Arts Features


	Sweet Sound of Success The Carolina Youth Symphony is itself the achievement of a dream. Motivated by her love of music, Rita May Baker founded “The Little Symphony” in 1955.
	Do You Hear What I Hear? A thirty-one-year-old, ten-ton Christmas tree might sound like a tall tale (thirty-five-and-a-half feet tall, to be exact), but it’s actually one of Greenville’s most widely admired holiday attractions.
	Christmas Vacation Keep the yule cool with these off-beat attractions
	Left of Center Don’t miss your chance to stroll up Pendleton Street to meet its pioneering and creative denizens.
	The Wyeth Stuff The latest painting to be added to the Greenville County Museum of Art’s extensive Andrew Wyeth collection (hailed as one of his best publicly held watercolor collections in the country) has led a relatively sheltered life since its creation in 1946.
	The Art Room Greenville’s poorest flock to Triune Mercy Center at the corner of Rutherford Street and Stone Avenue. They come for food, clothing, jobs, and help with addiction. But about a year ago, the patrons of this place got a surprise.
	Creative Sparks There is an aesthetic unique to Greenville—an emerging, eclectic vibe that pulses through downtown and extends into the gullets, great rooms, and general psyche of those of us who call it “home.”
	Eye of the Beholder Art is never about just one thing. An artist works in layers: tradition, technique, inspiration, and experience are brought together to infuse a piece with a multi-dimensional sense of purpose that tr