BY GLENN SMITH
The Post and Courier
Local News
Party poopers?
Posted:
11/04/2009 1:15 AM
A hefty tax debt forced Jill Hunter to sell off a good deal of her prized antiques and furniture in the past year. But rather than mourn her misfortune, she saw a unique opportunity in the loss.
A photographer and artist, Hunter decided she would use the free space in her downtown Charleston home as a quasi-gallery to celebrate creativity and the power of fun. She would host exhibits, theme parties and other unique gatherings that she could then document as an art project of sorts.
A disco party night in October -- complete with dueling DJs, mirrored globes and laser lights -- drew 160 people to the newly christened Gallery 57. Hunter and the crowd had a blast. But some of her neighbors on Chapel Street failed to share her enthusiasm and were taken aback by the noise, smoke and revelry.
Those concerns only grew when Hunter advertised plans for a Day of the Dead extravaganza on Sunday that would feature art, skeletons, a Mariachi band and fire dancing.
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