The Art of Alfred Hutty Exhibit
The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC has organized an original exhibition that will be on display from January 20 – April 20, 2012. The Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston is a career retrospective of the 20th century American artist Alfred Hutty, considered one of the principal artists of the Charleston Renaissance. The Humanities CouncilSC supported this exhibit through a Mini Grant in 2009 and a Major Grant in 2009.
Image Credit: Meeting Street, ca. 1925, By Alfred Hutty (American, 1877 – 1954), Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art/ Carolina Art Association, Charleston, S.C.
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Events 
2012 SC Book Festival - SAVE THE DATE!
Mark your calendars NOW for the 16th Annual SCBook Festival on May 18-20, 2012 in Columbia, SC at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center! The SCBook Festival features a wide variety of authors and presenters, more than 80 exhibitors selling books and book-related items, book signings, special events, and much more!
Grand American Vision Lecture Series
The Columbia Museum of Art will present a series of lectures and programs to accompany the display of the exhibit Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters, on display from November 19, 2011 – April 1, 2012. Thirteen lectures are planned featuring both local and national scholars. The Humanities CouncilSC supported this program through a Major Grant in September 2011.Image:
Jasper Francis Cropsey, SUNSET, LAKE GEORGE, NY, 1867, Oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 44 in. ( 61.6 x 111.8 cm), The Robert L. Stuart Collection, S-126
Wish You Were Here Exhibit
The Franklin G. Burroughs and Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach will present the photography exhibit Wish You Were Here from January 15 – February 26, 2012. Wish You Were Here, created by artists Cynthia Farnell and Dan Powell, examines a small motel in Myrtle Beach, SC from a variety of angles. A public panel discussion about community and place in Myrtle Beach will take place on February 26, 2011 at the museum. The Humanities CouncilSC supported this project with a Mini Grant in August 2011.Image: Pool (Wish You Were Here), digital pigment print on paper, 11" x 14", (c) Farnell & Powell, 2011
New Harmonies is in Beaufort!
The traveling Smithsonian exhibit New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music is at its sixth stop on its statewide tour: Beaufort, SC. The exhibit will be on display at the Beaufort Branch Library from December 17, 2011 - February 4, 2012 (311 Scott Street, Beaufort, SC 29902). There are exciting events planned in Beaufort to go along with the exhibit, including lectures, concerts, workshops and more!
The American Road to Victory
Livingbattlefield.org will present public screenings of films from the acclaimed World War II documentary trilogy The American Road to Victory at venues in South Carolina in the winter of 2011 – 2012. Each screening will be followed by a conversation with a local veteran and with the scholar/filmmaker, Richard Lanni, or a local historian. The Humanities CouncilSC supported these screenings with a Mini Grant in November 2011.
African Americans in the Civil War
The South Carolina African American Heritage Foundation will maintain a roster of scholars who can address topics related to African Americans and the Civil War in South Carolina. These scholars can be booked for programs around the state during the Sesquicentennial commemorations and beyond. Four programs have already been planned as part of a year-long lecture series to take place on February 9, 2012; May 17, 2012; August 23, 2012, and October 25, 2012. The Humanities CouncilSC supported this project with a Major Grant in September 2011.Image: Company I, 54th Massachusetts Reenactment Regiment, courtesy of Joseph McGill
The People of Clarendon County
The South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs will present the historic play “The People of Clarendon County” on Sunday, February 19, 2012 as part of the Southeast Regional Black Male Summit in Columbia, SC. The play tells how the black citizens of Clarendon County fought for equal educational rights for their children in the 1940s and 1950s. The Humanities CouncilSC supported this project with a Mini Grant in January 2012.
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