Thirty Four Years of Art

Eleven artists felt a need for a place to show their art, so in June 1975 they (Helen Bratt, Esther Forsley, Nancy Louise Mottesheard, Ray McNamara, Milton Koslow, Barbara Blumberg, Jan Griffen, Rosalie Atkins and Hank Keeling.) got together and opened a co-operative to meet that need with hours from 11-4 weekdays.

Gallery Eleven  was small and modest, but staffed by the artists, so when you went there, an artist was always on hand willing to discuss their work and all the art hanging on the walls, a tradition that continues to this day.

In the beginning, paintings were the only available art form, but little by little they started taking wok on consignment basis and expanding into fine crafts like pottery, stained and blown glass, baskets and fine jewelry, among others, thus rounding out the media  available for sale.

The number of artists stayed at eleven for a long time until the gallery and it's hours got expanded so now it is able to accomodate a larger number of paintings and is open on Saturday too from 11-4.

           Art in the Heart

Art in the Heart is an artwalk around downtown Charleston in which Gallery Eleven participates.

The art walk takes place every third Thursday 5:00PM-8:00PM . Except in the months of January and August when the artwalk is not held.

The City of Charleston will not Charge for meter parking on those nights. also many other shops besides the galleries are staying open too for the convenience of customers. Restaurants are featuring specials for the occasion.

The officially participating galleries are:

• Annex Gallery, at Taylor Books, 226 Capitol Street
• Gallery Eleven, 1033 Quarrier Street
• Art Emporium, 823 Quarrier Street
• Chet Lowther Studio, 223 1/2 Hale Street
• Good Mountaineer Garage Gallery, 221 1/2Hale Street
• Stray Dog Antiques, 219 Hale Street
• The Purple Moon, 716 Lee Street 
•  Morano and Associates, Capitol St.
• Visions, Spa Capitol Street
  

The next Art Walk will be Thursday August, 19 2010.

The Art Walk