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2006
through January 29, 2006
The Southeast Printmaking Invitational
Organized by members of Ink and Paper (USC Printmaking Club) and McKissick Museum, this invitational exhibition showcases hand-pulled prints by students from several southeastern universities. Included are works from the University of South Carolina, University of Georgia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Tennessee and Clemson University. These works represent traditional and experimental printmaking techniques employed by today's artists.
through April 22, 2006
Pets In America
The American Pet Products Manufacturers Association recently estimated that sixty-one percent of U.S. households presently own a pet. In fact, pet keeping is the only practice through which most Americans have a close, daily contact with animals. Pets In America presents viewers with a history of pet keeping and a guided consideration of the social, cultural, and ethical nuances of this crucial relationship between animals and people. The exhibition of nearly 2,000 square feet includes an interactive web site (www.petsinamerica.org) which offers lively, family-friendly information. The exhibition is also available for USC students of various disciplines including sociology, psychology, biology, behavior sciences, and more.
January 14 through March 11, 2006
Art & Nature: Art Glass from the Museum's Permanent Collection
As the nineteenth century drew to a close, a revolution was beginning in the field of decorative arts. The craft of glass blowing, along with other trades such as silversmith and woodworking, took on renewed interest for artists of all media as they joined fine art to craft in an effort to create everyday objects of beauty and usefulness. Established studies in both Europe and the United States, previously manufacturers of everything from architectural glazed earthenware and stained glass windows, started art departments that produced everything from vases to lamp bases. McKissick Museum's decorative arts collection contains an impressive group of turn-of-the-century European and American art glass. The Museum's collection of art glass, decorated largely with flora motifs, is made possible through the generous gift of Dr. Richard D. Mandell and the late William States Belser.
February 11 through April 1, 2006
Somali Lenses
The Somali Lenses project explores issues of representation through the photographic work of the Somali Bantu. Six families freely took pictures and they allowed their work to be organized in a museum exhibit by guest curator Bridget McDonnell. Their photographs showcase themes of daily life from the Somali perspective. Somali Lenses reveals the diversity in this community and is an opportunity for local people to view works constructed by the Somali Bantu. Intended for a wide audience, Somali Lenses will spark dialogue on issues of photographic representation and family diversity in South Carolina.
February 18 through April 8, 2006
A Fool for Art
A continuation of McKissick Museum's successful 2005 gala fundraiser, A Fool for Art offers the public an opportunity to view and purchase works by local artists. All works included in this exhibition will be available for sale to raise funds for the exhibitions, programming and collections of McKissick Museum. Included in this exhibition are paintings, textiles, jewelry, sculpture, photography and more created by some of the Midlands most recognized artists. The gala reception and sale will be held on April Fool's Eve, March 31, 2006.
March 25 through August 26, 2006
Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards
Over the past twenty years, the South Carolina Legislature, the South Carolina Arts Commission and McKissick Museum have partnered to recognize individuals and groups who have used their lives to create beauty and meaning for their communities and the state as a whole. The Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award is presented to those with an emphasis on the authenticity of their traditional craft with a long history of practice in South Carolina. Recipients of this award include musicians, woodworkers, storytellers, silversmiths, basket makers, and arts advocates. Included in this exhibit are selected objects from McKissick's collections representing the crafts and trades of past recipients.
April 15 through May 27, 2006
Sudan: The Land and the People
Working in conjunction with the University of South Carolina's African Studies Program, McKissick Museum presents this exhibition of a selection of photographs by Michael Freeman illustrating the incredible diversity and potential of Africa's largest and most culturally-varied nation. The goal of this exhibition is to promote understanding and appreciation for the various ethnic groups within Sudan and raise awareness of the enormous cultural diversity and resulting complexity in all regions of the country. Through these images, Freeman illustrates a grand, vast geography from savannahs and swamps to rocky hills and desert. He visited all the major towns in every region and some villages that no Westerner had seen in decades. Namads, herders, and farmers, teacher and students, lawyers and doctors, industrialists and laborers--are all featured in this nationally traveling exhibit from the Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C.
May 15 through July 22, 2006
The Essence of Nature: The Art of Harry Hansen
The Essence of Nature highlights the distinguished career of recently retired USC painting instructor Harry Hansen. Mostly recognized for his watercolors of the Palmetto state's diverse landscapes, Hansen gently captures on paper the essence of the natural environment of South Carolina and the North Carolina mountains. Hansen's body of work extends far beyond his recognition as a watercolorist. During the 1960s Hansen experimented with abstraction in oils and lithographic works. His most experimental approach to painting, beginning in the mdi-1960s, explored the process of encaustic, a mixture of pigment with hot beeswax painted on a panel. He is the recipient of nearly 50 art awards, and has been represented in nearly 150 group and one-man exhibitions.
May 20 through August 12, 2006
The 521 All Stars: A Championship Story of Baseball and Community
This exhibition is a photographic tribute to a game, a team, and a community. This semi-professional baseball team emerges from the images not only as a source of entertainment for the small town of Rembert, South Carolina, but as the community focal point during the summer season. In these photographs, the 521 All-Stars win the league championship, mourn the untimely death of a beloved teammate, and reveal the potent combination of courage, spirit, and teamwork, on and off the field. The exhibit consists of images taken over the course of two years by Byron Baldwin, a retired photography teacher and founding member of the Light Factory Photographic Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The accompanying exhibit text is provided by award-winning writer Frye Gaillard. Funding for The 521 All-Stars was provided by the South Carolina Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
June 10 through July 29, 2006
Strength in Reserve: Broadcasting Radio for the Armed Forces in South Carolina
In 1976 the South Carolina Broadcasters Association established an archive of film, records, audio and video tapes, and equipment documenting the history of radio broadcasting in the Palmetto State. This upcoming exhibition features original sound recordings from the archive and artifacts from the collection of McKissick Museum. The exhibit will focus on the use of radio broadcasting as a means of cultivating public support and encouragement for America's armed forces. Housed in Museum Museum, the archive is available to students, professionals, researchers and members of the public who wish to learn more about the development of broadcasting in South Carolina.
August 5, 2006 through January 6, 2007
Talking with the Turners: Southern Folk Pottery
During the summer of 1981, University of South Carolina professor Charles Mack traveled the South in a well-used Volkswagen Rabbit to document traditional pottery. Supported by a Research and Productive Scholarship Grant from the university, his goal for the summer was to document every traditional potter still working in the region through audio interviews and photography. When the summer was over, he had collected over two hundred pieces of pottery, taken hundreds of photographs, and recorded over twenty hours of interviews with more than forty potters. Talking with the Turner: Southern Folk Pottery will be the first exhibit incorporating the voices of the potters with contextual images and pottery fired in kilns across the Deep South.
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