NIBCAA, South Carolina’s Gullah Cultural Ambassador, will present the 24^th Annual Hilton Head Island Gullah Celebration and Festival throughout the month of February 2020. The annual celebration will reprise their award-winning Gullah Market, Paint and Sips and Arts Ob We People Exhibit and Sale. New features for this year’s celebration include the featured artwork “Two Pounds” by artist and educator Alvin Glenn and Gullah Tales and Songs with Ron Daise.

Local artist Richard Grant’s February Featured Artist exhibit will pay homage to surfing and travel posters from the 1960s and 1970s. “Good Vibrations” will show from Feb. 5-29 at the Society of Bluffton Artists (SOBA) gallery in Old Town Bluffton. Come meet the artist during an opening reception from 5-7 p.m. Feb. 5th. These events are free and open to the public.

Artist Michael Reibel proves it’s never too late to chase a new dream.

By Margaret Evans, Editor

Interviewing Michael Reibel is kind of exhausting. He’s got so much energy it’s hard to keep up. Got a list of questions? Trash it. Follow him down rabbit holes instead. There’s good stuff down there.

            For instance, for a full-time working artist, Michael got a pretty late start. He dabbled in art as a kid – had a knack for it, too – but he didn’t do anything with that knack, nothing at all, between the ages of 18 and 40. Instead, he studied accounting in college, then became a CPA and built an impressive career as an executive with a national healthcare company. It was going very well.