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 Last Butterfly. SC Humanities supported this project with a Mini Grant.
The Butterfly Project is a global educational effort that uses the lessons of the Holocaust to teach about the dangers of hatred and bigotry and to cultivate empathy and social responsibility. Students are invited to paint ceramic butterflies, which are permanently displayed in memorials to remember the 1.5 million children killed during the Holocaust.
Three large-scale butterfly mosaics created through the Butterfly Project were installed at the Governor’s School for Arts and Humanities in 2022. In 2025, the school will add an interactive educational kiosk that will provide additional context and links to images and resources. The installation and kiosk will particularly honor Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, an Austrian artist and educator who who continued to teach Jewish children art in the Terezin ghetto/camp and managed to save their artwork before she was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was killed by the Nazis. Content for the kiosk will continue to be created throughout the spring and summer, with additional promotion and field trips expected to take place in the 2025-2026 academic year.
On Thursday, April 24, there will be a public screening of the documentary Not the Last Butterfly at 7:30 p.m. in Smith Recital Hall. Not the Last Butterfly is an award-winning documentary film about The Butterfly Project. After the screening, there will be a panel discussion about the Governor’s School’s participation in The Butterfly Project and future plans for their installation. This public event will be part of the Governor’s School for Arts and Humanities’ celebration of their 25th anniversary.
The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities is a state-funded, public, residential high school, serving sophomores, juniors, and seniors that gives young emerging artists the opportunity to explore and refine their talents in a one-of-a-kind, arts-centered community. Learn more: https://www.scgsah.org/.
The mission of SC Humanities is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians. Established in 1973, this 501(c)3 organization is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of community leaders from throughout the state. It presents and supports literary initiatives, lectures, exhibits, festivals, publications, oral history projects, videos, and other humanities-based experiences that directly or indirectly reach more than 250,000 citizens annually. South Carolina Humanities receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as corporate, foundation and individual donors. The National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
