Art lovers weren’t the only ones impressed by ArtFields. Local business owners, Lake City residents and visitors raved about the epic Southern artfest. The Charleston City Paper came up during the first weekend and had a fantastic time. Can art transform a town? The idea smacks of naïvete, but after spending a day at ArtFields [...]
Art Mag recently interviewed ArtFields’ Installation Artists of the Carolinas for a feature story in its April/May issue. Read excerpts from the interviews below. Jonathan Brilliant AM: Can you tell us anything about the installation you are creating for ArtFields? Is it a brand new concept, or a theme or project you’ve been working on [...]
Grab your April/May issue of Garden & Gun magazine and flip to page 162 to read, or visit the website to view online. The magazine chose ArtFields as South Carolina’s featured event, describing: How does a small Southern town best known for growing tobacco (and a lot of it) transform itself into an art destination [...]
The April issue of Charleston Magazine has a beautifully written piece on Lake City native and ArtFields visionary, Darla Moore. The issue–on newsstands now–describes Moore’s investment in South Carolina’s education system, her hometown, Moore Farms Botanical Garden and her latest undertaking–ArtFields. Charleston Magazine writes: But will the experiment work? Will visitors coming to see art be [...]
Florence WBTW-TV and the Morning News recently covered the positive changes happening in Lake City to support ArtFields. WBTW-TV’s story describes the upgrades: Event organizers say as the weeks dwindle down leading up to the festival, they have seen tremendous changes downtown and a tremendous outpouring of support on the local and even national level. [...]
The Florence Morning News published an article today, ArtFields Continues to Grow, about the release of more event details. Program Developer Sharon Askins describes the artfest: It’s a different kind of experience. We’ll have farmers and artists from the local area and South Carolina. It will be held for the first time ever in the [...]
The State, The Post and Courier (Charleston), The Citizen (Auburn) and other media picked up an AP story today about Spring events in South Carolina. ArtFields was featured alongside the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition, Myrtle Beach Marathon, the Bulls Bay Nature Festival, This weekend marks the unofficial start of the spring tourism season in South Carolina, [...]
The Carolina’s newest urban lifestyle magazine, Iconic Magazine, launched today with ArtFields as a feature story. View pages 44 & 45 to read the article, which highlights the event overview and schedule.
South Carolina’s cloud-based (online) magazine, Crescent Magazine, published a fantastic article about ArtFields entitled World Class Art to Rain Down on Lake City as ArtFields Brings Original Art, Economic Vitality to Former Agricultural Boomtown. The piece describes how the art event is just one element in a revitalization plan for Lake City, South Carolina, a [...]
Florence Morning News helped spread the word about artists’ submissions while providing some background on this first-year event. Executive Director Karen Fowler remarked: In the South, as an artist, if your work becomes famous, you tend to move up North or it goes international. So for this to be the size it is and celebrating [...]
