<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:b="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:publisher" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Verdana;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
<br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Contact:
<br>
Ann Addy<br>
Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator <br>
SC Book Festival<br>
803-960-4999<br>
Email: <u><span style='color:blue'><a href="mailto:aaddy@solutionsink.com">aaddy@solutionsink.com</a><br>
</span><span style='color:#0000FD'><br>
</span></u><b>SC Book Festival <span style='color:#00007D'>2010 </span>Features
Artists<br>
</b><u><span style='color:#0000FD'><br>
</span></u>Over 25 South Carolina artists will participate in the first-ever
Fine Art Exhibit and Sale at the 2010 SC Book Festival, February 27 –
February 28 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, Columbia.
With an annual attendance of over 6,000 people, the festival is a weekend
filled with books, an exhibit hall filled with exhibitors, book sellers
including antiquarian book dealers and over 100 award-winning authors.<br>
<br>
Columbia’s own Claire Farrell is the 2010 SC Book Festival artist and her
piece “The Reader” will be featured in the Book Festival marketing
and publicity materials. It will also be available for sale at the festival as
the official festival poster. <span style='color:#00007D'>A local art gallery,
City Art, located in the Vista on Lady Street, Columbia will host a reception
honoring Claire as this year’s festival artist on Thursday, February 25.
Also, </span>Farrell will sign the poster <span style='color:#00007D'>at
the book festival </span>on Saturday from noon till 2 pm and Sunday from 1-3
pm. Farrell is a native Charlestonian, whose earliest art encounters included
private art lessons in Japan, and Saturday classes at the Gibbs Museum in
Charleston. She graduated from Duke University, holds two master’s
degrees from the University of South Carolina, and has studied printmaking in
Santa Fe, at Penland and at SantaRaparata Art School in Florence, Italy. <br>
<br>
Farrell’s work has been accepted in numerous national and state juried
exhibitions and she received “Best in Show” awards in the Florence
(SC) Statewide Juried Exhibition, South Carolina State Fair, the San Diego
Watercolor Society Exhibit, the Friends of the Coast Exhibit in Charleston, the
Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Judged Show in Myrtle Beach, and the
University South Carolina Alumni Art Competition. She is a past
president of the South Carolina Watercolor Society and a signature member of
that organization. Farrell is represented by the Wells Gallery in Charleston
and City Art in Columbia, SC. Her work is included in corporate and
private collections nationwide.<br>
<br>
A variety of <span style='color:#00007D'>work by South Carolina fine </span>artists
will be available to browse and buy during the festival<span style='color:#00007D'>
at the first-ever Fine Art Sale and Exhibit during the festival</span>. On
Sunday afternoon enjoy a wine reception at the art exhibit and visit with some
of the artists. For a complete list of artists and their work, visit
scbookfestival.org. <br>
<br>
The festival kicks off Friday, February 26 with an opening night ticketed
reception, held at the University of South Carolina’s Thomas Cooper
Library. The festival takes place on Saturday, February 27, 9:00 am
– 5:00 pm and Sunday, February 28, 11:30 am – 5:00 pm at the
Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center with free general admission. The
festival features over 80 exhibitors, over 100 authors, and <span
style='color:#00007D'>over </span>25 artists showing and selling their work in
the Fine Art Exhibit and Sale in the Exhibit Hall. Special ticketed
events include Friday master classes, an opening night reception and Brunching
with Authors: a moveable feast on Sunday morning. Updated author
information and registration for these special events is available online at<u><span
style='color:#2F00FB'> <a href="http://www.scbookfestival.org">www.scbookfestival.org</a></span></u><span
style='color:#00007D'>.<br>
</span><br>
Over the last 14 years, the festival has hosted Scott Turow, Harlan Coben,
Nikki Giovanni, David Baldacci, Dottie Benton Frank, Joyce Carol Oates, Madison
Smartt Bell, Gail Godwin, Percival Everett, and many other award-winning
authors. This year will feature Sharyn McCrumb, Ron Rash, Rick Bragg,
John Hart, Dacre Stoker, Dorothea Benton Frank, Jill McCorkle, Francis
Ray, Robert Hicks,Walter Edgar and many, many others. <br>
<br>
</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>For
more information on the SC Book Festival visit the website at
scbookfestival.org. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>The
SC Book Festival is a program of the Humanities Council SC. <br>
<br>
###<br>
<br>
</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>---<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Curtis R. Rogers, Ed.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Communications Director<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/">South Carolina
State Library</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>POB 11469, 1430 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29211<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>ph:803-734-8928 fax:803-734-8676<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Have
You Joined SCLA Yet for 2010? </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> If not, please do! The
Association needs you as an active member in 2010! Click on <a
href="http://www.scla.org/index.php/Documents/Membership">http://www.scla.org/index.php/Documents/Membership</a> and
join today. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>