Awarded Grants

The Humanities Council^SC funds numerous projects in South Carolina through major grants, mini grants, and planning grants. Grants awarded in fiscal year 2012 (November 1, 2011 - October 31, 2012) are displayed below. Grants awarded in fiscal years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 can be viewed by clicking on the links above. For previous records, please contact T.J. Wallace at 803-771-2477.

Recent Major Grants:

Recent Mini and Planning Grants:

Sponsoring Organization: Livingbattlefield of SC
Project Title: Livingbattlefield Community Outreach
Project Director: Meredith Smith
Outright: $2,000; Cost-share: $2,520
Livingbattlefield of SC will present public screenings of the WWII films, American Road to Victory in Myrtle Beach on December 3, 2011, the Colleton County Library on January 31, 2012, and at the Florence County Library on February 9, 2012. Discussion with the filmmaker and a local WWII veteran will take place after each screening.

Sponsoring Organization: Greenville Chautauqua
Project Title: Training Institute for Chautauqua Historical Interpreters
Project Director: Sally Potosky
Outright: $1,350; Cost-share: $6,500
Greenville Chautauqua will plan and implement a pilot “Training Institute” for Chautauqua-style presenters (scholars who present as a historical character), to be held during the annual Greenville Chautauqua Festival in June 2012.

Sponsoring Organization: SC Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum
Project Title: Religion in the Civil War Symposium
Project Director: Kaela Harmon
Outright: $1,000; Cost-share: $5,400
The SC Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum in partnership with the SC Department of Archives and History and the SC Historical Society plans to hold a one-day symposium on the theme of “Religion in the Civil War” in Columbia on Saturday, January 28, 2012.

Sponsoring Organization: South Carolina Federation of Museums
Project Title: SCFM Annual Conference 2012, Unlocking the Future: The Key for Success
Project Director: Christian Cicimurri
Outright: $600; Cost-share: $2,850
The South Carolina Federation of Museums will present their annual statewide conference on March 7 – 9, 2012 in GeorgetownAngela Mack, Chief Curator of the Gibbes Museum of Art, will give the keynote address. “The White Gloves Gang” project will bring a group of up to ten museum professionals from around the state together to volunteer with the Georgetown County Museum on several collections-related projects.

Sponsoring Organization: South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs
Project Title: The People of Clarendon County and the Answer to Racism
Project Director: Sheila Albergottie
Outright: $2,000; Cost-share: $4,895
The South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs will present the play “The People of Clarendon County” by Ossie Davis during the Southeast Regional Black Male Summit on February 19 – 20, 2012 in Columbia. The play, written by Davis in 1955 and unearthed by Alice Bernstein in 2004, tells the story of the South Carolinians in Clarendon County who filed the first legal challenge to segregation in public schools in the 1950s.

For more information about the Grants Program or any of The Humanities Council^SC's funded projects, please contact Theresa (T.J.) Wallace, the Grants and Programs Officer, at 803-771-2477.