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This is the world of the , a non-profit organization that serves as the beating heart of the Lowcountry’s visual arts scene. While tourists flock to the island for golf and sprawling beaches, locals know that the true soul of Hilton Head is painted, sculpted, and woven inside the walls of the Walter Greer Gallery at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina.

To walk through the League’s annual spring exhibition is to walk through a love letter to the Lowcountry. You see the familiar green of the live oaks, the haunting purple of a distant thunderstorm over Calibogue Sound, and the stark white of an egret frozen mid-step. Every stroke is a memory. www.hiltonheadartleague.org

For forty years, the salty sea breeze of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, has carried more than just the scent of pluff mud and jasmine. It has carried the scent of turpentine, the dust of dried clay, and the quiet shuffle of easels turning to catch the perfect morning light. This is the world of the , a