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Welcome to 
All About Art
Club of Sun City
Hilton Head

Mission Statement

The purpose of our club is to create an inviting and supportive environment that encourages artistic development through art education and opportunities to explore and grow for people of all abilities who share the love of art.

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Our membership is a 2-part process. 

Step 1:

Complete the membership form and pay dues. 

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Step 2:

After you have completed the membership application in step 1 above, you need to create an account on the website:

 

Go to www.scartclub.com

  • Hit the "Log In" in the upper right corner,

  • hit the "Sign Up" button, enter all info,

  • hit "Sign up"

 

Once your membership has been confirmed and approved you can log in to our website using the info you just entered.

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If you have not first paid your annual dues using the button above, you will not be able to login to sign up for classes.

INTERESTED IN JOINING US? 

If you need help or have any questions please come to the Art Room. 

The room will be open according to the schedule below:

To reserve the Art Room click here to complete a Room Request Form:

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Do you love art?  Want to share your knowledge with the Art Club members?  Want to make some extra money doing what you love to do?  Become a new instructor today.  Click the link above and tell us about yourself.

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New Membership meeting

Thursday November 13, 2025

4:00 pm in the Art Room

Join us on Thursday, November 13th, 4 pm in the art studio, for a member orientation - brand new to the club, or just want a refresher, or you need some additional training on the website and signing up for classes.  Make sure to come!! 

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Art Club Holiday Party

Friday, December 5, 2025

5:30 pm Arrival

6:00 pm Dinner

Dancing until 9:00 pm

Read more here

Sign up for the AAA Holiday Party for fun, food, door prizes, trivia, and surprises (you never know with us).  Deadline is November 22nd.  Be there or be square.

Sun City TV Coverage

Thanks to SCTV for covering our club events.

HALLOWEEN 2025

FALL ART SHOW 2025

Fall Art Show 2025
Gallery

Fall Art Show Winners  -  Congratulations to all!

Acrylic

1-    Lost Earring - Steve Liker

2-    Tidewater Morn – Patricia Overton

3-    It’s a Good Life – Tricia Dudley

Digital Arts

1-    Waiting – Sue Grilli

2-    Enchanted Feline #2 – Diana Tomlinson

3-    Running Stream – Diana Casparian

Drawing

1-    After the Rain – Catherine Smith

2-    Maria – Gerry Fagan

3-    A Study in Yellow and Orange

Mixed Media

1-    Turtles Heading Out to Sea – Nancy Patrick Carney

2-    Enchanted – Marcia Gordenstein

3-    Enjoying the Journey – Angela Kleinhans

Oil

1-    A Boy and his Piano -  Terry Baker

2-    Hidden Cypress Wetlands – Sharon Marshall

3-    Man Holding Dog -  Alex Mazzia

Pastel

1-    Night Watch – Bobbie Forgacz

2-    Fall Fun – Terry Broere

3-    Late Autumn – Harriet Forbes

Watercolor

1-    Fish in Motion – Mary Treadwell

2-    Waiting for You – Fred Calleri

3-    Softly Spoken Walls of Tuscany - Dianne Myers 

Statistics, People’s Choice and Best in Show

 

Total Visitors – 983 

Original Artworks – 95

Participating Artists – 63

People’s Choice Awards Ballots – 822

 

BEST IN SHOW (Judged by Jennifer Wharton, Guest Judge)

Lost Earring by Steve Liker

 

People’s Choice:

Acrylic – Al Forgacz “Shrimpers”

Digital – Debbie Van Auker “Heron at Sunset”

Drawing – Margaret Plack “Snacking Safari”

Mixed Media – Nancy Patrick Carney “Puffy Birds on Vacation”

Oil – Jan Urbanic “Sunset On The Beach”

Pastel – Bobbie Forgacz “Night Watch”

Watercolor – Mary Treadwell “Fish In Motion”

JUDGING NOTES FROM JENNIFER WHARTON

 

Criteria for Judging Art

  1. Composition of shapes and values

  2. What is the initial impact

  3. Professionalism of presentation

  4. Mastery of chosen medium

  5. Technical skills

  6. Drawing

  7. Edges​​

  8. Color

General Comments from Judge.

Important to have hard and soft edges in everything from pencil drawings to oil paintings.

Important to have value changes, ranging from lightest light to deepest darks.

Choose complementary colors when developing the palette for the painting.

Shapes should be balanced across the painting.

Be very careful and perspective lines.  Check and double check that all lines have the correct vanishing points.  The eye is drawn to lines that do not line up correctly.

Overall concept should provoke an emotion, not look like a painting from HomeGoods.

The composition should have a sensitivity to it.

In choosing what to paint, always use your own references, it will have more meaning to you.

Continue to develop your proficiency in your chosen medium, we can always improve.

Framing:  Try not to get a ready-made mat and frame set from Michaels/Hobby Lobby. Look for a mat that enhances the painting.

The width of the mat and the width of the frame should not be the same width. There should be a noticeable difference in the widths.

Matting:  Matting should be wider on the bottom and the same width on top/left/right sides. Double matting really sets off a painting.

Glass: Consider using museum grade or non glare glass.  Regular glass reflects the gallery lights and window light and dulls and distorts the painting.

Thank you to Tom Mills for the photography coverage of the Show.  Also thank you for the additional photos supplied by other members,

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CALENDAR FOR THE WALL DISPLAY

JANUARY – DECEMBER 2025

Unless otherwise noted or announced for a specific month, we are going to try doing pick up and drop off on the same day.  Be sure to read email for updates.  Pick up and Drop off will be done on the Thursday prior to the First Saturday of each month.  You must have picked up and dropped off by 2 PM that day.  Please  be sure your art is framed and wired properly!  A proper wiring example is at the front of the art room. 

 

  • January – FEATURING THE CLASSES

The fun will feature the Display Wall with examples of art made in All About Art classes and weekly open houses with hands-on activities.  We’ll get to show our community what we’re doing and how they can join in the fun!

 

  • February – The Art from the Creative Vision Show

 

  • March:  OVER-SIZED ART   

The framed art can weigh up to 25 pounds with a circumference not greater than 192 inches including the frame.  One piece per artist.

 

  • April:  PORTRAITS

Let’s have Sun City’s own PORTRAIT REVOLUTION!If you’ve not heard of Julia Kay, contemporary artist, look her up!  She is a professional artist who engaged hundreds of artists from around the world to paint portraits of each other.  It’ll be fun to try.  Watch your email for a February meeting when we will organize!  We’ll see how many people join in.  We may use the whole wall!

 

  • May: Spring Art Show:  After the show, any pieces the artist would like on the display wall will be moved there after the show. 

 

  • June: BLACK AND WHITE

We went to a gallery show in New Hampshire that had only black and white paintings!(Some had a tiny touch of red).  It was extraordinary.  Let’s try it.  We’ll aim to use the right end of the wall, and work our way toward the center.

 

  • July: CARTOONS

Charcoal, graphite, conte crayons, pens, pencils, acrylic, oil….whatever you use to draw will be welcomed.  A cartoon can be a humorous or not.  It may be a drawing or series of drawings that are comical or adventurous.  As always the art must be framed for hanging, with two pieces per artist.

 

  • August: TINY ART

The tiny art entries were wonderful last year!  And it takes a lot to fill our wall, so start planning now!  All art must have a perimeter of40” or less, including the frame.As is always the case, the art must be wired for hanging.  Two pieces per artist.  Only the last panel on the right will be used.

 

  • September:  FABULOUS FAKES

This was a huge success this past year.  Let’s try it again.  Artists will choose familiar works as inspiration and create a fake.  Each piece will be displayed with a very small image of the original inspiration so that viewers can compare and find the differences.  Examples might be Girl with Ruby Earring - instead of pearl earring, or Mona Lisa with a tattoo, or using a cell phone.One piece per artist

 

  • October: WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE!

Water has been a subject of artistic exploration for centuries, and it can carry a variety of symbolic meanings.  From Claude Monet’s WATER LILIES to David Hockney’s A BIGGER SPLASH, there are numerous examples of the interpretation of water.  We’ll hang the water-themed art starting on the far right panel, and hang the no-themed art starting at the Featured Artists.Two pieces total per artist.

 

  • November: Fall Art Show art will be hung. 

 

  • December – ANYTHING GOES

This seems to be a club favorite, so let’s do it again.  Artists can display traditional and non-traditional art forms, prints, giclee, fabric art---really just about anything goes! Collages with found objects that are securely fastened to a canvas will be accepted.  We will accommodate all art that can be hung on the wall, but we aren’t able to accommodate oversized art this time. (See guidelines below.)  Up to two pieces per artist. There will be a Featured Artist, but other than that, the whole wall will be used. 

 

Some things will stay the same: The Featured Artist will remain a monthly feature in its current location. Art from the All About Art Spring, Fall Art Shows, and Creative Vision will be displayed in the month after the show.  Things to remember:  Abstract and Digital art is welcomed each month.  Please, no AI generated art.  In most cases we’ll start on the far right and work our way to the left for the specially designated displays.  As is always the case, flat canvases without frames will not be accepted.  The canvas must be framed, or be at least 1 3/8 “ with finished edges.  Unless otherwise noted, the size of the painting or paintings submitted may not exceed 1248 square inches.

CALENDAR FOR THE WALL DISPLAY

JANUARY – DECEMBER 2026

THE DISPLAY WALL IS OPEN TO ANYTHING YOU’D LIKE TO HAVE HUNG.  YOU DO NOT NEED TO FOLLOW THE SUGGESTED PROMPT!

 

Unless otherwise noted or announced for a specific month, we will have pick up and drop off on the same day, the Thursday prior to the First Saturday of each month.  You must have picked up and dropped off by 2 PM that day.  Be sure your art is framed and wired properly!  A proper wiring example is at the front of the art room.  Pleaese watch for updates.  There might be date or time changes.

 

  • January – FEATURING THE CLASSES

We will feature the Display Wall with examples of art made in All About Art classes and weekly open houses with hands-on activities.We’ll get to show our community what we’re doing and how they can join in the fun!

 

  • February – The Art from the Creative Vision Show

 

  • March---ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

We live amid incredible biodiversity.Let’s feature a wall full of the critters we see each day and those who are rare.NOPE—They do not have to be animals we have here in the Lowcountry.Terrestrial, aquatic and even extra-terrestrial will be welcomed!

 

How about using only one color?Yves Klein, Lucio Fantana, Ad Reinhardt, Kazimir Malevich, and Robert Holyhead all are known for doing monochormistic paintings.Let’s try that.Look them up, and then pick a color and go for it!

 

  • May ---The Spring Art Show.After the show, any pieces that artist would like on the display wall will be moved there after the show.

 

  • —A QUOTE THAT MOVES YOU

Many of us have special quotes that inspire or affirm us.Incorporate a quote into your painting, or interpret , within the art.You can even choose to type or write it out, and we will hang it next to your painting.

 

  • July and August-WHAT YOU’RE WORKING ON. . .

If you’re trying a new medium, or perfecting an image, let’s share it with each other this summer.The hot, hot summer requires a wide and wonderful wall for us to all enjoy in the cool of the studio.Bring it all.The same pick up and drop off days in each month apply.

 

  • September---INCORPORATE THE IMAGE!

Do you have a favorite photo or image that you have thought would look great in one of your paintings.Let’s try this!Adhere

a personal photo, an image from a comic book or magazine, or anything you want to your canvas or paper, and then incorporate it into an original painting.This was suggested by a member—and if you look on the internet, you will find some wonderful examples!

 

  • October—SHADES OF BLUE

Black and White month was so popular (45 paintings displayed!) last year, that we’re trying it again….but with blue.  Paint something that is primarily some shade of blue…or if you prefer, with just a touch of blue.

 

  • November—Fall Art Show art will be hung. 

 

  • December – ANYTHING GOES

This seems to be a club favorite, so let’s do it again.  Artists can display traditional and non-traditional art forms, prints, giclee, fabric art---really just about anything goes! Collages with found objects that are securely fastened to a canvas will be accepted.  We will accommodate all art that can be hung on the wall.   Up to two pieces per artist, or if you have an oversized piece you want to display, please just bring one.  There will be a Featured Artist, but other than that, the whole wall will be used. 

 

Some things will stay the same: The Featured Artist will remain a monthly feature in its current location. Art from the All About Art Spring, Fall Art Shows, and Creative Vision will be displayed in the month after the show.  Things to remember:  Abstract and Digital art is welcomed each month.  Please, no AI generated art.  Flat canvases without frames will not be accepted.  The canvas must be framed, or be at least 1 3/8 “ with finished edges.  Unless otherwise noted, the size of the painting or paintings submitted may not exceed 1248 square inches.

 
 

Monthly Events 
- Display of Art in the Studio

Elements of Art / Beyond the Stick Figure,
2nd Monday of each month -
6:30 - 8:00 pm

Mini Art Workshop
various instructors and topics,
2nd Saturday of each month -
1 - 4 pm 

Portrait sketching
3rd Thursday of each month -
1-3 pm


Art Party
3rd Thursday of each month -6:30 - 8:00 pm

Outside the Box / User Group
Last Tuesday of each month -
1-3 pm 

Painter Pals
Tuesday, Friday and Sundays.

Digital Art / User Group
2nd Wednesday of each month is Beginner
Last Wednesday is Advanced
4:30-6:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)

**Off for the summer, restarts September

THANK YOU TO OUR PAST MEMBERS THAT
HELPED MAKE OUR STUDIO WHAT IT IS TODAY!

Sandra & Michael Goodman

Norma Deal

John & Martha O’Brien

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Ginny 

Hughes

Lorraine 

Harris

Please send an email to suncityallaboutart@gmail.com
if you know of any other names
to add to this list. 
Thank you !

About Our Studio

The Studio is located in the Town Square,

at the Yemassee Crafts Center.

Please check calendar for latest information

Open Studio 

Monday 6:00 - 8:30 pm  All mediums

Wednesday 9 - 12  All Mediums

Monitors present

Thursday - Saturday 9:30 - 1 :30

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Yemassee Craft Center opens at 6 a.m. and closes at 10 p.m. daily.

No one is permitted to be in the building before or after these hours of operation. 

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