TJ Wallace
SC Humanities is pleased to congratulate three South Carolina organizations for receiving four grants totaling $369,529 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The NEH recently announced their support of 212 humanities projects from across the country, including the four in South Carolina. NEH grants are highly competitive and involve a rigorous peer-review and … Read more
Fifty-eight students whose entries had won first or second place at the South Carolina History Contest traveled to Maryland in June to represent the Palmetto State at the National History Day Competition. Eleven South Carolina students brought home top honors from this prestigious national event, which is held each June at the University of Maryland. … Read more
SC Humanities is pleased to make a new Let’s Talk About It series available to the public thanks to the generosity of the Chapin Memorial Library in Myrtle Beach. The new series pairs Steven Johnson’s noted book How We Got To Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World with the recent PBS documentary of … Read more
SC Humanities is pleased to announce the receipt of a $5,000 Community Engagement Grant from the Central Carolina Community Foundation to support the presentation of the traveling Smithsonian exhibit Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America in Manning, SC. The Central Carolina Community Foundation offers Community Engagement Grants to nonprofit organizations that are promoting a more … Read more
Smithsonian Exhibit About American Labor History to Tour South Carolina Apply to host the exhibit! Deadline: November 2, 2015 SC Humanities is pleased to announce a special South Carolina tour of The Way We Worked, an exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution. Developed as part of the Museum on Main Street (MOMS) program, this exhibit is … Read more
Blaktastik is a three-day film, music, education and art festival celebrating contemporary black creative culture. The festival is sponsored by The Nickelodeon Theatre and will take place in Columbia, SC on July 24 – 26, 2015. SC Humanities supported this event with a Mini Grant in 2014. Blaktastik Film Festival is dedicated to creating a … Read more
Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America is on display at the Belton Area Museum Association from June 7 – July 19, 2015. Hometown Teams is a traveling Smithsonian exhibit that examines how sports represent our communities and embody the American spirit. Belton has planned an exciting variety of collateral events to accompany the exhibit while … Read more
Archibald Rutledge’s story “The Doom of Ravenswood” is a harrowing account of the power of the natural world and of the dangers for humans and animals alike to be found in the ominous swamps of the South Carolina lowcountry. As the narrator of this cautionary tale is riding home astride his faithful horse, Redbird, to … Read more
The first museum exhibit by The Athenaeum Press of Coastal Carolina University, “A War on Two Fronts: Fighting for Victory at Home and Abroad,” is a multimedia exhibition that focuses on the overlooked, underappreciated and uncelebrated black veterans of World War II. A celebration for the launch of the exhibit will be held Thursday, May … Read more
