Exhibitions
In Our Galleries...
Laurence
L. Smith Mineral Collection
On permanent display in the Laurence
L. Smith Mineral Library
Through the hundreds of specimens available in the
library, the Museum visitor can travel the world through minerals. Gold
from South Carolina, amethyst from Brazil, malachite from Namibia,
fluorite from England, and skutterudite from Morocco are just a few of
the minerals on display.
Baruch
Silver Collection
On permanent display in the Baruch
Silver Gallery
In 1965, through the generosity of the estate of
Bernard Mannes Baruch, the University of South Carolina received an
extensive collection of 18th and early 19th century British silver.
This collection, numbered in excess of 450 pieces, had been assembled
in the early 20th century by Baruch's wife, Annie Griffen Baruch.
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PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS |
The
Songs of Maybelle Stamper
The personal and introspective works of Maybelle Stamper
(1907-1995), hint at the artist's rich inner life and world view. The
drawings, watercolors and lithographs of Maybelle Stamper reflect
her interest in Zen Buddhism. She creates a personal mythology
that has a persuasive and meditative spirituality. Examples of
the artist's journals give insight into her private vision of reality.
This
fascinating exhibition was most recently on view at the new Nashville
(Tennessee) Public Library Gallery. Bookings are available.
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A revised
version of this popular exhibit is being prepared for further travel...
"...A
Portion of the People":
Three Hundred Years of Southern
Jewish
Life
A joint project of McKissick Museum, the College
of Charleston
and the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina, this exhibition
presents the untold story of South Carolina's prominence as a center of
Jewish life in the South. The tale's dynamic is found in
the tension between the ways in which Jews have worked to become a part
of Southern society and the efforts they have made to sustain
a separate Jewish identity. Supported by grants from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Bank of America.
Shalom Y'all!
More information at these Links:
Click to read
gallery handouts
and...
The Jewish
Heritage Collection
website
Hear about the exhibit on NPR...
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/mar/southernjews/index.html
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Theodore
Sidney
Moise,
Portrait of Caroline "Caro"
Agnes Moise
Lopez (1876),
detail. Private collection.
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These exhibitions will be traveling
nationally...watch this site for details---
The
Middle
Passage:
Drawings by Tom Feelings
A series of drawings from Feelings' provocative
and powerful
book, "The Middle Passage," depicts African slaves' journey across the
Atlantic Ocean. His monochromatic images tell numerous tales about the
crossing. Feelings, also known for his children's picture books, was an
art professor at USC from 1988 to 1996.
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Southern Stews
Traditions of One-Pot Cooking
A tasty exhibit of stew-cooking artifacts and
video footage
from Stanley Woodward's new film "Brunswick Stew: A Virginia Treasure"
that brings to life the Southern tradition of one pot meals and
treasured community foodways.
Beaufort Stew from South Carolina and Georgia Brunswick Stew are also
featured along with Kentucky burgoo - a relative of Sheep Stew.
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these University of South Carolina campuses....
Lancaster - February 1-29, 2004
Sumter - July 1-Sept. 15, 2004
Spartanburg - November 1 - December 15, 2004
Beaufort - January - February, 2005
Posters of
the Great War
Nobody knows how many posters were generated by the
Great War, more commonly called World War I. This exhibition evokes the
sentiments and beliefs that inspired and sustained the worst slaughter
in history. It displays 36 posters selected from the Joseph M. Bruccoli
Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina, which holds
more than 75 posters documenting responses to the war in the beligerant
nations (USA, Great Britain, Canada, South Africa, France, Austria and
Italy). Among the major poster artists represented are Lucien Jonas
from France and the Americans Howard Foster Christy, James Montgomery
Flagg, and Joseph Pennell. Their subjects include recruiting, war
loans, famine relief,
patriotism, and straight propoganda (German atrocities in Belgium and
Schrecklichkeit). The poster collection preserves contemporary
depictions of doughboys, Tommies and poilus; Red Cross nurses and
Salvation Army lassies, families and industry; trenches, tanks and
airplanes. More
Information on the Exhibit
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Brothers
on a Journey:
Paintings by
Eldridge Bagley and William Clarke
August 15, 2004 - January 9, 2005
Public Reception: September 16 at 7 p.m.
Special lecture
that evening at 6 p.m. by Dr. William Ferris, Director of the Center
for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Eldridge Bagley and William
Clarke grew up in neighboring
rural counties in south-central Virginia. In
middle age they discovered each other and
their shared membership in
an artistic brotherhood that exists beyond race, blood kinship, and
time. They have journeyed beyond youth and
through
much of midlife on a common creative venture.Deeply rooted to the land
and the
communities of their parents and grandparents, Bagley and Clarke
continue to
live in the places where they were born.
Only in the 1990s did their
parallel paths cross, when they
encountered each other’s art through a shared friendship with collector
Julia
J. Norrell. Brothers on a Journey
includes ten of twelve Bagley paintings and one Clarke donated to
McKissick
Museum by Ms. Norrell, and thirteen Bagleys donated by Mr. Ralph E.
Martin. The
Museum is deeply indebted to these wonderful patrons and friends.
As these artists journeyed through
more
than five decades,
their part of the South has been subtly transformed.
The rhythms and pace of rural life have been
subtly
transformed. Eldridge Bagley recalls
that in his youth farming was the dominant way of making a living.
Clarke
agrees: “We took tobacco for granted. Now there’s not a tobacco
warehouse in
Blackstone.” When Clarke and Bagley
depict farmers and other workers in their paintings, they are depicting
a
lifestyle they lived. The artists’
paintings are not simply documentation of their experiences, but stand
as an
affirmation of their relationships to the land and to other people that
an
agrarian way of life created. When creating their paintings of rural
life
in Southside Virginia, Bagley and Clarke are never so preoccupied with
personal expression that they lose sight of our common humanity.
Their art allows us to better understand our relatedness, even though a
relatively few of us have directly experienced the rural lifestyle they
depict. Through their art, we share thoughts and feelings about
the human family enduring through time, and a deep sense of continuity
between the past and present.
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William Clarke, Baseball Game ,
collection of Julia J. Norrell
Eldridge Bagley, Revival,
collection of
McKissick Museum, gift of Ralph Martin.
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Courage: The Carolina Story that Changed
America
September 4, 2004 - February 26, 2005
Few Americans know that the
landmark case Brown v. Board of Education has its roots in rural Clarendon County, South Carolina. This
exhibition, organized by the Levine Museum of the New South in
Charlotte, NC, explores the origins of the historic case, and
sheds light on South Carolina's connection with the notion of
equal education in classrooms throughout America. It
will tell the story of Reverend Joseph A. De Laine, who led
the fight against segregated schools in Clarendon County. His
efforts in the 1950s spearheaded the first legal case to be
filed, Briggs v. Elliot. The Institute for
Southern Studies and the African American Studies Program here
at USC will be presenting a series of programs in conjunction
with the exhibition as part of a year-long commemoration of
the 50th anniversary of Brown v. the Board of Education
on the USC campus. McKissick Museum will be the only
venue in South Carolina to host this exhibition, made possible
through funding from the Humanities Council of SC.
For information on events
surrounding this exhibition, see the
Calendar.
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Summerton graded school (white elementary school) Summerton, SC
Photograph, 1940s
Courtesy of South Carolina State Archives
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