Award-winning impressionist painter and part-time Lowcountry resident Leslie Dyas is excited to teach a one day workshop at Art League Academy. Dyas will share her approach to planning and building art that captures the visual essence of the scenes that strike your imagination. “In this hands-on workshop, you will work to create your own Lowcountry landscape, alive with the beauty of the region and its inhabitants,” states Amy Wehrman, Academy Manager.

When I was 13, I watched my first Winter Olympics in glorious black-and-white. I marveled at meticulously-executed spins and glides as Carol Heiss nabbed the gold medal in women’s figure skating. Her performance was flawless, as were those of many athletes competing in Squaw Valley. But the ski jumpers had me spellbound.

Weeds are very successful strategists. They have developed ways to grow in poor soil, low light and varying amounts of moisture. I respect any plant that comes up through the cracks in the sidewalk.

More than a dozen contributing writers will be on hand to honor Pat Conroy.

New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In sharing their stories in the forthcoming anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, Pat’s fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary life in and well beyond the American South.