CHARLESTON REGIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS

Jessica Solomon Bluestein, Executive Director
293 East Bay Street
Charleston, SC 29401
843.577.5288
www.artscharleston.org

The Charleston Regional Alliance for the Arts is dedicated to the shared realization of a dynamic and thriving arts community by serving arts organizations in the region of Charleston, SC with resources and best business practices.

Acting as a catalyst and facilitator for Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester counties, the Charleston Regional Alliance for the Arts envisions an engaged community that is fully expressive, creative and inspired by the arts. The Alliance imagines:  the building of bridges within the arts community and between arts organizations and the community as a whole; a common language among diverse constituents; enhanced economic impact of the arts; all art forms made accessible to the community; and, our artisans, performers and organizations being highly recognized, valued and respected.

"Excellence – the unending, unrelenting, exhausting search for it – is the universal message of the arts. Doing it better than ever before, the perfect stroke and color of the artist’s brush, the newfound clarity of the symphony’s strings, the most gracious dancer’s soaring leap, the opera’s emotional crescendo… great art is the never-ending search for excellence."  -- Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr.

Collaborators:

Actors' Theatre of South Carolina American College of the Building Arts Annex Dance Company Arts Business Civic Coalition of Summerville Avery Research Center Chamber Music Charleston Charleston Academy of Music Charleston Center for Photography Charleston Concert Association Charleston County School District Charleston Student Advocates for the Arts Charleston Fine Art Dealers Association Charleston Library Society Charleston Symphony Orchestra City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs City of North Charleston Cultural Arts Department Coastal Carolina Association of Pro Musicians College of Charleston School of the Arts Cone 10 Studios

Creative Spark Center for the Arts Flowertown Players Footlight Players Deuce Theatre Gibbes Museum of Art International Piano Series Jazz Artists of Charleston PURE Theatre Redux Contemporary Art Center South Carolina Storytellers Network South of Broadway Theatre Company Sprouts Children's Theatre Sweetgrass Gullah Connection Taylor Music Group Theatre Charleston The Village Playhouse Yo Art Inc. Youth Endowment for the Arts

Image: Richard Hagerty "Jazz" created for Spoleto Festival USA