Clay travels throughout the United States doing silhouette cutting and booksigning events.
Here are some quotes from some of the store owners that are on Clay's tour:
"The days that Clay visits our store are some of the biggest days of the year" – Jim Glazner - Smith's Mountainbrook,Al
"We love it when Clay visits our store. He has been coming to Magic Windows for 20 years, and he ALWAYS has a waiting list. His award winning children's book is very popular with our customers" –Carole French - Magic Windows, New York, NY
"Clay has been coming to my store for 7 years, and has established quite a following around Chicago.We have to double-book his appointments to get all of his loyal customers in to see him. Some of them bring in silhouettes that were done by his Grandfather! It's always a special day. – Lucy Callahan - Peachtree Place, Northfield,IL
For details on sceduling an
in-store event with Clay Rice,
call 1-800-348-7270
Museum Shows The South Carolina State Museum is sponsoring a nation-wide traveling exibit of Clay's original works. The exibit includes 25 original works from Clay's multi-award winning children's book "The Lonely Shadow" as well as a visit to your museum or art center by the artist which includes silhouette-cutting, book signing, and a musical and storytelling performance by Clay. More information can be found here.
A polished storyteller and tunesmith from his days as a Nashville songwriter, Clay's eloquent musical portraits of his boyhood in the South Carolina Low Country captivate audiences young and old alike.
When Clay sings "The Lonely Shadow", The children can't help but sing along.
School Programs Nationwide Clay will visit your school for a silhouette-cutting, book-signing, and musical story telling event. Children are completely enthralled by Clay's stories which are so heart-felt that some don't realize that throughout the performance they are being taught valueble life-lessons about perserverence,importance of family and working hard, using your imagination and realizing that it's ok to be different.
Convention groups and meetings (available in South Carolina only) For years Clay has been a popular speaker-performer for groups that visit South Carolina, particularly in Charleston and the low country areas.
Hear Clay tell the story of Dr. Buzzard, the famed and fabled root doctor from down Beaufort way, and of the gray man, the mysterious ghost from Pawleys Island who appears before violent storms to warn the island people to evacuate. Intermixed with the stories and songs, are his musings of his life growing up in a family of writers and artists, and never knowing what would happen next on the family's Chee Haw river plantation.
Clay finishes each performance with a silhouette-cutting and booksigning segment which always delights visitors. Each meeting attendee will have a rare opportunity to take home a hand-cut-in-front-of-their-eyes keepsake by one of South Carolina's most famous artists.
Trips aboard The "Osprey" Clay has teamed up with his good friend Captain Lucas Smith to give your group a sensational harbor cruise.
Hear Clay sing and tell the story of Blackbeard's week-long siege of Charleston and of Charleston's "gentleman pirate", Steede Bonnett while the crew of the "Osprey" serve up such Low Country delicacies as Low Country Seafood Boil, cracked crab, steamed shrimp and BBQ.
