“Resilience and Revolution” Exhibit in St. George
The exhibition “Resilience and Revolution: Native Peoples in 18th Century South Carolina” will be on display at the Dorchester Heritage Center in St. George from January 14 – May 23, 2025. “Resilience and Revolution” is a traveling exhibition created for the Traveling Exhibition Program of the South Carolina State Museum through a partnership led by South […]
Holocaust Art Installation and Programming in Greenville
The Governor’s School for Arts and Humanities in Greenville will create an interactive kiosk to share educational information about the Holocaust in support of their mosaic art installation from the Butterfly Project. The kiosk will be presented on April 24, 2025 for Holocaust Remembrance Day, along with a public screening of the documentary Not the […]
Linking Lancaster: Icons and Visionaries
The Lancaster County Council for the Arts will implement a multi-faceted series of programs that will connect the arts and humanities to public audiences in Lancaster County. Events include the historical exhibition Icons and Visionaries opening on April 1, pop-up exhibits around town, panel discussions, and walking tours. SC Humanities helped support this programming with a […]
ARTalk Series in Greenville
The Greenville Center for Creative Arts will offer a series of 6 “ARTalk” programs from May 2024 – March 2025. The talks will correspond to the six featured exhibits that will be on display in their Main Gallery during that period. The first event will take place on Tuesday, May 14, at 6:00 p.m. featuring […]
Sigal Music Museum – Distinguished Lecture Series
From November 2024 – May 2025, the Sigal Music Museum will present 6 lectures in their Distinguished Lecture Series to accompany their new exhibit A Measure of Music: STEAM and the Musical Mind, which highlights the intersections of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and music. The series will start on November 10 with a presentation by Michelle Moog-Koussa […]
“Miss Perry Will Speak” – Documentary Premiere
Business and Professional Women’s Spartanburg Chapter has created a 30-minute documentary titled “Miss Perry Will Speak: A Century of Business & Professional Women of South Carolina” about the history of the 104-year-old organization, looking at its impact and how the role of women in the workforce has changed over the last century. The documentary will premiere […]
Historic Columbia Opens New Exhibit at the Robert Mills House and Gardens
Historic Columbia’s latest exhibit, Heat & Hardship: The Hidden Labor of Enslaved Cooks, will open on February 5, 2025 at the Robert Mills House & Gardens. This innovative exhibit reimagines the site’s warming kitchen, offering visitors a deeper understanding of the lives of enslaved cooks in the 1820s. SC Humanities supported this project with a Major […]
2025 American Heritage Festival
America’s Living History Foundation will present the 8th Annual American Heritage Festival on Graham’s Historic Farm in Lake City on February 15-16, 2025. This living history event celebrates the Pee Dee area’s influence in winning the American Revolution. SC Humanities supported this event with a Mini Grant. The American Heritage Festival investigates the role of […]
Modern Southern Novels on Page and Screen – Discussion Series in Aiken
The Aiken County Public Library will be presenting an original book and film discussion series titled “Modern Southern Novels on Page and Screen” from September 2024 – March 2025. This reading and film discussion series features novels by modern Southern writers whose works have been turned into films; it will kick off in September with […]
Lander University Film Festival and Short Film Competition
Lander University will present its 15th Annual Lander University Film Festival from March 18 – March 22, 2025. The festival celebrates film and encourages all aspects of filmmaking. The 2025 event includes a short film competition, which kicks off with a workshop on Thursday, February 27. SC Humanities supported the festival with a Mini Grant. For 14 years, […]
Rice, Roots, Resilience, Suriname Maroons and USA Gullah Geechee – Community Day
Coastal Carolina University will present a series of programs in February 2025 about the connection between and complex legacy of rice cultivation in Suriname Maroons and the Gullah people of South Carolina. Events will include sessions at the International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Conference, tours and meetings with the Rice Museum and Hasty Point […]
Smithsonian Exhibit “Spark: Places of Innovation” Opens in Gaffney
The traveling Smithsonian exhibit Spark! Places of Innovation will open in Gaffney at the Gaffney Visitors Center and Art Gallery on Saturday, January 11, 2025. The exhibition explores the unique combination of places, people, and circumstances that sparks innovation and invention in rural communities. The exhibit will be in Gaffney through February 22, 2025, and several collateral programs […]
“Forest to Furniture” exhibit at the Sumter County Museum
The Sumter County Museum will feature the traveling exhibit Forest to Furniture: Exploring the History of South Carolina’s Wood Products from Thursday, January 23 – Saturday, April 26, 2025. The exhibit is part of the University of South Carolina’s ongoing Wood Basket project, which SC Humanities supported with a Major Grant. Forest to Furniture: Exploring the History of […]
African Dance Classes in Spartanburg
Ballet Spartanburg will offer free African Dance Classes at their Center for Dance Education from January 7 – May 20, 2025. The goal of the program is to introduce people of various communities in Spartanburg to the cultural traditions of West African Dance. SC Humanities supported this program with a Mini Grant. The dance classes […]
Listen, Learn, Preserve, and Celebrate Latimer School History
The Town of Latta and the Latimer Historic School Committee are undertaking a significant effort to gather and safeguard historical information and artifacts that vividly portray the vibrant Black history and stories associated with the former African American School and the broader Latta community. The Latimer School was the only school for black residents of […]
Every Corner, Every County Poetry Reading Series
The Poetry Society of South Carolina will offer a series of six poetry readings, discussions, and workshops from August 2024 – January 2025 in Charleston and Columbia as part of their “Every Corner, Every County Reading Series.” Featured poets include Jo Angela Edwins, Claire Bateman, Al Black, Quitman Marshall, Adam Houle, and Angelo Geter. SC […]
Living Legacy: Programs Illuminating Native and Gullah Histories
The Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage will present a series of 16 collateral programs from April 2024 – January 2025 to go along with two exhibits that they will have on display: Language of Clay: Catawba Indian Pottery & Oral Traditions and Sandy Islanders: A People of the Land. The proposed programs are diverse and include lectures, guided […]
Miss Ann Davidson’s Autograph Collection – A Window on the World
The Chester County Historical Society has obtained a unique collection of autographs compiled in the late 1930s by a Chester family. The collection includes autographs from Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Helen Keller, Babe Ruth, and many other notable names. The full collection will be on display for the first time at the Annual Meeting on […]
Engaging Black Books: Another Sojourner Looking for Truth
The Solidarity Arts & Education Decolonial initiatives (SAEDi) Collective will present the “Engaging Black Books” series from November 2024 – April 2025, featuring Dr. Millicent Brown’s recently published memoir, Another Sojourner Looking for Truth: My Journey from Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond. The book series will begin with a blog post by Dr. Brown […]
Revolutionary Days in Allendale
The Allendale County Historical Society will coordinate a month-long series of programming opportunities about the Revolutionary War in January 2025. The South Carolina State Museum’s traveling exhibit “The American Revolutionary War in South Carolina” and the National Park Service’s traveling trunk “Lives of Backcountry Children” will both be on display from Friday, January 3 – […]
SC Humanities Welcomes Two New Board Members
SC Humanities is pleased to announce the FY2025 Board Members who will begin their terms on November 1, 2024: Gina G. Bennett of Hartsville and Melissa Walker of Spartanburg. Gina G. Bennett is the Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Coordinator of Humanities at Coker University in Hartsville, South Carolina. She earned a doctoral degree from […]
Smithsonian Exhibit “Spark: Places of Innovation” Opens in Aiken
The traveling Smithsonian exhibit Spark! Places of Innovation will open in Aiken at the Aiken Train Museum on Saturday, November 9, 2024. The exhibition explores the unique combination of places, people, and circumstances that sparks innovation and invention in rural communities. The exhibit will be in Aiken through January 4, 2025, and several collateral programs and events will […]
Land and Legacy Exhibit and Community Conversation
The exhibit “Land & Legacy: Gullah Geechee Roots in HBCUs” will debut at Penn Center’s 40th Annual Heritage Days Celebration on November 7 – 9, 2024 in St. Helena Island. The exhibit explores the importance of land to Gullah Geechee people and the HBCU connections to Penn Center and the Gullah Geechee Corridor. A community […]
2024 Charleston Literary Festival
The 2024 Charleston Literary Festival will take place November 1 – 10, featuring a wide variety of noted authors, thinkers, and speakers. SC Humanities supported this program with a Major Grant. The Charleston Literary Festival was founded in 2017 as a result of an Anglo-American collaboration between the historic Charleston Library Society in the US and […]
NEH Disaster Recovery Grants for Humanities Collections
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the Chair’s Disaster Recovery Grants for Humanities Collections program to help humanities organizations that steward collections respond to and recover from local, state, regional, and federally declared disasters, including fires, floods, hurricanes, mudslides, and climate-related disasters. There is currently an open call for applications from organizations […]
Book Talk and Signing with Dr. Edda Fields-Black
The Lincolnville Preservation and Historical Society will host a book talk with author Dr. Edda Fields-Black on her book COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War. The event will take place on Saturday, December 14, 2024. SC Humanities supported this program with a Major Grant. Attendees are invited to […]
LISTEN! Revolutionary Stories Series in Woodruff
The Stone Soup Storytelling Institute will present a series of six collaborative program sessions about the American Revolution. Each event will include a storyteller presenting a story or oral history from the American Revolution, a scholar presentation about the topic, and a moderated audience discussion. The first program will take place on Sunday, January 21, […]
“Resilience and Revolution” exhibit in Sumter
The exhibition “Resilience and Revolution: Native Peoples in 18th Century South Carolina” will be on display at the Sumter County Museum in from October 3 – December 28, 2024. “Resilience and Revolution” is a traveling exhibition created for the Traveling Exhibition Program of the South Carolina State Museum through a partnership led by South Carolina Humanities, […]
“ReCollect” Exhibit at Florence County Museum
The Florence County Museum will feature a new exhibition titled ReCollect, which examines the past, present and future of the museum’s work. The exhibit will be on display June 4 – December 12, 2024. SC Humanities supported this exhibit with a Mini Grant. Celebrating the Florence County Museum’s 10th year in its current location and […]
Georgetown County Library Celebrates 225th Anniversary with a Speaker Series
The Georgetown County Library will present a series of free public programs from June – fall 2024 to celebrate their 225th anniversary. The programs will look at both Georgetown County’s past and present and will include topics on ethnic diversity, religious traditions, foodways, civil rights, and more. The first event is a lecture on “Fact and […]