Celebrating the vibrant arts scene in Beaufort, Port Royal, and the Sea Islands. This section features visual arts, performances, local galleries, festivals, cultural events, creative heritage, artist profiles, and community arts programming. It highlights how arts and culture enrich life along the South Carolina Lowcountry coast.
On Saturday and Sunday, March 28 and 29, Chalk It Up! returns as a joyful celebration of creativity, community, and the power of art to bring people together. Hosted by the Freedman Arts District, this free, family-friendly festival transforms ordinary pavement into an extraordinary canvas, inviting residents and visitors alike to witness imagination come alive in real time.
Time, again, to Chalk It Up! Read More »
The 46th Season of USCB Chamber Music returns on Sunday, March 29 with an exciting program that begins quietly with classical decorum and ends boisterously with American bravado.
From Mozart Art to Sousa Lallapalooza Read More »
Folk-rock legend Steve Forbert will make a surprise spring tour stop on Sunday, March 29, at Fripp Island .
Steve Forbert to make surprise tour stop on Fripp Island Read More »
Award-winning journalist Lindsay Street, author of “Maude Callen: Legendary Nurse-Midwife of South Carolina,” took part in a Penn Center-hosted author talk and book signing on Sunday, March 8, 2026.
Author Street speaks at Penn Center Read More »
Maison Beaufort Antiques, Home and Garden Show — founded by friends with a shared passion for design and the Lowcountry — returns Thursday, March 5 through Sunday, March 8, 2026, to Tabby Place on Port Republic Street in Beaufort.
Maison Beaufort returns with curated Antiques, Home & Garden Show Read More »
The Beaufort International Film Festival has handed out a screenplay award for years. This year, it carried a new name and a different kind of meaning.
The Freedman Arts District has expanded into the historic Beaufort Arsenal at 713 Craven Street, as the organization continues to grow and serve the Beaufort community, according to a media release.
Freedman Arts District expands to historic Beaufort Arsenal Read More »
The University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) has announced Hillary Waters Fayle as the Sea Islands Center Gallery Artist in Residence, according to a media release. A Virginia-based textile artist, Fayle is known for her delicate botanical constructions. Using found leaves and simple hand tools—needle and thread and X-Acto knives—she creates refined, fragile assemblages that invite viewers to see art in nature.
USCB Artist in Residence Fayle to lead public workshops Feb. 27-28 Read More »
Are you one of the lucky people who got to hear — and see — TAKE3 on Fripp Island in the fall of 2023? Three musicians who dazzled both the ears and the eyes of the audience and received such enthusiastic ovations that they played two encores. Well, two of those fabulous musicians are coming back to Fripp on Sunday, March 1: Lindsay Deutsch, founder of TAKE3, vocalist, violinist, raconteur and gymnast (of sorts), and Jason Stroll, pianist. The duo is adhering to Lindsay’s idea of combining, as she put it, “classical music with music people actually like.” A principle that she applied to the repertoire of TAKE3.
Voice, violin, piano: The Lindsay and Jason Duo Read More »
