Aiken Center for the Arts named Angel by South Carolina Secretary of State
On November 15, 2023, South Carolina Secretary of State Mark Hammond announced the Angels of 2023. Twelve Angel charities were recognized, the Aiken Center for the Arts being one of them. The Angels honored are organizations that have positively impacted the well-being of South Carolinians and that have demonstrated good stewardship of charitable resources. To be selected as an Angel, the charity must have devoted 80% or more of its total expenditures to charitable programs. It is an honor for Aiken Center for the Arts to be included on the list of Angel organizations in SC.
Enjoy an excerpt from C’est l’heure exquise, a concert celebrating music and community
performed on our newly gifted Steinway
Étude in C Major, Op. 10 No. 1 by Frédéric Chopin
Spencer McKee, pianist
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Call for Entries: Aiken Center for the Arts Student / Member Show 2024
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This exhibition will showcase the broad range of talent found at the arts center. Open to 2023-24 students and members of Aiken Center for the Arts. The exhibition will be on view from June 20-July 25, 2024. Join us and share your work with our community!
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Application and rules: aikencenterforthearts.org/main-gallery/
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Just one week left to see "Over Land and Sea" in our main gallery. Don't miss this remarkable exhibition!
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Meet the Artist: Jan McAllaster Stommes
Jan constantly strives to take on challenges by trying something new in each painting that she creates. Creating trompe l’oeil images connects her art and science. These paintings are so life-like that viewers of her work have thought that the images are collages instead of paintings.
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The art of deception, trompe-l'œil, is created by painting various items in such a way as to give the illusion that the three-dimensional items exist. If viewers feel compelled to touch the paintings to see if the items are real, then I feel like I have accomplished my goal. I am a self-taught artist. My education was in science, specifically, physiology. How the brain works is important to know when I create a trompe-l'œil painting. Using both my love of science and love of art combine when I try to “fool the eye”.
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Please join us for an evening celebrating our shared local histories in the presentation “Just Sharing: Building Community through Stories of Our Past” next Thursday, April 25th from 6-8pm.
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"Just Sharing" is a series of panel discussions in communities across South Carolina from September 2023 through June 2024, funded by the NEH United We Stand: Connecting through Culture initiative. This is a partnership project of South Carolina Humanities with Clemson University and the University of South Carolina.
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The panel discussion includes distinguished historian and author Orville Vernon Burton (Clemson), who will be giving a talk entitled “Reconstruction and Beyond: Memory and History of Edgefield County.” Dr. Burton is a prolific author and scholar whose works include: Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court (Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2021), and In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (1985) among others.
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From USC we will be joined by Dr. Jennifer Gunter a scholar of race who was recognized as a Racial Healing Practitioner Fellow in 2022 by the National Compadres Network with support from the Kellogg Foundation. Her talk “Hippocratic Hypocrisies: Coercive Sterilizations in 1970s Aiken County” looks at issues of reproductive rights and race.
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To anchor the panel, we will be joined by local community historian Daniel Lloyd, Jr. who will talk about “Community, Resilience, & Faith: African American Contributions to Graniteville's History."
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This is a free community event and everyone is encouraged to attend.
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