TJ Wallace
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
SC Humanities is pleased to announce the two SC Humanities Student Scholarship recipients who have been selected for 2021. Patrick J. Wohlscheid of the College of Charleston is the recipient of the Undergraduate Student Scholarship, and John M. Dodge of the University of South Carolina is the recipient of the Graduate Student Scholarship. SC Humanities Student … Read more
The fourth season of Poetry at McLeod will take place in April and May in Charleston. This acclaimed series, held at a southern cotton plantation, presents African American poets illuminating the experience and legacy of enslavement and offers a free poetry workshop geared to all levels of experience. SC Humanities supported this series with a … Read more
