Hi I'm Terrance Washington, I'm an Artist, Art Teacher, Graphic Designer and Dj. I'm also the President and founder of the Blackville Music & Art festival. As an artist it's hard to get your work out there and promote yourself as well as just getting opportunity to show your work. I'm really big into Music and the arts, so from that came an idea for a two day festival. The Blackville Music and Art Festival is a festival where everyone can get the opportunity to show their art work and musical talents. Most people never had the opportunity to hit a stage, this is your chance, and other artists never had opportunity to show their art work, this is your chance. This festival is all about helping people to grow and develop their talents as well as to bring the community together. We also give back to our community by creating the E.E.W. (Earnell & Ethel Washington) Music & Art Festival scholarship to help young people go to school for music or art.
What inspires me to do my art is life and the things around me. Sometimes my mind becomes so full that it has to come out in some creative form. Sometimes it's nature & her fluid ways/movements. Then its what's going on in the world. I call myself a modern day impressionist! I do art that when you look at it. It makes you think. Sometimes you have to come back and look at it more than once to start forming your own ideas and creating conversations about the work. To again to make people really think and really have open conversations about art, what they see & life. I also do art to hopefully let people imagine themselves in/as painting/subject... to create a feeling to relate too. I like to give people a full range of experience, energy, emotions & strength! I also try to give a piece of me & some culture. I try to give hope & positive vibes.
Also Love, Blessings and Empowerment!
I’m from Blackville SC. Blackville is a small town in South Carolina. It a town where athletics is big factor. Blackville is also the home of the National Football League's Super bowl Champion New England Patriot's WR. Troy Brown, Dallas Cowboy's LB. Joe Thomas, Canadian Football League Champion Toronto Argonaut’s Brandon Isaac, Newberry College Hall of Famer Vic Gilmore and Champion Cyclist Mr. Jeff May. So art is not a big thing Blackville. So I set out to change the narrative to add art and music into the town’s culture.
I am a graduate of Blackville Hilda High School, I then went on to attend The Art Institute of Atlanta in the field of Graphic Design but then I transferred to The Art Institute of Charlotte. There I placed 2nd in the category of Brochure Design in The Art Institute of Charlotte Media Design Competition and earned my Associates in Graphic Design. During that time of the transfer from Atlanta to Charlotte, I took some time off from school and then I went on to Denmark Technical College. I graduated with my Associates in Art that December and in January 2002 I started at The Art Institute of Charlotte. After graduating from The Art Institute of Charlotte I spent the next two years working but I felt the need to go back to college to better myself. So in December 2004, I left my job at Hilton Head Signs, Hilton Head, SC to go back to college in January 2005. I then went on to get my B.F.A. degree in Digital Media from South Carolina State University while working a full time job. I worked with special needs students for 10 years at Guinyard-Butler Middle School and then I went on to teach Art at Macedonia Elementary/Middle School.
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