SYNAPTIC was a visionary art event with a dual mission: to foster greater awareness and acceptance of neurodiversity and to generate financial support for The Meyer Center’s mission to empower children with physical and cognitive differences to reach their highest potential. It featured 16+ artists, raised 2K+ in funds for TMC, and was curated by Nicole Shannon of Create Potential.

BLKMRKTCLT is an arts studio and collective based in Charlotte, NC that was created to give Black artists a safe space to create. Curated by artist Carla Aaron-Lopez, this exhibition is “a snapshot of the range of practices and skills the BLKMRKTCLT collective brings to table. We are Black and Southern. We are young and old. We move the needle of culture. Which is why you need to get like us.”

Marcy Parks’ new solo show was called, “My Rage is Like a Flower Garden.” it featured explosive, emotive new works of art from the Bristol, TN-based artist and podcaster. Marcy’s work explores opposing yet sublimely complementary themes of beauty, healing, femininity and rage in bold, luscious paintings and prints.

“COLLECTIVE GOOD” was our first ever Good Art Co. Studio Artist group show featuring 14 incredible in-house studio artists, with a portion of gallery sales benefitting Harvest Hope Food Bank and families in need during the holiday season.

"Cloudscapes" by Laura Cleary Williams was our very first exhibition. This body of work by Chattanooga-based artist and author Williams featured ephemeral, entrancing mixed-media pieces that explore her healing after an injury and how she started to perceive the world.

WET PAINT united 20+ talented local artists in presenting new works of art that celebrate the Upstate’s beautiful waterways, especially Connestee Nature Preserve, and raised awareness of why it is so important to protect and preserve this priceless natural resource.

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, RAICES explored the vibrant Hispanic and Latinx cultures through art. The stunning exhibition featured a rich tapestry of work from Carla Henriquez, Jorge Rojas and Orlando Corona. It was hosted by the SC Hispanic Alliance.

FIGURES & FACES was our first mixed-media group exhibition featuring new works by local and regional artists making art around the theme of the human figure. A celebration of the myriad beautiful and painful ways we are born, we grow, we thrive, we become truly ourselves and embrace our bodies, and age gracefully, the show was a powerful testament to how incredible and inspiring the human body is in all of its forms.

Through paintings, sculpture, and experimental film, “Sinkhole, SC” by Joseph Smolin presented a deeply personal look at how communities in Southern towns and cities increasingly suffer from gentrification, displacement, and climate disaster. Images of melting cities and immanent angels abound, all with an eye toward an absurdist view of the apocalypse.

“Natural Impact: Works on Paper and Eco-Exhibition” was a group exhibition of 20+ talented regional artists celebrating formed fibers and their many incredible applications across a variety of media: book arts, collage, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.

A portion of all proceeds from the exhibition were donated to benefit TreesUpstate and their work planting, protecting, and promoting trees in upstate South Carolina.

Curated by Rae Clark and sponsored by the Upstate LGBTQ Chamber, the 3rd Annual Queer Arts Initiative Exhibition featured four artists work in which queerness is not only celebrated—it is revealed in its full unfiltered spectrum: messy, powerful, painful, brilliant. These are stories that demand to be seen, heard and remembered.

"West Bank” was a powerful solo exhibition featuring new photography by Allie Kay in the Good Art Co. Makerspace Gallery. "West Bank" featured documentary photographs taken by Allie Kay during her 2024-2025 visits to the West Bank, Palestine.