Providing professional, affordable art space, always.
Who we are
Studio Union is a professional art space with a mission to have long-term, affordable rent for creatives in a dynamic and inspiring communal environment. Our group includes potters, sculptors, filmmakers, photographers, painters and more. We are rich in kindness and creativity and we look forward to growing our numbers with artists and friends.
Studio Union provides a hive for emerging and established artists to interact, develop new work and share in public exhibitions.
Our Mission
Building community with professional, affordable art space, always.
We enjoy the quiet streets around Hackemann Avenue and have enjoyed cultivating friendships with our neighbors through day to day life as well as cookouts at our Yard Parties. Having this creative space, we will work daily for our own businesses alongside each other while caring for the studio together. Throughout the calendar, Studio Union members and guests hold instructional class and skill-building sessions in ceramics and multi-media.
In this warehouse building, we have the benefit of hosting gatherings and events to support the studio and our individual artists while exposing our surrounding community to the joy, and hard work, of creative pursuits.
Please contact us with questions about our mission or for inquiries about joining our circle here.
Our Past
Within the blocks of the historic Union Heights neighborhood, Studio Union hosts a group of professional and developing artists. This community, subdivided into lots in 1919, was named for the nearby union station of three railroads. It had been part of Belmont Plantation from the colonial period to the mid-19th century and became an African-American Community after the Civil War.
Union Heights, a thriving neighborhood of houses, churches, and shops, grew with the dramatic expansion of the Charleston Navy Yard from 1935 through World War II and into the 1960s.
Our building was home to an auto shop and a reupholstery service. We are the next group to work with our hands, using clay and multiple art media. Several of us come from the former cone 10 studios ceramic community and then others have joined from different parts of creative Charleston. We are excited to build a new history here together.
Get Involved
Our mission is to provide long-term affordable art space in an inspiring, professional, communal environment. Our studios will always grow and evolve, and we will offer opportunities for creativity and innovation in our strength together. Those include memberships, classes, workshops, public events, popups and exhibitions. Follow us and check back often to see how you can get involved.
