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.