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27th Annual Duck Shuck Oyster Roast

6 pm, Saturday, February 18 h Omar Shrine Center, 176 Patriots Point Street, Mount Pleasant

This casual party makes for an unforgettable evening with live music, raffles, hot oysters and live and silent auctions.

TICKETS: $100 per person, $800 for 8-person table, $1,000 for 10-person table. Available at scwa.org.

Steep Canyon Rangers

7:30 - 11 pm, Thursday, February 16

In partnership with SEWE, the Gaillard Center is excited to bring NC-based, Grammy award-winning bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers to the Lowcountry on February 16 to officially kick off SEWE weekend. Tickets are available at gaillardcenter.org h Gaillard Center, 95 Calhoun Street

Charleston Safari Club Annual Gala

6 - 11 pm, Wednesday, February 15

Benefitting Charleston Safari Club’s Youth Outdoor Education Camp, this event features an open premium bar, decadent food, live entertainment, raffles, a live auction and more. Safari Attire Requested & Strongly Encouraged.

TICKETS: $175 per person | $1,750 per 10-person table. Available at charlestonsafariclub.org h The Harbour Club at WestEdge, 222 Westedge Street Suite 700

ARTIST IN RESIDENT WITH DR. J. DREW LANHAM

5 - 7 pm, Friday, February 17

Join us for a celebration of art and nature with MacArthur award-winner & South Carolina author, poet, ornithologist, and hunter-conservationist - Dr. J. Drew Lanham. Gather around a fire to listen to the author’s “head and heart” approach to the Southeastern birds featured in John James Audubon’s The Birds of America. Libations and lite bites will complement this event.

TICKETS: $125 per person. Available at shopthedewberry.com h The Dewberry, 334 Meeting Street

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Meet Ryan Kirby

Ryan Kirby believes that as an artist he has a unique role and responsibility of bringing the outdoors to the indoors.

Ryan grew up in Illinois, where he and his brother were the direct beneficiaries of growing up on a family farm. Like a hammer to a carpenter or ball to an athlete, from the time Ryan Kirby first picked up a paintbrush, there was no question what his craft would be. Kirby was born an artist. And once old enough to venture deep into the woods of the family farm, his subject quickly became wild things.

Wild sunsets. Wild rivers. Wild animals.

It takes a trained eye to recreate the way sunlight bounces off a deer antler, or to perfectly place a thousand feathers as a tom turkey lunges forward into a thunderous gobble.

For Kirby, the training takes place on his hunting adventures – each morning in the field used as a time to watch, listen, and learn.

From the wilds of Alaska, to the Rocky Mountains, to the Heartland of his home state of Illinois, Kirby has traveled far and wide to see fur, feathers, trees and water differently than the rest of us…and the same. The same adrenaline that’s pulsed through the veins of hunters for generations is what makes Kirby tick. Only his purpose for being there is different. He is an artist - charged by God to preserve on canvas His wild places and wild things.

There’s a spiritual connection between the brush, the animal, and the scene. Through Kirby’s hand, moments in time are captured forever – to be re-lived by those who gaze upon the canvas.