By Ashley Standera
PuppetArt is an exhibition presented by the Cameron Art Museum in collaboration with the Port City Puppet Festival, sponsored by the Puppeteers of America Southeast Region and the UNCW Office of Cultural Arts. The exhibition features large-scale puppets and set designs from the famous Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theatre, and selected international puppets [...]
By Rosanne Davila
The Kaminski House Museum in Georgetown has been chosen to participate in the 2010 Conservation Assessment Program. CAP assists museums by providing funds for professional conservation and preservation specialists to identify the conservation needs of their collections and historic buildings and recommend ways to correctly improve collections and building conditions. The on-site consultation [...]
By Tut Underwood
Some of the greatest names in South Carolina beach music will be on hand to celebrate the Palmetto State’s official popular music Friday, May 21 as the South Carolina State Museum observes Beach Music Day 2010.
In partnership with the Beach Music Association International (BMAI), the museum will present exciting performances by the Sensational [...]
By Katie McClean
The South Carolina State Museum has acquired a collection of artwork and prints by the popular South Carolina artist Jim Harrison.
The 80 prints are a gift of collector Reaves McCall of Hartsville, said Paul Matheny, chief curator of art. They join an original painting of Lake Murray, also donated by McCall, adding to [...]
By Heather Wilson
The Cameron Art Museum has received a grant from an anonymous donor through the North Carolina Community Foundation. The grant for $31,190 will make a significant impact on the museum in a time of financial uncertainty. These funds will be used to provide valuable support for exhibitions, public programs, and educational programs for [...]
By Phyllis A. Dunn
The WACG Annual Juried Exhibit will open on Thursday, April 29 at the Franklin G. Burroughs Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum with a reception and awards ceremony from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
The awards presentation will begin at 6 p.m., after which Judge John Acorn will present a gallery talk to critique and [...]
By Julie Pinckney
The Horry County Museum is exhibiting photographs from the Van Auken Greene Collection throughout the month of April. William Van Auken Greene traveled the back roads of Horry County, during the 1930s and 40s, photographing local families, friends, and associates. The pictures range from high school graduations, to family reunions, to farming, to [...]
By Karen Magradey
The Boy Scouts of America turns 100 years old this year, and the South Carolina State Museum will help celebrate that illustrious mark with the exhibit The Centennial History of the Boy Scouts of America, which opens Jan. 29.
The exhibit, to be seen in the museum’s lobby, will feature photographs and artifacts which [...]
By Julie Kopnicky
The Waccamaw Tractor and Engine Club has spent the past year restoring a 1941 Farmall A tractor to be donated to the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. The Club restored the rusted broken down tractor back to its like new glory. The tractor was donated to the club by member J. D. [...]
By Ashley Standera
The Cameron Art Museum has selected three winners for its Architectural Follies competition: Matt Bua, a Brooklyn-based artist, Toby R. Keeton, Intern Architect with Michael Ross Kersting Architecture and Daniel N. Harding and the Community Research and Design Center, School of Architecture, Clemson University.
Winning designers are constructing their projects on the museum grounds [...]
By Melanie McMurrain
Cinzia Spa is partnering with Eileen S. Kim of Edward Jones and other sponsors to offer a special evening of self indulgence and a chance to benefit Children’s Museum of South Carolina.
Spend an evening with your best girlfriends at the Cinzia Spa at North Beach Plantation and fill it with a night you [...]
By Ellen Woodoff
The Columbia Museum of Art celebrates its sixtieth anniversary year by hosting a major exhibition of art by contemporary African-American artists. The Chemistry of Color: Contemporary African-American Artists and its accompanying catalogue chronicle the accomplishments and struggles of African-American artists in the latter half of the twentieth century with approximately 72 works by [...]
By Elizabeth Isenhour
The Mint Museum of Craft + Design in Charlette, N.C. will close to the public on February 7 to prepare to move its collections to the new Mint Museum Uptown. Opening in October, the Mint Museum Uptown will house the Mint Museum of Craft + Design collections, as well as significant collections of [...]
By Casey Church
Gather up those works of art, antiques and other treasures you’ve always wondered about and head to the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum for the First Annual Art, Antiques and Treasures Roadshow on Thursday, Jan. 21. Inspired by PBS television’s popular Antiques Roadshow, this Museum fundraiser will bring together experts in [...]
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January 15, 2010 0By Casey Church
Milestones are those momentous occasions that mark our lives, from birth to death and all the important events in between. Milestones: Celebrating 70 and Beyond, an exhibition opening at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum Sunday afternoon, January 17, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., recognizes a significant milestone 27 of South [...]
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November 21, 2009 0Ansel Adams: Masterworks From the Collection of the Turtle Bay Exploration Center, Redding, Calif. opened in Oct. and runs through Jan. 17, 2010. The collection includes 47 gelatin silver prints by the artist, representing a choice of works Adams, himself, made late in his life to serve as a representation of his life’s work and [...]
By Elizabeth Isenhour
Love a good mystery? A new exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art contains the elements of an art history whodunit—a carefully crafted forgery, a persistent art scholar and a painting thought to be lost for more than 100 years—while taking the viewer behind the scenes of museum life. The exhibition, Identity Theft: [...]
By Elizabeth Campbell
Learn more about Native Americans on Nov. 14 at 11 a.m. at the Museum of Coastal Carolina This family program includes Native American stories, a tour of the Museum’s Native American exhibits and collections, and children will make and take home an arrowhead and bead necklace. Family programs last about an hour and [...]
The Horry County Museum Staff and Board of Trustees recently held their annual Induction of Officers dinner. The dinner took place at the L. W. Paul Living History Farm in Conway Thursday October 15, 2009. Recently elected to office were; Ted Gragg, Chairman, Dr. Jack Thompson, Vice Chairman, and Florence Vaught, Secretary.
Ted Gragg was one [...]
By Jack Gregory
No one would bet that Horry County’s newest museum is a 17.5 acre “living farm” that depicts the life style of its inhabitants during the early 1900s. It comes complete with several outbuildings including the main living quarters, a pack house, a tobacco barn, a woodworking shop, a blacksmith shop, a ground saw [...]
By Elizabeth Campbell
The Museum of Coastal Carolina in Ocean Isle, N.C. is offerening a series of presentations about Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, S.C.
Then enjoy art and nature in the beautiful setting at Brookgreen Gardens on the Museum’s fall field trip on October 22. The field trip fee is $35 for Museum and Planetarium volunteers [...]
By Elizabeth Campbell
Will Smith’s family had a summer home on Ocean Isle Beach in the 1950s along the first canal. Since childhood, Will has heard about the ghosts that roam Apricot Creek along the causeway. He will share these local ghost stories, lore and legends at the Museum of Coastal Carolina’s October family program, Haunted [...]
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May 22, 2009 0Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales opened its nationwide tour in Columbia, S.C. on March 6. This magnificent show is scheduled to close June 7, so make your plans to view it as soon as possible.
National Museum Wales, known for having one of the finest Impressionist art collections in Europe, [...]
By Kathryn Martin
Photographer Jack Thompson has chronicled Myrtle Beach’s history since the early 1950s and become in the process a local legend himself. Now his photographs are being featured in an exhibition at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, titled Jack Thompson: The Wonder Years; Myrtle Beach Photographs from the 50s and 60s. [...]
By Kathryn Martin
On Saturday, March 7, area residents and visitors will get to tour an eclectic assortment of six Myrtle Beach homes – including those of several custom home builders and artisans – in the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum’s 9th Annual Spring Tour of Homes.
Tour hours are from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tickets [...]
