Bonnie Hargrove

Bonnie Hargrove is the Director of the University of South Carolina Beaufort Center for the Arts, a role she has had since 2010. Originally from Alabama, Hargrove came to Beaufort in 2008 with a background rooted in the arts and nonprofit management. She was previously the Director of the Colleton County Arts Council in Walterboro, where she started a children’s theater. She serves as the Chairperson of the City of Beaufort Cultural District and has been an advisory member for Main Street Beaufort and a member of the Beaufort Guild of Galleries. In 2017, the South Carolina Arts Commission honored the USC Beaufort Center for the Arts and Bonnie Hargrove with an Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award in the Arts for the City of Beaufort’s robust arts and cultural scene. Bonnie Hargrove serves on the Grants and Program Committee of the SC Humanities Board.