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 2010 (November 2009 - October 2010) are displayed below. Grants awarded in fiscal years 2007, 2008, and 2009 can be viewed by clicking on the links above. For previous records, please contact T.J. Wallace at 803-771-2477.

Recent Major Grants:

Sponsoring Organization: The College of Charleston
Project Title: The Charleston Jazz Initiative Legends Festival
Project Director: Dr. Karen A. Chandler
Awarded: $6,750; cost-share: $8,000
The College of Charleston will present the Charleston Jazz Initiative Legends Festival on June 4 - 6, 2010. The Festival will present musical performances conbined with interpretive lectures and exhibit programs.

Sponsoring Organization: The University of South Carolina (Arts Institute)
Project Title: The Palmetto Children's Poetry Festival
Project Director: Dr. Kwame Dawes
Awarded: $7,000; cost-share: $12,975
The Palmetto Children's Poetry Festival will take place October 22-23, 2010 in Columbia and will feature five poets who write for children and young adults, as well as other fun events appropriate for both children and adults.

Sponsoring Organization: Nickelodeon Theatre
Project Title: 2010 Indie Grits Film Festival
Project Director: Andy Smith
Awarded: $6,000; cost-share: $22,896
The Nickelodeon Theatre will present the 4th annual Indie Grits Film Festival on April 14-18, 2010 in Columbia. Over 35 independent films will be screened, and the festival will include interactive components, including scholar-led workshops and an exhibit.

Sponsoring Organization: ETV Endowment of South Carolina
Project Title: Carolina Stories: Forgotten Founder
Project Director: David Sanford Adams
Awarded: $7,825; cost-share: $91,475
SCETV will create a biographical documentary about Charles Pinckney titled Forgotten Founder that will be broadcast on statewide ETV as part of the "Carolina Stories" series in September 2010.

Sponsoring Organization: Franklin G. Burroughs - Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum
Project Title: Stitching Stories: Conversations on Quilts, Community, and the Artists of Gee's Bend
Project Director: Patricia Goodwin
Awarded: $7,350; cost-share: $39,000
The Franklin G. Burroughs - Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach will present a lecture series titled, "Stitching Stories: Conversations on Quilts, Community, and the Artists of Gee's Bend" in conjunction with two traveling exhibits about the Gee's Bend Quilter's Collective in Alabama.

Sponsoring Organization: South Carolina Council for Conflict Resolution
Project Title: The Peach Bush Book Club
Project Director: Finbarr Dunphy
Awarded: $1,500; cost-share: $17,150
This planning grant will support the creation of a documentary about a Marine Corps helicopter squadron during the Viet Nam War.

Sponsoring Organization: Friends of the Florence County Library
Project Title: Joe Stukes History Series
Project Director: Francie Dunlap
Awarded: $3,415; cost-share: $10,450
The 2010 Joe Stukes History Series will present Chautauqua-style living history presentations of Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Theodore Roosevelt, and James K. Polk, as well as other programs.

Sponsoring Organization: Anderson University
Project Title: Dr. Annie Dove Denmark, President of Anderson University
Project Director: Deborah McEniry
Awarded: $4,997; cost-share: $21,497
Anderson University will create and present an original one-act play about Dr. Annie Dove Denmark, the first female president of a college or university in South Carolina. The play will be presented as part of Anderson University's centennial celebration and will tour around the state.

Recent Mini and Planning Grants:

Sponsoring Organization: Coker College
Project Title: Coker College Undergraduate Research Conference
Project Director: Rhonda Knight
Award: $1,500; cost-share: $6,162
Coker College will sponsor the 2010 Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference on February 19-20, 2010 at their campus in Hartsville. The conferenc, including a keynote address by Dr. Geoffrey Harpham of the National Humanities Center, will be free and open to the public.

Sponsoring Organization: TRACES Center for History and Culture
Project Title: Held on the Homefront, German POWs in the US, 1943-46
Project Director: Michael Luic-Thrams
Award: $1,500; cost-share: $1,640
TRACES Center for History and Culture will use planning grant funds to coordinate the South Carolina tour of the traveling exhibit Held on the Homefront: German POWs in the US, 1943-46 in their unique traveling bus museum. The exhibit will visit South Carolina in May 2010.

Sponsoring Organization: Arts and Heritage Center of North Augusta
Project Title: Palmetto Park and Pond Exhibit
Project Director: Lauren Virgo
Award: $1,500; cost-share: $5,835
The Arts and Heritage Center of North Augusta will fabricate an exhibit about the Palmetto Park and Pond, a historic African-American recreational venue in North Augusta where many famous jazz performers played during segregation. The exhibit will be on display from February 2 - May 1, 2010 in North Augusta.

Sponsoring Organization: Culture & Heritage Museums
Project Title: Story to Stage: Oral History Summer Camp
Project Director: Rachel Baum
Award: $1,495; cost-share: $1,808
The Culture & Heritage Museums of York County will offer a week-long summer camp for middle school students in July 2010 that will teach students oral history techniques.

Sponsoring Organization: McKissick Museum
Project Title: Grass Roots Opening Weekend Events
Project Director: Lana Burgess
Award: $1,389; cost-share: $1,758
McKissick Museum will present a series of public programs during the opening of the exhibit Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art on February 12-13, 2010. The programs include an opening reception with lecture, two scholar-led tours of the exhibit, and a lecture with scholar Peter H. Wood.

Sponsoring Organization: University of South Carolina
Project Title: From Field to Table: Historical Ecology of Regional Subsistence Strategies
Project Director: Dr. David J. Goldstein
Award: $1,000; cost-share: $1,500
The University of South Carolina will present a major national conference on anthropology and archaeology titled "From Field to Table: Historical Ecology of Regional Subsistence Strategies" that will take place March 18-21, 2010 in Columbia.

Sponsoring Organization: Saint Teresa Community Outreach and Empowerment
Project Title: A Cultural Experience
Project Director: Terrie G. Bryant
Award: $1,000; cost-share: $2,000
Saint Teresa Community Outreach and Empowerment in Lake City, SC will present a public program on cultural diversity on March 6, 2010 that will feature demonstrations of West African Drumming, Mexican Traditional Dancing, Burmese Music, and American Classical Wind Ensembles.

Sponsoring Organization: Swamp Fox Murals Trail Society
Project Title: Francis Marion Living History Days
Project Director: George Summers
Award: $1,000; cost-share: $40,100
"Francis Marion Living History Days" is a public event that will take place at the R.M. Cooper 4H Leadership Center in Summerton on February 25-27, 2010 that will present living history demonstrations about the Revolutionary War and colonial lifestyle. Thursday, February 25 and Friday, February 26 are reserved for third grade students, and Saturday, February 27 is open to the public.

Sponsoring Organization: South Carolina Federation of Museums
Project Title: SCFM Annual Conference/Museum Tales: What's Your Story?
Project Director: Jill Koverman
Award: $1,000; cost-share: $2,201
The South Carolina Federation of Museums will present their annual conference on March 10-12, 2010 in Greenville, SC on "Museum Tales: What's Your Story?"

Sponsoring Organization: University of South Carolina, Continuing Education and Conferences
Project Title: Student Activism, Southern Style: Organizing and Protest in the 1960s and 1970s
Project Director: David J. Snyder
Award: $1,000; cost-share: $6,000
The University of South carolina will host a collaborative conference titled "Student Activism, Southern Style: Organizing and Protest in the 1960s and 1970s" on March 19-21, 2010 in Columbia. Registration is required.

Sponsoring Organization: Claflin University
Project Title: Developing a Script for a Documentary on the Non-Christian Religions in South Carolina"
Project Director: Zia Hasan
Award: $1,500; cost-share: $2,593
Claflin University will use planning grant funds to develop a script for a documentary on the Non-Christian religions in South Carolina.

Sponsoring Organization: Katie & Irwin Kahn Jewish Community Center, Jewish Cultural Arts Committee
Project Title: 10th Annual Columbia Jewish Film Festival
Project Director: Brenna Sparrow
Award: $1,300; cost-share: $8,525
The Katie & Irwin Kahn Jewish Community Center will present the 10th Annual Columbia Jewish Film Festival at the Nickelodeon Theatre on March 20 - 24, 2010. It will feature six films, including the documentary Killing Katzner, which will be followed by a discussion forum with the producer and scholar.

Sponsoring Organization: Friends of Aiken County Historical Society
Project Title: Horse Creek: Life Blood of the Valley
Project Director: Elliot Levy
Award: $1,500; cost-share: $74,355
Friends of the Aiken County Historical Museum will use Planning Grant funds to support pre-production activities for a 56-minute documentary about the Horse Creek Valley region of Aiken County.

Sponsoring Organization: ETV Endowment of South Carolina
Project Title: Carolina Stories: Gonzales-Tillman Affair Script
Project Director: Matt Burrows
Award: $1,434; cost-share: $12,993
ETV Endowment will use Planning Grant funds to support the research and writing of a script for a documentary about the "Gonzales-Tillman affair" to be screened on statewide SCETV through the Carolina Stories program. The documentary will examine the 1902 shooting of The State newspaper founder and editor, Narciso Gener Gonzales, by Lieutenant Governor James Tillman.

Sponsoring Organization: Atlantic Beach Historical Society, Inc.
Project Title: "Linkin Up: Preserving Gullah/Geechee Culture at the Grassroots Level Seminar Series"
Project Director: Barbara F. Collier
Outright: $1,500; cost-share: $2,500
The Atlantic Beach Historical Society requests Planning Grant funds to plan a series of public seminars that will take about preserving the Gullah-Geechee heritage at the grassroots level and will increase awareness of the Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.

Sponsoring Organization: Foothills Area Family YMCA
Project Title: Camp Read-O-Rama
Project Director: Michelle H. Martin
Outright: $874; cost-share: $1,500
Foothills Area Family YMCA in partnership with Clemson University will present five weekly summer camp programs for students ages 4 – 12 that focus on reading, literacy, and children’s literature.

Sponsoring Organization: ETV Endowment of South Carolina
Project Title: "La Ropa Sucia (Dirty Laundry)
Project Director: Betsy Newman
Outright: $1,500 cost-share: $6,352
SCETV plans an educational website project titled “La Ropa Sucia” (Dirty Laundry). The project consists of six episodes of a fotonovela about a Hispanic family that will examine important issues for young adults both in and outside of the Hispanic community in South Carolina, including religious, cultural, and personal health issues.

Sponsoring Organization: Medical University of South Carolina
Project Title: Writing & Healing: Conversations about the Humanities and Health Care
Project Director: Lisa Kerr
Outright: $1,300; cost-share: $1,321.78
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston will present two public programs about the humanities and healthcare. Nurse-poet Veneta Masson will present a program about the importance of storytelling in healthcare at the Charleston County Public Library on September 2, 2010 and a presentation about how creative writing can interact with healthcare at MUSC on September 3, 2010.

Sponsoring Organization: USC Department of English
Project Title: Understanding the Medieval Book: A Seminar with Dr.Christopher de Hamel
Project Director: Dr. Scott Gwara
Outright: $1,500; cost-share: $7,510
The University of South Carolina English Department will host a two-day seminar on the “Understanding the Medieval Book” on April 5 – 6, 2011. The seminar will feature the preeminent medievalist scholar Dr. Christopher de Hamel from Cambridge University and will use USC’s excellent collection of medieval manuscript as the basis for discussion, study, and teaching.

Sponsoring Organization: National Trust for Historic Preservation/Drayton Hall
Project Title: Commemorating a Sacred Place: Drayton Hall's 18th Century African-American Cemetery
Project Director: Craig Tuminaro
Outright: $1,300; cost-share: $4,575
Drayton Hall, a Colonial plantation house in Mt. Pleasant, SC that is run by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, requests funds for a special commemoration event that will take place on October 8, 2010. The event will honor the lives of people of African descent who were involved with Drayton Hall by unveiling new interpretive panels and installing a new memorial arch at the African-American cemetery at Drayton Hall.

Sponsoring Organization: University of South Carolina
Project Title: A Celebration of Today's Southern Novel
Project Director: Jane Upshaw
Outright: $1,000; cost-share: $1,500
The University of South Carolina requests funds for a public program at USC Beaufort on November 19, 2010 called “A Celebration of Today’s Southern Novel.” The program will feature both contemporary Southern novelists giving readings and literary scholars who will introduce them and help moderate discussions.

Sponsoring Organization: Belton Area Museum Association
Project Title: Heritage Days at the Depot
Project Director: Alison Darby
Outright: $1,500; cost-share: $12,300
Belton Area Museum Association requests funds for their 2010 Heritage Days at the Depot event, a three-day living history festival that involves both school children and the general public. The program will take place on September 30 – October 2, 2010 and will feature 15 exhibitors who demonstrate and explain traditional skills like country dance, calligraphy, Native American music, and bee keeping.

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.