CHARLESTON SUPPORTED ART RELEASES INFO ON ECONOMIC IMPACT | The Charleston City Paper | 7.29.2015
Charleston Supported Art, the CSA-style subscription service whereby patrons pay a fee up front to receive a collection of works by selected artists a few months later, just announced the amount of money the organization paid out to artists in 2014, its first full year of operation: $27,000. By the end of 2015, the press release says, Charleston Supported Art will have paid out an additional $18,000 to local artists. read full article [+]
THE SPRING 2015 ARTISTS OF CHARLESTON SUPPORTED ART | The Art Mag | 4.19.2015
The acronym “CSA” stands for more than local produce in this city. Charleston Supported Art was created by seven powerful women in the Charleston art community who have the common goal of connecting artists with future art collectors.
With community supported agriculture programs as a model, CSA sells three seasonal shares of art per year. The 12 visual artists were chosen in a competitive application and voting process to participate in either the Spring, Summer, or Fall share. read full article [+]
CHARLESTON SUPPORTED ART HOSTS ARTIST AND COLLECTOR MEET & GREET | The Art Mag | 2.19.2015
Meet Charleston Supported Art’s twelve featured artists for the 2015 share program. The gathering will allow for the public to meet and learn about the artists and their work, and for in-person share purchases. CSA was modeled of off community supported agriculutre programs with three seasons- Spring, Summer, and Fall- and with four artists featured each season. read full article [+]
CHARLESTON SUPPORTED ART ANNOUNCES THEIR 2015 ROSTER | The Art Mag | 2.1.2015
Charleston Supported Art is entering their second year of 0ffering curated shares of contemporary artwork by local artists….For $425 + tax, you’ll get one share from your choice of Spring, Summer or Fall (or buy all three!), containing four original works of art to add to or start your art collection. When you do the math, it’s a great deal. Most of these artists would be considered emerging, with an established artist anchoring each season. read full article [+]
CSA SEEKS LOCAL, EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED ARTISTS FOR SECOND YEAR | The Hub | 10.1.2014
After a successful launch in late 2013, Charleston Supported Art, LLC, is gearing up for its second year of local art sponsorship and distribution. On October 1, the group will begin accepting proposals from emerging and established visual artists to create original work for its 2015 seasonal shares. Contemporary visual artists ages 18 and up working in any media and living in the Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties are eligible to apply to the open call jury process, which closes on November 1, 2014. read full article [+]
ART ENTREPRENEURS: TWO NEW INITIATIVES CHALLENGE OLD BUSINESS MODELS | The Post and Courier | 9.7.2014
Charleston Supported Art was started a year ago by seven women led by fiber artist Kristy Bishop. The other co-founders are Erin Glaze Nathanson, a veteran of ArtFields in Lake City and Charleston’s City Gallery at Waterfront Park; Karen Ann Myers, associate director of the Halsey Institute; Stacy Huggins, executive director of Redux Contemporary Art Center; artist Camela Guevara; and Ann Simmons and AnneTrabue Watson Nelson, both arts coordinators with North Charleston’s Cultural Arts Department. read full article [+]
ALUMNI FEATURE IN CHARLESTON SUPPORTED ART, LLC’S SEASONAL SELECTION OF LOCAL WORKS | THE COLLEGE Today | 8.29.2014
Charleston Supported Artists (CSA), LLC, will include three College of Charleston alumni in the roster of artists included in its fall 2014 art share. Alumni Mariah Channing ’14, Jennifer Phillips ‘92 and Kristi Ryba ’88 make up three of the six artists contributing original pieces to CSA art share purchasers this season. Each alumnus received bachelor’s of arts degrees in studio art from the College’s School of the Arts. read full article [+]
FALL SEASON OF CHARLESTON SUPPORTED ART READIES FOR DELIVERY WITH VIEWING RECEPTION | Charleston Scene | 8.28.2014
On Thursday, Charleston Supported Art will deliver the second round of artwork for this year. Based on the community-supported agriculture method where individuals sign up and pay a set price to receive a certain amount of produce per season, share members instead receive original works of art by various artists, making the process of getting new artwork fun, easy and affordable. read full article [+]
CHARLESTON SUPPORTED ART | StylePublic | 2.13.2014
Remember Kristy Bishop? Well, she teamed up with Camela Guevara & 5 other forces in the Charleston arts community to bring you Charleston Supported Art, or CSA, which just officially launched earlier this month! Charleston Supported Art, much like the community supported agricultural model, is a nationwide movement. read full article [+]
CHARLESTON SUPPORTED ART | Charleston Art Mag | 12.22.2013
Charleston’s latest CSA does not involve produce. But it does riff off of the popular community-supported agriculture movement, in which consumers invest in a local farm or farmers, and receive weekly or monthly shares of everything from fruit and vegetables to farm-raised meats. CSA is the first of its kind in the Charleston area and is part of a growing movement of more than 40 programs nationwide offering art lovers a chance to invest in and collect the work of local emerging and established artists. read full article [+]
CSA TO OFFER SHARES OF ORIGINAL ARTWORK IN 2014 | Charleston City Paper | 11.13.2013
If we didn’t know better, we’d think there was a secret tunnel from Charleston to Brooklyn, one that took young Charlestonian artists, musicians, and creative types from their Southern home and deposited them smack dab in the middle of the nation’s foremost hipster haven. Luckily, every now and then Brooklyn gives a little something back — like the idea that would become Charleston Supported Art (CSA), an art version of the community supported agriculture model that’s set to launch Feb 2014. read full article [+]
NEW ARTS PROGRAM | Charleston Scene | 11.6.2013
Kristy Bishop, Camela Guevara, Stacy Huggins, Karen Ann Myers, Erin Glaze Nathanson, AnneTrabue Nelson and Ann Simmons are up to something quite interesting these days. Modeled after the popular Community Supported Agriculture movement in which consumers invest in a local farm and receive monthly deliveries of fresh produce, a new program is set to launch in early 2014. read full article [+]
PROGRAM TO CONNECT ARTISTS WITH PATRONS | The Post and Courier | 10.27.2013
A new program called Charleston Supported Art is set to launch early next year, giving Lowcountry patrons the opportunity to buy shares in exchange for original works of art. The program is inspired by the “Community Supported Agriculture” model in which consumers invest in local farms and receive regular deliveries of fresh, seasonal produce. read full article [+]
CHARLESTON SUPPORTED ART SEEKS LOCAL ARTISTS | The Art Mag | 10.17.2013
Attention all artists and art lovers alike: An exciting new program known as Charleston Supported Art (CSA) is set to launch in early 2014. Aimed at fostering new relationships between buyers and artists, CSA will give Lowcountry art fans the opportunity to purchase shares in exchange for original art created by local, emerging and established artists. This program is part of a nationwide movement, and is the first of it’s kind here in Charleston. read full article [+]
CSA SEEKS LOCAL, EMERGING & ESTABLISHED ARTISTS FOR INAUGURAL YEAR | The Hub | 10.17.2013
Modeled after the popular Community Supported Agriculture movement in which consumers invest in a local farm and receive monthly deliveries of fresh produce, a new program is set to launch in early 2014 that will give Lowcountry art lovers the opportunity to purchase shares in exchange for original art created by a curated group of local, emerging and established artists. The program, Charleston Supported Art (CSA), is part of a nationwide Community Supported Art movement that has already spread to over 40 communities across the country and is the first of its kind in Charleston. read full article [+]
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