late ’60s, when his bass helped pay his way through Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Now, the 70-year-old academian’s changing his tune, perhaps another song the Stones made famous: “Not Fade Away.”

President of the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities since 2007, Halverson’s stepping aside in June. But old rockers never die. They just get another gig. Though he tried to retire once before, he has accepted a role that takes him back to his first love: theater.

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and asked me to help them transition to this new building,” he says, referring to the private school’s new theater in Greenville, where his son, Cole, 15, is a freshman. (His wife, Nancy, serves as president and CEO of The Children’s Museum of the Upstate.)

“I felt like it was time to get out of the way; I feel like I’ve done my part,” he says of his time at the Governor’s School.

Still, he names an ongoing challenge there: “We have to make people in South Carolina aware that there’s this extraordinary opportunity for kids who are passionate about the arts. The more people know about it, the more you can build a broader base of support for government funding.”

He lauds the state legislature’s ongoing support, but says he won’t miss all the regulatory paperwork. More than that, though: “I’m going to miss the students. Certainly, I’m going to see students at Christ Church—that’s why I’m in education—but here, I enjoy the chance to see them and hear them perform. It’s just thrilling to see. Sometimes, when I walk the hallways, I can hear kids start the songs and start practice” when they first arrive on campus.

“Maybe they’ve never played in an ensemble before, and I’m saying, ‘Whoa, this is pretty rough.’ And by the end of the semester, it’s terrific.”

Beyond that, he gets a huge thrill from seeing students discover opportunities they never knew existed— “especially kids who have no resources, who have dysfunctional families, who’ve never heard of Juilliard or University of Chicago. To see these kids have a chance to do incredible things.”

The school itself offers its soon-to-be president emeritus all best wishes, too. “Dr. Halverson’s accomplishments during his tenure at the Governor’s School are numerous,” says Julie Allen, Dean and Vice President of Arts and Academics. “We look forward to building upon Dr. Halverson’s legacy.”

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Greenville native Maggie Gould’s got the world on a string

Photograph by Charles Quiles; courtesy of Maggie Gould

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aggie Gould leaves for London in a few days.

Still, on a recent Monday morning, she’s delighted to stop for an hour and take a look back at her violin career. Let’s see . . . she has performed with Stevie Wonder before a sold-out crowd of 18,200 at Madison Square Garden; appeared on America’s Got Talent; backed up Elvis Costello and The Roots on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, OK Go on Letterman, and David Guetta on Good Morning America; appeared at Royal Albert Hall and Carnegie Hall; and helped establish a youth orchestra in a small Central American country. That’s just to name a few feats, so far.

“Everything feels like everything just happened yesterday,” she says on Skype from her spare Brooklyn apartment. “It all seems so close together. It’s not like I can look back 10 years and go, ‘Oh, I . . . ’” That’s because everything pretty much did happen yesterday. Maggie’s only 25 years old. Her bill-paying career began in 2012, after she graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago. Then she moved to New York, and then to Belize (the former British Honduras), and then back to New York.

“She uses music as a vehicle for discovering the world,” says Katie Dey, a faculty member at the Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities, where Maggie just last month shared the President’s Young Alumni Award with Nicole Beharie, co-star of Fox’s Sleepy Hollow series.

Yes, Maggie has discovered a pretty big world since she began toying with music in her Greenville hometown. “I was playing on a box when I was 5 years old. Seriously, it was a box that had a paint stirrer attached to simulate a violin,” she says.

But the time she reached middle school, she almost gave up the instrument. Her parents suggested she give the violin one last shot before high school. “‘And if you hate it,’” she was told, “‘then you can officially quit for good.’ So, I went to the camp and totally fell in love with it all over again . . . and from that point on, it became heavy-duty-this-is-what-I-want-to-do, and I just kept pushing and haven’t stopped.”

Another of Maggie’s instructors, Lucie Fink, retired now from teaching but still performing, got a hold of the young talent at the Fine Arts Center’s Arts Reaching Middle & Elementary Schools (A.R.M.E.S.) program.

“They say every artist—and Maggie is an Artist—has three teachers: the first one is the teacher who teaches a student to love their art, the second one is the disciplinarian . . . and the third one puts it all together.

I hope that I was her first teacher who taught her to love what she is doing.”

Fink has nothing to worry about. Maggie clearly loves the path she’s carving, using tools she’s picked up along the way that allow her to play a Stevie Wonder song or an Elvis Costello tune with barely a day’s notice and usually little or no rehearsal.

“If I was stuck inside my music, stuck on my music stand, on my own fingers and my own bowings, then there’s no way you can look up and see what’s going on and jam out and put it together, not if you’re totally in your own zone,” Maggie says. “I definitely credit Katie Dey for that, getting out of your own instrument and playing with other people and working as a team.”

Maggie frequently mentions her family’s unending support and her network of friends, even while she downplays the hard dues she’s paid. When she first moved to New York, she worked at the Grey Dog, a four-store chain of coffee shops in lower Manhattan.

She clocked in from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., taught a couple of paying lessons and then played a gig, if she had one.

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Hometown Hero: Maggie Gould recently recieved the President’s Young Alumni Award from the Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities, which recognized, in part, her teaching efforts in Belize.

“It was a bizarre four months that I spent here. I was like, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing, I’m working in a restaurant for hours, I’m practicing my instrument, but what am I heading toward?

What am I doing?’” she says.

After one particularly disappointing lesson, she says, “I just had a realization: this is not the path for me—to keep taking lessons, to keep taking these huge orchestra auditions. This is just not it. And I walked out of the school bawling, flatout sobbing, like, ‘What am I doing?’ I’m walking around in this concrete jungle, and I’m stuck, and it was a claustrophobic feeling.”

That day, she returned to her Upper West Side apartment, opened her laptop and saw an email about a teaching position available . . . in Belize.

The government’s Institute of Culture and History soon hired her, through a “supercasual” hiring process. She spent five months on the Caribbean coast, where she most fondly remembers a certain 12-year-old boy. He didn’t have the money to enroll in the program, she says, but he still showed up every day. He’d ride his bike, but “half the time, his bicycle chain would break, so he would walk three miles. He didn’t have shoes.”

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She’d give him a free 15- or 30-minute lesson.“That really did it for me,” says Maggie. “It really showed me that I love to teach just as much as I love to perform. It just made me super-passionate about music for social change, because it’s unreal that these kids can be taken out of their kind-of-scary home environments, and they feel safe just holding an instrument.”

Dey says Maggie even created a guest-artist residency as part of the program there, and invited her to come and help out for a week. In nominating Maggie for the Governor’s School alumni award, Dey wrote: “During those seven days, I heard countless times from students and their families how much information and inspiration ‘Miss Maggie’ was sharing with them. . . . Margaret Gould is indeed using music as a tool for change.”

Miss Maggie doesn’t have to work at a coffee shop anymore. Her calendar’s sprinkled with mega-gigs, including a couple more “Songs in the Key of Life” shows with Mr. Wonder. And she just returned from the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in Aldeburgh, a coastal town 87 miles northeast of London.

Maria Dobing, who recruited Maggie for the prestigious professional-development program, met the young South Carolinian in Mexico City in 2011 and was immediately taken with her humility, good sense of humor, and even her Southern upbringing.

“She’s quite grounded, she’s a down-to-earth girl,” Dobing says in a phone interview from Suffolk, UK. “I only find her to be friendly and kind, really grateful for opportunities that come her way, and she takes them with both hands.”

Photographs by Charles Quiles; courtesy of Maggie Gould

“I was playing on a box when I was 5 years old. Seriously, it was a box that had a paint stirrer attached to simulate a violin.”

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Island Escape The Bahamas encourage the Man to change his tune

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t wasn’t long after my second Bahama Mama that I found myself on a paddle board slicing through the crystal clear waters of Winding Bay. I had only been in the Bahamas for a few hours and already I had broken several of my many personal rules: don’t drink beverages the color of Skittles, don’t get in water above your knees, and never take your shirt off in public. But here I was, pale, bare-chested, and struggling to balance on an oversized surf board in twenty feet of water. I looked like a hirsute Michelin Man with vertigo. Yet I was smiling from ear to ear. Was it the sun? The rum? Or had I just become someone who likes the beach?

As far as vacation spots go, beaches have never been at the top of my list. Perhaps this is due to my childhood memories of family beach trips: the jellyfish that stung my leg, the sharp shell that cut my toe, the wave that ripped off my bathing suit, and the tide that pulled it out to sea. For me the beach has always been a dangerous and potentially embarrassing place. Plus, it’s full of annoyances. There’s hot sand and burning UV rays, pesky bugs and screaming children, and hairy guys in Speedos who look like ZZ Top in surgical masks. But this place was different—a private and secluded club with two miles of beach for around 25 guests.

The Bahama Mama was not my idea. When I first approached the beachside bar, I ordered a gin and tonic but the bartender, a young Bahamian woman named Sheree, handed me a menu and suggested I try one of the specialties. I pointed to the first drink on the list—apparently they were in alphabetical order— and was soon drinking something that looked and tasted like

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spiked Gatorade. Sheree asked me how I liked it. “Great,” I said, covering my mouth out of fear my teeth were now purple.

During the week, I paddle-boarded, snorkeled, sea-kayaked, and worked my way barefoot and shirtless down Sheree’s drink list, finishing up with Zombies on my final night. The bartenders controlled the sound system, and on that night Sheree played a mix of Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye that weaved together seamlessly with the sound of the crashing surf. I couldn’t remember ever being so relaxed. As the night wore on, another bartender grabbed the controls and soon Kenny Rogers was crooning “Baby, when I met you there was peace unknown / I set out to get you with a fine-tooth comb.” The ten or so people around the bar began to sing along, and breaking my last rule of the week, I joined them—my Zombie raised high in the air as the lyrics to “Islands in the Stream” poured out from somewhere deep within my subconscious.

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Warrior Poet Glenis Redmond’s voice carries far and wide, from the Peace Center to the Kennedy Center / by Kathleen Nalley

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n recent years, Glenis Redmond has logged more than 360,000 miles on her car. She travels the country, meeting students and elders, teachers, and administrators. She shares and encourages. She cries and laughs and dances (a lot!). She inspires.

And she is a poet.

“I help people find their voices,” says Redmond. “That is the most important thing there is. I try to be a poetic bridge.”

Whatever you hold in your mind as what a poet is, what she looks or acts like, be ready to rid yourself of the stereotype. Redmond is a working poet. A hustling poet. A road warrior poet. She makes her living—and her life—as a teaching artist with a social justice angle, most interested in the disenfranchised, that individual who has not had the opportunity to express his or her own voice.

Redmond’s current bio reads like one found on the back of a lifetime achievement award: a Greenville native,

she holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College; she is an esteemed Cave Canem Fellow and also a NC Literary Fellowship recipient from the NC Arts Council; she participated on the task force that created the first writerin-residence at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site; she’s written hundreds, if not thousands, of poems and has published in literary journals and anthologies across the country; her book Under the Sun has been bought and read widely; she is a Kennedy Center teaching artist and is listed in their National Touring Directory; she is the poet-in-residence at State Theatre, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the poet-in-residence at the Peace Center for the Performing Arts, here in Greenville.

More than 21 years ago, this is the path that Redmond deliberately chose. As a mother of toddler twins with an ever-present heart of an artist, she was unsatisfied with working a “normal” job. “When I made a vow to poetry I was living below the poverty level, but I was committed,” remembers Redmond. “I kept thinking to myself, ‘What would happen to my life if I just did this?’”

Redmond got her break when a booking agent heard her perform poetry at a unity show in protest of a KKK rally in Asheville, North Carolina. Through this agent, Redmond got a glimpse of the future: that there was indeed a place in this world as a career poet.

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residence that puts miles on her car to share her voice and to enable the voices of others. She works with teachers who understand the value of poetry in the classroom. She often spends a week at a time in each locale, teaching students the power of the poetic word.

Claims Redmond, “When I go into these schools, I am like the vitamin shot—perhaps a little painful at first, but full of life-giving and life-affirming stuff at the end.”

More locally, through Peace Voices, the Peace Center’s newest outreach initiative, Redmond visits local middle and high schools, working with students and their teachers in brainstorming and writing activities. Most conclude in student-written poetry that explores both personal and public themes, such as the reactions to the tragedies of Ferguson or Trayvon Martin.

As an extension of this work with youth, Peace Voices involves students in poetry slam competitions, which offer a venue for young writers to perform their original poetry.

Redmond has a particular fondness for performance poetry, as slam was her entry point early in her career. “Before I got my MFA, I got my master’s on the road performing Poetry Alive! shows three times a day, five days a week during the day and competing in poetry slams at night,” she says. “I gained my poetic ear with this kind of stage rigor.”

Peace Voices Poets is a separate leg of the program, where students participate in an ongoing poetry workshop at Ramsaur Studio every other week for two to three hours per session. The center just “graduated” its first class last year. Peace Voices also offers public poetry readings, allowing locals to share their own words, as well as hear nationally-recognized poets.

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Grand Slam: Redmond cut her teeth on the live poetry circuit and is now a poet-inresidence at the Peace Center in Greenville, as well as at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ, and is a teaching artist at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

>> Redmond works with the Peace Center’s Peace Voices program as its poetin-residence, promoting spoken word poetry among Upstate youth. Likewise, through Peace Voices, Redmond works with adult writers who want to hone their craft. Upcoming events include the Youth Poetry SLAM Showcase on May 23 (4–6 p.m.) in Ramsaur Studio; and adult poetry workshops (May 26 & 28, 6:30–8 p.m. in Ramsaur Studio). For more, peacecenter.org/ community-engagement/ peace-voices

It’s her work through Peace Voices’ community poetry workshops, however, that epitomizes Redmond’s ideals of inclusivity and informs her goal to be a poetic bridge. These Saturday workshops held at Ramsaur Studio encompass the whole community: from the middle school and high school student to the Ph.D., from writer and artist to the 80-yearold elder, from the professional looking to enrich his living to the parent wanting an outlet for her voice. Truly, these workshops are designed for “people from all walks of life,” and the supportive atmosphere sets the tone for participants to safely and confidently share their words (and maybe even bare their souls).

“If you look at the Peace Center as a whole, Ramsaur Studio is like a third stage for the community,” says Redmond. “Peace Voices has the potential to have wings, to be a mainstay for the center and the community. I am so glad and thankful that [Peace Center president and CEO] Megan Riegel opened the doors to poetry.”

Poet Glenis Redmond: A road warrior? Absolutely. A poetic bridge? Unequivocally.

And she is building that poetic bridge right alongside the Liberty Bridge through the thickest artery of Greenville. She is building a bridge in all those communities she visits up and down the East Coast.

And, especially to the disenfranchised students who experience having their own voices heard for the first time, she is most certainly building a bridge to the future.

“When you look in their eyes,” Redmond says, “it’s as if they are saying back, ‘I’ve been waiting for you. What took you so long to get here?’”

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Many of Greenville’s artists have joined forces for the greater creative good. (Opposite, clockwise from top left) the hands of Karen Leigh of The Ward Artist Studios; a curious party favor courtesy of the artists of The Ward; photographer Blake Smith works on a print at ArtBomb; Teri Peña’s studio at ArtBomb; Caroline Lott, founder of White Whale Studios; (this page) artist Craig King is also a seasoned trumpet player; Blake Smith’s studio; Elizabeth Shanks’s colorful chaos at the ArtBomb; artist Karen Leigh uses a variety of materials to create her paintings.

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Artist Suzanne Vitti (left) of The Ward Artist Studios creates ceramic and mosaic art, including the cover for this month’s issue. Vitti started the collective in 2013, after moving to SC from Detroit.

She and the other artists want to bring an urban artistic sensibility to Greenville.

Now Vitti occupies two of the 12-by12-foot rooms; the rest are rented to others who blend together as brilliantly as disparate oils on a much-used painter’s palette. A Detroit native and ceramicist, Vitti gave the studios the name—The Ward—not just because the building was one once, but because she and her colleagues would fit nicely into a clinic for the defiantly offbeat.

“We’re more edgy here,” says Kay Larch, who’s perhaps the best-known Upstate artist there, a painter who fled the escalating rising rents in the arts-centric Village of West Greenville. “Here, we put this stuff out there, where people say, ‘No! No, you can’t do that in Greenville.’ ”

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2015 action film; Ties That Bind, a 2011 drama; and In The Name of Freedom, a 2010 short-action drama, to name a few. She’s also what you might call a producer for The Ward Artist Studios—that is, she’s providing an affordable lease to an off-kilter band of artists who have taken over her building at 110 Wardlaw Street.

The red-brick building itself tells a story as colorful as the artists who moved in after it had sat empty for seven years. The place started out as a “private general-type hospital with only nine bedrooms,” according to a 1950 report titled Everybody’s Business: A Self-Survey of Conditions Affecting the Negro Population of the Greenville Area.

Yes, the building once served black patients only. Boyenne’s grandfather, Dr. E.E. McClaren, was one of just three AfricanAmerican physicians in town; denied a practice at Greenville Memorial, he opened the clinic in 1949. He performed surgeries in one of its small rooms, including the one where you can still see the black-and-white tile floors and where Suzanne Vitti, the studios’ founder and owner, says she returned an old scrub sink that she and her fellow artists rescued from the basement.

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the residents of the Ward Artist Studios don’t just work outside the box, they seem to wonder whether there even is a box.

Liz Lynch, a watercolorist who shares a space with her husband Jeff, chimes in: “All of these folks have such a creative energy, and it just brings you up, lifts you up.”

Boyenne says she helps the year-old commune, too, simply by leasing to artists rather than selling the property to anxious developers hovering nearby—the fastgentrifying area across Academy Street from the Kroc Center. “I’m committed to the community, to the arts, which I’m very fond of,” she says. And though she’s talking from her Los Angeles office, she says she’s committed to Greenville as a whole. After all, as a girl, she spent summers here visiting her grandparents, far from her New Jersey

Kymberly Day focuses on animals, landscapes, and the human form in her dramatic sculptures, drawings, and paintings; Michelle Petty creates expressive figures in clay.

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home. She remembers playing in the clinic with her brother, ignoring her granddad’s warnings of a boogieman in the basement.

Nowadays, the creative boogieman runs rampant throughout the two-story, 3,000-square-foot building.

When a visitor dropped in one afternoon, WAS’s artists were preparing for yet another open house, a show they called Curiosities; a neighbor, the Swamp Rabbit Inn, sponsored the show. At the center of everyone’s attention was a table brimful of very-weird curiosities: dolls and toys that would star in the show— decapitated Barbies, trolls, bizarre plastic aliens, creatures with barely unidentifiable anthropomorphic characteristics, action figures of questionable origin, even Pez dispensers gone bad.

Yes, the WAS folks don’t just work outside the box, they seem to wonder whether there even is a box; one of them, Jill Schmidt, a painter, sculptor and photographer, offers psychic-medium services here, too.

Is Greenville ready for all that?

“We want to do the shows that you see in Miami or Detroit,” Vitti says, while Larch adds that she and the rest of the WAS artists believe that the Upstate’s poised to embrace them . . . in much the same way that the world grew to accept Elvis.

“I think they’re ready,” she says of the Upstate’s burgeoning arts-scene supporters, “ready for something Elvis. We are Elvis.”

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Emily Jeffords, an impressionist landscape painter, prepares her palette (left) before tackling the canvas (below); Kate Landishaw’s work (bottom left) explores abstracted forms inspired by trees.

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that has become a light-drenched, collaborative space for working artists. These residents describe The White Whale Studios and Gallery as a positive place, a refuge of sorts—safe yet energizing, raw and real, and, ultimately, beautiful.

“Working here is joyful,” says Caroline Lott, owner and resident artist who specializes in illustrations and portraiture.

“Artists are excited to be with each other, supporting one another’s work,” adds Kate Landishaw, resident artist who focuses on lyrical abstractions. “Our work is not cohesive, but our energy together is quite cohesive.”

Lott and her husband purchased the house after seeing a tarp outside with “for sale” handpainted in red. Serendipitous, perhaps, as what Lott thought merely a revitalization project evolved into an arts studio.

THE ARTISTS OF THE WHITE WHALE SAILED THROUGH ROUGH WATERS

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“We purchased the house right when the economy began to downturn,” says Lott. “It was an especially hard time for working artists.

We decided as artists, we weren’t going to get stuck in this economy. We were going to work, against the odds, doing what we are called to do, much like the determined white whale outwitting Captain Ahab in Moby Dick.’”

The space’s energy contributes to the work being done inside. Originally a teacher’s boarding house built in 1890, the home has gone through many iterations: a mill worker boarding house, a boxing training facility, a bed and breakfast. The house had been abandoned for 30 years when the Lotts turned it into The White Whale.

“People come in, fall in love, and don’t ever want to leave,” says Emily Jeffords, who is perhaps best known for her pastel landscapes and for being the resident social media guru.

Julie Dodds (above) arranges plants in her space. A floral artist, Dodds is representative of the noncompetitive diversity of artists at The White Whale.

“The house, the art, the ideas, each individual . . . it’s like a living organism that’s constantly changing and growing.”

The White Whale started with three artists.

Today, the facilities house nine, including, in addition to Lott, Landishaw, and Jeffords: Allie and Levi Monday, a wife-husband photography team; Sarah Lyons, who works in fine art and graphic design; Julie Dodds, floral artist; Craig King, who specializes in portraiture; and Jacki Newell, known for her paintings of Greenville.

“Our work does not compete and that’s very important for a working studio,” says Lott. “Because of this, we support and promote one another.”

Recently, The White Whale artists have begun hosting “creative lunches” on the second Tuesday of the month, wherein members of the Greenville creative community gather, share ideas, converse, and gain inspiration from one another.

The lunches typically bring together 30–40 diverse creatives, with attendees ranging

While You’re Here Green thumbs meet music junkies at the Sans Souci Community Garden. The garden, which is tended by Sans Souci residents, is also the site of a monthly outdoor concert series that runs through the fall. Keep an eye on these garden concerts—the series already has an impressive roster of alums including Angela Easterling, Darby Wilcox, Saul Conrad, and Tonight’s Noise.

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Working Lunch White Whale Studios opens the second Tuesday of each month to offer “creative lunches,” open to anyone interested in discussing work, sharing ideas, and generally communing with fellow creatives.

Second Tuesday of each month at The White Whale, 401 Smythe St, Greenville. For more information, email whitewhalestudios@gmail.com

from teen to elderly, from visual artist to graphic artist.

“It’s an exciting mix of people from all types of creative backgrounds,” says Levi Monday. “We’d love to see this idea spread and The White Whale become a microcosm of the potential collaboration of creatives all over Greenville.”

“I think there can be a lot of fear when it comes to collaborating with others,” says Allie Monday. “But, the spirit here is inviting, energizing, and honest.”

The artists want to extend this positive reach of The White Whale, whether through community outreach or simply by folks visiting the studios and gallery.

“We want The White Whale to be accessible to people,” says Dodds. “So they can be inspired; so they, too, can experience the joy of this space.”

Learn more about The White Whale at whitewhalestudios.com. To visit the studio at 401 Smythe Street, shoot them an email at whitewhalestudios@gmail.com.

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(This page, clockwise from top left) Inspiration and works-in-progress

by ArtBomb artist Tim Speaker; a portrait by Craig King; photography equipment used by Allie & Levi Monday at The White Whale; Jeff Lynch at work at The Ward; a view from Kay Larch’s studio; a furry studio visitor at the ArtBomb; (opposite page, clockwise from top left) a painting by Teri Peña; Allie & Levi Monday enjoy a little downtime; an intricate paper cut-out by ArtBomb artist Elizabeth Shanks; painter Jacki Newell’s palette at The White Whale

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THE ARTBOMB IN WEST GREENVILLE USHERED IN A CREATIVE MOVEMENT

by Steven Tingle

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IT’S BEEN FOURTEEN YEARS SINCE DIANE KILGORE CONDON OPENED THE ARTBOMB IN WEST GREENVILLE, and for her, it’s gone by in

a flash. “It’s been pretty interesting to see how fast time has gone,” she says. “We’ve gone from being the young upstarts to the middle-aged people down the street. It’s been astonishing.”

The story begins in the early 2000s when rising rents pushed Condon out of the studio space she had been renting on Coffee Street. Her search for a new space took her far and wide until she happened upon an old abandoned building on Pendleton Street. Up until this point West Greenville had not been on her radar. In fact, back then West Greenville was not on many people’s radar. The mills that had provided the economic backbone of the town were long shuttered and the area had become depressed and depressing.

But Diane fell in love with the building and within a year had formed a non-profit, created a business plan, secured loans, and on a shoestring budget remodeled the 10,000 square foot former Brandon Mill company store into studio space for fifteen working artists. Some people thought she was crazy, or as she puts it, “a nut job out in West Greenville.” But what no one, including Diane, knew at the time was that she had just started the West Greenville art movement.

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A group of impassioned artists and arts supporters have pooled their resources, time, and talent to open the Greenville Center for Creative Arts on May 1 as a hub for a spectrum of Upstate visual arts. The refurbished former Brandon Mill now houses studios for working artists and a variety of classes, including in clay, sculpting jewelry, printmaking, and more. The center will also feature exhibitions and a variety of programs to foster community arts appreciation.

Classes, $280 plus materials fee. Spring term begins May 11-June 22. For more information, artcentergreenville.org/ classes

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(top left) Paul Flint works in studio; ArtBomb’s copious space works well for artist Katie Walker’s largeformat works.

Some people thought she was crazy, But what no one, including Diane, knew at the time was that she had just started the West Greenville art movement.

Diane Kilgore Condon needed an affordable spot to make art.

In the early 2000s, she founded the ArtBomb in West Greenville, which now houses 15 artists and sprung an arts movement to the area; (below) Kilgore Condon poses in her studio; the artist’s bird paintings.

everything that can happen to people has happened. During those times, the ArtBomb becomes a sanctuary. We cook dinner together. We listen to each other.”

Of the fifteen ArtBomb artists, a few have been there since its inception and the majority have been there at least ten years or more. “We’ve become a family,” Diane says. “We really do love each other.” Artist Paul Flint agrees. “I’ve been here fourteen years,” he says. “And it’s as close to family as anything I’ve ever experienced.”

“It’s also an excellent chance to get to work with other artists,” says Paul’s brother Greg Flint, an instructor at the Fine Arts Center. “We still work by ourselves, but there’s always someone just down the hall if we need some feedback. And most of them are good cooks.”

Unlike many of the studios in West Greenville, the ArtBomb is rarely open to the public. A couple of the artists are there several days a week, but most have “day jobs,” and when they’re at the ArtBomb, they are solely focused on making art.

“For us, art is not a gig, it’s a calling,” says Diane. “It’s hard to cook down ideas if you’re constantly distracted. But we open four or five times a year, and the walls are packed with work.”

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Lou Ellen Beckham-Davis basks in the light shining through her stained-glass works in the sanctuary of Aldersgate United Methodist Church.

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IT COULD BE ARGUED THAT LOU ELLEN BECKHAM-DAVIS’S CAREER IN STAINED GLASS BEGAN DUE TO A LACK OF TELEVISION.

Growing up, she was allowed only one half hour of TV a day, so unlike most kids who were planted in front of the tube, she spent her time exploring arts and crafts. More often than not she became so enthralled in what she was working on that she missed her half hour of TV without even realizing it.

Beckham-Davis’s first love was drawing and painting, but a visit to a local craft shop in search of a new paintbrush changed her artistic direction.

“They were selling stained glass, and I thought it was really neat,” she says. “So I went to the library and checked out all of the books I could find on it and started teaching myself.” Later, Beckham-Davis returned to the craft shop to take an introductory class. “I wanted to design my own pattern right off the bat,” she says. “The instructor said, ‘You’ll never be able to do this.’ But you never tell a 15-year-old they can’t do something. It was a mirror for my wall in my room, and I made it. I still have it somewhere.”

Creating stained-glass art is an elaborate process, or as Beckham-Davis puts it, After Beckham-Davis received an MFA “There’s an awful lot to it.” in stained glass from LSU, she returned The first step is to create a to Greenville to open her own studio. design, which can be an original For more than 20 years, she has taught a class in stained glass at Greenville drawing or something pulled Tech, as well as classes in her studio, and produced commissioned works for public and private spaces.

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from a stained-glass pattern book. Once that is complete, the real work begins: tracing the design, cutting out the different sections, selecting the glass colors, tracing the sections onto the glass, cutting the glass, cutting and fitting the lead around the glass pieces, and then soldering the lead to hold everything together. “I really enjoy the drawing and sketching,” says Beckham-Davis, “because that’s the creative part. But I also enjoy working with color and putting colors together.”

Since childhood, Beckham-Davis has pursued a life of art. After finishing high school, she attended Winthrop University where she majored in graphic design. She earned her degree in 1983, which was an unfortunate time for graphic design graduates. “In 1984, the Macintosh came out,” she says. “And that replaced everything we had learned by hand.” With her newly acquired yet already antiquated knowledge of graphic design, Beckham-Davis decided to go back to school. “When I was at Winthrop, I took a summer and went to Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee,” she says. “The instructor had graduated with a masters in stained glass from LSU, so I heard all about the program at LSU through him and knew that’s what I wanted to do. So I graduated from Winthrop, took one semester off, and then went to LSU and got my MFA in stained glass.”

Beckham-Davis graduated from LSU in 1987 and returned to Greenville with plans to open a stained-glass studio. “I guess I didn’t take a business class,” she says. “Because I didn’t realize how much money it would take to open a studio.” Armed with a Master of Fine Arts degree, Beckham-Davis took a job as a secretary at a moving and storage company. “I was a terrible secretary,” she says. But around this same time she approached Greenville Tech with the suggestion they offer a stained-glass class. She has now been teaching that class since 1990.

Beckham-Davis finally opened her own studio, which was located on Wade Hampton Boulevard. She was there for 15 years before moving the LEB Glass Studio to its current location on Pine Knoll Drive three-and-half years ago. The studio is part retail shop, part workspace, and part school, as Beckham-Davis continues to teach her six-week Greenville Tech class in the studio as well as other classes, including mosaics, enameling, and fusing. One of the most popular classes is the “Park Bench Mosaics,” a one-day class where students design and craft a glass mosaic on the top of a cement park bench. “It’s fun to watch somebody cut their first piece of glass,” says Beckham-Davis. “They get real excited about it.” Another popular class is glass-fusing, which involves melting glass in a kiln. According to

Beckham-Davis’s work can be found in area churches and public spaces, including (from left to right) the Greenville Memorial Hospital chapel, Buncombe Street United Methodist Church, and the Woodlawn Cemetery chapel.

Upcoming Classes Beckham-Davis, it is a great opportunity to gain a better understanding of glass and how it reacts under heat.

When not teaching classes, BeckhamDavis is busy creating her art. Most of her work, at least 75 percent she calculates, is commissioned pieces. Greenville churches such as Aldersgate United Methodist, Taylors First Baptist, and Buncombe Street Methodist have Beckham-Davis pieces. Her work is also on display in many local homes, including her own, where she created three arches over bedroom windows and a front entrance with two sidelights and a door panel.

For Lou Ellen Beckham-Davis, it was a chance stop at a small craft store many years ago that put her on a course she has followed ever since. She spends her days creating beautiful works of stained glass and teaching others the joys of creating their own works of art. But, as busy as she stays, surely she now takes a little time to watch TV. “I don’t watch it at all,” she says. “I’ve got too much to do. But now my husband, he’s addicted to it.”

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Packing a Punch: (clockwise from left) A naked burrito bowl; the Mexican Ashtray, a 12-oz Tecate with salted rim, topped with lime juice, hot sauce, and black pepper; a glimpse into Willy Taco’s eclectic interior; the Baja fish taco, with beer-battered cod, cabbage, pico, and cilantro-lime crema

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own the road from Converse College on Main Street in Spartanburg, a vibrant orange and red sign announces Willy Taco. Turn in to the parking lot, and you’ll notice that part of the small building’s façade is constructed from metal shipping containers. This ambience sets the tone for the experience to come: a fresh, funky fusion of personalities, décor, and food.

The restaurant is also zero-waste, working with Spartanburg-based recycling and composting outfit Junk Matters.

Five partners, with decades of restaurant experience among them, banded together to open Willy Taco in November 2014.

Three of the partners (Richard Heatly and brothers William and Kenneth Cribb) are in their 30s, while the other two (Bill Burton and Eric Holman) are older and wiser. Each brings a different set of skills to the table. “Between us, we balance youthful exuberance and spontaneity with prudence and experience, and it ends up being a beautiful marriage,” says Kenneth Cribb, who handles the restaurant’s PR and marketing.

The décor, which partner Eric Holman describes as “Mexican, tacky, eclectic, and urban-industrial,” runs from old bench car seats—some complete with seat belts—on the enclosed front patio to the Day-of-the-Dead-meets-industrial-chic motif that embellishes the dining space and bar. Mexican folk art hangs on the walls and industrial fans hung with bare Edison bulbs serve as chandeliers.

Church pews form banquette seating along the back wall.

Conceived by Chef William Cribb, of Hub City favorite Cribbs Kitchen, the menu highlights freshly made tacos in a fusion of

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flavors. The classic Baja fish taco is a light and perfectly fried rendition paired with crunchy shaved cabbage and drizzled with cilantro-lime crema. But the taco menu does not rest in Mexico.

It travels around the globe with Asian-inspired cumin-crusted yellowfin tuna and marinated sirloin with Argentine chimichurri, only to end up in the South. The Southern Tide, Willy’s most popular taco, combines succulent fried shrimp with smoked bacon, pimiento cheese, and chipotle ranch dressing.

Wash down those tacos and tortas with one of 60 tequilas available at the bar. Or perhaps you’d prefer the Mexican Ashtray, a 12-ounce can of Tecate rimmed with salt and littered with habanero hot sauce, lime juice, and enough black pepper to resemble cigarette ashes. Pop the top, and all that spicy, sour, and peppery goodness slides into the beer, giving it a fiery, salt-andpepper bite.

Like any Mexican eatery worth its margarita salt, Willy’s plans to hold a party for Cinco de Mayo. However, Willy’s will throw their Cinco de Mayo bash on Cuatro de Mayo (Monday, May 4th), when the parking lot will be fenced off and cars will be replaced with taco and tequila tents, three live bands, and a local artist doing Day of the Dead face painting. No matter when you go, don’t miss this fusion of fun.

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El Diablo, that is. This tempting mix of tequila, lime juice, and crème de cassis, finished with ginger beer, is as authentically Mexican as most Cinco de Mayo celebrations held all over America. Which is to say, not very. The rosyhued drink’s origin story is a mystery, but its first known appearance came in Trader Vic’s Book of Food and Drink—a 1946 tiki bar bible that’s recently become a retro source of inspiration for mixologists. Tucked in with recipes for rum punch and Mai Tais, the tequila-based El Diablo is a bit of an oddball for its time. But its charms have held up over the decades—as its recent revival is proving.

The crème de cassis—not your typical pairing for tequila—acts as sweetener, balancing the tart lime and smooth, vegetal tequila with deep fruit flavor. A generous splash of ginger beer balances and refreshes, making this new summer favorite even easier to sip. El Diablo is an American invention—but in many ways, so are our guacfilled, sombrero-sporting Cinco de Mayo celebrations.

And that has never stopped us from raising a glass to our neighbor down south.

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Charcuterie—salted, cured, brined, smoked, and otherwise prepared meat products—was originally a necessity designed to preserve meat before the advent of refrigeration. Today, charcuterie represents a modern spin on meats—“old technique, new frontier,” as Restaurant 17’s executive chef Greg McPhee puts it.

The curing process (which ranges from 90 days to one year) produces creamy textures in meat that differ from their cooked counterparts. Additional seasonings, including wine or herbs, create complex flavor combinations. The results—paired with accompaniments like house-made coarse beer mustard, local artisan cheeses, fresh-baked rye bread, and homemade pickled cucumbers, fennel, red onion, and ramps—showcase seasonal products and local farms that are integral to Restaurant 17’s farm-to-table mission.

McPhee, who manages and plans the charcuterie program, uses locally raised Berkshire Tamworth pigs for the pork charcuterie (beef and lamb options are also available). Currently, Restaurant 17’s larder features a Portuguese Vinho Verde–rinsed pork belly prosciutto, rosemary-seasoned pork lonza, and a juniper-flavored lamb and pork soppresetta.

It’s impossible to skirt the time delay involved—McPhee emphasizes that the process of curing must take place “slowly and correctly,” and there’s additional time and skill required to prepare the accompaniments—but the complex flavors and textures are well worth the wait.

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RAINER’S Across from Falls Park, gallerist Betty Bercowski opened this cute café named for her son Rainer (pronounced RHYnûr), where everything—including the furniture—is for sale. Homemade apple fruit salad (topped with toasted almonds and homemade honey-raspberry dressing) and fresh sandwiches are delightful options, but the homemade desserts are the pièce de résistance, including a mile-high chocolate torte and sinfully good New York cheesecake. $, L, D. Closed Sunday. 610 S Main St. (864) 232-1753, talldudecafe.com

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American Grocery offers refined American cuisine (and a seasonal, frequently changing menu) that emphasizes the highest-quality ingredients from local, regional, and national produce. The crispy veal sweetbread with grilled squash makes a decadent starter. For an entrée, try the confit of local rabbit with turnips, housemade gnocchi, wild mushrooms, and arugula with sauce moutarde. Finish with a chocolate terrine, or a trio of housemade sorbets. $$$-$$$$, D. Closed Sunday & Monday. 732 S Main St. (864) 232-7665, americangr.com

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AUGUSTA GRILL

The unassuming Augusta Grill is home to owner Buddy Clay’s vision of upscale comfort food. From cozy booths and the intimate private dining room, patrons can enjoy dishes such as artichoke and leek–stuffed breaded chicken with roasted tomato vinaigrette. The lineup of entrées and appetizers changes daily, but

regulars can always get Chef Bob Hackl’s highly sought-after blackberry cobbler. $$$-$$$$, D. Closed Sunday & Monday.

1818 Augusta Rd. (864) 242-0316, augustagrill.com BREAKWATER RESTAURANT

Breakwater is one of those places that makes Greenville shine: a hotspot that serves exquisite food (pan-seared tuna with spaghetti squash, roasted tomatoes, haricots verts, and grilled artichoke vinaigrette) and creative drinks. Candyapple-red accents (the bar, dining room chairs, and wall decorations) meld with mirrors and glass to produce a uniquely New York City-meets-Lowcountry vibe. $$$-$$$$, D. Closed Sunday. 802 S Main St. (864) 271-0046, breakwatersc.com HIGH COTTON MAVERICK BAR & GRILL

Floor-to-ceiling windows overlook picturesque Falls Park for an airy and relaxed dining room. The menu, steeped in locally-sourced ingredients, features fish, game, and steaks prepared with a deft hand by Chef Adrian Carpenter.

Staples include the apple-mustard-glazed pork chop (paired with brown-sugarbaked Sea Island red peas and baconbourbon jus) and the Maverick Shrimp & Grits (featuring stone-ground yellow corn grits, country ham, Andouille sausage, and tomato scallion pan sauce), or go off the

grid with Chef Carpenter’s daily specials. $$$-$$$$. D, SBR. 550 S Main St. (864) 335-4200, highcottongreenville.com LARKIN’S ON THE RIVER

Located fortuitously between the Peace Center and the Reedy River, Larkin’s seeks to balance upscale dining with comfort. Start with she-crab soup, then an entrée from the day’s selections— or opt for an aged filet mignon with mashed potatoes and asparagus. Dine in the enclosed outdoor patio to enjoy the river view, and polish off your meal with a selection from the extensive wine list.

NOSE DIVE

The Nose Dive is city bar meets corner bistro. A wide range of beer (local, domestic, international), wine, and an ambitious menu that hits nearly every continent make it hard not to dive in.

Look for an elevated gastropub experience at every meal, from fried chicken and waffles (with sweet potato waffles and Six & Twenty bourbon maple gastrique) for dinner to a customized grits bar at brunch.

Located on Main Street halfway between ONE City Plaza and the Peace Center, this hotspot goes from nighttime to day without missing a beat.

$$$-$$$$, L (Mon–Fri), D (Daily), SBR. 318 S Main St. (864) 467-9777, larkinsontheriver.com

$-$$$, L, D, SBR. 116 S Main St. (864) 3737300, thenosedive.com

NANTUCKET SEAFOOD GRILL

Traditional surf-and-turf meets upscale dining at Rick Erwin’s. The dining room is decorated in rich, dark woods that, along with low lighting, create an intimate, stylish atmosphere. Entrées range from sashimi-grade tuna and Chilean sea bass, to certified Angus beef. A la carte sides round out any entrée. $$-$$$$, D. Closed

Rick Erwin’s restaurant brings us closer to the sea. The day’s fresh catch tops the menu, grilled, seared, broiled, blackened, or in chef-designed specialties. Try the blue-crab hushpuppies with a drink at the elegant bar. A destination for a group dinner or a quiet date night, Nantucket offers both an intimate and entertaining atmosphere. Enjoy views of the Village Green and the courtyard patio through panoramic windows alongside the bar. $$-$$$$, D, SBR. 40 W Broad St. (864) 546-3535, nantucketseafoodgrill.com

RICK ERWIN’S WEST END GRILL

Sunday. 648 S Main St. (864) 232-8999, rickerwins.com RARE STEAKHOUSE ON THE PIAZZA

Traditional surf-and-turf gets an updated turn at this steakhouse located right on ONE City Plaza. The menu features a familiar cast (oysters on the half-shell,

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sesame seed–crusted ahi tuna, filet mignon, even a monster 40-oz. steak) while the setting offers a mixture of fine dining touches and everyday appeal. $$$$, L, D, SBR. Closed Monday. 103 N Main St, Ste 101. (864) 239-0164, raregreenville.com ROOST

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This nod to the enterprising farm-to-table trend lends a modern, tasty addition to North Main. Roost’s ingredients are sourced from nearby areas in South and North Carolina. Chef Trevor Higgins brings old-fashioned Southern favorites into the twenty-first century, like Lowcountry shrimp and grits, and Benton’s bacon–wrapped meatloaf. In good weather, try to snag a spot on the patio overlooking NoMa Square. $-$$$, B, L, D, SBR. 220 N Main St. (864) 298-2424, roostrestaurant.com STELLAR RESTAURANT & WINE BAR

Elegant tapas and an extensive wine list (including beer) punctuate this intimate second-story space. Try some of the menu’s mainstays, like goat cheese and potato gnocchi or the filet mignon, served with mushroom risotto, roasted greens, cocoa-red wine braised cherries, and fried leeks. Better yet, bring a few friends and split a few small plates, from curry-fennel fries to lobster and potato croquettas. $$$, L, D, SBR (Sat–Sun). 20 N Main St, Ste B. (864) 438-4954, stellarwinebar.com

PURPLE INTERNATIONAL BISTRO & SUSHI

A stone’s throw from Fluor Field, this place serves an Asian mix. There are Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Asian-fusion entrées, but sushi is a strong suit—go for the specials, offered at lunch and dinner.

The udon with Prince Edward Island mussels, mahi-mahi with a spicy crawfish glaze, or roasted duck are worthy options.

The latter, perfumed with star anise, is roasted to order and well worth the wait. $$-$$$, L, D. Closed Sunday & Monday.

933 S Main St. (864) 232-3255 SUSHI KOJI

Sushi Koji flaunts a contemporary air.

Chef Koji Fujikawa presides over the five-seat sushi bar. If you order one of the two omakase menus, you’ll be treated to the chef’s choice of the freshest fish flown in from markets in Japan and the United States. $-$$, L, D. Closed Monday. 247 N Main St. (864) 631-1145 TSUNAMI

Come here for fresh fish and a creative sushi bar, sure—but if you’re in the mood for something hot, try one of the many hibachi selections, including filet mignon, or the teriyakis, stirfries, and soups— steaming bowls of fresh udon or soba noodles. Perfect for slurping. $-$$, L (Mon–Fri), D. 106 E North St. (864) 467-1055, tsunamigreenville.com

SMOKE ON THE WATER

$-$$$, L, D. 1 Augusta St, Ste 202.

(864) 232-9091, saucytavern.com SOBY’S

Local flavor shines here in entrées like the crab cakes with remoulade and sweet corn maque choux, mashed potatoes, broccolini, and haricot verts. With an astonishing selection of 700 wines, you can’t miss the perfect complement to your meal. Featuring different selections every week, the Sunday brunch buffet showcases the chefs’ creativity. $$$-$$$$, D, SBR. 207 S Main St. (864) 232-7007, sobys.com

ASIAN & INDIAN HANDI INDIAN CUISINE

At lunch, dig into a reasonably-priced buffet with plentiful choices that change daily. From the menu, try the Handi Special: a sampler of tandoori chicken, lamb kabobs, lamb or chicken curry, and vegetable korma, served with basmati rice, naan, condiments, and dessert. $$-$$$, L, D. 18 N Main St. (864) 241-7999 LEMONGRASS

Lemongrass Thai brings flavor to please.

Choose from curry, noodles, and fried rice, or vegetarian dishes. The Bangkok Street Cuisine menu includes Siam Chicken (grilled, marinated chicken breast with chunks of pineapple, carrots, bell pepper, cashew nuts, and mushrooms) and Prik King (chicken or pork sautéed in spicy chili sauce), while the chef’s specialties offer even more choices. $$-$$$, L, D. Closed Sunday. 106 N Main St. (864) 241-9988, lemongrassthai.net 114 TOWN / towncarolina.com

BREAKFAST & BRUNCH THE BOHEMIAN CAFÉ

Treat your taste buds and ears at the Bohemian Café, side-by-side with the legendary Horizon Records music store.

This eclectic café with an international flair serves up daily specials for curry and pasta. For Sunday brunch, treat yourself to a Bloody Mary bar, or indulge your sweet tooth with a slice of homemade rum cake. $$, L, D, SBR. Closed Monday. 2 W Stone Ave, Greenville. (864) 233-0006, thebohemiancafe.com COFFEE UNDERGROUND

Coffee Underground boasts a wide selection of specialty coffees, hot chocolate, and adult libations. The pumpkin cheesecake with butter cream icing makes the ideal afternoon treat.

If you’re craving more substantial fare, choose from a splendid breakfast-anytime option, sandwiches, soups, salads, pastries, and desserts. And don’t miss Sunday brunch in the Red Room. $-$$, B, L, D, SBR. 1 E Coffee St. (864) 2980494, coffeeunderground.biz EGGS UP GRILL

If your name has “eggs” in it, you’d better know your eggs. Eggs Up Grill doesn’t disappoint. From classic over-easy eggs, to eggs Benedict, all the way to Pattyo-Sullivan omelets (grilled corned beef hash with melted swiss cheese), this breakfast joint has you covered. Not a fan of eggs? No problem. Eggs Up also serves pancakes, waffles, and French toast—their bananas Foster french toast served with sautéed banana slices and caramel sauce is a favorite. $-$$. B, L. 31 Augusta St. (864) 520-2005, eggsupgrill.com THE GREEN ROOM

Like a European brasserie, the Green Room’s diverse menu features standout dishes that change with the time of day. Enjoy brunch any day with eggs Benedict or the mini crab cakes topped

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Located in the West End Market, Smoke on the Water has a homey feel, with a separate street-side dining area and covered patio tables overlooking Pedrick’s Garden. Choose something from the smoker (beer-butt chicken), or pick from sandwiches, burgers, or salads. Sides vary from mac ’n’ cheese to a bowl of greens, and even spinach casserole.

with chipotle cilantro-lime remoulade.

For dinner, the melt-in-your-mouth, sweet chipotle meatloaf is the ticket. Wash it down with selections from the tap and a premium beer list that leans toward the Belgian and German end of the spectrum. $$$, B, L, D, SBR. 116 N Main St. (864) 3358222, thegreenroomupstate.com MARY BETH’S AT MCBEE STATION

Breakfast is an essential meal, and Mary Beth’s treats it accordingly. Take your pick: biscuits, omelets, eggs Benedict, waffles, crepes, and pancakes populate the breakfast menu. Or don’t pick—get the Mega Breakfast for a hearty menu sampling. For something later in the day, Mary Beth’s also has lunch and dinner menus that include sandwiches, rack of lamb, and salmon. $$-$$$, B, L, D (Thurs–Sat). 500 E McBee Ave. (864) 242-2535, marybethsatmcbee.com MARY’S COTTAGE

Breakfast is an essential meal, and Mary Beth’s treats it accordingly. Take your pick: biscuits, omelets, eggs Benedict, waffles, crepes, and pancakes populate the breakfast menu. Or don’t pick—get the Mega Breakfast for a hearty menu sampling. For something later in the day, Mary Beth’s also has lunch and dinner menus that include sandwiches, rack of lamb, and salmon.

$, L, SBR. Closed Monday. 615 S Main St. (864) 298-0005, fallscottage.com SPOONBREAD

with pecans and peach butter of course) any time of day. Chef Brian—who keeps a notebook by his bed because he dreams about recipes—is serving up spring and summer entrees. Try the Southern small plates that are built for sharing: baked macaroni-and-cheese with Cajun blackened shrimp, for instance, or one of the seasonal specials like the roasted duck breast, served with cherry port wine sauce, shaved Brussels sprouts salad, honey vinaigrette, and root vegetable pot pie. $$$, B, L, D. 1 N Main St, Suite T, Greenville.

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Mornings (and afternoons) are made better at this quaint spot with a focus on local products and healthy options. Start your day with a signature breakfast sandwich or fresh-baked cinnamon roll. Lunch shines with hormone-free chicken salad, pimiento cheese, or egg salad on house-baked bread and a side of vegan chili, soup, or salad. For dessert, try a slice of cake from the rotating counter selection. Gluten-free options abound. $-$$, B, L. Closed Sunday. 1 Augusta St, Ste 101. (864) 373-9836, coffeetoatea.com METHODICAL COFFEE

$-$$$, B, L, SBR. 120 S Main St. (864) 421-9700, westinpoinsettgreenville.com/ restaurant

Between the white marble countertops, the gleaming chrome Slayer espresso machine, and the white-tiled loft (emblazoned with the directive “enjoy”), Methodical is a coffee bar built for Instagram. It’s no surprise, considering tastemakers such as the Vagabond Barista Will Shurtz, designer Marco Suarez, and hotelier David Baker are the forces behind Methodical. Even better: there’s plenty of substance to go with style. Single-origin espressos, housemade shrubs showcasing unconventional Clayton 4thS Town Apr13.indd flavor pairings, and more ensure there’s plenty to rave about.

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$-$$, B, L, D. 101 N Main St, Ste D. methodicalcoffee.com

Off the lobby of the historic Westin Poinsett Hotel, Spoonbread serves up breakfast, lunch, and dinner in true Southern style.

Lunch here is best begun with a cup of Lowcountry crab and corn chowder, followed by a patty melt or perhaps a Poinsett Chicken BLT. Sunday brunch offers elegant buffet service and a la carte options: steak and eggs, traditional eggs Benedict, and shrimp and grits, among others.

Need a downtown restaurant where you can camp out for all three meals of the day? Look no further than Tupelo Honey, where big Southern charm is served with a steaming hot biscuit. Indulge in the famous sweet potato pancakes (topped

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A trip to O-CHA will have you considering tea in an entirely new light. This sleek space, located right on the river in Falls Park, specializes in bubble tea (flavored teas

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Downtown Greenville, Swamp Rabbit Trail. Grocery store, neighborhood café. Local produce, delicious food. These intersections are what make the Swamp Rabbit Café a staple. Biking to work? Stop by for fresh-baked pastries (made with King Arthur Artisan flour) or an egg and cheese croissant; for lunch, grab an artisan sandwich on house-baked stecca.

While you’re here, peruse the grocery’s inventory to continue the local trend at home. Mon–Fri, 7:30am–7pm; Sat, 8am–6pm; Sun, 9am–6pm. 205 Cedar Lane Rd, Greenville. swamprabbitcafe.com

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with chewy tapioca pearls) but also offers a large assortment of loose-leaf teas, cold drinks, and snacks. Bring your friends on Friday nights to enjoy O-CHA Unplugged, a live-music series. $, B, L, D. 300 River St, Ste 122. (864) 2836702, ochateabaronline.com TEALOHA

As the weather warms up and Main Street fills, it pays to have a cool, quiet escape from the crowds. Tealoha’s blend of raw and refined fits the bill.

Recycled barn-wood panels and earthy brown and green tones impart the feel of a subdued oasis, while sleek, modern furniture is decidedly comfortable and urban. A menu of exotic loose-leaf teas is fleshed out by smooTEAS (tea-infused smoothies) and specialTEAS (tea-based lattes). If a midday stop isn’t in the cards, consider a Happy Hour visit for wine, wine cocktails, and beer. $, B, L, D. 131 E McBee Ave. (864) 5091899, tealoha.com THE VILLAGE GRIND

Tucked nice and snug between art galleries in the heart of Pendleton Street, the Village Grind is an essential destination for Greenville coffee lovers.

With its emphasis on community, the coffeehouse uses only local ingredients—from milk and syrups to beans from Due South Coffee—to create one-of-a-kind beverages to be enjoyed with friends on the mid-century couch or solo at the pallet-inspired window bar. $, B, L. Closed Sunday. 1263 Pendleton St. (864) 915-8600, facebook.com/ thevillagegrind

DELIS & SANDWICHES CIANCIOLA’S GROCERS & DELI

New to the north end of downtown Main Street, this New York–style deli and grocer comes to Greenville by way of Palermo, Sicily, and Utica, New York. Try Cianciola’s take on deli standards like the Reuben, Philly cheese steak, and Italian sandwiches, or build your own from the bread up.

$-$$, B, L, D. 11 College St. (864) 451-7428, cianciolasgrocers.com GREEN LETTUCE

An airy, sunlit interior gives Green Lettuce a Mediterranean vibe fully matched by its menu of hearty salads and sandwiches.

Fresh lettuce forms a base upon which buttery avocado, fresh feta, and other flourishes rest. Make sure you sample some of the fragrant pita bread seasoned with fresh garlic and olive oil. $, B, L, D. 19 Augusta St. (864) 250-9650, greenlettuceusa.com RICK’S DELI & MARKET

Not that deli standards (made with gourmet attention to detail) should be ignored, it’s just that the case of Frenchinspired pastries demands your focus.

After all, you have to view a gauntlet of colorful macarons before even getting to the savory stuff. For dinner, the menu transitions to an eclectic selection.

English fish and chips, blackened chicken alfredo, and beef bourguignon make the cut. $$, L, D. Closed Sunday. 101 W Camperdown Way. (864) 312-9060, rickerwinsdeli.com

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SOBY’S ON THE SIDE

Located just around the corner from Carl’s eponymous restaurant, Soby’s on the Side adds speed and efficiency to Soby’s reputation for high-quality food. Although the deli-bakery occupies a postage stamp–sized space, Executive Chef Rodney Freidank doesn’t disappoint with the range of food served. Pick from their regular menu or try one of the chalkboard specials that change with each day of the week. From BBQ Monday to Grilled Cheese Wednesday, add a spontaneous element to your traditional lunch meals. $$. B, L. Closed Sunday. 22 E. Court St. (864)-271-8431, sobysontheside.com SULLY’S STEAMERS

When considering ingredients for the perfect sandwich, steam isn’t often the first (or even last) thing to come to mind.

For Robert Sullivan, hot air is the key to handheld nirvana. With a smorgasbord of ingredients like cut meats, veggies, and homemade cream cheeses, Sully’s stacks up custom bagel sandwiches served piping fresh. There are countless combinations, so plan on more than one visit to turn up the heat. $, B, L, D (closed Sunday evenings), open until 3am on Friday & Saturday.

6 E Washington St. (864) 509-6061, sullysteamers.com TWO CHEFS DELI & MARKET

Count on this deli for fast, high-quality food. Hot and cold lunch fare is available, ranging from homemade soups to a traditional grinder and a turkey melt. If you’re not up to cooking, there’s a case of “crafted carryout” entrées and sides to go, including a standout selection of baked goods.

$-$$, B, L, D. Closed Saturday & Sunday. 104 S Main St. (864) 370-9336, twochefsdeli.com

EUROPEAN ADDY’S DUTCH CAFÉ

Addy’s fosters a comfortable, intimate atmosphere of uniquely European charm.

At the bar, choose from an eclectic selection of small plates: assorted cheese platter, sate (glazed, spicy chicken kabobs), Swedish meatballs, and more.

Or head upstairs to dine on Dutch entrées with an Indonesian tinge, like beef rendang, spicy beef slow-simmered with coconut and lemongrass. $$-$$$, D. Closed Sunday & Monday.

17 E Coffee St. (864) 232-2339, addysdutchcafe.com DAVANI’S RESTAURANT

Heaping portions and a menu that mixes inventive flavors with customer favorites makes Davani’s a Greenville favorite.

The friendly staff doesn’t hurt, either. Try the Anatra duck wrapped in pancetta and served with braised spinach, roasted apples, golden raisins, and pine nuts, or the veal shank osso bucco, topped with saffron and petite pea risotto. $$$-$$$$, D. Closed Sunday. 1922 Augusta St, Ste 111A. (864) 373-9013, davanisrestaurant.com THE LAZY GOAT

The Lazy Goat’s tapas-style menu is distinctly Mediterranean. Sample from the Graze and Nibble dishes, featuring such offerings as crudo of yellowfin tuna and fried goat cheese. The crispy Brussels sprouts (with serrano ham, shaved

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Manchego, and a sherry glacé) is a perennial favorite. For a unique entrée, try the duck confit pizza with a sour cherry vinaigrette and a farm egg. An extensive variety of wines is available in addition to the full bars (one upstairs, and one downstairs). $$-$$$, L, D. Closed Sunday. 170 River Pl. (864) 679-5299, thelazygoat.com PASSERELLE BISTRO

Enjoy a taste of France at this dining hotspot, where you can gaze over the lush Falls Park scenery while digging into the mouthwatering cuisine. Make a lunch date to enjoy lighter dishes like the farro and strawberry salad with goat cheese, pea sprouts, arugula, hazelnuts, and lemon-basil vinaigrette, or go for the bistro burger with its caramelized leeks and mushrooms, arugula, Gruyere, and garlic aioli. At night, the bistro serves up romance a la Paris, with items like escargot and rack of lamb rib. $$$, L (Mon–Fri), D, BR (Sat–Sun).

601 S Main St. (864) 271-9700, passerelleinthepark.com POMEGRANATE ON MAIN

Pomegranate serves traditional Persian cuisine in an eclectic Eastern ambience.

Attentive service, reasonable prices, and a flavorful variety, such as the slowcooked lamb shank or the charbroiled Cornish hen kabobs, make this an excellent spot for lunch or dinner. Or try the eggplant stew slow-cooked in a tomato sauce and served with basmati rice. Be sure to sample from the martini menu at the aquamarine-tiled bar. $$-$$$, L, D. 618 S Main St. (864) 2413012, pomegranateonmain.com

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Ristorante Bergamo, open since 1986, focuses on fresh produce and Northern Italian cuisine: seafood such as fresh mussels sautéed in olive oil, garlic, and white wine, hearty meat such as veal, homegrown organic herbs, and pasta creations such as linguine with shrimp and mussels. The bar (with its extensive collection of wine) fronts 14-foot windows along Main Street, making it a prime location for enjoying a glass while people watching. $$-$$$$, D. Closed Sunday & Monday.

100 N Main St. (864) 271-8667, ristorantebergamo.com THE TRAPPE DOOR

A rathskeller vibe pervades this underground tavern that boasts an incredible beer program, with 10 on tap and more than 150 bottles. Belgian specialties include waterzooi (a creamy seafood stew), and carbonnades flamandes (beef stew braised in Belgian beer). For dessert—you guessed it— Belgian waffles are the ticket, topped with vanilla ice cream, powdered sugar, and fresh fruit. $$, L, D. Closed Monday. 23 W Washington St. (864) 451-7490, trappedoor.com TRATTORIA GIORGIO

Exposed brick walls and an adjoining garden patio give Trattoria Giorgio an intimate atmosphere perfect for a romantic night out. Chef Giorgio Todisco insists on preparing all of his pastas onsite. His dedication to dining excellence shows in the Pappardelle Bolognese, a favorite of restaurant regulars.

Reservations are highly recommended.

$$-$$$, D. Closed Sun–Mon. 121 S Main St. (864) 271-9166, trattoriagiorgio.net

SOUTH OF THE BORDER CHICORA ALLEY

Chicora Alley’s Caribbean riff on traditional Mexican and Southern fare offers signature crab cakes or mountainhigh nachos, shrimp and chicken burritos, quesadillas, and more. With a Falls Park view or patio seat on a cool fall evening, you won’t leave unsatisfied. $-$$$, L, D, SBR. Closed Monday. 608-B S Main St. (864) 232-4100, chicoraalley.com GRINGO’S CANTINA

Colorful murals (ranging from Day of the Dead skulls to Mexican wrestlers) adorn the walls and set the mood for this fun West End cantina. There’s a full menu of Mexican standards (burritos, quesadillas, and enchiladas), but the tacos are the best way to sample innovative flavor pairings. Mix it up with the chicken and waffle taco, or try a crowd pleaser like the seared shrimp or the carne asada. For a meatless experience, there’s also the Asheville, Mexico taco, which showcases roasted butternut squash, onions, peppers, black beans, and roasted corn. Hit the upstairs patio and bar for house-made margaritas and a sampling of Gringo’s extensive tequila collection. $-$$, L, D. 11 W Camperdown Way. (864) 509-6344, gringos911.com THE LOCAL TACO

Blending the traditions of Mexican and Southern food culture, the Local Taco offers new twists on old favorites.

You’d expect tacos with corn tortillas, but try them filled with buttermilk fried chicken and honey-lime mayo, and swap a traditional side of rice for Mexican tater tots. Add some spice to your next party with their catering service, which includes crowd-favorites like queso and house-made guacamole. $-$$, L, D. 15 Conestee Avenue, Greenville. (864) 509-1081, thelocaltaco.com PAPI’S

Table 301 plankowner Jorge “Papi” Baralles brings family tradition and the familiar childhood flavors of Cuautla, Mexico, to this walk-up taqueria on the Reedy River. The menu is short and to the point. Get your tacos with shrimp, barbacoa, al pastor, carne asada, carnitas, or chicken and chorizo, or sample some gelato in the display case.

Get in, get out, and enjoy Falls Park. $, L, D. 300 River St, Greenville. (864) 373-7274, eatpapistacos.com

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What better way to wrap up this season’s staging of the Monty Python classic than a celebratory get-down with the Knights Who Say Ni? Centre Stage’s annual fundraising gala gets a medieval twist with plenty of “knight life” additions, including a photo booth, live music, auctions, and a hearty spread of food and drink worthy of the king himself. Festive dress is strongly encouraged—just make sure you leave the killer rabbits at home.

Downtown Airport Hangar, 21 Airport Rd Ext, Greenville.

Fri, 7pm. $100. (864) 233-6733, centrestage.org

Built on more than 5,000 years of vibrant culture, Shen-Yun is an east-meets-west spectacle that blends together modern and traditional performance arts. Music and the human body are the only tools of this production, combining with an array of brilliant backdrops to create a visually stunning retelling of ancient China’s most timeless tales. Shen-Yun is an astounding showcase for the eyes and the mind.

The Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Fri, 7:30pm; Sat, 2pm. $50-$120. (864) 467-3000, peacecenter.org

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In honor of this annual awakening, the Bank of Travelers Rest sponsors the annual Strawberry Festival, where you not only can delve into some of your favorite berry recipes, but can also indulge in the sultry stylings of Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues, arts, crafts, and family activities—all against a backdrop of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.

Hwy 276, north of Travelers Rest. Sat, 10am–4pm. Free. foothillsfamilyresources.org

If you happen to see a few thousand of these floating rubber beauties making their way down the Reedy River, there’s no need to question your mental sanity. The Duck Derby has been steadily growing over the last few years, with 2015’s goal set at 10,000 rubber duckies for community organizations to adopt. This year’s race benefits the Greenville Area Interfaith Hospitality Network, Polio Plus, Mauldin Miracle League, EarlyAct FirstKnight, and World Hunger.

Falls Park, 601 S Main St, Greenville.

Sat, 10am–4pm. $10 per duck; $30 for 5. duckrace.com

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warm spring day than a great beer.

Held rain or shine, the festival will have craft selections from a wide range of Southeastern breweries including Abita, Thomas Creek, Holy City, and Quest, as well as live music courtesy of The Howling Brothers, Conservation Theory, and Po Ramblin Boys with James King.

And for those of you who prefer your own handmade pale ales and lagers, there’s even a competition

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Keowee Towne Market, 15740 Hwy 11, Salem. Sat. Advance, $30; day of, $40. tamasseecraftbrewfestival.com

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REENVILLE 2–3 GREPTICON While being in a room jam-packed with hundreds of hissing, slithering creatures may seem a little too Stephen King for some, those who appreciate a good forked tongue will be in heat-lamp heaven at this event. The annual expo of all-things-scaly features plenty of geckos, turtles, pythons, and even bearded dragons for every kind of lizard lover. Take in a few care tips or make a new addition to the family; just don’t leave the lid off the tank.

Greenville Shrine Club, 119 Beverly Rd, Greenville. Sat, 10am–5pm; Sun, 10am–4pm.

Free-$15. repticon.com/ greenville

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The downtown market is the perfect place to deck your table with the best in local produce,

plants, baked goods, meats, and cheeses—all while supporting regional farmers. There’s fresh veggies from Cowpens, wild salmon from Asheville, salsas from Mauldin, and fresh fruits from Spartanburg, plus chef demonstrations so you’ll know just what to do with all your goodies once you get in the kitchen.

Downtown Greenville.

Sat, 8:30am–12:30pm.

Free. (864) 467-4494, saturdaymarketlive.com

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Take an island getaway without ever leaving the Carolinas. The California-based band known for their mixed bag of pop, alternative, and island sounds has accrued a diverse fan base, hitting the charts high with tracks like “Time Bomb,” “Turn Around,” and newer cuts from 2013’s album Automatic. Now, they join forces with Stick Figure and Hours Eastly for their “Tales from the Sea” tour, guaranteed to take you away—if only for a single night.

The Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave, Asheville, NC. Tues, 8pm. VIP, $65; advance, $15; doors, $17. (828) 398-1837, orangepeel.net

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Paying homage to the drive-in days of yore, Moonlight Movies showcases some of the best vintage flicks outdoors in scenic Falls Park. Snag your spot on a warm blanket or lawn chair and take in a diverse selection of family-friendly films under the stars.

Adult beverages will be available for purchase, and local food trucks will be curbside for your dining pleasure. And 4:37 PM what’s a movie night without plenty of piping hot popcorn?

Falls Park, 601 S Main St, Greenville.

Wed, 8pm. Free. greenvillesc.gov

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ALWAYS… PATSY CLINE

While the music of the country-turnedpop songstress has transcended both genres and generations, Patsy Cline’s congenial character and strong heart made her an unforgettable fixture. It was these qualities that first attracted Houston housewife Louise Seger to the musician, setting the foundation for a friendship that would last until Cline’s unfortunate death in 1963. Told from Seger’s perspective, the play features 27 of Cline’s classic hits and follows the bonafide lifetime bond between two women.

Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Greenville Hwy, Flat Rock, NC. Wed–Thurs, Sat–Sun, 2pm; Wed– Sat, 8pm. $15-$40. (828) 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org

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BLUE RIDGE FEST

The South Carolina natives bring their own brand of Christian rock back home to the Upstate during this leg of their “Tour De Compadres,” along with special guests Ben Rector, Colony House, and Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors.

The Grammy-nominated foursome has received critical acclaim for hits like “Multiplied” and “Slumber,” and their newly-released album Rivers in the Wasteland is no different. But for these boys, there’s no place like home, and it’s only right to give them a proper welcome back.

Bon Secours Wellness Arena, 650 N Academy St, Greenville. Fri, 7pm. $25.50-$45.50. (864) 241-3800, bonsecoursarena.com

Interested in joining the biggest classic car cruise-in that the Upstate has to offer? Then motor on over to this annual festival, where retro rides, shagging, and prize raffles create the perfect opportunity to give back to community charities like the Rosa Clark Medical Clinic and United Christian Ministries. Now over a decade old, Blue Ridge Fest kicks off with the cruise-in, followed by an evening of live beach music, great eats, and plenty of kid-friendly fun.

Blue Ridge Electric Co-Op, 734 W Main St, Pickens. Fri, 2pm.

Children 6 and under, free; ages 7–12, $12; all others, $20 in advance, $25 at gate. blueridge. coop/blueridgefest

8–9 JOYFUL GARDEN TOUR

As the saying goes, April showers bring May flowers, and there’s no better opportunity to see the floral abundance of Greenville than on the third annual Joyful Garden Tour.

Benefitting the historic grounds of Christ Church Episcopal, the tour

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lessons for the left-foot inclined.

Jet Center at the Downtown Greenville Airport, 21 Airport Rd Ext, Greenville. Fri, 7–10pm. $55. senioraction.org/eventsgijive.html

features six private gardens in the McDaniel and Crescent Avenue areas—not to mention the gorgeous church grounds themselves.

Christ Church Episcopal, 10 N Church St, Greenville. Fri–Sat, 10am–5pm. Advance, $20; day of, $25. ccgsc.org/gardentour

8–10 ARTISPHERE

There’s something to be said for a community that embraces and supports the local arts yearround. With May comes Artisphere, a celebration and open marketplace of handcrafted visual and live arts that the whole family can get on board with. In addition to more artistic ability than Picasso could shake a stick at, there’s Kidsphere for children’s crafts and plenty of culinary delights to give visitors a true taste of the town.

Downtown Greenville. Fri, Noon– 8pm; Sat, 10am–8pm; Sun, 11am– 6pm. Free. artisphere.us

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THE FAIR AT HERITAGE PARK

Fairs are great for three reasons: funnel cakes, fried everything, and Ferris wheels—just maybe not in that order.

The Fair at Heritage Park one-ups your standard fair experience with these carnival staples and more, including a petting zoo, demolition derby, magic acts, and musical performances by Boston. And what fair isn’t complete without a little pig racing? Just remember to try out the rides before you dig into that fourth corn dog.

861 SE Main St, Simpsonville.

Mon–Fri, 4–11pm; Sat, 10am– midnight; Sun, 12:30–11pm. 6 & under, free; general admission, $7. fairatheritagepark.com

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THE MUSIC MAN

The Tony Award–winning sensation comes to life on the Spartanburg Little Theatre’s stage.

When fast-talking con man Harold Hill makes his way to River City, he hopes to take the small-time townies for all they’re worth, promising them big band dreams for only a small fee. But when he starts falling for the uptight librarian Marian Paroo, his plan quickly falls apart, thus laying the framework for all the laughs, charm, and high-hat musical numbers that have made Music Man an icon for nearly six decades.

Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E St. John St, Spartanburg. Fri–Sat, 8pm; Sun, 3pm. Adults, $25; seniors, $24; students, $17. (864) 583-2776, chapmanculturalcenter.org

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Greenville’s Young Artist Orchestra joins forces with their Greenville Symphony Orchestra counterparts to perform a trio of classic musical selections by Dvorak, Schubert, and Tchaikovsky. Maestro Gary Robinson will conduct the combined ensembles, with a solo performance by violinist Katherine Woo, an upand-coming talent with the Young Artists’ Orchestra.

Gunter Theatre at the Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville.

Sat, 7:30pm. Adults, $27; students, juniors, $10. (864) 467-3000, peacecenter.org

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Whether you like golf or only pretend to like it so you can shamelessly stalk your favorite celebrities, the BMW Charity Pro-Am has become a centerpiece in the Greenville sporting community. Pairing up the game’s professionals with amateur and celebrity golfers for four days of competition on the Upstate’s most manicured greens, the Pro-Am has amassed more than $10 million for charity since its inception.

Green Valley Country Club, Thornblade Club, and The Reserve at Lake Keowee. Thurs–Sun, times vary. $10-$625. pgatour.com

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GREEK FESTIVAL

It’s time to get your Greek on at this iconic Upstate festival. Whether you Capello 4thS May15.indd hail from the Hellenic isles or just down the street, you’ll be welcomed with open arms—and a plate full of delicious food. Pick from a variety of freshly made pastries, including baklava and kataifi, hefty servings of roast lamb, moussaka, and spanakopita.

Don’t be afraid to get down with a little traditional horos and be sure to pick up some goods from the marketplace.

St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 406 N Academy St, Greenville. Thurs, 10:30am–8pm (dining only); Fri–Sat, 10:30am– 10pm; Sun, 11:30am–8pm. $1. stgeorgegreenville.org

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Modeled after the international dining sensation that’s taken over New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and more, the Upstate’s own version of the popup picnic packs a unique Southern punch. Although the location of the meal is kept secret until the day of, guests are required to don their best white attire and bring everything for an impromptu downtown picnic. You may be seated next to a stranger, but odds are you won’t be for long. Enjoy live music and other surprises.

Location to be announced. Sat, 5:30–10pm. $20. lunablanc.com

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The Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Sat, 8pm; Sun, 3pm. $16$57. (864) 467-3000, peacecenter.org

A RED TIE AFFAIR

Join the Friends of the Samaritan Health Clinic of Pickens County to help its uninsured and low-income residents have the medical treatment they need. Enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres, complimentary wine and beer, music by DJ Rick—and what soiree would be complete without a live auction?

Occasions at Wedgefield, 1550 Eighteen Mile Rd, Central, SC. Sat, 7pm. $75. samaritansoiree.com

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AMERICANA

The send-off to this year’s Masterworks Series season pays homage to the best of the American composers, even showcasing some of your favorite musical selections. Both the Overture and Symphonic Dances from the

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Sustainable foods don’t stop at farms or pastures—there’s also the sea to consider. Join Slow Food Upstate, guest chef Bryan Tayara (of Our Local Catch), Dr. John Mark Dean, and Claire Petroskey for expert takes on the importance of supporting sustainable, clean fishing. Of course, it wouldn’t be a seafood boil without ample helpings of shrimp, corn on the cob, sausage, and red potatoes cooked over an open fire.

Timberock at Hopkins Farm, 3717 Fork Shoals Rd, Simpsonville. Sun, 3–7pm. $25. slowfoodupstate.com

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Based on the German poet Heinrich Heine’s retelling of a Slavic folk tale, this International Ballet performance features principal guest artists Cara Marie Gray and Temur Suluashvili of the Joffrey Ballet.

Gunter Theatre at the Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville.

Thurs, 7:30pm. $35. (864) 4673000, peacecenter.org

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GALLABRAE SCOTTISH GAMES Proving that Scots can do much more than drink heavily and look great in a variety of tartan patterns, this South-meets-Scots festival certainly can’t be missed. The tenyear celebration gets started with the Great Scot! Parade through downtown Greenville, followed by a bagpipe challenge. Join the clan on Saturday at Furman University for the Scottish Games (war paint optional), the British Car Show, historic demonstrations, and more before things close out at the Celtic Jam. Locations vary. Fri–Sat, times vary. Celtic Jam, $10; Games, free-$15. gallabrae.com

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SHERYL CROW

Don’t try to pretend you don’t belt along whenever “Soak Up the

Sun” comes on the radio. At least now you can do it in person. The multi Grammy Award–winning singer and songwriter comes to the Upstate and brings all your favorite songs with her, including works from her latest album Feels Like Home.

Known for her natural ease and lyrical relatability, Crow has amassed millions of fans the world over with hits like “If It Makes You Happy,” “Every Day Is a Winding Road,” and “The First Cut Is the Deepest.”

The Peace Center, 300 S Main St, Greenville. Mon, 7:30pm. $85-$95. (864) 467-3000, peacecenter.org

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A TIME TO KILL First, it was a best-selling novel.

Then, it was a hit movie. Now, John Grisham’s thrilling novel gets new life on stage. Set in the Deep South, A Time to Kill follows the trial of Carl Lee Hailey, accused of murdering the men responsible for the kidnapping of his young daughter. Jake Brigance is a young but brilliant lawyer who takes on the case, stirring up a hornet’s nest of racial tensions and corruption in the small Mississippi town. As riveting as it is earnest, A Time to Kill is one of the most wellregarded dramas of our time.

Centre Stage, 501 River St, Greenville. Thurs–Sat, 8pm; Sun, 3pm. $20-$30. (864) 233-6733, centrestage.org

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Like Greenville, Spartanburg, and Charleston, Columbia is an arts hub in its own right, its museum mounting formidable past exhibitions such as Pilgrimage by Annie Leibovitz. For highlights of the its permanent collection, enjoy a Sunday guided tour of its Samuel H. Kress Collection, including works from the Italian Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo periods, and its American galleries.

Columbia Museum of Art, 1515 Main St, Columbia, SC. Sun, 2pm. Free. (803) 799-2810, columbiamuseum.org

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Taste of the Upstate invites 13 locally-loved restaurants to share their wares at this year’s culinary event. Scheduled to appear at the “Masquerade in Venice” are Miso, City Range, Smoke on the Water, and many more, with paired beverages provided by Thomas Creek and Carolina Vino. The Matt Dingledine Jazz Trio will be on hand to provide live music, and there will be both silent and live auctions. Proceeds will benefit the Loaves & Fishes organization, which aims to combat food insecurity in Greenville County.

Embassy Suites Greenville, 670 Verdae Blvd, Greenville.

Sun, 6–9:30pm. $70. loavesandfishesgreenville.com

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Four female Greenville artists tackle these varied facets of womanhood in Defining She. Emily Clark’s paper tableaux set within boxes divulge tales of the influential women of her past and present, while Rachel Vann’s paintings present female power through the seemingly infinite number of roles adopted by women. Jessie Kendall’s drawings, on the other hand, comment on the differences between perceptions of reality and expectation for women.

Kate Furman completes the quartet with art jewelry that accentuates the female form and celebrates natural beauty by juxtaposing refined and organic materials—a reference to the incredible duality of women. The result is an authentic, allencompassing portrayal that captures the power and brilliance of “she” in its many definitions.—Sinéad Haughey The Artistry Gallery, located at 12 Andrews St in Greenville, will be displaying Defining She from May 1–June 30. The gallery is open Mon–Fri, 11am–4pm; as well as Friday, May 1, and Friday, June 5, 6–9pm.

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(clockwise from top left) Jessie Kendall, 3 Graces. Pen and ink, 11” x 14”, 2015; Kate Furman, Splinters. Wood and brass, 32” x 16” x 1”, 2012; Emily Clark, Love Is Like Riding a Bicycle. Oil, paper, cigar box, 2015; and Rachel Vann, self-portrait. Oil on canvas, 16” x 20”, 2014

Four female artists explore the beauty of womankind

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