Charleston Currents – Becca Hopkins

From Becca Hopkins' Expressway show, which opens June 4. Image via Redux.

FOCUS: Redux hosts opening of two new art exhibitions

Staff reports | The Redux Contemporary Art Center opens two new shows this week with one dedicated to a talented watercolorist and the other featuring works of several studio artists.

Charleston native Becca Hopkins offers a series of poignant watercolors June 4 to June 17 in her first solo show at Redux’s Gallery 1056. Called, “Expressway” and curated by Mia Loa, Hopkins’ art highlights the “immensity and artificiality of the Septima P. Clark Expressway stands in jarring contrast with the soft and settled 19th and early 20th century homes around it. It is an alien and alienating landscape that interrupted the human ebb-and-flow of mid-century Charleston,” according to the gallery.

A generation ago, the highway carved through a tight-knit predominantly Black community, displacing approximately 150 residences and businesses in its path. …

by Charleston Currents · 05/31/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

NEW for 5/31: Redux shows open, Heritage Act, big ship

IN THIS EDITION
FOCUS: Redux hosts opening of two new exhibitions
COMMENTARY, Brack: Throw out the Heritage Act
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston RiverDogs
NEWS BRIEFS: Big ship stops by port of Charleston
FEEDBACK: Use opioid funds carefully, transparently
MYSTERY PHOTO: Wild mural
CALENDAR: Photos come alive in museum’s new Living Color exhibit

by Charleston Currents · 05/31/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

FOCUS: Assessing an almost-invisible population in Charleston

By Becca Hopkins, special to Charleston Currents | People flock to Charleston. They come in droves for the weather, the culture, the food, the slower pace of life. For most people, Charleston is an eminently livable city and both the tourist industry and the pace of residential growth reflect that.

However, there is one almost-invisible population in Charleston that is not enjoying the advantages that Charleston has to offer. Charleston is home to hundreds of individuals under the age of 25 who are either experiencing homelessness or some variety of housing insecurity. An even greater number are experiencing food insecurity, meaning that they don’t get an adequate amount of nutritious food regularly. This population is mixed in with our K-12 students and college students, though there are many who are not in school and are living off the grid and outside of any systems.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 04/30/2017 · 1 comment · Focus, Good news

PHOTO ESSAY: Protests visible around the area

Protesters have gotten much more visible in the weeks since Donald Trump became president of the United States. Here’s a Photo Essay that shows protesters in North Charleston on Friday and in Mount Pleasant Feb. 7.

by Charleston Currents · 02/20/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Photo Essay, Photos