Category Archives: Charleston

Folk musician Mary Edna unites protest with art – upcoming events

By Mary Edna | Published: January 7, 2010
This week I am putting on my musical hat. In the 60’s and 70’s I was a folk singer and traveled the South, mainly in my home state of NC, playing guitar on porches and various venues. My first coffee house was opened when I was in the 10th grade in a church basement in […]
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Mary Edna’s words in the Secret Garden Journal

By Mary Edna | Published: December 6, 2009
Up in the Air Editors’ Note:  Mary Edna Fraser transforms her aerial photographs into batiks featured in spaces from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to NASA and Duke University’s Art Museum.  Inspired by environmental concerns, she uses her art for equilibrium.  Her forthcoming book will be published by Duke University’s press.  Visit her exhibit […]
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Philip Simmons remembered by Mary Edna

By Mary Edna | Published: June 26, 2009
Philip Simmons, whose skill with the hammer and anvil elevated him from a working man to an artisan widely recognized as a national treasure, died Monday night, June 22, 2009. He was 97. The renowned blacksmith passed in his sleep at Bishop Gadsden retirement home, right across the creek from my studio. I rode my […]
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