Host Sites Announced for Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit “Spark! Places of Innovation”

South Carolina Humanities is pleased to announce that six communities in South Carolina will host the traveling Smithsonian exhibit Spark! Places of Innovation in 2024-2025. Spark! will highlight innovation in rural America from the perspective of the people who lived it!  Spark! Places of Innovation explores the unique combination of places, people, and circumstances that sparks innovation and invention in … Read more

“Justice for All” exhibit in Beaufort

The traveling exhibit “Justice for All: South Carolina and the American Civil Rights Movement,” created by the Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the University of South Carolina, will be on display in Beaufort at the Reconstruction Era National Park from July 10 – September 30, 2023. SC Humanities supported the traveling exhibit with … Read more

South Carolina: The Food We Celebrate in Aiken

Developed by the South Carolina State Museum and South Carolina Humanities, South Carolina: The Food We Celebrate is a traveling exhibit that celebrates iconic foods from communities around South Carolina. The State Museum and South Carolina Humanities collaborated with 22 organizations across SC to develop the content for the exhibit, highlighting 20 different iconic foodways such as … Read more

“Hampton Terrace Hotel” exhibit in North Augusta

The Arts & Heritage Center of North Augusta has created a new permanent exhibit component about the Hampton Terrace Hotel. This famous historic venue was open from 1903 until it was destroyed by fire in 1916 and hosted a variety of notable guests like John D. Rockefeller and President-elect William Howard Taft. SC Humanities supported … Read more

South Carolina Students Shine at 2023 National History Day Competition

Forty-eight South Carolina students whose entries had won first or second place at the South Carolina History Day Contest traveled to Maryland in June to represent the Palmetto State at the 2023 National History Day competition. Seven South Carolina students brought home top honors from this prestigious national event, which is held each June at … Read more

Paths to Freedom Exhibit

The McKissick Museum will present the exhibit Paths to Freedom from June 12 – December 16, 2023. The exhibit features the artist John Dowell’s digitally-edited photographs which examine enslaved people’s relationship to cotton fields. SC Humanities supported this project with a Mini Grant. In his exhibition Paths to Freedom, Philadelphia-based artist John Dowell uses digitally enhanced photographs … Read more

Resurgence and Renaissance: Art of the Catawba Nation

The Columbia Museum of Art will present the exhibit Resurgence and Renaissance: Art of the Catawba Nation Since 1973 from June 10 – September 3, 2023. The exhibit is a major 50-year anniversary exhibition, building off the original 1973 version that showcased Catawba potters. A variety of dynamic public programs are planned to go along with the … Read more

Be Revolutionary: Meet the Funders – Collaborative Grant Writing Workshop

A collaborative group of cultural funding organizations will offer a free workshop on grants and funding, with an emphasis on funding for Revolutionary War programs, on Thursday, August 17, 2023 in Moncks Corner. SC Humanities will join with the SC American Revolution Sestercentennial Commission (SC250), the SC Department of Archives and History, the SC Arts … Read more

C3: Charleston Civil Rights and Civics

Kids on Point in partnership with Charleston Civil Rights and Civics is offering a week-long summer enrichment program about Civil Rights history and civics engagement for 20 rising high school freshmen in the Charleston area. During the week of July 31 -August 4, the inaugural class of students will participate in 5 days of tours … Read more