Brenda Durant and her team at the Greater Augusta Arts Council are throwing the organization’s annual membership bash Feb. 26.
The WetPaint Party and Sale is billed as “the art party of the year.”
With a theme of “Masters of the Arts,” the event will feature a recreated painting of Jonathan’s Green’s Silver Slipper Club, and models will interact with the crowd.
Works by local creatives will be on sale with 80% of the proceeds benefitting the artists.
Cucina 503’s Chef Edward Mendoza will provide the menu.
The party begins at 7 p.m. at the Sacred Heart Cultural Center, 1301 Greene St.
It’s free to members, and memberships start at $35.
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The arts council has joined with the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History and the mayor’s office, for a Black History Month exhibition in February at the City Gallery on the first floor of the municipal building, 535 Telfair St.
Included in the exhibit this year are images highlighting many of the iconic individuals and institutions that are unique to Augusta including Edward M. McIntyre, Augusta’s first African American mayor; the Lenox Theater, once the premiere movie and entertainment center for African Americans in the region to name a few, according to a news release from the arts council.
Corey Rogers, the Laney Museum historian, will present guided tours from 10 to 11 a.m. Feb. 16, and 10 to 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 25. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The work of Alfred Hutty, one of the principal artists of the Charleston Renaissance, is on display at the Morris Museum of Art, One Tenth St., through July 24.
Alfred Hutty: Painter, Printmaker, Preservationist opened Jan. 22.
Hutty moved to Charleston after World War I. He visited the city and sent a telegram to his wife stating “Come quickly, have found heaven.”
He served as the director of what is now the Gibbes Museum of Art in the 1920s.
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Joseph Kameen spent a year as Westobou Gallery’s resident artist in a studio housed at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art.
His solo exhibition opened Feb. 4 at the Westobou Gallery, 1129 Broad St., and will be available through April 9.
Called “Alone Together,” the paintings in the exhibition “reflect on the last two years and the repeating patterns of isolation and reunion they have brought,” according to the Westobou Gallery’s website.
At 6 p.m. Feb. 17, opening receptions will be held for exhibitions featuring the works of Christina Laurel in the main gallery and Lytha Nicholson and Agnes Unger in the Aiken Artist Guild Gallery at the Aiken Center for the Arts, 122 W. Laurens St., Aiken.
Charmain Z. Brackett is the managing editor of The Augusta Press. Reach her at charmain@theaugustapress.com
