Attracting millions of visitors, the Beyond Van Gogh and Beyond Monet: The Immersive Experience is bringing its stunning combination of art and storytelling back to Charleston, South Carolina. While visitors are captivated by the breathtaking visuals, Fanny Curtat helps the audience see these masterpieces in a new and unique way as the art historian for […]
Charleston Women in the Arts
Light of the Party: Island Candles
When Jenny Taylor launched Island Candles, she knew she wanted to create more than just a candle making business. She wanted to offer a fun, easy and unforgettable experience for people looking to host unique events. Island Candles makes it enjoyable and simple to learn how to make your own non-toxic, clean-burning candles. The best […]
Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Indigo Extraordinaire
Eliza Lucas Pinckney grew up on a sugarcane plantation in Antigua. Like other children of wealthy planters on the Caribbean island, she was sent to school in England where she studied literature, writing, music and botany, classics that would prepare her for a suitable marriage. Caribbean to Charleston After Eliza returned to Antigua, a slave […]
A chat with Caroline Cleveland, author of “When Cicadas Cry”
“When Cicadas Cry,” by Caroline Cleveland, is a high-profile, murder mystery in which a white woman has been bludgeoned to death with a cross in a rural South Carolina church. A blood-stained Black man is found kneeling over her. Nearby, a haunting cold case on Edisto suggests a possible connection. Was this crime racial or […]
Pure Theatre: Review of Rising Establishment and “Midlife Monologues”
For Sharon Graci, who founded Pure Theatre in 2003, nothing is more important than the Charleston community around which the establishment is centered. While Graci runs the business behind the scenes, she also contributes her creative talents as an actor and director. By bringing more than 90 southeastern premiers and 27 world premieres to the […]
The Sweetgrass Basket: A Tradition Of Family And Fable
A family is constructed a lot like the famed sweetgrass baskets that decorate highways, homes and heritage sites all over the Lowcountry; both are made to be coiled so tightly that they could hold water. Charleston Women always aims to look between those tightly woven knots and unveil who the Charleston Woman is and uncloak […]
Local Women Master Business by Mastering the Arts
ANGELA CABAN As a Broadway dancer, singer and actor performing in “Cats”, Angela Caban would never have guessed where her journey would lead after a fateful day walking home from the theater and stumbling upon a box of World of Interiors magazines. Flipping through the pages showcasing old world decor, Caban was immediately inspired to […]
Sit on the Porch for a Spell: Charleston Women Gabs with Southern Women Channel’s Julia Fowler
Tell us how growing up in Gaffney shaped who you’ve become. Gaffney is a small, working-class town filled with colorful characters and although I found its smallness stifling when I was a teenager, as an adult, I fully appreciate how Gaffney and all its colorful characters shaped my soul. My childhood was saturated with family […]
“The Southern Women Channel” Films In Charleston – and We’re Plumb Tickled
Honestly, my heart’s mission is to bring joy and laughter to folks while celebrating Southern culture, Southern language and the South’s most precious asset — Southern women.” -Julia Fowler, creator of “The Southern Women Channel” If you had a chance to read the summer issue of Charleston Women, then you saw a charming interview with […]
Simply Chic
Whether your interior design style leans toward Cosmopolitan In-Town Elegance, Country Cottage, Coastal Glamour, Island Enchantment or Eclectic Blend, Stephanie Hunt’s “Simply Chic” is a must-read. Showcasing high-drama spaces from around the world, this book renders the reader as at home on its pages as they would be in the enchanting rooms featured within. Veranda […]