Patrick Earl Hammie is an interdisciplinary visual artist – painter, printmaker, illustrator, curator – and educator who examples personal and shared Black experiences and offers stories that expand notions of self, community, and others today. Hammie specializes in portraiture, storytelling, and the body in visual culture. Artist reception: Oct. 19, 4:30 p.m. Coastal Carolina University, Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery, 133 Chanticleer Dr W. Days, times vary. (843) 347-3161, www.coastal.edu