Guide
Libraries
Little River, North Myrtle Beach, Carolina Forest, Chapin Memorial, Conway, Surfside Beach, Socastee, Waccamaw Neck and Georgetown
History of Art Museum
Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum 3100 South Ocean Boulevard Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29577 843.238.2510 The Art Museum is dedicated to being one of the finest visual arts museums in the Carolinas. We strive to engage our community and our visitors through unique exhibitions and interactive, educational and creative programs for people of all ages. In our 11 galleries, exhibitions change throughout the year as the Museum features a lively panorama of artists and their works including paintings, textiles, sculpture, photography, video, ceramics, assemblage, collage—almost anything the artistic imagination can construct. We have featured artists of national renown, […]
Introduction
The purpose of this blog is to get people up to speed quickly on knowing what’s happening here and partaking of it with greater understanding and appreciation. Every year there are roughly 600 fine arts performances on the Grand Strand from Calabash to Georgetown. This includes 100 classical music and jazz concerts, 100 art events, 100 author and poet presentations and 300 performances of 30 plays. This is the fastest growing metropolitan area in the US and, like so many others, I’m a recent arrival (5 years ago). I came with a love of the fine arts but absolutely no […]
The Arts Scene
BROOKGREEN GARDENS PURPOSES At its founding, Archer Huntington wrote: “Brookgreen Gardens is a quiet joining of hand between science and art. The original plan involved a tract of land from the Waccamaw River to the sea in Georgetown County, South Carolina, for the preservation of the flora and fauna of the Southeast. At first the garden was intended to contain the sculpture of Anna Hyatt Huntington. This gradually found extension in an outline collection representative of the history of American sculpture, from the nineteenth century, which finds its natural setting out of doors. It is not an experiment station, nor […]
The Music Scene
The Carolina Master Chorale is recognized as the premiere symphonic chorus in the region covering northeast South Carolina and southeast North Carolina and is the oldest community singing organization in the area surrounding Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, home of the CMC. In 2015-2016 the Chorale celebrates its 32nd concert season, the fifteenth under the artistic leadership of the ensemble’s fourth and current Music Director,Timothy Koch. The repertoire of the Carolina Master Chorale encompasses a wide variety of innovative and critically-acclaimed programming that includes dynamic performances of traditional and lesser-known choral and choral/orchestral masterworks, full operatic productions, adventurous contemporary music, numerous […]
