WALK Gallery

Download the Participation Form and the Entry Form to participate. Already thousands are being helped because of the International Day of Peace and Ceasefire, now it’s your turn to help bring awareness to this day and its efforts. Charleston Peace One Day presents an open call to artists for its juried show, What a Day [...]

We are constantly faced with news stories and statistics about the violence in our cities, leaving us feeling helpless against the destruction it causes. CP1D is working to create news stories and statistics about the PEACE that is happening in our cities through the “2010 Make a Commitment Campaign”. With the help of WALK Gallery, [...]

Our newest collaboration is with the Jazz Artists of Charleston (JAC). You can check out photographs of Charleston jazz musicians on stage and behind the scenes in the windows of 372 and 575 King Street. We are excited to be partnering with such a young and driven organization that helps promote the local jazz artists, [...]

JAC, Jazz Artists of Charleston, will be showcasing photographs from their exhibition “SEE JAZZ” with WALK Gallery during the Closing Reception for “Juxtaposition: artists respond to poets and poets respond to artists.” 6, 8, and 12 Brewster Court (view map) in the Midtown development have been made available to WALK Gallery by Poston and Co., [...]

Margery Wentworth and I kept in touch by email.At first I assumed she would be writing a haiku poem inspired by one of my paintings. As time went on, it seemed that my schedule was lighter than hers so it was decided that she would send me a list of her Garden haiku poems. They [...]

Closer to the finish date I emailed Bryan photos of the painting when it was about 75% complete. He responded with three haikus he composed. I love the poem he chose, with its perfect description of the Ashley River and sense of history with “my grandmother’s braid”. I feel Bryan’s poem and my painting are very harmonious in their expression. I am so pleased that we both arrived at the same place with our artistic responses.

Rebecca Shaw’s experience working with poet, Dan Wright. Check out their profiles here. Dan and I had recently met when I heard about the Juxtaposition show for WALK Gallery.  I knew that he had been a literature major in college and so I asked him if he would write some haikus that I could make [...]

“Mary’s Words” was created while Mary read some of her poetry and then continued to write as I painted. At one point I became self-conscious. I called out that I was “finished,” but she continued to write. I got over myself and continued to paint. If Mary had not had the tenacity and intuition to continue writing, instead of listening to me. The painting would have been a “cute” experiment instead of inspired art.

We will be installing Juxtaposition today at the Millennium building. There is some really great art and poetry going up — so come and say hi! Find out more on the show.

The following is the response we received from Allison Bolduc, Associate Director of Development with CAS: “Being able to have adoptable animals in the 401 King Street space during SEWE weekend was amazing! We had a total of 12 off-site adoptions in 3 days! We also enjoyed the opportunity to speak with fellow animal lovers [...]