A craft and art center plus more! The friendliest staff and volunteers and artists I've ever come across. We arrived to see the new and heirloom quilt display and were treated to original books, and origami, and oils, and pottery, and weaving looms, and HUGE barn quilts, and delightful stories. Our short drop in lasted for 2 hours. We left only because my traveling buddy said she was so hungry she thought she might chew off her own arm. There are numerous on-going classes offered. The facility is a school with dwindling enrollment so the students are in wing B and the art/folk art center is in Wing A. Excellent repurposing of an essentially vacant building. There is a studio where heritage barn quilts are painted and produced for inclusion in the Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail. There are looms which were donated by Clemson U. There are Bernina sewing machines which were donated by the school district when it annihilated Family and Consumer Science curriculum in the schools. BOO! HISS! for doing away with an essential curriculum for training in basic life skills! YAY!RAH! for the generosity of the short sighted school district for repurposing the sewing machines for the community good! These items are located in separate classrooms dedicated to the particular art/craft conducted in that room. There is a Gallery full of unique consignment items for sale. There are heirloom quilts on display throughout the wing and some especially significant heirloom quilts housed in a glass case for protection. This place is SO inviting and invigorating. read more

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