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Like No Other Place
Issue: August - 2022
A new exhibition in partnership with The Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust – Like No Other Place: Photographs of the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust – explores the magic that’s embedded in the Plateau’s landscape. You’re invited to an opening reception on Thursday, August 11, from 5:00 to 6:30 P.M. at The Bascom.
The Bascom is pleased to continue its ongoing program-matic partnership with the Highlands-Cashiers LandTrust, reimagining the relationship through an exhibi-tion of works in the photographic medium. The images in LikeNo Other Place present an artistic interpretation by regionalphotographers of the beauty, bio-diversity, and expanse of theproperties that the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust stewards,and that help define the plateau as a place like no other.For many years The Bascom has partnered with one of thePlateau’s most valued organizations, the Highlands-CashiersLand Trust, merging art and conservation education throughprograms primarily directed towards school-aged children.Strengthening the missions of both organizations, theseeducation programs allow free access to arts integrated sciencecurriculums where students achieve dual learning objectiveswhile engaging in the creative process.The mountains we call home are among some of the oldest inthe world. Over time, geologic processes have resulted in acomplex landscape that is home to a great diversity of habitatsfor plants and animals. Home to more flowering plant speciesthan anywhere else in the temperate zone, 250 are foundnowhere else but here.Drawn to the abundance of fresh water, timber, and othernatural resources found in the Southern Appalachians, our areahas been inhabited by humans for eons.Early Highlanders recognized that our forests and scenic viewswere at risk and banded together in 1909 to conserve an iconicmountain called Satulah, adding to that Sunset and SunriseRocks at Ravenel Park in 1914. This effort led to the creation ofthe Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust which has now conservedover 3,700 acres in 127 places.It is the deep love of and need for our wild and natural placesthat drives these conservation triumphs.The Bascom is delighted to showcase the important work of theHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust though the images discoveredin Like No Other Place, on display through December 23.Thanks to HC Land Trust’s Julie Schott for contributing tothis article.
by Bianca Mitchell The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts
