TJ Wallace 
The South Carolina Humanities Board of Directors awarded more than $61,000 in Major Grants to 9 cultural organizations after a September 24, 2021 Board Meeting in Columbia. The awards were selected through a competitive application and review process and are made possible by SC Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Matching community support for the … Read more
Champions of Civil and Human Rights in South Carolina is a five-volume anthology spanning the decades from 1930 to 1980 with oral history interviews of key activists and leaders of the civil rights movement in South Carolina. SC Humanities supported this project with a grant for transcription. Editor Marvin Ira Lare introduces more than one hundred … Read more
The 2021 Free Verse Festival will be the fifth annual offering of this innovative and eclectic all-poetry literary festival. A wide variety of events will take place October 1 – 31, 2021 in both virtual and in-person formats. SC Humanities supported this program with a Fast Track Literary Grant. The festival kicks off with an open … Read more
The SC African American Heritage Commission (SCAAHC) will open the exhibit “Black Carolinians Speak: Portraits of a Pandemic,” on Friday, July 16, 2021 at the SC Archives and History Center at 8301 Parklane Road in Columbia. Additionally, public programs will take place in the fall. SC Humanities supported this project with a Major Grant. The exhibit … Read more
“Picturing Democracy” is a series of programs designed to encourage critical thinking about the role of imagery in American democracy and how both information and misinformation can be spread through images. Join us in the Fall of 2021 for three public programs addressing media literacy, the future of photojournalism, and the influence of meme culture. … Read more
Historic Columbia, in Columbia, SC, in collaboration with the University of South Carolina Libraries, will launch the LGBTQ Columbia History Initiative on October 21, 2021 in conjunction with South Carolina Pride weekend festivities. Through oral histories, digital archives, virtual tours, and more, this initiative will amplify the diverse, complex past of a community that has, … Read more
South Carolina State University will present a series of four interactive, virtual programs on “Words Across the Water: Writing and Culture Across the Black Atlantic” from September 16 – November 11, 2021. SC Humanities helped support this program with a Fast Track Literary Grant. “Words Across the Water” will explore the intersections where Anglophone Caribbean … Read more
Newberry Opera House Foundation will present “Cross that River” on Tuesday, October 26 at 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. The musical tells the story of American’s West from the perspective of the African American cowboys who journeyed from slavery to freedom out West. This programming was supported with funding from a Growth Grant from South … Read more
Meltdown in Dixie, a documentary film about the battle over a Confederate flag flying outside of an ice cream shop in Orangeburg, will premiere on SCETV at 6pm on Sunday, October 10th. SC Humanities supported this project with a Major Grant. Directed by Orangeburg, S.C. native Emily Harrold, Meltdown in Dixie explores the broader role … Read more
The College of Charleston will host the 2021 International Conference on Romanticism on October 14th – 16th. There will be a variety of panels and programs for conference attendees over the weekend, including two virtual events that will be open to the general public. SC Humanities supported this program with a Mini Grant. The “Charleston Unbound” … Read more
From July 19 to December 20, 2021, McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina will present Carolina Knives: The Roots of a Revival, an exhibit showcasing over 100 examples of utilitarian and decorative knives by contemporary Carolina knifemakers. SC Humanities supported this exhibit and its associated programming with a Major Grant. Since the mid-20th … Read more
The 18th Annual Congaree SwampFest will take place October 1 – 2, 2021 at the historic Harriet Barber House and grounds and the Congaree National Park. This programming was supported with funding from a Growth Grant from South Carolina Humanities. Funding for the Growth Grants has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities … Read more
Spartanburg Community College Foundation will host the 2021 Wonders of Writing Symposium on Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 7:00 p.m., featuring poets Tiana Nobile and Esteban Rodriguez. This program brings visionary authors to Spartanburg in order to share their art with a diverse audience and encourage critical reflection. The program was originally planned to be … Read more
In September and October 2021, South Carolina State University will sponsor a media literacy and film discussion program titled “Colors of Film” that will serve the Orangeburg community. The programming includes two media literacy workshops and two public film screenings. SC Humanities supported this programming with a Major Grant. “Colors of Film” is designed to help … Read more
Greenville Chautauqua’s 2021 History Comes Alive festival will be held September 3 – 12 at the Mauldin Cultural Center Outdoor Ampitheater and other venues. The festival features live performances by nationally acclaimed historical interpreters recreating the stories of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Hedy Lamar, and Rosa Parks. This programming was supported with funding … Read more
Glow Lyric Theatre, in partnership with Walt’s Waltz, has created a new series of free virtual lectures and facilitated discussions on the intersection of the arts, race, identity and the events of the pandemic on mental health. The lectures are part of their presentation of “Rock Opera” from August 19 – August 29th. This programming … Read more
Richland Library has launched two interactive StoryWalk® trails in the Midlands, located at Doko Meadows Park in Blythewood and Caughman Road Park in Hopkins. The project offers families the opportunity to celebrate a love of reading, keep moving, and experience a local park together. SC Humanities supported this effort with a Major Grant. A StoryWalk® … Read more
The Luminal Theater will screen the 2016 documentary UNAPOLOGETIC on Thursday, September 23, 2021 at a theater in Northeast Columbia. The film follows two female activists in Chicago fighting for racial equity. An intergenerational discussion about activism in South Carolina will take place on September 22. SC Humanities supported this program with a Mini Grant. … Read more
Francis Marion University will kick off their “Universities Studying Slavery” (USS) initiative with a performance by noted poet Glenis Redmond on September 23, 2021. SC Humanities helped support this program with a Fast Track Literary Grant. The USS initiative is open to any school contemplating or already investigating its own history as it relates to … Read more
The exhibit Ecos: Resonances of South Carolina Latino Stories will be on display at the Public Works Art Center in Summerville, SC from July 30 – September 10, 2021. This collaborative multimedia art exhibition featuring the stories of Latino immigrants in the Lowcountry interpreted by 20 select Latino South Carolina visual artists. The Citadel Oral History Program collected the … Read more
SC Humanities is pleased to announce that eight new speakers have joined the Speakers Bureau: Humanities Out Loud program in 2021. Offering a variety of interesting programs from “The History of Black Children’s Literature” to “Public Health and Pandemics in the Atlantic World” to “From Gone with the Wind to Steel Magnolias: In Search of … Read more
The Olympia Mill Village Museum will present two free classes on July 13 and July 14, 2021 that will combine elements of historic education, crafting, and social interaction. SC Humanities supported this program with a Mini Grant. The Olympia-Granby Historical Foundation was established in 2014 in Columbia to create the Olympia Mill Village Museum to … Read more
Click here to download the Spanish version. South Carolina Humanities is honored to provide funding to humanities organizations facing financial hardship as a result of COVID-19. Funding for the SC Humanities Growth Grants has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities Federal and State Partnership Division as part of the American Rescue Plan … Read more
The Arts & Heritage Center of North Augusta has created an original exhibit about “The Story of Hamburg: SC’s Lost Town” that will open to the public on June 21, 2021, and it will be on display through August 20th. There will be a reception and program on July 15th, 5:00 p.m.. South Carolina Humanities … Read more
The Union County Community Remembrance Project (UCCRP) has fabricated a new historical marker for the Union County Jail that will be unveiled during a special ceremony at the UCCRP JUNETEENTH Celebration on Saturday, June 19, 2021. The new marker will recognize the historical significance and legacy of the jail raid lynchings of 1871. South Carolina … Read more
Brookgreen Gardens will collect living history narratives about Gullah Geechee community members of Sandy Island, Plantersville, and Murrells Inlet that will be dramatized and complemented with digital elements. The completed narratives will be made available to the public through performances to guests as well as through audio and video excerpts online through the “Seen, Heard, … Read more
South Carolina Humanities is pleased to announce that six communities in South Carolina will host the traveling Smithsonian exhibit Voices and Votes: Democracy in America in 2022-2023. Voices and Votes explores the ever-evolving story of democracy in America. Based on a major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the Voices and Votes exhibit will serve as … Read more
The “South Carolina Civil Rights Monument Project” is a community project to create four public sculptures about the history and narratives of South Carolina Civil Rights activism that will be installed outside the Cecil Williams Civil Rights Museum in Orangeburg. The sculpture creation will occur during two “community making days” scheduled for Saturday, May 22 … Read more
Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College and the Center for Creative Partnerships will present its Community Cinema social justice film series via Zoom this spring. SC Humanities supported this programming with a Mini Grant. Kicking off the two-part series will be “From Swastika to Jim Crow: Jewish Scholars in Black Colleges,” which tells the little-known story of two … Read more
In celebration of Aiken County’s 150th anniversary, the Aiken County Historical Museum gave its County History exhibit a makeover. The exhibit presents museum visitors a window into the lives of people who lived and worked in our area from the days of Native Americans to the modern era of the Savannah River Site. The exhibit … Read more
